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How Leading Companies Build the Workforces They Need to Stay Ahead

Harvard Business Review

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. ” Beyond the skills required to perform specific jobs, technology will also determine which jobs matter most in the years to come. Take insurance, for example.

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How to Compete When IT Is Abundant

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Fighting Chronic Disease Starts with Better Pediatric Care

Harvard Business Review

PFK is now working on expanding its strategy to address the health needs of children with disabilities. Health information and other technology. Technologies hold promise for remote monitoring and intervention. whether someone is employed and his or her earnings over time). pediatric primary care remain.

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Yes, Managing IT Is Your Job

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Why Verizon's iPhone Could Be Good for AT&T

Harvard Business Review

They do this by building consumer P&Ls through cross-functional teams across marketing, sales, supply chain and finance, much like some companies have built account and product P&Ls. The best companies are able to distinguish between these consumers by precisely valuing their operating profit potential, not just gross margin or volume.

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Corporations: Donate Your Skills, Not Just Your Money

Harvard Business Review

We set people up to use their area of expertise, be it strategy, accounting, operations, technology, finance, or human resources. They need help with financial management, marketing, product development, service delivery, and technology. A skills-based, or pro bono, approach is about donating skills, not just money.

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Disrupting the Gaming Industry with the Same Old Playbook

Harvard Business Review

Some MMOG professional teams players can command six figure salaries, thanks to the finance provided by corporate sponsorships and advertising. This all sounds splendidly disruptive: new technology-enabled social media redefining what we think of as sport. million as of 2013. Welcome to the brave new world of e-Sports.