Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Unbalanced teams grow more so over time, as like hires like, resulting in an operation with lopsided competencies. In technology companies, engineering talent needs the balance of a business and operations team. Crystal Pepsi; MySpace 2003-2007). It's also important to cultivate a balanced team from the start.

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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. miles per gallon and are among the most expensive vehicles to operate. By applying the solar technology he used at work, Poss envisioned how a new machine might better manage trash. Litter was still all over the street.

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Entrepreneur Self-aware Efficiency Cost 17

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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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 16

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

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Foreign investors have flocked to the country’s shores as many of the world’s largest manufacturers have established operations there. percentage points in 2003-2012. That growth was driven largely by the increased use of information technology in customer analysis and supply chain optimization. It contributed 1.4

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

For existing health care companies, the operative words in that mandate have been “health care”; for Amazon, the operative words likely are “service that needs to be delivered to a customer.” At its root, health care is a service that needs to be delivered to a customer. So where is the link to health care?

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Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

telecom carriers face daunting challenges from device makers, content providers, social networks, and an array of disruptive technologies. telecoms are classified as a high technology industry: "Network is their business." Bharti, on the other hand, has little expertise in technology. In the U.S., The trend is spreading.

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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.). The company was registered as SIRI Inc.

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Productivity Products Technology Learning-by-Doing 12

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.) This approach addresses the many shortcomings of our previous initiatives.". Under the guidance of external coaches, the $7.2

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 15

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. During this second phase, grid operators frequently have to intervene to keep the electricity grid in balance.

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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

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. ISRO’s success is best characterized as frugal engineering.

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Innovation Constraint Engineering Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Is there any aspect of your daily life and business that is not significantly affected by digital technology? in 2003, an all-time high. (Of The digital transition needs to both protect profitable operations and assets, while making the transition to a new digital business or digitally enhancing part of the existing business.

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Business Model Technology Long-term Risk Management 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In November 2003, after due diligence, we announced our agreement to purchase 3721 for $120 million. By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style. Zhou departed in 2005 and went on to found Qihoo 360 Technology, a $12 billion company that now trades on NASDAQ.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2017

In the afterword to his 2003 book, Wage Dispersion , Nobel Prize winner Dale Mortensen argued that productivity differences could cause wage dispersion: “Why are similar workers paid differently? One of them has clearly been information technology. The Productivity Gap Is Causing a Wage Gap.

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Productivity Products Policies Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

General Mills’ CEO recently blamed the winter for less-than-expected earnings , saying that “severe winter weather…disrupted plant operations and logistics…We lost 62 days of production…which hasn’t happened in decades. It might have actually generated increased revenue as well, if it meant operating while competitors couldn’t.

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Supply Chain Strategy Risk Management Christensen 10

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

JULY 7, 2014

Freeman Dyson is a famous theoretical physicist and mathematician who’s made numerous contributions to the fields of physics and mathematics — contributions that have paved the way for many of the technologies we enjoy today. He’s a great scientist. And some of the lessons he teaches are immediately relevant to business today.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

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. An infrastructure technology diffuses throughout the economy in support of numerous industries and, in time, becomes available to all.

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Competitive Advantage Customer Intimacy Supply Chain Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

And current recycling technology is limited. automaking industry currently employs 786,500 people , down from 1,136,500 in 2003. At the same time, the automotive service industry currently employs 827,900 people , losing less than 100,000 jobs since its pre-recession peak in 2003. Recycling aluminum requires around 1.7

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Digital, social, and mobile technologies are still new enough that there’s a lot that’s measured as a binary (a checkbox for responsive design, for example) or subjectively (that new app looks great). Experimentation is essential — a digital team operating within the bounds of tried and true will not advance your goals.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

By 1973, there were 3,000 industrial robots in operation. By 2003, there were 800,000. It’s a question that conjures Čapek’s robot uprising, and has prompted many essays invoking Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein , among other texts of monsters and unintended technological consequences. Technology'

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

And this factor is likely to loom even larger in the future because many of the benefits of new technologies increase as more people join in. Partly this is an operational capability — how do you quickly shut down avenues through which information is escaping? You cannot afford defenses that will fully protect you.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

On August 1 Uber announced that it is selling its Chinese brand and operations to Didi Chuxing for $1 billion, its annual burn rate in that market, in exchange for a 20% stake in the local competitor. A cautionary tale from the past: After acquiring EachNet.com, eBay controlled 80% of the Chinese e-commerce market in 2003.

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Network Economy Globalization Discount Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

A former campaign manager, Strasma started his company in 2003 to find a better way to predict who the true persuadables are in a campaign, and to find smart ways to target messaging towards them. In this election, the campaign has a very large in-house data team dealing with all kinds of targeting analytics and also the online operations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

Most of the digital giants in both countries are investing in artificial intelligence and other technologies that will facilitate their entry into yet other industries. For the 274 companies started in 2003 or later that have reached unicorn status , half are in the U.S., and nearly two-thirds of the 148 U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on short-term tactics and current operations while failing to think and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses — and it’s hard to fault them. Denver Post/Getty Images. There are ways to avoid these blind spots, however.

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Long-term Short-term Team Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on short-term tactics and current operations while failing to think and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses — and it’s hard to fault them. Denver Post/Getty Images. There are ways to avoid these blind spots, however.

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Long-term Short-term Team Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Tata Consultancy Services, the India-based information technology (IT) services and solutions company, operates in an environment it can neither predict nor change. A firm can be the first to apply a new technology or to identify and address a major source of customer dissatisfaction or a latent need.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

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. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs.

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Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 98

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

So I reached out to Brandon Webb, an innovative SEAL trainer/educator, and CEO of Force12 Media for real-world perspective on what industry could learn from a special operations sensibility. A member of Seal Team 3, Webb became the Naval Special Warfare Command Sniper Course Manager in 2003. That scares me. This was a precarious time.

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Training Education Incentives Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

But there wasn't much activity until six months later when Mike Karol, vice president of operations, told his managers to make it their responsibility. Some of the managers underscored the importance of the ideas to surviving the video technology change from VHS to DVD and losing work to other plants. Consider the story of Technicolor.

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Process How To Attrition Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

soldiers operating a radar station saw something that looked like an incoming airplane; they telephoned an officer, who told them to forget it (the attack occurred 53 minutes later). This requires that hierarchy is flattened, that people build rich networks across units, and that information technology systems cascade data across units.

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Management Licensing Crisis Hedge 16

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. The human body is built to maintain equilibrium with basic, vital operating parameters, and we do so by sacrificing functionality. Insight Center. Appetite fades. Digestion shuts down.

Health Care 14

Health Care System Information Review 14

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

I had the privilege to be part of a group there in 2003. It made me sit down and think… Just yesterday I attended the opening of the second Columba 1400 Leadership Centre here in Scotland. The bottom line for C1400 is to help young people from “tough realities&# to reflect on their personal leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

After all, it grew from $7 billion in 2003 to $171 billion in 2013 by entering established (albeit still-emerging) markets with superior products — something the model suggests is a losing strategy. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation.

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