Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

When the CEO of GE announces that it will become a digital industrial enterprise and the CEO of Citigroup says it will become the world’s leading digital bank , you know that a new strategic priority is sweeping the corporate world. It used to be “What’s your IT strategy?”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

In managing the fallout from BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster in 2010, company Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg had to take over from CEO Tony Hayward, whose gaffes and public blaming of partners had only exacerbated the crisis. Take the case of BP. born BP veteran Bob Dudley as CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

For over 50 years, Wal-Mart has pursued essentially the same strategy of “offering the lowest price so its customer can live better.” Wells Fargo has become the most valuable bank in the world by sticking to its strategy of building a value proposition around selling more products per customer than anyone else. Or consider U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

One typical reason is that top executives haven’t managed to clarify something even more fundamental: how much priority they place on increasing profit margins. The challenge for executives is, of course, to manage their conflicting goals, or so-called trade-offs. Why is it that? That might sound strange.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The consumer banking industry is notoriously difficult to enter, not least because most customers rarely switch banks. In some countries, people change spouses more often than they change banks. It has now become the largest bank in the country. These areas were underserved by the traditional banks.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

The original IT department was formed to centralize a unique expertise that could purchase, implement, and manage technology in the enterprise. Only the largest of enterprises could afford the best technologies, and even for those with the largest bank accounts, IT strategies were limited to basics like CRM , ERP , or email.

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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. But first they need to get management of a company to change the existing strategy.

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Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

The public and private sectors need to work together to protect critical assets with confidence and trust — helping manage the risks we know, and getting ahead of those we don''t. Critical industry sectors from energy and banking to transportation and health care answer to different government agencies or regulators.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Nestlé announced plans to cut its staff in some central African countries, while Barclays’s new CEO is considering selling off the bank’s Africa assets. The continent’s long-term potential remains attractive, but a company’s success in the current environment will depend on its strategy.

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GDP Politics Marketing Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

In fact, the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business lists show that the rankings of most emerging economies covered by acronyms and abbreviations have worsened. Having said that, it is also true that executives need help managing their globalization gambits. Moreover, the differences between the countries have grown over time.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

inch disk drives; LCD vs. CRT television; online vs. brick-and-mortar banks). Since its bankruptcy in 2012, Kodak has been a poster child for innovation incompetence: After inventing the world’s first digital camera in 1975, the conventional story goes, myopic managers allowed a bloated company to let inertia drive it off a cliff.

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

When I first joined BNP Paribas Fortis, for example, two younger and more dynamic banks had just overtaken us. The bank was using a project management tool, but the lack of discipline in keeping it up to date made it largely fruitless. Capacity, not strategy, was determining which projects launched and when.

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