Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2015

But what about those times when you have a special project or need help to explore emerging technology? There are financial factors too, and your operational costs may be lower when outsourcing. Many highly skilled developers can be found in emerging markets such as India, where costs are far lower. Specialist knowledge.

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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. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2015. They are loaded with Roberts' experience, story, brio, provocation and direction.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

The employment shift from occupations that require mid-level skills toward those at the high and low ends is one of the most important trends in the U.S. However, studies dating back to Joseph Schumpeter’s coinage of the term “ creative destruction ” suggest that adjustments to technological change may be more episodic.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

On January 26, 2015, President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. Boeing India’s Dennis Swanson told Business Week that he expects to sign a new strategic partnership with an Indian company in 2015. America’s largest insurer, Allstate, announced plans to invest $1 billion in its India operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Read more from DXC Technology: Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus. Digital transformation transcends technology. Digital transformation is often viewed through a narrow technology lens, as just another mobile project or e-commerce initiative. How to Become a Digital Enterprise. No industry is immune.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Investing in technology can help lift people out of poverty, and investments that use technology for development are good for business, creating millions of new customers. Using information and communications technology (ICT) for development is fairly common, but surprisingly, most digital divide projects don’t generate revenue.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Each time technology advances to allow for collection, storage, and analysis of more data, we have the opportunity to expand the boundaries of the systems that we can analyze and improve. Are operational definitions the same across different data sources? Have we considered the impact of collecting data (e.g., What is our theory?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. Director Recruitment and Skills. These firms also had higher-rated processes for innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

With unemployment rates in most developed nations at the lowest levels since the Great Recession, and with new skill sets required to keep pace with head-spinning technological advances, it’s no surprise the talent acquisition environment is incredibly competitive. Image courtesy of Korn Ferry.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Today, workplaces are undergoing a digital revolution which is helping to transform entire industries and forcing companies to change the way they operate. One of the major threats facing leaders comes in the form of “horizontal innovation” driven by technology. Technological Literacy. Digital Skills Gap.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Employees and executives are rarely mentored on the people skills necessary to have a winning team. Organizations of all sizes must have the Think Tank.which delineates future operations, including education and training. Technical, Niche Skills. Skills Enrichment. Amassing People Skills. Therein lies the problem.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In today’s rapidly changing business environment, companies that rely solely on full-time employees are finding they have neither the skills nor the agility to sustain success. And a pool of independent and highly skilled workers who can fill those needs is growing. million from 2005 to 2015, a 67 percent jump.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Given the pace at which digital innovation is disrupting industries globally, it’s not surprising that most CEOs feel pressure to find and deploy the right technology as fast as their budgets will allow. Many are discovering, however, that becoming a digital leader isn’t simply a matter of technological savvy.

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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. Most are skilled in the more ubiquitous programming languages and producing iOS and Android apps.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

As a result, workforce skills and requirements have also changed. The speed of technological innovation and industry demands is moving faster than higher education’s ability to adapt. Over the past decade, business has changed dramatically. But while this has happened, one sector has lagged behind: higher education.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2018

In contrast to health care, aviation has been an early adopter of decision-support technology — the “fly by wire” flight-control computers that prevent unsafe operation of the aircraft and reduce maintenance costs and pilot workloads. In radiology such technology will augment human competence in image recognition.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

Further, laws define independent contracting as the case where the hired party exercises independence in determining basic features of the relationship like rates of pay, how and where tasks are done, and the opportunities for expanding or contracting that work based on the individual’s own skills, abilities, and enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

So just when electric systems need to operate flawlessly — whether to power air conditioners, pump water, or heat homes — long-term challenges to power grids are multiplying. The unprecedented loss of highly-skilled, senior workers is compounding challenges posed by aging infrastructure, rising power demand, and climate stress.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Virtually every company we spoke to relied on nonprofit intermediaries to find candidates who had committed to training programs or apprenticeships in both hard and soft skills for the chance of stepping onto a career ladder. A 2015 study that we conducted with the U.S. Year Up, a large source of opportunity-youth trainees in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

By one estimate , the number of international migrants worldwide reached 244 million in 2015, up from 222 million in 2010, and 173 million in 2000. Higher diversity is therefore associated with lower productivity, which inhibits the capacity of the economy to operate efficiently. International migration is on the rise.

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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. Even more recent technologies like deep learning are based on research that took place in the 1980s.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 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 28, 2016

Technology has emerged as a competitive weapon in driving operational excellence and superior service quality. Through Paypal, Nigerians spent $610 million via their mobile phones on international shopping in 2015, depriving local banks forex fees. Across Africa, banking is being redesigned. Data consolidation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Executives are usually taught that data is an objective and critical input for strategic planning and operations. Applying this, however, is much easier said than done — especially among companies operating in emerging markets. For example, as Greece returned to financial crisis in 2015, the IMF forecasted 2.5%

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

More than once you’ve probably looked at some new digital or technological development and asked yourself, “How did we miss that?” ” In order to chart the best way forward, you must understand emerging trends: what they are, what they aren’t, and how they operate. Blockchain.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

South African restaurant chain Ocean Basket also opened in Harare in 2015 to serve the wealthy urban elite. 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. For most established players, the technology and skill gaps are intimidating, and it take years of effort to close them. Build it yourself.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Since 2015, stable-scheduling legislation has been passed in four cities ( San Francisco , Emeryville , Seattle , New York) , one state ( Oregon ), and introduced in many others. Even if business leaders want to abandon the practice, it’s so firmly embedded in their operations that many think it can’t be done.

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

The advent of the modern organization and the practice of management constitutes a “social technology” that has been equally transformative. The forces of technology and management will continue to hold equal sway as the 21st century unfolds. This is a situation that cannot endure.

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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.

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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

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. Many are doing so by investing in superficial amenities or by investing in technologies that allow caregivers to track and respond to a patient’s call for help.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

By 2015, there will be 22 metropolitan areas with populations of more than 10 million people. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The assumption is that a merger will make it easier to achieve economies of scale, develop a large but narrow network of preferably healthy patients, establish data registries, and integrate expensive technology. Our partnering skills were maturing, so we became more precise in our evaluation process and expectations.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

While urban areas continue to afford new opportunities to employees and businesses from all walks of life, they are increasingly split between wealthy, high-skill knowledge workers and low-paid service workers. Most cities fall well short of that ideal. A recent Brookings analysis found that of the 30 U.S. This needs to change.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

When the staff conversation turns to operating margins, cash flow, inventory, or revenue, does the CHRO tune out? Your CHRO thinks of email as modern technology. Already 35% of the workforce is comprised of Millennials, born after 1977, and they will comprise nearly 50% of the workforce by 2015.

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