HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

For every 100 men promoted to manager, only 85 women were promoted. . Computer and information systems managers. Also known as information technology managers, such professionals devise, coordinate, implement, and analyze computer-related projects. Female IT managers earn a median annual income of $89,804.

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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. All business (for profit or not) provide goods, services, or intellectual property/capital to a market (or markets) for some form of consideration.

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Cooperperson

DECEMBER 11, 2017

People who are in professions like Information Technology, Finance, Accounting, and Engineering tend to be analytic, cautious, conscientious and describe themselves as introverts. Sometimes you may see a small group of people gather who keep their circle tight and send off unwelcoming vibes. This makes for poor networking.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Previous to our technological advancements, the only way businesses could manage their multiple consumer platforms, numerous transactional tasks, and recover from data emergencies was to outsource to a variety of vendors. Here are three key strategies any business can adopt in the coming year to boost profitability: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. Their strategic use of information technology (IT) presaged the dot.com boom of the 1990s when the Internet made this kind of online ordering commonplace.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

You’d think that increasingly sophisticated technology would help reduce this waste. For example, the finance department approves what to buy, facilities maintains equipment, HR tells employees how to conserve energy, and marketing manages the company’s corporate sustainability reporting.

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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

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

OCTOBER 30, 2012

That's because information technology — not just the Internet, but also mobile devices, " big data " for intensive data-crunching, and other computer hardware and software — will render even some of today's most proficient business processes obsolete by the end of the decade. I see three big opportunities: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

” Is management research a folly? There can be little doubt that a lot of activity goes into management research: according to the Web of Knowledge, over 8,000 articles are published every year in the 170+ journals in the field of “Management,” adding more and more new rooms.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. Second, that GE had a technology advantage in complex industries, and that its technologies could be shared across its businesses. Silicon Valley and the rise of information technology.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Closely related to Sales Linguistics is the accelerated trend of sales force language specialization based upon the following strategies: Industry verticalization focus (finance, government, retail, etc.) Your solution might be purchased by the information technology department and used by accounting and human resources.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

But with the rapid implementation of electronic health records (EHRs), CNOs are now expected to master new trends in health care information technologies to engage hospital leaders in strategic discussions about major technology investments. This problem is not limited to top management, however. The list goes on and on.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. Part of the problem may be in the backgrounds that companies desired: 85% of COOs had experience in operations, strategy, or finance. What role does he or she play in the organization?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Managers who aren’t data savvy, who can’t conduct basic analyses, interpret more complex ones, and interact with data scientists are already at a disadvantage. Companies without a large and growing cadre of data-savvy managers are similarly disadvantaged. Information & technology Managing yourself'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

A different survey , which ranked employees by level of seniority as opposed to age, found that senior leaders were worse than lower-ranking managers when it came to data security. Generational issues Information & technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. Because no one is managing the store. The explosive growth of information is accelerating. That''s a lot of money for digging through old e-mail. How did we get here?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

The immense promise of big data to reveal new opportunities and deliver practical business results has so far been focused on technologies and models, and less on the human challenges of staffing roles and processes to take advantage of big data’s promise. The study also found a looming need for over 1.5

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

One of the reasons analytics is working for the companies in this select group is because they tend to deploy analytics technologies and expertise across the breadth of the enterprise. Once CoE is created, the pod teams should perform root cause analyses to support the performance management process. Make collaborative decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

But ongoing changes in policy, technology, and industry culture are now creating unprecedented opportunities for those with just the right kind of crazy. Top-tier thinkers from data science, business, finance, and the digital world are coming together to find new solutions. Consumer technology offers direct access to patients.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

AlphaGo’s success is emblematic of a broader trend: An explosion of data and advances in algorithms have made technology smarter than ever before. In addition to executing well-defined tasks, technology is starting to address broader, more ambiguous problems. Remember Long-Term Capital Management ?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

While M&A may improve the efficiency of shared services such as human resources and finance, it may actually make it more difficult to improve the coordination of care. The web-based information system can deliver Mayo’s clinical knowledge to desktop computers or mobile devices. But consolidation does not ensure integration.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

But does your manager's manager know what you've done recently? I can name several times in my own career when my manager's immediate superior was a key factor. Ask you manager first, and then ask if his boss might have more suggestions. What does he think of you? Increase your overall exposure.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners , just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors. Combine a lone technical genius with a mesmerizing sales guy and you had the DNA for a billion dollar technology company. The formula worked. But times change.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners , just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors. Combine a lone technical genius with a mesmerizing sales guy and you had the DNA for a billion dollar technology company. The formula worked. But times change.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

Who, for instance, would have guessed that global NGOs spend nearly 80% more to track their finances and employ nearly twice as many finance staff as comparable for-profit multinationals? In time, corporations learned to build the administrative and technical infrastructure needed to manage their sprawling operations.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Most executives I talk to understand very well that digital technologies are permeating nearly every function of nearly every business. But digital technologies are no more strategies than electric power, telephone communications, or any other advanced technology. And yet many fall prey to two harmful myths. So forget the myth.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Most managers readily admit that their organizations’ databases are rife with errors that add time and expense to day-in, day-out work. Data quality problems bedevil managers in every industry, company, business unit, department, and process. Data Information & technology Decision making'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

In fact, that exact conclusion is one that Thierry Breton, CEO of the France-based information technology services firm Atos Origin, arrived at several years ago. ” That statement seems surprising coming from the CEO of a technology company employing over 70,000 people in more than forty offices around the world.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Instead they are waiting for the technology to mature and for expertise in AI to become more widely available. They are planning to be “fast followers” — a strategy that has worked with most information technologies. We think this is a bad idea. System Development Time. System Development Time.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection." This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention. In the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The chief financial officer (CFO) role rose to prominence in the mid -1980’s as pressures for value management and more transparent investor relations gained traction. Today, as the power of data and analytics profoundly alters the business landscape, companies once again may need more top-management muscle. Mobilizing resources.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

My team would have people with deep functional knowledge and skills (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, and information technology) to align surrounding processes. The issue I see is that HR management spends a lot of time on the transactions it must oversee (paychecks, health insurance claims, etc.),

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

Baruch Lev teaches accounting and finance at NYU's Stern School of Business. Managers clearly have to respond to regain investors' trust. In the final analysis, managers can't shun corporate owners. As I show in my book, successful managers, like those engineering the turnarounds at IBM and Deere and Co., Ask Solyndra.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The best paid jobs of 2019 are in healthcare, information technology, data analytics, finance, engineering, and law ( see infographic below ). With the emergence of deep learning and AI , a breed of information specialists known as data analysts is facing a great demand too.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

To test commercial opportunities in this environment, a number of entrepreneurs are creating personal analytics tools to help citizens make better decisions about health providers, disease management, and even personal finances related to healthcare. Entrepreneurship Government Information & technology'

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