Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

What’s the best way to get your passion project moving? ” Next, make a timeline based on what you think you can reasonably accomplish toward your project in the time you have. As you chip away on your project, continue to give your job the attention it needs. So, where should you start? What the Experts Say.

Project 8

Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. As part of this research, we conducted 120 interviews, including nine with board members and 19 with top managers. Practice #1: Increase trust by defining new conversational norms.

Strategy 8

Strategy Analysis Operations CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

As managers we cycle between these modes constantly. It''s the mark of a great manager to be able to judge, in a complex situation, when and how to use each of them. In the middle of this spectrum are the liberal arts and the mongrel discipline that we call "management". Detached observation requires a certain maturity.

Management 8

Management Drucker Maturity Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

Executives who consider and discuss all four types of competition will uncover important insights, and such an analysis can help move your strategy forward. Implement strategic projects for all four types: The four types of competition can provide a categorization tool for different types of projects from which an organization can compete.

Stress 10

Stress Insourcing Uncertainty Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2013

A scientist or engineer would retire from the organization, wait the mandatory six months, and then field a call from a former manager with an offer to re-engage. For one thing, at GEGRC, internal analysis predicted a potential tsunami of retirements hitting the two top technical levels between 2008 and 2013.

Consultative 8

Consultative Competitive Advantage Long-term Incentives 8

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Actually, this project started probably three or four years ago when Paul’s last book came out, which is called Jumping the S-Curve. It used to be enough to look at a static market, do a five forces analysis, be able to figure out, do a BCG matrix, all of these sort of old-school tools. LARRY: It was never enough.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Specifically, our analysis found that the net benefits to ranchers ranged from $18 million to $34 million (12% to 23% of revenues) in net present value projected over 10 years. For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% of revenues).

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2014

In their best-selling 2013 book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think , authors Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier selected Google Flu Trends (GFT) as the lede of chapter one. But more data in itself does not lead to better analysis, as amply demonstrated with Flu Trends. They don’t matter.”

Trends 8

Trends Short-term Analysis Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In a 2013 Management Research Group survey , when executives were asked to select the leadership behaviors that were most critical to their organization’s future success, 97% of the time they chose being strategic. Every organization needs strategic thinkers.

Strategic Planning 8

Strategic Planning Root Cause Analysis Tactics Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

From just a few thousand queries a month in 2013, ABIe now handles 100,000 — from all of the company’s employees, and not just from agents. The effort must involve careful analysis and preparation, which takes into account each department but keeps the focus on the full enterprise. Don’t make your AI too lite.

Company 8

Company Insurance Call Center Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

It shouldn’t happen, but it does: You realize much too late that your innovation project is in deep trouble. In a recent analysis of a massive, expensive innovation failure, Kim van Oorschot of BI Norwegian Business School, Henk Akkermans of the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands, and Kishore Sengupta and Luk N.

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Just 36 percent of CMOs, for example, have quantitatively proven the short-term impact of marketing spend, according to the 2013 CMO Survey (and for demonstrating long-term impact, that figure drops to 32 percent). Moreover, the previous year’s survey showed that 63 percent of projects do not use analytics to inform marketing decisions.

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 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. The board approved, and Erasmus’s next CEO – Ernst Kuipers – drove this forward from 2013. Set Up a Steering Committee and Project Team. Develop a Project Management Plan for the Pilot.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Compliance Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

But Takata’s example is one of the many clear signs that managers who hone their visualization skills may increasingly find themselves in a position to change emphasis in a chart, leave out data, or add some data. I went a little further: The services here are for women, and the population of women changed between 2006 and 2013.

PR 8

PR Ethics Engineering Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

This means better integrating marketing and IT, and developing systems around the information needs of the senior management team instead of creating a culture of “capture data and pray.” This means analysts need to understand what the firm’s managers can understand. and 2017 (Mean 3.7,

Marketing 11

Marketing Advertising Learning-by-Doing Survey 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

Co-founded by Peter and Candace Olson, this program provides a deep tutorial in the language of business, as well as extensive training in business and financial analysis, communication, and valuation. Where I was unable to spell my own name or barely speak in 2008, I am now projecting revenue growth and cash flows in 2013."

EBITDA 10

EBITDA Human Resources McKinsey Cost 10

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. To answer that deeper question, we carried out a systematic analysis of the 146 unicorns identified by The Wall Street Journal.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

The prizes were awarded “for their empirical analysis of asset prices,” but what the three had been doing looked from the outside less like a common endeavor than a not-all-that-coherent argument. Instead, what you need to do is scenario analysis. And that’s what these guys [the 2013 Nobel winners] did.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

And that is the issue of how to effectively manage a multi-generational workforce. 1) Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project Spring Tracking Survey 2013. “Generational differences in work-related attitudes: A meta-analysis”, Journal of Business and Psychology, 27(4), p. Badger J.M.,

P&L 243

P&L Fraser Motivation Organizational Behavior 243

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

We recently set out to remedy that, and our analysis suggests that Arab inventors play a major role in U.S. Despite these limitations, we believe this analysis is valuable, and an improvement on our limited existing knowledge. In the five-year period from 2009 to 2013, there were 8,786 U.S. In 2013 there were approximately 1.02

Innovation 14

Innovation Analysis Technology Efficiency 14