Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Digital technology is the biggest agitator of the business world today. Mobile technology, social media, cloud computing, embedded devices, big data, and analytics have radically changed the nature of work and competition. However, digital technology is not the true story. Digital transformation is. What does this entail?

Management 12

Management Drucker Technology Information Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

The advent of the modern organization and the practice of management constitutes a “social technology” that has been equally transformative. The forces of technology and management will continue to hold equal sway as the 21st century unfolds.

Management 8

Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. Peter Drucker called this a turning point in human history.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Becoming a true digital organization is not just about becoming tech-savvy. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. The first step managers need to take is to assess their organization’s purpose and vision.

Maturity 8

Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Peter Drucker said : “Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.” Drucker’s exhortation, “What gets measured gets managed” is often invoked when approaching execution. Morsa Images/Getty Images. ” Metric obsession. Missing the forest for the trees.

Execution 10

Execution Strategy Gantt Chart Film 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Innovation is more than whiz-bang technology; consider different strategic intents (e.g., create a new category, extend current business) or innovation mechanisms (e.g., What is a business model (and how do I innovate one)? Build a business model designed around the low-end customer's job-to-be-done.

Innovation 16

Innovation Govindarajan Disruptive Innovation Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. Since the industrial revolution, institutional trust – the confidence in the relationship between individuals and corporations or organizations – has been the norm.

Drucker 8

Drucker Hotels Decentralization Reputation 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

It focuses on the major management challenges that successful start-ups encounter when leaders decide to grow and scale their businesses. The book is divided into two parts – text and cases – to provide professors with maximum flexibility in organizing their courses. Discussion questions are provided for each case.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Many business leaders are fond of the spurious Peter Drucker quote that “you can’t manage what you can’t measure.” Core metrics naturally acquire power in an organization, but people might not be aware of how they can bias decisions. Against which metrics are they building their businesses?

Metrics 8

Metrics Business Model Retail Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2012

These two major demographic shifts are so significant that Peter Drucker predicted that historians, looking back at the 20th Century, will view the demographic changes as the most important events of the century (more so than technology, industrialization, globalization and so on). Are you really good at recruiting?

Talent Management 15

Talent Management Management Metrics Career 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

The Conversation is also a 1974 film by Francis Ford Coppola whose themes include the role of technology in society and being so focused on what you are doing that you forget why you are doing it and become oblivious to what is happening around you. made me break out in cold sweats. CIOs today must adapt or risk being marginalized.

CIO 8

CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

R&D has been starved at HP for years, and it will be hard to pull enough irons out of the fire to propel organic growth. A technology company without strong internal innovation capabilities is a company on the verge of disappearing. HP is a decade behind IBM in business model change. Lafley used the late Peter Drucker.

Tips 11

Tips CEO Software Drucker 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

By building and nurturing deep, hard-to-replicate skills, an organization could fatten margins and fuel growth. Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. Most of us grew up in and around organizations that fit a common template. Power trickles down.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

By building and nurturing deep, hard-to-replicate skills, an organization could fatten margins and fuel growth. Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. Most of us grew up in and around organizations that fit a common template. Power trickles down.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

This is a big dream worthy of our attention, and Alibaba has won the world’s admiration as an exciting and viable organization. To quote Peter Drucker, “The purpose of an organization is to make ordinary people do extraordinary things.” billion business after two years.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

The same diminished economic frictions, along with new business models, organizational structures and enabling technologies, have accelerated the appearance of new, unanticipated competitors with new value propositions or the old value propositions presented faster, better and/or cheaper. Barriers to entry have been destroyed.

CIO 8

CIO CEO Outsourcing Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

If you read what Peter Drucker had to say about competition back in the late ’50s and early ‘60s, he really only talked about one thing: competition on price. Prahalad and Gary Hamel’s 1990 article, “ The Core Competence of the Organization ”).

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

August 2002: HBR's special innovation issue hits the street, and my contrarian article about the fickle nature of corporate innovation sits sandwiched between stories by the likes of Peter Drucker, Henry Chesbrough, John Seely Brown, and Richard Florida. the program went international, with public-private organizations in the U.K.

Game Theory 8

Game Theory Open-book Innovation Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. As London Business School’s Lynda Gratton points out : “We’ve designed work that takes away the only opportunity humans have to be different from machines.

Film 8

Film Drucker Technology Kahneman 8