Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

The answer to these questions depends on two factors: whether technology is a strategic differentiator for the business, and the nature of the industry and market structure in which the company operates. The industry structure in which a business operates should also influence how a board assesses technology effects.

Delegation 8

Delegation Technology Committee Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

One of the team’s central findings is that TDABC cannot be delegated to the finance function. The clinic created a high-level steering committee to oversee all its costing and value-improvement projects. Establishing this committee signaled that implementing value-based health-care delivery was an institutional priority.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Charismatic CEOs enjoy leading and inspiring people, so they don’t like delegating critical business decisions to smart algorithms. Computational autonomy requires that C-suites revisit the hows and whys of delegation. But only the human oversight committee approves what gets “autonomized” and how it is implemented.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Outside of 'think tanks' for company executive committees, full-scope education does not occur. Team building must be part of the corporate Vision first, not as a series of exercises delegated to trainers. Organizations of all sizes must have the Think Tank.which delineates future operations, including education and training.

Education 50

Education Company Succession Mentor 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

s Co-operative Bank in June 2013. This shortfall resulted in its parent, Co-operative Group, ceding control of the bank to bondholders, including U.S. We have developed a simple yet powerful framework that leadership teams can use to navigate the digital landscape and avoid the kinds of problems that Co-operative Bank suffered.

Banking 8

Banking Project Enterprise Architecture CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

This was the question that floored the Murdochs at Tuesday's parliamentary select committee hearing because it cut right through the narrative News International executives have been spinning to counter the hacking scandal that has engulfed the media group in recent weeks. "Are you familiar with the term willful blindness?"

Price 12

Price Power Policies Committee 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

When Paul Bulcke was appointed CEO of global food giant Nestle in 2008, he put the issue of women and gender at the top of his Executive Committee's agenda. And he did not delegate the responsibility and accountability on the topic to a particular person or department, nor ask a woman to lead the charge.

Leadership Pipeline 10

Leadership Pipeline CFO Committee Globalization 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

I'm flattered by such an august delegation," Steve said. But he could not shake his newfound awareness of the amount of money Egan was losing with Westmid — the account's ratio of operating income to sales was a negative 28%. And they were shocking: Just 1% of Egan's SKUs accounted for 100% of its operating profits.

Case Study 13

Case Study P&L Cost Due Diligence 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Presidents and provosts will tell you: operating budgets are tight. Meanwhile, trustees control universities’ sometimes-giant endowments, and most often delegate this control to asset managers who treat the endowments as pools of money with the sole purpose of creating more money.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2016

A manufacturer of baby strollers, for example, operated for years on the assumption that it owned an acutely defined brand positioning, with “no nonsense” being one of the core brand associations. To get the most out of social media data, operations have to go beyond data scientists and the marketing departments that house them.

Media 8

Media Sample Brand Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

But that’s not a good use of their time, because it’s a very delegable task. But many CEOs wind up spending huge amounts of time doing things that are really delegable and not enough time on the things that are really critical to being the CEO. It is imperative that CEOs make the best use of their time — their scarcest resource.

Execution 9

Execution Productivity Products CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

There’s the president, who appoints the members of the Commissions, and Congress, which is solely responsible for delegating legislative authority to them. And having now appointed Pai as the new Chairman of the FCC, Trump has little direct influence over the Commission which, by law, operates as an independent expert agency.

Objective 8

Objective Engineering Content Open-book 8