Tim Milburn

AUGUST 14, 2012

Labovitz and Victor Rosansky, co-authors of Rapid Realignment: How to Quickly Integrate People, Processes, and Strategy for Unbeatable Performance. And because the pace of change is swift, management must respond with equal speed — that is, with rapid realignment. This is a guest post by Dr. George H. A chat room.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Everyone thinks they have a digital strategy these days. But while your company may have a business or IT strategy that incorporates digital technology, an IT strategy does not equal a digital strategy. Because most IT strategies treat technology in isolation. This gives the effort a clear and manageable focus.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 1, 2014

The business extracts the precious metals from junked catalytic converters -- going into our interview we expected a straightforward story about buying, processing and reselling. Panhandle developed its strategy around dealing with this uncertainty. Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Leadership Leadership Books Road Side MBA'

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The business extracts the precious metals from junked catalytic converters -- going into our interview we expected a straightforward story about buying, processing and reselling. Panhandle developed its strategy around dealing with this uncertainty. Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Leadership Leadership Books'

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2012

Whether a company succeeds or fails ultimately depends on whether it hired the right people to effectively execute its strategies. Complimentary Resource – Performance Management in a Small-Business Culture. Complimentary Resource – Driving Business Execution Through Integrated Talent Management.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 2, 2014

The business extracts the precious metals from junked catalytic converters -- going into our interview we expected a straightforward story about buying, processing and reselling. Panhandle developed its strategy around dealing with this uncertainty. We never expected that data analysis would be the key to success for such a company.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

Whether a company succeeds or fails ultimately depends on whether it hired the right people to effectively execute its strategies. Complimentary Resource – Performance Management in a Small-Business Culture. Complimentary Resource – Driving Business Execution Through Integrated Talent Management.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Whether a company succeeds or fails ultimately depends on whether it hired the right people to effectively execute its strategies. Relate Articles: Complimentary Resource – Enterprise Risk Management: Keeping People, Assets, and the Environment Safe. And as many companies have already learned, quality hiring is now mandatory.

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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.

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The Empowered Buisness

JANUARY 2, 2014

A company’s culture consists of overt and covert factors. Overt factors involve what is tangible and observable – such as, strategic processes and behaviors within an organization. So many companies fall short in their goals because they overemphasize strategy with little/no attention to the cultural aspects that drive it.

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Change Starts Here

APRIL 24, 2012

People started asking me if I had a change management kit based on what really works. The methods in this change guide have been used successfully by people in roles as diverse as human resources, organization development, project management, process improvement, IT, strategy management, sustainability and operations.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 7, 2015

In the process, Reddit upset nearly everyone; investors, employees and its fanatical community of users alike. While addressing the sacred cow, the company failed miserably to articulate its strategy and gain support for its direction. Confusion reigned. There appeared to be a thrash-about in several simultaneous directions.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

ERP systems, RFID , knowledge management, business intelligence) have washed over organizations. This trend toward ever more critical reliance on IT is not only transforming the idea and practice of corporate IT, but has disruptive operational implications for every manager. Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

Every employee I have managed would give up their so-called perks for one thing: clear expectations. Does a manager value face-time more than outcomes? Clarity around behavioral expectations allows us to bring much-needed clarity to the hiring process. Strategy and goal setting. Which behaviors lead to promotion? .”

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

It appears Nokia was not able to coordinate decisions and activities across departments or levels of management. Many innovative ideas became the victims of in-fighting among managers who had competing objectives. The BRIDGE that held for Gap Closers #1 and 2 : The Ability to Manage Change. When one million bottles of St.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Precision made it easy for managers to oversee their employees. Every spot on every line was visible to managers. Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. Workers were carefully trained to follow processes exactly as they were laid out. Every high performer needs both.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

Organizations waste too much time - see how Bain helps them manage it like money in this 10-minute video slide deck. While the former approach is friendlier from a change management perspective, we usually find that it leads to only incremental change. Related Video. Your Scarcest Resource.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Indeed, they spell out the few differentiating capabilities that the company must excel at to realize the strategy. Ensuring that the company is investing behind the change means that leaders recognize that the budget process is one of the most important tools in closing the strategy-to-execution gap. Execute the strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

