Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

GE now operates in 175 countries across the globe.) So a constant reengineering of our business portfolio, operating model, and culture has been a key to our evolution. The context demanded operational excellence. Operational excellence had made us vulnerable to disrupters that were figuring out new ways to move mainstream.

Welch 8

Welch Six Sigma Agility Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

When it comes to operational improvement, organizations today are light years ahead of where they were two decades ago, but there's no time to celebrate yesterday's wins. Continuous improvement is how they address the slings and arrows the market throws at them. Knowledge work redesign.

Process 15

Process Strategy Offshoring Information Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

But even though they know they must innovate in response, they don''t know how to do so in the complex global market. As a reaction to these business changes, the enterprise is beginning to respond in a number of ways: Outsourcing services. The value of a cell phone is more based on its app ecosystem than its function and features.

CIO 8

CIO CEO Outsourcing Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

Innovation isn’t merely outsourced to low-cost providers, it’s globally networked between peers and partners. But speed and agility matter measurably more for many innovators than proprietary software development and patent filings. from 2012 to 2014. Set your company up for success. Does this frighten IP attorneys?

Globalization 8

Globalization Entrepreneur Innovation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own. When the U.S.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

Both internal and external factors drive uncertainty about the duration and outcome of the reconstruction challenge — for example, the UK’s ability to negotiate agreements, having outsourced this task to Brussels for 40 years, or trade partners’ willingness to engage with Britain in a constructively and timely manner.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Short-term Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

We have been told that participative leadership, rather than prescriptive leadership, is what we should aim for; that organizations should be agile, with “change the only constant”; and that empowerment is critical for employee satisfaction and long-term value. And is it not something that can be delegated or outsourced.

Micromanagement 11

Micromanagement Constraint Middle Management Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

It would also mean that outsourcing to a proven tech provider would be a legitimate response to perceived problems with IT (get someone with more experience and knowledge to run it for you). What the cloud does is make the technology-supply side more efficient and perhaps more agile. They never have! There is no magic bullet.

CIO 8

CIO CAPEX Budgeting CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

These are the things that will create more value for the customer and enable the enterprise''s agility. Organizations operate 7x24x52, work is done across organizational boundaries, and value creation is more a function of the right people, resources and ideas coming together at the right time and in the right place.

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Google has its own contender in the market, Google Voice. But a solution could come by following the example of the lean, agile, and India-based company Bharti AirTel Limited. Its market cap has steadily grown over the same period and stood at around US$30 billion as of 2010. Bharti looks nothing like other telecoms.

Outsourcing 10

Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2011

He blamed the Japan earthquake, the anemic PC market, and a troubled services organization. While HP was once the technology leader that could do no wrong, market watchers are now concerned that the company does not have a clear strategy to overcome its problems. The technology market is the epitome of creative destruction.

Software 12

Software Technology Intellectual Capital Marketing 12

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The number of industrial robots in operation around the world has grown rapidly in recent years, but nowhere more so than in China, where some 30% of the world’s robots are in operation. ” It’s part of a Robotics as a Service market that research from Allied Market Research estimated will be worth some $34.7

TCO 74

TCO Decentralization CAPEX Industry 74

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The more we use technology and outsourced thinking, we diminish our ability to think for ourselves. Lakhani (Harvard Business School Press, 2020) AI-centric organizations exhibit a new operating architecture, redefining how they create, capture, share, and deliver value. Common sense no longer helps us connect the dots. Blog Post ).

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Books Leadership Simon Learning-by-Doing 448

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

CEOs must convince the board, markets, employees, and customers that what they are doing is valuable. MBA students are dutifully taught finance, strategy and operations as if revenue appeared by magic and salespeople were at best a necessary evil. Instead, what he looks for are intelligence, curiosity and an agile mind.

Succession 15

Succession Conference Outsourcing Long-term 15