Strategy Driven

JANUARY 12, 2024

The innovations are endless, from peer-to-peer payments to automated portfolio managers and trading platforms. Finance digital transformation involves leveraging cutting-edge technologies for better operational efficiency and enhanced strategic decision-making. FinTech companies are putting a new twist on financial concepts.

Finance 119

Finance Technology BPM Company 119

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 31, 2015

These terms define a specific set of sequenced actions buyers take to enable internal consensus and change – change management issues, if you will – rather than define steps that address needs or vendor/solution choice which come later and are the focus of sales. Find budget. meet with CFO (manages the Tech department).

CFO 50

CFO Consensus Budgeting Brand 50

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

First, as a leader of a team, department or business unit with people, budgets and resources under your control, you must follow through on organizational commitments. This involves two elements. Unfortunately, people don't always do what they promise. Ultimately, it's as much a mindset as it is a process.

Incentives 258

Incentives Agility Resources Follow-up 258

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Marketers today encounter a mind-boggling array of technologies. CMOs I talk to are swamped by meeting requests from technology vendors, and most feel an acute pressure to climb on the tech bandwagon. My colleagues and I believe CMOs can make better technology sourcing decisions by asking five fundamental questions.

Technology 8

Technology Marketing Tools Middle Management 8

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. A common mistake in the bottom-up implementation process is that many top managers cannot resist doing the selection themselves.

Strategy 15

Strategy Bottom-up Balanced Scorecard Resistance 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Much has been made of the distinction between leadership and management. Too many managers, not enough leaders, the critics say. Leadership is uplifting, they imply, while management is boring — just a bunch of rigid bureaucrats spinning red tape, or emphasizing efficiency over effectiveness. And that is just IT.

Management 8

Management Real Estate Information Technology Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

Open innovation processes promise to enhance creative output, yet we have heard little about successful launches of new technologies, products, or services arising from these approaches. Some of the directorate’s scientists and engineers resisted the new approaches, citing process, budget, and procedural issues.

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering How To Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

Open innovation processes promise to enhance creative output, yet we have heard little about successful launches of new technologies, products, or services arising from these approaches. Some of the directorate’s scientists and engineers resisted the new approaches, citing process, budget, and procedural issues.

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Resistance Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2018

He had been surprised and annoyed to learn that his company had set up a new AI-based marketing system that was doing most of what he thought was his job as digital marketing manager at Global Consumer Brands: deciding what ads to place where, for which customer segments, and how much to spend. ” Disruption of relationships.

Resistance 8

Resistance How To Audience Micromanagement 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Regardless of whether a provider is developing predictive analytics in-house, as many large academic medical centers have done, or purchasing tools off the shelf, managers should make sure they are involving the right people throughout the entire process. Here are three lessons: Engage the Right People from the Outset. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Long-term Tools Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

” Without any central control, “food acquisition strategy” or risk management, ants are one of the most successful species on the planet, 10 million billion strong, giving them roughly the same global biomass as humans. Even successful companies have trouble resisting the temptation to reduce uncertainty and fight noise.

Organization 9

Organization Uncertainty Gordon Budgeting 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2012

Moreover, some advanced tools enable people to navigate through the recording so that, if they're interested in just a particular section — for example, a discussion about the annual budgeting process — they can skip the rest of the meeting and replay just that portion. Why change?"

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Video Resistance Follow-up 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. In fact, CEOs avoid IT like the plague. Accountability.

CEO 9

CEO CIO Technology CFO 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

And we have figured out why: analytics forces changes on the C-suite that the CEO has to anticipate and manage, but many don’t. These forces must be understood and managed for the entire initiative to succeed. The CEO has to work on four things: Actively manage C-suite dynamics. This is about more than technology.

CEO 8

CEO Competitive Advantage ROI CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

When managers negotiate in organizations, with their bosses or colleagues, they do so in the context of how (or whether) they have negotiated before. Rebecca is a director in the technology division of a major financial firm. Consider a case study. She stood firm.

How To 8

How To Long-term Case Study Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

For example, one CEO of a large technology firm oscillated between major expansions (e.g. Each of these might make sense individually, but because they haven’t been positioned as an integrated way of coping with a changing environment, employees have become skeptical about senior management’s ability to secure the future.

Welch 8

Welch Six Sigma Real Estate Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

Resist the temptation to emotionally distance yourself. In one meeting, my client’s frustration got the best of her, and while looking over the past quarter’s budget, she blurted out, “What on earth was he thinking?” Difficult and unfamiliar circumstances can make leaders feel vulnerable.

Reference 15

Reference Customer Loyalty Budgeting Morale 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Technological innovations have led to round-the-clock work schedules and mounting expectations. recommends blocking out time to work away from email, programming your phone to only ring for select colleagues, and resisting emails first thing in the morning until you’ve achieved at least one important task.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Tips Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2015

The pattern continues today with start-ups that are in the early phases of this journey: Expensify is in the process of disrupting administrative assistants and office managers with an app-based expense reporting product. Entrepreneurial management Disruptive innovation'

B2B 8

B2B Disruptive Innovation Short-term Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Susan Catalano, Citi’s Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of HR, was reading the Divergent series — about a future society broken up into five social factions cultivating different virtues — around the same time she was asked to assist with an open floor plan for the HR group’s new workspace and the book influenced the end product.

