Deming Institute

MARCH 9, 2017

Kentaro Toyama ‘s presentation at the 2016 Annual Deming Institute Conference – Geek Heresy: Technology’s Law of Amplification. If technology is going to improve the lives of the world’s poorest, it must be grounded in a deep understanding of human behavior and an appreciation for cultural differences.”.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 8, 2016

Can nuclear plants be operated competitively in today’s market? An evolving energy market, led by cheap natural gas and subsidized renewable generation, threatens the long-term financial viability of America’s remaining nuclear power plants. Over the past three decades, the U.S.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 29, 2019

The firms have traditionally operated in decidedly unglamorous fields, whose markets have seemed unduly narrow, but by ascending to global dominance of those fields, the companies have been tremendously successful. They utilize digital technology to disrupt traditional business models. Data economy. AI entrepreneurship.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Cyber attacks spiked 164% in the first half of 2017, compared to the same period in 2016, entailing 918 disclosed breaches-according reports on broadcaster CNBC. Middle-market businesses often assume they’ll be overlooked by attackers, whether due to a large number of similar companies, or a lack of enticing assets. Fighting back.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

To hear long-term investors tell it, company executives have embraced short-term thinking like never before. Two obvious pieces of evidence: The use of earnings for share buybacks that cost more than they’re worth, and dividend increases that divert cash from long-term investment.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2016

a conference that blends mindfulness with technology, leadership, and culture, hosted over 2,400 participants earlier this year. Changes will always be present: Market shifts. Without starting, our presence is absent, and we will lose market traction and will be in a constant catch-up mode. Wisdom 2.0, New competitors.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? This can be done by building alliances of support, having reputable endorsements, establishing high quantity, and using means such as discounts or samples to build a market presence.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. You employ state-of-the-art technology and are in the vanguard of your industry. Learn to pace and be in the chosen career for the long-run. Study and utilize marketing and business development techniques. Culture and Mission. Philosophy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In it, the authors, both sociologists, made a compelling argument that, to understand labor market outcomes like inequality, it wasn’t enough to look at the supply and demand for individuals’ skills. However, any discussion of firms and wage inequality must not be limited to discussion of market forces. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Development economists over the ages have puzzled about why some emerging economies perform much better than others over the long term. In fact, by some measures, the best emerging-market firms are more competitive than firms in advanced economies including the United States and the United Kingdom. Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

The first thing they should know is that not all technological change is “disruptive.” In a recent publication in the Journal of Product Innovation, we undertook a systematic review of 40 years (1975 to 2016) of innovation research. Or, they may create markets where no market exists and turn non-consumers into consumers.

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ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 5, 2021

Most business owners think of diversity in the workplace in terms of the compliance regulations imposed by the federal government. Technology may help you avoid implicit bias in your candidate selection. Their GPA may have suffered under long work hours. Yet, in 2016, just 30.8 percent of white adults.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

A recent report by the consultancy BCG documented a general decline in sales among consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies in the United States during 2017, with mid-sized and large companies losing market share and small companies increasing theirs. Consultancy Catalina also revealed that 90 of the 100 top brands had all lost market share.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Musk himself is ambivalent about the term. Investors and lenders are betting on the company’s long-term potential to dominate a future that may feature autonomous vehicles, sustainable energy consumption, and the ability to upgrade easily as both hardware and software evolve. ’” he said recently.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Even companies that claim to have a long-term orientation worry about whether R&D is worth the investment. According to Williamson, a current concern among many institutional investors as well as corporations is that long-term investments in R&D have little payoff. R&D Seldom Walks Out the Door.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. The difference between displacement (outperforming existing market incumbents at their own game) and disruption (changing the game) is strategically important, no matter how similar the pain they cause is. They’ve simply undercut Western competitors by offering cheaper prices.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In 2016, Alibaba facilitated sales of $15 billion. In 2016, Black Friday and Cyber Monday saw less than 3.5 At the peak, Alibaba’s technology platforms processed 325,000 orders and 256,000 payments every second. Singles Day is a technological marvel. Strategy in a smart business is not long-term or short-term planning.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. The once-dominant Nokia soon lost much of its market cap and was eventually acquired by Microsoft. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

For the last 200 years, entrepreneurial prowess enabled by financial capital has powered a long surge of economic growth. Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Meanwhile, new technologies are making it easier for sustainability investments to pay off in the middle to long term. Finally, some sustainability investments can pay for themselves through reduced energy consumption and waste over the long term. Shareholders are seeing these connections and speaking up.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

It is tough to beat the market and over long periods of time indexing has been shown to outperform most active managers. On the other side, fans of active management see it as a trend that can damage market efficiency and lead to distortions in market prices. But what’s the role of investors?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

The original reason given for the drastic demonetization action was to expose the so-called “black” market, fueled by money that is illegally gained and undeclared for tax purposes. Arguably, the surge in business for mobile wallets was natural, at least for the 17% of the population that owned a smartphone in early 2016.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Bogdan Dreava/EyeEm/Getty Images. Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier. Sponsored by Optum.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2016

According to Deloitte’s 2016 Global Human Capital Trends study , 51% of global executives surveyed said their organizations plan to increase or significantly increase the use of contingent workers in the next three to five years; only 16% expect a decrease. This percentage is expected to grow in the coming years.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Capital markets, as a whole, are also moving in this direction. In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. In turn, this will foster better social outcomes and create new markets and consumer segments. This initiative will soon connect all 1.3

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

But the very model of organizing a business is becoming increasingly challenged by what I call the Big Shift — long-term forces, such as the rise of digital technology infrastructures, that are reshaping the global business landscape. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. But is that all there is?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

By 2016, the rise of smart phones seemed to have made the company less relevant: Its revenues were at almost the same level they had been a full decade earlier. Commented one: “I’ve seen many transformations, but if the market is shrinking at 10% you really need to cut costs at a faster rate to maintain your margin.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Moreover, the population is aging and the size of the labor force is set to plateau in 2016 (See “China’s Labor Market” chart below). Such investments might not be sustainable in the long term. China, too, needs more technological innovation. A shrinking labor force will be a drag on growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

” —President Obama, 2016 State of the Union Address. After the deepest recession in a generation, the United States labor market has seen a steady and strong increase in jobs, with the unemployment rate falling from 10% in 2009 to 5% in December 2015. What wage insurance does.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

A Dell-EMC study reveals significant differences in terms of willingness to trade privacy for services across countries and across different uses of digital applications; of 15 countries studied, Germans were most concerned about privacy and the Indians were the least. The development of new technologies, such as AI, may hang in the balance.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

” In other words, “you could be doing all the right things but, unfortunately, it’s taking a long time for it to lead to positive results.” “You thought the market would turn. ” A sincere “I’m sorry” goes a long way. ” Think long term. The odds were good.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Instead, they lost the market one customer at a time as people found alternatives in the form of digital photography. Yes, there might be a niche group who are underserved, but as long as what ultimately matters is who else is on the same platform, no entrant who targets just that niche will be able to do any competitive damage.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The new health insurance market places—the exchanges set up under Obamacare—have become the hot health policy topic. The focus is on the near term. Vital though near-term effectiveness is, the exchanges hold a longer-term potential—they can help reshape the organization, delivery, and financing of insurance.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

70-90% of coral dying), but is far better for us than 2 degrees (both in terms of overall well-being and economic impacts). With a few exceptions, most companies are only doing the things that pay off in traditional return-on-investment terms — for example, when solar and wind get cheap enough, they buy it. Getting to 1.5

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems. This is not guesswork. Make the tough calls on people.

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