Strategy Driven
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
His 2013 book, Strategy: A History, which took 40 years to write, is the best book ever written outlining the entire history of the development of strategy. This is why strategy is the central political art. When a client or manager or CEO asks, What are we doing here folks? Strategy is about the “how.”
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 2, 2016
A company that creates a sustainable competitive advantage, executes well and reinvests to solidify its strategy will find that its share price accurately reflects its value. When CEO Tex Gunning took over in 2013, he spent weeks in depots and on trucks and wrote to every frontline employee asking for input.
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 16, 2016
How well does your organization support the achievement of your business strategy? “Organization,” as we’re using it here, includes all of the required capabilities, resources (including human), and management systems necessary to implement your strategy.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 23, 2016
The ManpowerGroup Contingent Workforce Index of 2013 showed 40% of all ManpowerGroup consulting engagements blended permanent and contingent workers. The disconnect between HR and Procurement often means either choice is suboptimal on its own, so operating managers circumvent both HR and Procurement.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 4, 2014
In 2006, they hired an experienced president to manage their rapidly growing 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. The future looked bright.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 28, 2014
Glass product manager Steve Lee is quoted as saying: Major new consumer tech products are rarely brought out of the lab at this stage of development. Should Google revise its strategy to pursue that opportunity? Still others offer different deciding factors, like whether management is supportive. But ultimately Google is Google.
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. And this transition is much more than a new nameplate on the corner office.
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