Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

But have you thought about the implications of this trend for management practices? new product releases every day, not every year), has caused an increasing pressure on product development in other areas, and on management in general, to change more continuously as well. The rapid pace of change in software (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

How does your organization manage the money it spends on digital? In essence, digital investments should be planned and managed according to their current and future contribution to business performance. With this model, an investment can be defined as strategic, key operational, support, or high potential.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

In the same way that banks must constantly balance assets and liabilities, data-laden firms need to move from cyber-defense and fire-fighting toward more proactive management of what could prove to be their most important asset. This means determining not only what EvD means today, but what it will mean for the firm in the future.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

GE is an icon of management best practices. Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. Resource allocation: i ncubating a protected class of ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Herb Kelleher fosters a culture of employee empowerment and cost containment at Southwest, enabling the airline to become one of the world’s most admired and profitable carriers. Southwest Airlines is the classic example. When Alan Mulally became CEO at Ford in 2006, the company operated in regional silos.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

As such we struggle with the tension between the desire to boost innovation and the need to operate under increasing regulation. Senior leaders must be ready to open up the flood gates so managers and employees closest to the client interface can surface these tensions and discuss them openly. Optimization vs. Rationalization.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

Today, a few organizations – like Medium, David Allen Consultants, and Zappos – are adopting a radically different, approach to management: holacracy. For all of the sturm und drang surrounding the idea, as we talked I realized a lot of holacracy is just codifying many of the informal elements of good management.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture. buying an airline ticket or configuring a printer). Most organizations do not tap this power source and, as a result, do not get the best out of their employees. Insight Center. How to Be a Company That Employees Love. Sponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

Most companies have leaders with the strong operational skills needed to maintain the status quo. That is one of the principles behind “ open-book management “, the systematic sharing of information about the nature of the enterprise. The following is a guest piece by Jessica Leitch, David Lancefield, and Mark Dawson.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Whether or not that outlook begins to uptick not only depends upon how agile, adaptable, creative and resourceful entrepreneurs can be in planning for, or reacting to, market conditions, revenue and brand-building opportunities and other key concerns, but also how well they maintain a forward-thinking mindset. Transparency. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

American Express does this, too, with its Open Forum site, which publishes editorial-style content for managers and operators of small and mid-sized businesses. Digital CMOs are agile marketers who embrace the mantra “test and fail to learn and scale.” IT management Leadership Marketing' of marketing spend.

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