Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2011

If you are a functional expert, say in HR or finance, you might tend to think your skills are transferrable and can be applied anywhere. Human Resources in a consumer goods company, which might be product and sales oriented, is quite different from an industrial company where manufacturing plants and unions are the order of the day.

Career 56

Career Industry Diversity Long-term 56

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

I've written about the rising significance of soft skills, including in the March 2011 issue of HBR (coauthored with Kevin L. The CIO has to know what's going on in finance and marketing, for instance, and P&L experience is important even for support functions like human resources. You have to be constantly learning.

Execution 15

Execution P&L CFO Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

While M&A may improve the efficiency of shared services such as human resources and finance, it may actually make it more difficult to improve the coordination of care. In 2011 Mayo elected to follow this course. But consolidation does not ensure integration.

Health Care 8

Health Care Mayo Due Diligence Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Today tens of millions of 50-, 60-, and 70-somethings say they are eager to apply their accumulated skills in areas like education, health, and the environment. In late 2011 Intel announced that all retirement eligible employees in the U.S. We'll need new ways to help individuals finance the frequently costly transition to what's next.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Finance Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Consider the story of the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense, which was founded in 2005 under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and "disestablished" in 2011 by Defense Secretary Gates. The Business Transformation Agency was populated by people brought in from the commercial sector.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 9

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Human resources management. For project purchases, such as printing, graphic production, video production and materials creation, consultants customarily mark up slightly, to cover bank financing and handling costs. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Entrepreneurial, small business management. Academic, research.

Consultative 59

Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 59