Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Application of design thinking to help solve myriad problems that are not typically associated with design is illuminated in a new book through vignettes drawn from such diverse realms as politics and society, business, health and science, law, and writing. Implementing a strategic technology plan. Strategic plan as jigsaw puzzle.

Creativity 58

Creativity Strategic Planning Construction Politics 58

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Leaders have long recognized that a diverse workforce of women, people of color, and LGBT individuals confers a competitive edge in terms of selling products or services to diverse end users. In the context of the workplace, diversity equals representation. In fact, without inclusion there’s often a diversity backlash.

Diversity 8

Diversity Career Focus Group Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

Given their day jobs — which at academic medical centers often include research, writing grant proposals, and tending to patients — they have little time. But only 34% were actively piloting a digital technology in clinical practice. Give constructive rejections. Build a diverse team.

Health Care 8

Health Care Company Innovation Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

is one of many examples of what some now call internet time or a flat world and believe is somehow specific to 21 st -century information technologies and global markets. If you substitute “social media” or “apps” or “digital revolution,” you’ll find that Sloan’s description of changes in the auto market from 1924 to 1926 (three years!)

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Marketing Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The health care system in the United States, with its technological prowess and massive infrastructure, often serves as a reference point for rapidly developing economies around the world while they build their own medical systems. One major reason for the rapid cost inflation in health care is burgeoning hospital construction.

Health Care 8

Health Care Tourism Pharmaceuticals Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

One stop was at the gleaming modern California-style "tech city" that Egypt's information and communications ministry used to attract American technology companies - which now seems ironic, because tech networks accelerated the fall of the Mubarak regime. But schools, I said, were the most important place to get involved.

Engineering 14

Engineering Proposal Banking Construction 14

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Large downturns (such as this recession), technology disruptions, or regulatory shifts create discontinuities that simply accelerate the industry’s evolution toward this equilibrium state. Additional Insights… An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage.

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52