Managers, consultants, and academics around the world have long wrestled with this question. But simultaneously managing today’s business while creating tomorrow’s goes beyond being ambidextrous. Managers exploiting current businesses develop mindsets based on what they have experienced in the past.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

The first — which we’ll call Company A — focuses on translating its strategy into action as quickly as possible. Distracted by pet initiatives that have little to do with the new strategy, they revert to old habits. They struggle to manage tensions between units and to realize value across them.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

” Call it cost management fatigue. When doing research for our book , we found that the main reasons most companies suffer from this syndrome are that they make across-the-board cuts that are unconnected to their strategy, and fail to make the cuts sustainable. First, connect costs and strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

And too often, savings just represent corrections of past failures in managing supplier relationships. 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? Deep expertise is critical in each area.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

Before you can scale the business, you have to understand what your customers really want and value, and how to deliver it to them — and that process requires a lot of flexibility. Our job as senior managers is not to prevent all forms of rule breaking. Innovation Managing people Strategy' An HBR Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

This is ineffective deal management, and it eventually leads to loss of positioning with customers, and, over time, the nurturing of “commodity competencies.” At that point, Alphatech’s management reassessed its strategy and sales approach. Management first evaluated who were, and who were not, good customers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

For an organization to endeavor to change its culture, it needs to take its cue from what changes in its strategy. Companies in industrial businesses had to drive costs down and execution up and create foolproof processes to ensure quality. In fact, we defined growth as a process. Let’s take the 1990s.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

She brought her on-the-ground experiences to life through a “game” that was played with the business unit’s top management team, pressure-testing some closely held beliefs. The insights and the workshops have since influenced how Mars assesses risks and opportunities and develops strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. Crucially, the operating model also must define ways of working and behaviors that actually bring your company’s strategy to life.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The vast majority of strategic plans that I have seen over 30 years of working in the strategy realm are simply budgets with lots of explanatory words attached. This may be the case because the finance function is deeply involved in the strategy process in most organizations. Such a strategy actually makes planning easy.

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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. Gary Hamel maintains that the key to future success is management innovation. This means a lot of change for enterprise IT organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

When "the core functions of IT — data storage, data processing, and data transport — have become available and affordable to all," he wrote, IT would cease to be a source of competitive advantage. IT management Information & technology Strategy' This was not yet reality at the time of Carr''s article.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2013

We don''t often think about the way we usually operate at work, whether we''re performing an informal five-step process for evaluating a new proposal, or setting priorities for managing our time. Managers think that they should find out what the best practice is and then roll it out. Should Do" Practices.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

It used to be “What’s your IT strategy?” ” Then it was “What’s your internet strategy?” ” Now it’s “What’s your digital strategy?” For example, could an eBay-like platform enable you to bring the discipline of competitive markets to your corporate services?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Since its bankruptcy in 2012, Kodak has been a poster child for innovation incompetence: After inventing the world’s first digital camera in 1975, the conventional story goes, myopic managers allowed a bloated company to let inertia drive it off a cliff. Consider what side businesses might be moved to center stage.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Business-critical roles — that is, the jobs that are central to differentiating a company from its competitors and successfully executing its strategy — will also change. New innovations will change the basis of competition in many markets and alter the sources of advantage for most companies. Take insurance, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

Overall, we found that more than half of our survey respondents have adopted OSS solutions as part of their IT strategy. Meanwhile, a nearly equivalent fraction of respondents (21 percent) said they are just in the process of evaluating the advantages of OSS usage. To find out, we surveyed 547 IT leaders in 11 countries.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

One typical reason is that top executives haven’t managed to clarify something even more fundamental: how much priority they place on increasing profit margins. The challenge for executives is, of course, to manage their conflicting goals, or so-called trade-offs. Why is it that? That might sound strange.

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