HR Digest

MARCH 8, 2020

They offer hosting and management services, along with marketing and customer service management. It conducts clinical trials on behalf of its pharmaceutical clients and provides regulatory, consulting, and market access to expedite the drug approval process. It offers Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies.

Company 85

Company Insurance Travel Software 85

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 13, 2016

marketing avenues were limited, as was advertising (Sears Catalogue, Life Magazine, The Farmer’s Almanac, the local paper or general store). Obviously there was no technology, or global competition. It’s now 2016. Selling focused on natural customers – face-to-face relationships with neighbors and friends. Differentiation?

Servant Leader 50

Servant Leader Globalization Transportation System 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Organizations deploy automation technologies as the primary resource in their Business Process Management. Gone are the days were BPO meant Business Process Outsourcing, with Robotic Process Automation technology fueling new millennium enterprises, BPO has taken on a new meaning, Business Process Optimization.

Engineering 50

Engineering Process BPM Taylorism 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Blockchain has important implications for marketing and advertising. But according to The CMO Survey , only 8% of firms rate the use of blockchain in marketing as moderately or very important. Blockchain technology is not well understood and subject to a lot of hype. The Marketing Impact of Near-Zero Transaction Costs.

Marketing 9

Marketing Advertising Technology Content 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Recent research conducted by IBM among global boardroom and C-suite executives in 28 countries found that better cybersecurity is among their top technology priorities. In fact, one of the keys to creating a successful online business in 2016 was to “ show people your site is secure and trustworthy.”

Marketing 8

Marketing Customer Intimacy CIO Technology 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Systems and Processes. You employ state-of-the-art technology and are in the vanguard of your industry. Study and utilize marketing and business development techniques. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets.

Leadership 50

Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

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.

Technology 8

Technology Industry GDP Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2017

On Friday, a major cyber attack hit health systems around the world. In Britain, where the attack affected hospital IT systems, doctors were unable to access patient records. Unfortunately, attacking hospital IT systems is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to cyber vulnerabilities in the health care sector. acute and 35.5%

System 8

System CIO Health Care Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

What makes marketing creative? Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur? Historically, the term “marketing creative” has been associated with the words and pictures that go into ad campaigns. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous.

Creativity 11

Creativity Marketing Agility Budgeting 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

Third, that there is no alternative to rising inequality without turning our backs on trade and technology. The top 1% income share rose from 7% to 22% in India, and 6% to 14% in China between 1980 and 2016. Between 1980 and 2016, inequality between the world’s citizens increased, despite strong growth in emerging markets.

Globalization 14

Globalization Policies Trends Report 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

Accordingly, in the latter half of 2016, CenturyLink made a small investment in an AI-powered sales assistant made by Conversica to see if it could help the company identify hot leads without hiring an expensive army of sales reps to comb through the leads. It has earned $20 in new contracts for every dollar it spent on the system.

Marketing 8

Marketing Tools Follow-up Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

Of course, the internet has since become a major influence on our lives, from how we buy goods and services, to the ways we socialize with friends, to the Arab Spring, to the 2016 U.S. How technology is transforming transactions. presidential election. There are certainly many parallels. Bitcoin is the killer app for the blockchain.

Banking 19

Banking Media Decentralization Technology 19

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 14, 2016

Here is another one: Halfway into a sales call, my client got hooked on his own agenda and didn’t hear reality: Prospect: Well, we don’t have a CRM system that operates as efficiently as we would like, but our tech guys are scheduled 3 years out and our outsourcing group’s not available for another year. Sounds like a difficult situation.

Succession 50

Succession CRM Case Study Efficiency 50

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.

Marketing 8

Marketing Short-term Incentives Long-term 8

ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 5, 2021

The world has its eyes on systemic racism. Technology may help you avoid implicit bias in your candidate selection. Yet, in 2016, just 30.8 You may be sabotaging your diversity hiring efforts if the application process and virtual interviews require too much technology. Businesses tend to see diversity as a numbers issue.

Diversity 111

Diversity Compliance McKinsey Bottom-up 111

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

In 1998, I advised the Disney corporation and reminded them that Walt Disney’s 100th birthday in 2001 would offer great marketing and positioning opportunities. University of Texas System, 50th. These anniversaries should be celebrated in 2016: Houston Community College, 45th. Technology is but one tool of the trade.

Case Study 50

Case Study Open-book Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

The Obama campaign's techniques, tools and technologies deserve detailed and dedicated attention from every organization that takes data-driven decisions seriously. Although superbly presented as a case study in campaign organization and technology, its essential lessons go way beyond the mechanics of procuring donors, donations and votes.