Chief Operating Officer 13

Chief Operating Officer Open-book Travel Diversity 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Susan Catalano, Citi’s Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of HR, was reading the Divergent series — about a future society broken up into five social factions cultivating different virtues — around the same time she was asked to assist with an open floor plan for the HR group’s new workspace and the book influenced the end product.

Chief Operating Officer 13

Chief Operating Officer Open-book Travel Diversity 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Every manager in the company should know the answer to that question. This is not a matter of figuring out if a project was on time and on budget (although surely someone wants to learn that as well). There are many things companies can do with IT, but if management doesn''t establish priorities, it''s easy to do many things badly.

CIO 8

CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

But they don’t think nearly enough about operational meltdowns – technological glitches and other problems that can put them out of business. Firms in this segment have many more “moving parts” than start-up companies – systems connected to other systems, more layers of management through which bad news in the field must travel, etc.

Operations 8

Operations Company Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

All the content was "good," the timelines "reasonable," the budgets "sufficient.". I knew that the new head of engineering and the head of product management had worked through a ton of issues to get to this review meeting prepared. The product managers looked at each other, then at their VP, and then, finally, to the CEO.

CEO 16

CEO Engineering Consensus Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

They’re given state-of-the-art technology, $2,000 to build a home office, and a large travel budget so they can meet up with other team members twice a year in beautiful, exciting places such as La Paz, Mexico, and Amsterdam. Advances in technology are keeping pace. In the U.S. grew by nearly 80% between 2005 and 2012.

Company 8

Company Document Travel Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

To address these questions, Coty partnered with Kotter International to implement a broad global change management program. Allocate budget for a team. This included a call for action — “Act Today, Shape Tomorrow” — that was backed by Coty’s senior management. Appoint a trusted team leader.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Kotter Critical Success Factor Learning-by-Doing 10

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Current management of both companies were ill-advised on handling the crises. economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies. Computer activity constitutes less than 1% of the technology picture.

Crisis 60

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 60

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

With scarcely any help from management, knowledge workers can increase their productivity by 20%. Yet here is the challenge you face as a senior executive: You cannot manage your knowledge workers in the traditional and intrusive way you might have done with manual workers. Knowledge management Managing people Productivity'

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Peer Review Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Your CHRO thinks of email as modern technology. Or is HR focused primarily on budget cuts and streamlining administration? If the access of other executives is managed through the CHRO, a dysfunctional leadership team is not far behind. Resist the temptation. The vision for HR is murky, generic, or even unstated.

Metrics 14

Metrics Human Resources Attrition CEO 14

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

Critical topics include leadership development of executives, mindset changes in the evolution from manager to executive to leader, executive mentoring, insights into how top professionals evolve, plateaus of professional accomplishment, developing a winning work ethic, lifelong learning and the accrual of business wisdom. Mid-Manager.

Business Development 52

Business Development Development Learning-by-Doing Ethics 52

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

This review is the basis for most elements that will appear in a strategic plan, including the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, actions, challenges, teamwork, change management, commitment, future trends and external forces. Management is concerned that resources are not concentrated on important things.

Review 57

Review Company Strategic Planning Industry 57

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Then one of the engineering executives, a fracking enthusiast and unconventional extraction technologies champion, spoke up. ” That’s not cynicism; that’s savvy risk management. The app-enabled car service faces resistance and even protests worldwide. What customer would matter most in five years?

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Levitt Tourism Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

Mismanaged expectations, blown budgets, slipped schedules, and mutual contempt run rampant. The technology held appeal for network engineering departments at both telecom providers and digital service providers. Fortunately, they tend to be manageable. . “Startnership” success, however, is all too rare.

KPI 9

KPI Innovation Ries Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Resisting revenue temptations. Companies, and certainly new entrants looking for growth, often find it difficult to resist jumping onto various new sources of revenue. Hence, when a new potential stream of revenue presents itself, the company’s management feels it cannot afford to just leave it.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Leading Blog

JUNE 15, 2012

Commenting on the 2011 budget-ceiling talks she finds that Barack Obama’s followers are “more disposed to resist him than to support him….No Technology has changed the social landscape providing us with so much more information. In recent years, communications technology has played a large part.

Training 285

Training Leadership Follow-up Emotional Intelligence 285

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.” ” Carr distinguished between proprietary technologies and “infrastructural” ones.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

Most decisions in organizations are made by escalating them up the management hierarchy — and it’s usually the highest paid person in the room’s opinion (“HIPPO”) that prevails. Consider these three examples from the frontiers of management: Funding decisions at most organizations are made by senior management or maybe an independent panel.

Software 9

Software CIO Early Adopters Project 9