Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

The solution is machine learning —computers automatically discovering patterns and developing new knowledge by furiously feeding on modern society's greatest and most potent unnatural resource : data. Student essay grade prediction has been developed for automatic grading. Data can seem like such dry, uninteresting stuff.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 13, 2011

Design by 12GrainStudio Other People’s Work Is Never Easy or People Like to Be Included In the Plan Thursday, January 13th, 2011 Posted by: mike “When we are in an operations team meeting, and I bring up 7 or 8 process changes and tweaks…the other managers all get pissed and become combative.” Powered by WordPress. Tell me about that.”

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 20, 2020

She started the Women’s Entrepreneurial Center and the Decatur, Georgia branch of the Small Business Development Center. That cash must equal at least three to six months operating expenses. When you manage your company’s operations by net profit per hour rather than percentages, you determine true cost and true profit.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The growth in digital twins has been driven by technological improvements in areas such as the internet of things and wireless connectivity. Digital twins have been at the forefront of this move, with Ericsson developing a digital version of cities to explore how 5G networks might best be rolled out.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 17, 2015

And, the operating budget has climbed from $38M to $178M. The wireless campus sports an immaculate setting with a promenade displaying the flags of 50+ countries representing their diverse student body. Leadership Development Leadership Students University' HPU was named a 2013 Green College in The Princeton Review.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

As a former Verizon Wireless executive, she has over twenty years of experience in sales, marketing, customer service, and human resources. And you need to establish your operating principles. If you can develop great peer relationships, you’re golden! Karin is a keynote speaker, leadership consultant, and MBA professor.

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

It has all the bells and whistles; its wireless, Bluetooth compatible and an all in one (fax, scanner, and printer) machine. When it works, it’s wonderful but the operative word is when it works. For a small business, this is a huge operational problem. HP Has Uninspired Strategic Decisions.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 8, 2019

Smart devices and wireless connections are now nearly everywhere and have already contributed immensely to the growth of the e-commerce industry. With the customers demanding faster deliveries, field service businesses are now looking to develop a more time-definite supply chain. Operation Costs Have to Be Reduced.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2011

Every year since 1995, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released a report on the state of competition in the wireless market. In fact, direct evidence regarding the state of competition in the wireless ecosystem is easy to obtain and clear in its implications. It's just about to release its fifteenth one.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

Many organizations have historically operated on the “there is one best way” school of management. A classic example of a new-world organization is AT&T Wireless Services (formerly McCaw Cellular Communications); which AT&T paid twelve billion dollars to acquire. A classic example was the old Bell System.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Wireless connectivity. When they get to the car, they wave their membership card over a sensor on the windshield (the card and sensor communicate wirelessly), which triggers a wireless query back to the company's database to make sure the user is OK to take the car. Wireless Connectivity. What are they? Microprocessors.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

The iPhone roared into the marketplace 10 years ago today, and overwhelmed the wireless world. Wireless is the same, but without the cat. ” The interference problem was the stated premise, but the object of regulators’ desire — and of the interests they loved (or feared) most — was control over wireless markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

Clearly, there has to be a better way to paint a car, but to make that operation more efficient and take cost out will require the development of a new process. The leap forward will be accomplished through the development of a new process—in this case, electrifying the auto—not automating an old one.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

In my experience with dozens of organizations implementing IoT solutions, those that achieved their expected ROI changed their traditional business approaches in one or more of the following ways: They Developed a Partner Ecosystem. ” There are several strategies that can be used to develop IoT talent. The reason?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

Without the internet and wireless communications, car rental by the hour was an impossibly expensive and tedious transaction for such a small increment of time. And that’s how it grew exponentially, operating today in 400 cities in 68 countries. That’s how Uber transformed the economics and nimbleness of taxi services.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

In other words, when will autonomous vehicles be safe enough to operate on their own? Cars are heavy, fast-moving objects, operating in public spaces. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Paul Taylor/Getty Images. And where will this technology work best? ” Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Airbnb has pushed the limits of designing its customer call center operation in Portland, Oregon. Companies routinely conduct employee surveys to gather feedback on a number of factors such as their culture, performance management and investment in learning and development. The benefits of these elements is is well recognized.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

