Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Although that kind of redesign is still required periodically, leaders today are more typically confronted with the challenge of how to find cost efficiencies in certain parts of their organization to invest in other parts of the organization that drive growth. As a result, organization design is no longer just a big bang event.

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

Profitability as the key measure of business success was akin to a law of physics – like gravity – a foundational assumption which we all take as given: you have to deliver profits to create long term shareholder value. Profit-focused companies focus on scaling efficiency and cutting costs, and miss new opportunities.

Company 8

Company Software Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

All this represents a considerable turn away from anything resembling a Washington Consensus and towards a more highly managed system favoring preferential terms for developing countries and redistribution over competition and efficiency. But rules affect profits and long-term sustainability.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

The price of Android phones probably will rise in the short term. These are linear, efficiency-based fields, where the winners win by getting to the best solution faster and at a lower cost than the losers. Samsung has built its name over the past two decades on being the world's greatest Fast Follower.

Innovation 15

Innovation Supply Chain Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

A fleet efficiency project, which many would just call good business with a good payback, is a carbon and climate action. That said, the respondents might be right in the larger sense that companies are unprepared for systemic and longer-term challenges.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Short-term Fast Follower 8