Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

According to the survey results, the 3 biggest drivers of cultural transformation are: Internal redefinition of the company’s business model, goals, or performance levels. Almost half of respondents point to their CEO’s new business model as a cultural transformation driver. Technology trends.

Altman 76

Altman Decentralization COO Restructuring 76

leaderCommunicator

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

And what is the pay-off for a business leader to be perceived as trustworthy? Many businesses are undergoing enormous transformations, restructuring their business models and reorganizing their employees. And if for some reason, he cannot follow through on his promises, he must come back to explain why.

Restructuring 151

Restructuring Learning-by-Doing CEO Business Model 151

Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 13, 2014

Reengineering, restructuring, and downsizing are leading to a world where outsourcing of all but core brand-related activities may become the norm. Joint leadership of new business models is vital to a successful global venture. This trend will be even more dramatic in the future.

Competitive Advantage 140

Competitive Advantage Globalization Diversity Technology 140

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Technology has forced music artists to completely rethink the way they approach their businesses. The most successful artists in this new landscape have begun to look at new business models and new industries to strengthen their existing brands. Enter Harvard Business School. We’ve all had to adapt.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 14, 2021

Platform businesses are a new economic model that replaces or augments the traditional value chain company that was the dominant model in the first, second and third industrial revolution. The fourth industrial revolution we live now is enabled in part by the platform-based business models.

Brand 96

Brand Insurance Participative Open-book 96

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

In our view, while the proposal to ban dual-class shares raises important issues, its implementation would do more harm than good, given the challenges from the digital revolution and the growing imperative for established firms to transform their business models. However, we cannot completely endorse this idea for two reasons.

Class 9

Class Maturity IPO Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

In the years ahead, Alphabet could dramatically influence business models in many industries. This new entity could bring together human talent, technology scale, and long-horizon venture and investment approaches to construct business models that could pose a formidable challenge to those designed and perfected in the industrial age.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Kleiner Business Model Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

About a third of respondents said their organization currently is not very digital, meaning that less than a quarter of their products, operations, and business models depend on their ability to exploit digital information and technologies. Over a third (39 percent) are moderately digital.

Technology 8

Technology Company Content Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

One of the quickest ways to sort innovation ideas is to use the McKinsey Three Horizons Model. Horizon 1 ideas provide continuous innovation to a company’s existing business model and core capabilities. Department of Defense and Intelligence community have also adopted this model as the Hacking for Defense process.).

Process 11

Process Innovation Incubator Committee 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

CEOs of large companies face a conundrum: they are confronted with a growing number of frugal consumers clamoring for affordable solutions, yet their existing corporate culture and incentive systems are designed to support a "bigger is better" business model — not to deliver more with less.

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Should you force everyone to learn about mobile computing and digital business models? Companies that rapidly adapt to digital business models don’t just “do digital”; they “act digital.” ” In other words, they practice an entirely new model of management. .”

CEO 8

CEO Metrics Leadership Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

Xerox has tried its best, but its long-term struggles have led to a recently announced breakup and restructuring. In other words, they were leaders who wanted their companies to win big in fast-moving times without a near-death experience. It was a great idea for a conference, yet it amounted to a hill of beans.

Company 8

Company Long-term Conference Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

Page’s distinction brings to life the idea of strategic ambidexterity : a company’s ability of exploring new practices, products and business models while exploiting existing ones at the same time—a capability which is both remarkably valuable and equally hard in practice.

Strategy 8

Strategy Maturity Business Model Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

It is not too late for incumbents to reverse the digital curse and re-create a more profitable growth path if they are willing and able to invest more in digital than their peers and take the offensive by reshuffling their activity portfolios and beefing up remaining activities with new business models.

Succession 8

Succession Industry McKinsey Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Restructurings may be an inevitable part of organizational life but living through them—even when you’re one of the lucky ones still standing—is challenging and stressful. We’re going to restructure and move people around,’” Sid recalls. What is the business model for other projects?

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Stress Uncertainty Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

CEOs of large companies face a conundrum: they are confronted with a growing number of frugal consumers clamoring for affordable solutions, yet their existing corporate culture and incentive systems are designed to support a "bigger is better" business model — not to deliver more with less.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

And as Clayton Christensen described in The Innovator’s Dilemma , it can be very difficult for management teams and their organizations to acknowledge that the paradigm around them has changed, and instead of responding in an adaptive manner, too many organizations redouble their investments in legacy business models or technologies.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

As with the original Gold Rush of the 1840s, we believe two principal business models will emerge: Goldminers , who dig deep in one major area, and Bartenders , who offer customized and convenient options to address routine needs. The new companies applying the bartender approach are by no means fringe players.

