Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

The lesson is really quite simple: Technology isn't free. Technology is at the heart of competition in a growing number of industries. Companies compete to develop new products and features that will entice customers to buy their products instead of their competitors' and hopefully to pay a premium price for what they have to offer.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

One big reason why is that hospitals purchase technologies without requiring that they communicate with each other. Yet these technologies rarely share data, let alone leverage it to support better clinical care. But in health care, few things work as expected. How did we get here? Part of the solution must involve hospitals.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Here are some of the challenges that I’ve observed: Product management. Successful IoT plays require more than simply adding connectivity to a product and charging for service — something many companies don’t immediately understand. Operations. Building an IoT offering requires design thinking from the get-go.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2017

Is your security budget directed primarily to the Information Technology (IT) department? Realizing that business operations security is a business issue and not just an IT “thing” has become the new cybersecurity paradigm. This holistic approach requires an enterprise-wide security investment in people, process, and technology.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

As technology transforms our economy, one trend is getting more and more attention: the prospect that it will increasingly automate the work that we human beings do. While it’s true that technology is taking over routine tasks from many workers, it is also reshaping many supply and demand trends that drive our global markets.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

This collaborative approach is no longer optional: No single company, deploying only its own products or services, can capture IoT’s value by itself, and certainly not with the speed required in today’s digital market. Sponsored by DXC Technology. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide. The reason?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

The big question around self-driving cars, for many people, is: When will the technology be ready? In other words, when will autonomous vehicles be safe enough to operate on their own? And where will this technology work best? Cars are heavy, fast-moving objects, operating in public spaces. ” Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. Director Recruitment and Skills. Again, we found differences among industries.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

The iPhone roared into the marketplace 10 years ago today, and overwhelmed the wireless world. Wireless is the same, but without the cat. That might seem like a good thing — using new technology to engage the public in ideological debate. The smartphone’s iconic social significance has been duly noted.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

In “The Employee Experience” study, we found that 73% of employees surveyed agree that the longer they use their technology devices, the more they desire a visual break such as taking a walk or looking through unobstructed windows to an outside view. The benefits of these elements is is well recognized.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

political system, the business world has no rules requiring that every leader have a backup, or that every corporate chief executive has a chief operating officer. Verizon Communications CEO Ivan Seidenberg appointed Lowell McAdam, head of Verizon Wireless, as COO and successor. Unlike the U.S.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The advent of the internet and better devices has impacted the way people interact and how businesses operate. Smart TV technology is more than the usual television you will find at any house. It’s easy to browse the internet, play games, interact on social media, or video call using this smart technology.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

For example, India has leapfrogged from no land-line telephones to the latest in wireless telephony. That revolution, in turn, is causing India to leapfrog brick-and-mortar banking to wireless banking for the masses. NPCI worked with banks and co-created this product in a very short time. NPCI used mobile as the channel.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

We're still operating with our primitive brain and, ultimately, we're primed to guard against starvation. The first product should lead to another, to another, and by the time the shopper's reached the checkout, she's bought more than she intended. One can only assume that mobile technology will be Anders' next assignment.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

With no means to track sales, little data is available, and channels are too fragmented for companies to forecast production and distribution with any degree of accuracy. And cellular technology is leading the way. ” This has been driving ever closer relationships between banks and mobile operators.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

You develop minimally viable products, keep testing different market and product hypotheses, and pivot based on the market feedback you get. You expect to fail repeatedly and hope to eventually get to a product-market fit. You get your technology into the market and see who wants it. It enables the product to function.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

For us, applying technology in a totally new way — to reserve and open the cars — was a key enabler of this new market segment. Without the internet and wireless communications, car rental by the hour was an impossibly expensive and tedious transaction for such a small increment of time. Or telcos about WhatsApp. .”

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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. Why is this?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

People were asked about GM products, upholstery textures, colors, vehicle designs, and technology, and their feedback was incorporated into GM vehicles. How technology is changing the way we work. Weaver’s staff sent three million mailings a year to GM and non-GM customers, achieving a remarkable 25% response rate.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

The cultural and operational challenge for incumbent financial services firms was enormous. In response, these companies made three significant shifts in their offerings: (1) they turned services into products; (2) they improved convenience while lowering cost; and (3) they leveraged big data to provide tailored customer solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. One of the most poignant summaries of the market for innovative technology solutions in education is that it is forever in its infancy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. It’s not just products.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

After all, it grew from $7 billion in 2003 to $171 billion in 2013 by entering established (albeit still-emerging) markets with superior products — something the model suggests is a losing strategy. The record labels grumbled that Apple sucked the lion’s share of the profits out of the industry, but it was too late. for three years.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

Much of the business story of the digital age so far has been about taking products and institutions apart — unbundling them. Yes, digital technology enables a lot of unbundling. And this fellow, he says something about, “How do you know that Microsoft isn’t just going to bundle a browser into their product?”. Why is this?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Businesses are being impacted by a global skills shortage that is hampering manufacturing output and service delivery. In addition, the costs of producing materials, manufacturing goods, and providing services is rising due to labor costs.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

India has added new customers at the fastest rate for Amazon in its history of operations across the world, including the U.S. Finally, they evolve their business models and make products that are appealing, affordable, and accessible to the emerging middle class.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2018

Instead, they want a relationship model – a durable, cooperative model that enables companies to partner with academia in a fashion that allows them to stay continuously connected to early stage research and to accelerate the translation of that research into new products that drive economic growth. Here’s what that entails.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Tobacco production, the country’s main foreign exchange earner, slumped dramatically between 2000 and 2008.) Consumer-facing businesses : Any company that enters the market offering lifestyle and consumer goods products could benefit from demand that has been unmet for years.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

What’s not clear, however, is how the IoT’s complex ecosystem — a loose network of interacting products and services, pictured below will evolve and proliferate and which companies will emerge as leaders. The red nodes represent platform companies; the gray ones are companies that provide a product or service. /i,"");}

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

That's why I advocate for more measuring of ourselves in my HBR article, " You, By The Numbers ," in which I describe the emergent field of auto-analytics, self-quantification technologies and techniques that can help us improve the way we analyze and take action in our professional and personal lives. Expert-run communities.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Legislating ahead of emerging technologies, history has made amply clear, is always a recipe for unintended negative consequences. One set of rules, whatever they are, would be far better, especially for technically-complex and rapidly-changing products such as drones. Each new technology gets its own analysis.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. The platform allows the exchange of digital information, services, and products across the power grid, allowing much greater efficiencies industrywide. This is not guesswork.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Boards of companies operating in the consumer discretionary industry have a disproportionately high representation of Democrats, while boards operating in the industrials and energy and utilities industries skew more Republican. Meanwhile, Democrats place greater importance on technology expertise and risk management.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

The fact of the matter is that periodically, technologies or business model innovations allow start-ups to enter industries offering services that are generally cheaper and more accessible, but of far lower quality. And in just one evening, I found my solution in the form of 4G wireless connectivity.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

And 43% cited technology expertise, HR-talent management, international-global expertise, and succession planning as the skills missing most on their boards. food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Beacons are battery-powered wireless sensors installed in retail stores or event venues that detect nearby consumers who have opted in to alerts through Bluetooth or other technologies and that relay information to consumers’ mobile devices. The company can then open a new counter or activate an inventory transfer between stores.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Their concerns fell into three broad categories: talent, operating in a global marketplace, and regulation and legislation. AT&T, for example, had to switch its focus from traditional telecom services to wireless services, and this shift required employees with different skill sets. Operating in a Global Marketplace.

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