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. To that end, the role of the CIO must be strategic instead of tactical.

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

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.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

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

MARCH 12, 2014

However, by the middle of the decade, Google was growing, YouTube was forming, and “operational excellence” wasn’t a differentiating strategy in technology. As CEO fit decreased, Ballmer’s performance followed and he was pressured out of the job in late 2013. Boards Leadership Strategy'

Strategic Fit 8

Strategic Fit Rogers CEO Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Better Place''s most visible and best-publicized innovation was its switchable battery technology, a novel way to overcome the short-range limits and long recharge times dictated by existing battery technology. EV advocates are quick to note that technology improvements in batteries will one day eliminate the range problem.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8