Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies.

Industry 13

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Most cities fall well short of that ideal. In order to achieve these goals, new, non-traditional metrics were needed to track the project’s community impacts while making sure that investors and capital partners were still accomplishing their financial objectives. In turn, the comfort and amenities keep them coming back.

Real Estate 13

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

To help prevent this, develop a short-term plan with a six- to nine-month outlook. Also, create a longer-term plan with a seventeen- to eighteen-month strategy. It will encompass the goals and benchmarks you need to achieve during this time period. billion sale in his 16 years as CEO Beating the competition is never easy.

Bottom-up 50

Bottom-up Sharpe Follow-up Retail 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Troubles at Tesco, the UK’s leading retailer, are mounting. The “ accelerated recognition of commercial income and delayed accrual of costs” undoubtedly flatters short-term results, but it soon catches up with you, as four suspended senior executives have found out. How did this happen? and spends it in international markets.

Retail 11

Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. As companies grapple with long odds on innovation like these, they are also looking for ways to improve the likelihood of their intrapreneurial success.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

But we recognize that, in many businesses, resources are often allocated according to short-term, bottom-line pressures. For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% of revenues) and $13 million to $62 million (0.01% to 0.7%

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Unlike Amazon, Alibaba is not even a retailer in the traditional sense—we don’t source or keep stock, and logistics services are carried out by third-party service providers. Strategy in a smart business is not long-term or short-term planning. Organizations in the Creativity Age will focus on creativity and innovation.

Business Model 235

Business Model Technology Retail Short-term 235

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. The innovation portfolio. Connecting Three Different Business Portfolios. The investment portfolio.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Its goal is to ensure that marketers don’t blindly focus on any one area without due consideration for the implications and tradeoffs to the organization’s broader goals. The goal is to help marketers find balance.

Marketing 9

Marketing Reis Brand Retail 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Lobbying for policy reform isn’t much of an answer, because incumbents generally have the benefit of long-term relationships with government agencies built up over many years. Another way for new entrants to turn customers into advocates is by seeking support from existing consumer organizations whose goals align with those of the firm.

Licensing 10

Licensing Proposal Retail Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

These deficiencies are as common in health care and education as they are in manufacturing and retail. and then devising metrics for monitoring progress over the short and long terms. Ideally, goals should be visible to everyone and should be translated into companywide, group, and individual targets that are tracked frequently.

Management 8

Management Benchmarking Short-term Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

By making such a bet, IBM will face much greater resistance than Gerstner faced, both internally (business units protecting turf) and externally (investors decrying the poor short-term results and future risks). To address medium-term opportunities, IBM formed partnerships with hospitals (e.g., Insight Center.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

” So, in short, put away your devices while you’re on vacation, until you take them out again multiple times a day so that you can work, and apparently vacation activities will need to be scheduled around work check-ins! ” Put another way, telepressure and innovation cannot coexist.

Short-term 8

Short-term Creativity Long-term Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The second is that, without information on the impact of their work on company goals, frontline workers can't properly contribute to improving them. For example, at amazon.com, the $25 billion online retailer, every new senior executive must spend time in the firm's fulfillment centers in his first year.

Process 14

Process Competitive Advantage Operations Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

This approach to employment allows leaders to predict and control what will come out of the job, at least in the short term. But this approach doesn’t produce the most productive, innovative work environment.

Power 8

Power Outsourcing Self-aware Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

degrees Celsius , or even 2 degrees (the stated long-term goals). Companies and global governing bodies set visionary global goals. Goals matter. To start, the UN, in a parallel with the climate negotiations, released in September the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals. Wall Street wakes up.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Procter & Gamble did this when it recently set a goal that, by 2050, zero per cent of its packaging would wind up in landfills. Short of “owning” the problem, this still acknowledges that others associate the problem with you, and you are in a position to make a difference. Take Action. Take an Interest.

Golden Parachute 11

Golden Parachute Apparel Trends Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Whether developing a new venture, managing an internal corporate innovation initiative, or working to develop globally successful product and service designs (my profession), nothing is more important than understanding what people need and desire in context of what the competition is providing. So what do you do?

Benchmarking 13

Benchmarking Maslow Analysis Trends 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

But comfortable reliance on this “precious” relationship has left us in a situation where the customers of many other sectors (such as retail) are often treated better from an experiential standpoint than medicine’s patients. Innovating for Value in Health Care. The goal must be a global patient engagement strategy.

System 8

System Quality Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

The criticism came quick, but the seed of the new culture had been planted: growth, not start, was the goal. In short, the organizing principle of scaling up a midsize city like Manizales is not growing the number of new firms, but increasing the number of firms with new growth. 2 – Broadly communicating growth.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

On a short-term basis, the only thing they can expect in return for focusing on data is the headaches that follow from explaining, justifying, and evaluating their operations to colleagues and investors. Some companies will make thoughtful decisions to monetize their digital assets by simply charging for access to data.

Business Model 8

Business Model System Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

But as anyone who has ever tried to lead innovation knows, the challenge goes beyond being ambidextrous enough to manage today’s business while creating tomorrow’s. Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book. To get to the future, you must build it day by day. Excerpted from. The Three-Box Solution. Vijay Govindarajan.

Innovation 8

Innovation Hedge Management Govindarajan 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

One of the most critical challenges facing growth-seeking executives in large companies is deciding what constraints they should be placing on their organizations’ innovation efforts. On the other hand, incorrectly constrained innovation efforts carry well-documented risks. Instead, give your innovators general financial goals.

Innovation 8

Innovation Constraint Team Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Most of us spend most of our time chasing the immediate reward, the short-run "objective," the near-term "goal — in short, the expedient and the convenient. Or is there a bigger, more resonant, and fundamentally worthier goal we could — and should — be pursuing, like ensuring no human being goes thirsty?"

Short-term 15

Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

In another example, a large US-based specialty retail chain wanted to determine the chief drivers of store energy efficiency in order to reduce usage and greenhouse emissions. For example, the retailer was able to migrate to automatic HVAC systems for better insulation and adjust store timings to optimize energy usage.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Retail Energy ROI 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

But organizations themselves can rarely, if ever, pursue the long-term approach to talent development described in the latest reportage on Seal Team 6. Rather than creating a long development arc for talent, organizations educate people in short and often unconnected bursts. Strategies don't stay fresh for long.

Team 13

Team Short-term Proposal Uncertainty 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

The outcomes will only work in the long term if both sides combine their expertise into a rich body of shared experience and understanding. Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble have written at length on the challenges of execution in their book, The Other Side of Innovation.

Govindarajan 8

Govindarajan Long-term Short-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

But today, as a multinational construction materials company, our goals are somewhat broader: How can we help provide housing for people all over the world who need it? In a country where academia and industry usually tread separate paths, it’s unusual to see the two innovate together.

Industry 8

Industry Construction Energy Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Finally, if the immediacy of the "look out the window" method of gauging climate change didn't work for some, at least one major climate skeptic changed his tune based on longer-term data. One of my favorite new partnerships is the new Sustainable Apparel Coalition , an impressive mix of powerful retailers, apparel manufacturers, and NGOs.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

When it comes to discovering unmet customer needs and innovation opportunities, there’s no substitute for in-the-moment, in-context observation for making meaning out of the complex weave of emotion and rationality that drives consumer behavior. In both cases, the assignment was clear, the duration short but intense.

Document 8

Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Investors Focused on Climate, Sustainability, and Short-Termism. Larry Fink, the CEO of Blackrock — the world’s largest asset owner — followed up his 2015 letter to S&P 500 CEOs with another treatise against short-term focus. days of innovation). ” Millennials feel even stronger.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8