Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

That number has been climbing over time, to a point where employees — especially parents — feel stressed , overwhelmed , and maxed out. Nearly 700 employees from an information technology department participated in the experiment. These were highly skilled, middle-aged workers with professional and technical degrees.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

We will also make smaller personal sacrifices, like missing family events or bringing the stress of work home with us. The firm focuses on leadership development, organization excellence and information technology. We may jeopardize a big promotion or bonus to do the right thing. We may even put our job on the line.

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Leadership Newsletter Executive Coaching Follow-up 56

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

But this was the first time attending the event where so many of the top-tier athletic luminaries—particularly coaches and managers—spoke so wistfully and ambitiously about the analytic alchemy that can turn teammates into champions. Information & technology Managing people Talent management'

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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

AUGUST 10, 2012

With the focus properly on the amazing athletics, I doubt that many viewers paused to wonder how that feat of information technology was possible. The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time.

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Committee Project Audience Information Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

The stress this creates serves as the key factor in determining whether or not a purchase will be made. They need to understand the nature of stress. From a psychological perspective, stress shortens attention spans, escalates mental exhaustion, and encourages poor decision making.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2024

The new age of flexible of work has encouraged a culture of overwork, which is proving to be harmful to the mental health of employees.

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How To Planning Execution Process 24

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2015

At a reception for JetBlue’s most frequent Mosaic flyers, I had the opportunity to listen to the airline’s top management discuss its ambitions to improve operations and enhance customer experience. Customers Information & technology Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

Its report stressed not only that the current pool of security-educated graduates and practitioners falls far short of demand, but also that "it could take up to 20 years to address the skills gap.". Education IT management Information & technology' We''re facing an eyebrow-raising talent shortfall in cyber security.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

The ongoing explosion of technologically-enabled business opportunities inherently expand the ethical dilemmas, quandaries and trade-offs managements will confront. Let me emphatically stress that this experimental heuristic is not a variant of The Golden Rule. Ethics Information & technology Innovation'

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Ethics Zimbardo Explicit Knowledge Kahneman 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Executives are wrestling with managing a proliferation of devices, protecting data, securing networks, and training employees to take security seriously. Toss in people bringing their own unsupported devices to work and you can see why security executives are stressed. Educate employees and upper management. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Consider the case of a soldier who completes a PTSD screening instrument in which she reports trouble remembering important parts of a stressful experience from the past, but is able to vividly reconstruct the experience in her conversations with the provider.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Report Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). yagi studio/Getty Images.

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Management Software BPM Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

The unprecedented loss of highly-skilled, senior workers is compounding challenges posed by aging infrastructure, rising power demand, and climate stress. By 2030, the BPC predicts , utilities in the United States will need to hire 150,000 additional workers in information-technology intensive roles.

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Energy Industry Engineering Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

It stresses that “no business plan survives first contact with a customer” and requires its participants to “get out of the building” and talk to dozens of potential customers in search of a sustainable business model. It is something of a boot camp for scientific entrepreneurs like Etosha.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2013

The investment, both in dollars and management commitment, can be large. CIOs stress the need to entirely remake data architecture and applications. Business managers scratch their heads — while insisting on knowing upfront what the pay-off will be from the spending and the potentially disruptive organizational change.

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Planning Strategic Planning CIO Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

At one telecoms company with a disappointing history of troubled upgrades and delayed rollouts, I saw a key innovation team present its testing program and testing reviews to senior management. Jaws dropped. Innovators who avoid real-world tests aren't visionaries, they're cowards. Suppliers are brought in. Customers are brought in.

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Leadership Innovation Lean Production Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

Yet, in a function driven by innovation and the uncertainties surrounding the application and implication of future technologies, not using scenarios is tantamount to management malpractice. IT management' It''s the rare CIO who applies scenario planning to the business of IT. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

When they set out to turn around processes that have become woefully inefficient or ineffective, most companies choose one of four process improvement "religions": Lean , Six Sigma , Business Reengineering or Business Process Management (BPM). In some of these companies, senior managers were dubious about the claims.

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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

In virtually every advanced field, whether it’s information technology, biotechnology, agriculture, or renewable energy, America holds a leading position. ” Yet that poses a problem for managers. “Being immersed is incredibly critical,” he stresses. vincent tsui FOR HBR. ” Partner.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

In a recent Harvard Business Review article we explore how companies require three mutually supportive capabilities to fully exploit data and analytics: an ability to identify and manage multiple sources of data, the capacity to build advanced analytic models, and the critical management muscle to transform the organization.

Strategy 8

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Recruiters, HR managers, and investors have always sought better ways of identifying who fits and has potential, and how to allocate opportunities to them. But what if these new possibilities—used by recruiters and managers to efficiently and objectively get the best talent—only bake in current inequities? Or create new ones?

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