The Office Blend Blog

JULY 24, 2019

Cross-functional teaming arose from a vital need to deal with quickly developing challenges and opportunities in the external environment. To understand this dilemma, we must fully explore the systems that inform or support their work. Technology that Informs the Network. Case in point: cross-functional teams.

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CO2

JANUARY 24, 2018

In these films, the robots gain consciousness, realize that humans are their enemy or simply unnecessary, and attempt to destroy them. Robotic technology is only going to get better, and it will soon begin to enter all sorts of job fields and become a tempting option for employers across the world. What Jobs Are at Risk?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Bechtel tapped to work with GE Hitachi on DOE’s Virtual Test Reactor Bechtel has been selected to work with GE Hitachi to develop the U.S. Meanwhile, PaR Systems. Such maps enable closure of oversight gaps and help alleviate low-value, redundant assessment activities and their associated costs… The Economy. Opinion and Analysis.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Company A : “Our analytics-driven recruiting software accelerates hiring with an applicant tracking system, social recruiting, and mobile solution.” Company C : “Our talent acquisition, development and administration platform offers recruiting, onboarding, performance management, along with social network connectivity and data analytics.”

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Strong yet Others are from books, films and politics. In the 1940’s there was a beautiful actress, Hedy Lamarr (think Angelina Jolie ), who along with composer George Antheil received a patent for their invention of a classified communication system that was especially useful to submarines in World War II.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

T]echnology alone is not enough—it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing. John Lasseter, chief creative officer at Pixar, echoed this sentiment stating, “Technology inspires art, and art challenges the technology.”

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

You know the issue of sequestered executives is a real problem when it’s main-stream enough to be made into a prime-time Reality TV show. While many have scoffed at the CBS show &# Undercover Boss, &# I believe it signals a very disturbing trend. Have they been fudging their research for years?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. Developers have two primary ways to help create new and better jobs. The second is to develop spaces and programs to incubate entrepreneurs. They are certainly important components, but they are not enough. We think cities can do better.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Disney's John Carter , which cost close to $275 million to produce, was tagged as a potentially huge, game-changing film. Disney admitted its studio would have an operating loss of $80-$120 million, making the film arguably the biggest flop of all time.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Disney's John Carter , which cost close to $275 million to produce, was tagged as a potentially huge, game-changing film. Disney admitted its studio would have an operating loss of $80-$120 million, making the film arguably the biggest flop of all time.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

In team development, research has shown that individual learning works best when accompanied by team learning. [1]. So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

This includes the German history of many small independent states (until 1918 Germany consisted of 23 monarchies and three republics), which forced entrepreneurs to internationalize early on in a company’s development if they wanted to keep growing. Scientific competencies also play an important role.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

The technology most likely to change the next decade of business is not the social web, big data, the cloud, robotics, or even artificial intelligence. It’s the blockchain, the technology behind digital currencies like Bitcoin. Blockchain technology is complex, but the idea is simple. They make it difficult to cheat.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

More than once you’ve probably looked at some new digital or technological development and asked yourself, “How did we miss that?” Glitches at Netflix have caused outages as well as strange mashup summaries for different films. Expect to hear more about “glitches” in 2016. Blockchain.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

You used film to take pictures, got them developed in a photo shop, and mailed copies to relatives if you wanted to share them. When things that used to be kept separate bump up against other each other (in other words, when once-complicated systems become complex) it becomes far more difficult to predict what's going to happen next.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Often dismissed in the popular mindset as a tool for home-based “makers” of toys and trinkets, the technology is gaining momentum in large-scale industry. Impressive next-generation technologies are overcoming the last generation’s drawbacks while adding new capabilities. Now we’re seeing much bigger stakes.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

Two years ago, Swedish communications technology giant Ericsson found itself looking for a way to explain the value it saw in the Internet of Things. Papert’s work has had a major impact on how people develop knowledge, and is especially relevant for building twenty-first century skills. More specifically, Lego robots.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

Google, for example, has succeeded in dominating many foreign markets that have radically different political systems and cultures (including Indonesia, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia). imposing technological platforms developed for the U.S. failure to develop and communicate business strategies effectively. market on China.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Technology – social media specifically – allows for constant communication, but easy communication doesn’t necessarily translate to messages that are received, understood, and capable of driving action. The same is true for any camera crews who might be filming your presentation. Some are just 140 characters long.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Between 2006 and 2008, more than $1 billion venture-capital dollars were channeled into startups focused on solar, wind and biofuel technologies. In the last year, however, early-stage investments in clean energy production technologies have fallen substantially (see the table at the end of this piece for more detail).

