Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

The Conversation is also a 1974 film by Francis Ford Coppola whose themes include the role of technology in society and being so focused on what you are doing that you forget why you are doing it and become oblivious to what is happening around you. made me break out in cold sweats. CIOs today must adapt or risk being marginalized.

CIO 8

CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

This will lead to new business models, new processes, more meaningful business interactions, innovation, improved and faster decision making, and a more agile organization. This allows the smallest of firms to compete globally with the largest of firms. But CIOs also need to not get caught up in the technology trap.

CIO 8

CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

The Lean Startup is an approach to developing new products that came out of “Agile” software development, with “sprints” (quick deliverables) and fast learning. In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees.

Ries 8

Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

New research, conducted with HBR, The Economist , CEB, and TNS Global, reveals that CEOs believe CIOs are not in sync with the new issues CEOs are facing. But even though they know they must innovate in response, they don''t know how to do so in the complex global market. Barriers to entry have been destroyed.

CIO 8

CIO CEO Outsourcing Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

There is a marked dissonance between CIOs and the C-suite — a fact that we uncovered in new research conducted with HBR, The Economist, CEB, and TNS Global. The role and effect of technology should be a part of conversations on business decisions, and the CIO should have a pertinent and relevant point of view.

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Take Apple and the work it put into building a technology platform on which hundreds of thousands of independent developers could create apps and offer them to Apple''s customers. Now that globalization and the Internet have changed everything, the heuristics are overdue for an update. Keep your gaze on the customers.

Management 8

Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

After Jeff Immelt threw down the gauntlet for building a global software center, GE faced significant physical, organizational, and cultural challenges. Though technology would have allowed for a significantly virtual enterprise, it was important to Ruh to have a physical building where people could actually be located together.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Baseline financial skills are still essential, but international experience, industry knowledge, investor relations acumen, technology expertise, and strategic prowess are now just as much part of the package. A recent survey of CEOs reveals that HR is overwhelmingly viewed as the least agile function. Even HR itself agrees.

CFO 9

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

A report commissioned by Barclays in 2013 revealed a corporate culture that wasn’t fit for purpose, tending to “favor transactions over relationships, the short term over sustainability, and financial over other business purposes.” Goodwin was notoriously combative, with a “Fred says” autocratic management style.

Banking 10

Banking Strategy Film Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Over the past few decades, not only has NASA delivered crucial technologies for society, such as water filtration systems, satellite-based search-and-rescue, and UV coating on eyeglasses, it has also evolved its dominant logic and business model. Competing nations have also been expanding their space exploration efforts.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Technology has forced music artists to completely rethink the way they approach their businesses. They’re extending their brand into areas like technology, gaming, fashion, and lifestyle content — essentially becoming entertainment platforms. We’ve all had to adapt. So they began to prepare for their next decade.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Today’s successful companies close the strategy-to-performance gap with a new strategy approach best described as “Decide-Do/Refine-Do” This agile, test-and-learn approach is better suited to today’s tumultuous environment. Take Dell Technologies, for example. Test and learn, then test some more.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 29, 2014

Guest post from Georg Vielmetter and Yvonne Sell: In “ Leadership 2030: The six megatrends you need to understand to lead your company into the future ,” we outline the repercussions of the convergence of globalization 2.0, In the era of big collaboration, the ethicization of business, and the complexity that comes with globalization 2.0,

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Leadership Globalization Maturity Agility 244