CEO Insider

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Fractional Chief Financial Officers (CFO) are in high demand these days. A fractional CFO is a highly qualified business finance professional that your company can hire on a part-time basis.

Finance 98

Finance Chief Financial Officer Trends CFO 98

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I also argued in my last post that the CEO has a critical and unique role to play in process improvement, enabling a companys activities to be redesigned across functions and divisions. If the CEO doesnt play this role, process improvement stays comfortably within functional boundaries. He wasnt a process manager.

Process 15

Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

Eight companies (including IBM, Pepsico, Lockheed Martin and General Motors) have a woman CEO. My gender consultancy firm, 20-First, has just published its annual Gender Balance Scorecard ( pdf ) of the top 300 companies in the world across the US, Europe and Asia. None have a female CEO. Sixty percent of the top U.S.

Execution 12

Execution Committee Balanced Scorecard Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Town hall meetings are organized, employees are told to change their behavior, balanced scorecards are reformulated, and budgets are set aside to support initiatives that fit the new strategy. Under the new CEO, Frank Martin, the company decided to change course and focus on collectors and hobbyists instead.

Strategy 15

Strategy Bottom-up Balanced Scorecard Resistance 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

The problem, as I described in my last post , is that six things militate against success in the role: The management team's attention shifts to other priorities. Make the role permanent and incorporate it into overall performance management. Incorporate these measures into the company's "balanced scorecard" or dashboard.

Process 15

Process Supply Chain Balanced Scorecard Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

When I was CEO of Campbell Soup Company, we used a balanced scorecard to create an explicit understanding of each employee in terms of what they were expected to accomplish, including financial objectives, market share objectives and key project objectives. Leave it up to them to smartly manage and execute in the moment.

Mission Statement 16

Mission Statement Balanced Scorecard Objective Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Many of them want to share responsibility in how the hospital is managed. Take Silver Cross’s joint operating committee with RIC, which convenes on a quarterly basis to review Balanced Scorecard metrics on quality of care, patient experience, volume, and efficiency. This arrangement is precise and transparent.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

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Guidelines 14

Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

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Airlines 14

Airlines Report Guidelines Discount 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

Consumers expect consistent products; people appreciate consistent management. And the most-successful managers must change similarly as they assume additional or different responsibilities through their careers, moving from head of sales to COO or from CFO to CEO. They are diligent and possess resilience and grit.

Agility 15

Agility Balanced Scorecard COO CFO 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation.

Management 9

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2011

That's true partly because so many organizations are still organized around functional silos, which are managed to optimize their own performance rather than to deliver value to customers. Then there's a third killer of continuous improvement: the performance management system. Mickey Drexler, CEO of J.

Balanced Scorecard 15

Balanced Scorecard Short-term Competitive Advantage Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

Every year, 20-first's Global Gender Balance Scorecard looks at a single measure of progress: the gender balance of the Executive Committee of the TOP 100 companies in three key regions of the globe. And then there's Anglo-American, whose CEO is a woman, Cynthia Carrol. Let's look at the evidence.

Industry 9

Industry Balanced Scorecard Committee Survey 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2014

.” We need better, more specific data – not just aggregate statistics on whether companies have any women in management, or a certain percentage of female employees. Such broad datasets obscure the important question of how many companies manage to balance their senior leadership teams, and by how much.

Company 9

Company Balanced Scorecard Report Metrics 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Yet they don't work, and their repeated application makes many managers incredibly gender fatigued and frustrated. There are only two genders, so you can't have a diversity of them; your organization is either balanced or imbalanced. This isn't balance, it's just Mad Men, repainted. Problem 1: Calling it Diversity.

Diversity 8

Diversity Balanced Scorecard P&L Committee 8