Recalibrate Your Strategy in China with This Framework
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
This 2×2 will help your company navigate Beijing’s priorities and political sensitivities.
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4 Cybersecurity Strategies for Small and Midsize Businesses
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
You can’t stop cyberattacks from happening. But you can contain the consequences.
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IBM Consulting Interviews: Navigating the IBM GBS Maze
Management Consulted
OCTOBER 18, 2013
The division focused on in this article is IBM Global Business Services (IBM GBS). In 1991, IBM approved a new world-wide services strategy to make IBM a world class services company by 1994. These services focused on business management and information technology. Information Technology. Finance Risk.
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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights
Management Consulted
AUGUST 28, 2013
Early on, he wrote many articles about his real passion of “taking the measure” on business problems. The firm sold a majority stake in the US government business for $2.45B to the Carlyle Group (Booz Allen Hamilton) and Booz & Company, owned and operated as a partnership, assumed the commercial strategy role. Program Management.
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Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy
Harvard Business
APRIL 18, 2016
In addition to executing well-defined tasks, technology is starting to address broader, more ambiguous problems. It’s not implausible to imagine that one day a “strategist in a box” could autonomously develop and execute a business strategy. It must be embedded in what we call the integrated strategy machine.
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70 Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story
Management Consulted
AUGUST 1, 2013
Oliver Wyman’s strategy consulting practice has made waves specifically in the financial services sector , and beyond as well. Now a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan, Oliver Wyman is known to give MMC its strong reputation as experts over other insurance providers because of the firm’s focus on strategy. Public Policy.
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201 Management Consulting Salary Guide for 2019
CaseInterview.com
MARCH 5, 2019
So, consultants not only pursue a well-defined problem-solving strategy, but they also segment the consulting industry into several specific areas. Strategy Consulting. Strategy consultants provide advice regarding how businesses can adapt their general strategy towards growth. Information Technology Consulting.
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Management Consulting
CaseInterview.com
MAY 26, 2023
They may mix separate issues or expect that their previous strategies will work in a new market. Your role as a management consultant will be to filter information from the client so you can identify the specific challenges being faced. Let’s use the example of a business that’s seeking to relocate.
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How Physicians Can Keep Up with the Knowledge Explosion in Medicine
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 19, 2016
Not only does she have to know about these new drugs and the active clinical trials, she also should be up-to-date on all of the published articles in this area so she can understand the science behind each therapy option in order to make the best decisions for her patient. We need a similar “para-medical” function in medicine.
When Expanding into a Foreign Market, Your Outsider Status Is a Competitive Advantage
Harvard Business
MAY 31, 2024
Entering a foreign market comes with inherent challenges. Many global companies tend to overcome those challenges by minimizing their foreignness and assimilating into the local environments. However, maintaining and embracing foreignness can yield unforeseen advantages.
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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 15, 2018
One large nonprofit system that has been struggling with its costs had a “president of strategy,” prima facie evidence of a serious culture problem! A key question that must be addressed by a larger system is how many facilities that could not have survived on their own can it manage without damaging its financial position?
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Bank Profitability: Decoding the Income Statement
Tom Spencer
OCTOBER 6, 2023
Operating expenses Operating or non-interest expenses will be affected by many moving parts such as wages, benefits, infrastructure, and information technology. While not covered in this article, being aware of banks’ capital requirements is also crucial (e.g., They should not be looked at in isolation.
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Why Are We Still Classifying Companies by Industry?
Harvard Business
AUGUST 18, 2016
They have expanded far beyond the “Information Technology” tag attached to them by GICS. Today, technology is just a standard part of corporate infrastructure, like operations or marketing. But Information Technology doesn’t seem like the right category to group them into.
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BearingPoint Interview Preparation – Mystery or History?
Management Consulted
JANUARY 20, 2014
BearingPoint partners with the major technological suppliers, like Hewlett Packard, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP, to develop solutions and strategies suiting their clients’ requirements. Information Technology. Strategy & Business Executive. Practice Areas. Enterprise Applications. Human Resources.
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Job Hub: Intuit Jobs and Culture
Management Consulted
MARCH 19, 2017
Intuit is a financial software and information technology company that has spent an impressive 13 years on Fortune’s list of the Best Companies To Work For by pledging to “Simplify the Business of Life!” We offer a bi-monthly newsletter (by application only) for high level strategy jobs at top firms around the world.
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Is Your Company Using Employee Data Ethically?
