Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2016

With the pace of business change today, driven by technology and globalization, long-term plans last about as long as an ice storm in the desert. In August 2013, for example, Amazon acquired The Washington Post. He was right. As military experts put it, plans rarely survive contact with the enemy.

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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. But the development landscape is littered with projects that never got past the pilot stage. As simple as it sounds, development projects need revenue.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. Women must project gravitas in order to advance at work, yet they also need to retain their "feminine mystique" in order to be liked. That sounds like progress.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2014

Where a business is headquartered can make a huge difference in the skill level of your employees, raising capital and attracting customers. Young companies located in these hubs—particularly technology firms—are able to attract technical talent and maintain close proximity to their investors and mentors. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The last decade ushered in an economic meltdown and technological breakthroughs that have forever changed the business world as we knew it. His processes – which were based on the assumption that employees derive personal value from a job well done – required more skilled workers and a team-oriented environment.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

What’s the best way to get your passion project moving? ” Next, make a timeline based on what you think you can reasonably accomplish toward your project in the time you have. As you chip away on your project, continue to give your job the attention it needs. So, where should you start? What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Feature Triple-Strength Leadership Nick Lovegrove and Matthew Thomas Nick Lovegrove and Matthew Thomas Managing resource constraints, controlling health care costs, implementing smart-grid technologies — these are challenges that can’t be addressed unless government, business, and NGOs work together.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

It is the skillful combination of emotion and logic, people and process, free-thinking and organization. Trends for 2013 and 2014 projected annual revenue attributed to field sales as opposed to inside sales varied by industry. Sales is both an art and a science. Field Sales Revenue Trends. Inside Sales Roles.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

With job growth lagging and an eager workforce that's unable to find opportunities that match their skill sets , it would be a mistake for hiring managers to lose faith in peoples' ability to learn, adapt, and produce in new roles. For instance, some smart companies in the tech sector are re-skilling workers. percent in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Our research points to one possible reason: employers increased skill requirements during the recession, when high-skill workers were more plentiful, making it more difficult to fill those positions as the job market began to recover. Jobs That Newly Require B.A.’s industries, we indeed found strong evidence of this upskilling.

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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. Innovation Strategy Technology' So how does it work?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

A study by Jennifer Glass and coauthors in 2013 found that women leave STEM fields at dramatically higher rates than women in other occupations. Earlier this year we led a thought exercise for 240 senior leaders of a Silicon Valley technology company. Visibility of Valued Skills. Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

Lean methods, such as value stream mapping and improvement projects carried out by cross-functional teams can break down barriers and increase understanding. They know their own work, but they don’t understand the connections to other departments (or even to others performing different roles within their same department).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

This kind of unfortunate decision has happened over and over again, in wave after wave of transformative business technology. Therefore, no managers should view digital — or any other major technological innovation — as their sure salvation. It is multi-faceted and diffuse, and doesn’t just involve technology.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

The thing is, the labor markets and relevant skills vary widely from function to function. Smart recruiting requires an intimate understanding of the work to be done and the skills needed, as well as the function’s business plan (to forecast demand). It’s critical to bring in the right people to drive the business forward.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

Frustrated by these limitations, the global information-technology service provider Atos, headquartered in France, sought an internal collaboration system that would do away with email’s “closed” form of communication. Insight Center. Growing Digital Business. Sponsored by Accenture. New tools and strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

A hallmark of skilled leaders and teams is that, as their organizations grow larger and older, as the footprint of a change program expands, they keep looking for signs of once useful but now unnecessary roles, rules, traditions, processes, products, strategies, and services. Sales doubled in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

At the same time, alternative approaches to accessing capital and funding projects proliferated, forcing financial decision-making to become increasingly sophisticated. Success demands a far more diverse set of experiences and skills. Now compare that to the context and condition of today’s CHRO role. Bring on the quants.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The need to continuously modify and update your skills and expertise is increasingly seen as vital to thriving in the future of work. “We want to make it approachable for any organization, including smaller challenges and projects that incorporate a variety of approaches.” Finding heroes.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

More than once you’ve probably looked at some new digital or technological development and asked yourself, “How did we miss that?” In 2013, technical glitches caused a three-hour stop at the Nasdaq. But a lot of times, glitches have to do with newer technologies, which we are learning break in unexpected ways.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. Sure, it must always consider whether to adjust that strategy in the face of new competition, changing customer demand, technological innovation or all three. By mid-2013, the company was chugging along at a $200 million annual revenue rate.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

One Brookings Institute analysis projected that teacher actions could spread to another 11 states. ” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It found that 6 out of 10 teachers went directly into teaching after earning their undergraduate or graduate degree.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. If you didn''t cut the budget for innovation, technology, and product development over the past five years, good. Upgrade skills. What new skills and capabilities will you need to succeed in the emerging landscape?

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 22, 2013

Hirschman said, "This sentence admirably epitomizes several of the histories of economic development projects in recent decades. Hirschman and the power of failure" by Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker, June 24, 2013. These entrepreneurs thoroughly understand their technology. with the established communities to the East.".

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Technological innovations have led to round-the-clock work schedules and mounting expectations. Our most satisfying work comes about when we’re playing offense, working on projects that we ourselves initiate. In recent years, work has become infinitely more complex. Own your time. Help others strategically. ” 8.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 4, 2013

Consequently, there are often many people, process, and technology challenges associated with the implementation or significant upgrade of such monitoring systems. Ongoing maintenance/development of metrics and reports are highly reliant on the knowledge and skills of a single individual. Technology Related Challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

health system, change management is an essential skill for public and private leaders alike. For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

And this seems to be what customers want from online marketplaces: A study we published in 2013 found that when consumers move from brick-and-mortar video rental stores to online marketplaces, they are much more likely to choose niche titles instead of blockbusters.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Because they face significant knowledge or skill gaps, they are alert, move fast, and work smart. Consider science and technology, fields in which information is doubling every nine months and decaying at a rate of 30% a year , thereby rendering as much as 85% of a person’s technical knowledge irrelevant in five years’ time.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Zerhouni, the 15th director of the National Institutes of Health, Arab immigrants have made major contributions to American science and technology. In the five-year period from 2009 to 2013, there were 8,786 U.S. Arab inventors show some technological specialization in information and communication technologies.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Because if the repair shop had bothered to train and trust the mechanic on more than just technical skills—e.g., No wonder we have skills shortages! They tend to think of innovation as a shiny new product or service that incorporates a major advance in technology—something like the Model T or the iPhone.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Between 1993-2013, the value of U.S. Most economists believe that technology, innovation, and consumer tastes are more significant sources of change than is trade. companies have had to boost productivity with new technologies and supply chains, while offering new products. Jobs are the best way to learn skills.

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