Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Current management of both companies were ill-advised on handling the crises. K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. by Hank Moore. Doing Things as We Always Have.

Crisis 61

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 61

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

A few weeks back, we saw firsthand a hotbed of innovation in a place that many observers had long ago given up on. PARC fell off the innovation radar screen. It has delivered a stunning array of software and hardware innovations to global corporations, startups, and the U.S. and then letting most of it slip away.

Innovation 13

Innovation Business Model Wilde Brainstorming 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Plenty of people — including here on Harvard's blog — espouse the theory that big companies can't innovate. A look at any performance measure shows that innovation can come from either size, and that both arguments are oversimplifications. And the CEO sees enabling a culture of collaborative innovation as key.

Operations 15

Operations Innovation Industry CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

These investments included Nordstrom.com and a perpetual inventory system that allowed Nordstrom to offer a consistent multi-channel experience by 2002. Don’t worry about developing a strategy for social, mobile, cloud, or any other technology. Innovation Strategy Technology' Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The concept of open innovation has moved from business phrase to business reality over the last ten years. When PARC became a for-profit subsidiary of Xerox to practice open innovation in 2002, Henry Chesbrough had not yet published his book Open Innovation and the concept was not well understood.

Innovation 8

Innovation Execution Net Present Value Open-book 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving by Hank Moore Any company or organization is like a tree. Yesterday’s strategies simply do not work anymore. This book states the case for more of a macro-focused approach to management. Where will the pendulum swing next?

Ethics 62

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 62

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2018

But we believe this diversity framework, though somewhat artificial (as all frameworks are) can be useful to companies who are trying to refresh their approach to managing diversity. Managing identities of origin. In 2002 the company hired a chief diversity officer, Anand Rohini, to make diversity a priority. Consider Sodexho.

Diversity 8

Diversity Human Resources Policies Project 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

After breaking even in 2002, net profits continued to rise, to 3.8 Capitec gets many things right in terms of its strategy, including its market positioning, internal operations, and organizational culture. Yet Capitec’s management was thinking ahead. It has now become the largest bank in the country.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

percent average annual increase in GDP in 1990 to 2002, and 7.2 percentage points in 1990-2002, and 0.3 As the impact of the labor bonanza and capital-led phases begins to fade, productivity growth in China must increasingly come from the quality of innovation and management expertise at the organizational level.

GDP 9

GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

This requires applying different approaches to strategy and execution in different parts of their business, as well as constantly re-balancing exploitation (generating cash to support growth) and exploration (finding winning products and models). Some firms manage to maintain this dual discipline as they grow. points p.a.,

Company 8

Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

It's rare to find a corporate human resources function that accelerates change by actively finding ways to help drive new strategies. 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? But not at IBM.

Globalization 14

Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

economy, according to white paper issued by 2015 Strategic Innovation Summit: Enabling Economies for the Future at Harvard University. Nationally, from 2002 to 2012, just 4 percent of U.S. Entrepreneurs creating gazelles pair fresh ideas with vision and know-how to innovate, launch concepts, and develop a viable business.

Company 8

Company Content White Paper Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Drucker’s theory of the business was a set of assumptions about what a business will and won’t do, closer to Michael Porter’s definition of strategy. Writing in 2002, the depths of the dot.com bust, she says that business models are “at heart, stories — stories that explain how enterprises work.

Business Model 8

Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. What is your company’s strategy? Most product teams or strategy groups go through a process of defining market requirements and scoping out the competitive landscape. No innovation remains innovative for long. Fix or kill?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Long-term Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The term “company DNA” is sometimes used as a shorthand for an organization’s culture and strategy — a metaphor for what makes it unique. Might a company have the same DNA for its lifetime, but be able to innovate by expressing that DNA into new business models, organizational designs, and offerings?

How To 8

How To Decentralization Environment Collins 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. Steve Jobs failed miserably at managing openness at Apple in the 1980s. Let’s look at the key errors. Insight Center.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

As global companies focus their strategies on developed and emerging markets, they require substantial cadres of leaders capable of operating effectively anywhere in the world. In 2002 Novartis relocated its research headquarters from Switzerland to Boston and hired Harvard Cardiologist Mark Fishman as its leader.

Competitive Advantage 12

Competitive Advantage Globalization Development Intellectual Capital 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course. Executing this strategy required seamless integration of IBM's product capabilities with its geographic reach. They are innovating in ways that create virtuous circles for a generation or more."

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% For example, Vox Capital — founded in Brazil in 2008 by three young social entrepreneurs — invests in innovative, high-potential businesses that serve low-income populations and contribute to the reduction of poverty. growth in GDP.

Globalization 8

Globalization Venture Capitalist Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

” We then collected nine years of play-by-play data (2002 – 2010), totaling almost half a million unique plays. In organizations and industries in which experimentation, innovation, bold strategic moves, and thinking outside the box are valued (e.g., Risk-taking is not inherently good or bad; it depends on the context.

Participative 8

Participative Rogers Influence Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

Our analysis of Fortune 500 firms shows that the strengths of the strategy are real: Customer-centricity does allow divisions to focus on specific customer segments, and this narrower focus increases their knowledge of those groups. managers , he said the proportion of U.S. Is there a flaw in the logic? In his 2006 survey of U.S.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Company Henderson Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

While he was at Amazon from 1997-2002, Greg Linden prototyped a system for making personal recommendations for other products to customers as they checked out. His next book, Intrapreneurship: Managing Ideas within the Organization, will be released in 2011. A business drama ensued; classic "gut versus data" stuff.

Execution 14

Execution Education Long-term Guidelines 14