HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2021

What sorts of “insight” are expected from technologies? A new IBM report shows that half of CHROs identified for the study recognize the possibilities for innovation in HR operations and the acquisition and development of talent. People analytics is additionally used to deal with worker problems. Performance Management.

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How To Due Diligence Leadership Pipeline Stress 111

The Practical Leader

JUNE 14, 2023

Many leaders set strategies and launch efforts to boost service/quality levels. Too many of these initiatives have a limited scope and are disconnected from daily operations. A big reason frontline staff can’t live the brand is that operational, service, order fulfillment, and other processes aren’t aligned.

Root Cause Analysis 52

Root Cause Analysis Mission Statement Travel Restructuring 52

HR Digest

MAY 23, 2021

They include hiring additional staff, improving office tools and operating procedures. Transformational changes: These are large-scale changes that require an investment of time and money into new systems and restructure the business. Here are some tips to managing change in the workplace in a streamlined manner. And some did.

Management 94

Management How To Retail Uncertainty 94

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

In Capabilities Roadmapping , Booz & Company partners Gerald Adolph and Paul Leinwand continue their discussion on the role of capabilities in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and explain why pursuing a capabilities-driven M&A strategy produces more successful companies that enjoy a right to win.

Restructuring 62

Restructuring Newsletter Strategy Technology 62

Strategy Driven

MARCH 4, 2011

In Integrating Capabilities , Booz & Company partners Gerald Adolph and Paul Leinwand continue their discussion on the role of capabilities in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and explain why pursuing a capabilities-driven M&A strategy produces more successful companies that enjoy a right to win.

Restructuring 56

Restructuring Newsletter Strategy Technology 56

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

In The Path to Coherence , Booz & Company partners Gerald Adolph and Paul Leinwand continue their discussion on the role of capabilities in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and explain why pursuing a capabilities-driven M&A strategy produces more successful companies that enjoy a right to win.

Restructuring 56

Restructuring Newsletter Strategy Technology 56

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

In The New Meaning of Scale , Booz & Company partners Gerald Adolph and Paul Leinwand begin their discussion on the role of capabilities in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and explain why pursuing a capabilities-driven M&A strategy produces more successful companies that enjoy a right to win.

Restructuring 56

Restructuring Newsletter Strategy Technology 56

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

In Advantaged Capabilities , Booz & Company partners Gerald Adolph and Paul Leinwand conclude their discussion on the role of capabilities in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and explain why pursuing a capabilities-driven M&A strategy produces more successful companies that enjoy a right to win.

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Restructuring Newsletter Strategy Technology 50

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

We needed to shift faster to public cloud and new technologies such as IoT, machine learning, SAP Cloud Platform and advanced analytics. Our technology has helped us tremendously in analyzing the skills of our workforce, provide learning offerings to employees globally, and get access to talent pools worldwide.

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Ries Skills Human Resources Software 76

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 12, 2024

Finance digital transformation involves leveraging cutting-edge technologies for better operational efficiency and enhanced strategic decision-making. This can be done in various ways, including automating processes, restructuring how tasks are completed, and minimizing the amount of time employees spend on non-productive activities.

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Finance Technology BPM Company 107

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Technological advances and increasingly sophisticated ways of gathering and analyzing data are changing both the kinds of products and services companies can offer and are increasing competitive pressures. To meet the moment, this article argues that organizations may need to change the way they operate to innovate.

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Innovation Technology Operations Article 24

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

Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2023

In this in-depth exploration, we will delve into tips and strategies to manage your small business finances during a crisis and emerge more resilient than ever. Re-evaluating Business Model and Strategies Sometimes, a crisis is a wake-up call to revisit your business model and strategies.

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Finance Crisis Management Crisis Management 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

But it's important to know the difference between a one-time error in judgment and a decision to pursue a critically flawed strategy — in fact, your future career may depend on knowing the difference. On the other hand, bad strategies lead to bad performance, bad leaders, and bad companies. Regroup, but with flexibility.

Strategy 14

Strategy Metrics Restructuring Finance 14

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy. The conventional wisdom about strategy may be leading your company astray. In this unpredictable economy, traditional approaches to strategy are a luxury most companies cannot afford. SD : What is ‘capabilities-driven strategy?’. Let’s go after it.”

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

In the oil industry, for example, what used to be weeks of inspection work now takes just days, thanks to drone-based thermal imaging and gas “sniffer” technology to inspect oil rigs and pipelines. No strategy is static. Leaders across a spectrum of industries are already availing themselves of drone-based data.

Competitive Advantage 9

Competitive Advantage Company Outsourcing Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

An education technology startup hired a sales leader who came from a large, well-respected firm. Although good at scaling and operating a sales organization, the leader was unable to succeed in a rapidly changing environment that needed experimentation and nimbleness. Consider two examples.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Health Care Self-aware Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Now that technology allows us to work anywhere, on any device, work is something people do — not just a place to which they go. This shift demands that businesses manage and operate so that they can attract the right people, retain them, and ensure they can do their best work. Sponsor Content from GoToMeeting.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Technology Restructuring Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Many of us are familiar with the hazards of Groupthink - when teams or organizations operate on autopilot and feel a general false sense of invulnerability. For example, a senior executive in a traditional financial services organization recognized that the organization needed to embrace new technologies in order to engage with Millennials.

