Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The rapid pace of change in business and technology means that more and more companies will find themselves being disrupted. Should you force everyone to learn about mobile computing and digital business models? ” In other words, they practice an entirely new model of management. What’s a CEO to do?

CEO 8

CEO Metrics Leadership Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

There is no burden on those who proposed a new idea or technology to talk to customers, build minimal viable products, test hypotheses or understand the barriers to deployment. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force, one of us built a curation process to help technology solutions to be deployed rapidly. As the head of the U.S.

Process 10

Process Innovation Incubator Committee 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

In the oil industry, for example, what used to be weeks of inspection work now takes just days, thanks to drone-based thermal imaging and gas “sniffer” technology to inspect oil rigs and pipelines. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. million in investment capital in just the past year. Insight Center.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Company Outsourcing Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Many of us are familiar with the hazards of Groupthink - when teams or organizations operate on autopilot and feel a general false sense of invulnerability. For example, a senior executive in a traditional financial services organization recognized that the organization needed to embrace new technologies in order to engage with Millennials.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

There is a palpable sense of systemic instability in the face of political, economic, technological, social, and indeed meteorological uncertainty. They are infrastructure, technology, internationalization, communication, and the balance of continuity and change. 2) Technology. From News Corp. 1) Infrastructure.

Uncertainty 14

Uncertainty Politics Restructuring Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Technology has emerged as a competitive weapon in driving operational excellence and superior service quality. From my practice working with bank clients in the continent, here are a few suggestions to make that happen: Restructure staff. Thinking local is strategic to appropriately examine competing business models.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic.

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. These advances all point toward the total automation of our lives, including the way we work and do business.

Skills 12

Skills Morale Ethics System 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

By default, the two gold coasts have a self-sustaining edge: They have accumulated massive value, wealth, and power through the winner-take-all economics that govern many digital business models. In many cases, as with Skype, the size of the European operation shrank after the acquisition.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

When Sir Christopher Gent headed Vodafone in the 1990s, for example, he brought his management team and board together every year to ask what business the company was in. The question forced the team to deconstruct the business and reconstruct it based on technological developments and competitive moves.

Merchandising 12

Merchandising Metrics Restructuring Library 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. Incumbents in these industries often own established brands, proprietary technology, and control of distribution channels. One way is by reducing dependence on fixed assets.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

They rely on these and other subscription services for a personalized combination of professionally produced and user-generated programming, created with new, low-cost production and distribution technologies. New forms of content, new distribution technologies, and new business models are emerging at a dizzying pace.

Media 8

Media Content Video Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

Frequent restructurings of the analytics function. Start by talking openly about the journey and the inherent sense of vulnerability executives are bound to feel as the business model changes. This is about more than technology. Chief Analytics Officers (CAOs) were frequently replaced. CEOs must anticipate this reaction.

CEO 8

CEO Competitive Advantage ROI CFO 8