Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2013

A growing number of organizations are moving toward having more pervasive Business Intelligence (BI) by turning to evidence-based decision making supported by a range of BI and analytics technology and processes that enable decision makers to have the best possible intelligence about customers, finances, operations, suppliers, and the market.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 8, 2016

Can nuclear plants be operated competitively in today’s market? Since 2013, utility executives have announced the early retirement of twelve reactors and Wall Street estimates reveal another dozen to be at risk; raising the question: Can nuclear plants be operated competitively in today’s market? For over 30 years, U.S.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Ed holds a Master of Science degree in Operations Research and a Bachelors degree in Mathematics.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

has a new "white paper" out with the rah rah title, " Financial Services: Safer & Stronger in 2012." For Bogle, that's because the company where he spent his peak earning years was structured as a mutual — owned by its customers and operated on their behalf. The largest U.S. The profit motive is generally a good thing.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

This week, Microsoft is announcing an unusual initiative that it hopes will change how the company operates: an internal fee on carbon. As Microsoft takes on more of its customers' operations through cloud-based services, reliance on the utility grid creates real operational and price risk (from outages and volatile prices).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2017

At a high level, a competency center is a collection of domain experts who are given a goal to improve agility, foster innovation, establish best practices, provide training (and mentoring), and be a communications engine. Competency centers can be established by any type of focus area and require a lead, members, and a sponsor.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. Amazon makes extensive use of well-researched white papers to help focus the management team on critical decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

IBM has transformed itself many times since its inception in the late 19th century and is on a continuous journey of innovation and transformation to help clients win in their ever-changing markets. Because large enterprises’ business operations live in software. Download this podcast. Angelia Herrin, host. Max De Ycaza, IBM.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Innovation at GE was on a roll. Since then Flannery has replaced Immelt’s vice chairs responsible for innovation. So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Are lean innovation and the startup way a failure in large companies? Then it wasn’t. Comstock is out.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2017

In my experience, legacy managements too frequently misunderstand recommenders’ role in driving innovation and cultural change. That represents an organizational, operational and cultural breakthrough, not just a digital one. There’s no shortage of real-world recommenders to emulate and innovate on.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

In fact, each of these innovations is already up and running somewhere in the world today, with more happening every day. A single, voice-activated digital assistant ready to answer any civic question. How far ahead do you think you’d have to jump to make these things happen? Five years? They are signs of profound change.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2017

For example, a surgeon in the hospital operating room could view an X-ray you had taken at an urgent care center. In our white paper, “A Case Study for Blockchain in Healthcare,” we proposed a novel, decentralized record management system to handle EHRs using blockchain technology, which we called MedRec.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations. Get to work on writing articles, blogs, white papers, or even a book. You probably didn’t answer, “How to implement effective marketing.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” The Future of Operations. Insight Center.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

Before I go any further, today’s rant should not be construed as a call for elitism, but rather a call for authenticity, innovation and professionalism. As leadership advisors and coaches we counsel our clients on the need for change and innovation, but have we become the proverbial shoe maker without shoes?

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