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 12

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 12

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. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution.

Strategy 13

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Most organizational leaders struggle to align day-to-day activities with strategy, even though they know it’s important to do. The first — which we’ll call Company A — focuses on translating its strategy into action as quickly as possible. Before rewiring operations, leaders: wrestle with the nuances of the strategy.

Strategy 8

Strategy Restructuring Committee Short-term 8

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.

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Webinar Price Resistance Workshop 78

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

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 10

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

In the January issue of HBR, Roger Martin sets out some rules for avoiding common mistakes in strategy making. As he writes in “ The Big Lie of Strategic Planning ”, the first rule is “keep the strategy statement simple.” The result: one planning document, many different strategies. I couldn’t agree more.

Strategy 13

Strategy Document Comparison Retail 13

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. Strategy is how the business will achieve it.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

It outlined Tesla’s automotive strategy and it has been pretty much followed to the letter. Tesla’s initial strategy began like a start-up: to build a minimum viable product to test the market. Its strategy of coming into the market from the high end did not fit the typical demand-side disruption playbook.

Strategy 8

Strategy Automotive Mass Marketing Business Model 8

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

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

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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Cost Price 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.

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Welch Six Sigma Agility Operations 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. This should lead to new strategies and, with them, new business-critical roles. Take insurance, for example. John Deere is a case in point.

Company 12

Company Insurance Engineering Software 12

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

JUNE 29, 2012

But what about the more strategic risk areas, such as those related to emerging market entry or acquisition growth strategies? 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

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

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

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 18

Banking Retail Open-book Creativity 18

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

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. Fortunately, it is a start and perhaps another Google experiment in gathering data — this time about its own strategy.

Real Estate 15

Real Estate Review Comparison Quality 15

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

MARCH 27, 2014

Today’s corporations are directing more and more of their budgets toward a complex web of global specialist providers and suppliers to help deliver on their businesses’ core strategies. Or does it focus on customer service and helping the business achieve its strategy? Acting without inquiry.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Objective Cost Globalization 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

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 9

IT Strategy Strategy Class Offshoring 9

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. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. Insight center.

Execution 15

Execution Strategy How To Budgeting 15

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

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 11

CEO FAQ Restructuring Performance Review 11

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

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 13

Zero Based Budgeting Organization Budgeting How To 13

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). But first they need to get management of a company to change the existing strategy. At a minimum, as is happening to GE now, it forces a company to go through a review of its strategy. (At

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 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

MAY 27, 2015

But these economic development strategies focused on big businesses, sometimes known as “elephant hunting,” may overstate the importance of large firms. 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

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Here are some strategies to employ. 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.

How To 8

How To Letter Learning-by-Doing PR 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. If an organization can’t get things done, nothing else matters – not the smartest strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even game-changing technology. Juliano Howard T.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Every organization needs what I call a “hierarchy of purpose.” Capacity, not strategy, was determining which projects launched and when. Prioritization at a strategic and operational level is often the difference between success and failure. But many organizations do it badly. If not, it stalled or was killed.

Project 8

Project How To Objective Efficiency 8