Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Like almost every other major industry today, banking relies on hugely complex, enormously expensive technology. I discovered that only one bank had a board member with some direct experience in technology and in that case it was as a sales executive. The truth is that many industries today employ outdated technology.

Technology 8

Technology Zero Based Budgeting Banking CIO 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

There was a time when the entry of an online alternative in a market would scare the hell out of small offline retailers. The consumer behavior was changing and the prices were getting aggressively competing; it was not easy for small retailers to keep up with their online counterparts. Take Amazon for example. marketplace model today.

Retail 132

Retail Supply Chain Software Marketing 132

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Lines of business are now getting their own official technology budgets for non-standard software products. IT as Process Creator.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2020

There was a time when the entry of an online alternative in a market would scare the hell out of small offline retailers. The consumer behavior was changing and the prices were getting aggressively competing; it was not easy for small retailers to keep up with their online counterparts. Take Amazon for example.

Supply Chain 89

Supply Chain Retail Software Marketing 89

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. In the same way, investments in landmark digital projects that significantly enhance customer experience can help launch wider digital transformations. For example, retailers will struggle to put the right products on their shelves until they have accurate data about the dimensions of the packaging itself.

Planning 8

Planning Agility System Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Technology is reconfiguring traditional roles and divisions of labor. Now some are deepening their existing relationships with local governments and branching out into other types of smart technology implementation. Companies that want to serve them directly often have to think outside the box when it comes to financing.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Carmakers have started using 3D technology to produce parts. The technology is expected to lead to reductions in the cost of employment, capital investment, shipping and inventory as well. manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers, according to a leading technology industry analyst. Most hearing aids in the U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Automating finance. This lets organizations reduce the amount of work outsourced to service centers and frees up finance staff to focus on strategic tasks. Retail shelf analysis. Many employees worry about the consequences of all of this technology on their roles. Measuring brand exposure.

Process 10

Process Company Supply Chain Software 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2018

She also began paying more attention to projects that would drive future growth. In one example, the company pursued a “strategy refresh” project for the firm’s retail business, and the CEO ensured the CMO was deeply involved. Now, almost every project requires defined financial deliverables.

CFO 8

CFO CEO Agility Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

When I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology , I initially focused on helping African entrepreneurs or artisans, especially those with only primary education, develop new skills and market opportunities. People need at least a rudimentary understanding of finance to become good entrepreneurs or artisans.

Books 13

Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

At their training center in Louisville, they bounced ideas and product prototypes off of retail salespeople who came to learn about GE’s products. They’re now working on version 8, which they will produce in October, and version 10, with better lighting, and there is a design projected for 2015.

Ries 8

Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

My team would have people with deep functional knowledge and skills (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, and information technology) to align surrounding processes. Consider Lowe's , America's second-largest home improvement retailer worldwide, with revenue of $49 billion and more than 1,700 stores.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

You might simply Pinterest the elements you liked, including information about your space or noise limitations ("One-bedroom apartment on busy street in New York," or "suburban space that needs stuff protected from little kids"), and then have a retailer give you a personalized, optimal configuration. Big Isn't Enough.

Porter 15

Porter Mass Marketing Supply Chain Retail 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

However, our experience has been that [when a product fails] it’s not a technology problem or a pure R&D problem — it is really around marketing, customer segments, and of course pricing. Pricing pressure is more intense in retail, less so in areas like top-branded luxury goods or highly differentiated machinery.

Price 9

Price Productivity Products Simon 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Professionals from the banking, finance, investing, and accounting worlds. Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. Earlier this year, we projected that sales will hit $6 billion by 2018. And more are joining every day. Interior design specialists, journalists, and healthcare veterans.

Industry 8

Industry Retail Banking Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

could harness technologies like 3D printing to build affordable houses faster and cleaner and make them accessible to most Americans. Compte Nickel charges a flat annual maintenance fee of just 20 Euros (compared to 180 Euros charged by retail banks).

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

At one American retailer, an autonomous ensemble of algorithms replaced the entire merchandising department. They frequently find the technologies are less of a hassle than the people. Data scientists in business process algorithmization scenarios are project managers. It’s a different kind of engineering.”

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection." This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention. In the U.S.

NGO 14

NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. And many diversity programs fail. I chose eleven CEOs: Art Peck (Gap Inc., “It has always required people to do the work.

Diversity 8

Diversity CEO Rogers Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Drawing on a powerful tool from the finance world, they conceived of those collections operating as portfolios — each with a specific business objective and time horizon. That could involve targeting new geographies, developing new products, taking advantage of new technologies, or devising new business models.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Some companies that made the list were obvious choices; for example, the biggest online retailer now gets most of its profit from cloud services (Amazon). While Amazon has expanded its core retailing platform into new categories, such as food and streaming content, in parallel it has built the world’s largest cloud computing enterprise.

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

As an organization or project grows, and as its challenges change, it not only needs to recognize new priorities, it needs to delete or deemphasize old ones. Just a couple of weeks ago, BuildDirect received $30 million in additional financing led by Venture Capital firm Mohr Davidow.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work. His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

When the well-known hedge fund manager and short-seller Jeremiah Hughes first put Terranola in the spotlight, issuing ominous warnings about unsold products, a looming patent expiration, and flawed growth projections, the considered judgment of the executive team was to do nothing. “I the interviewer had asked.

Case Study 8

Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

Liberate and accelerate data by creating a data supply chain built on a hybrid technology environment — a data service platform combined with emerging big data technologies. bank adopted such a technology environment to more efficiently manage increasing data volumes for its customer analytics projects.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

The marketing and sales team of one major technology vendor, for instance, partnered with risk to assemble a range of financing packages to help its mid-market clients fund upgrades, manage invoice payments, and smooth cash flows. The finance team brought its scenario modeling tools to bear. Protect and manage reputations.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

And of course, few such managers have a background in information technology. And now retailers are starting to leverage the same information to better position higher-margin product where traffic is highest within their stores. Don’t have a capital budget for energy savings projects? Information & technology'

Energy 8

Energy Resources Information Technology Cost Center 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Frito-Lay has already made competition the cornerstone of its Super Bowl advertising , and Toyota , desperate to remind people what a wonderful corporate citizen it can be, invites aspiring innovators to suggest how the firm's technology can be used for good in unexpected ways. obscures the tectonic economic shift in global retail.

Innovation 15

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Stakeholders ranging from your supply chains to customers that walk into retail storefronts increasingly prefer to do business with companies that pursue cost-effective sustainability. Here, new technology involving the Internet of Things has opened up tremendous possibilities. More or less every major company in the U.S.

Management 8

Management Payback Period Energy Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

And of course, few such managers have a background in information technology. And now retailers are starting to leverage the same information to better position higher-margin product where traffic is highest within their stores. Don’t have a capital budget for energy savings projects? A large-scale battery in the basement.

Energy 8

Energy Resources Cost Center Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

“This is not happening just in retail, or in IT-producing sectors,” said Chiara Criscuolo, an OECD economist and coauthor of the report. The competition story revolves around digital technology. Since 2000 productivity growth at the most productive “frontier” firms has sharply outpaced the average.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. Many of these teams will dissolve once the project is over, and their members may not work together again. This type of capability requires a higher level of cross-functional collaboration than many specialists are used to.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

When word of mouth grew, no retailers had the DVD to meet the demand. Once again, it is vital to have the ad and sales projections — and the required funds! —in Remember the DVD (and later book) juggernaut called The Secret ? It began as a small direct sales operation, with no plan for national distribution. And launch.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Marketing Strategy Budgeting 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. How has Europe dealt with the situation? A major reason for this deficit is insufficient investment.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8