Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

It’s no secret that most companies value leadership over just about anything else. However, in my experience, there’s another component more important than strong leadership—an element that rarely gets the spotlight, because it’s all about not stepping into the spotlight. That’s not to say leadership isn’t important.

Leadership 50

Leadership Early Adopters Follow-up Long-term 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

When it is eventually launched in the market, there is an initial flurry of sales to early adopters, but then sales cycles become sluggish. Pilot customers are enthusiastic, but broader adoption is slow even with customer support and training. Shifts in mental models go deeper than traditional thought leadership.

Productivity 14

Productivity Products Software Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

It’s poised to revolutionize the way we do business and everyone in a leadership role should be thinking about it. Our particular interest in this type of machine learning involves training NLP on news datasets to predict how global events can affect the trajectories of companies.

How To 8

How To Technology Learning-by-Doing Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 In fact, BMW’s greatest co-innovation success, 12 years earlier, had been in a “venture client” relationship with an early stage startup: Mobileye, now a leader in collision-avoidance technology.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Even the most sophisticated psychometrics and people analytics have yet to make leadership development more science than art. I’ve found no better diagnostic for promoting authentic revelations around personal leadership style and substance. The lead-by-example stories executives tell sharpen their leadership brand propositions.

Examples 13

Examples Charisma Self-aware Mission Statement 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Cross-border flows of digitally transmitted data have grown manifold, accounting for more than one-third of the increase in global GDP in 2014, even as the free-flow of goods and services and cross-border capital have ebbed in the aftermath of the 2008 recession. higher than a year earlier. Mapping Digital Momentum Around the World.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

I’d like to discuss three BIDMC big-data applications that required both technical expertise and leadership — and that have helped our patients, including my family and me. To launch I2B2, the leaders of that effort assembled a coalition of senior IT people, throughout Harvard’s hospitals, who became early adopters.

Health Care 8

Health Care Chief Information Officer Committee Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Culture is about societal norms, communication preferences, and global outlook. At the organizational level, this includes which leadership styles are most effective, and how workers interact with each other. An organization needs to genuinely understand and relate to its customers and its employees before it can engage them.

B2C 15

B2C Early Adopters B2B How To 15