In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 15, 2012

Steve Jobs and Larry Page took note of the environment in which their companies would operate but fretted little about it. That’s because success for Page and Jobs hinged on the strategic choices they made – primarily which products and applications to bet on.

CEO 242

CEO Chief Executive Officer Critical Success Factor Discount 242

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

His "Obama for America" fundraising , analytics and "get out the vote" operation was a masterpiece of agile electoral innovation and entrepreneurship. The Obama campaign's techniques, tools and technologies deserve detailed and dedicated attention from every organization that takes data-driven decisions seriously. They're right.

Marketing 8

Marketing Chief Technology Officer Case Study Critical Success Factor 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

With this model, an investment can be defined as strategic, key operational, support, or high potential. Strategic investments are critical to future business success. Note that whether the technology used is “leading edge” is secondary. The organization currently depends on these investments for success.

Tools 8

Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The (far) more interesting counterfactual would have been a leaked memo declaring that telecommuters and virtual teams were — by far — the most agile, innovative and productive performers at Yahoo. Why would Mayer minimize what she had experienced as a critical success factor?

Critical Success Factor 8

Critical Success Factor CEO Agility Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

How can we as leaders help our front-line teams take more action to innovate and improve how work gets done? One of the most critical success factors we found at Coty was that it was not who was tapped as a leader or even a team’s technical skills that mattered most. Operations in a Connected World.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Kotter Critical Success Factor Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Is big data there to provide a more innovative signal or a comfortable redundancy? A commitment to a desired business outcome is the critical success factor. Amazon's transformational recommendation engines reflect Bezos' focus on superior user experience rather than any innovation emphasis on repurposing customer data.

Execution 15

Execution Critical Success Factor Engineering Innovation 15