Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

While consumers are free to pick and choose the technology they will buy, the information they will access, and the degree to which they will network and with whom, managers and employees within companies are more constrained by the processes, structures, functions, systems, and technology the company invests in and deploys over time.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Maturity Information 8

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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

Once a realm defined by its creative expression, trade shows, and glossy literature, marketing has instead become the place in the organization that pulls together all of the information necessary to find, sell to, and serve the customer effectively and efficiently. Information & technology Marketing'

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain CIO Chief Information Officer Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2013

Perhaps the most exciting (and challenging) aspect of working in a progressive IT organization is the pace of technological change. In addition to service improvement efforts, new CIOs should also continuously review which information services are "core" versus "strategic."

CIO 8

CIO Positioning PPM Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Protecting a company''s critical information is a value proposition. Trade secrets, confidential business plans, and operational security depend on it. Losing that kind of information can mean a plunge in stock price and market share. So who''s responsible for information security in your company? But security?

Company 8

Company Chief Operating Officer Chief Technology Officer Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

A new business model will only emerge through continuous discovery and experimentation and will be defined by market demands, start-ups, a Silicon Valley mindset, and young technology experts. There is a significant opportunity to help reduce the lecture portion of expenses using technology innovations.

Education 11

Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

The Southeast Asia city’s rapid growth echoes the story of the so-called “unicorns” — technology start-ups that rapidly grew to a billion-dollar valuation and beyond. Technology start-ups are the Philippines’ latest customers, and more are flocking to the country’s beach-laden shores each year.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Technology B2B GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

The Conversation is also a 1974 film by Francis Ford Coppola whose themes include the role of technology in society and being so focused on what you are doing that you forget why you are doing it and become oblivious to what is happening around you. made me break out in cold sweats. CIOs today must adapt or risk being marginalized.

CIO 8

CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Britain’s biggest supermarket chain has not only seen its fortunes erode but its reputation for competitiveness, creativity and integrity collapse. Regardless, Tesco’s collective failures feel operational, organizational and cultural. Information & technology Leadership Retail' That was a huge mistake by me.”

Retail 8

Retail Loyalty Supply Chain Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

In our Tech Pro Research survey of chief information officers, technology executives, and IT employees, 45% of respondents saw mobile devices as the weak spot in their company’s defenses. Android is a fragmented mobile operating system. Educating upper management is a different task for information technology executives.

Chief Information Officer 8

Chief Information Officer Wireless Download Education 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2013

To succeed at the first, companies should set up and manage a "data laboratory," staffed with data scientists , who question everything; a loose structure that promotes collaboration; a longer-term focus; and a culture that values creativity and the pursuit of "deeper understanding" above all else. Information & technology Operations'

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Long-term Industry Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

However, if you work in a large organization and want it to make better use of data visualization, I''d argue that commonality is more important than creativity. But their purpose is not, of course, to dazzle managers with coolness and creativity. Consumer goods Decision making Information & technology'

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain CIO Information Technology Information 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Further, algorithms cannot (yet, anyway) tap intuition — the soft factors that are not data inputs, the tacit knowledge that experienced managers deploy every day, nor the creative genius of innovators. Algorithms only operate on the inputs they’re provided. Information & technology Technology' They are not.

Tacit Knowledge 10

Tacit Knowledge Information Technology Crisis Trends 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Borrowing many of the HBR article’s key ideas and filling in specific operational practices, Sutherland created a new way of developing software; honoring the rugby imagery, he dubbed his approach “scrum.” The Information Age was exploding. Disruptive technologies were terrorizing slow-footed competitors.

Agility 8

Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Rather it’s an on-going nipping and tucking of organizational resources to achieve both growth and efficiency at multiple levels: the company overall, the operating group level, and even within functional groups like human resources and information technology. Operations Organizational culture'

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

This is a trend in health care that can and should take a hold – even if it might mean creative solutions such as paying for patients and their families to travel to your hospital (by private jet, in some cases). Health Information & technology Innovation' How can you not like those odds?

