Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 20, 2013

While workplaces are swiftly becoming more and more advanced in cloud computing, using social media for marketing purposes, and generally becoming au fait with modern technology, there is one area which is sadly lacking when it comes to technological advancement. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

As technology becomes more disruptive and we see more importance placed on big data and artificial intelligence, what will matter most are those things that make us human – the soft skills. Best Leadership Books of 2013. Actions have consequences and continuity of character matters. Blog Post ). Best Leadership Books of 2014.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Fortunately, companies are becoming more aware that a data integrity insurance system is a necessity and are implementing new technologies into their business processes in order to safeguard against a data breach. References: Cosgrove, T. Reports, customer transactions, and revenues can all be affected as a result of bad data.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

References. She provides clients of all sizes strategic direction and implementation of programs and strategies around projects, process, people and technology. She is currently President of the PMI® Mass Bay Chapter Board of Directors (2011 – 2013). Succession: Are You Ready?

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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. In other words, waste is not trash to be thrown out; it refers to the events, phenomena, experiences, and features that diminish our capacity to do what matters to us. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Social media is the largest one-on-one sales reference on the planet, and like the Internet, it’s keeping business (and salespeople) honest. No personal website, no personal brand, no social media interaction, and not taking advantage of smartphone technology. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I think our principal observation was that what was happening was that disruptive innovations driven by largely information technology but lots of other technologies on the fringe here that are getting ready to exhibit the same kind of characteristics were entering the market in kind of this better and cheaper way.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

” Technological developments are often interesting to discuss in relation to relevance. A current example of uncertainty around relevance concerns blockchain , i.e. the technology behind virtual currencies such as bitcoin. In other words, the technology can make brokers and bankers irrelevant. Competition for dependence.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. This bold strategic leap was, we found, in part facilitated by Nokia’s newly appointed board who actively attended to top managers’ emotions in 2012-2013.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Some old technologies, after being rendered obsolete by better and cheaper alternatives (indeed even after whole industries based on them have been decimated), manage to “re-emerge” to the point that they sustain healthy businesses. Who are these makers if not the revivers of dying or, in some cases, long extinct technologies?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

But when I put the question to top management, well, they''re busy — not their problem, that''s for sure — and they refer me to the chief information officer or the chief technology officer. This is a management failure, not a technological problem. Information & technology Managing uncertainty Risk management'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

As a member of a start-up advisory program, I regularly hear pitches from aspiring technology entrepreneurs. It relegates your brand to subordinate status compared to the brand used as your reference point – and it tells customers that your brand possesses only comparative value, rather than having its own inherent value.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Buyers used the salesman’s help to evaluate what products to purchase, especially for new technologies like clocks and sewing machines. Over the years, innovations in distribution, media, and technology have enabled buyers to use non-sales force channels for various steps of their buying journey.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

He equipped his Boulder offices with state-of-the-art video conferencing systems, and now holds meetings using this technology or asks business partners to travel to see him. My wife Amy started referring to what she got on the weekends as “the dregs.” Feld, who recently wrote about this decision in Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Since 2013, an estimated 16.4 The marketplaces also have played an important role in referring eligible Americans for Medicaid coverage. Technological challenges. Rollout in late 2013 was rocky for the federal exchange (and for some state exchanges when they first launched). Fewer uninsured people.

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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).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

Census data from 1990 to 2013. I use “middle class” to refer to the middle third of earners.). Some argue that this productivity gap is the result of too little competition; however, a nascent-but-growing body of research attributes it to technology. The same is true for skills. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Here, Try Some Nixon and Kimchi: How the Garment Industry Came to Bangladesh Planet Money I admit it: The reference to Nixon and kimchi in the headline got me to read it, but this piece on how Bangladesh came to be a world center for apparel manufacturing held my interest.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2015

Yet compared to great technological inventions of the past, it is also a colossal economic disappointment. But I’m referring to jobs in a deep and sustaining sense — employment well beyond the “1 percent.” The technologies of the past had massive new job creation effects that swamped displacement effects.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Forty years on, the early feminist terminology sounds quaint — she labels her 10-point plan a "women's emphasis program," for instance, and her references to "Women's Lib," "the woman problem," "consciousness raising," and "feminine talent" just sound laughable today.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Huggy Rao and I like to refer to scaling challenges as the “ Problem of More ” because they always involve getting some existing seed of excellence to take root in more people and more places. Sales doubled in 2013. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days. The language of “more” pervades discussions of the topic.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Martin, quoting Peter Senge, refers to the problem that in situations of dynamic complexity, the links between causes and effects are “subtle.” on instruments and tools that a dynamic information and communication technology sector, drawing on all the research that preceded and accompanies it, has bestowed on us.

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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. Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide. Tosi on April 1, 2013. As a term, multitasking is a bit like downsizing --a nice word for something that is not really good for most people. ebook at $.99).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

As a result, the United States experienced five years of the lowest growth in health care costs ever in the 2009-2013 period — although an uptick in the rate in 2014 raises questions about what it will take to contain costs on a sustainable basis.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

Inside the company, we sometimes refer to this initiative as “The Death of McKinsey,” an identifier not-so-loosely inspired by a blog post from Gordon Ritter and motivated further by a 2013 Clayton Christensen HBR article.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

They are also “your biggest allies” and the first port of call for reference checks from potential investors. ” In 2013, she and Robin Smith — a former colleague from Artus Labs — began exploring ideas. ” That said, many people at work will naturally “be skeptical,” he says.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. Digital technology is widespread and spreading fast. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work. Automation, big data, and artificial intelligence enabled by the application of digital technologies could affect 50% of the world economy.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

In 2013, the second year of the Pioneer ACO program , just two of these ACOs accounted for more than $36 million in savings – close to 40% of the entire program that year. How did they do it? One such small-picture decision our ACOs focused on is the choice to send patients out of network for care.

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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. Having acknowledged the ambiguity built into our methods, we will refer to “Arab inventors” throughout this article. In 2013 there were approximately 1.02

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Media companies are experiencing an extreme form of competition that comes with digital technologies: Everyone is a media company today. When the pseudonymous Robert Galbraith published A Cuckoo’s Calling in 2013, the novel sold about 1,500 copies in the first month. Success might have more to do with awareness than with quality.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

Not for nothing did Verizon’s lawyers refer to this reasoning as a “triple bank shot.” There’s no ranking for newspapers in 2013, although in some past years they’ve done even worse than cable. Information & technology Innovation Internet' Cable companies are a long way from winning the hearts and minds of American consumers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Stories are rhetorically far more powerful than references to elaborate economic models. A 2013 Pew Research survey found that business executives ranked ninth out of 10 professions in terms of social contribution, only placing ahead of lawyers. ” That sentiment is clearly not confined to the United Kingdom. Perhaps U.S.

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