The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 8, 2021

When it comes to innovation, it’s tempting to think that the latest and greatest technologies are required to facilitate the creative process. “What this study reveals is that innovation is found not just by using technology specifically created to support idea-generation,” the researchers say. ” Common tech.

Creativity 98

Creativity Idea Generation Technology Information Technology 98

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Since all the work in every organization is done through relationships, it makes great sense to utilize technology to allow people to connect and collaborate easily and effectively. The corporate reason to collaborate is to improve decision making through knowledge management.

Social Capital 95

Social Capital CIO Knowledge Management Information Technology 95

Strategy Driven

JUNE 16, 2023

The business world is about to witness a new era where transformative technologies like artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and 5G come together, opening up a world of possibilities. Businesses primed to leverage these technologies to streamline everything from supply chains to sales and marketing will be riding the wave’s crest.

Supply Chain 96

Supply Chain Loyalty Content Efficiency 96

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2025

Gartner research has identified three key challenges for company leaders in the coming year: 1) New demands for a future-ready workforce; 2) The evolving role of managers, and 3) Emerging talent risks for the organization.

Trends 27

Trends Knowledge Management Technology Organization 27

Six Disciplines

AUGUST 9, 2013

That nation continued to grow stronger economically, however, while cell phone technology emerged. India lacked the capital and economic development to build a national telephone infrastructure to service all of its homes, thus remaining essentially phoneless for decades.

TQM 83

TQM Executive Coaching Knowledge Management Tools 83

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Now, however, we’re in a third-generation of the learning organization, with new technologies speeding up the rate at which we can both absorb new information and test our assumptions. This is a world that tries to overcome the innovator’s dilemma by learning new things even when their current strength remains powerful.

Osborne 117

Osborne Development Tacit Knowledge Kaizen 117

Curious Cat

AUGUST 4, 2015

This month the ASQ is asking Influential Voices to discuss methods to aid in sharing knowledge. Manu Vora kicked the discussion off with his post on The Gift of Knowledge Transfer Through Technology. I grew up surrounded by those seeking to improve management (Bill Hunter, George Box, Brian Joiner, Peter Scholtes…).

Technology 40

Technology Deming Ohno Handbook 40

Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

That nation continued to grow stronger economically, however, while cell phone technology emerged. India lacked the capital and economic development to build a national telephone infrastructure to service all of its homes, thus remaining essentially phoneless for decades.

TQM 82

TQM Executive Coaching Knowledge Management Tools 82

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

On the surface, social media and knowledge management (KM) seem very similar. Both involve people using technology to access information. Knowledge management is what company management tells me I need to know, based on what they think is important. We need to manage this. That can be quite messy.

Knowledge Management 17

Knowledge Management Media Management Participative 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

I recently spoke to a group of Silicon Valley HR leaders and this question came up, along with the related matter of how to do knowledge management better. They asked how we do knowledge management at frog design, since we have studios spread all over the world and work in a diverse range of industries.

Knowledge Management 15

Knowledge Management Management Directory Learning-by-Doing 15

Experience to Lead

APRIL 24, 2023

These fears aren’t unfounded; AI is notorious for learning and perpetuating human biases (for example, facial recognition technology that struggles to accurately identify women and people of color). If the material does not work or is not applicable to the company, new technology won’t fix it.

Development 75

Development ROI Ethics Content 75

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2015

But this new world of Big Data is proving to be much more demanding and complex than expected, requiring companies not only to adopt different technologies, but also to make significant changes to their business strategy, internal skillsets, and organizational structures. Unstructured data is very different.

CIO 50

CIO Technology CRM Competitive Advantage 50

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 7, 2024

. “As a result, people can learn a tremendous amount of information from someone who’s a newcomer or more junior person, who likely comes with different prior experience and knowledge.”

Mentor 113

Mentor Industry Process Participative 113

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. Emotional control – successful anger and/or frustration management. Curiosity – inclination to learn.

Team 52

Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Strategy Driven

MAY 20, 2012

Capture and manage your nuclear facility’s institutional knowledge for immediate action. Your organization’s most important asset is the knowledge your workers hold. Solving the Brain Drain for Nuclear and Power Generation. by Bentley Systems, Inc.

White Paper 56

White Paper Resources Power Information Technology 56

Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

It was technologically advancing at a very rapid rate that was in evidence every day. The pitting of management versus worker was demonstrated to be corrupt and I was challenged to look for causes and effects on a systemic scale in my own work. rang out at the beginning of the program, and I was hooked. Why Now?

Deming 52

Deming System Telecommunications Learning-by-Doing 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

Risk management is now at the heart of the governance model for the Olympic Games and the Olympic movement, and not only because of their growing scale and complexity. These risks can emanate from the realm of security, public health, natural ecology, technology, or economics.

Risk Management 16

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

What kind of apps would most dramatically improve your personal effectiveness as a leader and manager over the coming year? They'd be looking for insight into how well you manage yourself, your people, and their business. App management" is clearly becoming a form of knowledge management for the enterprise.

