Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

True, they pioneered the creative use of technology to open up flexible new ways of renting a car. Reputation systems and active supplier screening maintain quality, and the need for insurance keeps customers from bypassing the marketplaces. Sadly, the Zipcar culture may not survive the merger.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Powered by online technologies, they are sweeping across the economic landscape, striking down companies large and small. The businesses most at risk from platforms powered by rapidly improving online technologies aren’t, in fact, traditional businesses that sell products and services to consumers.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

This article is the first of a series I am preparing in collaboration with Dick Steele , a Board Member of The Deming Institute, to offer our thoughts on the legendary Toyota Production System and its connection to the management system within Toyota and how it was inspired by Dr. Deming. Figure 1 – Production Viewed as a System.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Instead, the common belief today is that the best applications of AI and automation will be very much a joint affair, with humans doing what humans continue to do best, and technology doing what technology does best. Task management. Kasparov’s law. What automation is possible?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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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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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2020

Business equipment, whether computers, cloud storage systems or freight shipping trucks, are always an investment that is worth it. A lot of the time, companies try to stick to the systems and tools they are used to as it saves them needing to retrain their employees. But only if you know how to use it. Innovative Appearance.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Consider Google’s Nest or Schlage’s digital locks or smartphone-controlled home lighting systems. As cognitive scientists put it things like hammers became a part of the body’s “extended periphery” and are “functionally a component of the [subjects’] smoothly coping IDS.”. Information & technology Internet Technology'

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Listening to the breathless commentary surrounding technologies such as AI and robotics and one could be minded to believe that technology is transforming life as we know it on a scale never seen before. The need to disseminate technology. in 2013, compared to 2.5% in 1992. in 2013, compared to 2.5%

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

It wasn’t until 1840 that the Royal Mail switched to a system in which postage was prepaid by the sender. I stopped expecting a human brain to solve a problem created by technology. I finally accepted that this was a technology problem that required a technological solution. Setting up elaborate folder systems.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Normal” leadership is a complex system of behaviors that can tolerate a lot of little mistakes. In my book, I recount an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? Extraordinary leadership cannot.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

Our field research showed that some traditional physical stores were rapidly blending the best of physical, web, and mobile to serve their customers, while others were simply being hammered by the growth of e-commerce. We thought getting data would be pretty easy. The Census Bureau has reports galore on e-commerce, broken down by industry.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Those in Clinton’s camp include the venerable Aspen Institute, which produced a 2009 call to arms arguing that corporations’ short-term objectives corrode the “foundation of the American free enterprise system.” ” A Review of Relevant Studies. .” ” A Review of Relevant Studies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

In Davos we had a bunch of hardcore mainstream investors explore whether social impact bonds to combat childhood obesity could fit into their investment strategy — because with childhood obesity, 20 years down the line you have huge drain on the health system, you can therefore monetize the cost. We don’t want to go there.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

They try to institutionalize process improvement — that is, put in place the right mechanisms in their management systems so that their business processes don't become grossly unproductive in the future. Most missionaries of the BPM religion come from a heritage in information technology.

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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Nineteen days later, as rescue crews grew desperate, a 24-year-old field engineer named Igor Proestakis decided to travel to the site with what he hoped was a breakthrough idea: using a particular drilling technology, called cluster hammers, to cut through the collapsed rock. And why shouldn’t they?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Shiller hammered away on this point in the ‘80s, and in fact Fama also published some of the same observations. That is, potentially amazing technology if you can only figure out how it works. They tend to be followed by declining prices. He didn’t want a behavioral explanation. Lars is famous for that. Absolutely.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

They are also discussing ways to prevent China from forcing Western companies to transfer technology to Chinese firms. Introduce a system of escalating administrative sanctions that would reduce the offending member’s influence in the WTO and its access to information. Forced technology transfers and theft.

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