Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 20, 2010

Maybe its a group walk for the breast cancer, helping out on a Habitat for Humanity project or offering to put a fresh coat of paint on wall at a local Boys and Girls Club. What a simple idea! Why not let employees vote for a local charity and organize an outing to help them. why is everyone smiling?

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2015

A veteran of knowledge management, business intelligence, and large-scale technology implementation projects with more than fifty companies worldwide, he has been a technical consultant for the Asian Development Bank, has worked for IBM and Computer Sciences Corporation, and was a fellow at Ernst & Young’s Center for Business Innovation.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 9, 2010

Hello and welcome to the June 2010 Leadership Development Carnival – it is an absolute honor to be your host! Gilda thinks that public speaking is an essential success skill for leadership development yet many aspiring leaders still struggle with it. That is all for this installment of the Leadership Development Carnival.

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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

JANUARY 17, 2013

Our research, which has involved studying more than 50 international organizations in a variety of industries, has identified an alternative approach to big data and analytics projects that allows companies to continually exploit data in new ways. This means that project teams need members well versed in the cognitive and behavioral sciences.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

But Loveman’s intuition about the value of loyalty and service was enough to propel years of analytics projects in those areas. Loveman insists on an ROI from each analytics project at Caesars. Major big data projects to create new products and services are often driven by intuition as well. Well, no, as it turns out.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

Certainly, knowledge transfer has been a priority of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Particularly in the last 12 years since the Sydney Games, it has put extensive effort into developing a Knowledge Management Program. All of this is done in response to a clear knowledge deficit. Contractual commitment.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2018

But our engagement survey results told a different story: When we wanted to keep people and they left anyway, it wasn’t because of their manager…at least not in the way we expected. But we’ve spent years working to select and develop great managers at Facebook, and most of our respondents said they were happy with theirs.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

They contribute technical expertise that an organization does not already have to a critical project or initiative. Tapping into your outside experts to help in the development of internal employees is a valuable way to address the needs of both. Many of the benefits of agile talent have been widely reported.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Having a mentor has always helped with professional development and career advancement, but in today’s complex workplace, one mentor alone often won’t do. Here is an instance: An employee whose team was not using agile-development techniques heard of their value from one of his virtual mentors and decided to learn more about it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

offices where employees were entrepreneurial, engaged, excited to come to work, and as a result were quickly developing new ideas for customer-facing products. developed practices of rapid development cycles , user-centered design , and collaboration in an open office layout. Leaders from the U.S. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Over the past six years, we have put in place a 30-person consulting team at EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II) using a model we have found to be successful, winning projects away from external management consulting firms at a fraction of the cost, and with great “client” (that is to say, EMC) satisfaction.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2011

In an event last spring in New York, I heard the story of a young man who received more than $90,000 for international software projects while he was collecting unemployment benefits. But what if we are in this vicious cycle because the economy has advanced beyond the tools developed long ago to track it?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time. But the complexity of the project is not only a function of having to cover so many clients, sites, and systems. It is also a multi-supplier project with many varied dependencies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

Something similar could happen inside companies, with algorithms scanning email, intranets, and project management tools to suggest collaborators who might improve a project before it even gets off the ground. Information & technology Knowledge management Networking' It’s all about innovation,” he told me. “By

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2016

This is particularly true in organizations where employees are both, what Paul Graham calls, “makers” and “managers.” ” Makers, also known as individual contributors, are the software developers, engineers, architects, writers, and researchers who produce knowledge.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Especially for today’s knowledge-based work, much of what we need to know we learn from others’ experiences, through what’s called vicarious learning. billion per year from employees failing to share knowledge effectively. As a manager for Bain & Co.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

In response, our team at the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard launched an online platform to generate and disseminate knowledge in health care delivery. In business, PVCs are used for knowledge management and exchange across multiple organizations, industries, and geographies. Professional Development.

