Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

AI is filling this gap as it becomes ingrained in the analytics technology infrastructure in industries like health care, financial services, and travel. One of the startups that is leveraging Watson is WayBlazer , a new venture in travel planning that is led by Terry Jones , a founder of Travelocity and Kayak.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2015

If you have the money and can travel, the U.S. Prior to the implementation of a virtual-consultation program serving his local clinic in Kingman, he had two unattractive options: see his local provider, who wasn’t an HIV specialist, or travel more than two hours to Flagstaff on one of the HIV clinic days offered in a facility there.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

We need to strike back and employing Health Information Technology, in the form of electronic health records (EHRs) is an excellent place to start the battle. His doctor had an EHR, a rarity among rural physicians, as did the ER where he traveled next. Information stays in silos and doesn't travel with the patient.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

At one travel services giant, 100X more data in less than two years utterly transformed the enterprise conversation around “loyalty.” Customers Decision making Information & technology' Or do those orders-of-magnitude more data invite revising and reframing a new generation of 80/20s? Are You Ready for a Chief Data Officer?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

However, I think it’s clear that innovation since then has continued (and even accelerated) but has focused largely on information and communication technology. What if you could beam over to Paris for dinner, and then travel back home immediately afterward? Insight Center. The Global Digital Economy. Perhaps in tourism?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

You travel from country to country (an average of 4.6 In short, you're feeling the unrelenting pressure to optimize amongst the vast array of choices available to you, and you won't stop debating, traveling, pollinating, and connecting until you hit on your "one thing." social networks.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2013

More business travelers? Information & technology Social media Technology' Are people on mobile devices psychographically different — are they in a different frame of mind, less positive, more likely to leave negative feedback? Are we hearing from different customers?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

If you have a smartphone and have traveled internationally, you are likely aware of the charges you might pay for data roaming. And if you didn't know about them before your trip, you certainly became aware of them the first time you traveled. but these options will involve higher upfront costs).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The middle layers spend their entire days in meetings or on conference calls, traveling to meetings outside the hospital, or negotiating contracts with vendors. Investor-owned hospitals rarely have more than three or four layers of supervision between the nurse that touches patients and the CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2017

He has the perspective to see Rosetta Stone’s reach in these areas because he travels the world meeting customers and spending time with educational institutions and the students and teachers in them.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2015

The hope and expectation, of course, is that these visual “nudges” will preemptively smooth the air travel’s rougher edges. Customers Information & technology Innovation' Lo and behold, JetBlue recently announced a series of in-craft “jetiquette” videos for its flyers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Since flat-coated retrievers are a relatively rare breed, I had to travel to find a thick market, which I was happy to do. Just like the job market and matching workers to firms, the information problems are overwhelming and it’s unlikely all pets will find a perfect home, but let’s hope more dogs can make their owners’ lives a bit cheerier.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

What does "four walls" mean if you are a travelling salesperson, or on call after work hours to respond to crises? Most African corporations, especially in the private sector, are only now in a position to think deeply about information technology (IT). Is its use governed by company-level policies?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

His career has always been demanding- long hours, lots of travel, ultra-high performance standards (which he always has met or exceeded). With today’s information technology, more and more work can be done in places other than the office and at times outside of traditional business hours.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

The convergence of mobile, analytics, context-rich systems, and the cloud, together with an explosion of information, is transforming sales, and enabling buyers and salespeople to engage with each other in more effective and efficient ways. Interestingly, the use of technology to improve sales processes is not new.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Rob Atkinson , president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation , is another of our detractors. go out to dinner, buy books, go on travel). As a Bloomberg story summarized : "Some 22 million manufacturing jobs were lost globally between 1995 and 2002 as industrial output soared 30 percent. This is because: ".most

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Having traveled to the Middle East repeatedly over the past two years, I decided to write a book about the remarkable and little reported on rise of a new generation of tech start-ups and entrepreneurs across the region. Governments try to crack down on this platform of global competitiveness, but the entrepreneurs seem one step ahead.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

This is a trend in health care that can and should take a hold – even if it might mean creative solutions such as paying for patients and their families to travel to your hospital (by private jet, in some cases). Health Information & technology Innovation' How can you not like those odds?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

