Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Today most organizations are data-driven to one degree or another. Between 2013 and 2015 cyber-crime costs quadrupled, with the reported incidence rate growing exponentially. Had the Delta ground stop lasted for a week, the burn rate would go well beyond refunds, travel vouchers, and other costs and begin eroding EvD.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Intellectual Capital Corporate Accountability Activity Based Costing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. Separate the transformation or innovation team from the traditional part of the organization.

Politics 9

Politics Chief Information Officer Tourism Environment 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

This is very different from the way large businesses have operated for decades. Originally, business consisted of neighbors exchanging the products of their labors, dedicated craftsmen travelling from town to town, and localized general stores. What does it mean to operate in a digital business ecosystem? This is not a new idea.

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. Trends are a way of seeing and interpreting our current reality, providing a useful framework to organize our thinking, especially when we’re hunting for the unknown.

Trends 8

Trends Film Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Richard Branson, who is also a Planetary Resources investor, is already selling tickets for space-travel on Virgin Galactic’s commercial spacecraft, and he’s competing with the dreams of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin , and Elon Musk’s SpaceX. For those operating in China, this is, indeed, a quandary.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2015

.” Specific technical skills are getting increasingly easy to measure, so employers focus instead on assessing whether a candidate understands the context in which the business is operating, will be highly motivated on the job, and will get along with the rest of the team.

Software 8

Software Engineering Incentives CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

These managers are more persuasive at getting buy-in from the leaders in their organization, make better strategic decisions, and achieve more stable, more predictable, and longer-term growth. Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. It’s not for everyone.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Any company or organization is like a tree. Every organization and community in America is presently at a crossroads. Or, the organization can bury its head in the sand and hope media attention dies down… thus becoming a generic tagline for troubled communities. by Hank Moore. Therefore, it does not fully grow and bloom.

Crisis 59

Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 59

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

But by the 1990s it had run aground: It hadn’t properly developed systems to implement its growth strategy internally, and so that strategy broke down at dozens of points of execution on the front line—with customers, crew, staff on the shore and the company’s travel agent partners. But this only compounded the chaos.

Company 9

Company IPO Price Loyalty 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating. The challenges facing NASA.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

billion capital investment, the biggest in the organization’s history. We conducted site visits to health care organizations around the country using the products we were considering. Before I left Partners to join the Commonwealth Fund in 2013, we had chosen the EHR and begun the rollout of the new IT infrastructure.

System 8

System Skills Health Care Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

more global travel and larger immigrant communities). In their October 2013 HBR article on diaspora marketing, Nirmalya Kumar and Jan-Benedict E.M. Emerging market companies and institutions can also have community engagement managers who organize local diaspora meetups and act as information liaisons between both sides.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Metrics Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. An advertising-based model.

Media 10

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Traveling and living abroad seems to broaden individuals’ perspectives while also improving creativity. Both in terms of operations and organization, this is certainly responsive to a more protectionist environment. Going forward, we will localize… We will produce for the U.S. in the U.S., Perhaps U.S. Perhaps U.S.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8