Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

It's that time of year again — time to take a stab at what's going to matter in the year ahead as technology continues to influence how we work and live. For example the popular series The Walking Dead has been experimenting with simple Twitter hash tags for each episode in addition to the official one connected with the series.

Trends 9

Trends Content Technology Follow-up 9

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

There are many examples of companies that have successful leadership training programs in place, such as Bank of America, General Electric, Microsoft, Philip Morris, Novartis International, and Marriott International to name just a few. (Yes, For example, many effective leaders have the following strengths: •Coaching others.

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Case Study Training Development Leadership 228

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

Trends 265

Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

No One Actually Wants You to Be Creative :( Inside the Box Slate Americans love to give lip service to creativity, celebrating imaginative artists and innovators and calling for "out of the box" ideas. True, this often doesn''t lead to happiness -- but it does lead to more creativity. "To But maybe I''m just being creative.

Creativity 8

Creativity Sports Travel Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

Like any muscle, our capacity to think strategically and creatively to solve all types of problems must be formed, exercised, and used time and time again. By approaching social change as an entrepreneur and applying technology to accelerate the difference they can make, students can learn to find solutions that are scalable and sustainable.

Globalization 8

Globalization Content Wireless Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Aside from complex technological advances (e.g., Aside from complex technological advances (e.g., The first AR technology was developed in 1968 at Harvard when computer scientist Ivan Sutherland (named the “father of computer graphics”) created an AR head-mounted display system.

Tourism 10

Tourism Technology Content Fashion 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

His solution, in 2013, was to create a Facebook page called “Residents of Via Fondazza—Bologna” which he promoted by posting flyers in his neighborhood. As early as the 1960s, Peter Drucker told managers that the thorniest problems they faced in applying technology were not of a technical nature, but human ones.

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Drucker Technology Innovation Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

In my research, I use eye-tracking technology, facial-expression analysis, and lab experiments to better understand why people choose to view online videos, what narrative techniques keep them watching, and what features prompt them to share videos with friends. The ways of doing this are via a DIY approach or an outsourcing approach.

Advertising 8

Advertising Video Film Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Mature digital organizations are characterized by a flexible, less hierarchical culture where employees enjoy a real autonomy and the possibility to express their creativity. For example, we are only beginning to understand digitization’s effects on unemployment. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A.

Maturity 8

Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

Coinciding with this is recent discussion in the business media that since “work” no longer adheres to the traditional 9-5, and technology allows us to be connected anywhere and everywhere, perhaps those longer work hours should be reconciled with more time off. But your supply of motivation and creativity is not endless.

Policies 8

Policies Creativity Report Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

The directors of Procter & Gamble, for instance, have established an Innovation and Technology committee; the board of specialty-chemical maker Clariant has done the same; and Pfizer has created a Science and Technology committee. To that end, Diebold recruited a new CEO in 2013, Andy W.

Innovation 8

Innovation Committee Charan Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

True, they pioneered the creative use of technology to open up flexible new ways of renting a car. Accompanying these peer economy companies are others (like Zipcar) which simply leverage technology and lower transaction costs to make flexible renting a viable alternative to asset acquisition.

Disaggregation 9

Disaggregation Hammer Mass Marketing Gordon 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

The Conversation is also a 1974 film by Francis Ford Coppola whose themes include the role of technology in society and being so focused on what you are doing that you forget why you are doing it and become oblivious to what is happening around you. CIOs today must adapt or risk being marginalized.

CIO 8

CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

The story was picked up by CNN Money , which reported that Lyft’s internal data suggesting 5,560 canceled rides between October 2013 and August 2014. Just as with the ride-sharing drivers, technology is making alternative jobs easily available to your pivotal talent. Everyone is familiar with Glass Door, Monster.com, and LinkedIn.

Industry 8

Industry Supply Chain Engineering Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

More than once you’ve probably looked at some new digital or technological development and asked yourself, “How did we miss that?” Algorithms will harness personal data in order to assess an employee’s predicted success at work: for example, how likely she is to bounce around jobs. Blockchain.

Trends 8

Trends Film Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

They are taken to school on how to create innovation clusters in their geographies, and too often they come away with surface-level solutions: bring in venture capitalists, create incubators, provide incentives for universities and labs to commercialize their technologies, build a robust IP system, establish liaison offices in Silicon Valley.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

The marketers of Clearblue Advanced Pregnancy Test, a product that can tell you if you’re one-week, two-weeks, or three-plus weeks pregnant, asked a couple of D-list celebrities to tweet out their positive tests back in 2013. For example, lifestyle is often used as a way to segment. And are these reasons the same for everyone?

Market Segmentation 9

Market Segmentation Marketing Insurance Price 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

If you're looking for marketing jargon in 2013, look no further than "native advertising." If every piece of digital creative must now become unique (from the technical to the content), brands are going to struggle with everything from ideation and production to comparable measurement models. So let's try to define it.

