Six Disciplines

AUGUST 24, 2011

Work will become less routine, characterized by increased volatility, hyper-connectedness, 'swarming' and by 2015, 40 percent or more of an organization's work will be "non-routine," up from 25 percent in 2010. But the employee will still have a "place" where they work.

Agility 146

Agility Insurance Influence Content 146

Curious Cat

JULY 6, 2016

A common problem that companies face is that they bring in technical tools (such as control charts , PDSA improvement cycle , design of experiments , kanban , etc.) How do different systems—technical or human—work together? How should they work together? My view is that the management system must integrate these facets together.

System 58

System Management Tools Incentives 58

Six Disciplines

AUGUST 24, 2011

Work will become less routine, characterized by increased volatility, hyper-connectedness, 'swarming' and by 2015, 40 percent or more of an organization's work will be "non-routine," up from 25 percent in 2010. But the employee will still have a "place" where they work.

Agility 133

Agility Insurance Influence Content 133

Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Some people have the right constitution to work in a start-up environment, others require the increased structure that comes with an established company while still others are better suited to a non-profit or government setting. He retired from Microsoft in 2010 as the President of the Entertainment and Devices Division.

Team 100

Team Rogers Diversity Franchising 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

On January 26, 2015, President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. India Business Council found that its large company members were prepared to invest $40 billion into India by 2017. Boeing India’s Dennis Swanson told Business Week that he expects to sign a new strategic partnership with an Indian company in 2015.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

They believe big companies are weighed down by their own success, too invested in the past to create and execute new ideas. In fact, a lot of big companies have proven they are better positioned than emergent firms to create and execute innovation, however on-fire a startup may be. ” I disagree.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Transportation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

In 2009, Wilson was part of a Wall Street team that the Obama administration hired to structure the bailout of GM, after the company, once the world’s largest automobile producer, sustained over $88 billion in losses in the previous four years. During the bailout, financial firms, including hedge funds, were nowhere to be found.

Hedge 8

Hedge Company Automotive Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It helped spark new levels of interest in Africa by the international business community, and companies in a range of industries—from consumer goods to financial services to technology—have since expanded their African footprints. a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4% from 2000 to 2010.

Globalization 8

Globalization Long-term GDP Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

Take 2010, when BP was confronted with one of the biggest oil spills in history. Or 2015, when the U.S. Even when the EPA confronted the company with their findings, Volkwagen missed the opportunity to communicate first. How should companies handle a crisis differently?

Crisis 8

Crisis Self-aware Company Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The unspoken fact is that her exit will leave only two women of color — Xerox's Ursula Burns and Pepsi's Indra Nooyi — sitting in the chief's chair of Fortune 500 companies. companies are missing out on a proven competitive advantage. trillion in 2010 to $2.1 Don't get me wrong.

Diversity 15

Diversity Competitive Advantage Middle Management CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

More than 20 companies launched at that time , including Uber, Slack, Pinterest, and Blue Apron, eventually achieved $1 billion-plus valuations. Yes, those companies had great technologies, platforms, and demographics, but the secret of their success turns out to be much more prosaic. Yagi Studio/Getty Images. You would be wrong.

Business Model 14

Business Model Technology Advertising Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

On December 7, Portland, Oregon, passed a law that will impose a surcharge on the local business taxes paid by corporations that operate in the city when the CEO’s compensation is 100 times or more the median earnings of the company’s employees. public corporations must file with the U.S.

CEO 8

CEO Black-Scholes Price Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

Many legacy companies would like to transform themselves into agile, talent-first organizations. Its cars didn’t match up well with those of top luxury brands like Mercedes, BMW, and Audi, yet the company lacked the capacity to compete with mass-market leaders like Toyota and GM. Gerald Lord/Getty Images.

Engineering 8

Engineering Mass Marketing Automotive Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

Today, every company, small or multi-national, new or incumbent, can obtain innovation capacity. We’ve come to these conclusions after completing case study analyses of a range of companies, including Nokia, Kodak, Borders, Amazon, Apple, and Xerox. Together, these companies have spent billions on innovation.

Budgeting 13

Budgeting Innovation Business Model Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

In 2010, sales across categories such as jewelry, leather goods, and upmarket ready-to-wear clothing rose by 20% to reach $12.4 By 2015, luxury goods sales will touch $27 billion — around 20% of global sales — making China the world's largest luxury market. Smart companies have already realized this. Service matters.

Deming 13

Deming McKinsey Fashion Survey 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

These disclosure problems are rooted in the company’s weak governance procedures, and they offer a lesson to investors in Japan’s other listed companies about the need for much stronger governance protections than those brought about by recent Japanese reforms.

Committee 8

Committee Chief Financial Officer Document Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. We exclude companies with a traditional CSR program that supports employee volunteering in the community – this does not by itself qualify as sustainability.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2015

In my case, by the time my work was having influence, I had swapped my lab coat for my laptop and started a company. Here we see that of all articles published in 2010, only 20% had been cited six months later. A study in the journal PloS from 2013 showed that the rate of open access articles doubled from 2006 to 2010, from 26.3%

Article 8

Article Influence Download Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

An Indian investment bank, Avendus, projects 376 million Indian Net users by 2015. Morgan Stanley projects that 3G penetration will reach 22 percent by 2015. A leapfrog effect will mean that three of every four Net users will do so by 2015. Part of what's fueling growth in Net penetration is an explosion in mobility.