Technology 8

Technology Retail Apparel Customer Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

Huawei, the rapidly growing Chinese challenger to network equipment incumbents such as Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent, even has a permanent office of restructuring, reporting to the chairman, and focused on identifying external threats to the company's model. Most companies believe they have better feedback systems than they actually do.

Merchandising 13

Merchandising Metrics Restructuring Library 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

How Digital Business Models Are Changing. Given that drones have little track record as yet, determining the “best” method for data gathering will require strict analysis of benefits versus costs, such as through pilot programs, before undertaking expensive functional restructuring. Insight Center.

Competitive Advantage 9

Competitive Advantage Company Outsourcing Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Likewise, understanding the context, business model, competition, and leadership of a client or an employer makes your understanding of content more useful.

Skills 13

Skills Morale Ethics System 13

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. Chief Analytics Officers (CAOs) were frequently replaced. Too many calls for outside support from consultants.

CEO 8

CEO Competitive Advantage ROI CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

Ask someone to name the demands that activist hedge funds make of companies and they’ll likely list corporate governance issues like board changes and executive compensation, or perhaps some form of restructuring. Done well, it can improve a company’s sustainability in addition to its performance.

Proposal 8

Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

In large companies, the task of cost cutting is invariably incremental and left to finance, which works with individuals or small groups within a specific department, region, or area of the business. On the other hand, the SpaceX approach innovates and transforms by looking at the entire business model instead of the parts.

Cost 8

Cost Innovation Long-term Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

to the revolution in Libya, from the continuing economic upheaval to Steve Jobs announcing his resignation as CEO of Apple and to HP restructuring their business, and from earthquakes to hurricanes and floods, each event is yet another chink in our sense of stability and control of the environment around us. From News Corp.

Uncertainty 14

Uncertainty Politics Restructuring Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

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. To remain relevant, the banks must internally mutate, disrupting themselves to participate in modern banking.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

A company’s starting point determines the characteristics of its overhead structure that, barring a major restructuring, it will carry throughout its life. There are three internal barriers to “growing down the market” that are akin to sailing against the wind. The first is the company’s overhead structure.

Price 8

Price Disruptive Innovation Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

In the First Mover Fellowship Program at the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program, we have a chance to work with exceptional social intrapreneurs in businesses around the world and to study the innovations they are piloting in their companies. Take James Inglesby at Unilever, for example.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

However, higher accruals can reflect either innocuous aspects of certain business models, such as in the construction industry, where the time lag between earning income and realizing cash is long, or that growing firms retain higher working capital to meet greater current and future customer demand.

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

New forms of content, new distribution technologies, and new business models are emerging at a dizzying pace. The Justice Department’s case ignored this reality, largely because it didn’t fit its theoretical model of price pressure and possible foreclosure of supposedly unsubstitutable Time Warner programming.

Media 8

Media Content Video Price 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

But is GM a Blackberry and Ford a Nokia when Apple competes with a DX, a business model, and an iCar “genius bar” support network that makes their offerings look last century? Samsung and Xiaomi—a company that didn’t even have a smartphone five years ago—quickly became dominant players.

Automotive 8

Automotive Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Thriving companies are also integrating related products and services into sophisticated industry solutions, while extending and restructuring industry boundaries, essentially creating whole new industries. Companies must rethink their structures and culture to better deal with new market environments and business models.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

Leading independent power producers, for example, have begun to deploy asset-light, platform-based business models. Rather than simply abandoning the core business, companies will need to strike a delicate balance when making corporate and financial restructuring moves. One way is by reducing dependence on fixed assets.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

secretary of health and human services, is a fierce and long-time critic of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including initiatives that restructure how some doctors are paid. Most realize that remaking their business model to succeed in a value-based care world is the right thing to do. Who can blame them?

Health Care 8

Health Care System Insurance Quality 8

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. Winner-take-all economics favored the companies in the U.S. How to make your company more nimble and responsive.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Week 35: “The good news is that because of our difficulties meeting our budget, we’ve managed to restructure the project to reduce the number of sites involved, reuse designs from earlier projects, and drop a number of minor customer requirements from the plan. Why Large Companies Struggle With Business Model Innovation.

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 8