Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

These stock buybacks have come under criticism as a bad investment – the argument being that companies sitting on record amounts of cash ought to invest in innovation, salaries, or at least dividends, rather than pumping up their own stock price through buybacks. The list goes on. Not so fast. However, not all investments are equal.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. As analysts, we need to expand the organization’s “smartwidth” – its capability to understand and act on information.

Magazine 51

Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 51

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. The business complains that IT doesn’t understand the business, consistently overpromises and under-delivers, and slows innovation.

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Technology Cost Center Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Innovative products like fitness trackers and Google’s Nest thermostats are demonstrating the potential for both consumers and enterprises. Cars are becoming more connected with each new model, driven by infotainment, navigation, safety, diagnostics, and fleet management. Information & technology Internet'

Early Adopters 11

Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 11

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

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

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Second, we see a raft of innovations that will alter how products are designed, manufactured and sold — everything from nanotechnologies to 3D printing. Then, manufacturing's most important role is as a driver of innovation, trade, and productivity. Innovations Are Changing The Way We Design Products. but also the risks.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

The disproportionate spending on services is a sign of immaturity in how we manage data. In his seminal essay, “ Why Software is Eating the World ,” Marc Andreessen pointed out that for each new technology wave, the money eventually shifts to software. Information & technology IT management Technology'

Maturity 9

Maturity Software Information Technology Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

With the pace of digital “always on” streaming devices and technology innovation accelerating, one might think technology would continue to pose a challenge for businesses. An upstream energy equipment manufacturer, for example, used this approach to better understand the amount of time production equipment sat idling.

Banking 8

Banking Hypercompetition Constraint Technology 8

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.

Cooper 8

Cooper CIO Risk Management Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

Managers, consultants, and academics around the world have long wrestled with this question. But simultaneously managing today’s business while creating tomorrow’s goes beyond being ambidextrous. Managers exploiting current businesses develop mindsets based on what they have experienced in the past.

Company 8

Company Licensing Incentives Construction 8

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. Have all the innovative ideas already been done? So who is to blame for the lack of big, transformational ideas?

Venture Capitalist 17

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. Have all the innovative ideas already been done? So who is to blame for the lack of big, transformational ideas?

Venture Capitalist 16

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

The myth of Silicon Valley is that venture-funded entrepreneurship is a generalizable model that can be applied to every problem, when in actuality it is a model that was built to commercialize mature technologies for certain markets. No innovation strategy fits every problem , so we need to keep expanding the toolbox.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Data-driven managers, departments, and organizations have always enjoyed distinct advantages. Important as the technology and expertise may be, we find that most companies should focus first on high-quality data, process, people, and culture. alone faces a shortage of roughly ten analytically-competent managers for each deep analyst.

Organization 15

Organization Telecommunications McKinsey Price 15

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

New financial innovations enabled both historic global economic growth and cascading global financial failures. 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.

Agility 65

Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

In combination, business and operating models define and rank the range of options available to operating managers in making their daily business decisions. The first is customer interaction and relationship management, which leverages new and extensive data and analytics platforms to shape relationships and target opportunities.

Company 8

Company Operations Human Capital Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

How can incumbents manage through the monumental changes currently under way? One answer is to take a cue from pivotal technology companies leading the change. Established industries aren’t ripped apart overnight. That takes time, though when momentum builds, change happens fast.

Business Model 8

Business Model Constraint Technology Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

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. In a profession that prioritizes teaching and often thinks schools can’t, or shouldn’t, be managed. billion and $7.6

Long-term 8

Long-term Education GDP Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

has been an innovation superpower. In virtually every advanced field, whether it’s information technology, biotechnology, agriculture, or renewable energy, America holds a leading position. ” Yet that poses a problem for managers. vincent tsui FOR HBR. Since World War II, the U.S.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Competitive Advantage Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

As an experienced manager, he knew that his manufacturing and operation division’s success depended on getting creative ideas from his employees. As a result, innovation can stall. Justin Tierney/EyeEm/Getty Images. In 2007 Joseph Golan, a division leader at Elop, an Israeli electro-optics company, faced a challenge.

Creativity 10

Creativity How To System Motivation 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

They have used advances in information technology, which might have destroyed their businesses, to improve their offerings and cut their cost of production. Having navigated globalization and rapid technological change, businesses may be scuppered by the social and political responses to them. What will this entail?

Politics 10

Politics Supply Chain Offshoring Globalization 10