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.

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Harvard Business

MAY 19, 2016

Nevertheless, few would argue that information technology permanently increased unemployment. Research that I and my colleagues have conducted suggests that the skills gap persists mainly because employers are unwilling or unable to pay market price for the skills they require. However, I argue that this view is not correct.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

In an earlier article I called out “data revolutionaries,” those individuals who disrupt companies by advancing data quality agendas. For example, take Kim Russo, head of marketing at TeleTech Services. More people need to step into these roles, and companies need to remove barriers that prevent them from doing so.

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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. We think this is a bad idea. Human Interactions with AI Time.

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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

JULY 14, 2017

Open Collective is providing resources to aggregate the needs of groups of open-source projects to assist in financing, resourcing, and maintenance. The time has come again for markets (and perhaps regulators) to demand similar audits as a first step toward working out the magnitude of the problem.

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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. ” Senior executives hedge their plans because they don’t trust the numbers from finance. Consider this figure: $136 billion per year. This figure should surprise no one with an interest in big data.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

The division focused on in this article is IBM Global Business Services (IBM GBS). These services focused on business management and information technology. IBM’s target market for consulting services became the clients who were willing to pay for higher-value corporate services packages of research, software and services.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

That makes it imperative to start thinking about how management will be changed by the most impactful information technology of our time: cloud computing. Pearson uses Kubernetes to develop, deploy and manage new kinds of online learning systems in developing markets like India and Mexico.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

Over 50% of marketing and IT prefer a salesperson who will listen and match a solution to solve their specific needs. 3: Market Leaders Have an Edge. In most industries a single company controls the market. For salespeople who have to compete against these industry giants, life can be very intimidating indeed. The answer is yes.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2017

This transformation will not be easy, and we expect that while a number of companies will be able to adapt and grow their market share, others will go out of business in the process or shrink significantly. In the meantime, more shareholder proposals will address climate change issues, raising important questions for boards of directors.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

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. Last year, American campuses produced fewer than 56,000 graduates with the sort of qualifications sought by information technology (IT) firms.”

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2016

The consensus is the challenges facing them will be daunting and organizations will be strained to finance and manage it. The transformation will necessitate substantial investments in finance, technology, human capital, operations, and infrastructure, and a substantial disinvestment of legacy resources in these areas.

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