Ask Atma

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

It is at heart a new philosophical approach to project management. Consider this statement of values from the original authors of the agile manifesto (Beedle, et al; 2001): I. In this sense, agile is more a way to create a new culture than simply a way to write software or manage a project. Agile Concept.

Agility 71

Agility Project Software Short-term 71

Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

He had inherited a thriving soft drink bottling business from his father, and by marketing it to South America he grew the company significantly. He introduced me to a company that was opening up a new market in Atlanta. Ultimately, his daddy got tired of this project, and the son had to cram to get his real estate license.

Real Estate 81

Real Estate Strategic Planning Video Blog 81

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

By all measures, emerging markets are having a tough year. However, multinationals still expect their emerging market portfolios to deliver robust growth and increasing profits based on the memory of their performance in recent, more bullish years. Let’s see how this story is playing out in the different emerging market regions.

Marketing 8

Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter-to-quarter or even year-to year-revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – search, mobile, and the cloud were where Microsoft users were heading. They had lots of these projects. The result?

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

After the stock market’s rocky ride in recent months, some analysts are wondering whether a new economic crisis might be around the corner. Imagine having put not only your money into a project, but also your sweat, tears, and time. I interviewed them about one of the last big crises for startups: the dot-com crash of 2000-2001.

Crisis 8

Crisis Entrepreneur Business Model IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

In the 2001 recession, total sales for the S&P 500 declined by 9% from its pre-recession peak to its trough 18 months later—almost a year after the recession officially ended. Digital tools can also open new go-to-market approaches. Sales reps, meanwhile, were freed up to spend more time on larger project sales.

Team 10

Team Price B2B Tools 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

Rational managers for the past thirty years have tightly focused on efficiency, cost cutting, and day-to-day execution — perhaps to a fault. For example, in 2001, IBM set up a permanent transformation organization designed to anticipate and respond to the increasingly unpredictable changes in its markets.

Agility 8

Agility Process Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

But, as the story of Samsung demonstrates, recruitment is very much on the minds of emerging-market companies. In 2001, Turkey experienced a financial crisis in its banking sector. Our experience at Garanti Bank shows how even in seemingly the worst of circumstances, companies can become the most attractive of employers.

Banking 11

Banking Crisis Restructuring Reputation 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Toyota hired Deming to train hundreds of the company’s managers, eventually capitalizing on his expertise to develop the famous Toyota Production System — the primary source of today’s “lean” thinking. Shewhart taught this iterative and incremental-development methodology to his mentee, W.

Agility 8

Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

KW: I lost my job in the 2001 dot.com bust and decided to start my own consulting company. If you look at women’s participation in executive levels in the US compared to other countries we are pathetic at only 18% of management roles filled by women. How is it different than other project management books?

Project 240

Project Participative Workshop Commitment 240

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2012

In the post below, Unnikrishnan shares his experiences searching for an IT consultant position in the Indian and Saudi Arabian job markets. It was a late evening in 2001 — in the small Indian town of Kozhikode — when my friend's father, Professor Salahudheen shared this advice, "Son, job hunting is a different art.

Enterprise Architecture 11

Enterprise Architecture Information Technology Skills Industry 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. Managing Carbon and Energy. LVMH’s approach is somewhat unique.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The concern I expressed in the post was that these actions have become the standard by which CEOs are expected to manage. Investors favorably receive projects with long-term payoffs, particularly those in research and development. We had done a restructuring in 2001 with a significant number of layoffs. billion in revenues.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Long-term Short-term Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

This position also meant that governments were continually intervening in markets with price-setting and regulations, as well as with government ownership. One can also see his continual intervention in markets, from banking to retail, as motivated by the same belief that government knows best, and that markets are not to be trusted.

Politics 8

Politics Price Simon Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

But what if, instead of nodding our heads in agreement, we told the donor that by hiring a leader who commands a $300,000 salary in the market, instead of one who commands only a $150,000 salary, a charity might well be able to double the amount of money going to the cause, and double the impact of the donor's dollar? Six percent.

Advertising 15

Advertising Maturity Guidelines Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Jim Collins had a lot to say about CEOs he saw demonstrating modesty and leading quietly, not charismatically , in his 2001 bestseller Good to Great. And to the extent it is considered by managers rising through the ranks, it is often misunderstood. He projected convincing self-confidence, authenticity, and wisdom.

Development 9

Development Self-aware Press Release Collins 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Bernard Arnault, for instance, the executive chairman of luxury goods maker LVMH, was clearly in the same frame of mind when we caught up with him in a 2001 HBR interview. The first requires that top managers understand and explicitly determine how innovation fits within the larger corporate strategy.

Process 8

Process Innovation Brainstorming Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

When I stepped in to run the Campbell Soup Company in 2001, the environment at Campbell was hugely challenging. We'd lost half of our market value in just one year. The project, still in its infancy, is focused on cutting the BMI (Body Mass Index) of Camden's 23,000 children in half over the next decade.

Company 14

Company Real Estate Retail Commitment 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Since we are often being moved along in a perpetual parade of tasks, projects, and problems, emails, texts, and crises, we often lose sight of the people whom we lead. The environment was so toxic that a Gallup manager described employee engagement as “among the worst [he had] ever seen among the Fortune 500.”

Commitment 8

Commitment CEO Report Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

There was a spike in the 2000s when Venezuela began to provide petroleum at deeply discounted market prices, and that peaked just before the 2008-09 financial crisis. Cuba projects a population of 10.8 They don’t know how to market them effectively. After 2009, the Cuban economy really didn’t recover.

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Tourism Human Capital Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

In my four decades as a senior manager, CEO, and corporate director of American high-tech companies, I have never seen the state of innovation in the U.S. What is most telling is the restrictive and uncreative cultural climates created by CEOs and other senior managers. In 2001, Xilinx's business drop like a rock.

Senge 8

Senge Engineering Innovation Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. public market capitalization over this period. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. We calculate that U.S.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

public companies from the 1960s up to 2005 in HBR: “Since the mid-1990s, a new competitive dynamic has emerged — greater gaps between the leaders and laggards in an industry, more concentrated and winner-take-all markets, and more churn among rivals in a sector.” The competition story revolves around digital technology.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

A market segment can be characterized broadly (women 25-34) or specifically (women in an early career phase who are newly-married and starting a family). Projects succeed or fail based on whether they deal adequately with potential pitfalls and obstacles. And when does it make more sense to focus on the bigger picture ?

Word of Mouth Marketing 13

Word of Mouth Marketing Transportation Market Segmentation Advertising 13