Leading Blog

JUNE 13, 2019

We can master highly sophisticated technical and technological challenges because we’re quite skilled at making linear connections from one technical feat to the next. If you want to crack a complex problem, you need the code. David Benjamin and David Komlos provide the code in Cracking Complexity. Construct A Really, Really Good Question.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

Get outside of your old thought patterns and seek out people, technology, collaborative relationships, process and any other solutions that can improve your business. Even the most savvy CEO may have blind spots in his or her skill sets, core competencies, or voids in the org chart which can also cause blind spots.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2017

If you want to develop eco-friendly practices across your organization, find out how to create a greener business. If so, you should utilize the power of solar energy. So, it is therefore an environmentally-friendly way to power your operations whilst reducing your overheads. Utilize Solar Energy. Telecommuting.

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Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Department of Labor Home Page Tom Peters, The Man, The Myth, The Legend, Change Guru TUTs Adventurers Club: Explore the power of thought & creative visualization to manifest dreams! License. . 

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application? Oh, and what about development methodology? Best practice for them is to outsource to manufacturing partners who can do the job. But manufacturing?

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 28, 2019

And instead of assigning a high-variety group from inside and around their organization to develop solutions, they’ll tend to go to the usual suspects, keep the group small, and rely on what they see, know and believe (which, with complex problems, isn’t nearly enough). ” The Power of Questions. Let’s talk about questions.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Very large companies in the information technology industry, like IBM, are successfully moving from product-driven to services-driven businesses. Having your product customers outsource their management and maintenance services to your company may prove to be a long-term win-win arrangement. Mobile Social Recognition.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 1, 2020

At its core, leadership isn’t about control, power, or a job title. Technology has connected more people in more places at more times than ever before. Leaders need to harness the power of these connections. Is it possible to develop empathy? The not so good news is that cognitive empathy needs to be developed.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

A quick scan of the list indicates that all 100 organizations are located in developed countries. From this list, some readers may infer that innovation is largely the realm of engineers and scientists working in developed countries for large companies, assuming that innovators from countries such as India and China don''t matter after all.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

They all take advantage of four technologies that once were scarce and expensive but are now plentiful and cheap. These technologies can be combined in numerous ways, and we are just starting to see companies really taking advantage of the possibilities. You can "outsource" the computing to servers in the cloud. Microprocessors.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ®. Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW ®. Turney gives the example of outsourcing product assembly work. When most of us think about innovation, however, we think of new products that take years and years to research and develop.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Instead, our interviews found a willingness to let organizational forms and structures evolve naturally, developing in line with the identity of the enterprise. The functional departments, instead of managing projects, focus on learning and development and specialized guidance for the relevant staff assigned to capabilities.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

While Blue Sky is an SOE, I think they really want to differentiate themselves, and they're willing to use a lot of our technology.". The only person not applauding was Wang Xiguo, the engineer who had led the development of Prime's power train technology. The workers standing near him applauded.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Rather, it encompasses an entire trend of computing servers moving into centralized data centers, where its power can be leveraged by companies all over the globe. The revolution of cloud computing actually preserves the basic structure of how businesses have used information technology resources for the last few decades.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

In its simplest terms, it means outsourcing your company's information technology (IT) needs, from data and storage to software. The study showed that, compared to running their own applications, by outsourcing companies can reduce the energy use and carbon footprint of computing by up to 90 percent! This is very good news.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

One applications outsourcing team, for example, proposed a clever UX tweak to help optimize a global fulfillment process their company managed for its biggest client. Their RFP-responsive outsourcing expertise had perversely obscured essential insights into what creative fulfillment should mean for both customers and client.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

With Kodak balancing on the precipice , a classic case study on the company offers powerful lessons that still resonate 20 years after it was written. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

One of the most recent automation technologies to emerge is robotic process automation , or RPA. The technology is sometimes described as supporting “ swivel chair ” processes involving a lot of back-and-forth access to multiple information systems. However, many companies don’t do that.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

