Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. I would say overall we harnessed technology to push the country toward the future. Destroy silos.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

A 2014 study from Constellation Research quantified the accelerating rate of change in the enterprise by examining a simple benchmark — the entry and exit of U.S. Read more from DXC Technology: Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus. Digital transformation transcends technology. No industry is immune.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Since Frey and Osborne’s hugely popular paper in 2014, the traditional narrative surrounding automation at work has been that millions of jobs will be lost to the march of technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence. Highly-skilled professionals are very good at what they do, better than their managers.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 30, 2018

Guest post by David Kachoui (previously published in Quality Progress, August 2014): Director of Business Development at Natech Plastics. Students ran operations. Running different “businesses” would impart different skills and knowledge. Parents were patrons.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Within an enterprise, this means balancing the demands of current operations while laying the groundwork for future opportunities, as well as reviewing past activities and policies that may be holding back your organization. Keurig’s founders started from scratch when they created their proprietary coffeemaker and K-cup technology.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Digital technology is the biggest agitator of the business world today. Mobile technology, social media, cloud computing, embedded devices, big data, and analytics have radically changed the nature of work and competition. Technology has tremendous potential to be the engine of increasing human, organizational, and economic prosperity.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

As Tony Mayo, director of the Leadership Initiative at Harvard Business School, has put it, “Success in the 21st century will require leaders to pay attention to the evolving context” a business is operating in. One reason is that the context around us seems to be shifting more rapidly, due in part to major technological shifts.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2018

While most of us were still re-winding the tapes in our VCRs, brilliant minds were coming up with today’s technological advances. The private sector also has plenty of skin in the game, especially when profit depends on secure technology, and many have chosen to set up shop in Arizona. After leasing the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

I never would have experienced any of that — I never would have discovered that technology could be creative, I never would have started my career in tech, joined Google, led Youtube — if I had tried to stick to a specific plan that I had made when I was your age. … Think about this; 7 years ago Nokia owned 50% of the handset market.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

As technology transforms our economy, one trend is getting more and more attention: the prospect that it will increasingly automate the work that we human beings do. While it’s true that technology is taking over routine tasks from many workers, it is also reshaping many supply and demand trends that drive our global markets.

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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'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

As technology has become more sophisticated, it has taken over more and more functions previously performed by pilots, bringing huge improvements in aviation safety. In fact, they are the most prevalent cause of fatalities in commercial aviation today, accounting for 43% of fatalities in 37 separate incidents between 2010 and 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

That’s why, after years of operating without support staff (it’s been just me and my COO), I’ve recently hired a 24-year-old, Morgan, and given him the title of Director of Execution and Evolution. Stop playing catch-up with technology. But the date on it was from 2014. But Morgan takes a different approach.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Executives have a choice in how they run their operations. Or they can run them in a way that leverages a skilled, capable, motivated workforce. In my research, I’ve found that retailers using an employee-centered operations strategy, which I call the good jobs strategy , have two strategic advantages.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Systemic problems that affect everyone but are beyond the ability of any one person to solve require collaboration skills. Developing and deploying new technology requires building a supportive ecosystem surrounding it. To renew and reinvent our aging transportation infrastructure, we must turn our attention to coalition-building.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , employment opportunities for HR managers are expected to increase by 17% between 2014 and 2024. Skills are crucial to securing entry-level human resources jobs. Your skills will either make or break your chances of landing an HR manager job. Learn How To Work With Technology.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

As organizations collect increasingly large and diverse data sets, the demand for skilled data scientists will continue to rise. Because of this, the skills of talented data scientists are often wasted as they become bogged down in low-level data cleansing tasks or encumbered when they cannot quickly access the data they need.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

” So GE has hired 1,000 software engineers and data scientists to provide enhanced software and analytical skills across GE’s many businesses. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

” Both spell out how to map the buying process and customer experience and optimally redirect the firm’s sales, marketing, operations, and service efforts. And for small- to medium-size businesses, the required resources — technology, personnel, costs, and assets — are daunting if not out of reach.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

