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Even Standard IT Can Boost Creativity At Work

The Horizons Tracker

When it comes to innovation, it’s tempting to think that the latest and greatest technologies are required to facilitate the creative process. “What this study reveals is that innovation is found not just by using technology specifically created to support idea-generation,” the researchers say. ” Common tech.

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Becoming a Network Linchpin

Coaching Tip

Since all the work in every organization is done through relationships, it makes great sense to utilize technology to allow people to connect and collaborate easily and effectively. The corporate reason to collaborate is to improve decision making through knowledge management.

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Doing Business in a Big Data World

Strategy Driven

But this new world of Big Data is proving to be much more demanding and complex than expected, requiring companies not only to adopt different technologies, but also to make significant changes to their business strategy, internal skillsets, and organizational structures. It is a disruptive paradigm shift that most companies have yet to make.

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Complimentary Resource – Solving the Brain Drain for Nuclear and Power Generation

Strategy Driven

With today’s transient workforce and the large percentage of nuclear workers approaching retirement age, it is critical to implement a system that will capture their knowledge in an efficient, usable way.

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Yes, Managing IT Is Your Job

Harvard Business Review

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. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

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A Global Online Network Lets Health Professionals Share Expertise

Harvard Business Review

In response, our team at the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard launched an online platform to generate and disseminate knowledge in health care delivery. In business, PVCs are used for knowledge management and exchange across multiple organizations, industries, and geographies. The Launch.

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Big Data and the Role of Intuition

Harvard Business Review

Decision making Information & technology Knowledge management' One might even say that developing the right mix of intuition and data-driven analysis is the ultimate key to success with this movement. Neither an all-intuition nor an all-analytics approach will get you to the promised land.