Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

The consequence is we tend to focus on short term outcomes and lose sight of larger goals and objectives. Opening your email as soon as you get into the office immediately draws you into an onslaught of short-term problems. Which, of course, negatively impacts performance.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Strategy Covey 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2016

Corporate leaders should hear this as a clarion call that awakened us all to the fact that we can no longer afford the short-sighted luxury of considering decision-making a passive, pristine process. Most of my clients have a list of espoused values (what we say we believe) and a notion of operating values (how things are done around here).

Short-term 50

Short-term Advice Uncertainty Environment 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Boards’ abilities to foster innovation clearly fall short when compared with their other activities. This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. These firms also had higher-rated processes for innovation.

Innovation 10

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

But the strengthening creates a serious challenge for the big American multinationals with large foreign operations. The real problem is that the earnings from their substantial foreign operations are translated back to the home country financials to produce fewer dollars of net profit.

EPS 8

EPS Short-term Cost of Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

These have forced AirBnB, Tesla, and Uber to make costly concessions to their operating practices or to exit certain markets altogether. Lobbying for policy reform isn’t much of an answer, because incumbents generally have the benefit of long-term relationships with government agencies built up over many years.

Licensing 10

Licensing Proposal Retail Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

The company’s more than 80 operating subsidiaries have complete independence and minimal oversight from headquarters, which requires little else besides regular financial statements and the return of excess cash that is not needed to sustain and grow the business. A long-term investment horizon improves operating performance.

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term Supply Chain Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

From a practical perspective, removing the guidance changed nothing in terms of employer responsibilities — the law is still the law. For a deeper look into the distinctions under the Fair Labor Standards Act and the 2015 guidance document ). Hence the issuing of our now-retracted guidance in 2015.

Document 13

Document Insurance Construction Cooper 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

They transfer money away from public treasuries and wage earners to provide a short-term incremental benefit that does nothing to improve the company’s long-term prospects. The $520 billion that companies spent on 2015 stock repurchases alone is enough to pay the average U.S.

Politics 8

Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Our research involved a detailed cross-case analysis of five major corporations operating in Australia over 10 years, from 2005 to 2015. Today, businesses often operate on short-term objectives of profit maximization and shareholder return. We get back to core stuff.”

Goal 8

Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Organizations of all sizes must have the Think Tank.which delineates future operations, including education and training. See training as an investment (short-term and long-term), not to be short-changed. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Every size of business needs training.

Education 50

Education Company Succession Mentor 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

million from 2005 to 2015, a 67 percent jump. To fully enable a new vision of the future, organizations must make changes in five key business areas: Planning and Budgeting If organizations have easy access to—and indeed rely on—external talent, they can tackle new opportunities, experiment more nimbly, and operate in new areas.

Content 9

Content Katz Forrester Budgeting 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In the traditional model of electricity generation, large power plants produce power at a centralized location, which operates at a considerable distance from the points of consumption. electric utilities during 2008-2015—a period in which the decentralized model was in its uncertain, nascent phase. A rare natural experiment.

Company 8

Company Disruptive Innovation Decentralization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

By the time of the Paris climate meeting in 2015, which resulted in the more robust global agreement now supported by every country in the world except the United States, it was clear that we needed to consider a more ambitious target, 1.5°C Set science-based carbon reduction targets for operations. °C (3.8°F)

Efficiency 12

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Innovation at GE was on a roll.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Last year there was significant movement by the financial community to push companies to look harder at climate change in particular, but also at other factors that matter to long-term performance, such as LGBT rights, economic inequality, and boardroom diversity. But have the letters made much of a difference?

Letter 9

Letter Long-term Short-term Diversity 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

The constantly fluctuating number of barrels of crude available from nimble shale operations is a primary driver, but so are the long-term impact of increased fuel efficiency and the fits and starts of the global transition away from fossil fuels on world demand. It makes price movements less extreme but also more difficult to predict.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

This term describes the more difficult aspects of creating value, like new customer experiences, a revised service system, or new business models. Yet Nokia hung on to the Symbian operating system despite knowing its weaknesses in the eyes of the consumer. ” The Ovi Store was discontinued in 2015.

Budgeting 13

Budgeting Innovation Business Model Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

It’s 2015, and by now even latecomers among multinational corporations have decided to include African countries in their emerging market portfolios. Many companies separate their Sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa operations because of strong cultural, economic, and linguistic differences between the two regions.).

