Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Organizations rely on their data in order to make critical operational, tactical, and transactional business decisions that significantly affect the survival and livelihood of their company. An organization’s customers, transactions, operations, and reports can all be affected by its data integrity. The Fiscal Times. SC Magazine.

Software 50

Software Insurance System Operations 50

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

Trends 265

Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Return on equity (net income divided by equity) results from multiplying three key operating ratios: Profitability (net income over sales). Operating efficiency (sales over assets). Investment efficiency (ideas explored divided by total capital and operational investment). Financial leverage (assets over equity).

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system.

Strategy 8

Strategy Analysis Operations CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management. To do so, it had to come up with a brand of management all its own, centered around “people analytics,” a quantitative approach to hiring and operations. How Google manages. How Google innovates.

IPO 14

IPO Management Engineering Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012. Specifically, are companies from advanced economies failing to keep up with the big shift?

Globalization 9

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

There is a lot at stake here for GE’s operations strategy. In 2008, GE corporate decided to invest $1 billion in the $5.6 In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. General Electric Operations Strategy'

Ries 10

Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

The current mantra is “Move fast with stable infrastructure”, which speaks to the organizational design challenge of operating at scale in a fickle and volatile world. ” It further revealed a complex and siloed organization, with competing operating assumptions, values, and practices across the group.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012. Specifically, are companies from advanced economies failing to keep up with the big shift?

Globalization 8

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Unfortunately, it didn’t have the market share head start enjoyed by Fitbit (launched Tracker in 2008) and Jawbone (launched UP in 2011). As a result, Fitbit held 68 percent market share through 2013 versus 19 percent for Jawbone and just 10 percent for Nike. It comes down to respect and fairness, and many leaders fail the test.

How To 76

How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2016

In 2013 Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, urged the U.S. public firms that actively filed patents — from 1976 to 2008. To check the validity of that conjecture, we tracked the residential addresses of over 600,000 individual inventors from 1976 to 2008. state-level ENDAs on corporate patent-based innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation GDP Human Capital Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Return on equity (net income divided by equity) results from multiplying three key operating ratios: Profitability (net income over sales). Operating efficiency (sales over assets). Investment efficiency (ideas explored divided by total capital and operational investment). Financial leverage (assets over equity).

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

By the time he left Amazon in 2013, his group had grown from 35 to more than 1,000 people who used machine learning to make Amazon more operationally efficient and effective. Over the same time period, the company saw a 10-fold increase in revenue. AI wasn’t new at Microsoft.

Company 12

Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Many such “Rocket” companies are poised to become the Alibabas and Amazons for the rest of the world: Jumia, which operates in nine countries across Africa; Namshi in the Middle East; Lazada and Zalora in ASEAN; Jabong in India; and Kaymu in 33 markets across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

Constraint 8

Constraint Marketing Innovation Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

In 2000, with more than $100 million in negative cash flow, the company agreed to be acquired by Star Cruises, a leading cruise operator in Asia. The difference between employees who operate with the owner’s mindset and those who don’t can be as great as the difference between devoted parents and restless babysitters.

Company 9

Company IPO Price Loyalty 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. Companies are both operators and investors. These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

They had a fuller discussion in 2013–2014 — around the time when media reports of the illicit behavior first surfaced. Stumpf testified that he personally became aware in 2013 when, after two years of ineffective solutions within the business unit, the volume of fake accounts was still increasing. Why risk it?

Banking 10

Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

Even more important to the redesign of GE, this portfolio of products has been a growth engine, providing ballast against the serious pain of the financial meltdown of 2008. In a 2013 advertisement in The Washington Post, HP claimed that if you measured countries by power consumption in kilowatts, the fifth largest after China, the U.S.,

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Engineering Energy Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2014

employers currently are — and will continue to be — required to provide reasonable accommodations to pregnant employees with impairments under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which was expanded in 2008 to require precisely that. In truth, no matter what the high Court decides, U.S.

Policies 9

Policies Parcell Absenteeism Follow-up 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Tobacco production, the country’s main foreign exchange earner, slumped dramatically between 2000 and 2008.) After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S. Lower-income consumers also present a lucrative opportunity.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

having sacrificed customer intimacy for increased operational excellence gains through widespread cost cutting, are well documented. Organizations worry about fine-tuning their operations to handle the typical situations. Toyota''s fiscal 2013 profits were more than four times its earnings in 2010, and three times 2012''s.

