Coaching Tip

MARCH 20, 2011

Most bands today don't perform twelve hundred times in their entire careers. In the garage working environment, operating expenses were low and tinkering was encouraged while you got your hands dirty. This was in 1968, when I was an Information Technology Marketing Specialist working for Eastman Kodak Company in Seattle.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 9, 2016

Just as you prepare your organization for disaster response, crisis communications, and continuity of operations, you can also prepare yourself. Martha Johnson is a leadership expert who draws on the lessons she learned as an executive with a more than 35-year career in business and government.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare. What do you think?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

There are new types of insurance companies such as Oscar ; novel provider organizations such as OneMedical , IoraHealth , and ChenMed ; and new health information technology companies such as Castlight , Vital , and WellFrame that aim to use technology to improve care and value. It would be a shame if they did.

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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. Lowe's also tries to assess the "people change" needs that will be required in future operational improvement initiatives — as much as three years out.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break. In the global economy, can analytic practitioners be hugely successful in their careers while going unnoticed?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

GE’s talent management people, for example, play a critical role, at both the corporate and business-unit level, in filling key positions, insuring smooth successions, driving company-wide review processes, and building tools that managers can use to direct their own careers. On paper, this approach makes perfect sense.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

This ultimately required greater centralization and limiting local operator flexibility and discretion. 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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own. When the U.S. It is not about you.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I think our principal observation was that what was happening was that disruptive innovations driven by largely information technology but lots of other technologies on the fringe here that are getting ready to exhibit the same kind of characteristics were entering the market in kind of this better and cheaper way.

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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 The idea was to increase the focus on clients, improve flexibility and scalability, eliminate redundancy and excess costs, accelerate growth and profitability, and improve career opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

million managers and analysts who understand big data and how to apply it to business operations. Information & technology' By 2018, the United States alone could face a shortage of as many as 190,000 people with deep analytical skills according to a study by the McKinsey Global Institute.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The internet has dramatically changed the way companies operate. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. The lessons to date on driving digitization and robotics suggest operating on a dual track. Automation will transform not just production, but operating models. The Next Analytics Age.

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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. Operations Organizational culture' So leaders at many different levels need to get in on the act.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

The near-certain results are processes, operations, and teams that are increasingly out-of-date. This may be difficult, especially if you''ve hand-picked your management team and their careers depend on you. Information & technology Leadership' Some even re-interpret the data to reinforce their long-held mental models.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

We appreciate the efforts of thousands of good, well-meaning people who are dedicating large portions of their careers to resolving the issues, especially in light of conflicting political demands. Each must be designed and operated to provide the information required accurately, quickly, and concisely.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Or maybe we're more miserable in a particular career than we're willing to admit. PatientsLikeMe and 23andMe are the leading operators of researcher-organized, crowdsourced health research studies. In fact, Quantified Self hosts health experiments as well as career-focused ones. Expert-run communities.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Even technology, information technology, you know, they’ve invested in treating that as a tier-one asset. And we’re seeing these business leaders of tomorrow they’re really championing a new operating model of work. ’ takeaway from this book that I want you to put to work in your career”?

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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. And so, ironically, the bundlers of that era were operating probably illegally, in the way that they were forcing the bundle and then price-fixing the bundle.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

While the CIO needs to understand the business to add value, equally true is that senior leadership and the board of directors don''t understand how to incorporate technology in their strategy, and some don''t even see the need to do so. They also worked with the CIO to help them to understand the business.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Vendors have also worked hard to create entire job functions and career paths centered around their software. As you progress in using data in operational and strategic applications, organizational changes will be inevitable. Using data costs money.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2012

Bell Labs led fundamental work in physics, information theory, computing, wireless telephony, and quality control that underpins much of today's economy. I started my career as what would now be called a data analyst, focused on network performance, essentially trying to get more bits from calling to called party.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

With data analytics provided by Microsoft Azure and an informational infrastructure developed collaboratively by Industrial Scientific and Cisco, operators now have a dashboard to remotely monitor the people, equipment, and air quality in the mine in real time. The reason? These groups must work together. Not so cool.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Promise Zones Initiative , which awarded over $30 million last year to grantees to achieve objectives such as developing a complete continuum of cradle-to-career strategies and breaking down silos between community agencies. Health information and other technology.

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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.

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