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CIO 50

CIO Technology CRM Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

These stock buybacks have come under criticism as a bad investment – the argument being that companies sitting on record amounts of cash ought to invest in innovation, salaries, or at least dividends, rather than pumping up their own stock price through buybacks. Not so fast. However, not all investments are equal.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. Those who make the decisions and control the purse strings at legacy higher education institutions. Most of the attendees from post-secondary institutions were professors or deans of schools of education.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

While Gordon’s argument is often characterized as being the opposite of the one I have made in my two books about the impact of advancing automation technology on the job market (most recently, Rise of the Robots ), there are many areas in which I think we would agree. This is certainly true. Many economists would probably agree.

Gordon 8

Gordon Transportation Tourism Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

For the past several years we have watched with increasing dismay at the increasing chasm between information technology (IT) groups and their business counterparts. The business complains that IT doesn’t understand the business, consistently overpromises and under-delivers, and slows innovation.

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Technology Cost Center Constraint 8

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. Managing this rapid change and fostering innovation while "keeping the trains running on time" is the primary leadership role required of any CIO, new or old. Generate Room for Innovation.

CIO 8

CIO Positioning PPM Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

New predictive analytics tools promise to reduce waste and improve care by forecasting the likelihood of an event — for example, a patient being readmitted to a hospital or developing a life-threatening infection — and allowing providers to tailor treatments and services accordingly. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

Health Care 8

Health Care Long-term Tools Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Shortly after the elimination of Geography here at Harvard, the discipline underwent a quantitative and computational revolution that eventually produced innovations like Google Maps and global positioning systems, to name just two. Design Information & technology Technology'

Core Competence 13

Core Competence Information Technology Library Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2017

He has the perspective to see Rosetta Stone’s reach in these areas because he travels the world meeting customers and spending time with educational institutions and the students and teachers in them. “They cared about how I was developing and growing in my career but also as a manager, leader, and communicator.”

Execution 14

Execution CIO Chief Information Officer Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

To address this problem, in 2011 a group at Mayo Clinic led by the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology launched an initiative to transform prenatal care from this medicalized model to an innovative wellness model. How the most innovative providers are creating value. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Information Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2012

— nature of educational advice and assessment will increasingly define how you and your colleagues get hired, fired and promoted. In the spirit of the "open source" and "open innovation" movements, that gives them greater power and influence. The Amazonified, Googlefied and Big Data-soaked — enriched?

Career 15

Career Company Human Capital Education 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

A revolution in information technology has transformed businesses around the globe over the past two decades. More recently, companies have discovered that technology-enabled data is an underappreciated but highly valuable asset. And innovative technology soon will extend its reach without increasing its size.

Education 8

Education Technology Information Technology Report 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

At no other time in history has the American higher education system been in greater need of radical change. universities lost ground in the UK magazine Times Higher Education 2012 list of the world's top 200 universities. The place to start: abolishing tenure. Here's why. The impact on knowledge. Fifty-one of 76 U.S.

Engineering 10

Engineering Education Class Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Literacy shot up as the masses started taking education seriously for their children. That new mindset in turn did much to spur the speedy adoption of technologies in later decades. As historians have increasingly appreciated, technology is usually a secondary cause in economic development.

Class 8

Class Hedge Technology Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

They felt the need to educate some of the project team members on big data technologies such as Hadoop and scripting languages. Big data projects involve new technology and new development approaches, and are inherently risky. Change management Information & technology Innovation'

Project 8

Project Business Objectives Information Technology Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Designing a real system of care will require a combination of technology, process, and people.

Health Care 14

Health Care Champy Information Technology Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

The team launched GHDonline in June 2008 with public communities in tuberculosis-infection control, drug-resistant tuberculosis, adherence and retention, and health information technology. Professional Development. Here’s a biography of Dr. Junior Bazile and a graphic of his development as a GHDonline member).

Globalization 8

Globalization Health Care Information Technology Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2011

Arguing that "the rules have changed," the President outlined a series of policy themes — from improved education and investment in research to changes in tax policy — to shore up American competitiveness. It also potentially means that we will lose our advantage in innovation. productivity. and Mexico). This is a big deal.

