Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

The innovations that made these companies worth billions of dollars could be classified as computer hardware and software infrastructure. Have all the innovative ideas already been done? This worked great when the problems teams were trying to solve were fundamentally technology problems. What gives? What was my title?

Venture Capitalist 20

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 20

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. National competitiveness Finance & Accounting Research & development'

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Vital though near-term effectiveness is, the exchanges hold a longer-term potential—they can help reshape the organization, delivery, and financing of insurance. These innovations include bundled payments and accountable care organizations. Not all of these innovations will succeed. Leading Health Care Innovation.

Insurance 13

Insurance Goal Health Care Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection." This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention.

NGO 15

NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

As many companies move from exclusively internal focused R&D to distributed-innovation systems (e.g., A new component of the IT function must be developed to support this category of work: the Distributed Innovation Group (DIG). DIG is responsible for emerging technology, collaboration methods and technology (e.g.,

Enterprise Architecture 9

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 9

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. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

Competitive Advantage 9

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Finance teams, which are not known for their flexibility to begin with, often have trouble changing their traditional planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes to accommodate radically new IoT business models. My favorite example of this is iRobot , the maker of the innovative Roomba vacuum.

Products 10

Products Productivity Company Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

That makes it imperative to start thinking about how management will be changed by the most impactful information technology of our time: cloud computing. ” He added, “the biggest issue now is that important new technologies are moving ahead, and people aren’t thinking enough about the big implications.”

Management 16

Management Software BPM Technology 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2017

From self-driving cars to drones to automated business operations, this technology has the potential to enhance productivity, direct human talent on critical issues, accelerate innovation, and lower operating costs. In addition, there are unique and new cyber risks associated with cognitive and AI technology.

Technology 15

Technology System Learning-by-Doing Video 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

Four dynamics are driving this new era of health care innovation: Finally, there is a financial incentive to innovate. Top-tier thinkers from data science, business, finance, and the digital world are coming together to find new solutions. Entrepreneurship Health Innovation'

Health Care 10

Health Care Venture Funding Entrepreneur Pharmaceuticals 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

When I do get a name, it often differs depending on who I asked—a marketing executive points to one person, while finance identifies someone else. Information & technology Leadership' The answers I most often get are “Nobody” or “I don’t know.” That isn’t good.

Company 9

Company COO Information Technology CFO 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

How can we share insights and innovations that allow our employees to be more productive? So early on, Finance and HR collaborated to simplify the process, reducing the number of data metrics. Are employees fully engaged and motivated? What do we expect from them and how can we help them meet those expectations? Take Sprint.

Metrics 15

Metrics Parcell Call Center Products 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Health information and other technology. Achieving these essential features will be more easily accomplished with the aid of health information technology (IT), including electronic medical records (EMRs) and population-health-management software. whether someone is employed and his or her earnings over time).

Health Care 15

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Since the 2008 financial crisis, policy makers, professors, politicians, and others have expressed concern over America’s best and brightest minds electing to work in finance instead of pursuing potentially more socially valuable careers in science, medicine, and engineering. of MIT graduates taking jobs in finance after graduation.

Engineering 8

Engineering Finance Bottom-up Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

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Guidelines 15

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

Yet by rethinking the use of personal data from the ground up, entrepreneurs can mine new opportunities for experimentation and innovation. Entrepreneurship Government Information & technology' This involves focusing on three goals.

Engineering 9

Engineering Information Technology Information Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The same investment logic holds for Apple's innovation ecosystem; the flow and fortune of its third-party apps development alone would yield valuable insight. But those are exactly the kinds of values conversations (privacy, exclusivity, fairness, and intellectual property) innovative organizations need to have.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 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. 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

JULY 13, 2012

We should expect good, innovative companies to hire smart, aggressive people who "push the envelope." I've been following the unfolding Libor scandal and Barclays Bank , and still don't know how far, where, and to what cost this will go. But I do see a way forward in this tight coupling between human nature and the data.

Quality 15

Quality Banking Crisis Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The Management Innovation Exchange is currently running a competition to "hack" the human resources function to enable organizational adaptability. Historically, people got to the C-suite by progressing up the career ladder in one discipline, moving among multiple companies until they made it to an executive role in finance, sales, etc.

CIO 9

CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

You’d think that increasingly sophisticated technology would help reduce this waste. For example, the finance department approves what to buy, facilities maintains equipment, HR tells employees how to conserve energy, and marketing manages the company’s corporate sustainability reporting.

Company 8

Company Management CIO Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Build your strategy on a foundation of continuous innovations, both new products and new processes. Test those innovations quickly, and pursue only those that work. Looking for more and better innovation, NPR’s board asked the programming department to come up with a new approach to devel­oping shows.

Agility 8

Agility Technology Project Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Coca-Cola FEMSA, the largest franchise bottler of Coca-Cola beverages in the world, set the stage for this learning two years ago when it created centers of excellence (COEs) to drive transformation in each of its functional or process areas, including supply chain, distribution, commercial, finance, HR and IT.

Technology 9

Technology Organization Content Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

” It might be hard for people in HR to hear, but only 20% of those who responded said that their HR function was enabling them to transform, ranking them even lower than finance — an area not exactly known for its agility. The most disrupted industries typically suffer from a perfect storm of two forces.

Industry 8

Industry B2C Agility Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

It has arguably saved billions in development expenses by reducing duplicative effort and allowing complementary innovation without requirement permission or payment. Open Collective is providing resources to aggregate the needs of groups of open-source projects to assist in financing, resourcing, and maintenance.

Software 9

Software Project Workshop Long-term 9

HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Computer and information systems managers. Also known as information technology managers, such professionals devise, coordinate, implement, and analyze computer-related projects. A bachelor’s degree or a more specialised degree in computers or informational technology is required. Percentage of women: 52%.

Human Resources 52

Human Resources Chemicals Software Engineering 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

“Technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace and this milestone allows federal regulations and the use of our national airspace to evolve to safely accommodate innovation,” Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said in a press release that accompanied the announcement. Both the U.K.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. on H-1B visas, boost the economy by increasing innovation, productivity, and sometimes even employment. But in April, just after U.S.

Outsourcing 13

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

and China take the lead in tech innovation. And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. Investing in innovation capacity. billion).

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

The consensus is the challenges facing them will be daunting and organizations will be strained to finance and manage it. The transformation will necessitate substantial investments in finance, technology, human capital, operations, and infrastructure, and a substantial disinvestment of legacy resources in these areas.

Health Care 8

Health Care Industry Business Model Finance 8