Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. Strategy is how the business will achieve it.

Banking 11

Banking Strategy Film Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

GE now operates in 175 countries across the globe.) So a constant reengineering of our business portfolio, operating model, and culture has been a key to our evolution. For an organization to endeavor to change its culture, it needs to take its cue from what changes in its strategy. The context demanded operational excellence.

Welch 8

Welch Six Sigma Agility Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

The past year has been difficult for many markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, although some of our clients have been facing difficulties resulting from the current environment, primarily because of currency pressures, many others are continuing to see strong growth, even in troubled markets such as South Africa and Angola.

GDP 8

GDP Politics Marketing Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. Nokia was so immersed in executing its strategy that it lost sight of its purpose. Insight Center.

Strategy 11

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

If you're among the many multinational CEOs planning to appoint a local executive as your next country head in an emerging market such as Brazil, China, or India, you may want to think again. Knowing the market and possessing networks are important, but that's not all your company needs for success today.

Globalization 8

Globalization CEO Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. Executing this strategy required seamless integration of IBM's product capabilities with its geographic reach. Pragmatism. When the U.S.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. This is also true of executives. It is the driver of focus and consistency.

Organization 10

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

In order to see the future more clearly, it''s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage. Yet with each wave, the criticality of IT to basic operations and delivery of service to customers continues to escalate.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

If your company puts you in charge of developing a foreign market or a new line of business, your challenges are in many ways similar to those facing a startup. It is a fight that every manager is familiar with, but nowhere is the challenge bigger than when the existing strategy is not aligned with the demands of the situation you are in.

Innovation 9

Innovation Conflict of Interest Strategy System 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

One day, an advertising executive and a colleague were having lunch in New York’s Central Park. The executive stopped and offered to alter the wording on his sign to increase the donations. For me, IKEA’s success is mostly due to the clarity of its strategy. Most businesses try to build their market around what they offer.

Strategy 11

Strategy Document Comparison Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

But what about the more strategic risk areas, such as those related to emerging market entry or acquisition growth strategies? This is where executives are far less confident. Organizations that embed risk management practices into their DNA have a much stronger chance of reaching strategic and operational objectives.

Risk Management 14

Risk Management Maturity EBITDA Management 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

A company that creates a sustainable competitive advantage, executes well and reinvests to solidify its strategy will find that its share price accurately reflects its value. Among the largest companies, executives cited these barriers 94% of the time. And if there is no arbitrage to be had, most activists will hunt elsewhere.

Company 8

Company Bureaucracy Long-term Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

Be strategic and operational. Most CIOs find it relatively easy to convince an executive team to invest in a technology that increases near-term revenue. Grow blended executives. Ideally, these "business relationship executives" would have two heads: one for business and one for technology. Reach beyond IT.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Storytelling Strategic Planning 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. It’s that time of year again: time for business owners and senior executives to take stock of the past twelve months. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

Execution 68

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 68

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

For over 50 years, Wal-Mart has pursued essentially the same strategy of “offering the lowest price so its customer can live better.” Wells Fargo has become the most valuable bank in the world by sticking to its strategy of building a value proposition around selling more products per customer than anyone else. Strategy'

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Airlines Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Among the 75% of employees with disabilities who say they have market-worthy ideas, 48% say their ideas went ignored by people with the power to act on them, 57% feel stalled in their careers, and 47% feel they would never achieve a position of power at their company, no matter how high-performing or qualified they are. Provide role models.

Compliance 8

Compliance Chief Operating Officer Innovation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

New innovations will change the basis of competition in many markets and alter the sources of advantage for most companies. Business-critical roles — that is, the jobs that are central to differentiating a company from its competitors and successfully executing its strategy — will also change.

Company 10

Company Insurance Engineering Software 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Like Satan in the book of Job, I've been going to and fro in the earth over the past few months, in my case talking to corporate executives, consultants, and former consultants. Among my questions to them: How are you thinking about strategy these days? But when I asked if, for him, strategy was dead, he was close to being offended. "Of

Consultative 15

Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

operations in favor of financial performance. Meanwhile, Dr. Piech was obsessed with achieving dominant global market share, which included a larger presence in the U.S. Volkswagen will have to abandon its strategy of world domination and the hubristic “Das Auto” branding approach we see in the ads.

