Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2016

And you probably won’t even know you’ve been affected until it’s too late to prevent significant damage to your company’s finances, operations, and reputation. Denial of service (DoS) attacks : Attacks that overwhelm an organization with malicious traffic, disrupting normal operations.

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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. System Development Time. First, there is the time required to develop AI systems.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

There’s no question that legacy IT systems are too slow and rigid for the agility that digital business demands. And that means buying more new technology: IT organizations must adopt new platforms and processes and integrate services in new ways. “Today everything is aligned with the COEs,” he said.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2016

But it’s dangerous and naïve to assume that better technology and more data guarantee better outcomes. LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. Remember Long-Term Capital Management ? Further second- and third-order interactions occur downstream.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 18, 2015

Now known to be THE best sourcing, procurement and operations consulting firm in the world, A.T. The firm was temporarily acquired by Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in 1995 but was bought back by partners in 2006, just in time for the company’s 80th anniversary. Operations. KEARNEY INTERVIEW AND CULTURE. remains in Chicago.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

They did much of the work piecing together Mr. Madoff’s money trail and just recently flew over to Puerto Rico for the Puerto Rico Government, who hired FTI to improve operations of utilities and highway units (2014). Corporate Finance/Restructuring. Information Technology. FTI CONSULTING ORGANIZATION. Construction.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2018

“The venture capital model works well when the primary risk is finance risk — as the entrepreneurial team works to scale their business model — but it doesn’t work so well when technological risk and market risk coincide,” Errol Arkilic, an investor that specializes in hard tech ventures, told me.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

This is important because all computer systems require reliable time — even more so if they communicate with one another. To add to that, time must be kept down to the millisecond, which means the server that houses time has to operate very precisely. This is how stock exchanges timestamp trade. Now for the scary part.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Data scientists spend an inordinate amount of time cleaning data; IT expends enormous effort lining up systems that “don’t talk.” ” Senior executives hedge their plans because they don’t trust the numbers from finance. Such hidden data factories are expensive. They form the basis for IBM’s $3.1

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

Once they understood this point, they aimed to provoke change, but by working within the existing management system, not blowing it up. So she reached out to Stephanie Fetchen, head of operations, who plotted monthly errors on a control chart. That required measurement.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). How organizations are changing.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2017

To be specific, cognitive uses a suite of many technologies that are designed to augment the cognitive capabilities of a human mind. A cognitive system can perceive and infer, reason and learn. In addition, there are unique and new cyber risks associated with cognitive and AI technology.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Who at your company will be put in charge of turning buildings operations from a cost center to a revenue center? And many companies also face additional energy-related costs from their commercial vehicles, of which there are over 12 million in operation in the U.S. Operational Improvements. Take lighting, for example.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

This integration of care will need to occur longitudinally across a patient’s life as he or she ages; vertically among primary, specialty, and hospital care; horizontally between health systems and between different participating sectors (e.g., These tools must be customized to the population and integrated across the system.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

It’s hard to overstate the significance — and complexity — of the H-1B visa system in the U.S. 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 Economist has reported that the number of unfilled U.S.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Congress replace or revamp the Affordable Care Act, it is unlikely to halt America’s ongoing move from the rightfully maligned fee-for-service payment system to one that pays for “value” — the quality of outcomes relative to the price. However the Trump administration and the Republican U.S. Insight Center.

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