Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

So why, despite all the evidence to the contrary, do we see so many corporations dip their toes into the pool of innovation instead of diving in? Corporate innovation is already a difficult proposition; why doom it to failure by pursuing it half-heartedly? With the right approach, innovation at a big company is realistic.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

For the past several years we have watched with increasing dismay at the increasing chasm between information technology (IT) groups and their business counterparts. The business complains that IT doesn’t understand the business, consistently overpromises and under-delivers, and slows innovation.

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Technology Cost Center Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2018

Several technology companies — including Google and Microsoft — tried this in the early 2000s, but their efforts failed. The technology for giving outside entities access to electronic records kept by hospitals and doctors was underdeveloped. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Insight Center.

Health Care 12

Health Care System Industry Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

My immediate advice: Give up. But the opportunities for data-science-enabled efficiencies and innovation are too important to defer or deny. The goal is to make all of the organization — not just the geeks and quants — more conversant in how to align probability, statistics, technology and business value creation. What to do?

BHAG 8

BHAG Software Information Technology Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2012

— nature of educational advice and assessment will increasingly define how you and your colleagues get hired, fired and promoted. In the spirit of the "open source" and "open innovation" movements, that gives them greater power and influence. The Amazonified, Googlefied and Big Data-soaked — enriched?

Career 15

Career Company Human Capital Education 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

What impact will terahertz frequencies have on communication technologies? Chief information officers are expected to see deeply into the future and generate IT predictions that companies can build their strategies around. So here's some advice on how to make the best of this role and do a better job of seeing the future.

CIO 14

CIO Venture Capitalist Chief Information Officer Conference 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

A Center of Excellence model, where an internal unit leads and convenes efforts, can be effective for crafting a digital strategy, driving innovation, and developing guidelines. It’s easy to limit these guidelines to a general digital/mobile/social/video 101 that offers widely applicable, useful advice.

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Guidelines Team KPI Business Objectives 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2010

It became clear to me as I watched the digital economy in 2010 that we had passed a tipping point and moved into a new age of technology use. Forster's century-old advice : "Only connect! Technology Delight. We used to anticipate a fair amount of frustration when we used technology. Live in fragments no longer.".

Technology 15

Technology Software Self-aware Trends 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

This may not be a big surprise; many of the early Big Data technologies such as the Hadoop Big Data system came from Internet companies themselves such as Yahoo and Google. Internet companies face many digital interactions, so they need Big Data technologies and people to sort through their click-stream data.

ROI 8

ROI Company Learning Curve Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Today, innovations in digitization and robotization are quickly laying the foundation for another disruptive corporate transformation. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Freeways full of driverless cars and beer trucks are still far off, because of technological and regulatory limitations.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Short-term Long-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Here biology offers some get-off-your-ergonomic-chair-and-do-something advice. In the end, we are only vulnerable to digital information threats because we are so dependent on digital information. We have, by choice and not, become enmeshed in an escalation toward ever more technological reliance.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Open-book Technology System 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

CIOs need to understand business better, but the C-suite should understand technology''s potential better. While the CIO needs to understand the business to add value, equally true is that senior leadership and the board of directors don''t understand how to incorporate technology in their strategy, and some don''t even see the need to do so.

CIO 8

CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

While discussing a Harvard colleague's world-class work on how big data and analytics transform public sector effectiveness, I couldn't help but ask: How many public school systems had reached out to him for advice? Accountability is often the unhappy byproduct rather than desirable outcome of innovative analytics.

Resistance 8

Resistance Organization Supply Chain CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Because of the changing and innovative methods of attack being used against them, it is of the utmost importance that they constantly refine their knowledge of the particular enemies they face. Drawing from these examples, we also hope to provide some advice on how to deal with the increasing number and variety of cybercriminal gangs.

Company 8

Company Banking Information Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

In addition to laying out an approach for making one-time improvements, Reengineering's high priest (the late Michael Hammer) had advice for organizations wanting to sustain improvement. Most missionaries of the BPM religion come from a heritage in information technology.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Chris Lynch: The potential is as disruptive as the internet and mobile technologies have been. HBR: What's your advice to HBR readers who are just beginning to think about the potential of Big Data in their own companies? More generally, Big Data requires people who like complexity and solving big problems.

Travel 14

Travel Hotels Wilde Fashion 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Chris Lynch: The potential is as disruptive as the internet and mobile technologies have been. HBR: What's your advice to HBR readers who are just beginning to think about the potential of Big Data in their own companies? More generally, Big Data requires people who like complexity and solving big problems.

Travel 14

Travel Hotels Wilde Fashion 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2018

If the movie had been set in another age, the advice to young Braddock would have been different. Today digital technology is all the rage because after decades of development it has become incredibly useful. To understand what’s happening, it helps to look at earlier technologies. First is the technology itself.

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