Health Care 8

Health Care Information Technology Learning-by-Doing Information 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

CIOs need to understand business better, but the C-suite should understand technology''s potential better. While the CIO needs to understand the business to add value, equally true is that senior leadership and the board of directors don''t understand how to incorporate technology in their strategy, and some don''t even see the need to do so.

CIO 8

CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

When it comes to recommendations, is there room for improvement in the way Amazon and Netflix operate? The company collects as much information about a client as it can, in both structured and unstructured form. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age.

Company 8

Company Fashion Apparel Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

As primary-care-based ACOs, or for that matter any health care organizations operating under global-risk contracts, begin to form around the country, they must address the challenge of managing the cost of specialty care through a combination of disease prevention and reduction of specialist utilization.

Health Care 8

Health Care Organization Incentives Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Fifty-eight percent of patients referred to Virginia Mason, our medical center in Seattle, for back surgery would be more appropriately treated without an operation. Information technology has come late to health care delivery. Electronic medical records can help correct these systemic defects. .” Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Creativity Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

While Congress is considering the PROTECT IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011), there is a philosophical divide regarding the best way to deal with online piracy. Any measure to minimize piracy for a company such as Google would increase operating costs.

Safe Harbor 11

Safe Harbor Download Content Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

The organizational and operational benefits of targeted testing are not. Few things are more cost-effective than creatively cheap tests. "To do all of them at one time without testing the first one — you have to question what kind of strategy that is.". A predisposition to test is a predisposition to learn.

Leadership 13

Leadership Innovation Lean Production Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

As digital technologies permeate all aspects of their operations, companies around the world anticipate the need for massive change over the next five years, according to a new global survey by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services. Read More from DXC Technology: The Questions IT Should Be Asking to Empower Employees.

Technology 8

Technology Company Content Business Model 8

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 23, 2023

One would assume that if the engines of innovation are working as the hype suggests, Schumpeter’s famous creative destruction would be happening at a rate seldom seen before. These datasets cover all of the businesses operating in the economy. “Corporate concentration (e.g., shares of the top 1% or top 0.1%

Creativity 98

Creativity Innovation Trends Information Technology 98

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

As an experienced manager, he knew that his manufacturing and operation division’s success depended on getting creative ideas from his employees. Over the past three decades, we have researched how leaders motivate their employees to come up with creative solutions to organizational problems.

Creativity 11

Creativity How To System Motivation 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Who at your company will be put in charge of turning buildings operations from a cost center to a revenue center? And many companies also face additional energy-related costs from their commercial vehicles, of which there are over 12 million in operation in the U.S. Operational Improvements. Take lighting, for example.

Energy 8

Energy Resources Information Technology Cost Center 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Specifically, it requires reimagining the business you are in, empathizing with your target customers and their challenges, and creatively determining how to most effectively solve their problems. Operations. When product-based companies add services and connectivity, operational requirements increase.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

These differences go to the foundation of the modern corporate IT department — the infrastructure — which includes the software, hardware, communications, facilities, data centers, operations, and other technical resources a corporation operates. Infrastructures are under assault technically, functionally, and financially.

CIO 9

CIO Technology Telecommunications Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Who at your company will be put in charge of turning buildings operations from a cost center to a revenue center? And many companies also face additional energy-related costs from their commercial vehicles, of which there are over 12 million in operation in the U.S. Operational Improvements. Take lighting, for example.

Energy 8

Energy Resources Cost Center Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Tata Consultancy Services, the India-based information technology (IT) services and solutions company, operates in an environment it can neither predict nor change. A firm can be the first to apply a new technology or to identify and address a major source of customer dissatisfaction or a latent need.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

The second group, the New Communalists, believed in doing away with all of those things and turning instead to small-scale technologies, LSD, Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes, etc. as technologies with which to kind of change our minds. We need to be creative. I mean, has it led to technological innovation?

Information Technology 11

Information Technology Bureaucracy Technology Open-book 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The creative binding together of radio stations, private security operations (usually available only to the very wealthy), and neighborly values achieves what only massive infrastructure build-out in terms of police stations, communication lines, response vehicles, and training facilities could enable in another context.

CRM 8

CRM Marketing Supply Chain NGO 8