Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” We believe the answer is yes. In fact, this sort of thinking is something of a return to the norm. This initiative will soon connect all 1.3

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

You’d think that increasingly sophisticated technology would help reduce this waste. However, overspending is often the result of decentralized and siloed decision making over the utility budget. states with deregulated power markets) and technologies (e.g., There are all kinds of new energy providers (especially in U.S.

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Company Management CIO Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Many so-called strategies are in fact goals. “We want to be the number one or number two in all the markets in which we operate” is one of those. For example, consider “We want to increase operational efficiency; we will target Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; and we will divest business X.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The rapid pace of change in business and technology means that more and more companies will find themselves being disrupted. One large media organization faces large incumbent players and operates in a market that is growing quickly. We call this operating structure the “network of teams.” What’s a CEO to do?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

They are often in intensive care units with ill-defined goals of care. But the value of these technologies remains poorly understood. The relentless pace of technology has produced numerous products and services to monitor patients at home, but few have been tightly integrated with alternative care models.

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Cost Health Care Transportation Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

The infiltration of technology into every part of our lives has made many people seek out personal, low-tech/high-touch experiences and relationships with the companies they patronize. It takes organizational, cultural, and operational changes. There are other operational considerations. Marketing Operations Retail'

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Retail Merchandising Market Penetration Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

It makes much more economic and operational sense to create and leverage a central cadre of professionals than to ask each clinical unit, on its own, to acquire such expertise. After surgery, these same tools will be used to direct the intensity and duration of rehabilitation needed to attain the functional goals set by the patient.

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Health Care Management Cost Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level. Bringing together people, technologies and skills from within and outside the company under the same roof, the Merck Innovation Center is a building made to inspire.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2014

While retailers and cable companies moved their businesses online years ago, many insurers, struggling with legacy technology and outmoded organizational structures, are playing catch up. In fact, only 50 percent of carriers have budgeted for long-term digital goals, and just 30 percent have a multi-year investment plan to support digital.

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Insurance Company Maturity Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

They don’t know how key decisions are made, and they have great difficulty analyzing why people—or whole parts of the organization—aren’t meeting the business’s performance goals.“. This approach offers the benefits of centralization (efficiency, economy of scale) and decentralization (effectiveness, local responsiveness).

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Charan Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Decentralization 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

Insightfully, the United Nations is aiming to change this, with UN Sustainable Development Goal #16 , Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions, aiming to “provide legal identity to all, including birth registration, by 2030.” How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Related Video.

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Document Decentralization Banking Insurance 11

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.

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

At Boeing, all enterprise technology (including digital) investments are managed by the CTO, which enables significant synergies. For Commonwealth Bank of Australia, convergence involved bringing together operations and IT into a new unit, Enterprise Services (ES), headed by the CIO. Taking this approach (e.g.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Our goal might be to sell more of our products online. The vendor can make the website, deliver it on time and on budget, and even make it beautiful to look at and easy to use, but it may not achieve our goal, which is to sell more of our products online. Launching early achieved two goals. The website is the output.

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Project Management Uncertainty Software 8

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 27, 2011

One can hardly imagine a decentralized decision- making process in his operations. General Electric and HCL Technologies provide a good counter example. At HCL Technologies, and India-based IT company, the corporate culture springs at least partly from a broader Asian idea of cooperative action. GE and HCL.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While flights of imagination from science-fiction writers, filmmakers, and techno-futurists involve things like flying cars and teleportation, in practice smart technology is making inroads in a piecemeal fashion, often in rather banal circumstances. The potential for technologies to enable smart societies is rising. trillion by 2026.

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