HR Digest

MAY 1, 2019

Her vision has lead IBM to venture into innovative management systems, ones that empower the employees and facilitate continuous learning through technology. Under her leadership, IBM has incorporated automation and AI throughout the employee life cycle. And of course, business acumen. IBM was no exception.

Agility 90

Agility Self-aware Innovation Human Resources 90

Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

And, as anyone who closely follows simulation and prototyping tools knows, their use has become pervasive in manufacturing businesses, even though companies still grapple with the integration and management issues I wrote about in 2003. I had no idea how their use would fuel the rise of today’s online businesses.

Power 94

Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 94

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. They can sound geeky, but they are developments that every manager needs to understand. They are transforming each and every business model. Companies that just leave these matters for the IT department are most likely doomed.

Leadership Styles 83

Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. Could I see the future as a projection of the strides I’ve been able to make, similar to what other women in business have done? corporate boards.

Trends 265

Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Let us give you our definition of what it means to be a founder: Playing a central role in starting and managing an initiative that will have impact (preferably visible and large) on an organization or the broader world. What better way to signal that you have leadership capabilities? ” Management Science 56.2

Innovation 80

Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Managing Yourself Make Time for the Work That Matters Julian Birkinshaw and Jordan Cohen Julian Birkinshaw and Jordan Cohen How much time do you spend each day on the work that really matters? That’s a full day a week, without having to re-engineer any work processes or business models.

Delegation 8

Delegation Business Model Engineering Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

These relationships can create efficient new sales channels and powerful feedback mechanisms or unlock entirely new business models. But they also risk alienating the longstanding partners that companies count on for their core business. Supporting downstream partners’ business can also reduce the risk of retaliation.

Strategy 10

Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

But I suggest that the problem at Uber goes beyond a culture created by toxic leadership. The company’s cultural dysfunction, it seems to me, stems from the very nature of the company’s competitive advantage: Uber’s business model is predicated on lawbreaking. Through these tactics, Uber muddied the waters.

Licensing 8

Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. At a more macro level, the possibilities opened up by connected, more efficient production and new business models are also highly promising. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Becoming a true digital organization is not just about becoming tech-savvy.

Maturity 8

Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

The ever-growing digital wave is washing over just about every facet of our personal and organizational lives, our consumer experiences, and across every industry and sector in its impact on business models and processes. years in 2013 from 60.3 According to recent research , it appears not. in 2003, an all-time high. (Of

Business Model 8

Business Model Technology Long-term Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

They are called upon to advise companies that must manage risk in an increasingly complex global operating environment and navigate disruptive technologies that threaten their business models. Prospective directors should ask themselves if the company has a unique advantage that can be translated into industry leadership.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage McKinsey Advice Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

The company created impressive digital capabilities, labeling itself a “digital industrial” company, embedding sensors into many products, building a huge new software platform for the Internet of Things, and transforming business models for its industrial offerings.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

In 2013, the company released a service called Virtual Technician to help existing drivers while also enabling new business models and revenue streams. To the senior leadership team, this wasn’t just about telematics or new revenue. And management is paying attention to many other opportunities.

Engineering 9

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

In 2013, the company released a service called Virtual Technician to help existing drivers while also enabling new business models and revenue streams. To the senior leadership team, this wasn’t just about telematics or new revenue. And management is paying attention to many other opportunities.

Engineering 9

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Companies are comprised of business units, work groups, communities of practice, and alliances with suppliers, partners and customers. The role of management can be broadly thought of as the processes that tie these components together to produce value. Adaptable, agile management above all sustains competitive advantage.

CIO 8

CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed. Successful AI adopters have strong executive leadership support for the new technology.

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

CIOs will need to free up time and resources currently dedicated to traditional IT responsibilities — delivering transactions, infrastructure, technology and code — to focus more on facilitating and accelerating collaboration, choreography, orchestration, and the provisioning, management, monitoring and securing of services.

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 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. IT management'

CIO 8

CIO CEO Outsourcing Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

All of these ideas are drastically changing how we organize to accomplish the necessary work, and in turn how we manage those organizational structures and resources. Not only are there new systems, business and delivery models, types of information, technologies, etc., IT management ROA ROI'

CIO 8

CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Twitter reported a loss of $79 million before its IPO, yet it commanded a valuation of $24 billion on its IPO date in 2013. The current financial accounting model fails today’s companies in yet another respect. Companies can disclose these items in the Management discussion and analysis section of their annual report.

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Depreciation IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

in 1999 with the dream of: “changing people’s lives with science and technology” — and then he delivered this in a big way, becoming probably the richest person in China, and the only Chinese member of Forbes ’ “top 12 most powerful entrepreneurs for 2013”. . billion business after two years.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve found that managers who fully embrace a superconsumer strategy learn more from their consumers through increased empathy. These managers are more persuasive at getting buy-in from the leaders in their organization, make better strategic decisions, and achieve more stable, more predictable, and longer-term growth.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. To have the influence to help set business strategy for the company, CMOs need to translate customer insights into terms meaningful to senior leadership.

P&L 10

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

Extend your business model beyond what it once was and into new sectors. The branding does not drive the strategy but instead is a sub-sub-sub set of Big Picture strategy, which must drive all business disciplines. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

Franchising 64

Franchising Budgeting Pryor Consultative 64

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The following highly condensed fictional case study draws on their paper “Anatomy of a Decision Trap in Complex New Product Development Projects” in Academy of Management Journal. Commentaries by project manager Roger Thomas and researcher Kim van Oorschot provide frameworks for understanding the team’s decisions. What went wrong?

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 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. Adapting to change.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

The Google/Alphabet metamorphosis has catapulted Sundar Pichai into one of the highest profile leadership jobs in Silicon Valley. He spent the early phases of his career there as a product manager, working on products such as Toolbar. The old Google had always been a tricky leadership challenge.

CEO 8

CEO Engineering Advertising Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Managers and other business leaders face a dilemma: with increasingly diverse environments to manage and rising stakes to get it right, how do they identify the most effective approach to business strategy and marshal the right thinking and behaviors to conceive and execute it, supported by the appropriate frameworks and tools?

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 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. But to realize this potential, established companies will need to fundamentally revisit their business models and cultures.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Better Place''s model, which had the firm intermediating in real time between utilities and drivers, allowed it to control the battery-charging load that would be placed on the system at any given moment. By May 2013 it had sold fewer than 3,000 vehicles. What Went Wrong? The shallow answer is not enough customers.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

It’s not that the media sets out to be sensationalist; its business model leads it in that direction. ” It explains why firms that have anchored their strategies to content have ceded digital leadership to those that have focused on connections. Thinking that way is tempting, but it misses the mark.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11