Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Many organizations, she argues, struggle with a "paradox of expertise" in which deep knowledge of what exists in a marketplace or a product category makes it harder to consider what-if strategies that challenge long-held assumptions. Moreover, they noted how noisy the process was. Moreover, they noted how noisy the process was.

Banking 18

Banking Retail Open-book Creativity 18

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. Executing this strategy required seamless integration of IBM's product capabilities with its geographic reach. He's personable, but blunt.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

Glacial processes. Procurement teams tend to rely on processes that are far too slow to support the business’s needs. Is it a process-oriented, savings-obsessed function? Or does it focus on customer service and helping the business achieve its strategy? Cutting costs Global business Leadership Organizational culture'

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Objective Cost Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

For years, companies have been pouring money into people, processes, and technology that can help them manage risk. At a Global 50 consumer products company, management has developed a governance structure that allows it think about risk proactively, and has aligned its risk profile and exposures more closely with its strategy.

Risk Management 14

Risk Management Maturity EBITDA Management 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

But this natural — and efficient — learning process tends to break down as people gain experience and stature. In my research on how experienced managers and professionals step up to bigger leadership roles, I have observed both the value and the difficulty of returning to our youthful, fake-it-till-you-learn-it strategies.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Finance Definition Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

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. To that end, the role of the CIO must be strategic instead of tactical. This means a lot of change for enterprise IT organizations.

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

The company’s twenty years of entrepreneurial success had positioned the company to reap greater financial rewards using a more disciplined operational focus. However, by the middle of the decade, Google was growing, YouTube was forming, and “operational excellence” wasn’t a differentiating strategy in technology.

Strategic Fit 8

Strategic Fit Rogers CEO Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

It is sometimes more effective for a region to grow its small businesses than to get caught up in a bidding war for elephants — a process that too often helps only the elephant. An effective policy strategy for small businesses needs to focus on the unique needs these companies have. But these things are not enough.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

The symptoms may seem to be minor annoyances and inconveniences that could be wiped out without much effort — too much process, too many meetings, meaningless goals, and time wasted on work that no one will ever care about. redesign the operating model. But those symptoms stem from fundamental problems. reset the budgets.

Zero Based Budgeting 14

Zero Based Budgeting Organization Budgeting How To 14

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Plus, as a result of a lack of cross-organizational coordination and cooperation, Nokia wasn’t able to improve its proprietary operating system, Symbian, which would have allowed it to support a more sophisticated smartphone. Many innovative ideas became the victims of in-fighting among managers who had competing objectives.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

For decades, we’ve often thought of leadership profiles in unique buckets—two popular varieties were the “visionaries”, who embrace strategy and think about amazing things to do, and the “operators”, who get stuff done. Adam Pretty/Getty Images.

Execution 15

Execution Strategy How To Budgeting 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2011

It can be easy to dramatically expand revenue and profits when you are the upstart in an emerging sector — but once you're on top, sustaining this leadership position isn't easy. It could also include sophisticated software based on the WebOS (the operating system HP leveraged from the Palm acquisition).

Software 12

Software Technology Intellectual Capital Marketing 12