Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 25, 2013
There is a lot of hype and buzz around business intelligence. Companies are investing millions of dollars in business intelligence technology. So by learning how pilots are successful, leaders can get a much better return on their business intelligence initiatives. How is the pilot successful?
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 14, 2016
The transformation will necessitate substantial investments in finance, technology, human capital, operations, and infrastructure, and a substantial disinvestment of legacy resources in these areas. Our interviews indicate that care organizations are not yet ready to make such substantive operational changes and resource investments.
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 21, 2013
In order to see the future more clearly, it''s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage. Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s.
Strategy Driven
NOVEMBER 24, 2010
Posted by Thornton May on November 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment The classic Harvard Business School case “Otisline (A)” 1 begins with the quote, “… our objective is to go unnoticed.” In the elevator business, you can be hugely successful and highly profitable by going unnoticed.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 26, 2013
Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 4, 2013
If you want to put analytics to work and build a more analytical organization, you need two cadres of employees: Analytics professionals to mine and prepare data, perform statistical operations, build models, and program the surrounding business applications. What do the business people learn?
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 22, 2012
In his research, he reports that these individuals typically have extensive sales, marketing and operational backgrounds. I'm not suggesting that these folks need to run SPSS, or sit in front of a business intelligence tool all day. But they do understand the importance of data in addressing business questions.
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