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). How it effects product design and customer experience.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. This approach lets organizations aggregate best-of-breed technologies to develop cost-effective solutions that advance their goals. Yes, IoT requires new technical skills, ranging from data science and systems architecture to cybersecurity. How the best companies get up to speed. The reason?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Amateurs can be very accomplished analytically – in using analytical applications, envisioning additional opportunities for using analytics, and participating as business staff on analytics projects. Information & technology Talent management' You can be a scratch golfer or ace tennis player while still an amateur.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

Only 31% of Fortune 100 boards currently have a director who is a CIO, even though technology is at the core of every business today. As Sheila Jordan, CIO at Symantec and director at FactSet, put it, “All companies are technology companies today. Technology is a lever to run the business, but also to change and grow.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

The technological challenge is hard enough. If decision makers aren’t willing to experiment with the tool and improve their outcomes over time, then your investment in the technology is wasted. Gamers love to match their skills against others and to compare notes on how they’re doing. But it’s a rocky one.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Indeed, if there is one maxim that dominates the fate of digital communities it is that of network effects — the more users participating in a community, the more valuable it will be to new users. Thus, some turnover might be necessary to create an influx of unique contributors with new ideas, skills, and information.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

By helping business leaders to improve their businesses, the CIO becomes an obvious candidate to fill any open role that involves technology, process, or strong governance. Other companies have multiple employee collaboration platforms with different rules and technologies. Is CDO the next step for the aspiring CIO-Plus?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

An effort under way at the Mayo Clinic shows how such technology can be used to improve outcomes and lower costs in health care. With predictability, we were then in a position to share that information with patients and set expectations for participation. (We Implementation. Results and Benefits.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

If you want to win their hearts and minds, you have to master the latest technology, assimilate vast quantities of data, engage and delight your customers, and deliver products and services that surpass expectations. And yet today’s top marketers are combining technology and teamwork to generate extraordinary results.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

In an era of rapid technological and social change, in which new management jargons seem to rise even faster than the disruptive startups that coin them, the career of Peter Drucker is perhaps as instructive as his writings themselves. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Half or more of those surveyed believed that European innovators were good, even world class, and that they had good business and technological skills. Most survey participants believed that government and financial institutions gave relatively little support to innovation. The culprits were institutional.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Nearly 700 employees from an information technology department participated in the experiment. These were highly skilled, middle-aged workers with professional and technical degrees. They worked long hours, with over 25 percent logging more than 50 hours per week.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

Frustrated by these limitations, the global information-technology service provider Atos, headquartered in France, sought an internal collaboration system that would do away with email’s “closed” form of communication.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

To be successful and cost-effective in holistically addressing children’s total wellness will require a large team of non-medical personnel with diverse training and skills to work with children and their parents. Health information and other technology. Technologies hold promise for remote monitoring and intervention.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Because of the web, social media, and advances in mobile and interactive communications and information technologies, the experiences of human beings are now at the heart of value creation. Access to knowledge, expertise, skills, and tools is key to creative engagement. It closed out the 2010 fiscal year with €11.97

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2014

First, a high percentage of information technology workers have college degrees already, so it’s probably harder to show much of an impact there. We have to be careful painting with a broad brush, and of going too far towards the alternative, where all we want to give them is a technical skill. We had a couple hypotheses.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

This is to say that you don't have to wait until the end of the decade for some breakthrough technology to emerge; it's already here, albeit in bits and pieces. Participation rates are much lower at most other companies than at Nationwide. I'm collectively referring to these process improvement approaches as "Process Strategy 2.0".

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

First, as we inevitably learn more about disease processes and develop increasingly specific therapies, new technologies, an aging population, and expanded coverage will lead to greater demand for specialist and subspecialist care. Health information technology will support these new partnerships and foster team-based care.

Health Care 8

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2011

Most were eager to participate in the post-war boom that created a promising economic climate. As businesses expand, the availability of talent to match this growth will be limited in many areas and skill sets. Brazil was ruled by a dictator. Traditionalists in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2013

Irene participated in a Data Journalism Bootcamp in Nairobi convened by the World Bank Institute , the African Media Initiative , and Google in January 2012. Using data interrogation skills she acquired during the training, she began to explore Kenya's Open Data platform , analyzing student grades per primary school.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Fragmentation also means that most providers are unable to integrate support personnel with specialized skills in a disease area directly into the team —such as nutritionists or behavioral health specialists. No participant in the system has good information about patient outcomes and the cost of care. Flying blind is dangerous.

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