Information management

A proposed SEC rule would require companies to disclose their cybersecurity governance capabilities.

New research suggests that many companies are failing to give people the tools they need to communicate and collaborate.

Diana Sullivan, CEO of Lenox Insurance, thought she had done her job when, after three years of hard work, she had delivered Lifexpress on time and on...

The best solution to the looming shortage of nurses and doctors may be to move chronic disease monitoring and care out of hospitals and into people's...

Advances in computer-based information technology in recent years have led to a wide variety of systems that managers are now using to make and implement decisions. By and large, these systems have been developed from scratch for specific purposes and differ significantly from standard electronic data processing systems. Too often, unfortunately, managers have little say […]

This issue's Spotlight includes three articles about the often misunderstood importance of low-wage employees to a company's success. In "The High Cost...

Let user-generated insights lead the way.

A survey of 600 directors suggests that growing awareness of cyber risk isn't enough to drive better preparedness.

In more than 30 essays for Harvard Business Review, Peter Drucker (1909-2005) urged readers to take on the hard work of thinking--always combined, he...

Diana Sullivan, CEO of Lenox Insurance, thought she had done her job when, after three years of hard work, she had delivered Lifexpress on time and on...

Managers can take steps to help employees realize the potential benefits.

According to research, salespeople who feel overwhelmed by technology are 43% less likely to meet quota.

When HP's ex-CEO Mark Hurd headed to Oracle this fall, his former employer sued him, claiming that by taking the job he put "HP's most valuable trade...

It gets more expensive and less reliable every cycle.

Companies rarely achieve radical performance improvements when they invest in information technology. Most companies use computers to speed up, not break...

In the anchor piece of this Big Idea package, Aral writes, "The spread of falsity has implications for our democracies, our economies, our businesses,...

Information technology now permeates every aspect of a business, requiring CEOs today to involve themselves in IT planning and decision making. Which...

Four strategies based on in-depth studies of 12 large European firms.

Corporate information and the contracts that govern it used to be bound together on paper and filed away. But now data fly loose on the Internet--and...

During the dot-com boom, many people saw the potential for new communication technologies to enable radically new business models, but they were far too...