Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2017

This short-term view is not what is best for your business going forward and could be highly damaging. It is a long-term investment that will pay you great dividends in the future. Information technology skills are highly relevant to any business. This is a mistake but there is more bad news.

Training 50

Training Bottom-up Budgeting Long-term 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

The thought process of HR professionals often will focus on people, while the accountants may focus more on quantitative information – the what , as opposed to the who. If you know that the person you’re presenting to has a short attention span, you want to get to your point as soon as possible. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

Planning 50

Planning Audience Succession Library 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Overcoming “short-term-ism”. One major blind spot for marketers to be aware of is “short-term-ism” that most analytics engender. The reality is that the majority of marketing activities have both a short- and long-term impact on sales. One consumer food brand almost fell into this short-term trap.

Marketing 15

Marketing NPV Short-term Net Present Value 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Patience and a long-term view. Palmisano warned against prioritizing shareholders or other constituents, calling this "a false choice," and explaining that "Long-term management is a serious challenge in a world driven by short-term thinking. Directness. He's personable, but blunt. Pragmatism. When the U.S.

Globalization 18

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 18

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

The situation improved recently with the accounting recognition of a stock option expense, which clarified to directors that options are not costless, and with the general lengthening of the options' vesting period (incenting long-term orientation). enhance long term growth and at the same time meet quarterly expectations.

Short-term 14

Short-term Long-term Incentives Parcell 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Even the term “data visualization” overemphasizes the role of the middleman, and mischaracterizes the objective of the activity. Design Information & technology Technology' If you had to guess, what program do you think that was and when was it killed off? The timing couldn’t have been worse, really.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Information Technology Library Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

However, many cannot see their way through existing HR policies and short-term business imperatives to know how to respond to such requests — let alone be proactive in suggesting possibilities to their people. In the short-term, this maintains and even enhances their job performance.

Short-term 15

Short-term How To Human Resources Long-term 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. Technically, a company's main footprint includes only its own facilities (in wonky terms, that's "Scope 1 emissions"). Cloud computing is all the rage.

Outsourcing 16

Outsourcing Energy Efficiency CRM 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Plan for impact on multiple time-horizons, combining immediate evidence of value, some medium term big wins as well as a transformational long term perspective. Change management Decision making Information & technology'

Competitive Advantage 14

Competitive Advantage Insurance Short-term Analysis 14

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. Placing a filter on the container: Short-term memory is like a cup filled with ideas. It has limits.

Management 15

Management Short-term Long-term How To 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Or as Richard Straub of the Peter Drucker Society of Europe puts the question , “are managers equipped – in terms of skills, competencies and courage – to lead us toward the Great Transformation?”. With these, knowledgeable companies can assemble the elements of technological progress into a mosaic not just once, but continuously over time.

Management 15

Management Drucker Technology Information Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

Just like on CSI—story solved in a short time. And terms like R 2 , coefficient, logistic, and heteroskedasticity should not be appearing in your public story at all! Information & technology Leadership Presentations' It turned out that some rural Irish locations don’t have postal codes. Persuading with Data.

Survey 15

Survey Storytelling Real Estate Information Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2017

Given the number of unicorn firms in Silicon Valley, it might be tempting to think that tech companies are the ones running ahead in terms of productivity, while firms in more traditional sectors are left behind. One of them has clearly been information technology. The Most Productive Firms Are Pulling Ahead, Across Industries.

Productivity 15

Productivity Products Policies Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2013

In terms of donations, the video was a complete failure. In short, players play to the metrics their management values, even at the cost of the team. In baseball, the metrics an organization uses to measure a successful plate appearance will impact player strategy in the short term (do they draw more walks, prioritize home runs, etc.?)

Metrics 13

Metrics Short-term Download Video 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

We''ve found that the most highly respected leaders avoid techniques to gain short-term compliance; they also steer clear of a self-centered "How can I get people to do what I want?" Instead, understand that your goals are to build long-term relationships and to make things better. How do you become truly influential?

Short-term 13

Short-term Influence Long-term Compliance 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Remember, some test results will show a negative outcome in the short term, but be better in the long term due to user change aversion. Information & technology Organizational culture Product development' Page weight and load should be tested alongside other tests.

Metrics 13

Metrics Information Technology Download Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The smartest thing I’ve seen organizations start doing is seed-fund and empower small cross-functional data-oriented teams explicitly charged with delivering tangible and measurable data-driven benefits in relatively short periods of time. Information & technology Leadership Organizational culture'

BHAG 9

BHAG Software Information Technology Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

Once a transaction is entered in the database and the accounts are updated, the records cannot be altered, because they’re linked to every transaction record that came before them (hence the term “chain”). Add robot delivery trucks to that future, and even short stay homes might have custom furnishing options.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Decentralization Banking Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2012

It's much easier and economically sound to pay for a service for a short time period and then stop paying for it when you're finished with it, rather than wasting money on something another company can do better, faster and cheaper. Therefore, to reduce this risk, the provider must dictate service terms and conditions in its favor.

