Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

A second accelerant of IT delivery is the iterative software development philosophy known as "agile development." While the definition of agile is still very broad, at the core are values of flexibility, individual interaction, focus on outputs, and collaboration over more rigid planning-driven approaches. It''s C-Suite Problem.

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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'

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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. I see three big opportunities: 1.

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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.,

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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.

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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.

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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. Creating digital experiences built on cloud and analytics will rewrite how marketing and sales teams work and break down internal silos.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Read more from DXC Technology: Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. Digital transformation transcends technology. The relentless speed of change of customers, markets, and technology has given rise to enormous opportunity.

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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. New, more agile , software development tools and testing methods are utilized. They drive innovation and speed up time to market.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

For example, successfully deploying CRM software on time and to budget will deliver little unless sales, customer services, and fulfillment processes are redesigned, staff trained to have the right conversations with customers, data quality improves, and marketers build the right competencies to use all the data that will now be available to them.

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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. Every update or response to the market required multiple steps; it cost time and performance. It will make processes far more agile, efficient and productive.

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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.

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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. Many of the most interesting advances are in new production processes and new information technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

In response, many now seek agility yet simultaneously fail to address the issue of complexity and exorcise the spirits of legacy. Agility cannot be achieved without first tackling complexity. The enterprise architecture must be driven by a customer- and market-oriented view of a constantly changing business environment.

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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?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2011

It is potent with power to disrupt markets and bring on new classes of consumers through affordable and efficient goods and services. They create the technologies which change them, while they are using them, at a speedy pace. They are using obsolete tools to measure a dynamic knowledge world.

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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. Increasingly, they are looking to cloud and an API/services-based infrastructure.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. As Palmisano built IBM into the world's leading information technology company, its competitors dithered.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The defense industry would also do well to learn from the rapid development processes that have made the technology sector so agile operationally. For companies like our own, with already established data collection and processing businesses, the market opportunity makes the investment worth it and critical to long-term success.

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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. the IT function).

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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.

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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. Innovation accelerates when people think about problems differently.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

This collaborative approach is no longer optional: No single company, deploying only its own products or services, can capture IoT’s value by itself, and certainly not with the speed required in today’s digital market. Sponsored by DXC Technology. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide. The reason?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

has slowed , and that in most industries the biggest firms have higher market share than they did a decade ago. Despite those trends, our research suggests that technology can in fact provide an advantage to small and new firms. dynamism, technology has been known to disrupt incumbents when they least expect it. businesses.

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