Real Estate 13

Real Estate Policies Telecommunications Industry 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Digital today is part of everyone’s job — and many enterprise organizations are adopting strategic mobile, social, and cloud initiatives to educate and empower employees. Develop complementary pathways to learning. Information & technology Internet Organizational culture'

Guidelines 8

Guidelines Team KPI Business Objectives 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

The plants that have adopted these monitoring and incentives-based management practices were far more productive, innovative, and profitable. Every 10% increase in a plant’s management index was associated with an impressive 14% increase in labor productivity, meaning the higher value added per worker.

Skills 12

Skills Management Succession Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

But “it does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play….It The Kingdom of Bhutan was the first — and still the only — country to reject GDP as its primary measure and instead developed a Gross National Happiness index. Economy Government Innovation'

GDP 8

GDP Education Industry Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2013

One of the developments that will undoubtedly cement the relationship between big data and talent processes is the rise of massive open online courses, or MOOCs. Far from democratizing education, critics argue that MOOCs will only reinforce those with power and weaken those without it. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Class Information Technology Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection." And on and on.

NGO 14

NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

Sure, with improvements in information technology and communication, some services are becoming more tradable and that creates opportunities for the U.S. Indian companies, for instance, are already doing quite well exporting services like software development, technical support, and back-office processing to America.

Health Care 9

Health Care Biotechnology Industry Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

And in the 1990s, our companies began to learn more from innovations at home, particularly in the area of high-performance work systems. Understanding HR innovations and figuring out which ones are effective is, sadly, a low priority in the world of scholarship. Business schools should do their part to remind them.

Lean Production 8

Lean Production Operations Health Care Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

We interviewed these 411 leaders, as well as those who work for them, analyzed their education, background, and experience and recorded their actions and impact using 64 investment variables and 24 performance measures over seven years. Academies have devolved decision-making powers enabling them to bypass local government.)

Long-term 8

Long-term Education GDP Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Earlier this fall, The New York Post ran a story guaranteed to raise hackles among parents anxious about the quality of their childrens education in the public schools. The problem runs far deeper that the prime facie question of which party should own the right to make decisions relating to a childs education.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

However, after decades these patterns reversed; large numbers of ordinary workers eventually saw robust wage growth thanks to new technology. Information technology automates the work of white-collar jobs and the pace of change is faster. Too often, when people think about technology, they only think about the initial invention.

Technology 8

Technology Learning-by-Doing Skills Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

A marketing manager is well educated and well compensated—he or she plays a critical role in driving sales by tailoring corporate strategies to specific products and markets. We find that, from a technical standpoint, work that occupies 45% of employee time could be automated by adapting currently available or demonstrated technology.

Osborne 8

Osborne Technology McKinsey Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

How technology is changing the way we work. The second dimension is the power to discover, manage, and use information for individual and group problem solving, innovation, and decision making. Increasingly, this element is becoming an essential foundation for leveraging digital technologies and impacting business performance.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Maturity Information 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

The innovations that made these companies worth billions of dollars could be classified as computer hardware and software infrastructure. Have all the innovative ideas already been done? This worked great when the problems teams were trying to solve were fundamentally technology problems. What gives? What was my title?

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

The innovations that made these companies worth billions of dollars could be classified as computer hardware and software infrastructure. Have all the innovative ideas already been done? This worked great when the problems teams were trying to solve were fundamentally technology problems. What gives? What was my title?

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

We all recognize that without support from the private sector, many of the public programs in the arts, health and education — which we take for granted — would not exist. For the UN, this ability to glean real-time information could transform our work to protect development gains among the world's most vulnerable populations.

Analysis 16

Analysis Globalization Crisis Price 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Technology-enabled services are the backbone of this industry, and the fastest growing sectors have demand for high-end skills, such as mobile app development and data analytics, as well as middle-level skills, such as video production, copywriting, and financial analysis. Working for a venture-backed start-up is the new status symbol.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Technology B2B GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

Advances like 3D printing and EdX, the joint venture between MIT and Harvard, mean that even industrial production and education are seeing disruption, and are also having their own incumbents lead the disruption. They are less affected, but not immune. So what can business leaders be doing to meet the coming changes head-on?

Industry 8

Industry B2C Agility Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. For these multi-problem, multi-actor systems, we have not yet developed clear value chains, much less business models. There are now more than 5.3

Wireless 14

Wireless Health Care Pharmaceuticals Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Last year, we established a values-based care team, which seeks to eliminate unnecessary practice variation by developing evidence-based care paths across diseases and to improve comprehensive care coordination so that patients move seamlessly through the system, reducing unnecessary hospitalizations and ER visits.

Health Care 9

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 9