Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Miami-Dade Transit allows customers to monitor its system so they can know when to arrive at a stop in time to catch a particular bus. That's not so complicated; why can't commercial firms invest in allowing customers to monitor the location of service or delivery techs? I'm not saying that all big-data projects are useless.

CAPEX 15

CAPEX Balanced Scorecard Hedge Software 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2013

After investigating alternative, low cost solutions to treat and dispose of the water, PDO built a natural wetland system that uses sunlight, reeds, and gravity (to flow water down in steps) in place of extensive water treatment and injection operations. PDO’s extraction activities produce a lot of oily water as a by-product.

CAPEX 10

CAPEX Cost-Benefit Analysis Construction Cost 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Are you focusing opex and capex on these priorities in order to build competitively differentiated capabilities? Consider traditional banks, which Gartner estimates spend an average of about 66% of their IT budgets to maintain legacy IT systems vs. just 22% to grow the business and 12% to transform it. None of these are easy questions.

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

The US Navy is an organization utilizing 1,400 systems and 7,000 applications to serve more than 500,000 employees. While the USN is relatively mum about its specific strategies, there are references to the fact that they intend to cut their systems in half within 36 months, reducing some overhead cost and modernizing. 017%,019% and.00028%

Directory 8

Directory Company IAM CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

It may make costs more predictable and shift investments from CapEx to OpEx. The reality is that the organization still requires a strategy for information and systems. It may even lead to access to leading-edge technologies.

CIO 8

CIO CAPEX Budgeting CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Executives who wouldn’t hesitate to automate a factory now flinch at the prospect of deep-learning algorithms dictating their sales strategies and capex. In theory, the organizational challenges of algorithmic autonomy map perfectly to which processes or systems are being made autonomous.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

To help provide a better factual base for this debate, MGI, working with McKinsey colleagues from our Strategy & Corporate Finance practice as well as the team at FCLT Global, began last fall to devise a way to systemically measure short-termism and long-termism at the company level. Earnings quality: Accruals as a share of revenue.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8