Marketing 8

Marketing Chief Technology Officer Case Study Critical Success Factor 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

Third, that there is no alternative to rising inequality without turning our backs on trade and technology. The top 1% income share rose from 7% to 22% in India, and 6% to 14% in China between 1980 and 2016. Between 1980 and 2016, inequality between the world’s citizens increased, despite strong growth in emerging markets.

Globalization 8

Globalization Policies Trends Report 8

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.

Disruptive Innovation 10

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Business Model Human Capital 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

While most bosses would frown on playing Halo at the office, it’s video games that are driving much of the innovation in video, virtual reality, and collaboration technologies today—something that has important implications for how we work, especially with far-flung colleagues. Virtual reality promises a solution.

Technology 8

Technology Video Conference Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

Industry players have realized the marketing and cost-saving potential, too: automaker BMW powers the plant where it manufactures the i3 and i8 electric vehicles with a 10 MW wind park, and discount retailer Aldi Süd has installed photovoltaic panels on 1,000 supermarkets. GW of new installations in 2016.

Energy 9

Energy Decentralization Industry Power 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

However, 48% of the mid-sized world market leaders come from Germany. In addition, there are traditional regional crafts, such as the clock-making industry in the Black Forest with its highly developed fine mechanical competencies, which developed into 450 medical technology companies, most of them makers of surgical instruments.

Class 14

Class Drucker Globalization Film 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Many conversations about data and analytics (D&A) start by focusing on technology. A robust, successful D&A function encompasses more than a stack of technologies, or a few people isolated on one floor of the building. Increase market share? What’s the best way to build effective D&A capabilities?

Organization 8

Organization How To Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

While it’s still early days (we launched this accelerator in early 2016), we believe the accelerator has scored enough successes to prove that the model can work. But only 34% were actively piloting a digital technology in clinical practice. How the most innovative providers are creating value. Give constructive rejections.

Health Care 8

Health Care Company Innovation Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

The acceleration of digital technology has enabled the disruption of many disparate industries. Aggregate data with system-wide interoperability to enable transparency and knowledge sharing. Consumer demand in all markets, aided by technology, will drive disruption in the health care industry. By 2018, as many as 1.7

Health Care 8

Health Care Content Power GDP 8

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.

Banking 9

Banking GDP Policies Real Estate 9

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

Survey 10

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

economy in 2016. That’s why decision makers require spot-on data and efficient, streamlined systems to maintain it. Too many sales teams (and other departments) enter data by hand but create fresh entries instead of searching their systems and updating existing accounts, which muddies their data sets.

Business Intelligence 8

Business Intelligence Affiliate Marketing Retail Competitive Intelligence 8

Skip Prichard

MARCH 3, 2021

That’s why I was fascinated by Unfiltered Marketing: 5 Rules to Win Back Trust, Credibility, and Customers in a Digitally Distracted World by Stephen Denny and Paul Leinberger. This lack of trust extends into the world of technology, as well. “Leadership in this digitally distracted world demands a new kind of leader.

Brand 117

Brand Storytelling Trends Content 117

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

After launching in July 2016, the game hit its peak in August of almost 45 million users. In a previous piece I discussed why some AR apps are destined to be forgotten as gimmicks, and what mistakes marketers should avoid when trying to deploy them. Aside from complex technological advances (e.g.,

Tourism 8

Tourism Technology Content Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The more likely culprit: a cyber attack that causes disruptions to financial services capabilities, especially payments systems, around the world. Criminals have always sought ways to infiltrate financial technology systems. Whether a major cyber attack is deliberate or somewhat accidental , the damage could be substantial.

Crisis 9

Crisis Banking System Cooper 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Many business models that make extensive use of digital technology have network-type properties. Given these network effects – as many proclaim – markets get “winner takes all properties”: the largest network will win, crowding out the remaining competitors (like MySpace and Google+).

McCallum 10

McCallum Competitive Advantage Consultative Business Model 10

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.

Business Model 9

Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2018

What you didn’t know is that during the 2016 season, the NFL made major league-wide improvements to its radio frequency technology, both to prevent interference from media using the same frequency and to prevent tampering. This was a development led by John Cave, VP of football technology at the National Football League.

CIO 8

CIO Analysis Technology System 8

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.

MBO 8

MBO Long-term Human Capital Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In 2016, breaches cost businesses nearly $4 billion and exposed an average of 24,000 records per incident. Despite increased spending and innovation in the cybersecurity market, there is every indication that the situation will only worsen. An Intelligent Cybersecurity System. Paul Taylor/Getty Images.

System 8

System Bottom-up Taylorism Taylor 8