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. Does your strategy capitalize on that?

IT Strategy 8

IT Strategy Strategy Class Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

industries, and a review of hundreds of academic studies on the psychology of human performance, shows that most leaders and organizations tend to focus on just one type of performance. Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. The same is true for any team or organization.

Organization 9

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 9

Change Starts Here

APRIL 24, 2012

If you are a change agent – someone who leads change from within an organization without having authority – then this is a question you are faced with every day. Your challenge is to figure out the actual steps you can personally take to make change happen in your organization. How much is it? The regular price is $249.

Webinar 78

Webinar Price Resistance Workshop 78

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. So the organization started documenting standard operating procedures to capture employee know-how and wisdom. Should Do" Practices.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Organization Bureaucracy Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Why is one multinational consumer goods company organized by category, while another organizes by region? 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. Insight center.

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. How well does your organization support the achievement of your business strategy?

Banking 10

Banking Strategy Film Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

a cataract operation can cost $200 or less, compared with $3,500 in the U.S. Under the leadership of Anthony Tersigni, Ascension’s president and CEO, the organization has sought to become much more efficient at delivering health care. health care organizations should draw on more than they do. What is not to like?

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Cost Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Talent can move into and out of an organization, through a growing array of options such as freelance platforms , crowdsourcing efforts, and temporary, contract, or part-time work. Their goal is to attract, engage, develop and retain employees – moving talent into, through and out of the organization. Marion Barraud for HBR.

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

However, true culture turnaround requires a complete psychological shift across the entire organization. It is relatively easy for new organizations to start with a clean sheet of paper in creating a culture. But for organizations that have been around for a while, the shift involves quite a bit of shedding and rewiring.

Welch 8

Welch Six Sigma Agility Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

In order to see the future more clearly, it''s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage. ERP systems, RFID , knowledge management, business intelligence) have washed over organizations.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Almost 80% of the more than 1,200 senior executives recently surveyed by PricewaterhouseCoopers believe that their organizations have the right strategic intent — but only 54% think they’re executing that strategy well. Distracted by pet initiatives that have little to do with the new strategy, they revert to old habits.

Strategy 8

Strategy Restructuring Committee Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Executing this strategy required seamless integration of IBM's product capabilities with its geographic reach. This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. They listen as well as they speak.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

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. billion — not a bad decade.

Banking 16

Banking Retail Open-book Creativity 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

In recent research conducted by Ernst & Young, the top finding was that organizations with greater risk management maturity—that is to say, those that do focus on strategic risks and have integrated their various risk management activities—outperform their peers financially. This is where executives are far less confident.

Risk Management 14

Risk Management Maturity EBITDA Management 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Corporations assume that employer-sponsored volunteerism programs keep employees engaged while also making a difference to the social organizations they serve. Yet, as an inherently left-brain organization, we wanted hard proof that our programs were delivering results. And that's true, but there's more to the story.

Skills 8

Skills Real Estate Human Capital Project 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

But very few have made that purpose a reality for their organizations. Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. Skeezer/Getty Images. Consider Nokia.

Strategy 10

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Now, I''d like to address the solution to the problem by providing three simple steps CIOs can take to begin repairing the dissonance between business and IT, and guiding their organizations into the 21st century. It is clear that CIOs must lead their organization in discovering and then providing balance between efficiency and efficacy.

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

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.

Company 9

Company Insurance Engineering Software 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

In a 100-page strategy document you can state everything you want, which makes everyone in the organization feel comfortable. The trouble is that managers then interpret the 100 pages according to their view and aspiration of the company’s strategy. The result: one planning document, many different strategies.

Strategy 11

Strategy Document Comparison Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

As Quartz reported last year: Members of the Glass operations team have been on the road showing it off to companies and organizations, and they told Quartz that some of the most enthusiastic responses have come from manufacturers, teachers, medical companies, and hospitals. Should Google revise its strategy to pursue that opportunity?

