Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Today’s C-level executives understand peripheral management of their critical applications, data systems, and shared services is not an effective, efficient, secure, or financially-feasible effort and require more robust, permanent solutions for assimilation into their BPM. Process Automaton.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Competitive advantage, not information, is power. Now, I don’t want anyone to think that I don’t value information technology. That meant making the call without all of the information, and not fretting about it, but being glad of it. Leaders and managers who work in these industries need all of the information.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 8, 2016

In an effort to improve the financial viability of the remaining nuclear fleet, industry executives launched the Delivering the Nuclear Promise initiative; challenging employees and vendors to identify innovative ways to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and raise revenues while maintaining operational safety and reliability.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

So why, despite all the evidence to the contrary, do we see so many corporations dip their toes into the pool of innovation instead of diving in? Corporate innovation is already a difficult proposition; why doom it to failure by pursuing it half-heartedly? With the right approach, innovation at a big company is realistic.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

job market troubles of the past decade than new technology had. But I couldn’t help but fixate on that information-technology chart, which seemed to show corporate America giving up on IT. Or maybe modern information technology just keeps getting cheaper. Economy Information & technology Internet'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

So why, despite all the evidence to the contrary, do we see so many corporations dip their toes into the pool of innovation instead of diving in? Corporate innovation is already a difficult proposition; why doom it to failure by pursuing it half-heartedly? With the right approach, innovation at a big company is realistic.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2017

They are also more efficient so they get the job done faster using fewer resources. If your business is associated with technology then you need to provide training on the latest technological developments – see programs relating to technology. Information technology skills are highly relevant to any business.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

I''m often struck by how many articles exclusively focus on new or emerging technology and their productivity or efficiency effects. Every discussion on the role of IT and CIOs should start with the question: "What are the potential uses of this technology that will guarantee we stay in business?" Generating Top-Line Growth.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

While Gordon’s argument is often characterized as being the opposite of the one I have made in my two books about the impact of advancing automation technology on the job market (most recently, Rise of the Robots ), there are many areas in which I think we would agree. This is certainly true. Many economists would probably agree.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2013

Perhaps the most exciting (and challenging) aspect of working in a progressive IT organization is the pace of technological change. Managing this rapid change and fostering innovation while "keeping the trains running on time" is the primary leadership role required of any CIO, new or old. Generate Room for Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Just as America''s visa rules enabled the rapid growth of India''s information-technology companies over the last two decades, the Obama Administration''s recent drive to reform immigration regulations could prove to be a turning point for them. In the same way, India''s information technology giants must bite the bullet today.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

“Technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace and this milestone allows federal regulations and the use of our national airspace to evolve to safely accommodate innovation,” Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said in a press release that accompanied the announcement.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to CIO Dieter Haban , whose team identified the idea and led product development, “the innovation combines telematics, mobility, central mission control, big data analytics, and a seamless process from the truck to the driver, fleet manager, and ultimately to an authorized service outlet.”. But the savings go beyond efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to CIO Dieter Haban , whose team identified the idea and led product development, “the innovation combines telematics, mobility, central mission control, big data analytics, and a seamless process from the truck to the driver, fleet manager, and ultimately to an authorized service outlet.”. But the savings go beyond efficiency.

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Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Innovative products like fitness trackers and Google’s Nest thermostats are demonstrating the potential for both consumers and enterprises. Early adopters in these verticals are using the IoT to pioneer new product areas and to find efficiencies that save money or reduce demand for resources. Information & technology Internet'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. But in a different sense, the health care system is starved for innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit. Here, then, is the conundrum.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

Among health care leadership, it can have the unintended effect of promoting inaction over change and innovation. Access to data and information will improve health care by facilitating deductive problem solving—the mother of innovation. This process sounds simple, but it will bring astounding efficiency gains.

