The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

For instance, in 2013 the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) issued guidance on the development of the robotics industry, with this then supplemented by the Made in China 2025 program, which was launched in 2015. The analysis emerged from an exploration of occupations and salary from the U.S.

Automotive 79

Automotive Banking Industry Information Technology 79

HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Computer and information systems managers. Also known as information technology managers, such professionals devise, coordinate, implement, and analyze computer-related projects. A bachelor’s degree or a more specialised degree in computers or informational technology is required. Percentage of women: 52%.

Human Resources 52

Human Resources Chemicals Software Engineering 52

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2020

Data is the new oil, and as such, you will not achieve much if you do not develop a robust plan for your information technology (IT). Here is an analysis of some crucial benefits the latter can deliver, to aid your decision making. If you invest in a weak IT infrastructure, it will invariably come back to bite you.

Outsourcing 81

Outsourcing Core Competence Operations Efficiency 81

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Taylor’s business process analysis gave birth to his theory of scientific management, which came to be known by modern-day businesses as, “business process management,” or BPM. Taylor called for the analysis of workers’ tasks and business processes in order to simplify actions and create best practices for efficient work performance.

Engineering 50

Engineering Process BPM Taylorism 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

job market troubles of the past decade than new technology had. But I couldn’t help but fixate on that information-technology chart, which seemed to show corporate America giving up on IT. Or maybe modern information technology just keeps getting cheaper. Economy Information & technology Internet'

GDP 12

GDP Information Technology Company Christensen 12

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Midway through an ethnographic analysis of the role of analytics in large, global enterprises, I find myself struck by the relative invisibility of analytics and analysts, the people who specialize in analytics. Subscribe now to get your subscription to this award-winning quarterly magazine.

Magazine 66

Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 66

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

Surely intuition isn’t particularly useful when there are massive amounts of data available for analysis. As with traditional analytics, Skomoroch notes that you have to eventually test your creativity with data and analysis. Decision making Information & technology Knowledge management' But how about with big data?

Customer Loyalty 10

Customer Loyalty Loyalty Early Adopters Information Technology 10

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

the well-known test preparation company, where he developed and launched the online college that offers Associates and Bachelors degrees and certificates in Business, Information Technology, Nursing, and Law. He also served as President of Kaplan College, a division of Kaplan Inc.,

Planning 56

Planning Audience Succession Library 56

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Analytics requirements can span business units, database and analysis systems, and reporting hierarchies. Who will champion enterprise-level analysis as opposed to business unit–level analysis? Information & technology Leadership'

Company 8

Company COO Information Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Here’s the difference, and why it matters: Analytics for machines : In this case, the ultimate decision maker and consumer of the analysis is a computer. Data scientists who produce analysis for computers need exceptionally strong mathematical, statistical, and computational fluency to build models that can quickly make good predictions.

Incubator 8

Incubator Information Technology Metrics Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Managers should rarely take an important analysis at face value. Third, if an analysis violates the conventional wisdom, expect some tough (but fair) questions, spirited debate, and even a certain measure of hostility. Fourth, these points aside, don’t be consumed by analysis paralysis. Information & technology'

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Analysis Trends Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Develop a robust root cause analysis capability. The retailer example mentioned above used root cause analysis to answer the question around what factors contributed to an unsuccessful marketing promotion. Using a CoE affords functional managers the ability to make collaborative and informed decisions.

Root Cause Analysis 8

Root Cause Analysis Metrics Analysis Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2013

Do it, and we can turn that statistical analysis, as you''ll see below, into elegant, artistic real time data streams. Handling the streams, archiving the sessions and storing and manipulating the information are in themselves herculean tasks. Information & technology Marketing Social media'

Content 11

Content Information Technology Analysis Article 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

DIG is responsible for emerging technology, collaboration methods and technology (e.g., online idea markets), the center of expertise for innovation support, and analysis across the enterprise. IT management Information & technology' Improving Operational Efficiency. Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center.

Enterprise Architecture 8

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

There is a pressing need for more businesspeople who can think quantitatively and make decisions based on data and analysis, and businesspeople who can do so will become increasingly valuable. For his projects, he recommends a simple framework for communicating about each analysis: My understanding of the business problem.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Press Release Information Technology Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

For example, brand managers and advertising agencies alike increasingly make sentiment analysis part of how they assess public perceptions. Marrying Moore’s Law to the Pareto Principle transforms Big Data into more actionable analysis. Customers Decision making Information & technology'

Due Diligence 10

Due Diligence KPI Loyalty Information Technology 10

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

the well-known test preparation company, where he developed and launched the online college that offers Associates and Bachelors degrees and certificates in Business, Information Technology, Nursing, and Law. He also served as President of Kaplan College, a division of Kaplan Inc.,

Library 76

Library Kaplan Newsletter Audience 76

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2014

The publishing world is full of lore about what sells and what gets read, but precious little of the lore is informed by data and analysis. These intermediaries can now do the analysis and know—not speculate—just what people want to read and whether they are engaging with the content or not. Customers Information & technology'

Books 8

Books Information Technology Content Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Win-Loss Analysis Studies. However, the decision to make a major purchase is also influenced by internal politics, how the decision-makers receive information along with individual biases and personal desires. Your solution might be purchased by the information technology department and used by accounting and human resources.

