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AUGUST 1, 2013

At its start, Oliver Wyman capitalized on the deregulation of the financial services industry. They seized this opportunity to establish a firm that would help firms gain clarity about their business models, products, and clients and then advise them by creating long term strategies. Communications, Media, and Technology.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2017

As a result, when companies are hacked, it can take days for information technology teams to isolate infected systems, remove malicious code, and restore business continuity. But they continue to operate and communicate with other systems until information technology teams shut them down and correct the malfunction.

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OCTOBER 18, 2013

It should be no surprise since they have been the birthplace of many technological advances, were one of the founders of the entire personal computer industrial revolution, and now are leaders in new software platforms, hardware infrastructure and workplace equality. Information Technology. Consumer Products.

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Harvard Business

MAY 19, 2016

Nevertheless, few would argue that information technology permanently increased unemployment. data on job finding and filling rates, wages , and profits across states and industries since 1979, we measured the contribution of each of these three reasons on mismatch unemployment.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In contrast, industrial giant GE’s stock price has declined by 44 % over the last year, as news emerged about its first losses in last 50 years. Why do investors react negatively to financial statement losses for an industrial firm but disregard such losses for a digital firm?

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2018

The GE conglomerate combined a wide range of industrial businesses under one roof. Simplifying a bit, the chief explanations were these: First, that GE benefited from scale and dominant market positions in industrial businesses. Although China is the most important example of this strategy today, the idea is not new.

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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. This is particularly true for complex knowledge domains.

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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

JANUARY 31, 2017

billion, including most major firms in the manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, financial services, and retail industries. Within the core business, digital technologies are fundamentally changing the way Honeywell creates and captures value for its industrial customers through new efficiencies and services that unlock new value.

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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 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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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. For example, digital technology company Omada Health helps individuals lose weight and prevent diabetes through online behavioral counseling.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

These firms are likely to have already established the organizational structures needed to nurture and spread new technologies and business approaches. Two good examples of combining well-established practices with cognitive technology to achieve business success are American Express and Procter & Gamble. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 19, 2016

In the simplest case, cognitive technologies can be just more autonomous extensions of traditional analytics — automatically running every possible combination of predictive variables in a regression analysis, for example. ” Mostly Buy. ” Mostly Buy. Use an existing vendor’s software with cognitive capabilities.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In fact, only eight percent of companies’ CEOs believe that their business model will remain economically viable if their industry continues to digitize at its current course and speed. Even technology, information technology, you know, they’ve invested in treating that as a tier-one asset.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Second, companies can use machines to supercharge the productivity and effectiveness of workers in unprecedented ways. As research we’ve conducted across industry and academia shows, companies have an unprecedented opportunity to tap ongoing advances in AI and machine learning research to reinvent business processes.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

For example, Anheuser-Busch, working with Uber (and Otto), just delivered 2,000 cases of Budweiser in a self-driving truck. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. To figure out how to effectively integrate software robots and digitization, executives can take some cues from the automotive industry.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. For example, in 2015 the Consortium arranged a global Zika Innovation Hack-a-thon in which 200 innovators developed 15 proposed solutions in 48 hours to help control the virus.

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2017

The corporate landscape has become increasingly unequal, with the most productive firms thriving and the least productive ones failing to keep up. And second, we are able to link it to firms’ productivity and several measures of labor market policies. The Most Productive Firms Are Pulling Ahead, Across Industries.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

By background they are normally Information Technology or Chemistry teachers (95% in our study), who have often moved out of the classroom to manage support staff early in their career. Although they were successful in industry (normally working there for 10 to 15 years), they wanted to have a greater impact on society.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Productivity in the United States’ health care industry is declining — and has been ever since World War II. Labor is the industry’s single largest operating expense, with six out of every 10 people who work in health care never interacting with patients. Westend61/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2017

The water industry is using digital technologies and analytics to derive more value from its physical assets. For example, despite the social and efficiency value of using predictive analytics to prevent water leaks, many utility managers view themselves as heroes for responding after the leak has occurred.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Across industries and across countries, a small number of “superstar” firms are pulling away from the competition. They’re more productive, as the chart below illustrates. One answer to that first question shows up in study after study: superstar firms are succeeding in large part due to information technology.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2017

Cognitive computing and artificial intelligence (AI) are spawning what many are calling a new type of industrial revolution. While both technologies refer to the same process, there is a slight nuance to each. How it will impact business, industry, and society. A cognitive system can perceive and infer, reason and learn.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 19, 2018

A lot of money has been spent on information technology in health care with little to show for it. Industrial companies figured this out 50 years ago. Examples of these systems include electronic alerts for medication interactions and reminders to ensure all steps in the care process for the pneumonia patient are followed.

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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. So for companies looking to create revolutionary products, identifying and accessing cutting edge, exploratory research is a key competitive advantage.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

These examples are not hypothetical capabilities; these are now real options for companies. There are over five million commercial and industrial facilities in the U.S. And of course, few such managers have a background in information technology. Take lighting, for example. Cost Savings.

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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. Sponsored by DXC Technology. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide. The reason?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2017

Let’s start by examining the potential effects of this on an industry that touches all of our lives – banking. The banking industry is filled with shared resources. But if the cost of carrying a new product was tiny, a much larger number of small manufacturers might be included in the value network.

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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. For example, it has five times more Facebook “Likes” than United and more than two times those of American and Delta. This is where it gets interesting for U.S.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. But the rise of big companies — and the resulting concentration of industries, profits, and wages — goes well beyond tech firms and is about far more than antitrust policy. What’s Driving Industry Concentration.

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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. The program is most often associated with the tech industry, where H-1B workers hold about 12%–13% of jobs , according to a Goldman Sachs report. jobs overall.)

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

has slowed , and that in most industries the biggest firms have higher market share than they did a decade ago. Despite those trends, our research suggests that technology can in fact provide an advantage to small and new firms. The Adoption of Cloud Technology Across Industries in the U.S.

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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

JULY 11, 2018

To understand what’s happening, it helps to look at earlier technologies. The rise of electricity, for example, began in the early 1830s, when Michael Faraday invented the electric dynamo and motor. Every technology follows a similar path of discovery, engineering, and transformation. First is the technology itself.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Low-wage economies like Mexico’s and China’s absorb American technology and build industrial capability more easily today than ever. made products over the next 10 years. service industries like higher education, publishing, design, and consulting. For example, if U.S. But the lower end of U.S.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2017

Trump knows virtually nothing about technology — other than a smartphone, he doesn’t use it much. And the industries he’s worked in — construction, real estate, hotels, and resorts — are among the least sophisticated in their use of information technology.

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