Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. It told how American Airlines and others had introduced systems to help their customers choose their products and services. Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

To date, the trend has been associated with fairly standard products, such as customer relationship management software, web servers, or SQL databases, but the theory of the innovator''s dilemma suggests that it will most likely move up the stack in the future. Agile projects have focused on standard, non-critical systems.

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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.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We need this kind of leadership from top to bottom on in our enterprises: on each team, in each role, at every level; whether organized around project or products, agile scrum or lean start-up; whether teams are fully co-located or spread out globally; whether focused on apps, apis, or IoT. About the Author. He lives in St.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Build your strategy on a foundation of continuous innovations, both new products and new processes. The key to this approach is the agile team. Agile — whose varieties include scrum, lean development, and kanban — is a systematic methodology of innovation that has long been popular in software development.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

How can productivity be increased with real-time information in context? Can the infrastructure be transformed to a more agile IT-as-a-service model? The results will include a better user experience, higher levels of productivity, increased speed, and greater business agility.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

But our recent research has taught us a lot about how management innovations can travel — in this case, from Silicon Valley tech sector companies known for their experimentation and agility in information technology (IT) management to the much older Bay Area companies who are their neighbors. At Clorox and Gap Inc.,

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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. These data points can help you assess competitors’ maturity, speed, agility, and burn. Competition Information & technology Strategy' Do they have a team overseas, say, in India?

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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

MAY 15, 2012

To stay competitive, organizations need to continually find opportunities for innovation in key processes such as customer service and product development, and adoption of a new process almost always requires the implementation of new information technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2013

More than ever, customer experiences are based on a foundation of technology and delivered to a digitally-savvy population. Digital experiences come in many guises: mobile apps, web sites, how-to videos on YouTube, LCD screens on products (think of exercise machines that track calories burned). Are We Asking Too Much of Our CIOs?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

The most important insight has been that it is far more useful to think about the activities that can be automated rather than entire occupations—handing over discrete bits to machines, like pulling out the most useful data from an analyst’s report, generating a report on the latest sales figures, or moving products around a warehouse.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

Processes are bolted on in response to new products and services. 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. Many organizations are in a similar situation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Second, we see a raft of innovations that will alter how products are designed, manufactured and sold — everything from nanotechnologies to 3D printing. Then, manufacturing's most important role is as a driver of innovation, trade, and productivity. Innovations Are Changing The Way We Design Products. Demand is Shifting.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2013

The world of product design points to two different approaches. The second, more successful tactic is an "agile" approach, similar to how restaurants use test kitchens : Create variations on a theme and see what sticks. We A/B test new product features. Third, we go to production. Design Information & technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Executing this strategy required seamless integration of IBM's product capabilities with its geographic reach. This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Cisco now sells mostly commoditized products.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

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. For example, nearly half of the companies are using machine reengineering for marketing products and services. They saw the potential for significant business gains.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

” It might be hard for people in HR to hear, but only 20% of those who responded said that their HR function was enabling them to transform, ranking them even lower than finance — an area not exactly known for its agility. First, low barriers to entry into these sectors lead to more agile competition.

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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

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. Only 16 percent say that they are part of the same organization.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

The CDO creates a unifying digital vision, energizes the company around digital possibilities, coordinates digital activities, helps to rethink products and processes for the digital age, and sometimes provides critical tools or resources. Are IT costs and agility what you want them to be? Is IT clearly running well?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

will make greater use of quick experiments and more agile management processes. Accelerating changes in technology, competition, regulation, and globalization demand that decisions get made faster at all levels. To speed operations and improvement, Process Strategy 2.0 Process Strategy 2.0

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Process Examples Strategy Six Sigma 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

How and will the GE corporate culture incorporate the power to “informate” its products, services, and solutions for business customers to grow the bottom and top lines of the company globally for shareholders in the next five years?

Technology 8

Technology CIO Maturity Information 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

Just as the "quality" and "lean production" movements of the 80s and 90s required quality to be designed — rather than inspected — in, innovators have got to demonstrate greater ingenuity and integrity around how they integrate real-world testing into their projects and processes. These pathologies are nothing new.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

About a third of respondents said their organization currently is not very digital, meaning that less than a quarter of their products, operations, and business models depend on their ability to exploit digital information and technologies. But along with using new technology, organizations are rethinking the role of IT.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2013

Over the next two years, this change in how sales people interact with customers will redefine what the product content will be, how the sales staff will use a new CRM platform to record visits online, and how new insights will be derived from these interactions across sales, marketing, and brand management — ultimately driving decisions.

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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. IoT solutions tend to span information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), and core business functions.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

CIOs need to provide infrastructure at a lower cost and with more agile capability. Even current cloud and virtualization technologies, which often lower unit costs, don''t change the drivers and structures of those costs. IT management Information & technology Innovation' Are We Asking Too Much of Our CIOs?

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CIO Technology Telecommunications Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

The computational agility of cloud computing has been playing a role in manufacturing as well, fostering the creation of new “smart’” products. Pivothead is a firm with 25 employees producing wearable technologies to help the blind and visually impaired. Despite statistics suggesting a decline in U.S.

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Technology Agility Fixed Costs Software 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2018

Still, it wasn’t until 50 years later that Edison opened his first power plant, and then 40 years after that, during the 1920s, electricity began to have a measurable impact on productivity. Every technology follows a similar path of discovery, engineering, and transformation.

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