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What Tomorrow's Leaders Are Learning in Africa Right Now

Harvard Business Review

August 2011 HBR. While it may not be intuitive to global readers, I see many similarities between Samsung's transformation from local leader in Korea to major player on the world stage and our own journey in building the United Bank for Africa into a group that operates in 20 countries and on three continents.

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Using IoT Data to Understand How Your Products Perform

Harvard Business Review

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. Companies such as Ford, Toyota, and Caterpillar have invested heavily as well. Insight Center.

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The Productivity Payoff From the Corporate Lattice

Harvard Business Review

We hear from business leaders who perceive that flexible work is a make-people-feel-good play that disrupts operations and drags down performance. For instance, 82 percent of the companies on Fortune's 2011 100 Best Companies to Work For list offer telecommuting options. They're spreading far and wide.

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The Powerful Way Onboarding Can Encourage Authenticity

Harvard Business Review

When a new employee is hired under this typical scenario and shows up the first day, the company tells her what work needs to be done and shows her how to act. Insight Center. How to Be a Company That Employees Love. Newcomers were given a badge and fleece sweatshirt with the company’s name on both of them.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

Companies that claim to be “transforming” seem to be everywhere. Before describing those, let’s look at how we identified the exceptional firms that rose to the top of our ranking, a group we call the Transformation 10. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models?

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CMOs and CEOs Can Work Better Together

Harvard Business Review

But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. She also took the unusual step of installing three CMOs who could help provide detailed insights into three of the main business groups of the company. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change.

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How Self-Service Kiosks Are Changing Customer Behavior

Harvard Business Review

McDonalds isn’t the first fast food chain to consider giving customers more control over their orders using technology (though there’s a fair amount of debate about whether customization is really the best way forward for the struggling company ). Are there cases where companies can actually lose money with self-service?