Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

I remember well when the idea of applying complexity science to management was first being eagerly discussed in the 1990s. Gallen had developed a management model based on systems thinking. Managers'' eyes were opened to the reality that organizations are not just complicated but complex.

Management 9

Management Short-term System Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Even more important, it takes management time to align all teams, including those of the acquired businesses, to the transformation initiative. During the past two decades it has transformed into a provider of electrical, hydraulic, and mechanical power management solutions. Change management Mergers & Acquisitions'

Company 11

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

In April 2013, over 1,100 workers died in Bangladesh when a garment factory complex called Rana Plaza collapsed. That’s the discussion I moderated on November 18, 2013, at the Boston Global Forum. Moreover, Rana Plaza is the tip of an iceberg. Are workers in that country or other emerging markets any safer today?

Retail 8

Retail Globalization Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In fact, MGI analysis of financial data shows that large publicly traded US manufacturing firms, most of them multinationals with revenues greater than $500 million, averaged returns on invested capital of 22% from 1997 to 2013. But now the situation has reached such a tipping point that larger U.S. manufacturers are taking notice.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 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

AUGUST 5, 2015

To determine the best approach to using ICT for development (or ICT4D, as it’s sometimes called), Huawei recently interviewed 150 telecom operators, government bodies, regulators, NGOs, and social enterprises in 11 countries. This approach consigns many ICT4D projects and tech startups alike to failure.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Project System 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. Yet how do you actually do it, when life and livelihood generally depend on operating inside a box? Thinking about the future, here’s a final reading tip. Managing uncertainty Strategy The Future of Management'

Groupthink 9

Groupthink Emotional Intelligence Learning-by-Doing Hedge 9

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. Many organizations are approaching the tipping point being described in this series of blogs. IT management ROA ROI'

CIO 8

CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

Managers at companies like General Motors, Sears, and Eastman Kodak simply didn't have the tools to spot and respond to would-be disruptors. What disruptive innovations are set to take similarly big strides in 2013? A generation ago, incumbents that struggled to respond to disruptive innovations had an excuse. 3-D printing.

Trends 8

Trends Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

A GreenBiz report indicated that progress had slowed or even regressed, but MIT and BCG also declared that sustainability had reached a "tipping point" with more companies putting sustainability "on the management agenda.". Five Questions For 2013. In reality, both views were right. economy commodity prices have become.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10