Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

If innovation is a key strategic priority, does your organizational structure enable creative collaboration, risk-taking, and knowledge sharing? To maintain strategic alignment, a company’s people, culture, structure and processes have to flex and change as the strategy itself shifts.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Indeed, the company eventually announced its strategy to venture massively into cloud computing. We did this by measuring the entrepreneurial strategic focus stated in the annual letters to shareholders of S&P 500 firms between 2000 and 2013. Leadership is changing — fast. Insight Center. The 21st-Century CEO.

CEO 8

CEO Letter Retail Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

During those nine months, Cellairis’ leadership had been distracted from their core business. Cellairis had tinkered with its core strategy, one that had been working beautifully, and it had turned ugly. System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. After nine months, AMP’d filed for bankruptcy.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

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. Define Your Strategy. Gary Hamel maintains that the key to future success is management innovation.

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

As CEO fit decreased, Ballmer’s performance followed and he was pressured out of the job in late 2013. But with the infrastructure and discipline in place, the company needed a leader who could drive innovation-based growth. Boards Leadership Strategy' Ballmer took over, and excelled at, a Box 2 challenge.

Strategic Fit 8

Strategic Fit Rogers CEO Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

For finishers, he will have to change its treads—redirect its strategy—while barreling down a highway with no map for what lies ahead. Or consider managed-health care provider Humana’s decision in 2013 to recruit an outsider as its next chief executive. Leadership Microsoft Succession planning'

CEO 8

CEO Bottom-up Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

While every other player in the electric car space was focused on innovating individual pieces — vehicles, batteries, charge spots — Better Place''s strategy was unique in innovating the larger puzzle to deliver an affordable drive-anywhere, anytime solution. By May 2013 it had sold fewer than 3,000 vehicles.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8