Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation.

Media 67

Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2018

In competitive markets, managers have a strong incentive to give their best effort. But economists have long argued that when companies are insulated from competition, their managers may not be motivated to maximize the profit of the firm and instead may choose to enjoy the “quiet life.” Kenneth Andersson for HBR.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Management Marketing Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Silicon Valley was built on amazing products, not on stellar leadership skills. In fact, veterans of some of the world’s most successful tech companies often look with skepticism, even disdain, on efforts to build strong management skills. Below you’ll find my seven product tenets and how I see them connecting to managing people.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Team Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

Leaders need to be productively paranoid. The successful CEOs in our study displayed an odd behavior that we labeled " productive paranoia." Prior to the Oslo terrorist attack, we saw the exact opposite of productive paranoia — a leisurely attitude. As Bill Gates said, "Fear should guide you."

Management 14

Management Licensing Crisis Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

But managers won’t find much comfort in the study’s conclusions. In the paper, Scott Wallsten of the Technology Policy Institute attempts to measure the offline activities that are crowded out by our online recreation throughout the day, using data from The American Time Use Survey, a government survey that, since 2003, has been asking U.S.

Survey 9

Survey Video Productivity Products 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.”

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 23, 2017

As an expert in change and change management, Ilja embodies his message with an energetic, upbeat, and positive response to whatever comes his way. He said: “Today, mankind produces more information, data and ideas than from the stone age until the year 2003 together.“ And he nailed it with that statement. The Rules Have Changed.

How To 293

How To Open-book Learning-by-Doing Marketing 293

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

This is both because the resulting knowledge might walk out the door, as employees join other firms or start their own, and because you can acquire firms who have the needed technology. Although the setting was law firms, rather than technology firms, all the assets in those firms reside in human capital. In fact, this is unlikely.

Long-term 10

Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). While these factors will remain important, in the next decade China must put greater reliance on productivity growth — the ability to get greater output from existing labor and capital stocks.

GDP 13

GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

As the convergence of digital technologies drives unprecedented levels of change in global marketplaces, it is very much a reality that a company must, as Bill Gates put it, “innovate or die!” Before counting on any innovation offering from a vendor to change their fortunes, managers should therefore invest in two kinds of education.

Innovation 16

Innovation Education Survey Training 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To make big improvements in productivity and customer service, people in an organization must collaborate across corporate hierarchies, functions, companies, and geographies. Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Making Collaboration Work.

Process 15

Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Is there any aspect of your daily life and business that is not significantly affected by digital technology? in 2003, an all-time high. (Of Can we use the possibilities of these new digital technologies to drive innovation? Not likely. Just think about all the ways that digital is integrated into your own daily routine.

Business Model 8

Business Model Technology Long-term Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2011

In these two fictitious scenarios, Company B does better in communicating the risk of its product. It has provided certainty, through a concrete number, that can enable better decision making on the expected performance of the products. Both communicated risks associated with their products, but Company A did not do much.

Engineering 14

Engineering Document Construction Reputation 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. IT isn''t somebody else''s job, it''s ultimately theirs.

CEO 8

CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

In addition, its broad distribution network aimed at same-day delivery in many markets (through Amazon Flex , its “Uber for delivery” service) may also make the immediate delivery of certain prescriptions along with one’s groceries or other products a reality. So where is the link to health care? Data analytics.

Health Care 10

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

Managers spent a great deal of time on the plant floor watching Norman draw suggestions from the employees while asking questions about the jobs that they were performing. The top management team learned how to structure their time on the factory floor and how to listen. Three years later, the number was 20,000.

Process 13

Process How To Attrition Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Technology has undoubtedly ushered in progress in a myriad of ways. In 2010, Eric Schmidt, then the CEO of Google, shared a concern with the world : “Every two days, we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization until 2003. Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Collins Committee Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

At the same time, we’re also seeing the decentralization of power production. Countries that manage to transition effectively to low-carbon generation technologies will be home to competitive energy solutions and manufacturing firms that are more resilient to energy shocks and weather disruptions.

