Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Strategic consistency is the hallmark of many great companies. Southwest Airlines’ decades-long strategy of “short-haul, high-frequency, point-to-point, low-fare service” produced what was not only one of the best-performing airlines in the U.S. over the last half-century, but also one of the best-performing companies in any industry.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Airlines Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

In order to see the future more clearly, it''s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage. Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. Strategy is how the business will achieve it.

Banking 13

Banking Strategy Film Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Almost 80% of the more than 1,200 senior executives recently surveyed by PricewaterhouseCoopers believe that their organizations have the right strategic intent — but only 54% think they’re executing that strategy well. Let’s compare two fictional companies to see what’s involved. Company B takes a different approach.

Strategy 8

Strategy Restructuring Committee Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

For years, companies have been pouring money into people, processes, and technology that can help them manage risk. The finding is a correlation but points to a theory of causation: we believe these companies are far more adept at identifying and mitigating the risks that could undermine their achievement of business goals.

Risk Management 14

Risk Management Maturity EBITDA Management 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

Be strategic and operational. Adopt emerging technologies, while weighed down by the past. Most large companies have underinvested in IT for decades. Today, however, technology innovation is creating a drastic change — across all major industries — in the way customers want to interact with their suppliers.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Storytelling Strategic Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. Whereas Gerstner famously declared "the last thing IBM needs is a vision," Palmisano had a clear vision for the company. Directness.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

As Quartz reported last year: Members of the Glass operations team have been on the road showing it off to companies and organizations, and they told Quartz that some of the most enthusiastic responses have come from manufacturers, teachers, medical companies, and hospitals. The comparison to the PC is telling.

Strategy 9

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Bernstein studied assembly-line performance at a company he called “Precision.” Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely.

Organization 12

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise. Why is this?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

We set people up to use their area of expertise, be it strategy, accounting, operations, technology, finance, or human resources. They need help with financial management, marketing, product development, service delivery, and technology. A skills-based, or pro bono, approach is about donating skills, not just money.

Skills 8

Skills Real Estate Human Capital Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2011

While the technology giant's second-quarter revenue increased by 3%, its relatively new CEO, Leo Apotheker, was forced to lower the forecast for revenue for the fiscal year. The technology market is the epitome of creative destruction. Software, on the other hand, is only 17% of the company's revenue.

Software 12

Software Technology Intellectual Capital Marketing 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Increasingly, the CIO and IT must be seen less as merely developing and deploying technology, and more as a source of innovation and transformation that delivers business value, leveraging technology instead of directly delivering it. Define Your Strategy. To that end, the role of the CIO must be strategic instead of tactical.

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

It's an important move, more for what it tells us about Google and the evolution of its strategy than it does about the restaurant rating game. Using mobile technology, users could scan the Google logo to find out more. Zagat will be a case to watch if only because this time around, Google acquired a company older than itself.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Review Comparison Quality 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

The company’s twenty years of entrepreneurial success had positioned the company to reap greater financial rewards using a more disciplined operational focus. However, by the middle of the decade, Google was growing, YouTube was forming, and “operational excellence” wasn’t a differentiating strategy in technology.

Strategic Fit 8

Strategic Fit Rogers CEO Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses. Andreessen’s article helped accelerate the company’s digital transformation. So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. of the company.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Consultants have set up practices to focus specifically on helping companies become disruptive innovators. Yet, its strategy for almost three decades has largely been that of a sustainer, not a disruptor. Its fortunes have been built upon its successes in pushing the technological frontier of the microprocessor. Absolutely.

Innovation 8

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

The days when you could make a living responding to companies' discovery of strategy, as in "Gosh, we gotta get ourselves one of those," are gone with the 1970s (or maybe the 1990s in the "developing world"). Strategy has triumphed, the installed base is huge, no self-respecting company would be without one.

Consultative 15

Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. What did 2010 look like for you and your company? But there’s only one that really matters: Did your company effectively execute its plans and initiatives? Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

It may seem counterintuitive, but smart companies need to routinely rid themselves of less profitable customers, the same way an asset manager or rebalances an investment portfolio or a Major League Baseball general manager trades a declining player. Their price sensitivity leads firms to over-promote and dilute profits.

P&L 14

P&L Supply Chain Retail Price 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

Today more than ever, the entrepreneur is celebrated, failure is accepted as a cost of doing business, and starting your own company is seen as a path to achieving the American Dream. In an economy where traditional manufacturing jobs have gone offshore, and globalization and technology have put pressure on U.S.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

For decades, we’ve often thought of leadership profiles in unique buckets—two popular varieties were the “visionaries”, who embrace strategy and think about amazing things to do, and the “operators”, who get stuff done.

Execution 15

Execution Strategy How To Budgeting 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Prioritization at a strategic and operational level is often the difference between success and failure. Take another real example: a postal service company delivering packages to customers. Like many other postal services, the company has been struggling to survive in an era of increasing competition and digital substitutes.

Project 8

Project How To Objective Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

billion rand in 2017 (about $260 million), while the company’s share price appreciated by a whopping 61,800% (from 117 to 72,500 rand). Capitec gets many things right in terms of its strategy, including its market positioning, internal operations, and organizational culture. Put differently, a company needs focus.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8