Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Prior to founding EnableSoft, in 1995, Richard was a partner and Senior Vice President of FiTech PLUSmark, and held other positions in Information Technology, Operations, and Sales. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2015

A frequent contributor to journals, and a regular speaker at technology conferences, he earned his doctorate from Cambridge University, was a research fellow at Harvard, and has written or edited eight books on the economics of knowledge and data management and the use of information technology to mitigate risk.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Of all the ways the world changed in 2014 — economic, cultural, technological, all three — which will matter most to us in 2015? Leadership & Managing people Information & technology' Which research best answered questions we hadn’t even thought to ask? It’s Time to Retool HR, Not Split It.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Marshall McLuhan wrote famously about the “global village,” created by new information technologies. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. But the heart of enterprise remains rooted in personal collaborative relationships, albeit networked by the new information technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

Survey respondents indicated the most difficult roles to fill today are in sales, research and development, and information technology, and filling them is only going to become more difficult. The pace of technological and marketplace change will continue to create demand for new skill sets and brand-new job categories.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

We need to predict performance for the first quarter of 2015 (1Q15). So what’s the prediction for 2015’s first quarter? As the figure, “Potential Predictions for First Quarter, 2015,” depicts, I can argue for at least three: “We should expect 1Q15 to be like most first quarters. Information & technology Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

As a result, when companies are hacked, it can take days for information technology teams to isolate infected systems, remove malicious code, and restore business continuity. But they continue to operate and communicate with other systems until information technology teams shut them down and correct the malfunction.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Samsung said at its 2014 investors forum it expects the global Smart Home Device market to reach $15 billion in 2015, almost doubling from 2013’s $7.8 has emerged as a leading adopter of smart meter technology for power utilities, approaching 50% penetration of 150 million total endpoints. Information & technology Internet'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Stringer’s website observes that “These costs are projected to rise over the next four years to $782 million by FY 2018, a figure that is greater than the FY 2015 budget for the Parks Department, Department of Aging, and New York Public Library combined.”. Decision making Information & technology Strategy'

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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. Marys during the fourth quarter of 2015. It was fully integrated into emergency room operations at St. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Tom Davenport, the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, says that the health IoT will become “the most important and prolific source of real-time health data that we will have.” Expectations of growth in this sector are robust.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. PM Images/Getty Images. A recent Navigant survey found that U.S. This was because their expenses grew faster than their revenues, despite cost-cutting initiatives. ” Clearly, more is needed.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Well, 2015 has now arrived, and earlier this month, investors, entrepreneurs, and other drone supporters gave two cheers when the agency at last released a draft of its proposed regulations.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2016

A 2015 Nielsen Global Sustainability Report found that 43% of consumers say that a company’s commitment to social value “very heavily” or “heavily” influenced their purchase decisions. In 2015, more than $10.5 But many of today’s consumers want more.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

There was a heartening rally between 1996 and 2004, when growth returned to its 1950s/1960s levels of 3% — a performance almost universally attributed to the efficiency gains from information technology. When the first quarter of 2015 revealed a 3.1% When the first quarter of 2015 revealed a 3.1%

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Marketing experiments that might have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in 1995 might cost a couple of hundred dollars in 2015; maybe less. Ethics Information & technology Innovation' Just as the war is too important to be left to the generals, human experimentation is too important to be left to the researchers and lawyers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

If it goes into effect by 2015 , the stakes will be even higher. Information & technology Innovation' Officials are even reviewing the Safe Harbor agreement, which enables the transfer of personal data from the EU to companies in the U.S., and pressing for more robust enforcement on U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2015

How ironic that heavier reliance on information technology, technically removed from the action (picture the manager facing a screen), would exacerbate the action orientation of managing. Internet connectivity has not reduced managers’ orientation to action – and their disinclination to engage in reflection.

