N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?. Selection Methodology.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 2, 2015

A highly experienced nuclear power consultant, Ruth leads StrategyDriven's information technology and cyber security services. "We Her extensive knowledge and experience in information technology and cyber security adds a critical dimension to our advisory services practice and brings tremendous value to our clients.".

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The Practical Leader

JULY 15, 2020

Elizabeth Long Lingo, assistant professor at Worchester Polytechnic Institute and Kathleen McGinn, professor at Harvard Business School, recently reported on decades of research and consulting on the use of power. During these challenging times, balancing information and communication is especially important. How’s your balance?

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

If you love technology and developing computer programs, this is the career for you. Software developers can work in many different fields, including finance, education, information technology, health care, construction, and more. Here are some of the high-paying jobs that don’t require a degree. Computer Programmer.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 14, 2014

Finding #3: Investments in technology and mobile learning are expected to rise . Respondents indicated that their organizations plan to invest more in technology-based learning, and specifically mobile learning, in the next two years: . 70% of companies said they plan to spend more on technology-based learning next year .

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CEO Insider

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Probably not even in front of your senior leadership team or even in a one-to-one meeting with a key report. Here’s a question: where do you speak about strategy issues when you don’t know exactly what it is you want to say? Certainly not in the board room or at a company presentation. You’re supposed […].

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

For instance, in 2013 the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) issued guidance on the development of the robotics industry, with this then supplemented by the Made in China 2025 program, which was launched in 2015. This set the goal of producing 100,000 industrial robots per year by 2020.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 7, 2011

While I haven’t read the book, an article on Reuters suggests that the book Aligning Technology with Strategy by Harvard Business Review advises companies evaluate their IT costs to prevent overinvesting. An article written in 2003 regarding security and technology is not going to be relevant in 2011. It’s technology.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Data, Data Everywhere : A Special Report on Managing Information. Learn how businesses are transforming themselves based on the abundance of data, and benefits found in the various uses of information and the new methods of visualizing data. Publications are entirely FREE to those who qualify. Consider leaving a comment!

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

According to a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics , women in high paying jobs now earn 81 cents for every dollar earned by men—19 cents more than in 1979, the first year for which figures were available. Computer and information systems managers. In managerial positions only 1 percent. Percentage of women: 52%.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. In contrast, Musk cares about customer needs as well but only at a high level; he picks what he perceives as big important needs that haven’t been met because of technology constraints and is more of a “technology first” innovator.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2017

If your employees are using outdated techniques, technology, and modalities then they could be harming your business. If your business is associated with technology then you need to provide training on the latest technological developments – see programs relating to technology. Ultimately, this saves you money.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g., Use technology to identify and address barriers. All of the RFID tags are “passive technology,” meaning that the individual tags don’t need power. High-density RFID readers were installed in the ceilings.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

We believe that such tools should be designed with the patient in mind and should use self-reported outcomes data from actual patients, collected in real time, to help other patients anticipate their own course of treatment. Such comparisons would help patients make better-informed decisions about where to obtain the highest-value care.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Increasingly, physicians’ every action and outcome is measured and reported. However, measuring patient-reported outcomes (PROs) — patients’ own accounting of their symptoms, functional status, and quality of life — can and should be a clinical tool. How leading providers are delivering value for patients.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Today’s great paradox is that we feel the impact of technology everywhere – in our cars, our phones, the supermarket, the doctor’s office – but not in our paychecks. We work differently, communicate with each other differently, create differently, and entertain ourselves differently, all thanks to new technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Read more from DXC Technology: Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus. Digital transformation transcends technology. Digital transformation is often viewed through a narrow technology lens, as just another mobile project or e-commerce initiative. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2011

Step 2: Report the headlines. Ask the boss’s opinion about what you’ve reported. If you absolutely need to know what the boss thinks, on the other hand, you should ask whatever questions you have during the ‘Report the Headlines’ stage of the briefing. Net out what’s important.

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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

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Today, a survey of employees is being released that provides strong confirmation of the notion that employees need better skills to do their jobs well, especially skills related to technology. Over the past decade, employers have repeatedly reported that they have difficulty finding workers with the skills needed for today’s jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2014

Recently I’ve been having a very hard time talking to students, executives, and business leaders about information technology. Cloud computing has accelerated this schism, because of its capacity to take the technology group out of the business of servicing other units.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

But it is simply unrealistic for a doctor — or any human being — to stay abreast of that much information, much less be able to recall accurately the relevant information on demand. As the Institute of Medicine highlighted in a 2012 report , this gap in knowledge contributes to variation in care and suboptimal outcome.

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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

AUGUST 8, 2013

The job of Chief Information Officer has never exactly been easy. But massive disruptions in business models, technology, and the work force have been throwing up massive new challenges for CIOs and other technology leaders. Reporting structure. We are in the midst of a digital business transformation in all industries.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Analytics requirements can span business units, database and analysis systems, and reporting hierarchies. Where should the CAO report? In most cases today, the CAO doesn’t report directly to the CEO, but to another member of the C-suite. It is often easier to see where a CAO role should not report.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

A revolution in information technology has transformed businesses around the globe over the past two decades. More recently, companies have discovered that technology-enabled data is an underappreciated but highly valuable asset. And innovative technology soon will extend its reach without increasing its size.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

has emerged as a leading adopter of smart meter technology for power utilities, approaching 50% penetration of 150 million total endpoints. The initial foray into connected cities was catalyzed by over $3 billion in stimulus funding and support for smart grid technology as part of the 2009 American Recovery and Restoration Act.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

According to a McKinsey Global Institute report on big data , we''ll need over 1.5 But to fill the alarming need highlighted in the McKinsey report, most do need to become better consumers of data, with a better appreciation of quantitative analysis and — just as important — an ability to communicate what the numbers mean.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

But when I put the question to top management, well, they''re busy — not their problem, that''s for sure — and they refer me to the chief information officer or the chief technology officer. This is a management failure, not a technological problem. Information & technology Managing uncertainty Risk management'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

In 2009, The Wall Street Journal reported on Google’s algorithm that crunched data from employee reviews and promotion and pay histories to determine which employees are most likely to quit, and more recently Google was lauded for pioneering the use of big data to predict employee turnover. Consider this object lesson from marketing.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

On February 13, 2018, the New York Times reported that Uber is planning an IPO. Uber’s value is estimated between $48 and $70 billion, despite reporting losses over the last two years. Twitter reported a loss of $79 million before its IPO, yet it commanded a valuation of $24 billion on its IPO date in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Seven out of ten American workers struggle to achieve an acceptable balance between work and family life, reports a new study published in American Sociological Review , funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Marshall McLuhan wrote famously about the “global village,” created by new information technologies. In a 2012 New York Times column, Thomas Friedman reported asking an Egyptian friend about the protest movements in that country: “Facebook really helped people to communicate, but not to collaborate,” he replied.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

It makes possible the routine collection of patient-reported data using standardized screening instruments, incorporates redesigned patient and care team workflows to allow consistent monitoring, and embeds clinical-decision-support systems for providing individualized feedback and action at the point of care.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

With unemployment rates in most developed nations at the lowest levels since the Great Recession, and with new skill sets required to keep pace with head-spinning technological advances, it’s no surprise the talent acquisition environment is incredibly competitive. Image courtesy of Korn Ferry.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

Throughout technology’s history, that vanguard has been the part of an organization willing to invest for one or both of two reasons: it is having significant trouble with the status quo or it has a compelling vision that things could be done in a new, better way. Information & technology Marketing'

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