Harvard Business
MARCH 13, 2017
” Associate Justice Stewart probably didn’t know how new data technologies would soon begin to blur those boundaries. Ask for guidance from your information governance (IG) committee. Supreme Court, once said , “Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is right to do.”
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120 Companies Are Turning Drones into a Competitive Advantage
Harvard Business
JUNE 29, 2016
No strategy is static. The multiplying possibilities of drone-based data could inspire across-the-board alterations in data gathering strategies, particularly if such changes lead to cost savings, improved safety, and enhanced analytics. Insight Center. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. Sponsored by Accenture.
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128 The Secret History of Agile Innovation
Harvard Business
APRIL 20, 2016
In 1986, one of us (Takeuchi) and coauthor Ikujiro Nonaka published an article in Harvard Business Review called “The New New Product Development Game.” One came from a Bell Labs article on the Borland Quattro Pro team , suggesting that short daily team meetings increased group productivity dramatically.
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How Software Companies Can Enter the U.S. Defense Market
Harvard Business
JULY 14, 2023
Pentagon procurement procedures have long complicated commercial software companies’ entrance into the defense market difficult, but the authors’ experience working with both tech startups and the defense industry leads them to believe that now is a good time for companies to enter the market.
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To Survive, Health Care Data Providers Need to Stop Selling Data
Harvard Business
JUNE 14, 2017
The same dynamics we’ve described — widespread access, low costs, low barriers to entry, commoditization of data sets — mean it’s an open question whether this strategy can work. A better option is to evolve from providing data to providing insight.
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The Ways Your Brain Manages Overload, and How to Improve Them
Harvard Business
JUNE 7, 2017
One strategy is to substitute memories quickly. As we get older, we get less good at deliberate forgetting —paradoxically, troublesome memories linger longer (in part because we have a general worry about our memories fading so we automatically strain to remember.)
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The 4 Tiers of Digital Transformation
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
A framework to ensure your digital investments are driven by strategic objectives.
Personalized Recommendation Engines Are Coming to Health Care
Harvard Business
JULY 6, 2016
The app also provides details on the care that is most suitable for that condition, along with the nearest medical providers, and detailed descriptions and cost information on recommended tests and treatments that take into account the individual’s specific insurance coverage. No strategy is static. Insight Center.
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Judging the Obamacare Rollout Two Weeks Later; Signups Vs. Obama's 7 Million Goal; Unprecedented Experiments
MishTalk
OCTOBER 13, 2013
Like many people interviewed for this article, the executive spoke on the condition of anonymity, saying he did not wish to alienate the federal officials with whom he works. It’s an unprecedented experiment in federal information technology. The extent of the problems is pretty enormous. Fool''s Mission.
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Why Social Ventures Need Systems Thinking
Harvard Business
JULY 25, 2016
Thanks to the pace of change in information technology over the last quarter century, we have been conditioned to believe that a single innovative company driven by a visionary entrepreneur can change the world. This integrated approach to finding a solution for internet connectivity informed the rest of ESH’s strategy.
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You Can’t Delegate Talent Management to the HR Department
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
These talent management people create processes for assessing leadership capabilities and set the strategy for upgrading leadership talent over time. A good example is Cognizant, a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services.
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Why AI Will Never Replace Managers
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
When it comes to reframing problems and finding surprising solutions, humans are still light-years ahead of machines.
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Let Go of What Made Your Company Great
Harvard Business
APRIL 13, 2016
As United Rentals, the largest equipment rentals company, shifted its strategy to focus more on national customer accounts, it faced a huge forgetting challenge; branch managers needed to forget the fiefdom mentality. After the Great Recession, the company’s strategy shifted to protect it against cyclicality.
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Success with the Internet of Things Requires More Than Chasing the Cool Factor
Harvard Business
AUGUST 7, 2017
Once a company understands that it is a node in an interconnected network, its business strategy must change externally and internally. They Update Their Talent Management Strategies. IoT solutions tend to span information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), and core business functions. The reason?
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72 Why Financial Statements Don’t Work for Digital Companies
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
The building blocks for a digital company are research and development, brands, organizational strategy, peer and supplier networks, customer and social relationships, computerized data and software, and human capital. The current financial accounting model fails today’s companies in yet another respect.
