The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The study explores the Chinese market after the country’s Ministry of Justice made online legal services a key part of its strategy. The study reveals that there are around 100 online platforms operating in the country for lawyers and other legal professionals to offer their services. A gigging life.

Budgeting 40

Budgeting Participative Marketing Operations 40

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

For decades, we’ve often thought of leadership profiles in unique buckets—two popular varieties were the “visionaries”, who embrace strategy and think about amazing things to do, and the “operators”, who get stuff done. But rarely are budgets linked closely to the strategy.

Execution 14

Execution Strategy How To Budgeting 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Executing this strategy required seamless integration of IBM's product capabilities with its geographic reach. This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Directness. He's personable, but blunt.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Capacity, not strategy, was determining which projects launched and when. Prioritization at a strategic and operational level is often the difference between success and failure. What is the best use of the organization’s existing and future financial and operational capacities? If not, it stalled or was killed.

Project 8

Project How To Objective Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Capitec gets many things right in terms of its strategy, including its market positioning, internal operations, and organizational culture. This does not just mean adding things to their company’s portfolio and value proposition; it also requires ceasing some of the old parts of the original strategy.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8