N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

For me businesses are as much or more about the people than they are about the products and markets …so those tough restructuring calls (or sometimes the shut it down calls) are the hardest things ever. Sometimes they aren’t happy calls – and that’s when it gets really hard. Rebel Brown : Ah – when the light goes on! I don’t think they work.

Open-book 272

Open-book Greenleaf Blog Marketing 272

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

We thought that creative, capability-rich companies would have paid a lot of attention to the way they organized and the value that restructuring gave them. Instead, our interviews found a willingness to let organizational forms and structures evolve naturally, developing in line with the identity of the enterprise.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

The logic sounds compelling: A customer-centric structure , as the approach is known, can help a company understand its customers better, develop deeper relationships with them, and improve customer satisfaction. Cisco and Xerox, for example, have seen poor results. But customer alignment doesn’t work for everyone.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Company Henderson Health Care 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Effective followership plays such an important role in the development of future leadership skills that freshman at all the United States service academies (the Air Force Academy, West Point, Annapolis, and the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies) spend their first year in formal follower roles.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In addition, we believe that your starting point for strategy development is what you are already great at, rather than studying the industry and market for opportunities. Is it more important to consider capabilities when you develop a strategy now than it was, say, five years ago? SD : Why now? What do most companies do instead?

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

Like the internet, in the early stages of development there are many competing technologies, so it’s important to specify which blockchain you’re talking about. The internet and its layers took decades to develop, with each technical layer unlocking an explosion of creative and entrepreneurial activity.

Banking 18

Banking Media Decentralization Technology 18

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

To deliver more value, the human resources function needs to spend more time accelerating operational improvement and less time on its traditional administrative and compliance activities. Bring people into HR with extensive operational improvement experience. In HR, we need to focus on what is important.".

Process 13

Process Compliance Operations Human Resources 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

In the oil industry, for example, what used to be weeks of inspection work now takes just days, thanks to drone-based thermal imaging and gas “sniffer” technology to inspect oil rigs and pipelines. Factors such as investment horizon, need for data security, and desired development speed will influence this choice.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Company Outsourcing Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating. The challenges facing NASA.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

Other firms have ventured down this path, including the conglomerate Wesfarmers , with its 200,000-plus staff, and the global hospital operator Ramsay Health Care. ” Take, as an example, the world’s largest mining company by market capitalization, BHP Billiton. Should soft measures be part of a CEO’s scorecard?

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TSR Banking Committee Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

In our book Repeatability , Chris Zook and I show how top-performing companies typically develop repeatable models that incorporate their strategy in front-line activities. When Sir Christopher Gent headed Vodafone in the 1990s, for example, he brought his management team and board together every year to ask what business the company was in.

Merchandising 13

Merchandising Metrics Restructuring Library 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

The solution is to show some humility and to consider restructuring things so that your actions have some checks and balances. To do that, you may need to develop a hybrid approach that mixes the new, adjusted strategy with some older practices. Regroup, but with flexibility. Communicate to stop the contagion.

Strategy 14

Strategy Metrics Restructuring Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The capacity and willingness of managers to plan developed throughout the century. Corporations developed large corporate units dedicated to it. It restructured its operations in the Netherlands by reorganizing 3,500 employees into agile squads. Take Nespresso, the coffee pod pioneer developed by Nestle.

Agility 14

Agility Planning Fayol Strategic Planning 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. For example, the original Google car found it hard to compute the context within which it was operating.

Skills 12

Skills Morale Ethics System 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2018

Job personalization is best applied when there are clear inflection points: when career trajectories are stalled, during corporate restructuring, or in recruiting for open positions. For example, my colleague Silvia, who works in public relations, often goes out of her way to welcome and mentor new colleagues. We ideated constantly.

Creativity 8

Creativity Restructuring PR Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

To help business leaders better understand industry disruption, we developed an index that measures an industry’s current level of disruption as well as its susceptibility to future disruption. For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

Coca-Cola is one of the many companies that are making efforts to tackle the world’s greatest societal challenges — water scarcity, climate change, and even the rights of women and girls in the developing world. How has Coca-Cola integrated these CSR principles into your operations? It can be difficult to measure and compare.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Operations Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The essence of the phenomenon is the fact that each stage in the supply chain plans its capital projects and operations, including inventory levels, based on its future expectations. Macroeconomic data during the 2008 financial crisis show the bullwhip effect operating on a much broader scale. For example , U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Developments in the Middle East — first the removal of long-time Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011 and now Hosni Mubarak's stepping down in Egypt — suggest that authoritarian regimes in the region are not immune to "people power."

