Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). Key to the new system are rapid data collection and analysis, followed by over the air changes to product software.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Instead they are waiting for the technology to mature and for expertise in AI to become more widely available. They are planning to be “fast followers” — a strategy that has worked with most information technologies. System Development Time. First, there is the time required to develop AI systems.

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2018

The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. Simplifying a bit, the chief explanations were these: First, that GE benefited from scale and dominant market positions in industrial businesses. Private equity and the new capital markets.

Software 28

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Though not as aggressive, creative or flamboyant as MBB or perhaps even its Big 4 competitors, KPMG is a huge force in the consulting market and not one to be taken lightly. Butler, the new CEO of the US arm, indicated he would strengthen its consultancy services, a market he saw as filled with potential, and offer new services.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2018

The myth of Silicon Valley is that venture-funded entrepreneurship is a generalizable model that can be applied to every problem, when in actuality it is a model that was built to commercialize mature technologies for certain markets. The Silicon Valley Model. ” An Alternative Path.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2016

And you probably won’t even know you’ve been affected until it’s too late to prevent significant damage to your company’s finances, operations, and reputation. But the scale of the problem means cybersecurity should be a concern for every executive, from HR to Marketing. The risk is growing.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2016

But it’s dangerous and naïve to assume that better technology and more data guarantee better outcomes. LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. Remember Long-Term Capital Management ?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

There’s no question that legacy IT systems are too slow and rigid for the agility that digital business demands. And that means buying more new technology: IT organizations must adopt new platforms and processes and integrate services in new ways.

Operations 28

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

It’s hard to overstate the significance — and complexity — of the H-1B visa system in the U.S. It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. A literature review by Yi Xue and Richard C.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 18, 2015

The firm was temporarily acquired by Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in 1995 but was bought back by partners in 2006, just in time for the company’s 80th anniversary. Kearney becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of EDS in September, nearly doubling in size and vastly expanding its industry expertise and information technology capabilities.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

In the span of 9 years, the firm acquired more than 16 consulting companies in 5 different markets, including Australia, the United Kingdom, Asia, the United States and Latin America. Significantly, 25%+ of revenues came from outside the United States, proving their expansion into global markets was substantial. Information Technology.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

This is important because all computer systems require reliable time — even more so if they communicate with one another. And it may be slow-moving — systems slowly being corrupted without causing crashes that are visible. This is how stock exchanges timestamp trade. There are pioneers who are working on the problem.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 31, 2012

Accenture offers management consulting services covering finance & performance management, talent & organisation performance, strategy, customer relationship management, and supply chain management. Services include strategy, operational performance, organisational effectiveness, corporate advisory, business systems and processes.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

That’s the research firm IDC’s estimate of the size of the big data market, worldwide, in 2016. Data scientists spend an inordinate amount of time cleaning data; IT expends enormous effort lining up systems that “don’t talk.” Consider this figure: $136 billion per year. But here’s another number: $3.1

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

Once they understood this point, they aimed to provoke change, but by working within the existing management system, not blowing it up. For example, take Kim Russo, head of marketing at TeleTech Services. In the course of their investigations, they realized that doing so required a different approach to data quality.

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