Strategy 8

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

It's an important move, more for what it tells us about Google and the evolution of its strategy than it does about the restaurant rating game. Today, Google announced that it had acquired Zagat , the popular restaurant ratings provider. Let's step back and consider the previous narrative on Google and Zagat.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Review Comparison Quality 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

However, procurement doesn’t register on the C-suite’s radar in a manner proportionate to its growing importance within the organization, and most procurement departments are neither ready nor empowered to take on their new responsibilities. Or does it focus on customer service and helping the business achieve its strategy?

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Objective Cost Globalization 8

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. redesign the operating model. These proliferating operations lead to complexity, which contributes to drag as well as costs that rob resources from better and potentially more-profitable ideas. Related Video.

Zero Based Budgeting 10

Zero Based Budgeting Organization Budgeting How To 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

Its strategy of coming into the market from the high end did not fit the typical demand-side disruption playbook. As of now, it is far from clear that traditional carmakers can replicate that new architecture without dismantling their organizations – something most established firms find extremely difficult.

Strategy 8

Strategy Automotive Mass Marketing Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. Only the largest of enterprises could afford the best technologies, and even for those with the largest bank accounts, IT strategies were limited to basics like CRM , ERP , or email.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

Be strategic and operational. High-performing IT organizations appoint executives to sit at the intersection of business areas and the IT function, helping business leaders to shape their IT strategies and marshaling a technology team to deliver against that demand. Stay secure and boost innovation. Reach beyond IT.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Storytelling Strategic Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

He talked with HBR about why a company’s culture is more important than its strategy — and some of the innovative tactics that CEOs have used to help create a high-performing culture. A lot of managers just let culture happen — it becomes the sum of the personalities, good and bad, that work in an organization.

CEO 9

CEO FAQ Restructuring Performance Review 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

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. “I went home exhausted each day from playing the role of ‘Director of Operations,’” she said.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Finance Definition Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2011

He blamed the Japan earthquake, the anemic PC market, and a troubled services organization. While HP was once the technology leader that could do no wrong, market watchers are now concerned that the company does not have a clear strategy to overcome its problems. Wall Street did not take kindly to the news.

Software 12

Software Technology Intellectual Capital Marketing 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

In an ongoing global survey of senior executives , more than half of the respondents said they didn’t think their company had a winning strategy, and two-thirds said they didn’t think their organization had the right capabilities to execute its strategy. Operating as these companies do takes a lot of confidence.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Fashion Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

operations in favor of financial performance. ” This suggests that he saw the scandal as a hiccup on the road, not a wake-up call about a culture and organization that had gone seriously astray. Hayward’s leadership had contributed to BP underplaying safety its U.S.

CFO 8

CFO Crisis Mass Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Increase operating margins to 18% (by cutting expenses). At a minimum, as is happening to GE now, it forces a company to go through a review of its strategy. (At In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2015

More recent movements, such as Otpor in Serbia , have taken a similar approach, focusing on growing organically through attraction. Its mission drove its strategy , not the other way around. Great brands operate the same way. Although much of its rhetoric about inequality still resonates, the movement itself is long gone.

Brand 8

Brand Marketing Sharpe Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In its strategy to help employees with disabilities build long-term careers, Unilever partnered with Connecticut’s Department of Rehabilitation Services and Southeastern Employment Services to launch a training and placement program. Create allies in the organization.

Compliance 8

Compliance Chief Operating Officer Innovation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Lees recommends some “careful checking” with former colleagues or “trusted mentors” who have knowledge of “the situation and the organization.” “You have a golden moment in your job search where you’re operating at peak confidence and energy. Maybe you made errors in judgment.

How To 8

How To Letter Learning-by-Doing PR 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

The type of capital required and its source depends on the type of business, its stage of life, and its strategy for the future. This research shows that the market for middle skills operates very poorly. These ecosystems start organically but often benefit from additional support to grow. (It

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8