Trends 15

Trends Analysis Politics Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

” Associate Justice Stewart probably didn’t know how new data technologies would soon begin to blur those boundaries. But ethical conflicts can arise, say when the analysis identifies sensitive personal relationships that perhaps should not have existed on corporate servers in the first place.

Ethics 8

Ethics Company Committee Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

From predicting the locations of roadside bombs to pinpointing the next government collapse, exploiting available data requires high-performance collection and rapid, thorough, and transparent analysis. Information & technology Knowledge management Risk management' We will need to be faster.

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Analysis Information Knowledge Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

The company knew there was huge value in solving the idle problem, but it could not do so leveraging traditional technologies as the data volumes were too large (i.e. Machine learning, or the growing set of data discovery and analysis tools used to uncover hidden insights in the data, is a sophisticated technology that can do just this.

Banking 8

Banking Hypercompetition Constraint Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Highly trained pathologists don’t do as good a job as image analysis software at diagnosing breast cancer. When presented with this evidence, a contemporary expert’s typical response is something like “I know how important data and analysis are. Information & technology' Big Data Demands Big Context.

Information Technology 9

Information Technology Analysis Software Guidelines 9

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The firm focuses on leadership development, organization excellence and information technology. He founded IF YOU WILL LEAD, LLC to help leaders and organizations reach their fullest potential.

Leadership 56

Leadership Newsletter Executive Coaching Follow-up 56

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2017

Since much of big data is relatively unstructured, data scientists created ways to make it structured and ready for statistical analysis, with new (and old) scripting languages like Pig, Hive, and Python. More-specialized open source tools, such as Spark for streaming data and R for statistics, have also gained substantial popularity.

Open-book 8

Open-book Software Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

It has not had the same impact on median incomes and living standards, and I think one important reason why is that information technology is increasingly substituting for cognitive human labor. Insight Center. The Global Digital Economy. Sponsored by Accenture. Strategies for growth in a connected world.

Gordon 8

Gordon Transportation Tourism Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

We will need systems that not only perform data analysis, but then also communicate the results that they find in a clear, concise narrative form. We know what analysis needs to be run, what correlations need to be found and what comparisons need to be made. It defines your information needs. It''s the narrative.

Comparison 8

Comparison Analysis Information Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

Consider the situation faced by a leading provider of outsourcing and information technology consulting services with approximately $1.5 But network analysis revealed that the company had a long way to go. But, when a company has only a few network-central players, they can become significant points of weakness.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Analysis Globalization Information 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

It’s particularly disheartening when a big data analysis yields a stunning new insight. Can’t trust the data, can’t trust the analysis, can’t trust the insight! Data Information & technology Decision making' But the big data team spent 90% of its time cleaning up the data.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Information Technology Quality Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

As Tom Davenport of Babson College and MIT writes in the current issue of HBR, companies must “fundamentally rethink how the analysis of data can create value for themselves and their customers.”. Decision making Information & technology' Does Your Company Actually Need Data Visualization?

Information 8

Information Information Technology McKinsey Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

Stories about the present are most likely to involve some form of survey —an analysis of what people or objects are currently up to. In some cases survey analysis involves a statistical model of what factors drive others. Information & technology Leadership Presentations' We might call those explanatory survey stories.

Storytelling 9

Storytelling Survey Real Estate Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2011

This is, by the way, a good decision on the SG government's part. In addition to the support for the Deloitte institute, Singapore's government has also provided substantial support for the Living Analytics Research Centre.

Health Care 11

Health Care Information Technology Seminar Trends 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

In talking with companies that are using big data for these purposes—UPS’s Project ORION for real-time routing of delivery vehicles, or Schneider National’s analysis of fuel tank sensor and GPS data to designate fuel stop locations to drivers—the project managers emphasized how important change management is.

Project 8

Project Business Objectives Information Technology Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

These skills are now reaching beyond data analysis to encompass information architecture, application development, and technology project management. Information & technology Marketing' into digital-marketing efforts.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain CIO Chief Information Officer Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Combining these creates a P&L and a projection, which through a discounted cash flow analysis yields an NPV, which can be used to assess valuation. What’s different now is the volume of the data, the availability of efficient sensor technologies, and the prospect of application in every walk of life.

Discounted Cash Flow 8

Discounted Cash Flow P&L NPV EBITDA 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

the well-known test preparation company, where he developed and launched the online college that offers Associates and Bachelors degrees and certificates in Business, Information Technology, Nursing, and Law. He also served as President of Kaplan College, a division of Kaplan Inc., All rights reserved.

Power 56

Power Audience Kaplan Short-term 56

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

In pre-Big Data days, for example, a hotel chain used some pretty sophisticated mathematics, data mining, and time series analysis to coordinate its yield management pricing and promotion efforts. Decision making Failure Information & technology' Beware Big Data’s Easy Answers. Who’s Afraid of Data-Driven Management?

Hotels 8

Hotels Yield Management Discount Price 8