Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

What did 2010 look like for you and your company? OnPoint Consulting’s 2010 Execution Gap Maker Round-Up… Execution Gap Maker #1: BP (Need I say more?) Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. Did you struggle to regain your post-recession footing?

Execution 78

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 78

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Examples could come from art, comics, film, music, architecture, economics (weird black markets), music, media, etc… Creating opportunities for team members to communicate and share both creatively and intellectually improves team communications and fosters innovation. Cooperation – willingness to collaborate.

Team 52

Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Embedded sustainability efforts clearly result in a positive impact on business performance. billion in mining projects since 2010. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

While I certainly applaud employers that try to provide positive working environments for their employees, my evaluation of this particular proposal is that there are problems with its assessments of its benefits and costs. Several Harvard-affiliated economists argued in a 2010 Health Affairs article that wellness programs produce a 3.27-to-1

Company 8

Company Metrics Proposal Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

It increased R&D spending from 7-8% of revenue before 2009 to 11-12% of revenue starting in 2010, and maximized the return on that increased investment. The result : Its return on assets tripled, from an industry-lagging position below 4% to an industry-leading position above 12%. How did Bally Technologies do it?

Technology 8

Technology Innovation Kaizen Chief Executive Officer 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. That's correct so far as it goes —but it doesn't go nearly far enough.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

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. Step one is for manufacturers to adopt the role of steward for the entire gun marketing system, all the way to the buyer. Probably not.

Licensing 8

Licensing Drucker Retail Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

According to a new book by Harvard Business School’s Ranjay Gulati, it is customer-centric firms—those with a so-called outside-in perspective—that are most resilient during turbulent markets. Gaining real insights into customers’ needs demands more of companies than those arising from typical market research.

Education 8

Education Execution Content Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Looking forward toward the next decade and beyond, we are seeing countries increasingly prize sovereignty over multilateralism, national interests over international cooperation, and local constituencies over global populations. The positive consensus toward globalization that defined the U.S. Let's deal with the first two.

Globalization 14

Globalization Class Consensus Outsourcing 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

In our database of more than 5,400 upper-level managers from the US, Europe, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific gathered since 2010, 46% are rated "too little" on the item, "Holds people accountable — firm when they don't deliver." However, groups of cooperative contributors outperform groups of cheating free-riders.

Management 8

Management Cooper Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The single most important new reality emerging from this (apparent) rise in state-sponsored cyberattack on private enterprise is that individual businesses are ill-equipped and poorly-positioned to confront these incursions on their own. Such cooperation, collaboration and coordination won't come for "free."

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Contingency Plans Banking Globalization 8

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 16, 2020

Despite the consensus that change is required, however, the lack of political cooperation on the matter results in little real progress being made. The belief is that by restricting the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program, it will help American graduates in the job market that will be highly competitive post-covid.

Human Capital 82

Human Capital Crisis Politics Policies 82