Management 14

Management Engineering Open-book Performance Review 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Sure, these technological improvements help in many ways. But more often than not, the problem we’re facing isn’t a technological one, but a social one. This left these managers wondering just how much of their conversation was public and precisely who that public might be. Let me share a few examples.

Technology 8

Technology Knowledge Management System CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

It served its purpose by raising awareness of a new set of technologies based on new principles of peer-to-peer discussion, openness, and cross-boundary communities. Indeed: the marketing organization has put social media technologies to work with very visible effect. We need to move beyond social media as a technology tool.

Media 16

Media Marketing Technology Short-term 16

Deming Institute

MAY 18, 2015

Edwards Deming’s 14 points for management. You need to manage and continually improve that entire system. I wrote about this on my personal blog in 2005, Ford and Managing the Supplier Relationship. And that will require changing the nature of the management systems within Ford. Point 4 in W.

Long-term 28

Long-term Deming Cooper System 28

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

Sebell (mark@creativerealities.com), who are managing partners at Creative Realities, Inc. a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. In interviews with a dozen senior managers from a large company, two particular failures came up over and over again. Create a knowledge management system.

NPV 18

NPV ROI CFO Consensus 18

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.

Competitive Advantage 9

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Big data has the potential to revolutionize management. Simply put, because of big data, managers can measure, and hence know, radically more about their businesses, and directly translate that knowledge into improved decision making and performance. The technologies are new and in some cases exotic.

Management 10

Management Airlines Supply Chain CTO 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

Too often new collaborative technologies — though intended to connect employees seamlessly and enable work to get done more efficiently — are misused in ways that impede innovation and hurt performance. Rob Cross is an associate professor of management in the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia.

Media 18

Media Innovation Efficiency System 18

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2011

They create the technologies which change them, while they are using them, at a speedy pace. Unlike the industrial era, theplayers in the knowledge economy are very mobile, adaptive, and agile, with brainpower instead of muscles at their core. for example, exports knowledge management but buys knowledge IT skills from India.

Tools 15

Tools Drucker Software Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

Certainly, knowledge transfer has been a priority of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Particularly in the last 12 years since the Sydney Games, it has put extensive effort into developing a Knowledge Management Program. Language barriers. Difficulty of getting the whole story. Contractual commitment.

Committee 14

Committee Knowledge Management Project Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Amidst all the (justified) hoopla over "big data" right now, I'm a little afraid that managers will overlook some important "small data" messages. The first of these was underscored for me as, for the first time in my management research and writing, I found myself focusing on a small business case.

Organization 18

Organization Real Estate Analysis Technology 18

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Technologies that connect people to knowledge, services, and one another across the globe have acted as a centrifugal force, spinning functions and authority away from the center toward millions of previously silent and disempowered individuals. Information and communications technology is blowing the old categories into bits.

Storytelling 19

Storytelling Disaggregation Supply Chain Globalization 19

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

In response, our team at the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard launched an online platform to generate and disseminate knowledge in health care delivery. In business, PVCs are used for knowledge management and exchange across multiple organizations, industries, and geographies. The Launch.

Globalization 11

Globalization Health Care Information Technology Chief Technology Officer 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Predictive analytics are gaining in popularity, but what do you—a manager, not an analyst—really need to know in order to interpret results and make better decisions? Managers should always ask analysts what the key assumptions are, and what would have to happen for them to no longer be valid. Who’s Afraid of Data-Driven Management?

Sample 15

Sample Analysis Information Technology Knowledge Management 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Seems like strategic management 101, but oftentimes companies are unable to ask this question due to turf battles or leadership blind spots. One professional service firm told us how a senior partner sold only technology implementation services &38212; an area he was personally passionate about — to his clients in South America.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Sample Hedge Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Many alarms have sounded on the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to upend the workforce, especially for easy-to-automate jobs. But managers at all levels will have to adapt to the world of smart machines. How can managers — from the front lines to the C-suite — thrive in the age of AI?

Management 8

Management Survey Technology Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

With the combination of cloud storage and computing, mobile technologies, and powerful analytical and predictive tools, we can start mining 'big data' and reaping huge rewards.". We commonly see new technologies overhyped; their capabilities are promoted beyond their potential. It's not that simple, especially for sales forces.

CRM 15

CRM Technology Micromanagement Maturity 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Information & technology Knowledge management Research' Regardless, the most important thing, with all due respect to Lewis Carroll, is: Beware the button, my son, the assumptions that bite, the findings that catch!

Information Technology 14

Information Technology Knowledge Management Software Health Care 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

But in a world in which bringing managers in every year for a week of offsite training is so 1960s, how do you make the leadership development process relevant to the global economy? This is about using the technology of "business analytics" within the workforce, bringing vital statistics to the art of performance reviews.

Globalization 17

Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

But technology is not the culprit here; a misguided person is. Tags: Information & technology Knowledge management Military IC. But he did get it, and he decided to use it to suck down a huge trove of classified information onto CDs and USB drives and give it to WikiLeaks. For what it's worth, I deplore what he did.

Information 16

Information Information Technology Document Knowledge Management 16