Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

It isn’t entirely fair to heap all of the blame onto the CEO’s; there was another broken system at play, the Board of Directors. It has all the bells and whistles; its wireless, Bluetooth compatible and an all in one (fax, scanner, and printer) machine. HP Has Historically Had an Ineffective Board. Take for example my LaserJet printer.

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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. Wireless connectivity. What are they? Microprocessors. Microprocessors.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. Tony Marx – President and CEO, New York Public Library – the nation’s largest library system. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. Previously Kevin was a leader in Electronic Data Systems and Ford. Faculty of Columbia Business School.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

One big reason why is that hospitals purchase technologies without requiring that they communicate with each other. Instead, they waste time on nonproductive work, filling the gap between these two systems. For years, hospitals have invested in sophisticated devices and IT systems that, on their own, can be awe-inspiring.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

In addition to the digital tools entering the workplace now, several technologies and trends on the horizon have the potential to further transform the way we work and interact with others. Read more from DXC Technology: Digital Transformation Is Racing Ahead and No Industry Is Immune. Orchestration, APIs, and the citizen developer.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

The lesson is really quite simple: Technology isn't free. Technology is at the heart of competition in a growing number of industries. Companies compete to develop new products and features that will entice customers to buy their products instead of their competitors' and hopefully to pay a premium price for what they have to offer.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Reading all the stories and hearing the rumors about Apple’s autonomous vehicles, Google’s drones, and Amazon’s experiments with new delivery systems, it’s easy to imagine looking out your window in a few short years and seeing a world that is positively Jetsons-like.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Have you recently noticed all the journalistic detective work about the watch that Apple is developing? Using unnamed company sources, patent filing analysis, and other sleuthing methods, technology writers have sketched a number of hypotheses about the appearance and material features of the soon-to-launch product.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

The big question around self-driving cars, for many people, is: When will the technology be ready? And where will this technology work best? Self-driving systems have to execute all of these functions, and do so accurately, reliably, and safely, across a wide variety of situations and conditions. Lasers can see in the dark.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2018

While most of us were still re-winding the tapes in our VCRs, brilliant minds were coming up with today’s technological advances. The ACT will provide advice and recommendations to the Governor’s office; enhance the cybersecurity workforce development; and, increase public awareness on cybersecurity best practices.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 4, 2010

For instance, people of my generation are grappling with the wonders of technology with varying degrees of success. Some of us are totally immersed and intrigued by what can be accomplished in a wireless world, (including all the cool toys that come along with it). And that is worth paying attention to.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

Starting young, we can shape this muscle so that it becomes part of us, creating a new digital-savvy individual—a global problem solver who recognizes the power of technology, social awareness, and creativity to create an inclusive and sustainable future. Why have we chosen to focus on youth?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Have you recently noticed all the journalistic detective work about the watch that Apple is developing? Using unnamed company sources, patent filing analysis, and other sleuthing methods, technology writers have sketched a number of hypotheses about the appearance and material features of the soon-to-launch product.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. One of the most poignant summaries of the market for innovative technology solutions in education is that it is forever in its infancy.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

The technology ecosystem known as the internet of real-time data is moving us toward a better understanding of what these consumers are thinking and doing. Many homeowners, for example, have connected their alarm systems to security companies; many drivers accept having devices such as mileage trackers in their vehicles.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The new president thought Cellairis should not only sell accessories, it should sell wireless phone service as well. People shopping for cell phone cases were natural customers for a wireless service provider. It stiffed Cellairis and the wireless providers whose services it resold. Nothing more than a tweak, they thought.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

From connected cars, iPhone-controlled locks (versions of which here, here, and here are in or close to production), to the hypothetical "smart fridge" that will one day order milk for me when I''ve run out, these technologies bring with them the promise of energy efficiency, convenience, and flexibility.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. We also found that a focus on innovation tends to go hand in hand with longer-term time horizons.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Embrace technology and make collaboration a way of doing business. They were first to experience a wireless, connected world, and according to a PwC report , they “expect the technologies that empower their personal lives to also drive communication and innovation in the workplace.” Millennials are digital natives.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

Systems conceived and built 50-60 years ago should be reimagined for the 20 th century, whether high speed trains, innovative public transit, or technology-enabled roads and vehicles that tap the potential of sensors, smartphones, wireless networks, and Big Data for greener, cleaner, more efficient mobility.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. Technology solutions that help accelerate improvements of Zimbabwe’s decaying infrastructure will also be in high demand.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

This confusion is most apparent in the area of software, where very often the hard transition from the prototype (often little more than a rough idea) to the stably implemented mass-user system tends to be romanticized away. In fact, the costs of developing seminal software algorithms continue to rise, too. But it's not stopping there.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

People were asked about GM products, upholstery textures, colors, vehicle designs, and technology, and their feedback was incorporated into GM vehicles. How technology is changing the way we work. Weaver’s staff sent three million mailings a year to GM and non-GM customers, achieving a remarkable 25% response rate.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

After using it for a few days I bought a wireless keyboard. Technologies that connect people to knowledge, services, and one another across the globe have acted as a centrifugal force, spinning functions and authority away from the center toward millions of previously silent and disempowered individuals.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

3M was awarded the US government''s highest award for innovation, the National Medal of Technology. Fry applied for and received funding to develop a product based on Silver''s accidental discovery. Innovative companies create systems, structures, and work environments to encourage resourcefulness and initiative.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Their technology and products lag Apple and the Android ecosystem. It is from the app store on which external developers create value. Microsoft has gotten excellent reviews for the technology in its new phones, but it is the ability to create a successful platform that will determine its ultimate success. "We

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

The rise of big data is an exciting — if in some cases scary — development for business. Together with the complementary technology forces of social, mobile, the cloud, and unified communications, big data brings countless new opportunities for learning about customers and their wants and needs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2013

What''s more, this is the kind of big data that comes with analysis: The wearable technology uses code and insights from IBM analytics teams to crunch your data and offer algorithm-generated recommendations on how users might improve personal decisions on diet and exercise to optimize health. million data points in a work day.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces.

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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

The lower reimbursement and need to provide 24/7 coverage that makes a primary-care-based system so appealing to policy makers and others has long been shown to be a source of burnout and challenges in getting medical students to choose careers in primary care. The last thing that this group of providers desires is more responsibility.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

AT&T, for example, had to switch its focus from traditional telecom services to wireless services, and this shift required employees with different skill sets. ” CEOs also worried about whether their high potential employees were being properly developed. One area that proved especially challenging was mobility.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

The iPhone roared into the marketplace 10 years ago today, and overwhelmed the wireless world. Wireless is the same, but without the cat. The system worked. In 1925 Hoover offered that the system was enabling a “vastly increasing number of messages” to be “kept upon the air without destroying each other.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

billion cell phone users around the globe, and 90 percent of the world's population is covered by a commercial wireless signal. In a world with severe healthcare resource constraints, mobile digital technology can be a major " force multiplier." I just spent a week in Barcelona at the annual gathering of the wireless industry.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2017

Not least in the online search abilities, speech and translation features, and image recognition technology of my employer, Alphabet. Whatever hype businesspeople read around AI — and there is a great deal — the intentions and actions of so many players should alert them to the fundamental importance of this new technology.

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