Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2014

They have a defined brand and a fairly clear picture of market penetration, differentiators, and existing products and services. It tells investors why you might succeed in this particular market or in creating a new one – and who could come nipping at your heels. Competition Information & technology Strategy'

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Market Penetration Maturity Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

That's because information technology — not just the Internet, but also mobile devices, " big data " for intensive data-crunching, and other computer hardware and software — will render even some of today's most proficient business processes obsolete by the end of the decade.

Process 15

Process Strategy Offshoring Information Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Take, for example, the role of a marketing manager or executive in a consumer products company. A marketing manager is well educated and well compensated—he or she plays a critical role in driving sales by tailoring corporate strategies to specific products and markets.

Osborne 8

Osborne Technology McKinsey Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2013

Optimize marketing efforts to achieve influence at scale. The tech staff at companies like Google, Facebook and LinkedIn use agile, iterative development techniques to deliver improvements fast. Social media and marketing data can also be integrated with warranty data and post sales and service feedback.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Media Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Isn’t it better to hasten Joseph Schumpeter’s process of creative destruction and move capital and employment from inefficient dinosaurs to more vibrant and agile upstarts? In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will. I give them three reasons. First, timing matters.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

IT is already being asked both to industrialize traditional infrastructures and systems fast to save costs, and to innovate customer experiences and operations with new digital technologies. Requirements and specifications are more flexible and developed within cross functional teams with constantly evolving business needs.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It is a conversation about the increasing importance of information technology and the role it must assume in every enterprise, regardless of size, industry or geography. Not only are there new systems, business and delivery models, types of information, technologies, etc.,

CIO 8

CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

First we see major shifts in demand: developing economies such as China and India are morphing from the world's source of low-cost manufacturing capacity to the world's best market opportunities. They will not, it must be noted, alter how the role of manufacturing evolves as economies develop.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

In the early 1990s, executives and managers welcomed information technology — databases, PC workstations, and automated systems — into their offices. Managers noted historical trends and revised processes, and engineers developed code that was then baked into computing systems. times more likely to convert.

Process 8

Process Company Market Segmentation Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

There’s no question that legacy IT systems are too slow and rigid for the agility that digital business demands. And that means buying more new technology: IT organizations must adopt new platforms and processes and integrate services in new ways. DXC Technology helps companies bridge the gap in digital transformation.

Technology 8

Technology Organization Content Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2011

But what if we are in this vicious cycle because the economy has advanced beyond the tools developed long ago to track it? It is potent with power to disrupt markets and bring on new classes of consumers through affordable and efficient goods and services. Alan Kay stated that "the best way to predict the future is to create it."

Tools 14

Tools Drucker Software Agility 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

With permanently new dynamism in the job market and the elimination of the career ladder , the days of signing up for a 20-year, pre-configured journey to the top are over. But there's more good news: The information technology revolution just lowered the cost of experimentation. The time to diversify is now.

Travel 17

Travel Career Agility Learning-by-Doing 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

One company had three simultaneous mobile marketing initiatives, conducted by different groups, using different tools and vendors. Other companies have multiple employee collaboration platforms with different rules and technologies. Are IT costs and agility what you want them to be? Is IT clearly running well?

CIO 8

CIO Technology Apparel Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

At the height of the global financial crisis in 2009, the Global Pulse initiative (where I serve as director) was set up by the UN Secretary-General as an R&D lab to find out whether Big Data and real-time analytics could help make policymaking more agile and effective. The evidence is growing that it can.

Analysis 16

Analysis Globalization Crisis Price 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Chris Plescia, Marketing, Collaboration and Corporate Internet Solutions BSA Leader, told me that they are moving from an information "push" environment — sending out lots of messages on things workers need to know — to a "pull" environment, where workers search for information they need, get answers to questions, or access services.

Process 8

Process Examples Strategy Six Sigma 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

For strategic investments, time to market is critical as the window of opportunity is likely to be narrow: Once you go live with a customer-facing application, it is only a matter of time before competitors try to imitate what you have done. Development approaches. So maintaining quality is the key criteria and cannot be compromised.

Tools 8

Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

And we are working on enhancing such technologies to decrease the lag time between gathering and interpreting data. But even though advances are being made, the needs of military professionals are evolving as fast, if not faster, than the current pace of technology development can meet them.

Technology 8

Technology Analysis Health Care Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

At the height of the global financial crisis in 2009, the Global Pulse initiative (where I serve as director) was set up by the UN Secretary-General as an R&D lab to find out whether Big Data and real-time analytics could help make policymaking more agile and effective. The evidence is growing that it can.

Analysis 8

Analysis Globalization Crisis Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

As real space and cyberspace merge, do financial practices like budgeting provide value over their costs of time, money, effort, agility? All the parts of the organization have to come together and build a common language to discuss their markets and their enterprise. They need to have a common appreciation of each other''s purpose.

CIO 8

CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2013

A pharmaceuticals company we''ve been studying decided to deploy more than 20,000 iPads and other mobile devices to the global sales force to improve its engagement with doctors in emerging and developed markets. IT management Information & technology' It has never before rolled out something at this speed.

Organization 8

Organization CIO Compliance CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

In my experience with dozens of organizations implementing IoT solutions, those that achieved their expected ROI changed their traditional business approaches in one or more of the following ways: They Developed a Partner Ecosystem. Sponsored by DXC Technology. The essence of IoT is interconnectivity. Insight Center. The reason?

Succession 8

Succession ROI Technology Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

These teams often focus on using an agile approach to development: The survey found 51 percent of companies using design thinking, and 42 percent deploying a minimum viable product approach to new-product rollouts. But along with using new technology, organizations are rethinking the role of IT.

Technology 8

Technology Company Content Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

Infrastructure and substructure support the information, processes, applications, rules, and channels that are the face of corporate IT. Infrastructure largely determines the IT organization''s structure, its budgeting, how the corporation goes to market, its legacy, and its capacity to change. They''re the business''s brand.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Telecommunications Information Technology 8