One powerful example is the “ecomagination nation” initiative at GE’s Power & Water business. Embrace technology and make collaboration a way of doing business. Build an entrepreneurial environment that encourages employees to research and develop their ideas. Millennials are digital natives.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. On the contrary, many executives have made big technology bets but are now wondering why those investments haven’t yielded the kind of payoff they expected. Merely layering powerful technology systems on top of existing operations is not enough.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Social Nation : How to Harness the Power of Social Media to Attract Customers, Motivate Employees, and Grow Your Business by Barry Libert It’s time to join Social Nation and prosper! Pitfall #6: Underestimating the power of a Social Nation. Pitfall #9: Developing your own social software and analytics solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

It’s also a reminder that inequality is deeply intertwined with the day-to-day decisions companies make , say, about outsourcing manufacturing, or contracting with a caterer, or aiming for vertical integration, or focusing on the core. Bigger firms also seemed to resist too much inequality developing between pay at the top and bottom.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Like Japan, China combines statist industrial policies with export-oriented development. Bookstores are filled with titles such as When China Rules the World and Becoming China's Bitch , and opinion polls show that most Americans believe China is already the world's dominant economic power. Is China, in effect, a giant Japan?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

It requires lots of high-quality sensors, tons of computational power, and really good algorithms. We're seeing robots developed and/or deployed in defense, healthcare, production, warehousing, and lots of other sectors. More powerful and capable robots are geeky great news.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

Here’s where the problem has become especially acute for information technology inventions such as smartphones and tablets. And unlike economically efficient outsourcing, the PTO’s workload is now lodged in institutions that are far less competent to manage them. Innovation Tech industry 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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

The answer, I believe, is that we’re in the midst of a bubble; one so vast that to be alive today in the developed world is to be affected, or infected, by it. This bubble is being enabled by an unholy alliance between three powerful trends: smart phones, social media, and extreme consumerism.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2016

A key feature of PwC’s talent exchange is to develop and foster a long-term relationship between PwC and independent workers. The long-term nature of the Talent Exchange is a powerful benefit for both sides. Like PWC’s talent exchange, the Post developed its talent network in-house.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

Many of today''s ecosystem members are coders and app developers, and APIs are how they interface with a provider organization. The latter figure is close to 50 billion per month now (from about 2 billion three years ago), which is a powerful indicator of how open the company has become. All have seen fantastic growth.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. This is a leadership issue in which diversity, and the awareness of it, will play a key role in the development of future leaders. Compete on your merits not why your lack thereof should be overlooked.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Once the lines are laid and houses are connected to the grid, it's unlikely that power companies are going to see new entrants. To understand my point, let's think about how big companies have developed scale advantages through information systems. Develop a strategy that doesn't simply rely on being the biggest.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

An outsourced idea and creative team that could get the production done at a cost that was less than what it would cost the brand to have a permanent staff in place. Mobile, too, is offering ways to connect with consumers who now wield tremendous power in the palm of their hands. Over time, this role has changed. Models of leanness.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

Well-connected people have enormous power to drive change, as this recent article from Julie Battilana of Harvard Business School and Tiziana Casciaro of the University of Toronto''s Rotman School of Management, makes clear. But, when a company has only a few network-central players, they can become significant points of weakness.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. This is not guesswork.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Defining a managerial approach to innovation starts with developing a better understanding of the problem we need to solve. In 1993, IBM research accomplished the first quantum teleportation , a technology isn't likely to result in a product until after 2020. Sustaining Innovation: Every technology needs to get better.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

App developers from Stockholm to San Francisco are anxiously counting down the days til the November release of the Apple Watch SDK (or “Software Development Kit”), which will give them the tools to begin building their own concepts. I’d argue that these developers stand at a crossroads for the Internet of Things (IoT).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups. Only around 20% of technologies funded by CVC&A grab enough attention of business units to start co-innovation pilot projects with portfolio startups.

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