The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Leaders develop and bring out the best in people. Speed Traps: Lead Smarter, Not Faster I once sat through an author’s frantic, high-energy presentation on knowledge management. He deluged us with a flood of statistics showing how the world’s knowledge was growing at mind-blowing rates.

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Six Disciplines

AUGUST 9, 2013

India lacked the capital and economic development to build a national telephone infrastructure to service all of its homes, thus remaining essentially phoneless for decades. That nation continued to grow stronger economically, however, while cell phone technology emerged. Leapfrogging has been around for a long time. landline phones.

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Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

India lacked the capital and economic development to build a national telephone infrastructure to service all of its homes, thus remaining essentially phoneless for decades. That nation continued to grow stronger economically, however, while cell phone technology emerged. Leapfrogging has been around for a long time. landline phones.

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TQM Executive Coaching Knowledge Management Tools 82

Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 20, 2010

Vineet Nayar of HCL Technologies pioneered the concept of Employee first and customer second. Maybe its a group walk for the breast cancer, helping out on a Habitat for Humanity project or offering to put a fresh coat of paint on wall at a local Boys and Girls Club. Empowerment also fosters an environment of trust. why is everyone smiling?

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2015

But this new world of Big Data is proving to be much more demanding and complex than expected, requiring companies not only to adopt different technologies, but also to make significant changes to their business strategy, internal skillsets, and organizational structures. It is a disruptive paradigm shift that most companies have yet to make.

CIO 50

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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership announces a penalty in Individual Development Plans are Worthless….if Steve Boese of Steve Boese’s HR Technology shows how quickly small acorns can grow into the mighty oaks of an ‘A’ Team in Quick – Send in the ‘B’ Team Michael Lee Stallard entices us to take a break on our tour …er, journey….

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

In team development, research has shown that individual learning works best when accompanied by team learning. [1]. So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

This population boom will bring both challenges and opportunities, which is why America’s Top 25 Future-Ready Cities are focusing on using technologies and data to enhance their economic development and sustainability, and to provide a higher quality of life for their citizens.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Leaders build the Vision bridge by developing and communicating a mission, set of values, and reputation that connect with employees. Leaders build the Voice bridge by developing processes and practices that keep employees “in the loop” and give them regular opportunities to express their views. Connecting the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The best leaders understand that the current success of their business, and any future innovation, depends upon the “deep smarts” of their employees — the business-critical, experience-based knowledge that employees carry with them. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. How talent management is changing.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

At LinkedIn, one of the company’s most successful data products, the People You May Know (PYMK) feature, was developed by Jonathan Goldman (now at Intuit) based on an intuition that people would be interested in what their former classmates and colleagues are up to. Decision making Information & technology Knowledge management'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

A large high-technology company had established an innovation center in one of their U.S. offices where employees were entrepreneurial, engaged, excited to come to work, and as a result were quickly developing new ideas for customer-facing products. It made sense. Leaders from the U.S. Leaders from the U.S. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

In response, our team at the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard launched an online platform to generate and disseminate knowledge in health care delivery. In business, PVCs are used for knowledge management and exchange across multiple organizations, industries, and geographies. Professional Development.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2011

But what if we are in this vicious cycle because the economy has advanced beyond the tools developed long ago to track it? They create the technologies which change them, while they are using them, at a speedy pace. The Internet has turned nations into conduits of knowledge, having the power to become richer by trading knowledge.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

But some 70% of the extra profit to be made through social technologies has nothing to do with marketing. It's in areas of the company such as knowledge management, innovation, communication, and better integration with the supply chain. To get the most out of social technologies, known collectively as Enterprise 2.0,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

I’m at Lockheed Martin where we focus relentlessly on expanding and improving the technology and tradecraft to remain ahead of adversaries. it would be naïve to think that our adversaries are not finding opposing uses for these technologies). Information & technology Knowledge management Risk management'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Many alarms have sounded on the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to upend the workforce, especially for easy-to-automate jobs. But managers at all levels will have to adapt to the world of smart machines. In doing so, technology freed up journalists to conduct more investigative and interpretive reporting.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. Their strategic use of information technology (IT) presaged the dot.com boom of the 1990s when the Internet made this kind of online ordering commonplace.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

