Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

A few Middle Eastern rulers are trying this tack, changing ministers and investing in things that people want before internal dissent gets out of hand — in essence, upgrading their product before losing market position. Komatsu, a globally prominent construction equipment manufacturer, drove excellence by fearing Caterpillar, the U.S.

Benchmarking 15

Benchmarking Health Care Loyalty Construction 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. Some of the first business functionaries were railroad telegraph operators who managed schedules.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Just as harsh criticisms by exes demoralize and disrupt, their constructive contributions can have as profound an impact on human capital brands as current employees. Talented “exes” should be seen as assets who can make the organization more valuable and an even better place to work. Her feedback effectively reframed the pitch.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Banking Reference Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. By reaching new customers in current markets? By stealing share from current competitors?

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

But most successful companies used electricity and motors to reinvent their existing businesses, whether in manufacturing, transportation, or construction. A platform connects providers and users in a multisided market. Operate : Deploy the platform to foster connections and the exchange of value at scale.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

As companies operate, all make honest and predictable mistakes. Failure to benchmark results and accomplishments. The emphasis is upon the latest slogans of mission but does not look closely at how its systems operate. Capitalization is stretched beyond limits, and operations advance in a cash-poor mode.

Self-aware 50

Self-aware System Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 17, 2015

As companies operate, all make honest and predictable mistakes. Failure to benchmark results and accomplishments. The emphasis is upon the latest slogans of mission but does not look closely at how its systems operate. Do successful corporations operate without a strategy-vision? Arrogant attitudes. Who are the customers?

Self-aware 50

Self-aware System Open-book Learning-by-Doing 50

Chart Your Course

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

Already approaching a Billion square of projects not only in the United States but also from India to Sweden and Israel to Bhutan, if you are not familiar with the Arc platform, that helps a building owner measure performance and benchmark against others, you are missing out on what is transmogrifying the built environment.

Real Estate 170

Real Estate Benchmarking Arkes Construction 170

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

APRIL 27, 2015

Likewise, no matter how slick your company’s online idea market, it won’t yield many high-value ideas if your associates haven’t been taught to think like innovators. Balance: the mix of different types of innova­tion (product, service, pricing, distribution, operations, etc.);

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2014

But judging from what I hear from managers of companies that visit us to benchmark our system, the difference between our approach and theirs does not lie in forms, rankings, tools, or technologies. Individual appraisals are considered enormous opportunities for the candid, constructive conversations that employees deserve.

System 10

System Review Human Resources Human Capital 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The market for smart technologies is predicted to be worth up to $1.6 To set an aspirational but realistic target, we created a benchmark that combines the best attributes of these advanced digital nations. The potential for technologies to enable smart societies is rising. trillion by 2020, and $3.5 trillion by 2026.

Benchmarking 9

Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 9