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.

Leadership 56

Leadership Newsletter Executive Coaching Follow-up 56

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'

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Technology Cost Center Constraint 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

By developing their talent – their uniquely human ability to communicate – your organization will flourish in the digital age. Additional Information This is the second of a series of articles, developed exclusively for StrategyDriven , that highlights the breadth and depth of Communispond’s LearnTO Library.

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Library Kaplan Newsletter Audience 70

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

The Internet of Things is emerging as the third wave in the development of the internet. has emerged as a leading adopter of smart meter technology for power utilities, approaching 50% penetration of 150 million total endpoints. Information & technology Internet' In connected cities, the U.S.

Early Adopters 11

Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 11

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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

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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NGO Chemicals Energy Hotels 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

When people talk of valuable platforms, they are typically thinking of things like the operating systems for personal computers, tablet computers, and smartphones, all of which allow and indeed encourage software developers to invent “apps”; or the Amazon selling system which provides a layer of basic logistical functions for independent retailers.

Transportation 8

Transportation Price Airlines Retail 8

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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Outsourcing Energy Efficiency CRM 15

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.

Competitive Advantage 24

Competitive Advantage Marketing Globalization Environment 24

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. Unfortunately, this creates two problems.

Process 12

Process Innovation Hammer Resistance 12

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'

Health Care 8

Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 8

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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Planning Audience Succession Library 50

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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Power Audience Kaplan Short-term 56

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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AIDA AIDAS GDP Education 12

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

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

If you want to improve how your organization develops, delivers and supports its products or services, it's hard to avoid changes to the information systems that enable those processes. Technology is integral to our business. Barring huge system overhauls or migrations, our IT developments happen fairly quickly.".

Price 13

Price System Technology Software 13

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.

Management 8

Management Advertising Information Technology Energy 8

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. In stark contrast, the last four years have seen continued improvement in drone technology, much of which cannot be put to use. And that’s for a technology that is, and will remain, largely illegal.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

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

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.

COO 13

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 13

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. Eventually, some incumbents adapted and invested in technology as well.

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Porter Banking Globalization Information Technology 14

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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Cooper CIO Risk Management Telecommunications 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Businesses from top global firms to main street staples are looking into a future driven by new technology capabilities. Leadership should make it clear that they are offended by wasting time, as it’s also wasting energy, resources and brain space. Levine is an expert on lean and agile software development and information technology.

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Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

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.

Engineering 8

Engineering Software Wireless Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

In just a few years digital technology has connected an ever-growing number of people, sensors, and devices. While some have invested significantly in technology, operational, and cultural changes, others are lagging behind. The broad deployment of digital technology requires rethinking both business and operating models.

Company 8

Company Operations Human Capital Business Model 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

These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners , just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors. Combine a lone technical genius with a mesmerizing sales guy and you had the DNA for a billion dollar technology company. The formula worked. But times change.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners , just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors. Combine a lone technical genius with a mesmerizing sales guy and you had the DNA for a billion dollar technology company. The formula worked. But times change.

Venture Capitalist 16

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

If we accept that big data''s holy grail is, as Randy Bean says in Information Week , better, faster decisions, we have to believe that as data continue to grow in volume, velocity, and variety, making management more complex and potentially slowing time to decision, something has to give. Decision making Information & technology'

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Software Information Technology Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

There were no big technological changes — factories, steamships, and railroads were still largely in the future. That new mindset in turn did much to spur the speedy adoption of technologies in later decades. As historians have increasingly appreciated, technology is usually a secondary cause in economic development.

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Class Hedge Technology Maturity 8

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?

Travel 17

Travel Career Agility Learning-by-Doing 17

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.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

When Gordon Moore, the cofounder of Intel, asserted nearly 50 years ago that the number of transistors on integrated circuits would double roughly every two years, he was charting a path for the company that would dominate the industry — and dictate the direction of technology — for decades. So what next?

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Gordon Technology Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

One answer is to take a cue from pivotal technology companies leading the change. Many of the companies leading today’s technology-driven transformations across industries are leveraging transitional strategies, or more specifically transitional business platforms. Businesses able to most cost-effectively provide it will win.

Business Model 8

Business Model Constraint Technology Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

New technologies, industry standards, and approaches to tagging and labeling are enhancing the ability of consumers to trace the origin of goods. 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."

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Ethics Telecommunications Politics 8

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.

Innovation 15

Innovation Real Estate Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2011

Declining prices of computer hardware enabled American companies to invest heavily in information technology, which in turn, drove a surge in U.S. We find ourselves falling behind in several industries of the future, including solar energy and other areas of green tech. productivity. and Mexico). fertile ground for innovation.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Policies Telecommunications Industry 14