Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

While effective metrics are essential for focusing attention and achieving results, they can also overpower better sense. Most industries cower to a few central metrics, the yardsticks that define the winners and losers. Metrics tried and proven over years become a guide to what’s important, driving resource allocation.

Metrics 28

Metrics Retail Sales Automotive 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

In this data-rich future, enterprise AI is less about “artificial intelligence” and more about “augmenting introspection.” This twinned production thermostat could be instrumented to help predict the most cost-effective ways to heat critical chemicals in a production process. But why stop with industrial assets?

Enterprise 30

Enterprise Data Productivity Software 30

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

He installed heavy-weight market leaders in key growth markets (much as GE has done) to bring management attention to market development, commercial capability, and relationships with government entities. The strategy worked until growth slowed in both developed and developing markets.

Apparel 82

Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82