Skip Prichard

MARCH 22, 2020

Now, I’m extremely confident in our ability to innovate and develop new treatments and a vaccine, but it will take some time. The term “social distancing” in this context apparently first appeared in 2003. The time for us to rely on our technology is now. We are at a loss. Who would have thought? Ahem, Bill Gates predicted it.).

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

That we’re still largely waiting for such an immersive world to take hold, despite much-hyped initiatives, such as Second Life, perhaps underlines the difficulties the technology has had in keeping pace with such a vision. Digital twins. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1 Worth paying attention to?

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

If you want to learn how to develop an experimentation organization, read on. And, as anyone who closely follows simulation and prototyping tools knows, their use has become pervasive in manufacturing businesses, even though companies still grapple with the integration and management issues I wrote about in 2003.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 25, 2020

In Technology and Cooperation Help Fight the Pandemic Chelsea writes, “The threat from COVID-19 should be taken seriously, but there are reasons for rational optimism even during a pandemic.” In 2003, it took over a year to achieve half this information with SARS. I began a search for reasons to be optimistic.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 7, 2011

iTunes debuted in 2003 and Tower Records closed in 2004 and Musicland folded in 2006. What is the digital company or the new technology that will force you to change your business model? Perhaps it won't be digital technology that will change or crush your business model. Amazon has almost single-handedly bankrupted Borders.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Effective followership plays such an important role in the development of future leadership skills that freshman at all the United States service academies (the Air Force Academy, West Point, Annapolis, and the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies) spend their first year in formal follower roles.

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Rapid BI

DECEMBER 6, 2012

At RapidBI we use many management and leadership models and through the process of using them we have developed a library of 100?s. Supplied in both PowerPoint 2003 and 2007 formats for maximum compatibility. Technology Learning Model. Tuckman Team Development Model. Support Challenge Model. Leadership continuum.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 1, 2019

There are no shortage of breathless predictions about the impact new technologies are likely to have on the workplace, and many erstwhile reports have placed the poorly skilled firmly in the crosshairs of automated tools. The researchers assess young people who completed their GCSE exams between 2003 and 2008.

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Education Policies Career Learning-by-Doing 68

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

As the importance of open and honest leadership continues to dominate the media spotlight, I find myself reflecting on how vital relationships are to building a positive working environment, and how important it is for all managers and leaders to develop this skill. How can AI and future technology aid, rather than impair, inclusion?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

Instead of a monolithic one-way interaction, business is now being conducted through constant and meaningful two-way conversations between organizations and constituents – at every stage of organizational development. And remember that technology connects people in faster and more transparent ways than ever! Still skeptical?

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 66

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Frontier firms are able to employ the most advanced technologies, which in turn allow them to win market share at the expense of their less productive competitors. Some firms are investing heavily in R&D to expand their technological capabilities, while others don’t make that investment and so fall further behind.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

As the convergence of digital technologies drives unprecedented levels of change in global marketplaces, it is very much a reality that a company must, as Bill Gates put it, “innovate or die!” Every discipline is experiencing accelerated development, and the rapid knowledge obsolescence that goes with it.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

In technology companies, engineering talent needs the balance of a business and operations team. Crystal Pepsi; MySpace 2003-2007). There is enormous pressure to do things, to the exclusion of thoughtfulness; quietly thinking about values or board representation seems useless when there's so much product to be developed.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

percentage points in 2003-2012. In fact, China is already experiencing a labor shortage: Wages are rising and it is losing its labor-cost advantage to other developing countries. Policy makers and scholars generally agree that China must rebalance its economy toward a consumption-driven development model. It contributed 1.4

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

In 2003, Jim Poss was walking down a Boston street when he noticed a trash vehicle in action. Through discussions with diverse stakeholders, he turned the problem upside down: the answer might not be about developing a more efficient collection process, but about reducing the need for frequent trash collection.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2011

In 2003, the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan explained that the chance of a radiation related fatality in a Japanese nuclear plant is one per one million years. Competition is very intense and it may not be in a business's interest to develop mitigation plans for something that occurs that rarely.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. Building off US-inspired steel-based technology, we believe that it's possible to design, build, deliver, and erect affordable multi-tier tower housing, addressed squarely to lower class sections of the Indian demographic.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. ValuesJam in 2003 gave IBM's workforce the opportunity to redefine the firm's core values for the first time in nearly 100 years. IBM has accelerated collaboration with " innovation jams " that engage everyone in identifying opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The Amazon Go store allows a customer to simply swipe their phone over a sensor upon entry and then relies on an array of sensor technologies to distinguish between the consumer actions of picking up a product, placing it in a cart, or returning it to a shelf. So where is the link to health care? Data analytics.

