Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

After a morning innovation workshop at the bucolic R&D campus of a top-tier but tradition-rich technology giant, the lunchtime conversation with the Lab’s leadership turned strategic. How should they better prioritize innovation? These Labs were filled with talented technologists and innovators. What should they do?

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CFO Innovation CEO Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Before 1999 “performance” had a simple, unidimensional definition for health care leaders and their boards: It was shorthand for the CFO’s financial report, summarizing operating margins. How the most innovative providers are creating value. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care. Sponsored by Optum.

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Health Care Chief Financial Officer Comparison Quality 13

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Graham Keen "Inspirational CEO/CFO turned positive-psychologist resiliently transforming businesses & financial performance." I am adept at establishing policies, procedures, and technologies to enhance efficiency, financial health, and service to organize constituents. ​ ​1.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

It’s a solution we discovered during our research in India, and involves breakthrough innovations that drive down health care delivery costs so much that the margins from serving those who can pay is more than enough to cover the costs of those who cannot. It also pursued process innovations that resulted in cost savings.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

It is also impossible to maintain consistency and efficiency when independent groups all pursue analytics in their own way. The CAO should be under an executive that naturally spans all of the business units that have analytical needs, such as the Chief Strategy Officer, the CFO, and the COO.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

It is also impossible to maintain consistency and efficiency when independent groups all pursue analytics in their own way. The CAO should be under an executive that naturally spans all of the business units that have analytical needs, such as the Chief Strategy Officer, the CFO, and the COO.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

In my last post , I argued that you should start process innovation by asking front-line workers how to improve their jobs. Competition and customer demands mean that the most efficient and effective process should always be sought — but finding it requires contributions from the people doing the work.

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Attrition CFO Deming Outsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The platform allows the exchange of digital information, services, and products across the power grid, allowing much greater efficiencies industrywide. ” Immelt elevated marketing and digital media when he promoted Beth Comstock to vice chair, while other positions, including that of the CFO, are at the senior vice president level.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

In my last post , I argued that you should start process innovation by asking front-line workers how to improve their jobs. Competition and customer demands mean that the most efficient and effective process should always be sought — but finding it requires contributions from the people doing the work.

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Attrition CFO Deming Outsourcing 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

The former creates efficiencies and propels markets; the latter drives creativity and innovation. Maybe, as a start, we ought to describe peopley stuff in more economic language, by putting it in some context that will help our CFO and engineering friends better understand how things relate to one another. Or: S = (PT) C.

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Succession CFO Collins Bottom-up 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

For example, when your CFO tells you that you must reduce headcount immediately, but you disagree, you help her make her case by saying something like, “I was disagreeing with you because I thought you were saying we’re facing two quarters of lower earnings. It’s simply more efficient.

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Influence Six Sigma Open-book Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

A new Conference Board study, as CFO magazine reported , reveals some startling growth in greener products at a dozen big companies like Kimberly-Clark, Dow, GE, Siemens, Toshiba, and more. So why are sustainable products surging now? For nearly a decade, Walmart has made environmental progress a priority, in word and in deeds.

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Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

They also believe that companies without them are forced to settle for lower customer satisfaction no matter how well they improve efficiency within functions or departments. The wishes of a functional head such as CFO, CMO, or company President won out over a Process Owner of Order-to-Cash.

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Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

As the CFO of Macy’s put it recently, “ “We’re frankly scratching our heads.” Creative retailers are using the new technologies to innovate just about everything stores do from managing inventory, to marketing, to getting paid. ” But it’s not happening as pundits predicted.

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Retail Real Estate B2B CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Well, he's a hedge fund veteran who has always taken a skeptical view of Wall Street, treating it more as a loopy rich uncle than the efficient information processor of standard finance theory. Clayton Christensen has long complained that standard financial metrics can be enemies of innovation and growth. How has Bezos done this?

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Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

People who have earned these belts drive projects with clear financial targets set at the top organization, with progress monitored by the CFO. Brad Power is a consultant and researcher in process innovation. Six Sigma zealots argue that if you train enough people, you get a cultural transformation.

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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

Peter Currie , our CFO, and I were doing it, and I said, “All right, one last question.” If they can add it to their core, they add it, and try to be as efficient as they can be, because there are efficiencies in bundling. It was our last show and we were in a big hurry to get the plane.

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How To Technology Industry Venture Capitalist 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

Later that afternoon Annabel Howard, Beacon''s CFO and Henry''s boss, leaned back in her chair. "I''m I worry that if we gobble the company up and treat it like a business unit, we won''t innovate on our existing model.". He had to consider the efficiencies, too. "I A Third Opinion. I''m hardly ever the tiebreaker," she said. "We

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

The promise of today’s breakthroughs is not just efficiency – it’s unleashing value creation and capture in a time of mounting performance pressure. Before, it was typically the preserve of a subset to innovate and constantly increase value for customers over time. Rethink your efficiency conversations.

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