Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

IF YOU WILL LEAD, LLC Leadership Development, Executive Coaching, Infrastructure Consulting IF YOU WILL LEAD recognizes that your personal and professional success depends, in large part, on your ability to effectively and powerfully lead. The firm focuses on leadership development, organization excellence and information technology.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

For the past several years we have watched with increasing dismay at the increasing chasm between information technology (IT) groups and their business counterparts. And half-hearted efforts are akin to putting in just enough energy to jump halfway across the stream. Information & technology IT management'

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Information Technology Technology Cost Center Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2024

Entering a foreign market comes with inherent challenges. Many global companies tend to overcome those challenges by minimizing their foreignness and assimilating into the local environments. However, maintaining and embracing foreignness can yield unforeseen advantages.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

By developing their talent – their uniquely human ability to communicate – your organization will flourish in the digital age. Analyzing your audience and then using that information to target your message is your key to making your presentation memorable. At the heart of every employee is talent.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

The Internet of Things is emerging as the third wave in the development of the internet. Factories and industrial facilities will use the IoT to improve energy efficiency, remote monitoring and control of physical assets, and productivity. Information & technology Internet'

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

By developing their talent – their uniquely human ability to communicate – your organization will flourish in the digital age. Use a higher level of energy than you used in the earlier parts of the presentation. They’re the parts the audience will remember best – and each of them serves a vital purpose.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

In its simplest terms, it means outsourcing your company's information technology (IT) needs, from data and storage to software. The study showed that, compared to running their own applications, by outsourcing companies can reduce the energy use and carbon footprint of computing by up to 90 percent! This is very good news.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Of these 5 articles, some were self-explanatory: " Nation spurs development of new, green technologies ". " The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. Then the November 16th issue arrived at my door and the cover story was about alternative energy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise.

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Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

It’s only recently, though, that advances in information technology have made it possible for predictive tools to access and manipulate big data, and to do so continuously — accelerating the generation of insights, and opening up opportunities to anticipate issues with unprecedented precision. Health Information & technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

First we see major shifts in demand: developing economies such as China and India are morphing from the world's source of low-cost manufacturing capacity to the world's best market opportunities. They will not, it must be noted, alter how the role of manufacturing evolves as economies develop.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2011

The bill hopes "to advance the mutual interests of the United States and Africa with respect to the promotion of trade and investment and the advancement of socioeconomic development and opportunity." The African diaspora has played key roles in the development of the continent. From Nigeria's Azikiwe to Ghana's Nkrumah , the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. But the focus was squarely on "energy saving, environmental protection, and the low-carbon economy" with other emerging areas — infotech, biotech, and modern materials — taking a distinctly secondary role.

NGO 15

NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

Recent allegations of the theft of top-security information connected to the development of sophisticated weapons and air defense systems have only heightened concerns about the security of the nation''s networks. The first focuses on the concept of enhanced public/private information sharing and developing standards.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

To stay competitive, organizations need to continually find opportunities for innovation in key processes such as customer service and product development, and adoption of a new process almost always requires the implementation of new information technology.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Eventually Microsoft developed Internet Explorer and outflanked it by eliminating the market for a paid browser. In early 1990s, most new African banks used information technology as a SWATS tool to break the monopolies established during the colonial era. There is a lesson here for business.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Other top executives at the American Energy Innovation Council are pushing for more funding for alternative energy research. US business already are spending heavily on research and development – data from the National Science Foundation (NSF) even shows an uptick in US business investment in R&D. The list goes on.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Indeed, some countries are making inroads, not by inventing better technology, but by innovating their regulatory systems. Information & technology Innovation' Both the U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

But there's more good news: The information technology revolution just lowered the cost of experimentation. If you've ever wondered what it would be like to be a headhunter in Hong Kong, there are more than a million published resources online that can inform your decision. So how do you start moving from one dream to many?

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Travel Career Agility Learning-by-Doing 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Develop an inclusive vision of high growth entrepreneurship. Boston's Mayor Menino and his staff developed and have repeated hundreds of times the mantra of the Innovation District: "Live, work, play." We'll give architects and developers the challenge to experiment with new designs, new floor plans, and new materials.

