Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2011

Is your company investing in expensive knowledge management systems that are useless for making big, strategy decisions? The problem is that most current knowledge management efforts merely inventory the company's knowledge, without parsing out the knowledge that is strategically relevant.

Knowledge Management 15

Knowledge Management Tacit Knowledge Management Licensing 15

Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 19, 2010

Government Accountability Office (GAO) developing a “key national indicators&# system that will be available online. In “ The Rise and Fall of GDP ,&# that appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Jon Gertner describes this effort. Gertner writes about the U.S. Last year I spoke at the GAO’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.

GDP 170

GDP Metrics Competitive Advantage McCarthy 170

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

If units share knowledge with one another related to operation management, it improves firm performance—but both practice and research show that inter-unit knowledge transfer is never easy.” ” Knowledge transfer.

Team 102

Team Resistance Environment Operations 102

Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 30, 2010

Political, social and economic cultures that have been sustained for long periods of time have these values and systems that don’t (i.e. coercive utopian systems such as communism and fascism), fail because the values they promote work against human flourishing. If they could not outsource they discovered another way.

Organization 186

Organization Outsourcing Leadership Hedge 186

Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 6, 2010

The research also found the companies in the study that trusted each other were more likely to share valuable knowledge such as new product designs. Another study Dov has written about was conducted by the University of Michigan’s hospital system. why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

Policies 170

Policies McCarthy Bottom-up Godin 170

Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 5, 2010

Miller advocates for “management by asking” in her post “ Socrates Was On to Something.” Learn how to get the most out of blogs, books, seminars and other resources, whether the subject is management, leadership or any other self-improvement effort, the process for using the information is the same. posted at HRmarketer.com Blog.

Leadership 210

Leadership Wilde Ingham McCarthy 210

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation.

Team 52

Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Leaders consciously or unconsciously lump employees into three categories: the “stars” consisting of those in management as well high potential employees, the much larger “core” made up of solid contributors, and the rest, employees whose contributions and fit with the organization are questionable.

Long-term 207

Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2015

It may seem an obscure data management distinction, but this shift toward collecting unstructured data – which is a large part of what Big Data is all about – is sending shock waves across traditional organizations. Big Data involves not just the structured data (customer name and details, products purchased, how much was spent and when, etc.)

CIO 50

CIO Technology CRM Competitive Advantage 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 12, 2024

The innovations are endless, from peer-to-peer payments to automated portfolio managers and trading platforms. Streamlined Processes Fintech innovations have transformed the financial sector, fostering inclusivity, enhancing operational efficiency, and facilitating personalized customer experiences.

Finance 122

Finance Technology BPM Company 122

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 12, 2012

For example ‘Communication between sales and production’ or ‘More knowledge of how to use our internal knowledge management system’. Once you are done sorting and clustering into common groups, the team will look for broad categories for each small cluster.

Strategic Planning 158

Strategic Planning SWOT Analysis Planning 158

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2010

For much of his career Wooden worked alongside the student managers as they swept or mopped the basketball court before practices to set an example that no position was unimportant. He required even the best players to clean up after themselves in the locker room and not to expect the student managers to do it. why is everyone smiling?

Follow-up 360

Follow-up Open-book Learning-by-Doing Hotels 360

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

It told how American Airlines and others had introduced systems to help their customers choose their products and services. These "channel" systems helped steer business to American Airlines. Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g., So, where is managing IT for competitive advantage going next?

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Improving innovation is one of the key competencies that companies often look for when replacing a CEO. Yet committees responsible for recommending candidates often grapple with finding the right person for the job when an innovation emperor like Steve Jobs isn’t available. And that’s false when you look at the facts. Find the truth.

Innovation 8

Innovation Organization Stage-Gate Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

To spark innovation and ideation, employees often require information from a number of areas in real time. HCL encourages employees to use various KM and social collaboration systems to help each other and share their expertise. Additional experts emerged as a result of ratings by employees using the system.

Mentor 8

Mentor Agility System Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

A large high-technology company had established an innovation center in one of their U.S. Managing Across Cultures. Sara Vaerlander, Bobbi Thomason, Brandi Pearce, Heather Altman, and I observed what happened after the innovation practices were shared with the company’s Indian and Chinese counterparts. It made sense.

Innovation 10

Innovation Altman System Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

Sebell (mark@creativerealities.com), who are managing partners at Creative Realities, Inc. a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. We often ask executives to tell us about their biggest innovation failures. The head of R&D remembered it as a failure to properly market the innovation.

NPV 15

NPV ROI CFO Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The free flow of workers between companies is central to economic growth and innovation. Yet employers are increasingly taking legal action to prevent former employees from using knowledge and skills learned on the job. Employees’ incentives to learn on the job are weaker if they cannot use that knowledge later in their careers.

Incentives 13

Incentives Policies Innovation Human Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

Too often new collaborative technologies — though intended to connect employees seamlessly and enable work to get done more efficiently — are misused in ways that impede innovation and hurt performance. Peter, Sal and Bala studied a social-bookmarking system in a major consultancy.

