Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

With the focus properly on the amazing athletics, I doubt that many viewers paused to wonder how that feat of information technology was possible. The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

Certainly, knowledge transfer has been a priority of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Particularly in the last 12 years since the Sydney Games, it has put extensive effort into developing a Knowledge Management Program. All of this is done in response to a clear knowledge deficit. Language barriers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2011

In an event last spring in New York, I heard the story of a young man who received more than $90,000 for international software projects while he was collecting unemployment benefits. They create the technologies which change them, while they are using them, at a speedy pace. The knowledge leads to a new society.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

A large high-technology company had established an innovation center in one of their U.S. We also noticed that the Indian workers were uncomfortable in the wide-open spaces and reverted to using meeting rooms as project spaces, in which they collaborated intensely. It made sense. Leaders from the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

In response, our team at the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard launched an online platform to generate and disseminate knowledge in health care delivery. In business, PVCs are used for knowledge management and exchange across multiple organizations, industries, and geographies. How do you design a hospital?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

Something similar could happen inside companies, with algorithms scanning email, intranets, and project management tools to suggest collaborators who might improve a project before it even gets off the ground. Information & technology Knowledge management Networking' It’s all about innovation,” he told me.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

In interviews with a dozen senior managers from a large company, two particular failures came up over and over again. Clearly the company was painfully aware of these two failed projects. Create a knowledge management system. The problem came with the follow-up question, "Why did example A fail?". Triage the failures.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

The good news is the rapid expansion of social media inside and outside companies has made it possible for aspiring leaders to hone their craft from the very best experts in many domains via the internet or knowledge management (KM) systems. They can become your virtual mentors.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

But some 70% of the extra profit to be made through social technologies has nothing to do with marketing. It's in areas of the company such as knowledge management, innovation, communication, and better integration with the supply chain. To get the most out of social technologies, known collectively as Enterprise 2.0,

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Many conversations about data and analytics (D&A) start by focusing on technology. A robust, successful D&A function encompasses more than a stack of technologies, or a few people isolated on one floor of the building. Gartner estimates D&A projects falter 60% of the time. Jumpstart process and cost efficiency?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Over the past six years, we have put in place a 30-person consulting team at EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II) using a model we have found to be successful, winning projects away from external management consulting firms at a fraction of the cost, and with great “client” (that is to say, EMC) satisfaction.

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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 6, 2014

Open innovation projects (where organizations facing tricky problems invite outsiders to take a crack at solving them) always present cognitive challenges, of course. Every time we run a technology search for an organization, proposals pour in from world-class solution providers – usually more than a dozen, and often many times that amount.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Instead of trying to figure out the nuts and bolts of a seemingly complicated technology, I had gotten used to someone else doing the heavy lifting. After three months and six courses, I had covered both the simple algorithms as well as many of the more complicated architectures, doing one project with each to gain a hands-on understanding.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

But technology is not the culprit here; a misguided person is. He's a much less harmful version of Theodore Alvin Hall, a young American physicist and Manhattan project alum who felt it was dangerous and immoral for the US to have a nuclear monopoly. I can't see how it will do much good, and I can see a huge amount of harm.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

One professional service firm told us how a senior partner sold only technology implementation services &38212; an area he was personally passionate about — to his clients in South America. The second approach is to salvage ideas or technologies that didn't solve the problem they were intended to solve. Rehabilitate a misfit.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

These risks can emanate from the realm of security, public health, natural ecology, technology, or economics. In the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics, for example, the global financial crisis caused private developers for the Olympic Village project to withdraw, requiring a refinancing package backed by government.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Technologies that connect people to knowledge, services, and one another across the globe have acted as a centrifugal force, spinning functions and authority away from the center toward millions of previously silent and disempowered individuals. Information and communications technology is blowing the old categories into bits.

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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. Insight Center. Growing Digital Business. Sponsored by Accenture. New tools and strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Very importantly, they were able to avoid costly technology and implementation programs that would have surely fell short of usage and revenue expectations. Execution Knowledge management' Fortunately, the organizations that took the effort to truly understand the value of their data were able to execute appropriately.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

The technology employed in the seventies was a top-of-the-line sewing machine or a battery-powered forklift. I decided not to become a dressmaker (big mistake given the success of Project Runway). Nonetheless, I see that the transparency of the factory floor needs to be applied to our modern knowledge work environment.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work. His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This Insight Center will tell stories about successful Big Data projects, of course. MIT professors Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee tell two such stories in the opening post, Big Data's Management Revolution. This is the first in a month-long series of expert-written posts.)

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

This population boom will bring both challenges and opportunities, which is why America’s Top 25 Future-Ready Cities are focusing on using technologies and data to enhance their economic development and sustainability, and to provide a higher quality of life for their citizens. Cities have much to learn from each other.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2016

In many organizations, the typical off-boarding process is a whirlwind of project wrap-ups, paperwork, and exit interviews. Tamar Elkeles, chief people officer of Quixey, a technology company that helps users find information inside mobile apps, says she “hates the term ‘off-boarding’” because it feels inadequate.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2015

To shift to a remote model successfully, however, management practices have to adapt to remote work, even if only a few workers are remote. New technologies – and the proper use of old technologies – are a crucial part of this adaptation. In a 2014 Robert Half Technology survey of U.S.-based A deadline.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Despite its relatively small size (about 600 employees), EYP also supports in-house research projects proposed by employees, which are selected through a competitive process. These knowledge-generation projects, always aimed at solving a challenge faced by clients, are intended to help differentiate EYP from competitors.

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