The resulting GlowCap offering provides continuous, real-time communication to users and caregivers via a wireless connection. Operations. When product-based companies add services and connectivity, operational requirements increase. HR has the job of developing the human capabilities needed to capture the IoT opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

Sensors, smartphones, tablets, wireless networks, and Big Data are starting to transform transportation and infrastructure. Not only could they digitally store manuals and logbooks, but wireless connectivity could also help with communications, flight planning, and keeping track of weather. Photo by Andrew Nguyen. But not fast enough.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. Just over one-fifth (22%) of boards operating in the IT and telecom industry sought tech expertise when filling their most recent board seat, higher than in any other industry.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

adults were at risk of developing type 2 diabetes in 2015. At the same time, some 1,000 nonprofits and community-based organizations were offering a drug-free solution to help avoid developing diabetes, but they weren’t sufficiently publicizing it or engaging users to sell the service. Consider that 86 million U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Other mobile service operators are also vying to release innovations to help customers pay for things without cash, receive money from abroad, and obtain micro loans and insurance products. ” This has been driving ever closer relationships between banks and mobile operators. These trends are not limited to customers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

million adults in the United States with high blood sugar levels in danger of developing type 2 diabetes. Weight loss is a clinically-accepted proxy measure for reducing the risk of developing diabetes.) Diabetes is one of the most pervasive and expensive chronic diseases: It affects an estimated 30.3 In addition there are 84.1

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

Companies compete to develop new products and features that will entice customers to buy their products instead of their competitors' and hopefully to pay a premium price for what they have to offer. Some they develop on their own, but inevitably, many come from suppliers or competitors or from the technology ether.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

India has added new customers at the fastest rate for Amazon in its history of operations across the world, including the U.S. Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos and Renault’s CEO Carlos Ghosn are in India for the long-term, as a hub for middle-of-the–pyramid innovations that can serve all emerging and even developed markets.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. Most importantly, executives have to follow developments closely. billion in arears) that the government is now a reliable borrower.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Thanks to the proliferation of smartphones, brand and online-shopping websites, social media, and vehicle connectivity, businesses have a unique opportunity to use technology to revolutionize the customer experience and to incorporate the voice of the customer into product development. But where and how do you start? Keep it simple.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2018

The ACT will provide advice and recommendations to the Governor’s office; enhance the cybersecurity workforce development; and, increase public awareness on cybersecurity best practices. The AZSecure Cybersecurity Fellowship Program offers full scholarships for qualified U.S. students in exchange for public service.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis. For ideas to become reality, a company needs repeatable processes, not only out-of-the-box insights.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

Leading proponents of this approach use the data-talks-to-data concept developed by IBM's Jeff Jonas and his team in the Entity Analytics group. Decide on the overall data-collection goal and determine how invasive the company can be, given the laws and standards in each region where it operates.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Their concerns fell into three broad categories: talent, operating in a global marketplace, and regulation and legislation. AT&T, for example, had to switch its focus from traditional telecom services to wireless services, and this shift required employees with different skill sets. Operating in a Global Marketplace.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Further, we'll see a roll-out of 4G wireless services across the country in 2012. One publicly traded company, OnMobile , an operator of premium SMS services, now does business in 52 countries around the world. There's the question of how to develop robust legal, regulatory, and financial infrastructure (including payment systems).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

To deliver those returns, developers cater to the largest possible market: large urban and suburban K-12 districts. And as technology changes, district developers don't have the wherewithal to keep up, so the solutions start lagging behind. It crashes the latest version of the operating system that just got installed.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2021

Similarly, the increased development of 3D games, 3D mobile devices, and 3D movies has stimulated the demand for true 3D displays both in consumer and enterprise applications. There are already a dozen volumetric capture studios operating around the world that work by pointing dozens, even hundreds of cameras at a group on vast stages.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

A platform provider could provide incentives for a large component provider to exclusively develop solutions for its platform as Microsoft tried to do with Nokia by giving it a billion dollars to use the Microsoft platform on Nokia phones. A small company could gain legitimacy by partnering with a large platform provider.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

In 2009, Congress charged the Federal Communications Commission with the development of a National Broadband Plan (NBP). More advanced DSL using fiber-copper hybrid technology was rushed into operation, as were new fiber-to-the-home services from AT&T, CenturyLink and Frontier.

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