CFO 17

CFO Operations Budgeting Technology 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

This fixation on program-based funding results in a patchwork of fragmented, short-term engagements across countries and continents. The absence of efficient financial management systems reflects comparatively low spending on information technology.

Globalization 11

Globalization NGO Benchmarking Decentralization 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

With Hillary Clinton’s tax proposals to encourage longer-term investing , the debate over whether American business is too fixated on the short term has moved from the dimly lit offices of earnest policy wonks into the klieg lights of U.S. R&D spending falls into the long-term bucket. primary season.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Cutting costs may produce a short-term bump in profits, but doesn't yield the sustained, long-term growth that executives and investors want. Investors also are looking for growth; they want companies that can deliver high levels of sustained, profitable growth.

Webinar 9

Webinar Short-term Long-term Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

We’ve studied stereotypically “creative” firms, like design, R&D, and information technology companies, but we’ve also researched stereotypically “uncreative” environments, like Golan’s manufacturing plant at Elop (which is part of Elbit ISTAR). Impressive Results.

Creativity 15

Creativity How To System Motivation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

But I fear that too many organizations have sold the title short and are missing the opportunity to define a truly transformative role. A company only needs a Chief Data Officer when it is ready to fully consider how it wishes to compete with data over the long term and start to build the organizational capabilities it will need to do so.

Six Sigma 9

Six Sigma Long-term Information Technology Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2013

Saying upfront that you expect a 10% uptick in revenue can cause people to find a short-term 10% growth that''s not there for the long-term, to be so busy looking for the 10% that they''ll miss a potential 100% gain, or miss negative correlations entirely. IT management Information & technology Managing people'

Information Technology 9

Information Technology Uncertainty Short-term GDP 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2011

Making sure data leaves the door correctly may be a viable short-term alternative, but there is already too much data, and the quantities are growing. Make sure — not only that the right controls are in place, but that you're actually using them. Every time. Define and implement an advanced data quality program.

Health Care 15

Health Care Credit Rating Quality Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2017

To be specific, cognitive uses a suite of many technologies that are designed to augment the cognitive capabilities of a human mind. We’re defining AI here as a broad term that loosely refers to computers that can perform tasks that once required human intelligence. A cognitive system can perceive and infer, reason and learn.

Technology 13

Technology System Learning-by-Doing Video 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

From one product distributed to many customers, the move is underway toward products that feed information from many sources to a single party, which rearranges and redistributes the information to many customers. In short, from many to one to many. Information & technology Leadership'

Company 10

Company Intangible Assets Information Self-aware 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

In fact, we have shown that when self-interested agents are included in a model of the Internet, policies that seem to be effective in the short-term actually exacerbate the cyber security problem in the long-term. Information & technology Managing uncertainty Risk management' Why Your CEO Is a Security Risk.

Game Theory 9

Game Theory Incentives Diversity System 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2014

The publishing industry is not one of the overachievers in terms of its use of big data. In short, some dramatic change is necessary for publishers to succeed. Customers Information & technology' The goal of any publisher is to get its content bought and read. I hope that all this happens at my publisher and others.

Books 8

Books Information Technology Content Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

We argue that leaders should stop thinking of IT as Enabling and start thinking in terms of fully Exploiting IT to strategic advantage. If that''s the case, why would any company allow a business change initiative to fall short of its promised business benefits? IT management Information & technology Strategy'

CIO 9

CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

CIOs accountability, on the other hand, stops short of information stewardship and instead focuses only on technology stewardship, an intermediate step. CIO''s are commonly accountable only for information in the middle of its lifecycle (storage, security, and availability), and their control systems reflect this.

CIO 9

CIO CFO Zero Based Budgeting Chief Technology Officer 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2015

In other words, Hointer is figuratively — if not literally — training its customers to shop on their own terms. Hointer’s salespeople are as much information resources as people who sell. As both a technology and retailer innovator — not unlike Amazon! Customers Information & technology Innovation'

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Airlines Retail Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

The problem, the court said, was that the FCC’s bans on blocking or discriminating against certain Internet traffic sounded like the kind of rules that would apply to a “telecommunications service,” yet the FCC has classified broadband internet as an “information service.” Information & technology Innovation Internet'

Telecommunications 11

Telecommunications Open-book Content Information 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Think both short term and long term. Strike the right balance between implementing short-term automation fixes and opportunities, while seeking solutions to problems that will determine success in the long run. Be mindful of the critical skills you need to retain, and the skills you need to build up.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Short-term Long-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Alex, you use a term, digital work crisis, to describe what’s going on in our workplaces today. What do you mean by that term? Even technology, information technology, you know, they’ve invested in treating that as a tier-one asset. It’s great, thank you for having me. Angelia Herrin, HBR.

Content 11

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Many customers asked for insurance not on a yearly basis but for very short periods for very specific activities. After all, one of the big reasons that insurers sell long term policies is the high up-front cost of selling. Digital technology is changing the way companies work and the way customers expect them to work.

Business Model 8

Business Model Insurance Technology Audience 8