Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

But the development landscape is littered with projects that never got past the pilot stage. When the seed funding from philanthropies or governments runs out, if projects haven’t signed up enough paying users, there’s nothing to fuel growth. As simple as it sounds, development projects need revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs. To that end, they decided to have a team study how care is delivered, identify the barriers to smooth operations, and fix the barriers. It was fully integrated into emergency room operations at St.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

Unicorns operate in industries with big, entrenched incumbents, but they’re able to grow quickly by focusing on a good—sometimes big—idea. Smaller competitor Box already is working on other innovations, including a project management app. Both are true to some extent and much has been written in this arena.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Advances in technology — especially digital technology and the increasing role of software in products and services — are demanding that large, successful organizations increase their pace of innovation and make greater use of resources outside their boundaries. So how does it work? First, with multiple business models.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Beginning in 2013, a handful of tech companies (including Yelp, where some of us work, Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook) began to research and release data on the diversity of their workforces. The numbers were grim. For instance, in 2014 only 10% of Yelp’s engineers were female. Yelp now sets explicit targets for diversity.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2015

As I reported in an earlier piece for HBR.org : A software CEO I spoke with recently said he avoids job candidates with advanced software engineering degrees because they represent an overinvestment in education that brings with it both higher salary demands and hubris.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

As Quartz reported last year: Members of the Glass operations team have been on the road showing it off to companies and organizations, and they told Quartz that some of the most enthusiastic responses have come from manufacturers, teachers, medical companies, and hospitals. Glass is different. But ultimately Google is Google.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2015

On the face of it, that seems to be two entirely different markets, with Facebook at Work playing in the workplace productivity market (competing with the likes of Microsoft Office, Webex , and project management software) while LinkedIn is part of the headhunting industry. After all, Facebook’s $7.87

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

billion in 2013 – up about 15% from the year before, according to our 2013 Marijuana Business Factbook. Earlier this year, we projected that sales will hit $6 billion by 2018. There are hundreds of other companies making packaging, equipment to extract cannabis oils from the plant, inventory software, you name it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

They organized the network around 7,500 open communities representing the various projects that required collaboration. Atos’s operating margin increased from 6.5 percent in 2013, earnings per share rose by more than 50 percent, and administrative costs declined from 13 percent to 10 percent. percent to 7.5

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

” In order to chart the best way forward, you must understand emerging trends: what they are, what they aren’t, and how they operate. Software applications that run automated tasks are called “bots.” In 2013, technical glitches caused a three-hour stop at the Nasdaq. will be more likely to pay off a debt.)

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Robin Li, founder of China’s largest search-engine, Baidu, is a talented software engineer who returned to China from the U.S. For those operating in China, this is, indeed, a quandary. You look around at the resources that characterize China’s wealth, and see human talent that has to be among the most promising on the planet.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Genesys, a pioneer of customer experience and call center software, has offices across the globe, and it’s growing quickly, having acquired 10 companies since 2012. Part of its success is that the company supports a collaborative work environment and boasts transparent operations from the top down.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

Both have signed on with Prism Skylabs , a software company, to map in-store customer behavior. ” Lezon, along with Alex and Ani’s head of merchandising and head of sales operations, used the data to inform product placement. .” This is changing with the emergence of location analytics.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Oil and Gas subsea operators across the world are adopting a GE Industrial Internet technology developed in Norway. ” Another benefit is that the sensors are located at a distance and are detached from the monitored equipment so do not interfere with on-going operations or processes. Sponsor Content Insight from GE.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

What traditional investors don’t like about any of this is the regulatory uncertainty; the high valuations and over-capitalization; the lack of control over financials, strategy, and operations; and the lack of business use-cases. It’s now worth approximately $1,1200 per bitcoin.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

Kickstarter is one of a growing number of crowdfunding platforms for gathering money from the public to fund all sorts of projects. IBM saw these online social systems for investing in new ventures and decided they would like to develop a similar system internally for selecting innovative projects.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

And even when we’re connected, we’re often dazed and confused: with more than six billion smartphones projected worldwide by 2020, we’ve succeeded in creating an environment in which we and our employees can, if we want, work 24/7, checking our phones as many as 150 times per day. No wonder we have skills shortages!

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