Leading Blog

MARCH 29, 2013

Importantly, “That perspective enables us to rein in our smartness and harness it to serve a larger purpose in an ethical and appropriate manner.” In early 2000, while awaiting the court decision in the antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft, Bill Gates decided to step down as chief executive and focus on his passion for software.

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Crisis Workshop Short-term Business Model 285

Skip Prichard

MARCH 13, 2020

If we manage the growth of smart automation properly, and plan for it adequately, it can be relatively painless. Jobs most at risk: machine operators and assemblers, clerical workers, elementary occupations, crafts and related trades. meaning that they can already perform key business management functions.

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Blanchard Education CTO Technology 101

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 24, 2021

As with so many policies, for this to be effective, it’s vital that senior managers lead by example. The authors argue that such policies need to be adopted by most parents to be effective, with men and women alike taking their leave.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 13, 2021

All this data is essential for maintaining your business operations and keeping customers happy, and it has become an integral asset for companies, big and small, all over the world. But without proper data management practices, you are putting your business at great risk. Be compliant. Collect and use data sensitively.

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Tips Management Compliance Software 120

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

This means that many organizations and their leaders are running as fast as they can to quickly build their software capabilities. CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 5, 2024

Hackers, cybercriminals, and even disgruntled employees constantly threaten business operations. They exploit network, software, and infrastructure vulnerabilities to gain unauthorized access or disrupt services. Mitigating Diverse Threats In today’s interconnected world, cyber threats can come from anywhere and target anyone.

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Compliance Reputation Diversity Innovation 110

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Great leaders often align their leadership values with personal beliefs and ethics of their own. Unlike a business, your personal brand doesn't have hours of operation, it simply is 24/7/365. I have a documented track record of business development, operational planning, and leadership. Czar "I rescue troubled companies.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

Leaders of many companies — in industries ranging from contract manufacturing, and software services to consulting and health care — tell us the same thing: “We want to move up the value chain.” make your own operations more efficient. create the opportunity to invent new operations. New operations.

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Supply Chain Contract Manufacturing Outsourcing Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

The good news, from a competitive standpoint, is that most people have turned their brain over to bad software, resulting in the all-too-familiar “death by PowerPoint.” For example, the original Google car found it hard to compute the context within which it was operating.

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Skills Morale Ethics System 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

For example, I manage the finances for a team that travels very often, and I’ve been grateful for the intelligent guesswork that my expenses software extracts from receipts using machine learning: the merchant’s name, the dollar amount spent, taxes, and likely expense categorization. Insight Center. Adopting AI.

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Learning-by-Doing Software Technology Travel 11

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Precision made it easy for managers to oversee their employees. Every spot on every line was visible to managers. But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. These stats were reviewed by managers every week.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own. Patience and a long-term view.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Before long, we’ll stop referring to the underlying technologies involved — including lasers, radar, cameras, embedded sensors, and advanced machine learning software — in terms of what they’re replacing. It’s not just the rules of the road that will be affected by driverless cars. traffic deaths.

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Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Kalanick and other top executives signal by example what is and is not acceptable behavior, and they are clearly responsible for the company’s ethically and legally questionable decisions and practices. But by the company’s launch, in 2010, most urban taxi fleets used modern dispatch with GPS, plus custom hardware and software.

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Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2018

With companies like Affectiva , BeyondVerbal and Sensay providing plug-and-play sentiment analysis software, the affective computing market is estimated to grow to $41 billion by 2022 , as firms like Amazon , Google , Facebook , and Apple race to decode their users’ emotions. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Self-aware Analysis Automotive System 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

As the president of Almond China, he wanted to show his Chongqing colleagues how much he cared about the topic under discussion: ethical business practices. The two went way back: Both had been with their German parent company, Almond Chemical, since 1999, when it first established operations in China. listed companies. Ho continued.

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Case Study Chemicals Ethics Finance 11

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. Performance problems should be managed fairly and with little judgment of the person’s underlying character, unless that is the issue at the root of the trouble.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Does a robot manage your money? A study by Deloitte estimated that “assets under automated management” (including hybrid offerings) in the U.S. This would represent between 10% and 15% of total retail financial assets under management. Kearney predicts that assets under “robo-management” will total $2.2

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Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs. To that end, they decided to have a team study how care is delivered, identify the barriers to smooth operations, and fix the barriers. It was fully integrated into emergency room operations at St.

