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Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 2, 2016
Instead, our interviews found a willingness to let organizational forms and structures evolve naturally, developing in line with the identity of the enterprise. Some of the first business functionaries were railroad telegraph operators who managed schedules. The functional model of organization dates back to the 1850s.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 17, 2015
There are clear signs of a potential shift in energy sourcing and consumption—and managers of IT and services operating in the cloud should start paying attention to how they can contribute. Here’s why now is the time right to invest in renewable energy sources for the internet: Renewable energy can help reduce a cost center.
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Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
But while the largest US firms have seen their domestic revenues grow more than twice as fast as the sector average even in the domestic market, their smaller suppliers—the firms that provide them with the materials and components they depend on—have experienced negative growth. manufacturers are taking notice.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 2, 2011
They outperform their industry because they've figured out how to enable the key asset of the new economy: scalably leverage many people's contributions, including the app developers eager to piggyback on the industry's most attractive devices. Yet most organizations still operate much as they did in the industrial age.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 26, 2013
The original IT department was formed to centralize a unique expertise that could purchase, implement, and manage technology in the enterprise. Rather than serving as an adjunct to the core business, or merely a cost center, IT is becoming intrinsic to the very products and services that every company offers. Why is this?
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. So why would emerging markets still adopt this practice? They are fix-what’s-broken visits.
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