Energy 10

Energy Decentralization Industry Power 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

General Mills’ CEO recently blamed the winter for less-than-expected earnings , saying that “severe winter weather…disrupted plant operations and logistics…We lost 62 days of production…which hasn’t happened in decades. A tree branch hit a power line in Ohio in August 2003, causing cascading failures across a highly connected U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Strategy Risk Management Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

While advances in health care in the developed world often emphasize new technologies, in developing lower- and middle-income countries simply expanding the reach of basic primary care services is crucial to improving health. Management and leadership skills. The program conducts regular field visits and testing to monitor quality.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

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. Cisco now sells mostly commoditized products.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

Couple the lack of transparency of marketing generally with the shock of new technology, and you get anxiety over information use that increasingly translates into calls for legislation or regulatory intervention. New laws aimed at specific technologies, however, are the worst possible outcome. In the U.S., It''s also misguided.

Morale 8

Morale Learning-by-Doing Technology Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Ideally, these warnings provide requisite risk information, allowing people to decide for themselves whether an activity or a product’s benefits outweigh its risks, whether to take those risks, and, if so, with what precautions. Warnings on widely used consumer products are a relatively new phenomenon. How did we get here?

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Mass Marketing System Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

And this factor is likely to loom even larger in the future because many of the benefits of new technologies increase as more people join in. We asked some of our twenty-something students — digital natives who live with many of the technologies that have produced the new reality — what companies should be most afraid of.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage PR Information Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The result: Employees get confused and cynical (senior management's "flavor of the month"). Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.) Under the guidance of external coaches, the $7.2

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

It is one that I tell in my book, The Coming Prosperity ) When he started building the mobile phone company Roshan in 2003, he faced some singular challenges. Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way.

Innovation 15

Innovation Chief Technology Officer Engineering Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2014

Yet for each Radio Shack and Barnes and Noble fighting for its life, there are still those beloved corner stores and discount chains that manage to thrive. If you can create a data system to give employees quick access to information about products and customers, you can equip them to advise as experts.

Retail 8

Retail Reis Price Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In each iteration, we spent a lot of time thinking about what might make the best use of our existing product. In November 2003, after due diligence, we announced our agreement to purchase 3721 for $120 million. By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

It is one that I tell in my book, The Coming Prosperity ) When he started building the mobile phone company Roshan in 2003, he faced some singular challenges. Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way.

Innovation 11

Innovation Chief Technology Officer Engineering Disruptive Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2014

The Department of Defense, which had originally opposed the deal, reversed course when it finally occurred to government officials that if we did not sell the Rumanians this technology, others in Western Europe would. Universal Oil Products did ultimately build a $22.5 Crisis management Global business Government'

Licensing 8

Licensing Politics Crisis Management Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

By 2003 I could no longer speak intelligibly or walk, and any muscle control became more difficult as the disease progressed. In my experience, coaching through writing can help people manage highly charged emotions. Take, for instance, my IM exchanges with a technology manager at a financial services firm.

Argyris 8

Argyris Document Construction Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

A former campaign manager, Strasma started his company in 2003 to find a better way to predict who the true persuadables are in a campaign, and to find smart ways to target messaging towards them. Does this also apply when you're looking to marketing a product? It's a world where hundredths of a percentage point matter.

Survey 8

Survey Politics Information Discount 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

I have worked for Visionary leaders (or were they just managers?) Covey “It’s not the will to win that matters…everyone has that. Communicating the reasons for the direction. Then leading down that road and following up to make sure everyone is present. The company pays dearly when this happens.

Definition 313

Definition Blog Leadership Covey 313

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Managers and other business leaders face a dilemma: with increasingly diverse environments to manage and rising stakes to get it right, how do they identify the most effective approach to business strategy and marshal the right thinking and behaviors to conceive and execute it, supported by the appropriate frameworks and tools?

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

After all, it grew from $7 billion in 2003 to $171 billion in 2013 by entering established (albeit still-emerging) markets with superior products — something the model suggests is a losing strategy. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation. Doing so would require some nifty regulatory maneuvering.

Industry 9

Industry Wireless Advertising Content 9