Harvard Business

AUGUST 18, 2017

As I was doing research and analysis for my recent book , I found that one of the best ways organizations can create a sense of purpose for their employees is to help connect their day-to-day work with the impact it has in their community and globally. I’ve identified several common themes in our talks, which I’ll share here.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2017

Ten years ago, Jeanne Harris and I published the book Competing on Analytics , and we’ve just finished updating it for publication in September. One major reason for the update is that analytical technology has changed dramatically over the last decade; the sections we wrote on those topics have become woefully out of date.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Drucker’s book, Management Challenges for the 21 st Century , is an example. His consideration of information technology in light of the history of the printing trade leads to surprising conclusions. For one thing, he was a citizen of the world.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2016

Such mindsets become further embedded in systems, structures, processes, and cultures that are self-perpetuating. A company’s past is often deeply rooted in its culture, comprising habitual processes, rituals, and belief systems. That’s why forgetting the past can require shocking the culture out of its torpor.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every day, online retailers use computer-based transactions to guide us through stepwise sequences to buy a pair of jeans, apply for a credit card, or book a flight. Information technology has come late to health care delivery. Electronic medical records can help correct these systemic defects.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2018

He’s also the author of a new book, Done Right: How Tomorrow’s Leaders Get Work Done. Even technology, information technology, you know, they’ve invested in treating that as a tier-one asset. Yeah, I’ll tell you, and this is one of the reasons why we wrote the book. Alex Shootman, Workfront.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

He hoped to create a skunkworks-like culture in the middle of corporate headquarters, blending the benefits of both organizational separation and integration. The word was suggested by one attendee who had been reading the book Agile Competitors and Virtual Organizations: Strategies for Enriching the Customer.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Recently, the terms “functional” and “focused” have been used to refer to servicing a specific system, function or process, for example, marketing systems, financial systems or information technology. Business Ethics, Culture and Performance. Types of Consulting Can Overlap. Librarys Blogs. Boards of Directors. Customer Service.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Economic analysis finds that most of this productivity growth is accounted for by a few companies such as Walmart who used information technology to become much more productive. All of this suggests that technology, and specifically software, is behind the growing dominance of big companies. IT Does Matter.

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Management Consulted

MAY 21, 2015

Information Technology. BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON CULTURE . Booz Allen Hamilton Books. Practice Areas. Acquisition & Program Management. Assurance & Resilience. Commercial (Financial Services, Health, and Energy). Economic & Business Analysis. Intelligence & Operations Analysis. Modeling & Simulation.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Intuitive decisions invite unconscious (and conscious) biases, creating a nepotistic and political culture where employees feel unfairly treated. True innovation, however, is about using information to find new links between means and ends , and involves producing unexpected behaviors. Of course, most humans are unable to do that, too.

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