Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

Given the trend to a surveillance society, our deepening embrace of technology, and the emerging Internet of Things, are we right to be afraid? Firstly, and most naïve, is that as we create ever more complex systems there must come a point when they are more complex than us. Such systems are now common.

Simon 8

Simon Proposal Learning-by-Doing System 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

I’ve developed this framework based on the experiences that my collaborators and I have had implementing prediction systems over the last 25 years in domains like finance, healthcare, education, and sports. Predictability refers to how much better than random we should expect today’s best predictive systems to perform.

Uncertainty 9

Uncertainty Simon Cost Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

We asked each of them to comment on the other's system. Technology, for example, has gotten way out ahead of our ability to manage it skillfully. As the polymath Herbert Simon put it so presciently way back in 1978, "A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.". What moves me most is deceptive simplicity.

Power 15

Power Simon Long-term System 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

The system must connect the dots horizontally. A system cannot respond effectively when information has to flow up and down hierarchical lines: it is slow, and superiors often suppress the information because they do not see its importance or relevance or don't have time to respond. just passed on), and if not, to act themselves.

Management 14

Management Licensing Crisis Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Over the major innovation cycles, the capitalist system has been resilient enough to absorb the effects of the crashes caused by pure speculation and turn them to its advantage. Eight years on, the world is tentatively emerging from a financial crisis that almost broke the global economy.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

In a bit of understatement, Simon Dietz of the London School of Economics, the lead author of the report, told The Guardian , “long-term investors…would be better off in a low-carbon world.” Last year, Citi produced a powerful study of the costs and benefits of shifting the energy system toward low-carbon technologies.

Cost 8

Cost Real Estate Depreciation Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

Another team developed a plan to reuse and optimize networking systems in offices, which cut energy costs by $22 million. For instance, in 2008 Simon Colbeck, head of technology for clothing, was concerned about the huge volume of garments that end up in landfills every year.

Metrics 9

Metrics Chemicals Simon Energy 9

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

How can we design schools that foster innovative thinking? At TEDxNYED, Tony Wagner outlines how an overemphasis on individual achievement, hyper-specialization, and an aversion to risk have stymied inventiveness and describes what specifically teachers and parents can do to sow the seeds of creativity. To watch this program, please click here.

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Innovation Creativity Positioning Simon 85

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Tony Wagner that first appeared in Education Week (November 11, 2003). Don’t let the publication date fool you. If anything, his recommendations are even more urgently needed now than they were then. To read the complete article, please click here. © Tony Wagner * * [.].

Education 75

Education Article Simon System 75

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and computer technology are causing us to think again about some really basic questions: what is a firm? This work is coordinated by a single firm, Amazon, but it often involves third parties (makers of dog food, delivery companies) whose systems interact seamlessly with Amazon’s.

Company 10

Company Long-term Short-term Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

The business and civilian adoption of military technology is nothing new; we had mass adoption of the wristwatch after World War I when soldiers began attaching their pocket watches to their wrists for more practical purposes. But this is just the beginning — industry analysts predict the market to double in less than a decade.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Venture Funding Industry Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Your company might not be as extreme as Jack Welch’s GE, which famously relied on forced rankings to cull weaker managers (a system still in use by more than half of Fortune 500 firms as of 2012), but chances are your company has given you a number that puts you in a specific spot on the employee continuum.

Performance Review 10

Performance Review Review Quinn Health Care 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

The only shock there was that the technology retailer, Carphone Warehouse, did even worse. Methodology The Lady Geek “Empathy Quotient” is inspired by Simon Baron Cohen’s “Empathizer” and ‘”Systemizer” model. Few would have been surprised to see the airline Ryanair down at 99th.

Emotional Intelligence 8

Emotional Intelligence Media Sample Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

The energy, finance, and technology sectors tend to tweet using a male-biased tone of voice. Methodology The Lady Geek “Empathy Quotient” is inspired by Simon Baron Cohen’s “Empathizer” and ‘”Systemizer” model. The algorithm is able to infer gender based on language.

Company 8

Company Airlines Brand Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

In this fluid system, Biocon finances CMI's inventive R&D, while using the funds from the Pfizer deal to finance its own R&D and go-to-market activities. Invention is a novel idea or new technology that can be patented or copyrighted as intellectual property (IP). Dr. Simone Ahuja is the founder of Blood Orange Media.

Shaw 13

Shaw Globalization Innovation Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

What will be the administration’s take on science and technology? Likewise, we know that whatever our historical assumptions have been, many are likely to change as technology advances. Companies are embedded in economic, social, and political systems. How will the Affordable Care Act be repealed? Invest in Resilience.

Strategy 10

Strategy Uncertainty Long-term Politics 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

But they can be usefully divided into three groups: technological progress, globalization, and economic policy. Technological progress by favoring highly skilled labor to the detriment of the low-skilled, might have led to the increase in the wage premium (for the highly educated) and to widening inequalities.

Politics 8

Politics Short-term Policies Education 8