Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

million from 2005 to 2015, a 67 percent jump. To fully enable a new vision of the future, organizations must make changes in five key business areas: Planning and Budgeting If organizations have easy access to—and indeed rely on—external talent, they can tackle new opportunities, experiment more nimbly, and operate in new areas.

Content 8

Content Katz Forrester Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

In 2015 over 113 million Americans health records were exposed, and in 2016 the number was over 16 million, according to reports submitted to the U.S. At the beginning of 2017 Experian predicted that the health care sector would be the most heavily targeted vertical industry. The estimated loss to the industry is $5.6 Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Insurance Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. So far in 2017, GE is the worst-performing stock on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

For most of 2015, I was the director of Rhode Island’s SBM, known as HealthSource RI, which more than 32,000 Rhode Islanders use to purchase health insurance. By January 1, 2015, all state-based marketplaces were expected to replace federal funding with state-level financing. Technological challenges. Financial challenges.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

By 2017 it was operating in over 190 countries, and today close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. before 2010, and in only 50 countries by 2015. It has been developing relationships with device makers, mobile and TV operators, and internet service providers as well.

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

That deal sent the price of Brent crude oil to above $70 a barrel in January, after the industry that had suffered through $54 per barrel oil on average in 2017. output comes from fracking operations that have cut costs dramatically since slumping prices in 2014 forced dozens of companies into bankruptcy. The soaring U.S.

Offshoring 9

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

By 2015, RedBalloon was delivering more than four million customers to businesses across Australia and New Zealand that offered “experiences.” In 2017, Simson and her marketing team put Albert to work immediately, processing the company’s large database of customer interactions and transaction history. Not Albert.

Retail 8

Retail Audience Budgeting Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency. This role is common in technology, engineering, and life sciences companies, where domain expertise in narrow and arcane areas can be crucial to market success. Essential Experts.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

And in January 2017, McKinsey’s research arm estimated AI-driven job losses at 5%. IT was using AI to resolve employees’ tech support problems, automate the work of putting new systems or enhancements into production, and make sure employees used technology from approved vendors.

Company 10

Company Survey Finance Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After being denounced for years for its dictatorship and destructive economic policies, Zimbabwe entered a new chapter in November 2017, following the military’s removal of president Robert Mugabe, who ruled the country for 37 years. ALEXANDER JOE/Getty Images. Lower-income consumers also present a lucrative opportunity.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

In 2015 the Army informed Riley that, because of his time away, he was not being promoted alongside 90% of his peers to the rank of 1st lieutenant and he would soon be facing a board to determine whether he should be separated from the Army altogether. That was where the trouble began. Today he continues to wear the uniform.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Learning-by-Doing Advertising Training 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This frugal solution is built around affordable and easy-to-use medical devices that can be operated by nurses in rural clinics. Adding 600 new customers a day, M-KOPA intends to cross the million-unit mark by the end of 2017. Yet, over 5 billion people worldwide don’t have internet access. housing sector.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Most modern health care improvements seem to involve expensive technology and an uncomfortable amount of change management. This routine might not sound like the makings of a significant advance, but Rotterdam Eye Hospital has experienced some significant improvements in service quality since it introduced the card game in 2015.

Health Care 8

Health Care Stress Morale Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

of their Medicare reimbursements in Fiscal Year 2015 if they don’t show simultaneous improvements in both process of care measures and patient experience. By 2017, that looming cut will grow to 2%, which equates to millions of dollars for an average hospital. The penalty for falling short isn’t insignificant.

Survey 8

Survey Health Care Process Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

The survey gathers perspectives from a small but influential group of executives — chief information officers, chief data officers, and senior business and technology leaders of Fortune 1000 firms. Among the findings: 63% of firms now report having Big Data in production in 2015, up from just 5% in 2012. Insight Center.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer Agility Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. While much has changed even since 2015, there are roadblocks on the journey that have remained surprisingly resilient. Digital technology is widespread and spreading fast. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

General Motors, once the world’s largest car maker, has decided to stop selling vehicles in India by the end of 2017, since it considers its India operation to be not profitable. For a period of 14 years, General Electric had the same American expat running the India operation, Scott Bayman.

CEO 9

CEO Long-term Short-term Mass Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

India has added new customers at the fastest rate for Amazon in its history of operations across the world, including the U.S. Similarly, when Renault entered India and introduced Kwid in 2015, Maruti and Hyundai had almost 70% of India’s large and fast-growing sub-compact car market.

Globalization 8

Globalization CAGR Class Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

Twenty years later, as an executive coach, work-life sustainability is a prominent issue that my clients grapple with, as they face the ever-higher work demands that have come with advances in technology. A 2017 survey by Kronos and Future Workplace , reveals that the restructuring of work has resulted in significant burnout.

Team 10

Team Conference Restructuring McKinsey 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

of those in these markets said that currency volatility posed the greatest material risk to their pricing strategy during 2014 and 2015. It’s also a massive operational challenge because companies are not set up to make very frequent pricing changes, whereas currencies can move hugely overnight.

Price 8

Price Globalization Depreciation Marketing 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The number of industrial robots in operation around the world has grown rapidly in recent years, but nowhere more so than in China, where some 30% of the world’s robots are in operation. A second paper, published in 2017 , by the London School of Economics examined actual employment data from the last few decades.

TCO 73

TCO Decentralization CAPEX Industry 73

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

In 2015, the world pivoted in a historic way toward sustainability. The context for sustainable business in 2017 may center on the competition between these two stories; that is, how will Trump and his team impact or impede progress on climate and other sustainability issues? Debates about climate change melted away. Then came 2016.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

A new survey from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs reveals that 60% of Americans support the negotiations for trans-Pacific trade , down slightly from 2015. Republican members supported and provided most of the votes for Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) in 2015. If the president had acted just a year earlier, the U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Politics Policies Globalization 8