Venture Capitalist 14

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

It’s the fourth-most valuable M&A deal of a venture backed e-commerce company. million Series D in November 2015 — Dollar Shave Club had been valued at $630 million, according to Pitchbook. million subscribers. The deal is full of intriguing details. There are three possible rationalizations. billion in 2020.

Business Model 8

Business Model Retail Brand Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

A 2010 McKinsey study finds that across all industry sectors, companies with the most women on their boards of directors significantly and consistently outperform those with no female representation: by 41 percent in terms of return on equity and by 56 percent in terms of operating results. As of 2010, women held just 15.7

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage McKinsey Resistance Crisis 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

But business schools, which serve as talent pools for companies that are working on their own gender balance, seem stuck in yesterday’s statistics. Our Gender Balance Scorecard on Business Schools , the first scorecard we’ve done for B-schools , gives an overview of the top 100 schools (Financial Times ranking, 2015).

Balanced Scorecard 8

Balanced Scorecard Case Study Organizational Behavior Education 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Netflix’s global growth is a big factor in the company’s success. This is a remarkable achievement for a company that was only in the U.S. before 2010, and in only 50 countries by 2015. This is a remarkable achievement for a company that was only in the U.S.

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Netflix’s global growth is a big factor in the company’s success. This is a remarkable achievement for a company that was only in the U.S. before 2010, and in only 50 countries by 2015. This is a remarkable achievement for a company that was only in the U.S.

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

By the time of the Paris climate meeting in 2015, which resulted in the more robust global agreement now supported by every country in the world except the United States, it was clear that we needed to consider a more ambitious target, 1.5°C So, what should companies take away from this latest warning? °C (3.8°F)

Efficiency 12

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2012

"You have to deliver $300 million in incremental growth by 2015," the business unit head told the leader of his innovation team. The same challenge makes it difficult for companies to escape the innovator's dilemma. And the company is staring at an even bigger growth gap. Then early results disappoint.

Innovation 14

Innovation Planning Kahneman Tversky 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

In boom times, companies may face adjustment costs that deter them from adapting to technological change. Moreover, the vast majority of this “upskilling” persists through the end of our sample in 2015. Recessions, in contrast, can produce large enough shocks to overcome these frictions.

Skills 8

Skills Sample Technology Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

presidential election, Interpublic (IPG), my company’s parent corporation, held its first open call for employees to talk about concerns related to respect in the workplace. ” Companies today have the capacity to be a haven from the incivility that individuals confront every day, on the road, online, in the media, and in politics.

Diversity 9

Diversity Politics Survey Incubator 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Attitudes have changed since 2010, the last time Washington debated serious climate action, and not only because most of us have connected the dots between climate change and the extreme weather events that ravage our communities. In Colorado, the state renewable energy mandate was bumped up from 20% to 30% in 2010. And the U.S.

Power 8

Power Planning Proposal Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

A central plank of the plan is to “return $8 [billion] to $9 billion to shareholders in 2015 and to reach the top end of its three-year target of returning $18 billion to $20 billion to them by the end of 2016.” billion in buybacks in 2015 under its current board-authorized repurchase program. .” The winners.

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups. From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

But on the other hand, in order to safeguard the company’s future competitiveness, CEOs may have no other choice than to invest now. To escape this quandary, a number of companies are considering alternative asset ownership and operation models, whose objective is to reduce capital outlays, investment risk, or both.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. So, during GE’s long and steep decline, where was the company’s board of directors? HBR Staff/YASUYOSHI CHIBA/Getty Images.

Committee 8

Committee Welch Finance Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

A decade ago, the Mach 3 razor was Gillette’s premium offering for men, until the Fusion line was launched in 2006 at a 40% price increase, followed by the Fusion ProGlide in 2010 and the Fusion Proshield Flexball in 2016—to name a few of the brand’s major releases. Smaller brands have been picking up the slack.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Marketing Price Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Investors also did well: A $100 investment in Ruger in late 2010 was worth $443 in late 2015, while the equivalent investment in the S&P 500 yielded only $163 over that time frame. In each case, the company uses this buffer of its distribution structure as a disclaimer of any responsibility for the ultimate use of their weapons.

Licensing 8

Licensing Drucker Retail Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

It’s been awhile since I heard a similar response, as companies are now expanding aggressively into ASEAN (Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and especially Indonesia). Quantifying the impressive rise of the middle class, FSG calculates private consumption in Peru is set to grow 54% between 2010 and 2015.

Marketing 8

Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

From 1979 to 2015, Chinese GDP per capita increased from 2.7% We sampled the 10 most popular songs every year under the Chinese National Radio Billboard from 1970 to 2010. China has experienced rapid changes over the past five decades. GDP per capita to 23.6%. While the economic change is undeniable, what about cultural change?

GDP 8

GDP Document Analysis Sample 8