Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The cognitive and emotional demands on managers have rarely been more complicated or intense. Protecting their mental health has become a self-preservation priority for managers. Growing numbers of managers worldwide know they need help. Denys Argyriou/unsplash. Distracted? Overwhelmed? Arianna Huffington counsels more sleep.

Stress 8

Stress Self-aware Software Emotional Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Having founded a data management company and worked with hundreds of organizations over the past 20 years to execute their information management and analytics initiatives, I’ve found the groups that are able to successfully utilize their company’s analytics technologies often take the following approaches: Build a team.

Team 8

Team Compliance Supply Chain Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Factor in new types of information management. Engagement systems are powered by business rules and complex event processing engines. Experiential and personal fulfillment systems will power the next waves of innovation. Transactional systems narrowly focus on departmental and corporate networks.

Directory 15

Directory System Media Video 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

But Brennan opened the door on some current management difficulties at the $3 billion information management company he runs. But he believes that too many of his managers still operate in a " command-and-control reflex." But he acknowledges the difficulty: "I'm interviewing people for positions of power.

Delegation 15

Delegation Self-aware Drucker Middle Management 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

To answer that question Ned Wellman of Arizona State University, Maddy Ong and Scott DeRue of the University of Michigan, and I conducted three studies to examine whether the whistleblower’s level of legitimate power (i.e., whether that person is a formal leader or a peer) influences how others respond to his or her actions.

Morale 9

Morale Participative Follow-up Document 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

The old way was information management; the new way is information intelligence. The old way was IT systems management; the new way is platforms that enable new value chains and integrated ecosystems. The old way was cost management; the new way is driving business transformation and accelerating growth.

CIO 8

CIO Innovation Technology Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

In my work in competitive intelligence I have met many managers and executives who made major decisions involving billions of dollars of commitments with only scant attention to the likely reaction of competitors, the effect of potential disruptors, new approaches offered by startups and the impact of long-term industry trends.

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Company Drucker Review 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

Automattic Inc, the parent company behind Wordpress, the leading platform for powering blogs is a company that is 100% distributed. While there are many cultural issues that allow Automattic to manage and thrive with this distributed model, it is fundamentally challenging the key assumption regarding physical presence of employment.

Business Model 8

Business Model Meyer Airlines Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2016

Across industries, staff such as retail category managers, sales representatives, financial advisers, and wealth managers are awash with reports and insights that comfort their companies’ top executives and by making them feel that they are leading a “customer-centric” organization. What made the difference?

Retail 8

Retail Banking Chief Information Officer Report 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

But do their methods of idea-spreading apply to the office-dweller, the organizational citizen, the manager or executive? To illustrate, let me introduce Samantha Joseph, who works for Iron Mountain Incorporated , a leader in records storage and information management services. One-on-one validation is a powerful metric.

Organization 11

Organization Tips Metrics Entrepreneur 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

These and many other feats of information management will soon be routine in the United States. When your elderly mother moves from a hospital to a rehabilitation center, the nurses and doctors there know all about her before she arrives: all in the computer. Indeed, in some places they are already happening.

Health Care 8

Health Care Travel Software System 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

Couple the lack of transparency of marketing generally with the shock of new technology, and you get anxiety over information use that increasingly translates into calls for legislation or regulatory intervention. Legal solutions are by their nature blunt instruments for managing uncertainty. I shouldn''t be flippant.

Morale 8

Morale Learning-by-Doing Technology Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2011

Services, strengthened by the acquisition of EDS several years ago, are both a blessing and a curse: While EDS has many lucrative deals, it also has time-intensive and costly outsourcing deals to manage. Probably the most powerful decision HP could make to shift its revenue mix would be to transform its consumer business into a subsidiary.

Software 12

Software Technology Intellectual Capital Marketing 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2013

Over the next two years, this change in how sales people interact with customers will redefine what the product content will be, how the sales staff will use a new CRM platform to record visits online, and how new insights will be derived from these interactions across sales, marketing, and brand management — ultimately driving decisions.

Organization 8

Organization CIO Compliance CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

There is a fascinating relationship between executives and the stock prices of the companies they manage. Next, compare the expectations of the market with those of management. Gaps between those sets of expectations supply management with a basis for decision making. HBR's 90th Anniversary: Why Management Matters.

Price 8

Price Analysis Cost of Capital Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

It’s not that we lack powerful ways to approach strategy; it’s that we lack a robust way to select the right ones for the right circumstances. In fact, for many managers, it may be the approach that defines strategy. Classical strategy is probably the approach with which you are the most familiar.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

We are so dependent on tools like Excel and Google Sheets for managing budgets and P&Ls that it’s easy to fall into the trap of seeing spreadsheets only as applications for managing money, or at the very least, for working with numbers. Spreadsheets get a raw deal. HBR), and status (idea, pitched, assigned, complete).

Directory 8

Directory Project Document Tools 8