Tom Spencer

APRIL 6, 2019

“Data scientists, fast computers, and advanced software are replacing traditional decision-making processes and disrupting tried-and trusted traditional consulting methodologies, with Big Data being one of the main forces of disruption” ( Tras, 2015 ). The words “big data” have become a “buzzword” in the business industry.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

CSFs can literally be anything — whether it’s improving customer satisfaction, increasing revenue, reducing operating costs, or something specific to a particular project or deliverable – making them somewhat difficult to identify – let alone define in concrete terms. Are project operations, sales, customer service, etc.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

It also puts a fundamental question back on the agendas of CEOs in other industries: Will software eat the world, as Marc Andreessen famously quipped? The question really is: Can digital natives develop software-enabled solutions that siphon off significant value from industrial hardware? The answer is “yes.”

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

But what are the challenges that IT leaders are encountering as they try to keep pace and try to transform process and operations while the business is evolving? Let me tell you, our large enterprise clients’ processes are highly dependent upon software. We know that the pace of change around software is lightning-fast.

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1 to 1

MAY 26, 2022

For instance, by providing faster, more accurate reporting and analysis, a BI tool could identify bottlenecks in a contact center and help refine operational processes to improve customer support. Crystal Ball, No – Predictive Analytics, Yes – Our client was transitioning from a product-led culture to one designed around service.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Agile espouses short cycles, regular reflection, and course correction based on evidence collected during the software production process.

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Progressus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Progressus Software, the first project accounting app built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, launches Project Multi-Company feature on Microsoft AppSource. This milestone was achieved through a strategic partnership with Binary Stream, a leading provider of scalable software solutions.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

While security executives have a reputation for stymieing operations and product development with the burdens of technical operations, their role is actually to enable business. Focus as much on culture as technology. Security is so much more than purchasing antivirus software and conducting penetration testing.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

It’s a story as old as business itself: a company generates a byproduct in the course of its routine operations, then discovers that another company is willing to pay for it. Businesses are already generating it in the course of normal operations. A profitable new line of business is created.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Don’t optimize for efficiency. Don’t let your engineers hack together workarounds that will need to be maintained down the road; provide real engineering solutions to the types of problems new software has. Your business model is still in flux, and flexibility is more valuable than efficiency and cost savings.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2017

While some have invested significantly in technology, operational, and cultural changes, others are lagging behind. Other financial and operating indicators showed similar disparities. The broad deployment of digital technology requires rethinking both business and operating models. for leaders and 3.2% for laggards.

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Comatch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

On-demand talent platforms provide specialists such as software engineers that can generate and develop ideas to keep a firm relevant and healthy in the digital age. . This means that firms need to draw up new policies that take into account the new scenery in which they will operate today.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2016

As the CEO and founder of a remote-based software development company, I’ve learned that remote work creates better employees. ” We then direct potential employees to pages that showcase our accomplishments and our company culture to help applicants envision themselves working for us.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. A great salesperson will operate much more efficiently with a defined process for reaching out to prospects. Building Balanced Cultures.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

Jumpstart process and cost efficiency? Cultural resistance can also become a bigger obstacle than anticipated. Once they addressed those needs, the company was able to use the great platform to achieve significant savings in operating costs. Drive strategy and accelerate change? Increase market share? Innovate more effectively?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

It includes changes in how an organization interacts with its customers, citizens, or patients; in operational processes; in business models; in supply chain relationships; and in how employees use information to generate insight. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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SkillQuo

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Because of their expertise in building direct-to-consumer relationships and software proficiency, large tech companies are now seeing the opportunity in consumerizing healthcare. Software can alert providers to anomalies in the data, and then they can reach out to a patient to confirm something’s unusual or wrong. RETAIL CLINICS.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

The use of heuristics is then reinforced by operationalizing evidenced-based care into protocols, procedures and checklists designed to increase efficiency and reduce variation in process. The Future of Health Care. Sponsored by Medtronic. Creating better outcomes at reduced cost. The results from the experiment are encouraging.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. The German sociologist Max Weber famously praised bureaucracy’s rationality and efficiencies. Our culture would kill it.” We’re too busy.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2016

Such a high failure rate isn’t surprising, as leaders are trying to create entirely new competencies and wedge them into an organization with strong legacy cultures and operating models. While most executives are pros at managing change, digital transformation is a much deeper change than the usual process or system update.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

A platform can be a business platform (a multisided market), a software platform (a cloud-based subscription service), or an engagement platform, (a user-generated community). Patents, trademarks, brands, data, and software (IP) are proprietary assets creating differentiation.

