Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. 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

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Many leaders spend their energies focusing on their personal rewards and status, rather than focusing on the greater good of those they serve. The firm focuses on leadership development, organization excellence and information technology. Lately selflessness has not been an attribute that is highly celebrated in leaders.

Leadership 56

Leadership Newsletter Executive Coaching Follow-up 56

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Bill is responsible all aspects of the business including sales, marketing, content development, and the delivery of Communispond courses by certified faculty. About the Author Bill Rosenthal is the Chief Executive Officer of Communispond Inc., an organization that has taught business communications skills to more than 600,000 persons.

Planning 50

Planning Audience Succession Library 50

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

JULY 16, 2014

Recently I’ve been having a very hard time talking to students, executives, and business leaders about information technology. The Great Recession forced these firms’ leaders to recognize technology’s role in driving value. He believes technology leadership is about to undergo a shakeout.

CIO 10

CIO Information Technology Forrester Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Cars are becoming more connected with each new model, driven by infotainment, navigation, safety, diagnostics, and fleet management. Samsung said at its 2014 investors forum it expects the global Smart Home Device market to reach $15 billion in 2015, almost doubling from 2013’s $7.8 Information & technology Internet'

Early Adopters 11

Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. In several industries, such as consumer goods, financial services, industrial products, and logistics, COOs usually had backgrounds in either managing operations or information technology departments.

COO 13

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 13

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Addressing a managers meeting, Brian Halla, CEO of National Semiconductor Corp., Listening with their full attention, the audience members heard Mr. Halla talk about his concern about the economy, then lead to the need for managers to look for near-term opportunities for growth. Spell it out, step-by-step.

Power 56

Power Audience Kaplan Short-term 56

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

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

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. Many of the most interesting advances are in new production processes and new information technologies. but also the risks.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Based on our work with clients in a variety of industries from financial services to energy, here are three ways we’ve seen organizations embrace the analytics opportunities of today and transform from being the constraint into being the change agent for their company’s future. Information & technology Leadership'

Banking 8

Banking Hypercompetition Constraint Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

As companies devote increasing time and energy in gathering massive quantities of data, many neglect a critical first step: Get most responsibility for data out of the IT Department. First, it seems obvious enough that one ought to put management of data (or anything else for that matter) as close to the action as possible.

Technology 15

Technology Sharpe Middle Management Energy 15

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

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. The Silicon Valley Model. . ” An Alternative Path. ” An Alternative Path.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Companies have spent enormous energy responding to the existential threat of new entrants. The first is this notion that the challenges at work, the challenges of managing modern work, really are a crisis. ” So, this challenge at work, the crisis of trying to manage modern work, has gone from a nuisance to a business imperative.

Content 8

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 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

DECEMBER 25, 2013

In spite of all the storms, the changing wind conditions, turbulence, and all the volatility and uncertainty they encounter along the way, they manage to land at their intended destination. By managing six critical variables effectively. Along the same lines, a 5% drop in revenue can result in a 50% drop in market cap.

Business Intelligence 8

Business Intelligence Information Technology Uncertainty Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Ever thought air mattresses in living rooms would grow into a billion dollar company that would take on the vacation rental market and the hotel industry? Billion-dollar companies do not happen if the founding team is not extremely well suited to the market (now called " founder/market fit "). I know many smart investors didn't.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Ever thought air mattresses in living rooms would grow into a billion dollar company that would take on the vacation rental market and the hotel industry? Billion-dollar companies do not happen if the founding team is not extremely well suited to the market (now called " founder/market fit "). I know many smart investors didn't.

Venture Capitalist 16

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Data-driven managers, departments, and organizations have always enjoyed distinct advantages. The data-driven have crafted the best strategies, uncovered wholly new markets, and kept operational costs low. alone faces a shortage of roughly ten analytically-competent managers for each deep analyst.

Organization 15

Organization Telecommunications McKinsey Price 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

With permanently new dynamism in the job market and the elimination of the career ladder , the days of signing up for a 20-year, pre-configured journey to the top are over. But there's more good news: The information technology revolution just lowered the cost of experimentation. The time to diversify is now.

Travel 17

Travel Career Agility Learning-by-Doing 17

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. They build brand presence before markets have been clearly defined. Established industries aren’t ripped apart overnight. Consider drone delivery services.

Business Model 8

Business Model Constraint Technology Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

This includes having a tangible plan for what data is being sought, what changes will be made based on the findings, how the results of these changes will be measured, and the return on investment that justifies the time and energy put into the project. Personal matters should be handled by managers, not by analytics initiatives.

Information Technology 9

Information Technology Participative Proposal Information 9

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. Because they have suffered from delays and high expenses in changing information technology (IT), some choose a manual workaround that is less efficient.

Price 13

Price System Technology Software 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

Taking Gartner''s prediction that the Internet of Things (essentially, sensors that share data with the Internet) will add 50 billion machine voices to today''s 2 billion connected users, we have to believe that the ability for humans to manage the process of amassing the right data and performing the right analysis is headed for trouble.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Software Information Technology Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

We witnessed a monumental event in a shareholder resolution calling on ExxonMobil, the world’s biggest publicly listed energy company, to disclose the impact on its business under a 2-degree scenario. But another major action last week points in the opposite direction and leaves us more optimistic.

Tips 8

Tips Supply Chain Proposal Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

In these cases Rwanda had eroded assets, but there was a foundation and a proof point, a market test that these areas could be successful and they could be competitive. Rwanda is winning international awards and marketing globally, and tourism is booming. We need energy. How do we upgrade? All of these need powering.

Porter 9

Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2017

After all, the job description involves poring through huge quantities of often disparate data to find insights that may prove helpful in every aspect of a business, including marketing, logistics, and human resources. Seek out veterans and managers who will make time to explain the business. Read, study, and go to conferences.

Osborne 8

Osborne Politics Information Guidelines 8

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. In other words, business leaders have been dealing with the direct, market-based risks presented by major economic, technological, and demographic trends.

Politics 10

Politics Supply Chain Offshoring Globalization 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

The goal is to figure out which persuadable voters to spend energy — and dollars — on, in the hope of moving the dial just slightly in their favor. What were some of Obama's key features that you would use to market him, to tell a story based on the data you had? It's a world where hundredths of a percentage point matter.

Survey 8

Survey Politics Information Discount 8