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Health Care Information Technology Learning-by-Doing Information 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

Once a realm defined by its creative expression, trade shows, and glossy literature, marketing has instead become the place in the organization that pulls together all of the information necessary to find, sell to, and serve the customer effectively and efficiently. Starving IT of budget takes a heavy toll on innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

It is also impossible to maintain consistency and efficiency when independent groups all pursue analytics in their own way. Information & technology Leadership' Who will champion enterprise-level analysis as opposed to business unit–level analysis?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. As The Economist notes, “people do not just buy something because it provides the most efficient solution to a problem. There is no paradox.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

Four dynamics are driving this new era of health care innovation: Finally, there is a financial incentive to innovate. RxAnte , Evolent , and Humedica are just three of the many new companies seizing the opportunity to help old players comply with new policy standards that focus on improving outcomes and efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

What makes the conversations exciting is the richness of the innovative ideas and the prospect that they might actually get to try them. These are the kinds of ideas you’ll see in the “From the Frontlines” articles in the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center that HBR and the New England Journal of Medicine are hosting.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

In the game of innovation, there is next to no time to rest. Packaged food companies like Kraft and Pepsi use their scale to penetrate markets quickly and efficiently. In the past three decades, managers have embraced off-shoring, outsourcing, and open innovation. Minimum efficient scale is getting smaller and smaller.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

What the cloud does is make the technology-supply side more efficient and perhaps more agile. It may even lead to access to leading-edge technologies. IT management Information & technology' Of course not! Because the problems with enterprise IT have generally nothing to do with IT. They never have!

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

This could include specialized staff, such as nurses and junior doctors trained to research and identify clinical trials and therapy options, as well as technology that can automate the search process much as has been done with legal discovery. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Build a learning medical information ecosystem.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. We need to strike back and employing Health Information Technology, in the form of electronic health records (EHRs) is an excellent place to start the battle.

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Health Care Film Incentives Information Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Drawing on a conference he organized on how the US legal system could be changed to better promote entrepreneurship, Litan points out that the scholarship of law and economics "has been largely about what economists call 'static efficiency' rather than 'dynamic efficiency' or growth." But that's no longer the challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

But that is about to change, as big data and the ability to crunch it will deliver actionable insights that will increase health care’s reach, efficiency, accuracy, and value. Operationalize digital innovations while focusing on effective change management to ensure buy- in from clinical and non-clinical staff.

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Health Care Content Power GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Avis has taken an interesting (and bold) step by acquiring Zipcar, absorbing an innovative but struggling competitor at what is likely to be seen as a bargain price while acquiring a small but desirable customer base and gaining a foothold in the rapidly growing world of collaborative consumption.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

As GHDonline’s rapid growth and success have demonstrated, they can indeed be a valuable tool for improving the efficiency, quality, and the ultimate value of health care delivery. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. Leading Health Care Innovation. The Launch.

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Globalization Health Care Information Technology Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2017

Jim Fowler and Jeff Smith talked about peripheral vision in relation to the chief information officer role (Fowler is currently CIO at General Electric, and Smith was formerly CIO at IBM). They’re much less likely to get blindsided by the changes around them. Leadership as service.

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Execution CIO Chief Information Officer Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Leadership is uplifting, they imply, while management is boring — just a bunch of rigid bureaucrats spinning red tape, or emphasizing efficiency over effectiveness. They care about efficiency. But my work with numerous top executives shows that this is a false choice. Great leaders also have managerial inclinations.

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Management Real Estate Information Technology Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Decomposing China’s GDP growth over the last three decades, we assessed the drivers behind it such as labor, capital, and total factor productivity (TFP), which is a more precise measure of efficiency in the use of inputs other than labor and capital. China, too, needs more technological innovation.

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GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

New financial innovations enabled both historic global economic growth and cascading global financial failures. And efficiency in pursuit of decision reached without rigor is just doing the wrong things more quickly. Efficiency People’s time is a valuable commodity not to be wasted. About the Author.

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Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Business model innovation is hard. There is another way to make money from business model innovation. To many people, this kind of change doesn’t feel like it’s real business model innovation. For over a century, General Electric has had a focus on product innovation as a key driver of growth. Why is that?

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Business Model Insurance Technology Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2016

Social purpose is continuing to evolve from a philanthropic niche to a key part of core business strategy, and this shift presents unique opportunities for technology companies, in particular. The next wave of technology innovation will require a paradigm shift — one that builds social purpose into the activities of our everyday lives.

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