Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

IT management risks losing control over enterprise technologies because in a fast-paced business world, teams — unwilling to wait for IT to rollout official solutions — solve their own needs quickly by resorting to cloud-based, consumer tools to manage projects and share information.

Company 8

Company ROI Resistance Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency. This role is common in technology, engineering, and life sciences companies, where domain expertise in narrow and arcane areas can be crucial to market success. Essential Experts.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Roughly 80% of individuals and families who bought their health insurance through an SBM or FFM in 2014 received a tax credit to defray the cost of premiums and out-of-pocket expenses. This reduction will affect all of our operations, including staffing, customer service, outreach, and marketing. Technological challenges.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Social life and the operation of organizations increasingly leave more or less permanent data traces, like the contrails left by jets. Meanwhile, information technologies increasingly turn the tasks of management (measuring and rewarding performance, scheduling) over to algorithms. at the end of 2014.

Management 8

Management Retail Construction Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Activist investors who expect to raise returns by influencing strategic decisions are having a meaningful impact on many industries from consumer-packaged goods to aerospace and defense. And the odds that your company, or industry, may find itself targeted by an activist are going up.

Management 8

Management Short-term Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

The transition to a global digital economy in 2014 was sporadic – brisk in some countries, choppy in others. This is happening in a country where online vendors largely operate on a cash-on-delivery (COD) basis. By year’s end, the seven biggest emerging markets were larger than the G7 , in purchasing power parity terms.

Constraint 8

Constraint Marketing Innovation Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Over the last decade, most companies’ digital agendas have focused largely on technology — moving to cloud-based software, modernizing IT infrastructures, adding digital channels, and digitizing business processes. This is a break from the traditional paths of finance, sales, and operations to the top spot.

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Span of Control Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

The results of the 2014 survey — to which 89 U.S.-based production of cheap natural gas (using new fracking technology). Cheap sensors, fast computing, and new technologies have led to new user-friendly manufacturing automation that increases productivity. While 33.6% based companies and 33 non-U.S.-based Labor costs.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Survey Price Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

And alongside the country’s bad debt (some estimates say it is $40 billion ), sanctions were commonly evaded through money laundering , which discouraged foreign banks from operating locally. Some powerful Iranian institutions are highly suspicious of Western influence. This dynamic can stall important change (e.g.,

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

As McGrath and MacMillan explained in a 2014 article, the idea started in the mid-1990s while reviewing the projects Rita tracks in her “flops” file — her collection of failed growth projects that had lost their parent company at least $50 million. ” Step 3: Define operational requirements. .

Planning 9

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

We’ve got the latest technology. Not engaging in planning for future operations: So what are you gonna do about it? Our company has got the most up to date technology. Companies spend disproportionate amounts of money on technology and neglect their people, processes and policies. They know what they’re doing.

Budgeting 75

Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 75

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

In 2014, it opened an online warehouse store on Tmall Global, Alibaba’s cross-border e-commerce channel. That move helped it take advantage of a special government program that allows retailers to sell specific goods (with favorable tax status) without being granted a license to operate in China. ” Mr.

Retail 8

Retail Marketing Supply Chain Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Technology has forced music artists to completely rethink the way they approach their businesses. They’re extending their brand into areas like technology, gaming, fashion, and lifestyle content — essentially becoming entertainment platforms. .” We’ve all had to adapt. Photo by Lorenzo Errico.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Tata Consultancy Services, the India-based information technology (IT) services and solutions company, operates in an environment it can neither predict nor change. A firm can be the first to apply a new technology or to identify and address a major source of customer dissatisfaction or a latent need.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

Few of these rules were made with computing, or even technology, in mind. Private investors, unlike government funders, operate at lightning speed. Differential capital gains rates – The tax rate for capital gains versus ordinary income is often cited as the most important influence on the flow of venture capital.

Policies 8

Policies Offshoring Engineering Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

-China Business Council report that they anticipate double-digit revenue expansion in China, when the study was done in 2014. Another 70% report that their China operations are performing better or the same as their global operations. technology and communications companies. tech firms that do have enormous challenges.

Banking 8

Banking Development Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

In the 1990s it subsidized venture capital, incubators, university R&D, and technology transfer programs. In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 After all, Israeli entrepreneurs are known to be tenacious and eager to tackle complex technological and entrepreneurial challenges. billion in 2013.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8