Remove Development Remove Information Management Remove Innovation Remove Power
article thumbnail

Your Team Doesn’t Need a Data Scientist for Simple Analytics

Harvard Business Review

Having founded a data management company and worked with hundreds of organizations over the past 20 years to execute their information management and analytics initiatives, I’ve found the groups that are able to successfully utilize their company’s analytics technologies often take the following approaches: Build a team.

Team 8
article thumbnail

Seven Tips for Shifting a Mindset in Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

If you have tried introducing a new idea into your organization or community—especially if it''s an abstract idea like sustainability, diversity, or innovativeness—you know it''s tough. It took her a year to develop her case—largely on her own time—before she started talking about sustainability in public.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

What Google Glass Reveals About Privacy Fears

Harvard Business Review

At worst, special laws simply ban the new thing before its developers have the chance to test it in the market and make adjustments. At a developer''s conference last week, Glass product director Steve Lee said only that "Privacy was top of mind when we designed the product.". Communication Innovation Politics' In the U.S.,

Morale 8
article thumbnail

Navigating the Dozens of Different Strategy Options

Harvard Business Review

It’s not that we lack powerful ways to approach strategy; it’s that we lack a robust way to select the right ones for the right circumstances. The f ive forces framework for strategy may be valid in one arena, blue ocean or open innovation in another, but each approach to strategy tends to be presented or perceived as a panacea.

article thumbnail

Avoiding the Schizophrenic IT Organization

Harvard Business Review

A pharmaceuticals company we''ve been studying decided to deploy more than 20,000 iPads and other mobile devices to the global sales force to improve its engagement with doctors in emerging and developed markets. Today''s CIO Needs to Be the Chief Innovation Officer. The Real Power of Enterprise Social Media Platforms.