Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. To overcome these problems, many companies are now using or experimenting with "idea management" software applications. ValuesJam in 2003 gave IBM's workforce the opportunity to redefine the firm's core values for the first time in nearly 100 years.

Process 15

Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

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!” For the most part, such tools assume that a firm has an existing talent pool with the intellectual capacity to generate ideas and turn them into value.

Innovation 17

Innovation Education Survey Training 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. IT isn''t somebody else''s job, it''s ultimately theirs.

CEO 8

CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2011

In 2003 there were no tech IPOs at all. Revenue would come from advertising and from people subscribing to a tool for finding new business contacts. How Technology Leaders Turn Chance into Success. At the same time, I'm beginning to appreciate how he and his colleagues were smart. First, why lucky?

IPO 15

IPO Advertising Business Model Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

In fact, veterans of some of the world’s most successful tech companies often look with skepticism, even disdain, on efforts to build strong management skills. But neglecting the art of people management has significant costs for any company that aspires to be around for a while. Rule 1: Know your audience. Rule 2: Simplify.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Team Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

They alert us to the risks of eating unhealthy foods, smoking cigarettes, taking prescription drugs, driving cars, using power tools, and performing many other activities. We’d have to live without medicinal drugs, challenging sports, sugary foods, and useful tools. A 2003 U.S. Warning labels are everywhere.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Mass Marketing System Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

Couple the lack of transparency of marketing generally with the shock of new technology, and you get anxiety over information use that increasingly translates into calls for legislation or regulatory intervention. New laws aimed at specific technologies, however, are the worst possible outcome. In the U.S., It''s also misguided.

Morale 8

Morale Learning-by-Doing Technology Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2014

The second lesson is that, as a tool of isolation, embargoes are frighteningly effective, isolating embargoer as much as the embargoee. In our dangerous world, we simply cannot afford to neglect — nor have we the right to do so — such stabilizing factors in relations as trade and economic, scientific, and technological ties.

Licensing 9

Licensing Politics Crisis Management Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

By 2003 I could no longer speak intelligibly or walk, and any muscle control became more difficult as the disease progressed. In my experience, coaching through writing can help people manage highly charged emotions. Take, for instance, my IM exchanges with a technology manager at a financial services firm.

Argyris 8

Argyris Document Construction Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Some of the gap can be attributed to career choice: more women than men choose to go into teaching and social work, for example, which pay less relative to "male" professions such as finance and technology. The women we coach who manage to sustain and fuel their ambition amid so many mixed messages use two tools.

Leadership Pipeline 8

Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

As one sales manager noted, “In this job, if you don’t survive the short term, you don’t need to worry about the long term.” ” The biggest problem with a short-term approach is that managers develop blind spots around crucial processes such as recruiting, hiring, and training and development.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Team Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

As one sales manager noted, “In this job, if you don’t survive the short term, you don’t need to worry about the long term.” ” The biggest problem with a short-term approach is that managers develop blind spots around crucial processes such as recruiting, hiring, and training and development.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Team Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Yet, companies and executives spend endless amounts of time and money trying to foster collaboration through technology, training, and memos instead of quickly defining the problem, framing the challenges, and inspiring people to come together and tackle it. Let’s remind ourselves of three outstanding examples of collaboration.

Guidelines 11

Guidelines Follow-up Goal Engineering 11

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. Health care is similar.

Health Care 11

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

While advances in health care in the developed world often emphasize new technologies, in developing lower- and middle-income countries simply expanding the reach of basic primary care services is crucial to improving health. Financial tools. Management and leadership skills.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

The practical tool offered here helps executives answer such questions as: What replaces planning when the annual cycle is obsolete? In fact, for many managers, it may be the approach that defines strategy. When and how should you implement it? Where can we — and when should we — shape the game to our advantage?

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.” ” Carr distinguished between proprietary technologies and “infrastructural” ones.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8