Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Innovation begins with management; by fostering a culture that prioritizes innovation, creativity is incentivized among team members. Customer centricity as a strategy reorients the entire business-operating model around the customer; it means understanding the customer’s point of view and respecting the customer’s interest.

Organization 58

Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 58

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Them” were the majority of managers who didn’t get what design was all about in the first place. And with good reason: From Target to Uber, business managers everywhere are starting to understand that the strategic use of design is making a difference in achieving outsized business results.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

The approach was so novel that Time magazine featured Weaver on its cover in November 1938, reporting that his research led to 185 vehicle improvements, ranging from longer bumpers and rubber-padded pedals to air conditioning and the partial elimination of running boards. Keep it simple. Keep it simple.

Media 8

Media Automotive Globalization Active Listening 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

This is very different from the way large businesses have operated for decades. The role of management can be broadly thought of as the processes that tie these components together to produce value. What does it mean to operate in a digital business ecosystem? Most of these benefits have been achieved.

CIO 8

CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

” In order to chart the best way forward, you must understand emerging trends: what they are, what they aren’t, and how they operate. My 2016 trends offer early warnings and opportunities for managers in all industries. HR managers can use bots to train employees. Here are eight to note for 2016.

Trends 8

Trends Film Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

CIOs will need to free up time and resources currently dedicated to traditional IT responsibilities — delivering transactions, infrastructure, technology and code — to focus more on facilitating and accelerating collaboration, choreography, orchestration, and the provisioning, management, monitoring and securing of services.

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Also see psychologist Maria Konnikova’s 2013 Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes. I also recommend the essay “The Power of Patience” in the current issue of Harvard Magazine. Yet how do you actually do it, when life and livelihood generally depend on operating inside a box? We all prize it.

Groupthink 9

Groupthink Emotional Intelligence Learning-by-Doing Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

What would it look like if managers were as polite and nurturing to one another and their subordinates as they are to customers? So we propose a three-step solution to properly value the office tending work that lubricates its operations: identify it; understand its impact; and find ways to assign it value. Identify the tending work.

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Attrition Absenteeism Social Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

The nature of the workforce and management is shifting. Management is trying to adapt to these new realities of the workforce. Future successful enterprises will be socially enabled, and they will operate as digital business ecosystems--very different from contemporary hierarchical, fixed, integrated, transactional structures of today.

CIO 8

CIO CEO Outsourcing Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

This means that transactional systems that ensured security, encouraged conformance and drove operational goals of predictability and productivity lose value to new systems of collaboration, transparency and agility. IT management ROA ROI'

CIO 8

CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), late 2015 was the most difficult hiring period in four years. ” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology. Generate and nurture your own talent channels.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

” As the story goes, the concept was so counterintuitive that readers thought the magazine had made a huge typo; surely, it had gotten things backwards. In 2013, for instance, Buttigieg called for staffers in just 1,000 days to address, through rehabilitation or demolition, 1,000 vacant and abandoned properties blighting the city.

Drucker 8

Drucker Katz Innovation Learning-by-Doing 8