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Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. Performance problems should be managed fairly and with little judgment of the person’s underlying character, unless that is the issue at the root of the trouble.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Manager, Operations. Manager, Operations. To: Ioana Romana, VP Operations. I can do the job of just about anyone in the factory and can work most of the software the engineering guys use. He’s part of my operations team now, and he hopes to transition to a management position. They loved you!

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Case Study Engineering Commitment Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

His skills and work ethic suggest that it would be reasonable to assume he could have been a world-class ice hockey player if he had dedicated himself to the sport as a youth. But a range of research has shown how successful entrepreneurs generally act differently from successful operators.*. That's no dig on James.

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Sports Christensen Innovation Class 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis. It has also abandoned other initiatives, and that’s equally important in managing innovation in a corporate context.

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Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

He carries the intriguing title of Professor of the Philosophy and Ethics of information at the University of Oxford implying that the revolution is as much about issues of morality, identity and meaning as it is about technology. A self-driving car is magic until the operating system freezes. There lies the rub, or at least one rub.

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Drucker Technology Efficiency Software 8

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. Intuit develops financial and tax preparation software for small business, accountants and the general public.

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Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Any manager who has ever tried to shift organizational behaviors by rolling out a new piece of software knows this well. To modify the Peter Drucker quote, "Culture eats tools for breakfast" — if you don't understand the culture you're operating in, creating change will be an uphill battle. Creating change is hard.

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Metrics Education Software Tools 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

If you are an operating systems software engineer who spends even part of the day working on her great idea for a new video game, you should be collecting unemployment. If, and it is a big if, you can manage that, then great. If your passion for creating something new is that all encompassing, then quit and go pursue it.

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Project PR Career Creativity 12

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. Do we still take band-aid approaches (such as buying enterprise software)? How much further should we extend ethics? The recent years succeeded in exploding a great many myths and presumptions about business.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

We just bought a piece of computer software. That was caused by previous management. Ethics and standards… those are for chumps. Not engaging in planning for future operations: So what are you gonna do about it? Learn to manage change, rather than become a victim of it. Just took a vacation. Do research.

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Budgeting Quality Risk Management Strategic Planning 79

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

Every astute organization assesses the status of each branch on its Business Tree™ and orients its management and team members to meet constant changes and fluctuations. As companies operate, all make honest and predictable mistakes. Reliance upon many of these management tenets subsequently brought Enron and many others down.

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Self-aware System Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Employers find this type of response a reflection of one’s work ethic and performance. This online tool allows any individual to create a mobile application for uploading to any operating system including Android, Apple, BlackBerry, and Windows. LinkedIn SlideShare: www.slideshare.net.

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Tools Document Restructuring Software 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 17, 2015

Every astute organization assesses the status of each branch on its Business Tree™ and orients its management and team members to meet constant changes and fluctuations. As companies operate, all make honest and predictable mistakes. Reliance upon many of these management tenets subsequently brought Enron and many others down.

Self-aware 50

Self-aware System Open-book Learning-by-Doing 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 4, 2011

Every astute organization assesses the status of each branch on its Business Tree TM and orients its management and team members to meet constant changes and fluctuations. As companies operate, all make honest and predictable mistakes. Reliance upon many of these management tenets subsequently brought Enron and many others down.

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Bottom-up System Learning-by-Doing Execution 59

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Remember the public shaming – and heavy sentences — heaped on Enron and Worldcom for their accounting (and more importantly, ethical) failures? The understandable growth of risk management functions and their ascendancy in influencing strategy is important, but only part of the story here. It’s not surprising.

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Benchmarking Company Short-term Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

In a wide range of industries — electronics, software, toys, aerospace — provenance is increasingly a critical concern. Global operations need consistent global standards. Bad headlines about foreign operations tell consumers, “This company still can’t be trusted.” Answer: Appalling.

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Supply Chain Reputation Brand Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

It’s now done by economists, data engineers, IT operatives, and anyone who has access to the data. It also migrated outside the firm to an ever-growing crowd of vendors who offer enticing claims about the benefits of their prediction software. Human resources Information & technology Talent management'

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Succession Human Resources Information Technology Software 10