Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

For senior marketers, it is a very humbling thought. What if your ideas, your thoughts and even your experience as a trained marketing professional didn''t amount to a hill of beans in terms of the brand''s actual advertising performance? What if, in short, what your company really needs is not a marketer, but a data scientist ?

Marketing 13

Marketing Advertising Chief Information Officer Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Managing Yourself Emotional Agility Susan David and Christina Congleton All healthy human beings have an inner stream of thoughts and feelings that include criticism, doubt, and fear: “ I’m a fake.” “ He’s a jerk.” “ It was the same in my last job.” Who ever thought you could sell fresh eggs online for more than they cost in the local market?

Agility 8

Agility Chemicals Creativity Banking 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2014

we are contending with wave after wave of jobs moving overseas, markets that whip up and down, and energy prices rising at an unprecedented rate. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation Episode 3 – Agile Balance. In the U.S., Consider leaving a comment!

Chief Executive Officer 50

Chief Executive Officer Learning-by-Doing Charisma Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In fact, MGI analysis of financial data shows that large publicly traded US manufacturing firms, most of them multinationals with revenues greater than $500 million, averaged returns on invested capital of 22% from 1997 to 2013. But now the situation has reached such a tipping point that larger U.S. manufacturers are taking notice.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 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 10

Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Data contributes not only to brand equity, but to what constitutes product and service delivery in globally connected and hyper-competitive markets. Between 2013 and 2015 cyber-crime costs quadrupled, with the reported incidence rate growing exponentially. Today most organizations are data-driven to one degree or another.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Intellectual Capital Corporate Accountability Activity Based Costing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2015

The paper, published in the European Management Journal, isn’t the first to look at the values firms list on their websites; a 2013 paper tried something similar but found no correlation with performance. It seems to be linked to financial performance. Second, they compared firms’ values to the values of their competitors.

Company 8

Company Collins Short-term Agility 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. Digital business ecosystems dynamically create and operate value chains that extend their participants'' markets. IT management'

CIO 8

CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

As we transform from industrial work more easily and efficiently done by robots to creative and knowledge work leveraging humans, we are balancing the values of scale and efficiency (industrial work) with the need for agility and efficacy ( creative and knowledge work ). IT management ROA ROI'

CIO 8

CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

But even though they know they must innovate in response, they don''t know how to do so in the complex global market. Otherwise, you lose flexibility, agility, adaptability, and even scale economics begin to reverse. Traditional products are simply becoming windows into information-based, services-delivered value. A focus on customers.

CIO 8

CIO CEO Outsourcing Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. But corporate leaders today seem to agree that strategic alignment is high on the list.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? What would the capital markets look like today if a similar tack had been taken when the CFO role was ripe for transformation? A recent survey of CEOs reveals that HR is overwhelmingly viewed as the least agile function.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

Automation anxiety reached new heights in 2013, when Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. So it still pays to be good at math in today’s labor market, but it’s often no longer enough. So why are social skills so prized in today’s labor market? Machines aren’t quite this agile (yet), whereas people can be.

Technology 8

Technology Skills Deming Osborne 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

And the market for software talent was hot hot hot. ” To hit the aggressive growth targets (750 by the end of 2013 and 1000 by November 2014) Waldo had to rewrite some GE rules. We created an expanded vision of customer partnerships with big, market-driven outcomes that the company could rally behind.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

These are the things that will create more value for the customer and enable the enterprise''s agility. CIOs must lead the charge in getting other executives to understand that the game has changed, and explore strategies and tactics to win it and keep pace with global market changes. IT management'

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Too many companies still follow a “Plan-then-Do” approach to strategy: The organization works tirelessly to create its best forecasts about the future market and competitive landscape. Caesars Entertainment has built test-and-learn into its marketing investments. The Plan-then-Do approach is obsolete – even dangerous.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2018

We were working hard on getting product-market fit right, so anything we could do to get more customers and to find the right feature mix was a critical learning opportunity. If someone had a marketing grader idea, chances are I would say “yes” to it. It empowered my team to move fast and get things done.

P&L 15

P&L Strategy Press Release Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Machine Shop began to offer its grassroots marketing services to other bands, film studios, TV networks, and brands. But by 2013, Linkin Park and Machine Shop had to address the fact that digital music (first downloads and then streaming) had changed the business dramatically. I met the band at this inflection point.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration. Space X carried out its first resupply mission in 2012 and Orbital Sciences in 2013. This model has changed NASA’s technology strategy.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. Narrowly focused. Moreover, the innovations lying at the heart of the unicorns’ success stories are digital innovations.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 29, 2014

The financial market already recognizes it: In an academic study of 30 public companies that announced co-CEO arrangements, the average stock return that could be attributed to the announcement was 2.58 Old dogs need to learn new tricks To be agile, leaders must accept new technologies they do not always understand and cannot control.

Leadership 244

Leadership Globalization Maturity Agility 244

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

In January 2013 they created “ IBM iFundIT ,” a program in which volunteers decide where to spend seed money using an intranet site for proposing ideas, commenting, volunteering, and funding. Given the success of the program in 2013, IBM’s CIO decided to invest $7 million to expand iFundIT in 2014.

Software 8

Software CIO Early Adopters Project 8