Strategy Driven

APRIL 7, 2013

Analytics tools give decision-makers the best possible intelligence about customers, finances, operations, suppliers, and the market. This is why, according to IDC research, business analytics was among the top five IT investment initiatives in 2012. Other top investment areas include social media and mobility.

Operations 50

Operations Resources Innovation ROI 50

CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

As is always the case when writing my blogs, I hope that this information inspires you to think more about not only what you do but why you do it. in 2010 and started full time work in the business in 2012. This meant from a young age I knew that leading, not just managing and working with people was something I would always pursue.

Self-aware 146

Self-aware Ethics Tools Finance 146

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

In the latest forecasts from The Economist Intelligence Unit, global GDP growth for 2013 has been revised down to 3.1% – only slightly up on GDP growth for 2012 (2.9%). Click here for more information on Economist: Smart SMBs Fine-Tuning the Engines of Growth. Complimentary Resource – Going Green With Content Management.

Engineering 50

Engineering Resources GDP Strategic Planning 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

For example, the finance department approves what to buy, facilities maintains equipment, HR tells employees how to conserve energy, and marketing manages the company’s corporate sustainability reporting. Managing utilities has also become more complex as the energy landscape has evolved. At best, it can manage costs.

Company 8

Company Management CIO Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The recent disclosure of a multi-billion dollar trading loss at JPMorgan Chase reminds us again of the challenge and complexity of risk management, the subject of our June 2012 HBR article, "Managing Risks: A New Framework." Each requires customized risk management processes. Many people, including quite a few U.S.

Risk Management 9

Risk Management CIO Management Banking 9

Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2014

“It’s a new financial world on the verge of a complete reorganization,” said Peter Kenny, managing director at Knight Equity Markets in Jersey City, New Jersey. Name and address information required. .” Nonetheless, when the crisis hit in the Fall 2008, the financial world seemed to be blind-sided.

Insurance 52

Insurance Banking Crisis Discount 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

And unfortunately, they suggest that, in our huge, complex financial institutions, major failures of organizational discipline and major losses are likely to recur, despite greater attention to risk management. million in 2012 — because of his "Whale-related" failures, and that JPM had posted a record 2012 net income of $21.3

Report 8

Report CIO Crisis Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

This pact follows a February 2012 agreement between B of A, Citi, JPM, Wells Fargo and Ally with State Attorneys General and federal authorities to pay $26 billion for similar failings. billion to homeowners. Other banks are considering whether to join the agreement (e.g. Ally Financial and HSBC Holdings).

Finance 8

Finance Banking Press Release Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

As she navigated through spreadsheets and dashboard screens — each created by a different person for a different purpose — the only constant was the title of the report, "2012 Actuals." Business executives are unaware of the extent to which their staffs routinely reinvent the wheel to get the information they need.

Business Intelligence 14

Business Intelligence Budgeting Report Library 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

The motivation behind it, as with many, many articles published over HBR's nearly 90-year history, was to take an effective practice developed in one corner of industry and spread it to managers everywhere. How can that be when the same information about the stock's underlying company and markets are available to both? McNulty et al.

CAPM 13

CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow Cost of Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

Information governance is not IT''s job. It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. Because no one is managing the store. The explosive growth of information is accelerating. But it should be the CIO''s job.

CIO 8

CIO CFO Zero Based Budgeting Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The ones that manage to escape are discount chains —such as T. In dollar terms, small players—defined as those with sales less than $1 billion—grabbed approximately $15 billion in sales from their larger peers between 2012 and 2017. Penney, and Barnes & Noble. Price competition hurts.

Brand 9

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Our data suggests that employees overwhelmingly support the notion of employer-provided issue and political information. Employees not only want more information from their employer about issues that affect their livelihoods, they tend to believe their employers over other sources. And employees trust what their employers tell them.

Politics 8

Politics Policies Survey Information 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

On May 24, 2012, Goldman Sachs did something it had never done in its venerable 143-year history. For highly regulated sectors like finance, social media can be a legal minefield. Morphis' 238 Twitter followers were privy to insider information — a big SEC no-no. It tweeted. "We

Compliance 15

Compliance Media Compliance Officer Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

We have developed a framework to help boards make decisions concerning corporate political spending — decisions that are informed; consistent with company strategies, policies, and values; and that mitigate risks as much as possible. million in the 2006 off-year cycle to more than $300 million in the 2012 presidential cycle.

Politics 8

Politics Committee CPA Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

Government-led measures to reform health care such as the HITECH Act, which infused billions of dollars into improving the sector’s use of information technology, and the Affordable Care Act (ACA), create a business case for performance improvement that never existed before. billion in 2013, up 39% from 2012.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Funding Entrepreneur Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Maybe you remember how savagely the industry was portrayed during the 2012 U.S. Startups, on the other hand, aren’t debt financed, because they’re too risky and unproven, and have no assets—not so appealing to lenders. Suffice it to say that a 2016 Mitt Romney campaign isn’t being championed on Wall Street.

LBO 8

LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Ever since Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations in 1776, observers have bemoaned boards of directors as being ineffective as both monitors and advisors of management. Alternatively, it could be that because of behavioral biases, management is not able to select effective directors as well as an algorithm.

