In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Jacobs Suchard Directors expected me to run their North American operation as an entrepreneurial enterprise, and as long as the returns were favorable, they assumed I was doing just that. As such they were keen to discuss the ‘hard’ variables – profit margins, efficiencies, headcount, labor climate and strategic initiatives.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 8, 2016

Can nuclear plants be operated competitively in today’s market? Since 2013, utility executives have announced the early retirement of twelve reactors and Wall Street estimates reveal another dozen to be at risk; raising the question: Can nuclear plants be operated competitively in today’s market? Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

In our rush to ‘modernize’ everything and make our enterprises more efficient, we have mistakenly come to believe that information is our most valuable commodity. But a new generation of coordination tools is available, and the innovators of the world are using them. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Who is the world's most innovative company? Last year , number crunchers at Forbes found that Salesforce.com is the company with the highest "Innovation Premium" baked into its stock price. Perhaps a company's ability to innovate doesn't last long. There's no doubt: measuring "innovation" is a fuzzy business.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2013

One can naturally debate any system that seeks to crown the world’s most innovative companies. Forbes’s mathematical approach, which calculates an “Innovation Premium” baked into a stock price, suffers from market capriciousness. Amazon continues to be the world’s best example of a serial business model innovator.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

American business remains the country's most vibrant source of innovation. Government has traditionally looked to business for tools and techniques to help improve productivity and cut costs through greater efficiency. Business strategies focused on process and efficiency won't help the country manage that.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Who is the world's most innovative company? Last year , number crunchers at Forbes found that Salesforce.com is the company with the highest "Innovation Premium" baked into its stock price. Perhaps a company's ability to innovate doesn't last long. There's no doubt: measuring "innovation" is a fuzzy business.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Yet, despite the negative connotations, most companies still operate bureaucratically – insisting employees work inside of increasingly complex structures with processes and procedures designed to standardize or control everything. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

What's striking about Fast Company's 2013 list of the world's 50 most innovative companies is the relative absence of large, established firms. It's not surprising that younger entrepreneurial firms are considered more innovative. So why doesn't innovation thrive in mature organizations?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Tight cultures have an efficient orderliness and reassuring predictability, but are less adaptable. Rooted firmly in the manufacturing industry, Amazon has defined processes to maximize its efficiency. Employees operate within a hierarchy and are well aware of the guidelines that dictate their behavior.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

This was Sasha’s summary: Department Administrator – Efficiency Expert – Staff Manager - Crisis Handler. Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards. Equally adept at managing people and operations. Expand from U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

This is very different from the way large businesses have operated for decades. Only a small percentage came up with anything that was truly innovative. Until now, the goal has been to standardize and optimize transactions among these components to reduce costs and achieve efficiency. Most of these benefits have been achieved.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations. Writing about your company, products, services, or industry will help you to formalize and organize your thinking, which could spur innovative ideas or content for other aspects of your business.

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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. But the savings go beyond efficiency. The service gives drivers confidence, and that’s important for a driver who operates alone, often hundreds of miles from home.

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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. But the savings go beyond efficiency. The service gives drivers confidence, and that’s important for a driver who operates alone, often hundreds of miles from home.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. While cars have been getting smarter and smarter, the removal of human operators is what will dramatically change the law.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. product pricing, operational efficiency, customer service, etc.). Someone else designed an experiment to get a plant operation down to zero accidents.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Business model innovation is hard. There is another way to make money from business model innovation. To many people, this kind of change doesn’t feel like it’s real business model innovation. For over a century, General Electric has had a focus on product innovation as a key driver of growth. Why is that?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

This week, Microsoft is announcing an unusual initiative that it hopes will change how the company operates: an internal fee on carbon. The offsets become a tool, a last resort to be avoided, and both energy efficiency and using renewable energy (onsite or directly purchased) become the paths of least resistance and cost.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

Almost 80 years ago, Ronald Coase won the Nobel Prize in Economics for an essay that suggested that we do this for the sake of scalable efficiency — it costs less to coordinate activity within a firm than across independent entities. Business education Disruptive innovation Managing uncertainty'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Demand is predicted to expand by as much as 40% in 2013. It's no secret that the efficiency-driven modern office is a joyless and at best neutral venue in most people's lives. They foster innovation. And for good reason. They make starting a business simpler.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

years in 2013 from 60.3 First, with the rise of the digital economy, we are entering a new era of managerial innovation with both opportunities and major risks. This means they will need to more fully understand how digitization impacts the company’s business model and the part of the value chain that it operates in.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Since 2013, an estimated 16.4 This reduction will affect all of our operations, including staffing, customer service, outreach, and marketing. Both the FFM and the SBMs have had to overcome major operational hurdles. Fostering innovation. The average credit was $270 per month. Burwell, the U.S. Fewer uninsured people.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

The next evolution in digital advertising must be driven by innovative platforms that more effectively help marketers move their businesses forward. Technology will only be able to deliver on its promise of moving TV dollars online if it creates greater process efficiencies, drives more commerce, and enables deeper engagement with consumers.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

However, in recent years a parallel explosion of digital tools and services has taken place in the manufacturing realm as well, drawing in computer-assisted design and 3D printing equipment to open-source operating systems, the cloud, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Second, a number of important inputs have gotten cheaper.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Choosing weaker environmental regulations actually makes our country less competitive and shows amazingly little faith in our business community to innovate. Granted, the fiscal logic for stricter pollution standards doesn't seem as clear as the cost-saving potential of energy efficiency standards such as those for light bulbs and cars. (Of

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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. Policy can help through measures like capital access programs, business accelerators, or tax incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

To be fair to the CIO, CEOs have created this problem by emphasizing efficiency and cost-cutting over value creation. It is clear that CIOs must lead their organization in discovering and then providing balance between efficiency and efficacy. Gary Hamel maintains that the key to future success is management innovation.

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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. Toys become total ecosystems of innovation, collaboration and adaptation. Many of our assumptions about what motivates and dissuades people are wrong-especially when knowledge, creativity and innovation are desired.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Some parts of the agenda — eco-efficiency and resource conservation for example — are widely accepted now, and it's rare to find a big-company CEO who doesn't have sustainability on his or her radar. Sustainability innovation opens up: Unilever, Heineken, and EMC ask the world for help. In reality, both views were right.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% From 1993 to 2013 the cattle herd in the Brazilian Amazon rain forest — covering most of country’s northern region — expanded by nearly 200%, to more than 60 million head.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

For the sake of argument, let’s put aside the easy environmental wins that pencil out in any ROI calculation: energy efficiency and the increasingly common no-money-down renewables options (using “power purchasing agreements” to lease your roof and pay the solar provider the same, or less, than you currently pay per kilowatt-hour).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

For example, its accountable-care-organization partnership with Bellin Health, a health care system in Green Bay, Wisconsin, presently has the lowest cost per Medicare beneficiary among 32 pioneer ACOs, and the ThedaCare Physicians group was ranked first in quality performance statewide in 2013 by Consumer Reports. Health Operations'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Although the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Bill of 2013 — introduced four weeks ago by a bipartisan group of eight U.S. For some time now, it has been obvious that these companies will have to go beyond the offshoring model that served them well in the past and develop innovative new ones.

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