Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

For the last three years of his career, he was responsible for the $6 billion portion of the Air Force budget dedicated to IT, where his main responsibilities ranged from Air Force cyber activity to IT upgrades to career field management. Give us a sense of the challenge of keeping up with technology as a military CIO.

CIO 8

CIO Health Care Metrics Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

The value emphasis shifted from preventive maintenance to efficiency management with key customers. Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career. Decision making Failure Information & technology' A Predictive Analytics Primer. Beware Big Data’s Easy Answers.

Hotels 10

Hotels Yield Management Discount Price 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

I clearly wasn’t outstanding at anything, but I was pretty good at “task efficiency” and worst at “social intelligence.”. When I asked Halfteck to elaborate, he emailed back that task efficiency actually “predicts your competency in reasoning logically, thinking critically, processing novel information quickly, and solving problems.”

Hedge 9

Hedge Efficiency Information Technology Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

My team would have people with deep functional knowledge and skills (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, and information technology) to align surrounding processes.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Dave didn’t advocate any particular design model, just one the leader knows how to employ and one flexible enough to be applied to the range of organizational situations a leader faces in the course of a career. As a result, organization design is no longer just a big bang event. So leaders at many different levels need to get in on the act.

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Digital experiences and engagement draw consumers closer to a brand and more efficiently drive conversions and transactions, both online and off. Information & technology Marketing Social media' The Consequence of Measurement. Second, digital marketing is illuminating in ways both powerful and problematic.

CIO 8

CIO Marketing CRM Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

Economists point to problems of collective action and misaligned liability rules that actually reduce the incentives for firms to invest sufficiently and efficiently in protecting the network. A reasonable career move would be to specialize in "lower level" attacks like, well, corporate espionage and intellectual property theft.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Engineering Information Technology System 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

As companies introduce software bots and digital self-service, and as they transform assembly lines, they must bring along their key employees, leaders, and customers as they redefine jobs, career paths, workforce management, and social contracts. But the most automated carmakers are not necessarily the most efficient.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Short-term Long-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

And now on top of that explosion, we can also analyze “unstructured” data, such as text and video, to pick up information on customer sentiment. Companies have been using analytics to mine insights within this newly available data to drive efficiency and effectiveness. Information & technology'

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist EVA Travel Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The CIO must step up and mentor the C-suite on the potentials, possibilities, threats and opportunities of information technology, but likewise, the HR lead needs to discuss the impact of a free-agent workforce, the head of legal needs to discuss the impacts of open innovation and IP sharing, and so on.

CIO 8

CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

However, after decades these patterns reversed; large numbers of ordinary workers eventually saw robust wage growth thanks to new technology. Information technology automates the work of white-collar jobs and the pace of change is faster. Of course, circumstances are different today.

Technology 8

Technology Learning-by-Doing Skills Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

They often arrive with a reputation for being able to turn around a school quickly, as they’ve done this many times before in their career. Soldiers like efficiency and order. So they looked around for a different career and discovered teaching. Soldiers trim and tighten, focusing on the bottom line.

Long-term 8

Long-term Education GDP Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

As a large team cares for patients, clear and efficient pathways for communication and workflows are necessary to ensure the patient experience is as seamless and organized as possible. Health information and other technology. Children and families need to be able to access their care team promptly.

Health Care 10

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

Equally important, however, is the need for technology experts who possess both the business and the people skills to collaborate across groups inside and outside the enterprise’s four walls. IoT solutions tend to span information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), and core business functions. The reason?

Succession 8

Succession ROI Technology Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

Taylor, chair of Columbia University's Department of Religion and author of a book critical of tenure , estimates that a college ties up between $10 million and $12 million of its endowment to support a single tenured professor for a 35-year career. For example, a 2011 UCLA study of 6,768 U.S.

Engineering 9

Engineering Education Class Automotive 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

I had worked for several businesses during my career by that time that had become conglomerates, some fairly large, and then had divested themselves of various businesses. If they can add it to their core, they add it, and try to be as efficient as they can be, because there are efficiencies in bundling.

How To 14

How To Technology Industry Venture Capitalist 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system? At a time of profound volatility in the U.S. Two personal stories illustrate these points.

System 8

System Skills Health Care Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Big data holds the promise of not only vastly improved efficiencies but also bringing greater objectivity to our very unconsciously biased human decision-making. But what if these new possibilities—used by recruiters and managers to efficiently and objectively get the best talent—only bake in current inequities? Or create new ones?

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Class Information Technology Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Many workers have found, well into their careers, that their physical skills for making and transporting “things” are less relevant and valuable than the once were. New workers embarking on their careers are finding that their education is incomplete in many areas essential to our technology-driven lives today.

GDP 8

GDP Wilde Intangible Assets GAAP 8