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Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

You need to assess your human, social, political, financial, technological, and natural-resource capital, as well as your access to key markets, to see if shortcomings in any of these areas might seriously impede scaling. You also need to consider each of the seven capabilities noted above (i.e., Staffing, Communicating, etc.)

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

After Bodek left, the suggestion system was led by Yorke, Technicolor's manager of organizational development. Some departments started trying it and some developed a few sharp ideas, which generated excitement. In 2003, the first year of the program, 5,000 ideas were volunteered.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

This is both because the resulting knowledge might walk out the door, as employees join other firms or start their own, and because you can acquire firms who have the needed technology. Although the setting was law firms, rather than technology firms, all the assets in those firms reside in human capital.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

There is another seemingly mundane but profoundly important application of this technology: to better managers ourselves and our time. The underlying technology behind all of the advances in robotic technology mentioned above is Artificial Intelligence (A.I.). developers has long been to help humans be more productive.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

But the team went beyond that, figuring that if they were having difficulty with certain technology infrastructure problems, it was highly likely that other companies were experiencing similar problems. Level 7 – Take initiative to implement the solution or develop the breakthrough. And so Amazon Web Services was born.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

It is one that I tell in my book, The Coming Prosperity ) When he started building the mobile phone company Roshan in 2003, he faced some singular challenges. Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Second, changes in technology have dramatically lowered the cost of experimentation and create unprecedented transparency into problems, solutions, and results. Kahn, 38 years old, graduated from MIT in 1998 and Harvard Business School in 2003. Second, technology made Khan Academy possible. Social enterprise Venture capital'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

It is one that I tell in my book, The Coming Prosperity ) When he started building the mobile phone company Roshan in 2003, he faced some singular challenges. Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way.

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Innovation Chief Technology Officer Engineering Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

ISRO used indigenous components and technologies that are far cheaper than foreign imports. Companies based in developed economies can learn much from the Mars mission about competing and operating in emerging markets: Create an audacious, inspiring goal. Global business India Innovation Product development'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

Countries that manage to transition effectively to low-carbon generation technologies will be home to competitive energy solutions and manufacturing firms that are more resilient to energy shocks and weather disruptions. That’s why so many countries are moving ahead with ambitious plans in this sector.

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Energy Decentralization Industry Power 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.) To understand the strengths and weaknesses of different process religions, develop a network of people with experience in each one.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

Without a doubt, providing members of linguistic minority groups with access to technology in their native tongues is very important. Back in 2003, Mark Davies carried out an important analysis of gross domestic product (GDP) by language use.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

Perhaps drawing on a national affinity for design, Italcementi has rediscovered cement as the raw material of architectural beauty, transforming a drab, gray powder into a technologically advanced and aesthetically sophisticated building material. Behind each partnership with an archistar, there is always a commissioned landmark project.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For example, it took Umicore, a global materials technology group, five years (2002–2007) to lay the basis for its transformation from a commodity supplier of base metals into a premium provider of emission control catalysts, rechargeable battery materials and other value-added solutions. Allow time and persevere.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Technology has undoubtedly ushered in progress in a myriad of ways. In 2010, Eric Schmidt, then the CEO of Google, shared a concern with the world : “Every two days, we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization until 2003. Create a “stop doing” list. There are only so many hours in a day.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

The key lies in developing and exploiting "proprietary data" — data that you and you alone possess. I use the term "proprietary data" after the 2003 HBR classic, "IT Doesn't Matter," by Nicholas Carr. There, he introduced the contrasting notions of "infrastructure" and "proprietary" technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

My mother, Florence Rothman, was one of these patients whose complications were recognized too late; she died in 2003 in a hospital of avoidable causes. And delayed intervention means fewer treatment options and poorer outcomes. Insight Center. Effective predictive models must include these leading indicators.

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Health Care System Information Review 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Encourage everyone on the team — including designers, developers, and content producers — to consider deliverables through to execution. If your team today has practices like designers throwing PhotoShop files over the wall for developers to execute, you may need to build in more collaboration. I’ve done that.

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