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Innovation Real Estate Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

From connected cars, iPhone-controlled locks (versions of which here, here, and here are in or close to production), to the hypothetical "smart fridge" that will one day order milk for me when I''ve run out, these technologies bring with them the promise of energy efficiency, convenience, and flexibility.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

These revolutionary developments required equally revolutionary changes, including more truly global firms, whole new industries, new ways of organizing enterprises (think first GM and then GE), new ways of working (email, virtual global teams), and more. Levine is an expert on lean and agile software development and information technology.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

Some have responded by developing a concept known as “ ambidexterity ,” an organizational capability of fulfilling both managerial imperatives at once. Managers exploiting current businesses develop mindsets based on what they have experienced in the past. Andrew Nguyen/HBR STAFF.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies. We’re now entering a new era of innovation , one that the model doesn’t quite fit, and we will have to develop new approaches to build the future.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

In telecommunications and information technology, experts are waking up to the need for full "chains of custody" for components because of the threat of malicious " hardware Trojan horses." In the last year, Europe''s processed food industry has been overwhelmed with a crisis caused by substantial use of horse meat passed off as beef.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Ethics Telecommunications Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

The latest developments around PRISM and the NSA dragnet operations uncovered by Edward Snowden, in my view, severely damage the fragile fabric of the new global ecosystem, which we so sorely rely on in order to collectively tackle truly urgent global issues such as energy, pollution, food, climate change, (cyber-)terrorism and inequality.

Globalization 9

Globalization Technology Information Technology Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

At present, the startup ecosystem's inability to differentiate mom and pop tech entrepreneurs from high growth entrepreneurs ready to build the next billion-dollar company wastes a lot of people's time and energy. This worked great when the problems teams were trying to solve were fundamentally technology problems.

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

At present, the startup ecosystem's inability to differentiate mom and pop tech entrepreneurs from high growth entrepreneurs ready to build the next billion-dollar company wastes a lot of people's time and energy. This worked great when the problems teams were trying to solve were fundamentally technology problems.

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

Data can be aggregated to benchmark a customer’s operations, suggest performance improvements, and help the customer capture greater value through energy and water savings, increased product performance. more likely to use analytics to develop perceptual intelligence about customers. Four Operating Pillars. Digital leaders are 2.5x

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Individual symptoms in each domain, such as sleep, appetite, energy, and concentration, are categorized using color-coding — red (severe), orange, light orange, or green (absent or mild) — to flag patients’ top-priority concerns.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Indeed, we think every organization must develop and execute an aggressive plan to put data to work. But the vast majority readily acknowledge themselves as "data rich and information poor." Today, advances in predictive analytics and the potential for big data portend even greater opportunity.

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Organization Telecommunications McKinsey Price 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

The same problems that apply to a sprawling metropolitan area apply to the microchip: getting from point A to point B requires increasing time and energy just like driving a congested freeway from a suburban home to a job downtown does. That "sprawl" is like the suburbs around a city. So what next?

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Gordon Technology Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

From distributed energy generation to 3D printing to crowdfunding to the Internet of Things and data analytics, all of these technologies enable us to provide what customers want, where, how, and when they want it. Consider drone delivery services.

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Business Model Constraint Technology Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

If more of them can be identified, developed, and appointed, we believe the whole education system will improve. By background they are normally Information Technology or Chemistry teachers (95% in our study), who have often moved out of the classroom to manage support staff early in their career. Five Types of Leader.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

Over time, employees learned that developing and submitting new ideas was not worth the effort. As you might expect, our studies have revealed that encouraging creativity can backfire if employees lack the resources, support, or mechanisms to develop and implement their ideas.

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Creativity How To System Motivation 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Developers of sensors can’t pre-define all the potential contexts in which their devices will be used. One person might be happy to make his real-time energy usage profile available to an energy supplier, because that supplier offers competitive rates or services; but another person might not want to release that information.

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