I don''t want to generalize, but I highly doubt that most HBS people after doing their cases/travel/socializing are going to set aside time to consistently do Codecademy or Treehouse every week.". Entrepreneurship Information & technology Tech industry'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Mobility offered a chance to recreate the entire information technology industry, an industry far more expansive than entertainment and media – an industry that is foundational to every company’s value chain across the globe. Virtual reality is a way of experiencing the content within a computing platform.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

For example, Work+ is a mobile app that links New York City data (information on libraries and coffee shop seats) with Foursquare (location and mapping data) to help independent and traveling workers find a suitable workspace on a particular day. Entrepreneurship Government Information & technology'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We can also think of Peter Drucker as a time traveler, not only because he had an encyclopedic knowledge of historical facts, but because he could place contemporary events into historical context and infer future developments. 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

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Since China opened up, the nation has travelled through different stages of development. That growth was driven largely by the increased use of information technology in customer analysis and supply chain optimization. China, too, needs more technological innovation. ” chart below).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Educating upper management is a different task for information technology executives. Employees traveling abroad can also become easy targets without security know-how. Sessions on protecting corporate data and thwarting social engineering efforts could be useful.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

As Angela Ahrendts , Burberry''s CEO puts it : "I need [IT] to move from the back of the bus, where it traditionally sits, to the front of the bus.and it''s traveling fast." IT management Information & technology Operations' It requires strong leadership from all senior IT executives, as well as new business acumen.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

Furthermore, the sense of shared purpose and the greater transparency and control give individuals greater incentive to share information and participate in energy saving initiatives. This partnership between Big and Little Data can apply to almost any industry, from travel and financial services to health care and government.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

If no action along these lines is taken, I think that the international community and hereto faithful users of American technologies and internet platforms will have no choice but to consider taking serious and possibly quite dramatic action to safeguard against this ''totalitarian surveillance creep''.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2012

But travelers and businesses still face a big challenge from pirates. The latest statistics from the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) show a 54% drop in reported incidents during the first half of 2012 as compared to the same period in 2011, some of which is certainly attributable to improved analytics.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2012

But travelers and businesses still face a big challenge from pirates. The latest statistics from the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) show a 54% drop in reported incidents during the first half of 2012 as compared to the same period in 2011, some of which is certainly attributable to improved analytics.

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Career Advancement

APRIL 1, 2019

“There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.”. Brian Koslow~. Nasir asks: I’ve heard that employers are checking social media more and more, to find out how professional their people really are. Should I just get rid of my Facebook profile so I don’t have to worry about my boss snooping on me?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

The app provides users with targeted recommendations for certain lifestyle insurance products such as skiing, golf, and travel-related insurance. The company that traditionally saw itself as a broadcasting group now sees itself as an integrated media and information technology company serving the Latino market.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Tomorrow it may be space travel. In fact, many of the great opportunities defy definition and lie in the creative "inter-sectors": health care and the environment; real estate development and information technology and cleantech; education and mobile communications. But you should ask, not tell. Invest time, not money.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

But our recent research has taught us a lot about how management innovations can travel — in this case, from Silicon Valley tech sector companies known for their experimentation and agility in information technology (IT) management to the much older Bay Area companies who are their neighbors. Innovation is always infectious.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Today, information and communications technologies remove the need for such proxies. To name some obvious examples, eBay, Google, Amazon, and Orbitz have each in their own way reversed traditional requirements that the customer travel – to a garage sale, library, bookstore, or travel agency – to obtain a good or service.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2020

This reduces traveling back and forth from one person to another. It will distribute tickets based on location or type of issue. If many issues are originating from users located in the same area, a team member can be assigned all of those tickets. That team member will be able to work faster since they are in charge of one specific task.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

Information travels across bigger microchips with less efficiency at slower speeds, while consuming more power. We can't increase the surface area of microchips much more without running into those problems, and we're getting closer every day to the limits of how small we can make components.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

To be sure, both Google and Bing are moving toward standardized content formats for information on restaurants or movies or travel. But the real challenge is organizing the vast wealth of information that is not part of common searches — for instance, when you want to find a reliable small-appliance repairperson.

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