Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

A more reasonable starting point might be the 1930s, when the physicist and statistician Walter Shewhart of Bell Labs began applying Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles to the improvement of products and processes. So he began by learning everything he could about maximizing organizational productivity.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 18, 2015

Kearney becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of EDS in September, nearly doubling in size and vastly expanding its industry expertise and information technology capabilities. Kearney’s innovation practice: collaborative innovation, innovation portfolio management, innovation strategy and R&D performance strategy.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 21, 2014

Economist Andy Xie has an interesting article in CaixinOnline that contains his views on 2014. The chances are that the global economy, weighted by nominal GDP at current exchange rates, will grow at 2 percent Globalization, turbo-powered by information technology, has cut short the feedback loop between demand stimulus and supply response.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 18, 2016

Many of our current economic measurements saw their birth in the Industrial Age when the companies that were growing and shaping the world were giants with big physical plants and lots of material products — companies like Exxon Mobile and GE. But Information Technology doesn’t seem like the right category to group them into.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 18, 2022

It is projected by 2030 in the US and Europe that the time spent during a workweek will on information technology and programming tasks increase the most. While some skills will be less in demand it is important to consider the human leadership skills that remain in the technology-driven workplace.

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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. Here are my top suspects: China and other countries following the Chinese strategy. Although China is the most important example of this strategy today, the idea is not new.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 21, 2015

“manufacturing renaissance,” marked by the “reshoring” of production and the growing competitiveness challenges of many foreign nations vis-à-vis the United States. consumer demand, rather than reshoring of automobile production. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 21, 2015

“manufacturing renaissance,” marked by the “reshoring” of production and the growing competitiveness challenges of many foreign nations vis-à-vis the United States. consumer demand, rather than reshoring of automobile production. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 9, 2018

In 2011, GE embarked upon an ambitious attempt to digitally transform its product and service offerings. These companies spent millions to develop digital products, infrastructures, and brand accompaniments, and got tremendous media and investor attention, only to encounter significant performance challenges, and often shareholder dissent.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

For an industrial company dealing with physical assets and goods, the balance sheet presents a reasonable picture of productive assets and the income statement provides a reasonable approximation of expenses required to create shareholder value. Many digital companies have no physical products and have no inventory to report.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2017

Leading organizations are more likely to have a comprehensive data acquisition strategy and differentiate themselves from competitors based on their data platform. Ecolab’s products and services help major refineries, petrochemical plants, and manufacturing facilities process and save water in their operations.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2018

The resulting wellness-focused “ OB Nest ” integrated care model for low-risk pregnancies, now implemented within obstetrics and gynecology at Mayo, reduces patient visits while improving satisfaction (see an HBR article on OB Nest here.). Challenges. Identifying and supporting pathways to implementation. Acknowledgements.

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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.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2017

The technologies I’ve mentioned for analytics thus far are primarily separate from other types of systems, but many organizations today want and need to integrate analytics with their production applications. But machine learning technologies can take the next step and actually make the decision or adopt the recommended action.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2018

Her lab had discovered new ways to convert carbon emissions into useful products, and they believed the technology had enormous commercial potential. “Our first product will be about the size of a dishwasher, then we’ll move up to a refrigerator, a shipping container, and finally a plant-size machine,” Etosha told me.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2016

Social purpose is continuing to evolve from a philanthropic niche to a key part of core business strategy, and this shift presents unique opportunities for technology companies, in particular. No strategy is static. Insight Center. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2016

In the past decade, consumers have shifted from worrying about sharing personal financial information when shopping on the internet to embracing online retailers’ recommendations for them. No strategy is static. That is because the best online retailers offer customers a curated and highly personalized shopping experience.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Though these technologies can seem daunting, the good news is that getting started with cognitive technologies is getting easier all the time. Many vendors have jumped into the field, and their offerings provide options for any company wanting to make their processes or products smarter. ” Mostly Buy.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2016

No strategy is static. At the less-expensive end is a knowledge-based approach that organizes data and language into highly malleable and helpful blocks of information. ABIe pulls its answers from a data warehouse, where all the knowledge relating to the company’s products and processes has been organized. Insight Center.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

The division focused on in this article is IBM Global Business Services (IBM GBS). In 1991, IBM approved a new world-wide services strategy to make IBM a world class services company by 1994. These services focused on business management and information technology. Information Technology. Consumer Products.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 5, 2016

This focus on function, for instance, may result in recent sales being stored in different systems from historical sales, thus presenting an immediate barrier to boosting sales through personal product recommendation. Knowledge is power, and groups within an organization become suspicious of others wanting to use their data. Vendor lock-in.

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Harvard Business

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. They Update Their Talent Management Strategies. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide. The reason?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

In virtually every advanced field, whether it’s information technology, biotechnology, agriculture, or renewable energy, America holds a leading position. Take a look at any significant innovation, such as an iPhone , and you’ll find that most, if not all, of the technology came from some government program.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

To set this in context, it’s important to first understand the fundamental challenge of building contemporary (and future) workspaces, especially for technology companies: Software and buildings operate on entirely different timescales. That there is no childcare center. Everything else was secondary.” Not an open plan.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The goal should be to keep children on a trajectory to becoming productive, successful, healthy adults rather than just treating them when they are sick. The team must develop collaboration strategies to meet these goals, prioritize the needs of complex patients, and tailor interventions to the specific needs of different subgroups.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Bad data wastes time, increases costs, weakens decision making, angers customers, and makes it more difficult to execute any sort of data strategy. Most managers know, anecdotally at least, that poor quality data is troublesome. Indeed, data has a credibility problem. They are thus unable to give data quality its due.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Bad data wastes time, increases costs, weakens decision making, angers customers, and makes it more difficult to execute any sort of data strategy. Most managers know, anecdotally at least, that poor quality data is troublesome. Indeed, data has a credibility problem. They are thus unable to give data quality its due.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The first concerns the challenge of creating the meaningful use program for the HITECH Act when I served as national coordinator of health information technology from 2009 to 2011, at the beginning of the Obama administration. Building trust through a transparent decision process was the first strategy we pursued.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Whether improving omni-channel commerce or developing digital extensions to product lines, businesses are working out how to drive profitability through digital. There are few business leaders around the world not thinking about digital transformation in some shape or form.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2017

of the votes were in favor, providing a strong signal that climate change is an important financial risk and that shareholders want to know more about what companies are doing to transform their operations and products to remain competitive in a low-carbon world.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Trump may have overpromised on bringing back jobs, but he does have some tools to work with as he tries to narrow the trade gap and create a strategy for China. made products over the next 10 years. information technology companies to disclose their proprietary source code, which is their core competitive advantage.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2017

Indeed, the profusion of new treatments may present a serious challenge to the current payer strategy of negotiating favorable pricing with drug and device companies. Stanley Healthcare, a division of Stanley Black & Decker Corporation, which sells products to over 17,000 hospitals and senior living facilities, offers a good example.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2017

Rather than being undercut by new, lower-cost competitors in rapidly developing economies, such as China and India, companies have globalized their supply chains or offshored their production. Effective risk management requires business leaders to attend to these nonmarket threats and to develop nonmarket strategies.

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