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term GDP Contingency Plans 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Activists launched 159 campaigns in 2015 focused on shareholder value maximization, nearly double the 88 that were launched the year before. 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.

Management 8

Management Short-term Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Most cities fall well short of that ideal. metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. Long-term thinking with short-term flexibility. A recent Brookings analysis found that of the 30 U.S.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

To achieve that goal, however, we must innovate not only in terms of science and R&D, but also in how we run our business. One popular activity is the fast session – a short, structured workshop to address a specific problem. Bayer’s mission is “Science for a Better Life.” More than 600 were selected.

Innovation 11

Innovation Company Agility Workshop 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. Many poor business decisions resulted in an accumulation of unsustainable toxic debt.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Yet our research also found that, in the shorter term, these fears may be overblown.

Company 12

Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

We still believe the executives at Tejon Ranch made some mistakes, as did we, but our biggest collective mistake was thinking in terms of threats rather than opportunities. One popular view of activists is that they are short-term, cut-and-run operators who are looking for a quick profit.

CEO 8

CEO Real Estate Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

From 1996 to 2015, the number of publicly traded companies in the United States alone dropped nearly 50%. Leaders were driven by short-term profits and rapid action to flip the organization. Though autonomous, they can improve their operating capabilities and speed up their time to reinvention by learning from each other.

LBO 8

LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

They have to integrate various perspectives and not give algorithms short shrift for lack of understanding them. Balancing the short-term and long-term is a dynamic leadership challenge. Get people aboard through short duration training programs. It may mean spending some time in Silicon Valley to learn.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

CED fuels that fire by selling T-shirts, wristbands, shorts and other clothing featuring motivational and inspirational slogans. Jake : Learning to wear multiple hats while maintaining focus on the long-term. Question : What will 2015 bring for CED and its passionate fan base? However long it takes," he adds.

Entrepreneur 73

Entrepreneur Advice Apparel Audience 73

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. Consider the case of MedStar Health, the largest nongovernment health care provider in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C.,

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

However, studies dating back to Joseph Schumpeter’s coinage of the term “ creative destruction ” suggest that adjustments to technological change may be more episodic. Moreover, the vast majority of this “upskilling” persists through the end of our sample in 2015. production and operatives).

Skills 8

Skills Sample Technology Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

In this new operating environment, I find more and more multinationals looking to new frontier markets for growth while demanding profitability from their emerging-market operations. Additionally, managing corrupt business practices often makes it difficult for MNCs to realize growth potential in the short term.

Marketing 8

Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

For example, by working closely with its 822 sheep farmers during a season of poor Spring weather in 2015 that delayed lamb maturation, Sainsbury’s in the UK was able to extend the lamb season by five weeks. too short, long, big, small or uneven in shape, too red or not red enough, and so on).

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

And despite their relatively short existences, digital platforms such as Uber, Airbnb, Pinterest, and Snapchat are wreaking havoc on traditional businesses. It recently rolled out a short-term car rental product called Express Driv, through which Lyft drivers can rent GM cars. Building in-house is not for the faint of heart.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

In 2015 U.S. The pay ratio is also a misleading statistic because CEOs and workers operate in very different markets, so there is no reason for their pay to be linked — just as a solo singer’s pay bears no relation to a bassist’s pay. The numbers are striking. CEOs earned 335 times the pay of the average worker.

CEO 9

CEO Price Long-term Incentives 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

These types of cuts are applauded as canny, even heroic, by stock markets — despite their damage to the longer-term value-creating capacity of the enterprise. Even worse, they downgrade the human being to a mere resource, no more privileged than others in the design of systems to produce short-term gains for shareholders.

Management 8

Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

On September 29, 2015, Techdirt posted “ You Can Now Turn Off Ads On Techdirt ,” explaining all the reasons why they were granting readers the power to not see ads. According to PageFair and Adobe’s 2015 Global Adblocking Report , “there are now 198 million active adblock users around the world.”

Advertising 8

Advertising CRM Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

A short-lived economic revival followed, helped by international assistance from European countries and multilateral institutions, and high prices for Zimbabwe’s commodity exports. Without its own currency, Zimbabwe relies on USD for over 90% of transactions , but the collapse in exports means money is in short supply.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Home Run Media, a media agency that helped its clients plan and carry out their marketing strategies, had been operating for more than a decade when a key client in the fantasy sports industry began to grow rapidly, thanks in part to Home Run’s work and to a healthy dose of venture capital that was fueling its growth. He wanted out.

Media 9

Media Hammer Software Company 9