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Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Previous research has suggested that a primary driver of this job polarization is something called routine-biased technological change (RBTC), an unfortunate mouthful whereby new technologies substitute for repetitive, middle-skill jobs and complement analytical, high-skill jobs. labor market over the past 30 years.

Skills 8

Skills Sample Technology Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

There is a palpable sense of systemic instability in the face of political, economic, technological, social, and indeed meteorological uncertainty. They are infrastructure, technology, internationalization, communication, and the balance of continuity and change. 2) Technology. From News Corp. 1) Infrastructure.

Uncertainty 14

Uncertainty Politics Restructuring Technology 14

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

Fluid and innovative business strategies centered on adaptability, foresight, and competition are replacing traditional management methods. The emergence of digital technologies and AI-powered solutions has also significantly altered the landscape for corporate oversight.

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Strategy Competitive Advantage SWOT Strategic Planning 344

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. Incumbents in these industries often own established brands, proprietary technology, and control of distribution channels. New competitors are not even staying away from more traditional, low-margin industries.

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Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 21, 2021

Change can involve the adoption of new technologies, reengineering, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, culture blending, or any of a number of other forms. The big deal about change is usually not about strategy or structure or systems. Some won’t mind taking a trip, just not in the direction you’re headed.

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Hotels Stress Resistance Restructuring 125

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Typically a graphic depiction of the organizational components to be addressed in a redesign (for example, McKinsey’s 7S model, which includes strategy, structure, systems, staff, skills, and so on), every consultant and his brother flogs an organization design model. So leaders at many different levels need to get in on the act.

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

In this excerpt from their new book, Strategy That Works , Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi explain why distinctive capabilities are vital to success, and address a fundamental question that many companies overlook: How to bring these capabilities to scale, so that every part of the enterprise can call on them.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

In our book Repeatability , Chris Zook and I show how top-performing companies typically develop repeatable models that incorporate their strategy in front-line activities. The question forced the team to deconstruct the business and reconstruct it based on technological developments and competitive moves.

Merchandising 13

Merchandising Metrics Restructuring Library 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic.

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EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

For example, Google’s restructuring into Alphabet highlighted just how much the company is spending on new businesses, from self-driving cars to space exploration and more. economy is not just the opportunity for raw innovation, but the ability to scale new technologies within large global companies.

Company 9

Company Supply Chain Retail Bureaucracy 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

They rely on these and other subscription services for a personalized combination of professionally produced and user-generated programming, created with new, low-cost production and distribution technologies. New forms of content, new distribution technologies, and new business models are emerging at a dizzying pace. and abroad.

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Media Content Video Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

So the chiefs of strategy and technology formed a unique circle of peers — 18 diverse members from across the organization whose task over the next six months was to ask and answer what they felt were the most pressing strategic questions facing the company. That, in brief, is the concept of a leadership circle.

Leadership 9

Leadership Diversity Committee Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

She''s an expert on strategy, innovation, and leading change. P&G is in the midst of a major restructuring, and has laid off thousands of people. P&G''s board has been under a great deal of pressure from an activist investor who has made his views on the pace of the restructuring clear and vocal. She holds the Ernest L.

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P&L Restructuring Price CEO 8

Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 13, 2014

Two factors making global thinking a key variable for the future are the dramatic projected increases in global trade and integrated global technology, such as e-commerce. New technology is another factor that makes global thinking a requirement for future leaders. Technology can help break down barriers to global business.

Competitive Advantage 140

Competitive Advantage Globalization Diversity Technology 140

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Rebel Brown : I’ve been a consultant for over 20 years now, focused on helping international clients in areas of business and market strategy, positioning and market launches. Along the way – I also help them find their value, their markets, their best market entry strategy and then help them power into the market.

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Open-book Greenleaf Blog Marketing 272

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

When the supply of people with a needed skill promises to tighten in one area of the country, the Labor Market Maker would direct employers to pockets of people with those skills in other areas and could even recommend alternative work models and technologies to get the work done.

Marketing 11

Marketing Restructuring McKinsey Education 11

In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 17, 2011

by John • October 17, 2011 • Branding , Human Resources , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 3 Comments. I’m not suggesting restructuring the entire brand management system. With the exception of niche, specialty, and technology markets, I see little evidence of this. In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home.

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Brand CEO Stage-Gate SWOT 168

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Social-media technologies offer plenty of ways for your company to gain valuable insights about your customers and industry — see our previous blog post. But social technologies open new channels that permit snooping on an unprecedented scale. Leaks are nothing new; companies have been eavesdropping on each other forever.

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Company Media Travel Tools 8