The approach that we developed, called OB Nest, allows women experiencing low-risk pregnancies to reduce their number of in-person visits from the standard 12–14 to eight. The custom IT solution developed for us takes into account the way we provide care to expectant mothers. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

Since the Expedition One launch to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2001 — the first long-duration stay on the orbital construction site — NASA’s Human Health and Performance team has been developing expertise in the planning and provision of medical support to crews staying in our world’s most remote environment.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

Certainly, knowledge transfer has been a priority of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Particularly in the last 12 years since the Sydney Games, it has put extensive effort into developing a Knowledge Management Program. Language barriers. Contractual commitment.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

As the Mayo Clinic Care Network was developed, we decided to include only those knowledge-sharing tools and clinical services that were tried and tested internally at Mayo Clinic. electronic tumor conferences), the service was developed and operationalized internally and then extended to members.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

One professional service firm told us how a senior partner sold only technology implementation services &38212; an area he was personally passionate about — to his clients in South America. The second approach is to salvage ideas or technologies that didn't solve the problem they were intended to solve. Rehabilitate a misfit.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Having a mentor has always helped with professional development and career advancement, but in today’s complex workplace, one mentor alone often won’t do. Here is an instance: An employee whose team was not using agile-development techniques heard of their value from one of his virtual mentors and decided to learn more about it.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Has your company, for example, developed a customer lifetime value (CLTV) measure? Who’s Afraid of Data-Driven Management? Decision making Information & technology Knowledge management' However, there is a way to predict the future using data from the past. Beware Big Data’s Easy Answers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

Some particularly knowledgeable managers mentioned that they expected the company would instead make use of open source cognitive software made available from various providers. Why would developers of exotic “deep learning” and machine learning software give it away for free? Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

Something similar could happen inside companies, with algorithms scanning email, intranets, and project management tools to suggest collaborators who might improve a project before it even gets off the ground. Information & technology Knowledge management Networking' It’s all about innovation,” he told me. “By

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Many conversations about data and analytics (D&A) start by focusing on technology. A robust, successful D&A function encompasses more than a stack of technologies, or a few people isolated on one floor of the building. What’s the best way to build effective D&A capabilities? Jumpstart process and cost efficiency?

Organization 8

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

HR reinvented the way it trained and developed talent. We know, for example, that developing leaders is essential. But in a world in which bringing managers in every year for a week of offsite training is so 1960s, how do you make the leadership development process relevant to the global economy?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

Effective "app-lication" seems a reasonable proxy for helping assess how seriously knowledge workers develop themselves, their people and their opportunities. This theme popped to top of mind while working with a large professional services company that sees mobile technologies as their force multiplier.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

With the focus properly on the amazing athletics, I doubt that many viewers paused to wonder how that feat of information technology was possible. The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time. We have also learned how to transfer knowledge from Games to Games.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Technologies that connect people to knowledge, services, and one another across the globe have acted as a centrifugal force, spinning functions and authority away from the center toward millions of previously silent and disempowered individuals. Information and communications technology is blowing the old categories into bits.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

But in our writing partnership, Brook took the lead on chapters that relate to sound decision processes and enlightened leadership, while I, in my usual pattern, focused primarily on organizations that have invested in technology, data, and analytics. Its challenge was what to do about a house that wasn't selling.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Very importantly, they were able to avoid costly technology and implementation programs that would have surely fell short of usage and revenue expectations. Execution Knowledge management' Fortunately, the organizations that took the effort to truly understand the value of their data were able to execute appropriately.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Last year, I was struck by how fast machine learning was developing and I was concerned that both Nokia and I had been a little slow on the uptake. Instead of trying to figure out the nuts and bolts of a seemingly complicated technology, I had gotten used to someone else doing the heavy lifting. I hope it’s just the beginning.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Like any firm in need of business development, we build relationships with executives across the company, and pitch proposals. At EMC, we make up for the staffing shortfall by assigning all our consultants to an “office development” team, such as recruiting, training and onboarding, knowledge management, or social committee.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

While the financial services industry has already begun the shift from active management to passive management, artificial intelligence will move the market even further, to management by smart machines, as in the case of Blackrock , which is rolling computer-driven algorithms and models into more traditional actively-managed funds.

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