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MishTalk

JULY 27, 2013

Engineers from Silicon Valley tinkered with the software on a laptop to ensure the machine was eliminating the right leafy buds. The Lettuce Bot uses video cameras and visual-recognition software to identify which lettuce plants to eliminate with a squirt of concentrated fertilizer that kills the unwanted buds while enriching the soil.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2016

A leading IT company once told me that one of their most successful recruitment ads for software engineers called for people who “could pull the ears off a gundark”—an obscure Star Wars reference they knew would resonate with their target group. Confronting the facts.

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Epicflow

JULY 27, 2022

In a complex multi-project environment with a shared resource pool, there are even more reasons for team members to work as efficiently as possible – otherwise it will be impossible to ensure a seamless and fruitful workflow and successful project delivery. . Company culture . Do they use their time as efficiently as possible? .

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

This painful decision cost tens of thousands of jobs but proved strategically, organizationally, and culturally essential to the company’s future success. Digitally-challenged media giants such as Bloomberg launch robo-journalism initiatives that empower software to custom-craft stories for subscribers with minimal human intervention.

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Asamby Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2022

But if you're team is working remotely, or even in different time-zones, asking questions about how something is done is not very efficient. Notion Notion is a multifunctional collaboration, documentation and project management software. The turnaround time can easily be days instead of minutes.

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Sometimes, a small, stable company is sold to an individual operator, usually for a multiple of the expected annual profit. The market for used companies isn’t as efficient or reliable as the one for used cars, as surprising as that might sound. One way to look at this is the think of the assets you’ve built.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

Ask people how to develop a good corporate culture, and most of them will immediately suggest offering generous employee benefits, like they do at Starbucks, or letting people dress casually, as Southwest Airlines does. It doesn’t matter if your company culture is friendly or competitive, nurturing or analytical.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Agile Software Development track will be interesting for Scrum masters, Agile coaches, team leaders, project and product managers, and everyone involved in product delivery. The topics considered during the conference include: Software delivery, Agility in business, Team working, Product design and management, etc.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

We’ve found three main obstacles to realizing analytics’ full value, and all of them are related to people, not technology: the organization’s structure, culture, and approach to problem solving. Structurally, analytics departments can range between two opposite but equally challenging extremes.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2018

For example, an enterprise software company recently transitioned from selling custom software as a one-time product to selling monthly SaaS (software as a service) subscriptions. They are motivated by the entrepreneurial culture that comes with “owning” the customers they bring in. It’s efficient.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

In that same Wired piece: …what began with aesthetic judgments of the digital renderings—the Los Angeles Times’ architecture critic called the Ring a “retrograde cocoon”—has lately turned to social and cultural critiques. Buildings, on the other hand, are change averse, optimized to stand for decades.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Fifty-eight percent of patients referred to Virginia Mason, our medical center in Seattle, for back surgery would be more appropriately treated without an operation. Transparency on delivering recommended care, enabled by the EMR, cuts across the grain of traditional hospital culture.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2017

“Natural monopoly” was jettisoned as the operative assumption. Instead of having operations mandated, cellular carriers were given defined spectrum spaces. The main event is in getting spectrum into the market faster and more efficiently, placing it into the hands of enterprises able to do the most for consumers.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

As a large team cares for patients, clear and efficient pathways for communication and workflows are necessary to ensure the patient experience is as seamless and organized as possible. Integrating comprehensive services will require significant changes in culture, infrastructure, training, regulation, and financing.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2017

But all these informal check-ins are not an efficient use of time for either of us. Vip Sandhir, the founder and CEO of HighGround, the Chicago-based HR software company, says he has dealt with two types of needy team members. “It was really important to establish a feedback culture,” he says. What’s going on?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In fact, research suggests that big firms are dominating through their use of software. In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Research by one of us (James) links this trend to software. Years ago, one of us (James) started a company that sold publishing software.

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