Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

.” Survey respondents included Presidents, Chief Information Officers, Chief Analytics Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, and Chief Data Officers representing 50 industry giants, including American Express, Capital One, Disney, Ford Motors, General Electric, JP Morgan, MetLife, Nielsen, Turner Broadcasting, United Parcel Service, and USAA.

Company 9

Company Chief Information Officer Parcell Survey 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

Specialized vocabularies develop in the business world every day to support new or specialized disciplines, departments, problems, and innovative opportunities. But over time, systems don’t agree, which can cause tension and conflict in organizations. Half the battle in encouraging innovation involves removing barriers.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Supply Chain Long-term Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

When you find yourself thinking about old-fashioned, out-of-touch, hierarchical, siloed organizations, General Motors quickly comes to mind. Call it instinct, call it talent, it was Barra’s ability to encourage teaming that catapulted her to the top of an organization with 212,000 employees. Innovation is always the product of teaming.

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Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Skill development is clearly a major priority for companies and managers these days. Managers learn how to articulate a business opportunity in ways that energize team members. The goal is hollow — it can be accomplished without generating any gains for the organization or insights for team members.

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Project Parcell How To Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Anyone who has worked inside a large organization can rattle off a lengthy list of the things that regularly kill promising ideas: conflict with existing businesses, naysayers, management turmoil, insufficient resources. But the most common cause of death they reported? Business unit executives hadn’t bought in to the idea.

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Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

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. Those three business portfolios are: The future state portfolio.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

Yet, according to Donald Sull’s research in the March issue of HBR, almost half of top executives cannot connect the dots between their company’s strategic priorities; and two out of three middle managers say they simply do not understand their strategic direction. This is a subtle, but important nuance.

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Strategy Balanced Scorecard Sull Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

When faced with a major investment decision, how many organizations would bet their success on a gut feeling? How many organizations would rely mainly on intuition when taking a new product to market? ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you what it comes to." Take Thomas Gradgrind in Hard Times.

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Metrics Parcell Call Center Productivity 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

While we often measure and manage the latest "what" in business — the leaf — the thing that creates high performance growth is the underlying "how" — the river. My point is that when you have a culture of innovation, people stay, products ship, and performance sizzles. So how would they keep that innovation on track?

Micromanagement 15

Micromanagement Open-book Parcell Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. Indeed, it’s part and parcel of the digital disruption remaking every aspect of the global economy. Disruptive innovation Information & technology Innovation'

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Supply Chain Technology Parcell 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Netflix's Reed Hastings snagged the top slot for his ability to successfully manage a winning business while launching and driving its competitor (in his case, Internet-based movie rentals) with equal zeal. They also trust in the ideas and capabilities that exist at every level, and in every geography, of the organization.

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Parcell CEO Airlines Trends 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

and China take the lead in tech innovation. ” According to Der Standard , an Austrian newspaper , mailing a parcel from Munich to Salzburg (distance: 145km; 90 miles) costs many times more than mailing it from Munich to Berlin (distance: 585km; 364 miles). Investing in innovation capacity.

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Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool. It can keep you informed. Teach you new things. The list goes on.

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