Harvard Business Review
MAY 16, 2016
Using the same 1 – 100 scale ask yourself: How well does our organization support the achievement of our strategy? If your organization is incapable of delivering its strategy, the strategy is effectively worthless and your company’s purpose will go more or less unfulfilled.
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.
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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.
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'
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 20, 2015
The Canada expansion was announced in January 2013 when Target bought the 220 leases of Zellers, a declining and now defunct Canadian discount chain, from Hudson’s Bay. Crew, Michael Kors, Louis Vuitton, Galeries Lafayette) or cost/price leadership (Wal-Mart, Amazon, IKEA, Aldi, H&M, Zara, Uniqlo).
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. Fit is particularly important for senior executives since the research on this topic shows a direct link between an organization’s performance and the level of alignment between its strategy and the profile of top managers.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 6, 2013
Define Your Strategy. CIOs need to develop an affirmative IT strategy that begins by identifying old behaviors to give up, new behaviors to adopt, and remaining behaviors to do differently. To that end, the role of the CIO must be strategic instead of tactical. This means a lot of change for enterprise IT organizations.
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