Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

The bad news: Petabytes of new data and algorithmic innovation assure that “autonomy creep” will relentlessly challenge human oversight from within. But only the human oversight committee approves what gets “autonomized” and how it is implemented. These distinct approaches enjoy demonstrable real-world success.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2015

So she decided to become an entrepreneur, and started a baking business that is financing her trip to Korea — one $5 loaf of hot, homemade bread, and $12 fresh-out-of-the-oven pan of cinnamon rolls at a time. The need to be different is forcing them to innovate and diversify in ways that previous generations never did.

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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

MAY 23, 2017

This model doesn’t leave patient choice to chance; it’s hardwired into clinical operations. How the most innovative providers are creating value. A multipronged approach to financing that involves both care-management fees and shared savings would support replication, scaling, and sustainability. The Status Quo.

Health Care 8

Health Care Sharpe Document Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

The traditional advice, from Clayton Christensen’s work on disruptive innovations and Michael Tushman’s on organizational ambidexterity , is to set up the new activity as a separate unit, reporting to a manager at the corporate headquarters who can sponsor the new activity and help to integrate it with the rest of the company. Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

In new or young high-growth industries where barriers to entry are low, innovation rates are high, demand is very hard to predict, and the relative positions of competitors are in flux, a company can often radically shift the course of industry development through some innovative move.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

At the other end of this dimension is the broader context, where politics operates at the organizational level. It might also include political capital that arises from membership of or strong ties to a high status group such as the finance committee, a special task force, or the senior management team.

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Politics Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924.

Retail 8

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 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

MARCH 7, 2017

But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR.

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Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Although this can present leadership challenges related to shifting strategy, culture and operations, it certainly isn’t rocket science. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Set Up a Steering Committee and Project Team. Map Patient Pathways and Clinic Operations. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Compliance Project 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Medicine is fraught with anachronistic administrative structures, as well as competing and redundant decision-making processes involving many stakeholders (the hospital, doctors, nurses, compliance, finance, and others) who often work in silos and have differing goals. The data were startling. Our total cost of care per patient is down 18%.

Health Care 8

Health Care Diversity Proposal Document 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. For example, Walmart doesn't succeed just because of a strong operations group. Imagine trying to use the objective of being "innovative" as a criterion for the multitude of investments a company must make around product launches and R&D.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8

N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

Before I go any further, today’s rant should not be construed as a call for elitism, but rather a call for authenticity, innovation and professionalism. As leadership advisors and coaches we counsel our clients on the need for change and innovation, but have we become the proverbial shoe maker without shoes?

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