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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Long-term Download CEO Objective 100

Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2013

. “Utility leaders must find cost effective ways to replace aging assets, transfer knowledge to a new generation of workers, release currently unavailable capital, and optimize strategic operations and maintenance programs,” explains Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven’s Chief Executive Officer. Project development and management.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. It’s critical to encourage leaders to embark on an ongoing journey that develops a capacity to lead others effectively, efficiently, and for years to come. A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Senior industry leader adds hands-on management and operational experience to StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities focused advisory services. At StrategyDriven, we’re proud to be working with industry leaders to address these challenges and adapt their organizations so they continue to operate safely, reliably, and efficiently.”.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 20, 2013

While workplaces are swiftly becoming more and more advanced in cloud computing, using social media for marketing purposes, and generally becoming au fait with modern technology, there is one area which is sadly lacking when it comes to technological advancement. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Succession Talent Management Software Human Resources 64

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. into multiple global markets. Expand from U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

These relationships can create efficient new sales channels and powerful feedback mechanisms or unlock entirely new business models. Alternatively, the company can operate in stealth mode by targeting customer segments that have been poorly served or ignored by traditional distributors. market for personal computers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

and scale up after its recent declines in sales and market share. 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. Loose cultures are much more fluid.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints.

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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

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 22, 2015

We need dramatic improvements in energy and water efficiency, and massive rollouts of renewable energy and clean transportation technologies. Yes, data helps us dematerialize and find efficiencies in all aspects of our economy. Sustainability Data Operations' But even the cloud has a very real and physical basis.

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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. But now the situation has reached such a tipping point that larger U.S. manufacturers are taking notice.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

This is very different from the way large businesses have operated for decades. Until now, the goal has been to standardize and optimize transactions among these components to reduce costs and achieve efficiency. What does it mean to operate in a digital business ecosystem? Most of these benefits have been achieved.

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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% of the world market, and the second-largest beef producer and consumer. of revenues) and $13 million to $62 million (0.01% to 0.7% of revenues). million (0.01% to 0.6%

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Since 2013, an estimated 16.4 California’s model is perhaps the most influential: It has affected prices and choice in the market by standardizing plans and aggressively negotiating insurance rates. This reduction will affect all of our operations, including staffing, customer service, outreach, and marketing.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Using advanced analytics, GE can provide real time information to improve efficiency, increase productivity, and schedule more effective preventive maintenance. GE is moving to an outcome-based economic model, bringing the company closer to its customers’ operations. Monetizing Digital Assets. Thus, in 2012, Luminar was born.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2014

In his article “ Why Conglomerates Thrive (Outside the U.S.) ” in the December 2013 issue of the Harvard Business Review , J. In our opinion, which of the two is the more successful depends on the context in which the business operates. Quite a respectable performance for a company operating in a fairly mature industry.

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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). Other contractors have also begun to engage, seeing real market value.

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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. Finding other enterprises that can add value to my value (and vice versa) is the key to responsiveness, individualization, and meeting the market''s needs in the moment. A focus on customers. Structural changes.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit. In comparison to larger firms, small businesses are less well equipped to efficiently navigate the loan process  in economic parlance, their search costs are higher.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. There is tons of evidence, much of it compiled by the formulator of the efficient market hypothesis, Eugene Fama , that value investing works.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Booth and Banks each invested $20,000 to start a company that could ship heavy home-improvement products more efficiently. Sales doubled in 2013. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days. BuildDirect was founded in 1999 by CEO Jeff Booth with his good friend Rob Banks. The average order size is 1,500 pounds.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

But I''ve just finished work on a new book with Paul Nunes on the new age of disruptive innovation (based on our March 2013 HBR article, " Big Bang Disruption "). The earlier essay, "The Nature of the Firm," is justly famous for its introduction to economic literature of the concept of market friction, or what Coase called "transaction costs."

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Cost Open-book Disruptive Innovation Conference 8

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. Only 46 percent of CEOs think their CIOs understand the business. IT management'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform. And the market for software talent was hot hot hot. ” To hit the aggressive growth targets (750 by the end of 2013 and 1000 by November 2014) Waldo had to rewrite some GE rules.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

As we transform from industrial work more easily and efficiently done by robots to creative and knowledge work leveraging humans, we are balancing the values of scale and efficiency (industrial work) with the need for agility and efficacy ( creative and knowledge work ). IT management ROA ROI'

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

For many years, we will be measuring how loss of corporate credibility has tainted all facets of business, in terms of remediation, replacement, litigation, make-good, rework, damage control, recovery process, settlements to victims, decreased stock market value and sagging retail sales. Rebuilding the community image. About the Author.

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Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 61

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

In the meantime, retail and wholesale markets have stalled around the country. billion annually in currency operations costs. The disruptive action did not originate in a small segment of the market; it was launched nationwide. Supply chain transactions, real estate deals, and even weddings and funerals have been frozen.

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Banking Cost Policies Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Forbes’s mathematical approach, which calculates an “Innovation Premium” baked into a stock price, suffers from market capriciousness. Both trace their success to bringing new business models to their respective markets. Its core e-retailing model, with its hyper-efficient supply chain, turned the retail world on its head.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Return on equity (net income divided by equity) results from multiplying three key operating ratios: Profitability (net income over sales). Operating efficiency (sales over assets). Investment efficiency (ideas explored divided by total capital and operational investment). Financial leverage (assets over equity).

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Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Return on equity (net income divided by equity) results from multiplying three key operating ratios: Profitability (net income over sales). Operating efficiency (sales over assets). Investment efficiency (ideas explored divided by total capital and operational investment). Financial leverage (assets over equity).

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Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

People are accessing, consuming, and sharing content in more varied ways than ever, and marketers have scores of new opportunities to understand, reach, and engage with consumers. The next evolution in digital advertising must be driven by innovative platforms that more effectively help marketers move their businesses forward.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Oil and Gas subsea operators across the world are adopting a GE Industrial Internet technology developed in Norway. Taken together, they will tell you what the efficiency is.” The Condition Monitoring system is already working at some 130 sites in the North Sea operated by Statoil, ENI, and Shell, and off the coast of Africa.

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