In 2014 the Medicare fee-for-service program spent $173 billion on 9.7 But the value of these technologies remains poorly understood. The relentless pace of technology has produced numerous products and services to monitor patients at home, but few have been tightly integrated with alternative care models.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

billion in 2014 to help it make the leap from a traditional advertising company to a digital one. Sponsored by DXC Technology. That means investigating where each company can benefit from the other in technologies, customer proximity, go-to-market access and other capabilities. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

For example, after opening its first store in 2014, fast-food chain KFC recently opened its fifth branch in the country. Technology : Providers of mobile banking and cash transfer solutions are doing particularly well in the economy due to the country’s multi-currency exchange regime and low availability of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

This is for organizations that want to diversify to include digital platforms but don’t currently have the skill sets or time to do it themselves. Starbucks stopped accepting the Square payment system in late 2014. Many big organizations even help incubate startups in their industry. Build it yourself.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

This transformation took time to play out and involved both displacements of incumbents operating in outdated modes and the emergence of new “feeder” roles for those aspiring to the C-suite. Now compare that to the context and condition of today’s CHRO role. Even HR itself agrees. Bring on the quants.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress. The same goes for technology.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Over the last decade, most companies’ digital agendas have focused largely on technology — moving to cloud-based software, modernizing IT infrastructures, adding digital channels, and digitizing business processes. This is a break from the traditional paths of finance, sales, and operations to the top spot.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

When I met Lane, in 2012, he had just returned from a Medtronic-sponsored skills-based volunteering trip to Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Center in Chennai, India. In late 2014, he joined forces with two other leaders in the space, Bryan Mazlish and Jeffrey Brewer, to form a technology startup called Bigfoot Biomedical.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

In my former position as Managing Director of Philip Morris Ukraine where I was based from January 2012 until February 2015, I was forced to see it as a business crisis that threatened our people, operations, and bottom line. Each person on my team had different skill sets and personalities.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

It makes much more economic and operational sense to create and leverage a central cadre of professionals than to ask each clinical unit, on its own, to acquire such expertise. ICCI also led the negotiations with one of MD Anderson’s largest private insurers to adopt the first cancer-care bundle in the United States.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

City dwellers' economic opportunity is magnified by the network effect of having millions of people around them, some of whom will find value in the skills and labor they provide. Alternatively, cities can use technology as a force multiplier. That means the system is in peak condition when the rain comes.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

Many people are stunned to learn that I didn’t meet my chief technology officer in person until 2014 — three years after he started working for me. This relates to our core value of being able to quickly and effectively communicate what’s most important because this is a required skill when working remotely.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Partly a byproduct of user-centered approaches and do-it-yourself ingenuity, this emerging wave of intrapreneurship is due to a rising generation of managers who have been empowered by accessible technology and mobilized by social media. She couldn’t get the image out of her head, so she began to research the technology requirements.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

The results of the 2014 survey — to which 89 U.S.-based production of cheap natural gas (using new fracking technology). Cheap sensors, fast computing, and new technologies have led to new user-friendly manufacturing automation that increases productivity. While 33.6% based companies and 33 non-U.S.-based Labor costs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

By building and nurturing deep, hard-to-replicate skills, an organization could fatten margins and fuel growth. This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

By building and nurturing deep, hard-to-replicate skills, an organization could fatten margins and fuel growth. This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Compared to professions like engineering or business disciplines like Finance or Operations, the concept of a dedicated salesperson is relatively recent. Take, for example, the impact of online technology. Each group has its own operating procedures. In 2014 (the most recent data available), the BLS indicated an increase to 14.25

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

Today, however, by exploiting new digital technologies, firms like Apple, Lending Club, and AirBnB have made customer co-creation of value central to their business models and in doing so now rank among the world’s most innovative and valuable firms. Lending Club went public in 2014 and its enterprise value is nearly $9 billion.

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