Media 15

Media Innovation Efficiency System 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

To address this problem, in 2011 a group at Mayo Clinic led by the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology launched an initiative to transform prenatal care from this medicalized model to an innovative wellness model. How the most innovative providers are creating value. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Information Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

America is a nation of innovators and entrepreneurs. We are a nation that cares for our fellow citizens, yet we have failed to create a health care system that fully meets the needs of people in this country. More work is needed to achieve the drastic change in market forces that is necessary to create a sustainable health care system.

Health Care 8

Health Care Mayo Insurance Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Many of the things we need to know to be successful – to innovate, collaborate, solve problems, and identify new opportunities – aren’t learned simply through schooling, training, or personal experience. billion per year from employees failing to share knowledge effectively. As a manager for Bain & Co.

Company 8

Company Licensing Knowledge Management Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

And shortly thereafter (and not long before he died in 2005), Drucker declared that increasing the productivity of knowledge workers was “the most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century.”. How should managers alter their approaches to fit the times? Actively prune what is past its prime.

Drucker 13

Drucker Survey Learning-by-Doing Knowledge Management 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

With sophisticated document management systems, global connectivity, and on-line networks professionals can find research reports, best practices, articles and experts from anywhere in the world. Self-service information management makes sense — to a point. Create knowledge intermediaries.

Document 14

Document Information Management Pharmaceuticals Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2014

They may be technical, as in the engineering example, but they can also be managerial, as when an experienced manager has hard-earned skills in problem identification and solution, crucial relationships with customers, or a detailed understanding of how to innovate. If such knowledge leaves with retirees, it may be lost for good.

How To 10

How To Incentives Mentor Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

But in a world in which bringing managers in every year for a week of offsite training is so 1960s, how do you make the leadership development process relevant to the global economy? In growth markets like Kenya and Malaysia, people needed to develop marketing and innovation skills. In developed countries, such as France and the U.K.,

Globalization 15

Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

In business, PVCs are used for knowledge management and exchange across multiple organizations, industries, and geographies. In April 2010, the GHDonline team organized a virtual panel in the Health IT community and invited experts to discuss the data and technology needed to rebuild health systems in Haiti.

Globalization 8

Globalization Health Care Information Technology Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

With scarcely any help from management, knowledge workers can increase their productivity by 20%. Yet here is the challenge you face as a senior executive: You cannot manage your knowledge workers in the traditional and intrusive way you might have done with manual workers. Build smart support systems.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Peer Review Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Yet building social capital — the trust and reciprocity among individuals and between groups — is rarely a specific focus of organizational leaders, though we believe it is as essential as financial resources for health care delivery systems. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth.

Social Capital 8

Social Capital Health Care Cooper Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Today the function of finding information can be performed by crowd-sourcers; mappers of local sources; filters and curators of tweets, posts, and liveblogs; algorithm designers, data scientists, and knowledge managers. Boeing refers to its global "value webs," an approach that turns managers into systems integrators.

Storytelling 15

Storytelling Disaggregation Supply Chain Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Content Innovation. They assume that if they collect the data, and house it in their systems, it must be their data. For example, a product evaluating nonprofit organizations may be highly useful to a wealth manager seeking to help his client to select a charity as part of a value-added tax efficiency service.

Execution 8

Execution Metrics Content Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2011

Since Sun made hardware and software, only Sun machines running the Sun operating system were allowed. (In Have people formally or informally report on what they find so that others can gain the insights even if they didn't use the competitors firsthand (this becomes a type of pre-emptive knowledge management ).

Software 13

Software Wireless B2B Library 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

He set up a system that was the same for each station or job. If an employee is off track, he can consume a lot of organizational resources without the manager even being aware. A system that makes all these inputs visible to management will enable better decisions. My father knew every job, task and process.

Market Segmentation 8

Market Segmentation Operations Project Report 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

It described the newspapers own request under the Freedom of Information Act for the New York Department of Educations performance ratings of the roughly 12,000 public city school teachers in its system. His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Technology aside, keys to success included a clear strategy for building the new scheduling system and a commitment across the organization to seeing it through with an unwavering eye on improving the experiences for everyone involved — including players, fans, referees, and TV networks. Innovate more effectively?

Organization 8

Organization How To Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Lean innovation is being embraced by everyone — from the smallest start-ups to the largest global organizations. And that’s where the money is in innovation. And that’s where the money is in innovation. Lean innovation embraces a philosophy of not letting progress get in the way of perfection.

Innovation 8

Innovation Six Sigma Productivity Products 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 16, 2023

As AI and blockchain morph into accessible cloud-based services and no-code environments offer an open invitation to all, the era of democratized innovation stands before us. But to thrive in 2023 and beyond, businesses must strategically invest in key areas that drive innovation, bolster competitiveness, and unlock lasting success.

Supply Chain 122

Supply Chain Loyalty Content Efficiency 122