Coaching Tip

JULY 9, 2013

The new retail-oriented CEO decided to close down their website, fire their internal website experts and contract out information technology by having their books sold through Amazon.com. He focused his energies on the emerging digital books business and building a family of dedicated Nook digital devices, including color tablets.

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Chief Executive Officer eBook Leadership Leadership Styles 97

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2023

For businesses, technology has a variety of interconnected impacts including unintended consequences, data risks, and appropriateness of technological uses, as well as broader environmental concerns.

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Ethics Technology Energy System 17

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Most companies are unprepared for the emerging revolution in predictive energy analytics. In fact, many readers’ eyes will have already glazed over at the preceding sentence, with the natural initial reaction that energy-related data isn’t relevant to their jobs. Cost Savings. alone, according to the US.

Energy 8

Energy Resources Information Technology Cost Center 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Digital technology is the biggest agitator of the business world today. Mobile technology, social media, cloud computing, embedded devices, big data, and analytics have radically changed the nature of work and competition. Technology has tremendous potential to be the engine of increasing human, organizational, and economic prosperity.

Management 12

Management Drucker Technology Information Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reported that companies waste 30% of the energy they consume. For many businesses, this is equivalent to overspending on energy by that amount to achieve current production levels. You’d think that increasingly sophisticated technology would help reduce this waste.

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Company Management CIO Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

for example, a backlog of baby-boomer retirees is expected to turnover upwards of 40 percent of utilities'' 400,000-strong workforce, according to a study by the Task Force on America''s Future Energy Jobs produced by the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC). There is time, technology, and will to avoid this fate, but the clock is ticking.

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Energy Industry Engineering Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

Using each of these functions effectively is critical if one wants to manage information overload ̶ simply using your brain for crossing items off your to-do list is poor use of a very sophisticated machine. At the core of managing information overload is the ability to know which function to use, and how and when to use it.

Management 15

Management Short-term Long-term How To 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Managing this “entitlement,” which defines who can access your device data, and under what conditions it can be found and used by others, will be one of the major challenges for consumers and businesses. Information & technology Data Internet Security & privacy'

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Services include: Executive Coaching Group Coaching Leadership Consulting Organization and Individual Leadership Assessments Motivational Speaking Technology Leadership When we think of selfless leaders, many great names come to mind: Jesus; Gandhi; King; Lincoln; Mandela; Stockdale… the list goes on.

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Leadership Newsletter Executive Coaching Follow-up 56

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Each issue is packed with thought-provoking content and insight into the business issues that affect all companies competing in today’s technology-driven marketplace with recent contributions by best-selling author and researcher Tom Davenport; social media guru Chris Brogan; and Myron Scholes, world renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner.

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Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 51

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. Cloud computing has accelerated this schism, because of its capacity to take the technology group out of the business of servicing other units.

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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

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

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

the well-known test preparation company, where he developed and launched the online college that offers Associates and Bachelors degrees and certificates in Business, Information Technology, Nursing, and Law. He also served as President of Kaplan College, a division of Kaplan Inc.,

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Library Kaplan Newsletter Audience 70

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Cars are becoming more connected with each new model, driven by infotainment, navigation, safety, diagnostics, and fleet management. has emerged as a leading adopter of smart meter technology for power utilities, approaching 50% penetration of 150 million total endpoints. Information & technology Internet'

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Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

” Is management research a folly? There can be little doubt that a lot of activity goes into management research: according to the Web of Knowledge, over 8,000 articles are published every year in the 170+ journals in the field of “Management,” adding more and more new rooms.

Management 8

Management Retail Construction Ethics 8

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.

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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

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 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. Avoiding a new technology may not be an option, but it shouldn't come first.

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Process Innovation Hammer Resistance 12

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'

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Maturity Software Information Technology Industry 9

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.

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COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 13

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

the well-known test preparation company, where he developed and launched the online college that offers Associates and Bachelors degrees and certificates in Business, Information Technology, Nursing, and Law. He also served as President of Kaplan College, a division of Kaplan Inc.,

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Planning Audience Succession Library 50

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

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.

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Price System Technology Software 13

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.

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2013

One energy company, for example, observed that their customer losses were closely correlated to the intensity of customers’ Google searches for an energy supplier. Information & technology Marketing' giving credit where credit isn’t necessarily due. how much base sales is lost and at what rate). customer surveys).

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Marketing NPV Short-term Net Present Value 11

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.

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Power Audience Kaplan Short-term 56

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

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

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.

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Information Technology Participative Proposal Information 9

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 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

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Companies are investing millions of dollars in business intelligence technology. 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.

Business Intelligence 8

Business Intelligence Information Technology Uncertainty Fixed Costs 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