Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. L’Oréal has made a strategic investment in Founders Factory , a digital startup accelerator. One such activity was introduced by Deb Henretta while leading P&G Asia.

P&L 12

P&L Agility Fashion Media 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

If you''ve got a genuinely creative idea — or even a " me, too with a twist " — Kickstarter''s "crowd funding" platform offers a genuinely innovative way to finance creativity and innovation. Why aren''t leaders tapping the crowdfunding capabilities of their own innovation ecosystems to stimulate their people and ideas?

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L Company Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Any standing meeting, whether it’s of a departmental leadership team, a cross-functional group owning a process like innovation or talent management, or a task force managing a six-month transition to a new technology, should be designed and linked to a broader governance plan.

P&L 12

P&L How To Finance Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2011

It's true that Apple's success in the last decade has been built on a remarkable string of innovations, which seems harder to "codify." When one of Apple's design teams was tasked with developing a DVD-burning software program for high-end Macs, developers spent weeks putting together a plan. Yet turnover at Apple is low.

P&L 14

P&L Supply Chain Retail COO 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

She holds the Ernest L. She''s an expert on strategy, innovation, and leading change. In her latest book, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good , she analyzed how P&G (among other companies) achieved long-term performance. Why is P&G making this move, now? Asking A.G.

P&L 8

P&L Restructuring Price CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Instead, chief executives are often presented with two “right” answers, but one is slightly worse. CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

These are the executives who run discrete businesses and control all of the resources associated with them. In fact, for many chief executives I've recently worked with, the first real GM job that they had was CEO! Have you noticed that general managers are scarce these days? But today no one gets that experience.

Management 14

Management P&L Incubator Finance 14

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

In team development, research has shown that individual learning works best when accompanied by team learning. [1]. So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field.

Team 52

Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Short-term thinking has been charged with no less than a chronic decline in innovation capability by Clayton Christensen who termed it “the Capitalist’s Dilemma.” ) Corporations continue to focus too narrowly on shareholders , with terrible consequences – even at great companies like IBM. Townes, and Henry L.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in Running the business Financial People Business development Body of Knowledge The Big Picture No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. Language is food for the mind.

P&L 56

P&L Books Definition Strategic Planning 56

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

Generally speaking, executives are compensated for things under their control: moving projects along, the stewardship of a P&L, and for the company hitting financial targets. Bonuses are awarded for moving programs along, some of which could have started years before this executive’s arrival.

Incentives 8

Incentives Pharmaceuticals Crisis P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Rather, the issues the plane has been facing have much more to do with Boeing's decision to treat the design and production of such a radically new and different aircraft as a modular system so early in its development. Several of the top positions in the merged Boeing were assigned to executives who had previously worked in St.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing P&L Airlines Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

As Tommy Bamford and Jane Oldenburg drove into the visitor section of Westmid Builders' car park, Jane pointed out the man they had come to see: Steve Houghton, Westmid's purchasing executive. These deductions, which totaled 12% of sales, had previously been collapsed into a single line item in the P&L for each customer.

Case Study 14

Case Study P&L Cost Due Diligence 14

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. With Discovery-Driven Growth , Rita and Ian offer managers everywhere a time-tested blueprint for planning and executing a strategic growth agenda with confidence – in any market.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

Yet for the all the effort that is put into selecting, training and assessing leaders, there still seems to be a dearth of truly top-level executive talent. In most organizations, the responsibility for setting direction, developing strategy and allocating resources is highly centralized.

P&L 8

P&L Supply Chain Bottom-up McKinsey 8

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Helping people develop their potential—enabling them to articulate and become the self they want to be, are capable of being, and that best serves them and others in the short and long term—is what we as individuals and leaders strive toward. The Crux : How Leaders Become Strategists by Richard P. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

Books 369

Books Leadership P&L Blog 369

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

An innovative care provider organization in Eastern Massachusetts with 30 medical practices and a home health and hospice agency, it already receives almost 80% of revenue from global payments (a fixed payment for all of a patient’s medical treatment during a specified period of time) or other risk contracts. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8