Management 8

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In 2015, Mark Zuckerberg said that common knowledge is “an important idea for designing social media, as we often face tradeoffs between creating personalized experiences for each individual and crafting universal experiences for everyone.” Information & technology Social platforms Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

military’s Joint Staff network, which the Washington Post reports was compromised in August 2015 via a measly phishing e-mail. In 2015 , the U.S. But in truth, these parts of the U.S. So leaders should invest the time in knowing their organization’s network. Don’t let friends click links.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. Those cheap train rides were a social technology. Where will new technologies take us? Consider popular sentiments about the rise of information technology: a mixture of hope and anxiety. It was something you did. What will they do to and for us?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

This is the overarching goal of China’s 2010-2015 plan. That growth was driven largely by the increased use of information technology in customer analysis and supply chain optimization. China, too, needs more technological innovation. Such investments might not be sustainable in the long term.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Sometimes it''s a peer to the CMO, perhaps a chief digital officer, which Gartner predicts will be present in 25% of enterprises by 2015. Information & technology Marketing Social media' Some hire a chief technologist. In both cases, this role is the designated left brain to the CMO''s right.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

A 2015 Institute of Medicine report, “Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Progress,” demonstrates broad consensus that measuring the quality of people’s health and the care they receive is critical to improving performance of the health care system and patients’ health outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Instead they are waiting for the technology to mature and for expertise in AI to become more widely available. They are planning to be “fast followers” — a strategy that has worked with most information technologies. We think this is a bad idea.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

And while only 34 percent of the rural population earned more than $882 per year in 2009, this proportion is expected to reach 54 percent in 2015. Greater use of information technology and mobile communications to empower farmers. Four years later, it was $845 — a 20 percent compound annual growth rate.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

The Southeast Asia city’s rapid growth echoes the story of the so-called “unicorns” — technology start-ups that rapidly grew to a billion-dollar valuation and beyond. So far, 2015 has produced 30 unicorns. Generations of Filipinos have been raised on Hollywood movies, Friends , the NBA, and of course, Facebook.

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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. consumer first encountered chip cards in a significant way in early 2015, when card issuers began to widely distribute them. Copy the chip card approach.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 11, 2019

That’s beginning to shift however, with R&D hubs emerging in countries like China, India and Israel, and a recent study argues that the role played by information technology in innovation is a major driver behind this change.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

For example, in 2015 the Consortium arranged a global Zika Innovation Hack-a-thon in which 200 innovators developed 15 proposed solutions in 48 hours to help control the virus. CAMTech is an open innovation platform now involving a network of over 4,300 engineers, clinicians, entrepreneurs, and designers from over 700 organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

The relentless speed of change of customers, markets, and technology has given rise to enormous opportunity. A 2015 report by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) estimated the digital economy would contribute $4 trillion to the GDP of countries in the G-20 during 2016, and would continue to grow at a rate of 10 percent per year.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

By 2030, the BPC predicts , utilities in the United States will need to hire 150,000 additional workers in information-technology intensive roles. The need for digitally savvy technical hires is especially pronounced. Traditional vocational and technical education programs are also part of the answer.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

In February, as part of an FAA spending bill, Congress ordered the agency to develop rules by 2015 that would allow military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Novel uses of information technology often trigger deeply negative emotions, particularly among Americans. But that is about to change.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

In 2015, such cybercriminals developed and deployed a computer virus known as the “Corkow Trojan” to infect Kazan-based Energobank and place more than $500 million in orders at non-market rates.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2015

This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 5-6, 2015 in Vienna. The best that they can do for you is to augment the strengths of your people — you know, those humans you’re at risk of underrating.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

In January 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a new provider reimbursement code for non–face-to-face health care services for patients who have chronic medical conditions. Health care remains one of the few services that require people to have a face-to-face interaction to obtain access.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Forbes estimates that in 2015 the company brought in $250 million in revenue, and it predicts a 50% increase in 2016. .” Over time, a sleeve style from one garment and a color or pattern from another, for instance, “evolve” into a whole new shirt. As a machine learning–native company, Stitch Fix bears watching.

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