HR Digest

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Career Guide: Jobs That Don’t Require a Degree. If you love technology and developing computer programs, this is the career for you. Software developers can work in many different fields, including finance, education, information technology, health care, construction, and more. Computer Programmer.

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ReImagine Work

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

I started out as an information technology professional. I liked helping them get past that so they could feel confident and productive. About 7 years into my IT career I realized I didn’t love the technology enough to excel over the long haul. I have a Bachelor’s in Comp Sci. Fast forward several years.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 28, 2012

Many years ago, I was working as a senior analyst within the Information Technology department. We were moving business from one system to another, and the project required a strong understanding of the product, as well as knowledge of how both systems worked, so we could translate from one to the other. Common Purpose.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

What about competing against the innovation of others that could cause the obsolescence of your product or service? All business (for profit or not) provide goods, services, or intellectual property/capital to a market (or markets) for some form of consideration. How about competing for the attention of your prospects and clients?

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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%.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. 5] There are also many opportunities to create a new venture—launching a new product, service, or business—inside a company as a corporate entrepreneur (or intrapreneur). Innovation Capital. Moreover, it’s hard. “I

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Information technology (tech) is at the epicenter of the world’s economy. Branches of the industry, such as video gaming, are overtly misogynist in governance, in culture, and in product content. Apple, Microsoft, and Google are the foremost companies in the world. A mere 5 percent of Tech’s senior executives are women.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Today’s great paradox is that we feel the impact of technology everywhere – in our cars, our phones, the supermarket, the doctor’s office – but not in our paychecks. We work differently, communicate with each other differently, create differently, and entertain ourselves differently, all thanks to new technology.

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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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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

To learn more about SAS, its products and services, visit www.sas.com. In the global economy, can analytic practitioners be hugely successful in their careers while going unnoticed? In today’s world, analytics is a product/service that must be sold. Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW ®.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Of all the ways the world changed in 2014 — economic, cultural, technological, all three — which will matter most to us in 2015? The One Thing About Your Spouse’s Personality That Really Affects Your Career. How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Competition. We hope you enjoy it. Mysteries, Solved.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

MBAs who lack programming skills often ask this question when they pursue careers in technology companies. Rather, my goal with the survey was to learn whether MBAs saw this well designed and rigorous course as a good investment of their time, given their career objectives and other course options. It has been edited slightly.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

This month, Credit Suisse said it calculates who is likely to quit , and proactively offers them new career roles. In the quest to improve productivity and work life, the information that companies can analyze about you at work is limited only by software. They sent those customers ads for pregnancy related products.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

If you can't answer these questions, then getting to know this leader could advance your career. Your boss's boss has a broader perspective on your organization than you (or your boss), and can see more of what's coming down the pike — be it new products or possible new assignments. Here are some suggestions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Whether they represent findings about your customers, products, or employees, they can be maddeningly open to interpretation. Aggregate numbers can tell you a lot, but they say very little about how individual customers are thinking and talking about your products. Decision making Information & technology'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The digital work crisis is this unnerving pace of technological change, complex global networks, and lists product and service variation in almost infinite work streams, a whole tone of digital distractions, and fundamental access to more data than humans can handle. Think about this, if you think about a legacy product company.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

More recently, a major industrial products company made a huge predictive analytics commitment to preventive maintenance to identify and fix key components before they failed and more effectively allocate the firm’s limited technical services talent. Decision making Failure Information & technology'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

A lot of people are worried about the career choices of today’s most talented science and engineering students. That’s 25% more grads than went into computer and information technology, the most popular industry in the science and engineering category. And not just their parents.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. But companies will only be able to realize productivity gains from these new operating models if they skillfully manage the soft side of their automation transformation—the people in what will be a vastly different organization. Insight Center. Sponsored by SAS.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

AI, expert systems, and business intelligence have been with us for decades, but this time the reality almost matches the rhetoric, driven by the exponential growth in technology capabilities (e.g., Tom Davenport: “I initially thought that AI and machine learning would be great for augmenting the productivity of human quants.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

His career has always been demanding- long hours, lots of travel, ultra-high performance standards (which he always has met or exceeded). The timing of the request also helped my friend; there had recently been conspicuous turnover among mid-career professionals at this firm. This is particularly true of knowledge work.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The article shows how the Dutch firm AkzoNobel is growing in China, particularly through products that help customers reduce environmental footprint in the shipping and building sectors. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. In the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Executing this strategy required seamless integration of IBM's product capabilities with its geographic reach. This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Cisco now sells mostly commoditized products.

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Career Advancement

APRIL 1, 2019

These time traps can make you look like you have major anger management issues, and they’re rarely productive. Use your Facebook profile to establish yourself as an expert in your field, and your followers will naturally seek you out when they have a need for your product or services. Don’t get into Twitter feuds or feed into trolling.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

Matrices also prevent some parts of the organization from going off on strategic tangents, which may result in a product no one will buy or an internal policy that won''t be accepted. If you are able to balance more than one manager, it is a big career plus to work for a matrix organization.

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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. Are you competing on the basis of on-going product or technological innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Delay too long and the competitor may introduce that new product line first; a great candidate may go elsewhere; and an investor may withdraw its offer. This may be difficult, especially if you''ve hand-picked your management team and their careers depend on you. Information & technology Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

That's why I advocate for more measuring of ourselves in my HBR article, " You, By The Numbers ," in which I describe the emergent field of auto-analytics, self-quantification technologies and techniques that can help us improve the way we analyze and take action in our professional and personal lives.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The biggest obstacle to using advanced data analysis isn’t skill base or technology; it’s plain old access to the data. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Vendors have also worked hard to create entire job functions and career paths centered around their software. Insight Center.

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Competitive Advantage Software CIO Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

For example, I remember one information technology decision-maker telling me, "There''s no such thing as picking the wrong solution so long as it helps you land your next job.". Mid-level managers suffer competitive pressure because all are striving to advance in their careers and move upward in the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

No one would claim that new product design does not or should not involve wise judgment. No one would claim that new product design does not or should not involve wise judgment. No selling of products or services. His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work. No multimedia.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

They've dealt with bad data their entire careers and come to accept that checking and rechecking the "facts," fixing errors, and accommodating the uncertainties that using data one doesn't fully trust are the manager's lot in life. One of the responders to my last post asked, "Why are managers so tolerant of poor quality data?"

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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. By background they are normally Information Technology or Chemistry teachers (95% in our study), who have often moved out of the classroom to manage support staff early in their career.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

Much of the business story of the digital age so far has been about taking products and institutions apart — unbundling them. Yes, digital technology enables a lot of unbundling. And this fellow, he says something about, “How do you know that Microsoft isn’t just going to bundle a browser into their product?”. Why is this?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Do you have a “next best offer” or product recommendation capability? That’s an analytical prediction of the product or service that your customer is most likely to buy next. All you have to do is compute their score, and offer the product to them if their score exceeds a certain level. An HBR Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

This collaborative approach is no longer optional: No single company, deploying only its own products or services, can capture IoT’s value by itself, and certainly not with the speed required in today’s digital market. Sponsored by DXC Technology. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide. The reason?

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