Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

There is a growing consensus among students, parents and employers that today’s young liberal arts graduates lack the skills needed to succeed in the post-Recession job market. Stories about this skills gap abound, such as the recent New York Times essay “Opening an Employment Door to the Young”. Stop it now!

Skills 10

Skills Education Decentralization Long-term 10

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The researchers developed a tool, called SKILL (for Shared Knowledge Lifelong Learning), through which AIs learned over 100 separate tasks. The AIs then shared this knowledge through a decentralized network, after which they managed to master each of the tasks. The study highlights how AI agents continuously learn after each new task.

Decentralization 64

Decentralization Learning-by-Doing Diversity System 64

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The Ambulatory Cardiac Triage, Intervention, and Education Unit at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Duke Heart Failure Same-Day Access Clinic are two examples of how on-demand access to intensified outpatient management can decentralize care from the hospital, thereby improving outcomes and lowering costs through fewer hospitalizations.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Transportation Technology 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

Expert Q&A with Jason Tyszko on how to raise the skills of your employees to meet upcoming automation challenges. . This has less to do with rapidly evolving jobs, and more with the discrepancy between the skills people have and those needed for their future employability. Yes, excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake,” he said.

Diversity 111

Diversity Education Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 111

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

The seven roles for CIUs are: designing shelter for innovation; supporting best practices and methods; developing skills; supporting business unit initiatives; identifying new market spaces; facilitating ideas generation; and directing seed funding. In 2018, Merck opened its new Innovation Center at the company’s Darmstadt headquarters.

Innovation 9

Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 9

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Businesses from top global firms to main street staples are looking into a future driven by new technology capabilities. organizational structure (such decentralizing and aligning technology to business areas more effectively), and governance. Levine is an expert on lean and agile software development and information technology.

Agility 65

Agility Banking Supply Chain Real Estate 65

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

And, like any new technology making its entrance into office life, it was met with profoundly mixed feelings. But behind the fear, excitement, and macroeconomics of it all are the people and places that are deeply affected by new and different technology, day in and day out. How technology is changing the way we work.

Technology 8

Technology Decentralization Short-term Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress. The same goes for technology.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

Now however, we’re in a third-generation of the learning organization, with new technologies speeding up the rate at which we can both absorb new information and test our assumptions. In a superjob, technology has not only changed the nature of the skills the job requires but has changed the nature of the work and the job itself.”

Competitive Advantage 61

Competitive Advantage Kaizen Technology Learning-by-Doing 61

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

It's easy to make the case that collaborative leadership is the wave of the future: Technology makes decentralized decision-making and flat organizations more feasible than ever. One thing we've heard again and again is that collaboration can be a double-edged sword in terms of being perceived as powerful.

Career 13

Career Consensus Decentralization Committee 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

For example, when a large technology firm integrated specialized engineers into its regional sales teams, there were shifts in roles, client coverage, compensation, goal setting, and teamwork. Success wasn’t guaranteed no matter how effective the change management skills. The change affected hundreds of people.

Kotter 8

Kotter Decentralization Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

centralized or decentralized), but no matter the structure having data science leaders in the room for product and business strategy discussions will accelerate data product development. Coursera’s Skills Graph is one example. Give data science a seat at the table. Data science can live different places in the organization (e.g.,

Productivity 9

Productivity Products How To Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

In the 1960s and 1970s, he was already anticipating some of the implications of the Big Shift just beginning to emerge: the transition to an information economy, the centrality of knowledge work, and the transformative impact of digital technology on all types of work.

Drucker 9

Drucker Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The rapid pace of change in business and technology means that more and more companies will find themselves being disrupted. To support this decentralized, empowered organization, the company built a real-time, mobile-enabled information platform. Being a CEO is harder than ever. It’s not a good position to be in.

CEO 8

CEO Metrics Leadership Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Charan has turned his attention to these organization dynamics in response to CEOs recognizing that technology, operations, access to financial capital, and even strategic positioning statements are less differentiating than their organization’s ability to respond to opportunities.

Charan 9

Charan Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Decentralization 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2011

In India, loosened business regulations and restrictions on foreign investment and imports, along with reductions in bureaucracy spurred a boom in economic activity, including a major expansion of the telecommunications industry and space program and the birth of the software and information technology sector.

Education 14

Education Compliance White Paper Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Staffed with dedicated professionals armed with the requisite skills, experience, and credibility, a central group can accelerate the realization of value improvements — better outcomes, more efficient processes, lower costs, and aligned payment models — across the organization.

Health Care 8

Health Care Management Cost Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

Blockchain experts call this “decentralization.” ” Decentralization offers the promise of nearly friction-free cooperation between members of complex networks that can add value to each other by enabling collaboration without central authorities and middle men. How technology is transforming transactions.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Decentralization Banking Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Zhou departed in 2005 and went on to found Qihoo 360 Technology, a $12 billion company that now trades on NASDAQ. Unlike other Chinese leaders we had met with, Ma was willing and eager to hire executives who had more skills and experience than he did in areas where he was less strong. Tsai, for example, clearly understood U.S.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Operations IPO Learning-by-Doing 9

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

At Boeing, all enterprise technology (including digital) investments are managed by the CTO, which enables significant synergies. Enterprises using a convergence approach will, wherever possible, organizationally consolidate the key assets of people, data, infrastructure, skills, and management processes. Convergence. Coordination.

CIO 8

CIO Organization Committee CTO 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

It looked at the role technology plays in economic recoveries, both in terms of economic growth and the number of jobs. The dissemination of technology. Indeed, a recent German study found that the jobs landscape is harmed by the poor distribution of technologies such as robotics throughout the economy.

TCO 87

TCO Decentralization CAPEX Industry 87

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

The vision resonated with government leaders, who were seeking a constructive way to work with the private sector to attract new investment and technology. A broad and decentralized network of activity can be mobilized under the umbrella of the shared vision. Empower widespread innovation and action.

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Decentralization Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. Luckily, this single contract was pivotal in helping HarQen reposition themselves from a technology-driven voice response company, to a market-driven recruiting systems one.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

In 2014 the Taproot Foundation wanted to create a digital service that would connect nonprofit organizations with skilled professionals who wanted to donate their services. The project planners had imagined, for example, that the skilled volunteers would need to be able to create profiles on the service.

Project 8

Project Management Uncertainty Software 8

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 27, 2011

Certainly, these folks have the skill to develop a major corporation, after all that is precisely how we came to know their names. The very talent and skill that brought them to the top of the heap can lead to a fall when the ground shifts and the heap collapses. General Electric and HCL Technologies provide a good counter example.

Succession 113

Succession Welch Leadership Diversity 113

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

Responding effectively to such threats will require a paradigm shift towards approaches that are faster and more agile and decentralized than what exists now. The low cost and do-it-yourself accessibility of genomic technologies makes it possible for such weapons to be deployed by almost any aggressor.

Engineering 8

Engineering Decentralization Agility Technology 8