Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 9, 2013

But after meeting internal resistance, we integrated elements of going tribal to create a new company, Division-D. Too often, startup CEOs cling to old business models as their reason for success, when in reality it was their innovation and risk-taking that helped them succeed in the first place. About the Author. All rights reserved.

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Business Model Advertising How To Entrepreneur 73

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g., The project was launched in 2013, and the RFID system was rolled out in stages starting in the summer of 2015. Use technology to identify and address barriers. High-density RFID readers were installed in the ceilings.

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Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

He had recently commented on a discussion on GHDonline.org regarding critical gaps in the diagnosis and treatment of drug resistant tuberculosis. As GHDonline’s rapid growth and success have demonstrated, they can indeed be a valuable tool for improving the efficiency, quality, and the ultimate value of health care delivery.

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Globalization Health Care Information Technology Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Here’s a brief account of how GE quickly scaled up a sizable software start-up within a big, successful conglomerate. Though technology would have allowed for a significantly virtual enterprise, it was important to Ruh to have a physical building where people could actually be located together. Getting Started.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

Since March, schools in West Virginia , Oklahoma , Kentucky , Arizona , Colorado and North Carolina have either been shut down or turned into sites of resistance. ” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Teachers have had enough.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

It’s easy to make a case that Apple is now positioning itself to become more of a provider of luxury-level technology. To understand the cost of Apple products that we associate with mass market success, we mapped the U.S. Finally, for fun, we couldn’t resist adding one more chart. But is that really right?

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Mass Marketing Marketing Brand Meyer 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Nevertheless, analog spending still rules, as confirmed by Gartner''s 2013 digital marketing spending report. Many CMOs see their digital future, but struggle to make the case across the executive ranks, where resistance is born of unfamiliarity, fear, or misperceptions about what digital marketing means for the brand. The Digital CMO.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Technological innovations have led to round-the-clock work schedules and mounting expectations. recommends blocking out time to work away from email, programming your phone to only ring for select colleagues, and resisting emails first thing in the morning until you’ve achieved at least one important task.

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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. However, rather than rolling out the red carpet, city governments have resisted many of these new entrants issuing subpoenas and cease-and-desist orders.

Business Model 9

Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

We’ve used this data for public-health projects such as tracking the impact of the Affordable Care Act in practices , monitoring the spread of influenza, surfacing novel insights about pediatric mental health , and synthesizing the first national map of antibiotic resistance. All this is just the beginning.

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Health Care Benchmarking Short-term Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

By identifying opportunities to fundamentally change how administrative services were delivered, the senior executives led by example and communicated a willingness to do their part in cutting costs by focusing on their own departments first – a messaging that helped dampen organizational resistance to change. Capitalize on success.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies. As was discussed in Chapter 8, technology constitutes one tenth of 1% of any organization’s overall Big Picture. In 1999, the U.S. Consider leaving a comment!

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

In the real world, of course, change is not easy, and resistance is not only common, but to be expected. 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. Many of them have little understanding of what innovation actually means.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

Alarm waned toward the end of the 19th century, as experts came to believe that “modern industry” and “rapid communications” were making people more open to change and hence more resistant to the disease. In that environment, labor took home a much larger share of economic growth than it does today.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

With its success, Alibaba and its founder Jack Ma are making the case for a strategy approach that has fallen out of favor in the U.S. While conglomerates are few and far between in the West, their success in China is no surprise. And it sets strategy like one, according to a Harvard Business School case study by professor Julie Wulf.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Over the last two decades, business leaders in the West have been responding to risks posed by profound changes in the global economy, in technology, and in demographics. The successful ones have, at least. When the public and politicians see businesses as agents or enemies of social policy, businesses cannot avoid becoming political.

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Politics Supply Chain Offshoring Globalization 10