Strategy Driven

APRIL 7, 2013

Improving Business Operation Performance With Innovations. Learn how using analytics to guide a business operations function is the path to continuous improvement and achieving higher operational performance. Arguably no technology is changing job functions within organizations more than analytics. All rights reserved.

Operations 50

Operations Resources Innovation ROI 50

Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 31, 2014

Before my trip to Catalyst Atlanta 2013 , I purchased the Acer C710-2856 Chromebook laptop. I wasn’t sure how I was going to like this laptop as it uses a different operating system than I’m used to. Technology Tips Chromebook laptop technology' If so, what did you think about it?

Document 192

Document Retail Price Licensing 192

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Investing in technology can help lift people out of poverty, and investments that use technology for development are good for business, creating millions of new customers. Using information and communications technology (ICT) for development is fairly common, but surprisingly, most digital divide projects don’t generate revenue.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Project System 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

This is very different from the way large businesses have operated for decades. What does it mean to operate in a digital business ecosystem? Digital business ecosystems dynamically create and operate value chains that extend their participants'' markets. But CIOs also need to not get caught up in the technology trap.

CIO 8

CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In fact, MGI analysis of financial data shows that large publicly traded US manufacturing firms, most of them multinationals with revenues greater than $500 million, averaged returns on invested capital of 22% from 1997 to 2013. But now the situation has reached such a tipping point that larger U.S. manufacturers are taking notice.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For example, it took Umicore, a global materials technology group, five years (2002–2007) to lay the basis for its transformation from a commodity supplier of base metals into a premium provider of emission control catalysts, rechargeable battery materials and other value-added solutions. Allow time and persevere.

Company 10

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Increasingly, the CIO and IT must be seen less as merely developing and deploying technology, and more as a source of innovation and transformation that delivers business value, leveraging technology instead of directly delivering it. CIOs must be an integral and vocal part of conversations on new ventures and resource allocation.

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8