Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

In the recent past, businesses had only external, third party vendors to rely on for major projects, operational emergencies, and other labor-intensive initiatives that required resources they did not have. Both industrial, machine-like robots and digital, computerized robots have revolutionized the way companies operate.

Engineering 50

Engineering Process BPM Taylorism 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

As we automate more and more routine work, generating ever greater volumes of digital data, managers are focusing ever more on supporting knowledge workers — which these days is just about everybody. But most companies find it a cultural challenge to adopt these tools. 20% at Nationwide). 20% at Nationwide).

Tools 15

Tools Taylorism Taylor Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The buzz around using predictive tools to analyze big data in discrete areas of a business is loud and deserved. Long-dominant frameworks like the Five Forces or SWOT analysis have been based, accordingly, on a fundamental, often static or relatively long-duration, set of market and firm characteristics.

Strategy 9

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The buzz around using predictive tools to analyze big data in discrete areas of a business is loud and deserved. Long-dominant frameworks like the Five Forces or SWOT analysis have been based, accordingly, on a fundamental, often static or relatively long-duration, set of market and firm characteristics.

Strategy 8

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

The question is: How will management advance to influence the path and force of these revolutions? But increasingly this industrial-age management mindset is becoming an impediment to our fully realizing the promise of the digital revolution’s technologies. This is a situation that cannot endure.

Management 8

Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8