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. As a group, the largest U.S. In some instances, the end results were firm closures and lost jobs.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

However, time and time again, statistics show that CIO and C-suite alignment drives financial success. 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.

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Not by gathering waves of data and solving successive equations. Moreover, when we look around at the companies who are doing well, it can be hard to see the rhyme or reason of the decisions that led to that success. Similarly, telling workers what to do at every turn won''t lead to the degree of agility that organizations now need.

Management 9

Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

Those earlier experiences are an important study in building teams, breaking ground on behalf of mission success, and successfully integrating new groups into the established order. But the path to this day began decades ago, with the women have already served and sacrificed on the battlefield alongside Rangers and SEALs.

Team 8

Team Operations Agility Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Here’s a brief account of how GE quickly scaled up a sizable software start-up within a big, successful conglomerate. 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. Getting Started.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Think of your company in its entirety, or perhaps select a strategically important element of it, such as a growth area upon which future success depends or its primary source of income, and consider the following two questions: 1. How well does your business strategy support the fulfillment of your company’s purpose?

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

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

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.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

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

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

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Technology has forced music artists to completely rethink the way they approach their businesses. The most successful artists in this new landscape have begun to look at new business models and new industries to strengthen their existing brands. Over the course of a year, we built strong case studies in fashion, design, and technology.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 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