Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A recent McKinsey report found that while 84% of corporate executives think innovation is key to achieving growth objectives, only 6% are satisfied with the innovation performance of their firm. Even if executives try to prioritize it, innovation often gets crowded out by more “urgent” short-term pressures.

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Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

Have you noticed that general managers are scarce these days? These are the executives who run discrete businesses and control all of the resources associated with them. But in many large companies, the only true general manager is the CEO. At one time general managers were at the center of the action.

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Management P&L Incubator Finance 13

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?

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Innovation P&L Company Creativity 8

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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

And 71% of senior managers view them as unproductive. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2011

But other companies have managed to thrive long after the departure of their talented founders (GE, IBM, Procter & Gamble, HP until recently). 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." Place product experience first, not P&L.

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 6, 2013

Wouldn’t you expect more innovation? I remain impressed with the ongoing success of P&G, L’Oreal, Nike, Whole Foods, Pernod Ricard, Apple, and Starbucks. Chief Executives who continually talk about brand assets are often the ones living off the luster of yesteryear’s brand equity. Some companies brand exceedingly well.

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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. Manage costs — or add value?

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CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

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.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

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. The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

But in fact, most managers don't. Managers confuse differentiation with being different. My premise in writing Understanding Michael Porter was very simply that clear strategic thinking is essential for any manager in any setting, and Porter's work lays out the basic principles and frameworks you need to master. Here it is.

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Porter Strategy Competitive Advantage P&L 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. Managers still assume that stability is the normal state of affairs and change is the unusual state (a point I particularly challenge in The End of Competitive Advantage ). Townes, and Henry L.

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Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Executing this strategy required seamless integration of IBM's product capabilities with its geographic reach. His first act was to abolish IBM's corporate executive committee. They are innovating in ways that create virtuous circles for a generation or more." Directness. Pragmatism. When the U.S.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

keep hearing from top executives at large, profitable companies that they're under "P&L pressure." What all senior executives seem to have forgotten — in some mass delusion — is that these growth targets are arbitrary. Sustainability is about the real long-term health of both the planet and enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

And this charge will, in theory, move managers to make greener choices. The executives running that facility, not just centrally located sustainability professionals, will be empowered to address any concerns, drive for greater efficiency, and choose greener power. But executives weren't charged real money.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

My acronym for BUSINESS : B ig-picture U nderstanding S ymbiosis I n N omenclature, E conomics, S ystems, and S ervices WORK : W indows of O pportunity, R equiring K now-how My acronym for GOALS : G etting O rganized A llowing L ifeblood S ystems G rowth O pportunities A nd L egacy S upport THINK : T o H ave I deas, N ew K eys FAILURE : F inding A (..)

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

As business boomed, new hires and managers competed hard with each other to scramble up the corporate ladder (while prying other people's fingers off of it). The firm had to lay off some even of these ambitious, hard-charging people — an awful experience for most managers, including George. What does happiness mean?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

If you've done it too soon and tried to modularize parts of an unsolved puzzle across suppliers, then each time one of those unanticipated problems or interdependencies arises, you have to cross corporate boundaries to make the necessary changes — changes which could dramatically impact the P&L of a supplier.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

Once, the demise of the Great A&P would have been front-page news from Maine to California. For more than four decades, from 1920 into the 1960s, A&P was the largest retailer in the world. A&P remained so powerful for so long for one reason only: because the two brothers who controlled it, George L. and John A.

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P&L Retail Real Estate Discount 14

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. Tommy was a director and Jane was the Midlands regional sales manager for Egan & Sons, a supplier of doors and staircases to Westmid for 63 years.

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Case Study P&L Cost Due Diligence 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Yet they don't work, and their repeated application makes many managers incredibly gender fatigued and frustrated. Solution : Make gender balancing a strategic initiative, led by the CEO, framed as a lever to achieving business strategy, not as a separate initiative for already overburdened executives. Problem 1: Calling it Diversity.

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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. Yet for the small handful of companies that have managed to drive growth consistently – even through tough times – the payoff is great. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.

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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. Maybe that mattered less in a world where change was better behaved, but today, senior management's monopoly on "strategic leadership" can rapidly turn a leader into a laggard.

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P&L Supply Chain Bottom-up McKinsey 8

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The Crux : How Leaders Become Strategists by Richard P. People don’t want to be managed; they want to be led. A New Way to Think : Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness by Roger L. How can you design a successful, sustainable innovation process?—his Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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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.

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