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

AUGUST 21, 2015

In 2013, I began reporting on a groundbreaking all-women special operations team made up of the finest, fittest and most driven soldiers chosen from across the Army, Guard, and Reserve. Some of the most tested special operations leaders in the U.S. The shift began in 2010. What made this change possible?

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Team Operations Agility Metrics 8

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. It’s clear why pain in the domestic supplier base matters from a policy perspective.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

The current mantra is “Move fast with stable infrastructure”, which speaks to the organizational design challenge of operating at scale in a fickle and volatile world. ” It further revealed a complex and siloed organization, with competing operating assumptions, values, and practices across the group.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Increasingly, the CIO and IT must be seen less as merely developing and deploying technology, and more as a source of innovation and transformation that delivers business value, leveraging technology instead of directly delivering it. CIOs must be an integral and vocal part of conversations on new ventures and resource allocation.

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

This transformation took time to play out and involved both displacements of incumbents operating in outdated modes and the emergence of new “feeder” roles for those aspiring to the C-suite. 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

JANUARY 29, 2015

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. ” To hit the aggressive growth targets (750 by the end of 2013 and 1000 by November 2014) Waldo had to rewrite some GE rules.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

The same diminished economic frictions, along with new business models, organizational structures and enabling technologies, have accelerated the appearance of new, unanticipated competitors with new value propositions or the old value propositions presented faster, better and/or cheaper. Barriers to entry have been destroyed.

CIO 8

CIO CEO Outsourcing Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating. The challenges facing NASA.

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. Webvan was forced to cease operations by 2001.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

But with the rise of digital technology, and with it the ability to get immediate feedback from customers and communities, crowdsourcing has become a powerful alternative for driving important decisions. 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