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.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

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.

Management 13

Management P&L Incubator Finance 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Millions worldwide have read and embraced John Kotter's ideas on change management and leadership. Leading Change is widely recognized as his seminal work on leading transformational change, and is an important precursor to his newer ideas on acceleration: effectively managing operations while seizing new opportunity. Kotter and Dan S.

P&L 8

P&L Kotter Books Globalization 8

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.

P&L 9

P&L How To Finance Metrics 9

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

This is quite challenging as it either never feels like there is enough time to dedicate to learning or it feels like an unproductive use of available resources. E.g. take a team of developers to tour an abattoir, take the human resource team to a museum exhibit on ancient Egypt, or take legal on an outing to a flower show.

Team 52

Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

We call this phenomenon reverse innovation — any innovation that is adopted first in the developing world, and then later in the developed world. Surprisingly, such innovations defy gravity and flow uphill from the poor to the rich. Reverse innovation will become more and more common. Phase 3: Local Innovation.

Glocalization 10

Glocalization Mass Marketing P&L Globalization 10

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.

P&L 8

P&L Restructuring Price CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

Trade promotion is often the single biggest line item in a manufacturer's P&L. Perhaps the most critical issue is for senior management is to more closely tie trade promotion to their vision for category growth. Senior management needs to change the culture of trade promotion to one of category growth.

ROI 14

ROI P&L Retail Brand 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

Trade promotion is often the single biggest line item in a manufacturer's P&L. Perhaps the most critical issue is for senior management is to more closely tie trade promotion to their vision for category growth. Senior management needs to change the culture of trade promotion to one of category growth.

ROI 11

ROI P&L Retail Brand 11

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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

To stitch it all together meaningfully, CMOs are increasingly expected to act as general managers with P&L or shared/shadow P&L responsibility that drive revenue growth. Says Abi Comber, Head of Marketing for British Airways: “Having P&L responsibility is incredibly powerful.

P&L 8

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. These companies are notable victims of a new reality: resources are constrained and input prices are fundamentally rising. China, China, and China.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

In most organizations, the responsibility for setting direction, developing strategy and allocating resources is highly centralized. 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.

P&L 8

P&L Supply Chain Bottom-up McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

keep hearing from top executives at large, profitable companies that they're under "P&L pressure." Who declared 7 or 10 or 15 percent growth in earnings a sacrosanct pursuit, above all other corporate goals — like the innovation that leads to novel solutions that address customer needs? But not the analysts.

GAAP 8

GAAP Short-term P&L EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

’ It also answers the fundamental questions every manager must ask: How do we make money in this business? A new business model may turn on designing a new product for an unmet need or on a process innovation. Introducing a better business model into an existing market is the definition of a disruptive innovation.

Business Model 8

Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 8

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.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

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. With three efficient plants staffed by 3,000 employees, it had reinvented itself to become an innovative manufacturer of modular steel staircases and fiberglass doors.

Case Study 13

Case Study P&L Cost Due Diligence 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Palmisano warned against prioritizing shareholders or other constituents, calling this "a false choice," and explaining that "Long-term management is a serious challenge in a world driven by short-term thinking. They are innovating in ways that create virtuous circles for a generation or more." Directness.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

A GreenBiz report indicated that progress had slowed or even regressed, but MIT and BCG also declared that sustainability had reached a "tipping point" with more companies putting sustainability "on the management agenda.". Sustainability innovation opens up: Unilever, Heineken, and EMC ask the world for help. In the U.S.,

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. A design studio is geared for collaboration and innovation work with customers and partners.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8