Strategy 13

Strategy Politics Short-term Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. In our experience, there are specific steps CEOs and CMOs can take to develop a working relationship that is dynamic and useful. Develop—and stick to—a marketing blueprint. Who should lead our transformation?

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. Take James Inglesby at Unilever, for example. Some have decades of experience in their industry. Some are recent graduates.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Typically a graphic depiction of the organizational components to be addressed in a redesign (for example, McKinsey’s 7S model, which includes strategy, structure, systems, staff, skills, and so on), every consultant and his brother flogs an organization design model. Operations Organizational culture'

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

While a natural inclination, this group is (by design) representative of current operating units and functions, which often have a status quo to defend. The only questions the circle should avoid are what to do about current operational problems. That, in brief, is the concept of a leadership circle.

Leadership 8

Leadership Diversity Committee Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Executives mobilized experts to develop internal applications that mirrored the functionality of Facebook and Twitter, and built a platform that allowed for the creation of internal wiki pages. The company hired many open source technology developers to build new collaboration tools. Even operational efficiency was unaffected.

Media 15

Media Consultative Restructuring Execution 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Robotics is a good example: It’s obvious that it can increase productivity, but it takes some know-how to put robots to work. Organizations develop processes through repeated problem solving. The Future of Operations. Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. Insight Center.

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

to the revolution in Libya, from the continuing economic upheaval to Steve Jobs announcing his resignation as CEO of Apple and to HP restructuring their business, and from earthquakes to hurricanes and floods, each event is yet another chink in our sense of stability and control of the environment around us. From News Corp. 2) Technology.

Uncertainty 14

Uncertainty Politics Restructuring Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

He noted his accomplishments in several areas: strategy development and execution, branding and marketing, sales, partnerships, and IP. R ésumé example #2. Here are a couple more examples of effective resume storytelling. R ésumé example #3. BREWERY START-UP. Overall Strategy and Success.

Brand 8

Brand Press Release Marketing B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

The contest is now shifting toward more-traditional industries, like transportation (Lyft and Uber, for example) and hospitality (Airbnb). Google’s restructuring as Alphabet is one sign of its entry into several new vertical markets, including driverless cars, smart homes, smart cities, and health.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

One example is the corporate reorganization. Many preside over multiple restructurings. Imagine what might have happened if the team at Time Warner had considered other alternatives for expanding into the online world: strategic partnerships, joint venture arrangements, even accelerated development of the company’s own capabilities.

Hedge 8

Hedge Restructuring Execution Download 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Citing its outcomes performance as a mandate for change, Fraser set about a complete restructuring of the team: pediatric cardiac surgeons and cardiologists started collaborating more closely, dedicated pediatric cardiac surgery operating rooms and ICU space was created, and a systematic outcomes tracking program was put in place.

Health Care 8

Health Care Fraser Price Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Restructuring the process. Here are some examples: We learned that leaving the hospital through a main entrance, at a time when most people don’t feel or look their best, was often embarrassing for patients. UT Southwestern’s president, Daniel K. And that saved everyone time and money. Did everything go perfectly?

Health Care 8

Health Care Construction Planning Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

One popular view of activists is that they are short-term, cut-and-run operators who are looking for a quick profit. Think of how often activists have pressed for the sale and restructuring of firms and for the dismissal of CEOs. For example, index funds sometimes side with activists, but sometimes reject their demands.

CEO 8

CEO Real Estate Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

We don't have far to look for current examples: today Finland is witnessing an upsurge in entrepreneurship now in part because corporate giant Nokia is in the midst of shedding ten thousand high-quality jobs. Estimates of jobs eventually lost from the closure of the multi-billion dollar project range from 1500 to over twice that many.

Company 8

Company Bureaucracy Restructuring Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2013

A pharmaceuticals company we''ve been studying decided to deploy more than 20,000 iPads and other mobile devices to the global sales force to improve its engagement with doctors in emerging and developed markets. The logical response might seem to be to restructure and reskill the IT organization (again!) the IT function).

Organization 8

Organization CIO Compliance CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

For example, in some industries — say, construction — long-term ROEs are very close to the cost of equity capital. In our experience, companies still focus more on cutting costs than on developing and executing new growth strategies. In fact, the multiple of value created by growth versus margins is more than four to one.

ROE 10

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The two approaches share a set of key principles and practices, with the main differences arising from jargon: Sociocracy, developed in the 1970s, was based on principles of cybernetics ; holacracy represents a repackaging of the principles in the vocabulary of software engineering.

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Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8