Strategy Driven

MARCH 9, 2016

Just as you prepare your organization for disaster response, crisis communications, and continuity of operations, you can also prepare yourself. Martha Johnson is a leadership expert who draws on the lessons she learned as an executive with a more than 35-year career in business and government.

Crisis 50

Crisis Automotive Human Resources Education 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

That’s why many of them, particularly the largest ones, rely on full-time “talent management” professionals, who work in coordination with other parts of HR. These talent management people create processes for assessing leadership capabilities and set the strategy for upgrading leadership talent over time.

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Talent Management Delegation Management Document 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

There are new types of insurance companies such as Oscar ; novel provider organizations such as OneMedical , IoraHealth , and ChenMed ; and new health information technology companies such as Castlight , Vital , and WellFrame that aim to use technology to improve care and value. People leadership.

Execution 8

Execution Skills Health Care Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. Part of the problem may be in the backgrounds that companies desired: 85% of COOs had experience in operations, strategy, or finance. What role does he or she play in the organization? What do you think?

COO 12

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break. In the global economy, can analytic practitioners be hugely successful in their careers while going unnoticed?

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Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 51

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

My team would have people with deep functional knowledge and skills (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, and information technology) to align surrounding processes. Lowe's also tries to assess the "people change" needs that will be required in future operational improvement initiatives — as much as three years out.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

That’s bad news and worse management. In pre-Big Data days, for example, a hotel chain used some pretty sophisticated mathematics, data mining, and time series analysis to coordinate its yield management pricing and promotion efforts. For the most part, local managers followed the yield management rules.

Hotels 10

Hotels Yield Management Discount Price 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

While organizational culture issues took center-stage, the agency’s antiquated systems for personnel management, appointment booking, and medical histories probably made things worse. Give us a sense of the challenge of keeping up with technology as a military CIO. Take the recent Department of Veterans Affairs scandal.

CIO 8

CIO Health Care Metrics Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

Well-connected people have enormous power to drive change, as this recent article from Julie Battilana of Harvard Business School and Tiziana Casciaro of the University of Toronto''s Rotman School of Management, makes clear. Management responded by launching a number of connectivity-improving initiatives. The lesson?

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Analysis Globalization Information 8

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I think our principal observation was that what was happening was that disruptive innovations driven by largely information technology but lots of other technologies on the fringe here that are getting ready to exhibit the same kind of characteristics were entering the market in kind of this better and cheaper way.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The internet has dramatically changed the way companies operate. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. In the middle office, risk and compliance management will largely watch bots that are not prone to human error or fraud, supported by sophisticated models to predict quality and compliance issues.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Short-term Long-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own. Patience and a long-term view.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

million managers and analysts who understand big data and how to apply it to business operations. Technical and Data Specialists: These positions range from data quality managers who ensure the collected data are clean and accurate to business solution architects who assemble the data and organize it so it is ready for analysis.

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Technology McKinsey Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

A few years ago Dave Ulrich, a management thought leader from the University of Michigan, made a comment I found both insightful and profound: “ Every leader needs to have a model of organization design.” An effective organization design model guides a manager in answering five fundamental questions in a thoughtful and well-integrated way.

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Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

But not every manager is jumping on board with data. From that work, I''ve distilled six bad habits that stymie managers and companies from taking full advantage of their data. We''ve all met managers who say things like, "I''ve been working in this industry twenty-five years and I''ve seen it all. I call them "anti-datas.".

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Information Quality Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The first is this notion that the challenges at work, the challenges of managing modern work, really are a crisis. ” So, this challenge at work, the crisis of trying to manage modern work, has gone from a nuisance to a business imperative. Almost half of the respondents say that they are requesting tools to manage work.

Content 8

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

While the CIO needs to understand the business to add value, equally true is that senior leadership and the board of directors don''t understand how to incorporate technology in their strategy, and some don''t even see the need to do so. The CIO must understand and execute on the differences among leadership, governance, and managing.

CIO 8

CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2012

Bell Labs led fundamental work in physics, information theory, computing, wireless telephony, and quality control that underpins much of today's economy. I started my career as what would now be called a data analyst, focused on network performance, essentially trying to get more bits from calling to called party.

Organization 14

Organization Wireless Diversity Quality 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

If we hope for better management of large-scale endeavors, our models will have to look beyond what it takes to inform individual, or even organizational, moves. If we hope for better management of large-scale endeavors, our models will have to look beyond what it takes to inform individual, or even organizational, moves.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

With data analytics provided by Microsoft Azure and an informational infrastructure developed collaboratively by Industrial Scientific and Cisco, operators now have a dashboard to remotely monitor the people, equipment, and air quality in the mine in real time. They Update Their Talent Management Strategies. The reason?

Succession 8

Succession ROI Technology Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

There is general consensus that a major solution lies in better managing and preventing adult chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart failure. These include infant safety and injury prevention, social work, legal advocacy, case management, tutoring, fitness classes, nutrition and lactation, mental health, and dental care.

Health Care 10

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

health system, change management is an essential skill for public and private leaders alike. For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system?

System 8

System Skills Health Care Constraint 8