Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

More than once you’ve probably looked at some new digital or technological development and asked yourself, “How did we miss that?” Such trends are more than shiny objects; they’re manifestations of sustained changes within an industry sector, society, or human behavior. Blockchain. Augmented knowledge.

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Trends Film Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Sutherland already had a strong background in methodologies such as rapid application development, object-oriented design, PDSA cycles, and skunkworks. Disruptive technologies were terrorizing slow-footed competitors. Of course, Sutherland and Schwaber weren’t alone in their search for innovative methods.

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Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

Webinars can be valuable when they are offered and consumed under the right circumstances, or when they address areas unrelated to approaches to innovation — training to use a technology, or information about the details of a new legislative requirement, for example. Every once in a while the technology simply won't work.

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Webinar Participative Content Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Jon: Some interesting conflicts come up with companies in the technology sector. Then they come together to develop multiple possible solutions, as well as objective criteria for sorting through the best option. Another common trap: Assuming that a conflict either needs to be resolved by consensus (which can take a very long time!)

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Project Consensus Learning-by-Doing Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

A 2015 Institute of Medicine report, “Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Progress,” demonstrates broad consensus that measuring the quality of people’s health and the care they receive is critical to improving performance of the health care system and patients’ health outcomes.

Health Care 8

Health Care Report Sports Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

But, according to McKinsey research , only 16% of merger reorgs fully deliver their objectives in the planned time, 41% take longer than expected, and in 10% of cases, the reorg actually harms the newly-formed organization. ” This flushed out unattractive options and helped them come to consensus on the organizational design.

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Process McKinsey Due Diligence Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

At the end of each year, I apply a framework to surface the most important emerging trends in digital media and emerging technology for the year ahead. Where/how are people having difficulty with technology? In 2015, consumers will begin to see SVPA technology baked into their mobile phones. Where/how are people stuck?

Trends 8

Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Trend lines, market sizing, and competitive benchmarks that served companies well during periods of gradual market evolution do little good in industries where new technologies create seismic shifts, demand is uncertain, and rivals emerge from left field. Industry upheaval often calls for tough choices, and consensus will not be possible.

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Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

There is general consensus that a major solution lies in better managing and preventing adult chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart failure. Health information and other technology. Technologies hold promise for remote monitoring and intervention. Lauri Rotko/Folio Images/Getty Images. Proactive and population-based.

Health Care 10

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

On paper, the project seemed like it would be a hit: The investment by the mining company would bring jobs and 21st-century technology to an economically poor area and tax revenues to the government. Alice Potter/Getty Images. And refusing to engage with disagreeable protesters or activists rarely works as a strategy for managing social risk.

Company 9

Company Supply Chain Real Estate Stakeholder Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

Designers are problem solvers, and this worldview has enabled them to move from the world of making objects into the world of defining strategy and influencing consumer behavior. You should understand the solution''s cultural impact, its technological and operational feasibility, and its viability in your business.

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Govindarajan Long-term Short-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

In recent years, many new sources of customer influence have become available thanks to technology advances, with significant new power to shape how customers think about products, services, and company reputations. The answer, we believe, lies in the changing nature of advice-getting in the digital age.

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Advice Review Reputation Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

Job creation is not the primary objective of fostering an entrepreneurship ecosystem. Because no one owns or represents an entrepreneurship ecosystem, there can be no one objective that motivates all of the actors. For public officials, job creation and tax revenues (fiscal health) may be the primary objectives.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Incubator Bureaucracy Banking 9

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

According to Forbes , “Content marketing is a marketing technique of creating and distributing valuable, relevant and consistent content to attract and acquire a clearly defined audience – with the objective of driving profitable customer action.” Stay on top of all technological advances pertaining to marketing.

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Good consultants build consensus and unify management focus, they do not splinter opinion. Bottom line…solid marketing and branding initiatives are mission critical to sustainable increases in growth objectives. That said, flawed marketing or branding initiatives have crippled many a good company.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Late in June, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton surprised business leaders by issuing a detailed technology and innovation platform. ” No technology company would object to that proposal. The consensus, even among many leading software providers , is that those new categories have done far more harm than good.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

That's well chosen as an objective. He also mentioned a plan for some sort of a stimulus to technological innovation, starting these manufacturing centers [like the one in Youngstown, Ohio]. There is sort of a consensus that what we need to do is lower the corporate tax rate. Housing is depressed. Consumers are tapped out.

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Price Aggregate Demand Proposal Policies 8