Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Why did they want to revisit what was already a core competence? Over the years, despite a number of well-meaning efforts, the focus of senior managers had shifted, the original training had been forgotten, and many of the messages on the subject had become empty rhetoric. Although this is an extreme example, it's not unique.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

As an aspiring PM, there are three primary considerations when evaluating the role: Core Competencies , Emotional Intelligence (EQ), and Company Fit. The best PMs I have worked with have mastered the core competencies, have a high EQ, and work for the right company for them. Core Competencies.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

The algorithms, software and massively parallel architectures underlying the Jeopardy -winning technology's design are undeniably important, he says. But the essential breakthrough, Ferrucci asserts, is that Watson — like a dog, a dolphin, a killer whale or a high school apprentice — could be successfully trained.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

A few decades ago, companies were struggling with how to measure and reward individual performance. At the same time, compensating people for collaboration can be tricky, says Deborah Ancona, a professor at MIT Sloan School of Management and coauthor of X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, and Succeed. What Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

The problem is simple: not enough people know how to make maps or handle spatial data sets. In the meantime, spatial thinking, visualization, contemporary cartography, and the other core competencies of geographic education have never been more relevant or necessary. Design Information & technology Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Your organization needs a CNEO—a Chief Network Effects Officer—to integrate and align how your enterprise gets value from “ harvesting collective intelligence.”. In other words, opportunistically managing collective intelligence is not enough; smart leaderships need to rethink how to collectively manage collective intelligence.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

They must protect value by helping companies avoid unnecessary risks, and they must build value by ensuring that companies change quickly enough to address emerging competitive threats, evolving customer preferences, and disruptive technologies. But disruption is not always about technology. Confront Unwelcome News and Trends.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The challenge is obvious: the quickening pace of technological change has shrunk the shelf life of skills acquired by today’s university graduates to just a few years. The cycle time for new technology has compressed and will continue to do so. Is the developed world on the verge of a skills crisis? It creates option value.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

But Thomson Reuters Foundation took a different tack in its response, going beyond donating to leverage its parent company's core competencies in information and the legal industry to catalyze change. Since the 1997 pilot, more than 9000 academies now operate in 165 countries and have trained nearly one million students.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 18, 2010

Now 23 years on from that all-important 1 st lesson I have realized something else – right hiring decisions go beyond core competencies. We have a high turnover rate at our company and I wonder if having more training around what type of people to hire would help? The personality profile also has to match.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

When I wrote the book Shared Minds: The New Technologies of Collaboration 25 years ago (!), I found technology central to the answers. The book was the first to explicitly examine how tools and technologies shape creative collaboration in science, business, and the arts. Technology remains an indispensable ingredient.

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