The Practical Leader

MARCH 15, 2023

If day after day of stressful racing around doesn’t manage to actually kill us before our time, it will kill our health, happiness, and effectiveness. I once sat through a scarily high-energy presentation given by a professor specializing in knowledge management. This is solid life advice as well.

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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.

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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.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Speed Traps: Lead Smarter, Not Faster I once sat through an author’s frantic, high-energy presentation on knowledge management. He deluged us with a flood of statistics showing how the world’s knowledge was growing at mind-blowing rates. Mastering or Mastered by Your Technology?

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 20, 2010

Vineet Nayar of HCL Technologies pioneered the concept of Employee first and customer second. Ed Nichols on April 29th, 2010 As a manager I have always found that the small things can sometimes make the biggest difference – whether its Pizza Friday or an after work run. Empowerment also fosters an environment of trust.

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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.

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CIO Technology CRM Competitive Advantage 50

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.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JULY 3, 2012

Technology over the last several years has provided [.]. What has changed is the complexity of organizations, the size of organizations, the increasing desire for speed, and the dispersion of team member both from a traditional office and around the globe.

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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Bret Simmons takes us into sudden death overtime as we reflect on the importance of self management in leaders: Prudence: An Undervalued Virtue of Leadership. Gwyn Teatro of You’re Not The Boss of Me plays quarterback as she leads discussion of the next play in the huddle with Managing and Leading….Lessons is hiring.

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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?

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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.

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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?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

This population boom will bring both challenges and opportunities, which is why America’s Top 25 Future-Ready Cities are focusing on using technologies and data to enhance their economic development and sustainability, and to provide a higher quality of life for their citizens.

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Technology Content Constraint Project 8

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.

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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.

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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.

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Management Engineering Open-book Performance Review 14

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.

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Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 15

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.

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Management Airlines Supply Chain CTO 8

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Leaders consciously or unconsciously lump employees into three categories: the “stars” consisting of those in management as well high potential employees, the much larger “core” made up of solid contributors, and the rest, employees whose contributions and fit with the organization are questionable. That might surprise some.

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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.

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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.

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Media Marketing Technology Short-term 15

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.

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Globalization Health Care Information Technology Chief Technology Officer 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

Decision making Information & technology Knowledge management' One might even say that developing the right mix of intuition and data-driven analysis is the ultimate key to success with this movement. Neither an all-intuition nor an all-analytics approach will get you to the promised land.

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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.

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Committee Knowledge Management Project Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2015

To shift to a remote model successfully, however, management practices have to adapt to remote work, even if only a few workers are remote. New technologies – and the proper use of old technologies – are a crucial part of this adaptation. In a 2014 Robert Half Technology survey of U.S.-based

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Tools CIO Knowledge Management Travel 8

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?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

A large high-technology company had established an innovation center in one of their U.S. Managing Across Cultures. managers believed that open, flexible workspaces fostered collaboration and innovation and the center was established some distance from the main campus, which U.S. It made sense. Leaders from the U.S. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

I’m at Lockheed Martin where we focus relentlessly on expanding and improving the technology and tradecraft to remain ahead of adversaries. it would be naïve to think that our adversaries are not finding opposing uses for these technologies). Information & technology Knowledge management Risk management'

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Information Technology Analysis Information Knowledge Management 8

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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

The challenges of combining and managing the resources and operations of the different organizations and aligning their cultures may actually make the goal of integrated, patient-centered care much harder to achieve. The challenge was to create delivery processes that would support the sharing of knowledge and expertise beyond our walls.

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Health Care Mayo Due Diligence Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

Together, we engaged in a series of activities aimed at demedicalizing prenatal care for low-risk patients, empowering women to actively engage in steering their care, defining the optimal number of scheduled prenatal care appointments, and utilizing innovative technologies to optimize how we monitored the care provided.

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