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

JAK relies on the "saving points" system — members accrue points for saving and use them to apply for a loan. An entrepreneur in the small community of Skatteungby, some 300 kilometers from Stockholm, asked the JAK Bank for a loan to develop a shop. They also offer a chance of redemption for the traditional banking system.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

It helps students see that Kodak did not understand or invest in the digital technologies that were to sweep away its business, a failure usually attributed to incumbent executive myopia. In the early 1990s, Kodak's IT function was focused on systems and internal services. So it had no voice.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

JAK relies on the “saving points” system — members accrue points for saving and use them to apply for a loan. An entrepreneur in the small community of Skatteungby, some 300 kilometers from Stockholm, asked the JAK Bank for a loan to develop a shop. To see how this works in practice, consider a true story.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

For Westerners at least, our working cultural definition owes a lot to robots in stories and film, as well as real-life robots past and present. ” The robot was a central European system of serfdom — according to the Oxford English Dictionary — abolished in the Austrian Empire in 1848. Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

After all, it was hardly a new technology; the first radial tire patents had been filed more than 40 years before. This is the transformational and dramatic effect of a superior technology entering an industry. This was no surprise to the top five U.S.-based based bias-ply tire manufacturers (Goodyear, Firestone, Uniroyal, B.F.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills. Normal” leadership is a complex system of behaviors that can tolerate a lot of little mistakes. In my book, I recount an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. No wasted film, slides, or prints.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

The auto industry is facing a trio of disruptive technologies: electric batteries, autonomous vehicles, and the mobile phone. ” [Ford Smart Mobility’s] role is to design, develop, build, invest, and grow these mobility services. This is a play straight out of Clay Christensen’s disruption playbook.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

2 spot, Rebook tried to develop a credible rival to Nike''s "air" technology — the Energy Return System , a group of shock-absorbent tubes under the midsole of its shoes, and The Pump , an inflation device that provided personalized fit and cushioning. While each technology bumped sales, something was still missing.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2017

The truth is, AI is as “fully-automated” as the Great and Powerful Oz was in that famous scene from the classic film , where Dorothy and friends realize that the great wizard is simply a man manically pulling levers from behind a curtain. We need to think seriously about the human labor in the loop driving AI.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2015

This is explains why executives at Kodak chose not to pursue digital cameras after the first one was developed in their own lab. The resolution was terrible and they didn’t see it ever getting better than film. The less compatible your new idea is with existing systems, the harder adoption will be.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Mr. Ovshinsky used the same basic insight decades later to produce flexible photovoltaic materials, printing them on film on a machine the length of a football field. The company was a world leader in the technology but recently declared bankruptcy amid down times in the U.S. photovoltaic industry. Atlantic Richfield Oil Corp.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Chirotech specializes in biocatalysis and chemocatalysis, two important subspecialties of biotechnology and chemistry that help develop key biological and chemical intermediates needed for the efficient production of medicines. Besides Dr Reddy's, several leading Indian firms are pioneering polycentric innovation: Tata Motors.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

And the essence of Walt Disney’s original strategy remains intact today: to construct a range of businesses — from animated film to fun parks, TV, retail, cruise ships, and more — around a group of engaging, family-friendly characters. Digital technology overwhelmed Kodak’s once-formidable business in photography.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

In the throes of apprehending the future of advertising, much has been, and will be, said about new channels, emergent technologies, innovative measurement protocols, morphing agency roles and the like; much less, probably, about how we actually create marketing that works, that's worth consuming, and that's worth running in any channel.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

It described the newspapers own request under the Freedom of Information Act for the New York Department of Educations performance ratings of the roughly 12,000 public city school teachers in its system. Brook Manville consults to socially-minded enterprises on matters of strategy and organizational development.

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