Company 8

Company Kahneman Learning-by-Doing CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

But where we've lost the plot is that we only demand — and manage — a return on financial capital. We will also convene a forum for CEOs and accountants to discuss and develop large-scale solutions for finance and reporting and are exploring the possibility of developing a world-class training program for CFOs on sustainability.

Social Capital 10

Social Capital Report Finance Transportation 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

Such rules rest on the premise that if we can just structure the board properly, management misconduct can largely be prevented. GE states, “The primary role of GE’s Board of Directors is to oversee how management serves the interests of shareowners and other stakeholders.”

Company 8

Company Committee CEO Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

On January 19, 2012, after 131 years of operation, the Eastman Kodak Company filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. Employers increasingly focus on employee wellness, on one side, and disease management, on the other. A third signal is that health care financing is testing these pathways too. What Business Are We In?

Health Care 15

Health Care Levitt Film Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

The committee organizing the London 2012 Olympic Games faced an extraordinary business challenge: How to price 8 million tickets in a way that allows equitable access to 26 sporting events, meets revenue and attendance targets, and adheres to the explicit social objective of making the Olympiad "Everybody's Games.".

Price 12

Price Committee Sports Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

HDP is a third-party administrator with expertise in the development and management of travel surgery programs, providing strategic and operational management of this program. Geisinger Health System began partnering with Walmart around cardiac surgery in 2012, and joined ECEN for spinal surgery in 2015.

Health Care 8

Health Care Participative System Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

The data that is available, such as a 2012 study of over 15,000 patient records from 26 African and Middle Eastern hospitals, produce alarming results: 6.8% A unique driver of diagnostic errors where physicians and nurses are scarce is the lack of access to clinical information.

Health Care 8

Health Care Content Globalization Mayo 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Tucker believes that recovery and resolution plans should reduce the direct hit to public finances following a bank's failure or distress, while also containing the system-wide impact. Each plan should also contribute to better managed firms, with stronger market discipline, risk management practices and less stability-threatening imprudence.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Informal retail and cash purchases are the norm, and that has its risks and costs. More people have mobile money accounts than bank accounts in at least nine African countries, up from four in 2012. Finance Global business Technology' Less than 30% of the population have bank accounts, and even fewer have credit cards.

Banking 8

Banking Retail Wireless Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

While activism takes many different forms, it usually begins with investors holding private conversations with company management on the need to change a process, business model, or management practice. Why would managers choose to respond to investors’ requests on immaterial issues if doing so decreases financial value?

Proposal 8

Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

You need to have senior management that really understands what value-based health care (VBHC) is all about. Back in 2012, Erasmus’s CEO, Professor Hans Buller, was a huge proponent of VBHC and led the development of the organization’s 5-year VBHC strategy with one of us (Dr. Develop a Project Management Plan for the Pilot.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Compliance Project 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

In the first half of 2012, thousands of merger and acquisition deals were announced globally, worth more than $900 billion. To reduce the risks however, there are two steps that managers can take to make sure their firms are ready for the challenges of integration before committing to an actual deal. Odds are the answer is yes.

Compliance 8

Compliance Resources Consultative Document 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Informed would-be voters now have a basic grasp of how the process works. the management consultancy. The PE firm itself, already cushioned by an annual fee of 2% of funds under management, rakes in 20% of all profits on the deal above a nominal return rate for the limited partners. where Bain Capital invested $6.4

Due Diligence 12

Due Diligence Incentives Hedge Collins 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

in 2012 , the outlook is far healthier than in many mature markets of Europe and North America, fueling an ongoing war for talent. Suspicious that off-rampers might take time off again, coworkers are often resentful when they return, and managers marginalize them in dead-end project work. In short, on-ramping is easy in India.

Career 8

Career Maturity Survey Education 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Its directors have turned over many times, of course, but Trian Fund Management, led by activist Nelson Peltz, is pressing for far more than a routine remake, demanding four seats of its own choosing at the table. Much the same occurred at Canadian Pacific Railway in 2012, when Pershing Square Capital Management acquired control of its board.

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

This is ineffective deal management, and it eventually leads to loss of positioning with customers, and, over time, the nurturing of “commodity competencies.” But by 2012 growth slowed, revenues flattened, and margins declined. At that point, Alphatech’s management reassessed its strategy and sales approach.

Strategy 8

Strategy Team Discount ROIC 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. Steve Jobs failed miserably at managing openness at Apple in the 1980s. Let’s look at the key errors. Insight Center.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2012

Apparently, neither the governor nor anyone on his task force or in his office knew that this information is readily available on the organizations' tax forms.) The letters also warned that "the regulatory agencies involved hold powerful leverage through their ability to cut off financing to groups that fail to comply.".

Execution 12

Execution Letter Committee Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

A few months earlier, Avon had informed us that they no longer intended to do the events with us. There was no time to raise the capital we needed to finance the events' annual cash flow needs. On August 23, 2012, I walked into our headquarters — a spectacularly creative facility that we had just moved into a few months earlier.

Teamwork 14

Teamwork Learning-by-Doing Maturity Case Study 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

There’s a wonderful scene (one of many) in Michael Lewis’s new book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt , in which John Schwall, then the head of product management at RBC Capital Markets in New York, decides one day in 2011 to figure out how stock trading had evolved into a high-speed, unfair race he thought it had become. But I haven’t.

Long-term 8

Long-term Open-book Marketing Hedge 8