Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Be accountable for results : While many funders track service delivery, a 2010 report by the Committee on Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy notes that metrics measuring only output "offer little indication whether social improvement actually is occurring." This is what they demand in their core business.".

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Zeitgeist, German for "spirit of the time," is the complex interplay of economic, technological, political, and social forces that can determine which ideas will flop and which will fly in a particular moment. Read widely and systematically scan sources, from new consulting reports to business headlines, to discern the zeitgeist.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

It’s hard to say, since a lot of other things happened in those same decades: the decline of unions, an explosion of information technology, a new round of globalization, and the dramatic rise in CEO pay. As firms restructured around one or a few competencies or occupations, the thinking goes, wages converged toward the market rate.

Company 8

Company Core Competence Outsourcing Restructuring 8

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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Second, factoring in cost makes online technology much more competitive.And And finally, focusing on current relative positions discounts the importance of technological changewhich, over time, will make online models more competitive. The advantages of MOOCs and, more broadly, online technology as a delivery channel, are real.

Christensen 14

Christensen Education Discount Class 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

They must protect value by helping companies avoid unnecessary risks, and they must build value by ensuring that companies change quickly enough to address emerging competitive threats, evolving customer preferences, and disruptive technologies. But disruption is not always about technology.

Retail 8

Retail CEO Core Competence Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

“Death of a B2B Salesman,” a new report from Forrester Research , lends urgency to the need for companies to rethink and radically transform their sales models by incorporating digital media into their processes. The moral: Do not act rashly. Reimagine, retrain, and redeploy your sales people. Each time, salespeople survived.

B2B 8

B2B Forrester Telemarketing Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

million employees globally over a 12-year period found, for example, that while 63% of extremely stressed employees reported above-average productivity, this number rises significantly to 87% amongst those who say they are not at all stressed. The result is at times a frenetic way of working. The Global Corporate Challenge study of over 1.5

Stress 10

Stress Agility Globalization Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. Merck and Co.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The relationship gave HPS the ability to reach more people, and Shell had a front-row seat to learn from HPS's many innovations, including bamboo-based power lines, pay-per-use tariffs, and ultra-low-cost, anti-theft smart meters, according to a recent report by the Monitor Group.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Cementing the business failure, salespeople appeared to believe that senior managers would not tolerate underperformance, and found it easier to fabricate false accounts than to report what they were learning in the field. The widespread nature of the behavior strongly suggests that the fraud was not the result of some corrupt salespeople.

Strategy 8

Strategy Agility Execution Core Competence 8

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 23, 2015

Jeff Bezos recognized the revolutionary portent of e-commerce back in 1994 when he read a trend report about the explosive growth of internet usage. Consider how Walt Disney – or the folks from ESPN – leveraged core competencies and strategic assets to build global entertainment empires.

Innovation 120

Innovation Business Model Trends Franchising 120

Terry Starbucker

APRIL 18, 2010

Peter , and report back to him the next day about what I learned. Now 23 years on from that all-important 1 st lesson I have realized something else – right hiring decisions go beyond core competencies. Terry Leave a Comment { 1 trackback } Links for April 25 2010 | Dallas Technology Strategy Consulting | Eric D.

Open-book 222

Open-book Blog Core Competence Books 222

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

Ancona says that many companies include teamwork as a core competency in their leadership development models. Most of them had been with the company for a while, but many didn''t have formal skills in instructional technology and design. They wanted to grow their skillset and familiarize themselves with new technology.".

Team 8

Team How To Case Study Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Google has at once freed device manufacturers from having to invest in developing complex operating systems, allowed them to focus on their core competence of designing and manufacturing of devices, and thereby lower their costs. When a company uses its own products for each layer (e.g., In other words, E.U. The differing U.S.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Incentives Operations Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

“Not only are profits rising,” write the authors of the McKinsey report, “but in some industries, the leading firms are winning bigger than ever before.” “This is not happening just in retail, or in IT-producing sectors,” said Chiara Criscuolo, an OECD economist and coauthor of the report.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You’re competing against platforms like Uber in transportation, Google in automotive, Airbnb in hospitality, LinkedIn in recruiting, Netflix in television, and the list goes on. In a world underpinned by ever more powerful, affordable, and public technology platforms, software is still king.

Software 8

Software Company Airlines Business Model 8

CO2

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Externally, examine societal trends, political implications, technological advancements, and competitive forces. It provides the organization a way to stay focused on your core competencies and prevents you from being distracted by opportunities that do not fit your purpose. Describing why you exist as an organization.

Strategic Planning 78

Strategic Planning Planning Balanced Scorecard Mission Statement 78

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

After another email exchange, the executive and her direct report recognized that, as useful as the message was, it could not be shared with other employees. I've seen organizations committed to making forwardability a core competence save literally scores of hours of top-management time.

Efficiency 14

Efficiency Lean Manufacturing Core Competence Agility 14

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

These observations are intended to contextualize the Enron case studies in broader terms than were reported in the news media: Conditions Which Allowed It to Occur. Core Business. Enron (like many other companies) got into areas beyond their core competencies. The company issued everything through written news releases.

Strategic Planning 63

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 63

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

All of the individuals were hand-picked to ensure highly divergent thinking, a desire to disrupt status quo, and comfort with ambiguity, among other core competencies. ” Some interview questions were used to test multiple competencies at once. Interview questions were designed to test applicants for these traits.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8