Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

The directors of Procter & Gamble, for instance, have established an Innovation and Technology committee; the board of specialty-chemical maker Clariant has done the same; and Pfizer has created a Science and Technology committee. To that end, Diebold recruited a new CEO in 2013, Andy W.

Innovation 8

Innovation Committee Charan Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

A few months ago, Ram Charan proposed splitting HR into two parts: one to oversee leadership and organization, and one to handle administration. Indeed, according to the Association for Talent Development, nearly 40% of corporate training in 2013 was delivered through technology, and that number is projected to grow.

Human Capital 14

Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

These interviews were conducted with salespeople across a wide variety of industries including high technology, telecommunications, financial services, consulting, industrial equipment, healthcare, and electronics, to name a few. Administrivia.

CRM 16

CRM Telecommunications Price Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

My Patent Portfolio Is Bigger Than Your Patent Portfolio Google's Growing Patent Stockpile MIT Technology Review Google, which is on pace to collect some 1,800 patents this year, appears to be committed to amassing one of the world''s largest patent portfolios. Not bad for a 24-year-old who joined IBM straight out of college.

CTO 8

CTO Apparel Ryan Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

David Carr, at The New York Times , summarized the industry’s precarious position as follows: “Producing serious news is an expensive enterprise with a beleaguered business model, one that remains tied to the tracks as a locomotive of splintered audiences and declining advertising hurtles toward it.” ( The New York Times ; October 20, 2013).

Price 10

Price Content Reputation Advertising 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

According to a 2013 CEB study , “only one in four HR organizations have effectively integrated their talent management practices…with the company’s strategic objectives.” A good example is Cognizant, a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Delegation Management Document 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Sales doubled in 2013. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days. Each 60-day stretch is followed by a short period of “white space,” including an offsite meeting where employees think strategically and propose new rocks. But once IDEO grew to hundreds of Palo Alto employees, even Kelley couldn’t sustain the intimacy.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

s Co-operative Bank in June 2013. One section highlights the problems the bank encountered as it attempted to replace its core banking systems, a program that was cancelled in 2013 at a cost of almost £300 million. that has both organizational and technological components. billion capital shortfall announced by the U.K.’s

Banking 8

Banking Project Enterprise Architecture CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S. He has proposed reforms, such as tax breaks for mining firms and commercial farmers, aiming to assist export-oriented businesses and earn Zimbabwe much-need hard currency.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

in 1999 with the dream of: “changing people’s lives with science and technology” — and then he delivered this in a big way, becoming probably the richest person in China, and the only Chinese member of Forbes ’ “top 12 most powerful entrepreneurs for 2013”. . billion business after two years.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The global sharing economy market was valued at $26 billion in 2013 and some predict it will grow to become a $110 billion revenue market in the coming years, making it larger than the U.S. There’s no reason firms themselves cannot find the best rules out there and propose them to the Mayor’s office. Government Technology'

Business Model 9

Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. The transformation in education technology and markets is happening with the business leaders and money-men of higher education barely present.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

During the presidential campaign, Americans will be bombarded with proposals to improve the U.S. health care system in ways big and small that would either build on or radically revamp the Affordable Care Act (ACA). All will claim to reduce costs and improve quality.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

These interviews were conducted with salespeople across a wide variety of industries including high technology, telecommunications, financial services, consulting, industrial equipment, healthcare, and electronics, to name a few. Administrivia.

CRM 9

CRM Telecommunications Price Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

While my colleagues and I vehemently agree that HR’s status quo is an inhibitor to growth, it is with the same fervor that we disagree with Ram’s proposed solution. Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? Now compare that to the context and condition of today’s CHRO role.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

As part of the AIA, on March 16, 2013, the United States adopted a first-inventor-to-file regime. Typically, the launch of a new product design includes market research, independent testing, previews to select retailers and journalists, and discussions with suppliers about how to manufacture the proposed design.

Magazine 8

Magazine Engineering Productivity Products 8

Coaching Tip

AUGUST 31, 2015

Modern culture, with all of our technology and time-saving gadgets, has left us with a distorted view of productivity. It doesn't matter if you're working on the most important proposal of your life or an email to your manager. . Tosi on April 1, 2013. Improving the Quality of Your Life By Author M.B.

eBook 70

eBook Efficiency Open-book Quality 70

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

More than 200 activist-investor initiatives hit companies in 2013, a seven-fold increase over a decade earlier. Founded in 1928, Motorola diversified over the decades from car radios into a host of communication technologies, ranging from equipment aboard Apollo 11 to the best-selling RAZR mobile phones.

Hostile Takeover 8

Hostile Takeover Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Like any firm in need of business development, we build relationships with executives across the company, and pitch proposals. In a seminal 2013 HBR article, “Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption,” Clayton M. Every business leader should be able to hire the external or internal consultants of their choice.

