Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Humans have been able to organize large numbers of people into a common mission and execute amazing things, from conquering armies to astonishing constructions project like the pyramids. agile studios), tools (communication such as Slack or Jira, etc.), The nature of large-scale digital is, I believe, something new in human endeavor.

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Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

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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Innovation CIO Agility Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

The first is on-the-job learning — you have a project that needs resources, and people learn as they go with targeted, just-in-time training to advance the project. Learning this way may well add to the project timeline, but has the benefit of being assimilated “in the field.”.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2013

As I approach my own new role as CIO at Harvard Business School, I''m focused on promoting a culture that provides the highest levels of service quality while enabling true agility and innovation. IT management Information & technology' These are core tenets that all CIOs need to hold close. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

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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. Unfortunately, this creates two problems.

Process 12

Process Innovation Hammer Resistance 12

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.

Process 16

Process Strategy Offshoring Information Technology 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

What the cloud does is make the technology-supply side more efficient and perhaps more agile. It may even lead to access to leading-edge technologies. IT management Information & technology' Because the problems with enterprise IT have generally nothing to do with IT. They never have! CIOs Must Lead Outside of IT.

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CIO CAPEX Budgeting CRM 8

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. But it need not be like this.

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System Enterprise Architecture Agility Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Company and unit leaders need to ensure that IT is in a leading position on all key digital projects. Also, it must become a key management responsibility to continually scan the technology landscape for fresh perspectives on how new digital technologies can improve business performance. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

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CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

When I've seen individuals, project teams and organizations humiliatingly — and expensively — fail at innovation, the odds are they overinvested in sophisticated analyses and underinvested in simple tests. This was a crash project and comprehensive tests would add weeks to delivery and the field wants it now," the story goes.

Leadership 13

Leadership Innovation Lean Production Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2011

In an event last spring in New York, I heard the story of a young man who received more than $90,000 for international software projects while he was collecting unemployment benefits. They create the technologies which change them, while they are using them, at a speedy pace. He hadn't had a visible full-time job in three years.

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Tools Drucker Software Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Because of the uncertainty over outcomes (and customer reaction), what is to be built, and the cost of change, investments in the top two quadrants are more suited to agile approaches (such as scrum) for software development. Selecting project managers. Investment life-cycle management.

Tools 8

Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. Digital transformation transcends technology. Digital transformation is often viewed through a narrow technology lens, as just another mobile project or e-commerce initiative. Advanced Analytics Are Crucial to Digital Transformation.

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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

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.

Technology 8

Technology Organization Content Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Over the last 10 years, a basic shift has occurred from an IT-deployment view of the world of big systems and even bigger projects toward a people-centric and user-oriented view of hardware, information, and human collaboration and networking.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Maturity Information 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2013

Increasingly, business leaders are driving transformation projects in areas like digital marketing, multi-channel sales, and product-content and customer-information management, pushing the CIO and IT organization to respond in new, faster, and different ways. The timetable for implementing these projects is often months, not years.

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Organization CIO Compliance CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

And a new survey by Cisco found that one-third of all completed IoT projects were not considered a success. Companies deploying IoT successfully in industrial sectors such as manufacturing, oil and gas, mining, and transportation are seeking multiple agile partners with open IP architectures to co-create solutions. The reason?

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