Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

I was there for a gathering of Human Resources executives, the third conference I have attended this autumn in which a central theme was the “technological revolution” and its implications for employment, education, and lifestyles. Those cheap train rides were a social technology. Where will new technologies take us?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2016

They have expanded far beyond the “Information Technology” tag attached to them by GICS. Today, technology is just a standard part of corporate infrastructure, like operations or marketing. But Information Technology doesn’t seem like the right category to group them into.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

I''m often struck by how many articles exclusively focus on new or emerging technology and their productivity or efficiency effects. Every discussion on the role of IT and CIOs should start with the question: "What are the potential uses of this technology that will guarantee we stay in business?" Participating in Strategy Formulation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Participants came up with idea after idea that the analytics designers might never have thought of: whether the prospect had favorable employee ratings, what percentage of its management team held technical degrees, whether the company had a senior risk-management executive, whether it invested to protect its brand’s reputation, and others.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Marshall McLuhan wrote famously about the “global village,” created by new information technologies. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. Networks connect; communities care. But what kind of a village is this?

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Amazon was fined by French regulator CNIL (Commission Nationale Informatique & Libertés) which is a data protection agency that oversees information technology services within the region. The study highlighted how backward the work culture at the company appeared, despite their investment in refined technology.

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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

MARCH 23, 2018

Several technology companies — including Google and Microsoft — tried this in the early 2000s, but their efforts failed. The technology for giving outside entities access to electronic records kept by hospitals and doctors was underdeveloped. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

With guidance from Paul English, chief technology officer of Kayak, we borrowed a common tool from business — professional virtual communities (PVCs) — and adapted it to leverage the wisdom of the crowds. Growing Participation. The Launch. What features would make the site inviting, accessible, and useful? Adapting to Demands.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

As evidence of marketing’s central role, just look at which department in your firm is commanding the fastest-growing share of the technology budget and attracting the lion’s share of data analysts and data scientists. Information & technology Marketing' into digital-marketing efforts.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2015

There is, however, one evident change in recent times that is influencing the practice of managing: the digital technologies which over the past two decades have dramatically increased speed and volume in the transmission of information. As usual, the devil of these technologies can be found in the details.

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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. Information & technology Internet' Success breeds success online.

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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. Meanwhile, members of the team that had developed the tool listened in on participants’ deliberations.

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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 20, 2014

With this information, the researchers ran two rounds of “speed-dating” using algorithms designed to maximize the formation of new relationships. In the first round, participants met with others who were “far” from them in the conference social network, as well as “far” in terms of expertise. It’s all about innovation,” he told me. “By

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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

MARCH 28, 2014

Right now, the FCC is working on the biggest transformation in over a century of profound technological progress in communications: shutting down the analog telephone network. Until the Internet, both technologies boasted nearly 100% penetration. Information & technology Innovation Internet'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

In just a few years digital technology has connected an ever-growing number of people, sensors, and devices. While some have invested significantly in technology, operational, and cultural changes, others are lagging behind. The broad deployment of digital technology requires rethinking both business and operating models.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Nearly 700 employees from an information technology department participated in the experiment. These technology workers had the tools to telecommute prior to the workplace experiment, but they either had not been given discretion to do so or had not felt comfortable doing so.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

based telecoms, technology companies and internet platforms such as Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Yahoo and even Dropbox. based technology companies is at stake here, as is the future of U.S./EU Global business Government Information & technology' The utter disrespect with which U.S. government, or U.S.-based

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2016

Social purpose is continuing to evolve from a philanthropic niche to a key part of core business strategy, and this shift presents unique opportunities for technology companies, in particular. The next wave of technology innovation will require a paradigm shift — one that builds social purpose into the activities of our everyday lives.

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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

JULY 9, 2014

The ongoing explosion of technologically-enabled business opportunities inherently expand the ethical dilemmas, quandaries and trade-offs managements will confront. If you’re reluctant —or they’re reluctant—to participate in such a protocol, you had better fundamentally rethink what you are doing.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2013

Information & technology Marketing Social media' We''re doing this to understand and predict when an online cascade or conversation will result in a tidal wave of content consumption on the Times , and also when it won''t. Without visualization, we are much less efficient in getting to the questions whose answers teach us something.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

According to the National Center for Women and Information Technology, women pursuing undergraduate computer science degrees have dropped from 37% to 18%, from 1987 to 2012 , respectively. This is a very disturbing trend for corporate America, further damaging efforts to effect change for female participation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

I've reached this conclusion after years working with clients — both on the business side and in technology — carefully observing the ways data help organizations create value, as well as in discussions with other experts (I've won at least a few over). And a recent academic report concurs. IT should avoid it like the plague!

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

health care system, a new wave of analytics and technology could help dramatically cut costly and unnecessary hospitalizations while improving outcomes for patients. In response, hospitals are increasingly making analytics and new technologies an integral part of hospital operations. Photo by Matthew Payne. Ongoing U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

One answer is to take a cue from pivotal technology companies leading the change. Many of the companies leading today’s technology-driven transformations across industries are leveraging transitional strategies, or more specifically transitional business platforms. Businesses able to most cost-effectively provide it will win.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Also, to minimize the participation of puppy mills and other opportunistic sellers on the owner-side of things, Wagaroo doesn’t give the fees it collects to whoever offers the dog for adoption; instead, it uses the money to sustain the shelter system and its own website. Economy Information & technology'

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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. Well, it’s not about the people. Let’s look at innovativeness.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

Together, we engaged in a series of activities aimed at demedicalizing prenatal care for low-risk patients, empowering women to actively engage in steering their care, defining the optimal number of scheduled prenatal care appointments, and utilizing innovative technologies to optimize how we monitored the care provided.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

But thanks to the combination of mobile, social, and cloud technologies, it''s easier than ever to gain insight into our own behavior. New research shows that people who use tracking technologies are more likely to be successful in losing weight and getting in shape. Information & technology Marketing Social media'

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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. Each community has a volunteer leader who pledges to promote the community among colleagues.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

We want to participate in U.S. Information & technology Innovation' A lawyer for an EU corporation told me, “When we work with U.S. companies who process our data, we have to put something in our contracts that give us some protection because we know that they won’t be held accountable.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Researchers found that participants' estimates were consistently off the mark, and off the mark in the same way: They underestimated. The mean of participants' self-reported value was 6.8 For instance, some participants are seeing if treadmill desks measurably boost output as they write computer code or marketing copy.

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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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