Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

The problem arises because different systems employ different definitions of key terms. Thus, the term “customer” can mean a potential buyer to the marketing department, the person who signed the purchase order to sales, and the legal entity that it bills to accounting. standards) to facilitate company-wide communication.

Six Sigma 9

Six Sigma Supply Chain Long-term Definition 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

They either took too long to decide, or the decisions just didn't stick. To what extent do we share information broadly or parcel it out narrowly? In practical terms, culture is not an intangible cloud that hangs over a company, but an outcome of the way people behave on multiple dimensions.

Parcell 14

Parcell Consensus Automotive Organizational Behavior 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. Connecting Three Different Business Portfolios.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Accordingly, it has systematically published figures about the evolution of its business portfolio in terms of sales by segment (e.g., Acquisitions are part and parcel of a transformation. Safeguard the short-term performance of the ongoing business. from 80% in 2000 to 50% in 2013), and by exposure to the economic cycle.

Company 10

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

But we now see insurers exploiting geographically refined data to more precisely estimate land parcel risk. Municipal governments seek to plan development in terms of decades, while insurance companies are reticent to move beyond an annual time scale when assessing property risk.

Insurance 10

Insurance Real Estate Industry Bond 10

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Here are just three examples: In his original 1997 letter Bezos states, “We will share our strategic thought processes with you when we make bold choices (to the extent competitive pressures allow), so that you may evaluate for yourselves whether we are making rational long-term leadership investments.” Jeff Bezos.

Letter 85

Letter Collins Long-term Parcell 85

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

VCs, they’re told, take more of a long-term approach, have a greater degree of risk tolerance, and parcel out their funds in stages to mitigate risk. When investing in new growth businesses, corporate leaders are commonly advised to behave more like venture capitalists. All of this is right, as far as it goes.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Discounted Cash Flow Parcell Project 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

Working to find and fix errors is part and parcel of most operational processes, and once they turn a harsh eye on non-value-added work, most leaders can root it out. Worse, these billing errors make it more difficult to build a long-term, trusted relationship with your customers; these lost opportunity costs are probably unknowable.

Quality 14

Quality Parcell Cost Deming 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

” In 2000, Bill Parcells , a football (American football, this time) coach famous for turning around underperforming teams, wrote about his approach, which is slightly blunter than Ferguson’s. The only way to change people is to tell them in the clearest possible terms what they’re doing wrong.

Sports 8

Sports Parcell How To Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

The chart may appear to show merely that Cisco’s patent filings lagged its R&D spending by three years, but in fact the decline in spending and the rise in patents were part and parcel of a deliberate strategic shift by the company in 2001. So what was going on? Where will this period of discovery take the company?

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

The administration also needs time to work on the reporting requirements that will be part and parcel of making the system work. But while businesses need to start strategizing , policy experts like McGuiness caution against making any long-term commitments until the road ahead for the law is clearer.

Health Care 8

Health Care Parcell Politics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Many innovation groups want to have it both ways, acting as a partner to the business units to help them tackle near-term opportunities, while also developing further-out, “disruptive” ideas that could shake up their industry. That leaves many ideas swimming around inside the corporate fish tank for far too long.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

And that is part and parcel of professional life. ” Think long term. ” But that notion is outdated. “Selling is moving somebody else to action,” he says. ” Here’s how to get better at it. Think about ways you can “work together in collaboration to improve a product, service, or idea.”

Skills 21

Skills How To Brainstorming Case Study 21

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

That client, United Parcel Service, ultimately awarded our firm with the lead-underwriting role in the largest initial public offering in history at that time. Take a long-term view. For years, I worked with one client on a mergers and acquisition concept that never materialized. So how do you build client trust like this?

Emotional Intelligence 8

Emotional Intelligence Consultative Self-aware Career 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Why stock prices do what they do over the short term is an enduring mystery , and I’m not going to claim to solve it here. For example, if you sell a service that you’ll be delivering for the next twelve months, the costs and revenues are supposed to be parceled out over those twelve months, regardless of when the cash changes hands.

Retail 21

Retail Finance Parcell Depreciation 21

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

But in the rush to uncover and target the next transaction, many industries are quickly coming up against a disquieting reality: Winning the next transaction eventually yields only short term tactical advantage, and it overlooks one big and inevitable outcome. There is no sustainable competitive advantage in chasing the next buy.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Credit Rating Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

Someone will have to convince voters left, right and center to support the tax and spending policies that would benefit them most in the long run. There have been national controversies where nearly everyone involved was pursuing a short-sighted agenda yet eventually supported a long-term solution that benefited all sides.

Politics 10

Politics System Policies Parcell 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

For some, this means sharing a car ride to an offsite or making sure you get a seat next to each other on a long flight. Risk-taking is part and parcel of corporate careers, and few people, men or women, enter the top ranks of the organization without having made a bold gamble or two along the way.

Energy 13

Energy Hedge Parcell Career 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

These CEOs think big and think long-term — but not so big that their ideas are unmanageable. We fully expect that the 2-in-1 mentality — and accompanying capabilities — will become part and parcel of what distinguishes the most successful leaders of tomorrow.

Parcell 12

Parcell CEO Airlines Trends 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

As someone who lived in China during the “Tiananmen massacre,” I’ve long been skeptical of the Communist Party’s long-term ability to lead the country forward. A simple version of the new skepticism is this: China’s development to date depended in large part on “late mover” advantages that are no longer available.

Parcell 8

Parcell Committee Long-term Globalization 8