Strategy Driven

MARCH 9, 2016

We explored those questions while researching for our recent book, Navigating an Organizational Crisis : When Leadership Matters Most , (available on Amazon) and came away with some insight about how leaders might ready themselves. How can leaders prepare, knowing disasters are becoming commonplace? We call it “pre-resilience.”

Crisis 50

Crisis Automotive Human Resources Education 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

They conducted a large-scale experiment in a Fortune 500 company and found that work-family conflicts don’t need to be solely employees’ individual, private troubles, but can be resolved systemically with a little management leadership. Nearly 700 employees from an information technology department participated in the experiment.

Stress 13

Stress Human Resources Report Commitment 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2017

Senior executives are closely involved in crafting the “story” of the organization — the message that goes out to the world — and they spend a good portion of their time outside the company, talking with stakeholders and observing the organization’s impact firsthand. Leadership as service. Dan Pontefract.

Execution 14

Execution CIO Chief Information Officer Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Marshall McLuhan wrote famously about the “global village,” created by new information technologies. At the organizational level, as I have written frequently, effective companies function as communities of human beings, not collections of human resources. Networks connect; communities care.

Drucker 8

Drucker Information Technology Globalization Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Just as the A's used analytics to find undervalued players who got on base at a disproportionate rate, your company can crunch data to find the offers your customers will respond to best, the price points that will move the most products, or the supply chain configurations that will wring out most cost.

Company 12

Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Film 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

The immense promise of big data to reveal new opportunities and deliver practical business results has so far been focused on technologies and models, and less on the human challenges of staffing roles and processes to take advantage of big data’s promise. The study also found a looming need for over 1.5

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Technology McKinsey Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

An investor-owned hospital executive whose company had acquired major nonprofit health care enterprises compared the proliferation of contracts to the growth of barnacles on the bottom of a freighter. However, doing this with blanket eliminations of layers carries a risk: inadvertently pruning away the next generation of leadership talent.

Cost 10

Cost System Management Franchising 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Our research, conducted in partnership with Harvard Business Review, The Economist, CEB (formerly the Corporate Executive Board), Intel, and TNS Global, finds that corporate leadership has lost confidence in the CIO as a strategic partner and views IT as a commodity rather than a difference-maker. Victorio M. So it''s not just us!

CIO 8

CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Rather it’s an on-going nipping and tucking of organizational resources to achieve both growth and efficiency at multiple levels: the company overall, the operating group level, and even within functional groups like human resources and information technology.

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

I was there for a gathering of Human Resources executives, the third conference I have attended this autumn in which a central theme was the “technological revolution” and its implications for employment, education, and lifestyles. Hope and anxiety about leaders deploying the latest technologies are not new.

Technology 8

Technology Drucker Taylorism Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Human Resources groups have many line responsibilities of their own, such as succession planning, setting pay scales, and selecting the benefits package. They also work with other departments to help hire and train the human capabilities they need. The corporate DG must also own the end-to-end metadata processes.

Management 8

Management Policies Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Data scientists are definitely in short supply at the moment; ask any company that's trying to hire them. We're never satisfied with how the company is being run. They can also interface with carbon-based lifeforms — senior executives, product managers, CTOs, and CIOs. You need them.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring CIO Consultative Resources 8