Strategy Driven

AUGUST 21, 2017

Despite Google Docs being a free-to-use cloud application, many people fail to realise the full potential of a cloud-based office productivity suite: collaboration. No matter what operating system or type of device you use, there’s a good chance that the software you use can actually be used across multiple different platforms.

Software 50

Software Asset Management Fixed Assets Document 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Perhaps the technology team want to spend more time developing an upgrade to your product, but the finance team insist the money is better spent elsewhere. For example, one senior VP of HR at Adobe eliminated the need for employees to produce performance reports, allowing them to devote their time to something more productive instead.

Company 50

Company Software Asset Management Long-term 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

But the startup could not keep pace with the development and scale of established battery makers, and production defects led to a $55 million recall in 2012 and contributed to the company’s bankruptcy later that year. and shifts its local focus to engineering and testing. Much of corporate venturing today is fragmented and ad hoc.

Innovation 12

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

With the EU’s passage of the Circular Economy Package in April, many European companies are now facing mandates to reuse the products they create for as long as possible. We are academics and practitioners focused on product recovery economics and life cycle asset management. HBR Staff/Caspar Benson/Getty Images.

Policies 8

Policies Asset Management Cost Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. By banding together, firms in an industry can make life harder for free riders who seek to act less responsibly.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. BPM reflected the interactions of different stakeholders, from product creation through supply chain to final assembly.

Management 11

Management Software BPM Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

We focus on economic profit rather than revenue size, market share, or productivity growth because these other metrics risk including firms that are simply large and may not create economic value. Productivity can help; but it is not enough to achieve superstardom. The link between superstar firms, sectors, and cities is complex.

Industry 11

Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

Agricultural cooperatives Land O’Lakes and Ocean Spray have become major players in dairy production and fruit farming, earning hundreds of millions in annual revenue. The biggest difference is that workers have an important say in who manages them and how profits align with values. Already, U.S.

ESOP 11

ESOP Company Cooper IAM 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. Don''t get us wrong. Trust reached an all-time low of 24 percent in 2011, down from 69 percent in 2008.".

Banking 8

Banking Licensing Finance Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Customers overwhelmingly prefer products tied to a social cause. In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. Through a well-structured operating process, partners expand and align their efforts and draw on comparative strengths.

Company 9

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Starting in the 1970s, the country's ability to create low-cost, quality products helped them dominate key industries, such as automobiles, telecommunications, and consumer electronics. As Fujio Ando, senior managing director at Chibagin Asset Management suggests, "Japan's consumer electronics industry is facing defeat.

Six Sigma 16

Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2018

Citing a substantial body of expert research, the letter stated, “We believe there is a clear need for Apple to offer parents more choices and tools to help them ensure that young consumers are using your products in an optimal manner.” A main explanation is that, as always, they are following the money.

Hedge 8

Hedge Long-term Short-term Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2017

In many parts of the world, the increased operational and infrastructure costs are simply passed on to consumers. Its managerial team first formed a working group of personnel from business units across the organization — from retail and asset management to planning and maintenance crews. As one U.S.

Industry 8

Industry Supply Chain Incentives Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

Recently, my colleagues at the Focus Consulting Group and I surveyed more than 100 asset management firms around the world, testing both for the strength of their cultures and for the effectiveness of their leadership teams. Perhaps they believe better decisions result from productive collaboration.

Teamwork 13

Teamwork Industry Management Asset Management 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point. Although long ignored, these middle management positions have become increasingly recognized as critical to executing a company’s strategy.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Many universities manage billions in research funding, but there is usually no R&D budget for their own product, namely delivering education to willing buyers. Presidents and provosts will tell you: operating budgets are tight. Institutions have been raising tuition just to keep the lights on.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Morgan Asset Management’s Head of Diversity Gordon Cooper told me his firm is now introducing a Legal ReEntry Program. (In The OnRamp Fellowship operates on a different model. As one hiring manager commented “I wish I could hire everyone this way.” And last week J.P. All of the programs are paid.

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Cooper Gordon Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

In June, the New York Times declared a warming world hostile to food production. The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. The extreme weather seriously disrupted coal production , one of the most important economic engines in the country. business continuity").

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

You must slash the price of your product or service by 50%. I recently employed this principle with a large asset management firm. Beside each operator was a large pile of partially assembled furniture. Don''t constrain your thinking to improving only products or services. Look for unorthodox opportunities.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Hotels B2C Price 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

It may seem counterintuitive, but smart companies need to routinely rid themselves of less profitable customers, the same way an asset manager or rebalances an investment portfolio or a Major League Baseball general manager trades a declining player. selling costs, product returns, customer support).

P&L 14

P&L Supply Chain Retail Price 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

I was meeting with a client last week, the CEO of a global asset management firm. Robert Cialdini’s research on commitment and consistency shows that if we publicly commit to a goal we are more likely to honor it because it becomes part of our identity and we dislike operating in ways that contradict that identity.

Organization 8

Organization How To Cialdini Schein 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

And on the resource constraint front, Jeremy Grantham , co-founder of the asset management firm GMO ($100 billion invested), continued his relentless numbers-based assault on the fallacy of infinite resources. And nowhere is good data needed more than in the onerous and expensive task of calculating a product's lifecycle footprint.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 9