Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Marshall McLuhan wrote famously about the “global village,” created by new information technologies. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. Especially for operating around the globe, electronic communication has become essential.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

As evidence of marketing’s central role, just look at which department in your firm is commanding the fastest-growing share of the technology budget and attracting the lion’s share of data analysts and data scientists. Information & technology Marketing' Starving IT of budget takes a heavy toll on innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

The accuracy rates of these predictions surpass what is possible with well-accepted risk scoring systems such as the one that emerged from the famous Framingham Heart Study , the ongoing long-term cardiovascular cohort study that is now in its third generation of participants.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

A common trap is to try to operate without confronting tough decisions and trade-offs early. Government HR officials — who typically are siloed off from other operations — often don't understand the mission of the venture. In the government start-up, speed to execution is the highest virtue.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

We want to participate in U.S. The Google case should motivate telecoms and global corporations to integrate privacy into their operational models, instead of treating them solely as issues of compliance. Bing is also following its lead by striving to develop a “right to be forgotten” feature. Integrating privacy officers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

Consider the situation faced by a leading provider of outsourcing and information technology consulting services with approximately $1.5 The 5% most central people — despite working to their limits — had in various ways become bottlenecks, unable to fully participate in projects, sales efforts and decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Participation rates are much lower at most other companies than at Nationwide. To speed operations and improvement, Process Strategy 2.0 The third major trend I see is the increasing need for speed in operations and improvement. People weighed in, and then they changed the process. Process Strategy 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Researchers found that participants' estimates were consistently off the mark, and off the mark in the same way: They underestimated. The mean of participants' self-reported value was 6.8 PatientsLikeMe and 23andMe are the leading operators of researcher-organized, crowdsourced health research studies. Expert-run communities.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

The good news is we can analyze our care for these patients and develop ways to improve their care while potentially reducing its costs — which is precisely what we are attempting now. We learned more about the organizational structures required to implement change across a large, integrated, health care operation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

The approach that we developed, called OB Nest, allows women experiencing low-risk pregnancies to reduce their number of in-person visits from the standard 12–14 to eight. Relevant clinical information can now be retrieved automatically from the electronic medical record system by the OB care team. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies. We’re now entering a new era of innovation , one that the model doesn’t quite fit, and we will have to develop new approaches to build the future.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

The latest developments around PRISM and the NSA dragnet operations uncovered by Edward Snowden, in my view, severely damage the fragile fabric of the new global ecosystem, which we so sorely rely on in order to collectively tackle truly urgent global issues such as energy, pollution, food, climate change, (cyber-)terrorism and inequality.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

“Traditionally, boards have tended to stay out of operational functions, but technology is so pervasive that the best practice is to have direct board engagement in technology through active committees, just as they would with audit, compensation, and other key areas.”

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. Interchangeable parts spurred ideas about structuring assembly lines and logistics.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Free-agent physicians operate independently, rather than as part of an integrated team. However, the trust that is crucial to well-functioning teams takes time and work to develop especially when physicians have only recently become employed. No participant in the system has good information about patient outcomes and the cost of care.

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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 time, employees learned that developing and submitting new ideas was not worth the effort. Justin Tierney/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

With all this in mind, a group at the Mayo Clinic led by the four of us developed and implemented a standardized practice model over a three-year period (2010-2012) that significantly reduced variation and improved predictability of care in adult cardiac surgery. An example is falls prevention in the hospital. Implementation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

In my experience with dozens of organizations implementing IoT solutions, those that achieved their expected ROI changed their traditional business approaches in one or more of the following ways: They Developed a Partner Ecosystem. ” There are several strategies that can be used to develop IoT talent. The reason?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The United States spends 40% more per patient than other developed countries but suffers the worse overall health outcomes. The program has shown promising results : One group of participants has experienced greater academic achievement and lower rates of incarceration and teen pregnancy after just six years.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Organizations such as Amazon, IBM, Salesforce.com, Facebook, and Google, have all engaged in substantial API “releases” that permit developers to access information so they can build new applications or businesses. APIs are programming routines or protocols that allow software applications to share data.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

To address this issue, in our teaching in executive programs in Ireland, we ask participants — executives that come from a wide range of companies and government agencies, and departments such as customer service, product development, and human resources — to develop such evidence using the Friday Afternoon Measurement (FAM) method.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

To address this issue, in our teaching in executive programs in Ireland, we ask participants — executives that come from a wide range of companies and government agencies, and departments such as customer service, product development, and human resources — to develop such evidence using the Friday Afternoon Measurement (FAM) method.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Positional advantage is sustainable in a classical environment: the environment is predictable and develops gradually without major disruptions. Tata Consultancy Services, the India-based information technology (IT) services and solutions company, operates in an environment it can neither predict nor change.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

These innovations are already happening in developing countries. Instant, 24/7, 365 days/year operation — the first such remittance solution without the need for cards of any kind, money moves from account to account instantly using mobile as the channel. Balakrishnan, Chief Operating Officer of NPCI.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Anyone following developments in the African IT space from afar can be forgiven for thinking that it’s all about the consumer, and that applications and services for business lag far behind. One of a number of participating private security companies is matched to the new user. Global business Information & technology IT management'

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