Advertising 8

Advertising Definition Advertorial Media 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Examples of this trend include the Pebble , a Kickstarter-funded project that has now sold over one million smart watches (and which predated Google’s Android Wear smart watch and the Apple Watch). As a result, software-enabled manufacturing start-ups are poised to have a large economic impact. Beyond that, this surge could help cities.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

If there are superconsumers in your midst, and if they’re encouraged to speak their minds, they will inject your culture with extra doses of energy, empathy, and creativity. I spoke with Patty McCord, the former chief talent officer of Netflix from 1998 to 2013. ” Inspiring Creativity. Unlocking Energy.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. To hit P&L targets, for instance, the CMO at one technology company focused on shortening the sales cycle. And that really is on the backs of marketing.”

P&L 11

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Failure comes part and parcel with invention” (Bezos 2013 letter). This allows the team to pursue creative strategies and to set its internal priorities. Fortunately, Bezos gave you his plan, if you just know where to look.

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Letter Collins Long-term Parcell 89

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

Orange Is the New Black isn’t just great television — it’s also an example of data-driven creativity in action. These companies are not, for the most part, using their data to make creative decisions about how to produce content. Other elements of Netflix’s approach also favor greater creative freedom.

Creativity 8

Creativity Project Audience Content 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

This is yet another example of niche consultants skewing the client in the wrong directions. economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies. Computer activity constitutes less than 1% of the technology picture.

Crisis 57

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 57

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

For example, if knowing how to build websites will be important to your new venture, see if your current job will subsidize a class in web design that will also help you in your current job. ” In 2013, she and Robin Smith — a former colleague from Artus Labs — began exploring ideas. ” Principles to Remember.

Project 8

Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Technology has prompted tremendous change in the advertising industry—change that would have been inconceivable even a decade ago. Technology will only be able to deliver on its promise of moving TV dollars online if it creates greater process efficiencies, drives more commerce, and enables deeper engagement with consumers.

Advertising 9

Advertising Industry Technology Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

An emerging suite of literature and research—including our 2013 Workplace Survey — clearly points to the power of choice and autonomy to drive not only employee happiness, but also motivation and performance. Take the technology workers in our survey, for example. Facebook is a prime example. Why are they so satisfied?

Real Estate 15

Real Estate Survey Motivation Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

In 2010, the average American spent 10 hours and 46 minutes a day consuming content; by 2013, that number had risen to 12 hours and 5 minutes. Take the recent column by David Carr in the New York Times on New York magazine , a perfect example of a needlessly dismayed reaction to an industry in transition. Internet Media Technology'

Magazine 9

Magazine Media Advertising Content 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

Here's an example: January: Focus on your top goals for the year by setting up an Evernote notebook for each of your major projects or areas of responsibility. How do you want to use Evernote to work smarter in 2013? We'll thank the most creative suggestions with a copy of Work Smarter with Evernote.

White Paper 8

White Paper Conference Performance Review Project 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Determined to feature a global perspective, the authors include narratives of executives within India-based IT company HCL Technologies, the German division of online auctioneer eBay, and the marketing division of automaker Volkswagen in Europe. Willing to Take Chances. The move worked and the studio hit both deadlines.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Determined to feature a global perspective, the authors include narratives of executives within India-based IT company HCL Technologies, the German division of online auctioneer eBay, and the marketing division of automaker Volkswagen in Europe. Willing to Take Chances. The move worked and the studio hit both deadlines.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

One might think that technological connectivity has or will soon save us from the blight of loneliness. miles per hour is the the most productive meeting pace, while a recent Stanford study indicated that people were 60% more creative while walking. But it seems that we feel more isolated today than ever. ” Play roulette.

Project 8

Project Report Conference Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

. “Nobody appreciates being surprised or not having enough time to think through a new thing,” Shalett told audiences at LinkedIn’s FinanceConnect conference in 2013. But when the lawyer is a partner, their focus is more flexible and likely more creative. Where are the risks? ” Why so many experts in the mix?

Innovation 8

Innovation Team Compliance Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

In 2013, the second year of the Pioneer ACO program , just two of these ACOs accounted for more than $36 million in savings – close to 40% of the entire program that year. One ACO, for example, started with the goal of optimizing a single basic quality measure — in this case, HbA1c levels for patients with diabetes.

Health Care 8

Health Care Quality Cost Motivation 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. Applying the Strategy Palette.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 24, 2012

NFL coaching great Tony Dungy and Social Media Leadership guru, Michael Hyatt demonstrated examples in the post, “ 7 E’s Required for Social Media Success “ Dungy displayed an ability to Exhibit authenticity while Hyatt Expedited responses. See you again in 2013! The 7 E’s Required for Social Media Success.

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Servant Leader Media Review Conference 173