Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

While security executives have a reputation for stymieing operations and product development with the burdens of technical operations, their role is actually to enable business. Make sure that security is included in discussions on new products and services. Their job, in fact, depends on it. It’s done for the business.

CAPEX 8

CAPEX Chief Financial Officer How To Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2013

PDO’s extraction activities produce a lot of oily water as a by-product. The report includes case studies for Dow, which also utilized a constructed wetland at one of its facilities, reducing capex expense by a factor of 10.

CAPEX 10

CAPEX Cost-Benefit Analysis Construction Cost 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Let's say, for example, that you're seeing a pattern of strong store sales for a group of products that were previously perceived as unrelated. It might take a scorecard approach for you to figure out that the sales peak coincided with a particular phase in the staff-training schedule.

CAPEX 15

CAPEX Balanced Scorecard Hedge Software 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Are you focusing opex and capex on these priorities in order to build competitively differentiated capabilities? Do they focus on “manufacturing” (creating products), “distribution” (managing channels and customer relationships), or some combination of the two? None of these are easy questions.

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

We were so anxious to get products out the door, and we were at lightning speed, thanks to Marc and his folks, we just wanted to keep moving. If it works, it’s a product. Companies used to spend a ton of money testing products with focus groups and market research teams. If people hit on it, it’s a product.

Advice 8

Advice Management CAPEX Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2016

The analyst was involved in product launches. Perhaps the analysts involved with product launches are thus given more of a mandate than analysts involved in other kinds of activities. While product launches were over-represented, our respondents told us about a wide array of applications for their analyses.

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Company CAPEX Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

These indicators and hypotheses were: Investment: The ratio of capex to depreciation. Most important, what are the interventions that will prove most effective in shifting organizations onto a more productive long-term path? We assume long-term companies will invest more and more-consistently than other companies.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8