CFO 8

CFO Crisis Mass Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Why are so many smart executives so ineffective? I first noticed Commerce back in the late '90s, when it was developing a reputation for creativity and had a stock-market value of $400 million. Ferrari pit crews operate largely in silence, despite (or because of) the roar of engines around them. billion — not a bad decade.

Banking 16

Banking Retail Open-book Creativity 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. During Immelt’s tenure, GE’s stock market value fell by about half. Increase operating margins to 18% (by cutting expenses). At a minimum, as is happening to GE now, it forces a company to go through a review of its strategy. (At

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

To put it simply, CIOs are not engaged in the strategic decision-making that goes on at the executive level. Define Your Strategy. CIOs need to develop an affirmative IT strategy that begins by identifying old behaviors to give up, new behaviors to adopt, and remaining behaviors to do differently. Find Your Voice in the C-Suite.

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

Procurement teams are often disconnected from the functions they serve and the markets they engage. Or does it focus on customer service and helping the business achieve its strategy? Third, leaders should determine whether the current cast of procurement executives has the required skills and abilities.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Objective Cost Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Everyone thinks they have a digital strategy these days. But while your company may have a business or IT strategy that incorporates digital technology, an IT strategy does not equal a digital strategy. Because most IT strategies treat technology in isolation. That is the essence of a digital strategy.

IT Strategy 8

IT Strategy Strategy Class Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2017

After you’ve been fired, getting back into the job market can be difficult. Doing so helps you “figure out how big a problem you’re facing” and what you’ll need to overcome in the job market, says Lees. Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images. What should you say in an interview? What the Experts Say. .

How To 8

How To Letter Learning-by-Doing PR 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

Companies wind up in trouble and squander the time, talent, and energy of their workforce when they lose focus, spend money on things that don’t make a difference to employees or the future of the business, and use operating models that are out of whack. redesign the operating model. Redesign the Operating Model.

Zero Based Budgeting 11

Zero Based Budgeting Organization Budgeting How To 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Although we had been a market leader for many years, our new products had been launched several months later than the competition — in fact, our time to market had doubled over the previous three years. Capacity, not strategy, was determining which projects launched and when. If not, it stalled or was killed.

Project 8

Project How To Objective Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

For executives at most large organizations, the answer to the first question is probably “too many,” and the answer to the second is “no.” At the same time, Eagle Snacks was gaining market share with innovative new products and its own distribution system. First, connect costs and strategy.

Cost 9

Cost How To Budgeting Strategic Planning 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2011

He blamed the Japan earthquake, the anemic PC market, and a troubled services organization. While HP was once the technology leader that could do no wrong, market watchers are now concerned that the company does not have a clear strategy to overcome its problems. The technology market is the epitome of creative destruction.

Software 12

Software Technology Intellectual Capital Marketing 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Capitec gets many things right in terms of its strategy, including its market positioning, internal operations, and organizational culture. Moreover, in advance, you can never be entirely sure that your original market choices will play out and will generate sufficient income by themselves. Resisting revenue temptations.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Even executives of large corporations talk about the need to make their behemoths into nimble disruptors. Yet, its strategy for almost three decades has largely been that of a sustainer, not a disruptor. How has this strategy worked? Well, since 1985, Intel has generated cumulative operating income before depreciation of $287.4

Innovation 8

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Its approach was the first to align the key actors in the ecosystem in a way that addressed the critical shortcomings — range, resale value, grid capacity — that undermine the electric car as a mass-market proposition. Note to Tesla owners: you are not the mass market). A small number, but these are also small markets.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

Years later, it took on bigger players by introducing new innovative packaging to the market, and subsequently carving out a double-digit share when few thought it could be done. competitors are entering the market. In 1977, the year the two executives joined, Nabob decided to sell and dissolve eight of its 12 product lines.

Brand 100

Brand Brand Management Advertising Management 100