Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

That's because customers are your most credible and persuasive marketing and sales resources — much more knowledgeable about buyers' needs, and much less expensive than the resources you're probably currently using to grow your business. A primary goal of Big Data must be to show you this potential, and to record it as it's realized.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

First, senior management should decide on the business goal for an analytics initiative and the key performance indicators to track that will put them on the right path toward success. The retailer example mentioned above used root cause analysis to answer the question around what factors contributed to an unsuccessful marketing promotion.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2014

Recently I’ve been having a very hard time talking to students, executives, and business leaders about information technology. The Great Recession forced these firms’ leaders to recognize technology’s role in driving value. This new leadership role is captured in the emerging title of chief business technology officer.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

The same study found that identifying people with the right skills in a rapidly changing market is the top issue impacting recruiting. But it’s not just technology and markets that are changing—workers are changing too. Read more from Korn Ferry: How Organizations Can Thrive in the Digital Economy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

IT is already being asked both to industrialize traditional infrastructures and systems fast to save costs, and to innovate customer experiences and operations with new digital technologies. It requires strong leadership from all senior IT executives, as well as new business acumen. They drive innovation and speed up time to market.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

With the pace of digital “always on” streaming devices and technology innovation accelerating, one might think technology would continue to pose a challenge for businesses. risk models to predict consumer risk to default), segment consumer behavior in an optimized, market friendly fashion (e.g.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Both examples fit the conversation that should be going on in the C-suite, but isn''t, because it makes people nervous, and because people lose visibility and perspective of what is changing around them as they focus on their goals. Not only are there new systems, business and delivery models, types of information, technologies, etc.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

will require aligned goals and supporting systems to manage work between partners. To keep such a multiparty system from degenerating into chaos, virtual process teams must have aligned goals and support systems. They stand on the shoulders of the methods of "Process Strategy 1.0": Lean , Six Sigma , and Business Reengineering.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

But the public sector cannot fully exploit Big Data without leadership from the private sector. The technology required for real-time analysis of Big Data is so new that even the private sector is struggling to learn how to use it effectively to bolster profits. Society as a whole benefits from applications like these.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

By the 1990s, IBM had become the go-to provider of enterprise information technology — hardware, software, and systems integration — for large and midsized businesses. IBM’s Emerging Business Opportunities (EBO) process provides cover for experimental business units targeting embryonic markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

But the public sector cannot fully exploit Big Data without leadership from the private sector. The technology required for real-time analysis of Big Data is so new that even the private sector is struggling to learn how to use it effectively to bolster profits. Society as a whole benefits from applications like these.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2011

We focused on the generations in eight countries, including the four BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), some of the most important markets for talent over the next decade, as well as one country from the Middle East. In many cases, leadership demanded compliance, promoting risk-aversion and compliance, rather than respect.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

Effective leadership and management across these areas is possible, but not without without providing CIOs with the proper support structures and instituting necessary organizational alignment. Match the CIO reporting structure to the strategic goals of the organization. IT management Information & technology Organizational culture'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

There’s a demand for this type of information, and thus product and market opportunities, but in an information services marketplace where people want everything for nothing, it is not easy to monetize information products. Information & technology Leadership' In short, from many to one to many.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

That breakthrough is value-based care, the goal of which is to lower health care costs and improve quality and outcomes. The goal of value-based care is to fix that. Military Leadership Lessons for Training Doctors. It will eventually affect every patient across the United States. Others must, too. We all know that U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

In these cases Rwanda had eroded assets, but there was a foundation and a proof point, a market test that these areas could be successful and they could be competitive. Rwanda is winning international awards and marketing globally, and tourism is booming. Working together for a common goal that is theirs. How do we upgrade?

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