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Take Apple and the work it put into building a technology platform on which hundreds of thousands of independent developers could create apps and offer them to Apple''s customers. I''ll propose a few (and invite your additions in the comments): Communicate goals and let those doing the work self-organize.

Management 9

Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Every day somebody is proclaiming a new one , arguing that there isn’t one , proposing ways to prevent one , or complaining about how hard they are to prevent. The actual outcome for Cisco turned out to be a 156% increase in net income from fiscal 2000 through fiscal 2013. Asness sure seems to have nailed that bubble, huh?

Price 8

Price Finance Definition Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

The FTC saw this happening already in 2007 and proposed “to create a national Do Not Track List similar to the national Do Not Call list.” See PageFair’s 2013 and 2014 reports). As did use.

Advertising 8

Advertising CRM Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

You must also be willing to extend your timeline if your proposed end-date doesn’t seem realistic the closer you get, adds Clark. ” In 2013, she and Robin Smith — a former colleague from Artus Labs — began exploring ideas. As you chip away on your project, continue to give your job the attention it needs.

Project 8

Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

One of the biggest challenges in health care is how to provide innovative, high technology specialty care while reining in costs at the same time. 2) What is their proposed solution? The semi-finalists then each pitched their revised proposals to the advisory board in Shark-Tank style events that were open to the public.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Proposal Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Forrester survey data shows that interest in wearing a wrist-based computing or sensoring device had grown from an already-high 28% in 2013 to an impressive 42% in 2014, all before the Apple Watch was a thing. Other, highly-regarded smartwatches already exist, but now people are talking about Apple’s proposed definition of a smartwatch.

Forrester 11

Forrester Maslow Brand Human Needs 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The first concerns the challenge of creating the meaningful use program for the HITECH Act when I served as national coordinator of health information technology from 2009 to 2011, at the beginning of the Obama administration. Two personal stories illustrate these points. They had incentives to do so, but they could easily refuse.

System 8

System Skills Health Care Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

By 2013, we had honored Jack Dorsey of Twitter, Garrett Camp of Uber, famed choreographer Twyla Tharp, and Gangnam style pop artist Psy. Rarely have I had that kind of immediate trust and social currency when proposing something new. Capturing the Innovation Mind-Set at Bally Technologies. Innovation'

Innovation 11

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

. “Nobody appreciates being surprised or not having enough time to think through a new thing,” Shalett told audiences at LinkedIn’s FinanceConnect conference in 2013. Now that you’re ready to involve legal from the beginning, ask all the departments involved to break proposals and issues into layman’s terms.

Innovation 8

Innovation Team Compliance Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2014

Research by Alison Konrad and Yang Yang, published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior and honored with the 2013 Kanter Award , finds that people who use flexible work options are promoted more than others. Goldin proposes that employers stop disproportionately rewarding people who work particular continuous segments of time.

Bond 8

Bond Long-term Health Care Organizational Behavior 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , a 2013 dollar has one-tenth the purchasing power of the 1950 version. Bitcoin creation is thus a bit like Milton Friedman''s " k-percent rule ," which proposed that the money supply be made to grow automatically at a steady rate that averts both inflation and deflation.

Price 9

Price Constraint Real Estate GDP 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

To address the combined challenge of increased dynamism and diversity of business environments as well as the proliferation of approaches, we propose a unifying choice framework: the strategy palette. A firm can be the first to apply a new technology or to identify and address a major source of customer dissatisfaction or a latent need.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

Here is a brief synopsis of what we missed: Under Chinese stewardship, a new and potentially disruptive player in the development banking landscape, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), which was initially proposed in 2013 by President Xi Jingping, gathered steam. technology and communications companies.

Banking 8

Banking Development Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2015

The dominant dismal view is that rapid technological innovation has been gobbling up jobs faster than it is creating them. Technological change is causally connected to the stagnation of median income and the growth of inequality in the United States. A select few were in the business of thinking creatively for the entire species.

Drucker 8

Drucker Technology Efficiency Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

But with the rise of digital technology, and with it the ability to get immediate feedback from customers and communities, crowdsourcing has become a powerful alternative for driving important decisions. Given the success of the program in 2013, IBM’s CIO decided to invest $7 million to expand iFundIT in 2014.

Software 8

Software CIO Early Adopters Project 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This law established the first major "cap and trade" system; it didn't restrict carbon dioxide as current iterations propose, but mandated reductions in acid-rain-causing sulfur dioxide. What about the companies and entrepreneurs that create cleaner ways of operating or provide the pollution-reducing technologies?

Cost 10

Cost Industry Constraint Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The Obama administration issued new standards to double the fuel economy of cars and trucks , and the National Resources Defense Council (an NGO) proposed using the Clean Air Act to reduce emissions from power plants by 25%. Keeping the apparel theme, um, running, check out Nike's new shoe with FlyKnit technology. on to 2013.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10