The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

They provided a number of strategic recommendations to help bridge that gap, including: Make automation a strategic priority – It perhaps goes without saying that when companies do this, it significantly increases the chance of success because it ensures the resources required are made available.

TCO 73

TCO Decentralization CAPEX Industry 73

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

It may make costs more predictable and shift investments from CapEx to OpEx. The basic requirement for success with enterprise IT has changed little over the decade. This raises the fundamental question as to whether a CIO can really be held accountable for something that will only emerge when their colleagues step up to the plate.

CIO 8

CIO CAPEX Budgeting CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2016

They were evenly distributed between pursuing opportunities (46%) and reducing risks (44%), and ran the gamut from product pricing and features, capex investments, manufacturing processes, market expansion, joint ventures, M&A, and more.

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Company CAPEX Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

Savor of Temple found that firms led by single CEOs engage in much more aggressive investment behavior, in terms of capex, innovation activity, R&D, and acquisitions, than companies led by married chief executives. It was the ability to ignore sentiment that paved the way for their success," Green writes.

CAPEX 8

CAPEX Scientific Management Taylorism Taylor 8

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. Are you focusing opex and capex on these priorities in order to build competitively differentiated capabilities? None of these are easy questions.

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word. The implications of success scare them more than the risk of failure. These distinct approaches enjoy demonstrable real-world success.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

We also know that most executives feel the balance between short-term accountability and long-term success has fallen out of whack; 65% say the short-term pressure they face has increased in the past five years. These indicators and hypotheses were: Investment: The ratio of capex to depreciation.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8