Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 29, 2016

particularly high tech start-ups. Every week, an old French farmer would also peddle through London with strings of onions hanging from his bicycle. I thought the arrangement was unbelievably cool and more than romantic. The England I knew as a child was a fascinating place. He answered “ The Blitz.”. He answered “ The Blitz.”.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

You accept your first job as a manager in a fast growth tech company, thinking: “How much different could this be from my former company—a financial services firm? We at VitalSmarts wanted to uncover whether differences between the cultures of tech and non-tech companies are simply a matter of degree or of kind.

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The Source

JANUARY 19, 2016

Rather than relying solely on organically-generated innovation for the next big thing, many are looking to buy start-ups, merge with other major companies, or sell off parts of their businesses that don’t quite fit anymore. There’s another difference between telecoms and the rest of TMT, too: what it means for consulting.

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BCG

AUGUST 30, 2016

Digital innovations in the customer interface can create “stickier,” more valuable relationships. Digital innovations in the customer interface can create “stickier,” more valuable relationships. Article Tuesday, August 30, 2016. International trade has tripled as a share of global GDP since 1945, and banks have done well from it.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 26, 2016

The company prides itself on its innovative, forward-thinking culture, and believes that its work is a reflection of that culture. Today we highlight tremendous business analyst and post-consulting leadership jobs at Uber. If you haven’t used Uber yet, you should use it to explore a city near you! seven years of growth.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 21, 2016

Until the IPO, Square had been one of more than 130 unicorns: privately owned tech companies valued at $1 billion or more. But there is another, equally compelling reason why unicorns are dying: failure to innovate when competitors catch up. Some analysts blame unrealistic valuation while others cite excessive spending.

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Operations Culture Small Business System 31

Harvard Business

APRIL 11, 2016

Ethnic and gender diversity are important to business, we are assured, because they promote the kinds of product and process innovation that boost the bottom line. According to data obtained from the Labor Department and reported by Mother Jones, the top Silicon Valley tech firms lag well behind the general population in diversity.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

For many business leaders — 85%, according to a recent Accenture survey — such open innovation is critical to their strategic plans. That doesn’t sound all that unreasonable, perhaps, but consider this: Only 38% of those who took this approach said they believed the innovation partnership had achieved its strategic goals.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Refugees pouring into Europe from Africa and the Middle East have arguably created the greatest crisis for the “European Experiment” since it began after World War II. People are wringing their hands or shaking their fists: What to do about the millions of migrants and refugees crossing seas and borders into the West?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

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Cheryl Cran

MAY 11, 2016

If we look at this optimistically we can see the merits of having robots do the mundane stuff and we humans get to focus energy on the fun aspects of work such as collaborating, creating and innovating. Recently I came upon an experiment by Georgia Tech on artificial intelligence that you dance with. What’s to gain?

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Management Consulted

MARCH 28, 2016

Today we’re going to be looking at Booz Allen Hamilton, a firm with a great name and a confusing history. Headquartered in the Greater Washington, DC area, Booz Allen Hamilton is well known for its governmental work. From this noble seed came a company that birthed management consulting as we know it. Booz Surveys; Edwin G.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 20, 2016

Innovative new businesses no longer want to be tied to one city or even a traditional work schedule. They also provide access to the finest IT, secretarial, administrative, and tech support. It is very common these days for businesses of all shapes and sizes to use serviced offices. Prestigious Address.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2016

“Explorers” are the most innovative and optimistic about technology and are early adopters; they make up 41% of on-demand consumers. The on-demand economy is large, and getting larger. since 1999. Results were projected to the U.S. adult population (18 years and older) with internet access in the home, based on data from the U.S.

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Survey Data Accenture Transportation 44

Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2016

New, growth-hungry businesses are disproportionately likely to innovate and to create jobs. They disproportionately fund white male entrepreneurs, mostly clustered in tech hubs such as the Bay Area, Boston, or New York. I’m skeptical that it will succeed. Allocating more resources to the startup economy probably is a good thing.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. At the strategic level, picking a slightly better option can create tremendous value. Pick the slightly worse one and the consequences can be far reaching.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

You don’t have to be a programmer in Silicon Valley or a gene splicer in biotech to unleash exciting innovations and create huge value. Yet little did I know that some of the most extraordinary innovations I’ve seen would take place in the pizza business. The scale of the changes at Domino’s are remarkable.

