Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

Across industrial sectors, from healthcare to energy, from construction to retail, engineers are creating new technologies with potentially disruptive implications for the current architectural order of the global economy. One of the technologies, an “ AI doctor ”, shows great promise for the future of healthcare in Africa.

Health Care 8

Health Care Technology System Library 8

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

A diminished marketplace of ideas reduces the likelihood the innovative connections will be made to birth new products, processes and businesses. Leaders build the Voice bridge by developing processes and practices that keep employees “in the loop” and give them regular opportunities to express their views. Connecting the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

To help maximize the value and minimize the misery of reorgs, we have developed a five-step process for running them. The steps apply to all reorgs generally and our survey data shows that companies using this process are three times likelier than others to achieve their desired results. Step 3: Consider Multiple Options.

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Process McKinsey Due Diligence Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Many of us are familiar with the hazards of Groupthink - when teams or organizations operate on autopilot and feel a general false sense of invulnerability. In some rare cases, individuals are able to push back against team consensus and help organizations recognize and proactively respond to changes in the competitive landscape.

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Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

But collaboration is not consensus. Too often, people will try to collaborate on everything, and wind up in endless meetings, debating ideas and struggling to find consensus. Coming to know how and when to collaborate is a learning process. Collaboration is not a style. Collaboration is not “cross-selling.”

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Chief Operating Officer Consensus How To Project 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

IT management risks losing control over enterprise technologies because in a fast-paced business world, teams — unwilling to wait for IT to rollout official solutions — solve their own needs quickly by resorting to cloud-based, consumer tools to manage projects and share information.

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Company ROI Resistance Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. A more reasonable starting point might be the 1930s, when the physicist and statistician Walter Shewhart of Bell Labs began applying Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles to the improvement of products and processes. They keep customers happier.

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Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

So just when electric systems need to operate flawlessly — whether to power air conditioners, pump water, or heat homes — long-term challenges to power grids are multiplying. By 2030, the BPC predicts , utilities in the United States will need to hire 150,000 additional workers in information-technology intensive roles.

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Energy Industry Engineering Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Facing escalating costs of medications and technology, health care patients and providers in the United States continue to search for opportunities to reduce overall costs while maintaining and improving health care outcomes. In addition, the stratification process allowed for better “demand elasticity” of ICU bed utilization.

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Mayo Health Care Cost Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

They''re a keystone of what we call a "future-back" approach to strategy, which unlike the "present forward" nature of most strategic-planning processes, doesn''t operate under the assumption that tomorrow will be pretty much like today, and the day after pretty much more of the same. Organizations should have their moonshots.

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Scenario Planning Consensus Strategic Planning Innovation 8

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?” ” In order to chart the best way forward, you must understand emerging trends: what they are, what they aren’t, and how they operate. Blockchain.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Agriculture alone – not including the sizable food processing industry — produces up to 35% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions (and uses 70% of the water ). ” By 2050 it will slash emissions up to 72%, with the exact number TBD, but at a pace that will keep them “in line with scientific consensus.”

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Goal Industry Consensus Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

A further survey of 500 college-educated individuals in professional careers supported this finding and identified inclusiveness in the decision-making process as the key differentiator of leadership. Note that this inclusive process is not decision-making by committee or by consensus.

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Open-book Career Rogers PR 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

But as Carlota Perez has so aptly described, all new technology industries go through an eruption and frenzy phase, followed by a crash, and then a golden age and maturity. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies. Some have labeled this period as irrational exuberance.

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IPO First-mover Advantage Business Model Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Unnecessary consensus-seeking for reversible, non-consequential decisions. ” Despite advances in technology, and perhaps in large part because of it, many find themselves working well beyond 5 PM just to keep up with their workloads, but it doesn’t have to be that way. How to Foster a Shorter, More Productive Workday.

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Outsourcing Stress Productivity Products 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The combination of machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and cognitive computing will soon change the ways that we interact with our environments. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Monetary, non-monetary, and consensus exchanges are three common forms of value exchange.

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Consensus System Information Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

As the up-and-coming vice president and CEO candidate for a Fortune 500 technology corporation sat before the CEO for his annual review, he was baffled to discover that the feedback from his peers, customers, direct reports, and particularly from board members placed unusual emphasis on one potentially devastating problem: his listening deficit.

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360-Degree Feedback Welch Active Listening CEO 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

There’s a lot of debate over the magnitude of the decline, but there is broad consensus that it has happened and that it’s a big deal. ” Rapid technological advance in computers and automation has led to a huge fall in the quality-adjusted price of capital equipment. Maybe the leading story is “Robocalypse Now.”

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GDP Video Sharpe Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

In reality, though, each step is fraught with psychological difficulties and organizational complications, making the process as much an exercise in rooting out unspoken assumptions as a mathematical exercise. Or by making process improvements? Add up the figures from lines two and three, and compare with the figures from line one.

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Blockchain, the distributed ledger technology underlying bitcoin, may prove to be far more valuable than the currency it supports. As we begin to put distributed ledger technology into practice, it’s important to make sure that the initial conditions we’re setting up aren’t setting us up for security issues later on.

Consensus 8

Consensus Decentralization System Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Medicare’s legacy payment system places a premium on controlling labor and supply expenses and eliminating wasted or low-value imaging procedures and laboratory tests as well as minimizing operating-room time, intensive-care stays, and a host of other expensive services. Tighten the purchase and use of medical technology.

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Cost Consensus Budgeting System 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Welch was convinced that the speed of globalization and technological innovation in the 21 st century would require companies to work very differently – with shorter decision cycles, more employee engagement, and stronger collaboration than had previously been required to compete.

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Welch Supply Chain Consensus Engineering 8

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. For example, the delays associated with social conflict at large mining operations can run in the vicinity of $20 million per week.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Real Estate Stakeholder Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2012

My last post described how Innosight follows a three-stage process to evaluate investment proposals from outside entrepreneurs. After this starting point, however, our VC process holds pretty well. Can we get to the market without any technological miracles? The first decision is whether to explore an idea more deeply.

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Company Net Present Value How To Proposal 14

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

MAY 20, 2013

The most successful relationships start with intention and truthfulness, with the client assessing exactly what they need from design and then seeking out a partner who fits where they are in the process. 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

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Krypton IT Services Unlike other agencies, they don’t complicate the process. Weidert Group Weidert Group’s planning process is deep and rigorous, focused on learning the perspective of our client's customers. Like SEO, content marketing is a process, not a quick fix.

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

To wit, 45% of financial intermediaries , such as payment networks, stock exchanges, and money transfer services, suffer from economic crime every year; the number is 37% for the entire economy, and only 20% and 27% for the professional services and technology sectors, respectively. Distributed Database.

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Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

These companies have become agile in name only, as the process they’ve put in place often ends up hurting engineering motivation and productivity. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. For example, in common practice, processes and tools have become the driver of work, not individuals and interactions.

Agility 8

Agility Engineering Software How To 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

He put it in simple, CEO-friendly terms: “I am accountable for enterprise risk,” he said, “and clearly there’s a strong scientific consensus that climate is a risk.” But even without those technological shifts, the five megatrends here create an overwhelming case to continue the sustainability journey.

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Supply Chain Bottom-up Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

What legacy costs will be incurred as providers strive to optimize their business processes to deliver comprehensive value-based health care? The consensus is the challenges facing them will be daunting and organizations will be strained to finance and manage it. What new investments will be required? Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Industry Business Model Finance 8