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Customer Intimacy Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. ” Improving risk management. billion from reduced energy and wastewater consumption in manufacturing.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

In fact, since we began our outreach and monitoring, we have seen a fourfold increase in employer-to-employee political communications, from 5% of the private workforce hearing from their employer about politics in 2000 to over 20% in 2008. According to the 2010 National Poll commissioned by BIPAC and performed by Moore Information, Inc.,

Politics 8

Politics Policies Survey Information 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

On March 15, 2013, World Consumer Rights Day, CCTV aired a special report criticizing Apple’s i-Phone customer service policy in China for providing only a one-year warranty when Chinese law mandates two. In October 2013, an incident involving Starbucks unfolded, when CCTV aired a segment “exposing” its relatively higher prices in China.

Media 8

Media Report Brand Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

” On the other hand is research about people’s preferences, like this 2013 study in the Journal of Environmental Psychology that, according to its authors, “categorically contradict[s] the industry-accepted wisdom that open-plan layout enhances communication between colleagues and improves occupants.”

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Travel Cost Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

According to a recent JPMorgan/GIIN report , impact investors invested nearly $11 billion across 4,900 deals in 2013, up 250% from 2011. In the 2013 class of Echoing Green Fellows , five of the 12 nonprofits earn revenue, and five of the seven for-profit companies have received donations. social entrepreneurs now have more options.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Apparel Transportation Fashion 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Twitter has operated in this market since 2006, so almost everyone who wanted to try Twitter has tried it. Meanwhile, Twitter had only 33 million users in India in 2013. The CNN show Rick Sanchez Direct was the first to air live tweets on TV in early 2008. This is why Facebook cannot compete in China, and neither can Twitter.

Advertising 8

Advertising Strategy Marketing Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

I’ll fast-forward through the next decade, when Garvin, trained in operations, helped to answer the question much of America was obsessed with at the time: How Japanese automakers could make higher-quality, more-reliable cars than Americans, while charging less for them.

Management 9

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

While there aren''t hard numbers on how many times captive-taking has occurred, a thousand workers held a Japanese boss hostage earlier in 2013. The Economic Information Daily newspaper says more than 400 bosses abandoned their factories in a single province in 2008.

Health Care 8

Health Care Transportation Stress Review 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

The company has adopted an Amazon-esque strategy; it now owns and operates twelve large warehouses well located to deliver loads of flooring, roofing, and other heavyweight building materials to do-it-yourself homeowners and contractors. Sales doubled in 2013. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

India love first peaked in July 2008 when India’s government of the time risked its very survival in support of a nuclear energy deal led by Washington. America’s largest insurer, Allstate, announced plans to invest $1 billion in its India operations. But it won’t be “India’s fault,” in our view.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2018

At Yahoo, for example, activist shareholders were quite vocal in 2008, asking the firm to accept an acquisition bid from Microsoft , though it was not consistent with the CEO’s strategy for the firm at the time. firms between 1996 and 2013. To test this, we analyzed data from 3,026 large U.S.

CEO 8

CEO Sample Influence Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

After an unprecedented decade of growth, analysts wrote off 2013 as a year to forget for Apple. After all, it grew from $7 billion in 2003 to $171 billion in 2013 by entering established (albeit still-emerging) markets with superior products — something the model suggests is a losing strategy.

Industry 9

Industry Wireless Advertising Content 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Hospital consolidation is on the rise , a trend that shows no signs of abating as providers try to streamline back-end operations and deploy big data analytics in hopes of improving outcomes and lowering costs. Moore left his practice in 2008 to help build a movement around what is called the Ideal Medical Practices or IMP.

Health Care 8

Health Care Gordon Travel Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The first commercial AR application appeared in 2008. This type of app typically operates on the basis of a user pointing his mobile device towards an object or a site, in order to see superimposed content on the screen. These early systems superimposed virtual information on the physical environment (e.g.,

Tourism 9

Tourism Technology Content Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. Two developments bear noting.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11