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Seth Godin Blog

AUGUST 12, 2016

Mine had a hiccup, so I called tech support. Connection and innovation and the instant movement of data means that the rules most of us grew up with are quickly becoming obsolete. The reason that Uber drivers will always struggle. They don't have a relationship with the customer. The world is here, knocking at our door.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The reason is failed leadership, and Apple – currently the dominant tech firm for the mobile era – is at risk of making the same mistakes. Microsoft entered the 20 th century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. Sixteen years later, that dominance is looking threadbare. The result?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Our past research highlights the promise of this trend: In the case of a major baby products firm, for example, the best user-generated ideas identified were even more innovative and provided better benefits to the consumer than the best ideas generated by the firm’s designers. First, getting crowdsourcing to work isn’t trivial.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 20, 2016

MBA programs should you apply to if you want the best inroads to consulting? We’ve all seen top 10 business school lists, and they’re helpful, but we wanted to go one step further to help our readers who specifically want to go into consulting. With that in mind, we compiled the 2016 Top 10 U.S Buckle up; here we go!

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2016

The New York Times recently published a fascinating overview of creativity programs and innovation spaces on college campuses across the country. It described a unique living-working space at the University of Utah called Lassonde Studios , where students embrace the 24/7 innovation lifestyle of geeks in Silicon Valley and Austin, Texas.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology. Insight Center.

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Transportation Software System Efficiency 30

Harvard Business

JULY 7, 2016

The rapid pace of digital change has put companies in the unenviable position of trying to decide which tech trends to invest in and when. All too often, much-touted “revolutionary” innovations offer only incremental benefits at best; at worst, they are a costly distraction. Insight Center. Insight Center. The result?

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2016

By doing so, they are testing the limits of the potential power of repurposing online retail innovations that consumers have become accustomed to in varied industries and potentially revamping healthcare in the process. Healthcare innovations like these raise intriguing possibilities.

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Engineering Healthcare Retail Accenture 34

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2016

On the one hand are the tech start-ups, who advocate for open office plans that emphasize chance encounters. ” Their new building “is really designed to spark not just collaboration but that innovation you see when people collide.” What type of office design is best for productivity and engagement?

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Real Estate Travel Meeting Research 33

Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

A large high-technology company had established an innovation center in one of their U.S. offices where employees were entrepreneurial, engaged, excited to come to work, and as a result were quickly developing new ideas for customer-facing products. So the firm wanted to replicate that success in other places, namely India and China.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2016

True platform innovators aren’t just market matchmakers using data-driven algorithms to drive better buyer-seller matches; they invest in new value creation. The power of digital platforms to profitably disrupt industries continues to impress. What really makes them work? Successful platforms empower their users. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Retailers need to think more like tech companies, using AI and machine learning not just to predict how to stock stores and staff shifts but also to dynamically recommend products and set prices that appeal to individual consumers. Would you like to pick up an order from Trader Joe’s, for a total of $5.35?” Insight Center.

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Retail Data Productivity Hotels 37

Harvard Business

APRIL 7, 2016

The fight for new recruits is intense — not just in the tech sector, but across all industries. Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. ” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2016

These “ superbosses ,” as I called them, spanned dozens of industries and included legendary figures such as fast casual restaurant magnate Norman Brinker, packaged foods titan Michael Miles, tech mogul Larry Ellison, hedge fund pioneer Julian Robertson, media icon Oprah Winfrey, and a host of others. Julian Robertson did.

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Real Estate Development Advertising Study 40

Harvard Business

APRIL 29, 2016

This kind of “tech push” occurs when both management and engineering discount the value of effective design for representing the emotional and physical connections to the end user. This evolution to “Internet of Things (IoT) 2.0” The fundamental principle in the IoT 2.0 era is that IoT is not the end product.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

understands both hiring math and competitive strategy when it comes to filling entry-level jobs in its 3,000-plus Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy stores. Across the U.S., nearly 6 million entry-level jobs will be created from 2012 to 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For women, the spread 10 years out is 16%.

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Talent Education Engineering Software 35

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2016

This is comparable to what we see in innovation and patent filings, where immigrants also account for about a quarter of U.S. Immigration is one of the most divisive and polarizing topics today. Do immigrants take American jobs, or help our economy grow? One argument you tend to hear in the immigration debate in the U.S.

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Government Policies Examples Insurance 44

Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2016

Beyond that, there are vague tech-speak promises of how LinkedIn’s social network might help Microsoft’s enterprise businesses. Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn is big and bold — and likely to be consequential. Precisely how consequential and in what way is still a puzzle to observers. It didn’t happen.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

They told and re-told Holmes’s story until she began to seem less like an actual person, and more like a living symbol—of progress, of innovation, of female empowerment. Humanity’s strange, ardent love affair with story has always fascinated me. But it also attracted an unanticipated audience of business professionals.

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Journal Film Report Culture 38

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 21, 2016

But depending on one’s view of AI’s potential impact, the work described by these reports may be more influential on the long arc of history than the outcome of that election. Combined, the two reports include eighty-eight pages and twenty-five recommendations. Here are the highlights. AI policy should be an urgent concern.

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