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72 Why So Many High-Profile Digital Transformations Fail
Harvard Business
MARCH 9, 2018
Today it does so; no digital initiative is undertaken at P&G if it doesn’t fit the strategy closely and if it’s not hardwired to value. With innovative information technology, however, executives sometimes lose their rational decision approaches.
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72 Why CIOs Make Great Board Directors
Harvard Business
MARCH 15, 2017
There is a fallacy that CIOs are tech geeks; successful CIOs understand people, technology, and business strategy.” . “They want to make sure any new directors will be a good fit with the rest of the board and that they will be able to participate and contribute value to board discussions beyond their functional area.
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3 Health Care Trends That Don’t Hinge on the ACA
Harvard Business
MAY 25, 2017
Indeed, the profusion of new treatments may present a serious challenge to the current payer strategy of negotiating favorable pricing with drug and device companies. Taken together, these three trends will drive dramatic changes in health care, regardless of government policies.
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18 of the Top 20 Tech Companies Are in the Western U.S. and Eastern China. Can Anywhere Else Catch Up?
Harvard Business
MAY 3, 2018
Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. The Information Technology Industry Council has identified at least 22 laws in 13 European countries that regulate the localization of data. The role and strategy of the U.S. Thus, companies on the gold coasts of the U.S. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.
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Why Apple’s New HQ Is Nothing Like the Rest of Silicon Valley
Harvard Business
JUNE 26, 2017
To set this in context, it’s important to first understand the fundamental challenge of building contemporary (and future) workspaces, especially for technology companies: Software and buildings operate on entirely different timescales. Buildings, on the other hand, are change averse, optimized to stand for decades. Not an open plan.
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The C-Suite and IT Need to Get on the Same Page on Cybersecurity
Harvard Business
APRIL 26, 2017
This information can be leveraged by attackers to create synthetic IDs that are often used to enable cyber crime. This strategy must capture an appropriate balance between tools, people and processes. There is no silver bullet when it comes to protecting critical assets and technology cannot be counted on alone.
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Backdoor Government Decryption Hurts My Business and Yours
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 15, 2016
A prominent security research firm says 37% of businesses have implemented enterprise-wide encryption strategies to improve their security postures, a result of the largest increase in more than a decade. The technology sector — software, hardware, telecommunications and related services — is a commercial powerhouse.
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FinTech Is Weaving Charitable Giving into Everyday Transactions
Harvard Business
JULY 11, 2016
Social purpose is continuing to evolve from a philanthropic niche to a key part of core business strategy, and this shift presents unique opportunities for technology companies, in particular. No strategy is static. Insight Center. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. Sponsored by Accenture.
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Why Companies That Wait to Adopt AI May Never Catch Up
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 6, 2018
Instead they are waiting for the technology to mature and for expertise in AI to become more widely available. They are planning to be “fast followers” — a strategy that has worked with most information technologies. We think this is a bad idea.
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70 What the Companies on the Right Side of the Digital Business Divide Have in Common
Harvard Business
JANUARY 31, 2017
Leading organizations are more likely to have a comprehensive data acquisition strategy and differentiate themselves from competitors based on their data platform. The research was performed in collaboration with Keystone Strategy LLC, which received funding from Microsoft Corporation. Data and analytics are obviously key.
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Companies Should Understand Where Cybercrime Thrives
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 12, 2016
Brazilian cybercriminals aren’t as organized as their counterparts in the former Soviet states and don’t need to use complex malware and strategies since their main targets are companies within their own borders, that lack sophisticated defenses. It should be treated as the problem of everybody in the organization.
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70 Innovative Companies Get Their Best Ideas from Academic Research — Here’s How They Do It
Harvard Business
APRIL 19, 2016
In virtually every advanced field, whether it’s information technology, biotechnology, agriculture, or renewable energy, America holds a leading position. Take a look at any significant innovation, such as an iPhone , and you’ll find that most, if not all, of the technology came from some government program.
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70 The Critical Skills for Leading Major Change in America’s Health System
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 3, 2017
The first concerns the challenge of creating the meaningful use program for the HITECH Act when I served as national coordinator of health information technology from 2009 to 2011, at the beginning of the Obama administration. Building trust through a transparent decision process was the first strategy we pursued.
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Why Winner-Takes-All Thinking Doesn’t Apply to Silicon Valley
Harvard Business
MAY 4, 2016
From around 1990 to 2010 Microsoft arguably ruled the information-technology industry. Microsoft’s saga from unassailable monopolist to come-back kid shows the importance of temporal perspective.
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