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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. The custom IT solution developed for us takes into account the way we provide care to expectant mothers. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

In the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics, for example, the global financial crisis caused private developers for the Olympic Village project to withdraw, requiring a refinancing package backed by government. These risks can emanate from the realm of security, public health, natural ecology, technology, or economics.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

And they watch for and stop the common problem of their team members or other senior leaders pushing pet projects through product development. As an example consider stage-gates, decision points at which time new products are reviewed before moving forward in the development process. Innovation Leadership Product development'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

It's in areas of the company such as knowledge management, innovation, communication, and better integration with the supply chain. Consider Microsoft's Channel 9 software-community platform, where developers can watch videos and comment on them.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

A unit of a company that sells janitorial supplies to industrial customers spent years trying to develop a new cleaning agent that was more effective and "better smelling" than its previous offering. Unfortunately, the project wasn't able to hit the former target. Modify mindset.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

Over the long term, establishing backups for each role and codifying processes through knowledge management make it easier for any one person to be away with the confidence that their job will be in good hands. Make missed vacation a subject for feedback and a topic in development discussions. Don’t ignore it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2011

I remember when we were starting a new project that we had to visit the nearby Oracle headquarters (ironically, now Sun's owner) to get our hands on a wide variety of competitive hardware, as Oracle had to test its software on all platforms and manufacturers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Last year, I was struck by how fast machine learning was developing and I was concerned that both Nokia and I had been a little slow on the uptake. After three months and six courses, I had covered both the simple algorithms as well as many of the more complicated architectures, doing one project with each to gain a hands-on understanding.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Start by developing a strategy across the entire enterprise that includes a clear understanding of what you hope to accomplish and how success will be measured. Gartner estimates D&A projects falter 60% of the time. What’s the best way to build effective D&A capabilities? Insight Center. Putting Data to Work.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

At this point, many companies get to work and prepare detailed financial projections that show how many new sales they can achieve every year, what their proposed pricing is, what the year-on-year percentage increase will be. Execution Knowledge management' Frame up realistic aspirations for monetization.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Today the function of finding information can be performed by crowd-sourcers; mappers of local sources; filters and curators of tweets, posts, and liveblogs; algorithm designers, data scientists, and knowledge managers. Today the best advice is likely to don't just do something, stand there.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

To address this issue, a great many people have developed any number of techniques and products aimed at improving training and instruction. This tight coupling between steps and "theory" is an important feature of the task analysis technique I have developed for use in my problem solving and instructional design research and consulting.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This Insight Center will tell stories about successful Big Data projects, of course. MIT professors Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee tell two such stories in the opening post, Big Data's Management Revolution. This is the first in a month-long series of expert-written posts.) Please join the conversation. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

If we hope for better management of large-scale endeavors, our models will have to look beyond what it takes to inform individual, or even organizational, moves. Brook Manville consults to socially-minded enterprises on matters of strategy and organizational development. Well need to enable cross-boundary judgment.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The best leaders understand that the current success of their business, and any future innovation, depends upon the “deep smarts” of their employees — the business-critical, experience-based knowledge that employees carry with them. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. How talent management is changing.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Given that most developing countries do not record medical errors, the global magnitude of the problem is not well documented. The Global Health Delivery (GHD) Project at Harvard University and Wolters Kluwer launched a partnership in 2009 to donate subscriptions to UpToDate to clinicians in resource-limited settings around the world.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Business development. Body of Knowledge. The process of strategy development is not esoteric. Business development. Body of Knowledge. Protection of status and utilization of organizational working knowledge, management’s activities and relationships with regulators. Running the business.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

The person who brought in the client isn’t necessarily the most knowledgeable about the work to be done: leadership roles are better assigned once you understand who knows what, and they may need to shift in the course of the project as new issues arise. When do self-managed teams, or “holocracies,” work best?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2016

In many organizations, the typical off-boarding process is a whirlwind of project wrap-ups, paperwork, and exit interviews. The objective for the less-experienced staff member is to learn how his senior colleague gets things done; the goal for the expert is to “mentor, which is part of leadership development,” he says.

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