Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

The Competitive Advantage of Doing More with Less (European Business Journal). Facebook Flop Won't Scare Off Growth-Company Listings (CFO). What are the essential capabilities needed to deliver that value proposition? So what are you waiting for? BONUS BITS: Lean and Mean. The Economic Costs of Fear (Project Syndicate).

Development 14

Development McKinsey CFO Competitive Advantage 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

” More often than not, the reason for the skepticism is prior efforts that did not produce the expected competitive advantage. Such skepticism led us to study the impact that analytics has had on our clients over the last 20 years.

CFO 9

CFO Competitive Advantage Budgeting CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

As one financial services CFO told us, “Our mental models were so rigid that even how we thought about data itself needed to be challenged. If the analytics effort is anchored to traditional learning processes, it will not move fast enough to achieve meaningful change and competitive advantage.

CEO 8

CEO Competitive Advantage ROI CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

While the obvious decisions that CEOs need to get right involve strategy and competitive advantage, too many executives delegate away three critical decisions that they need to own: decisions about goals, resource allocation, and people. As Keith Sherin, then GE’s CFO put it, “This is where the growth is.

P&L 8

P&L Fixed Assets Charan Delegation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

They resist getting their hands dirty alongside the CIO, even though many of them will readily get down into the mud of a balance sheet with the CFO or strategize the details of global brand issues with the CMO. In fact, CEOs avoid IT like the plague. Because they distance themselves from IT, CEOs don''t grasp its subtleties.

CEO 8

CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

This striking gap signals an opportunity for companies: Secure a competitive advantage by building your employees' ability to succeed in the increasingly complicated labyrinths of today's — and tomorrow's — markets. At Allianz, the program was initiated and supported by the company CFO.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Gene Morphis, former CFO of CVS and David's Bridal suggests: "There is an interesting intersection between risk management and innovation that emerges in the CMO-CIO interface." When CMOs and CIOs collaborate, the relationship puts the business at a competitive advantage. Find Common Ground.

CIO 9

CIO Chief Information Officer Norton Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

The CIO''s traditional role, which is one of managing information, IT systems, and cost, has itself transformed to creating new competitive advantage, new products, and new services. Why Can''t a CIO Be More Like a CFO? The New Role. Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center. Are We Asking Too Much of Our CIOs?

CIO 8

CIO Innovation Technology Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

A few months ago, I heard analyst Mark Mahaffey, now of RBC Capital markets, argue (at about minute 26 on the video) that Amazon's razor-thin profit margins were a source of competitive advantage: You really develop very sustainable moats around a business when you run it at low margins. Nobody complains.

Training 10

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

But we must first go beyond unduly narrow interpretations of ROI (i.e., “claims ROI”), to understand how properly designed wellness programs can help employers lower health care costs while providing other types of cost savings and competitive advantages.

ROI 8

ROI Health Care Company Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

The CEO wonders how you spend your time, the CFO wonders how you spend the company’s money, the sales folks think you’re too conceptual, too abstract, and not sufficiently focused on the immediate business, and the production and supply chain guys just think you’re full of hot air.". So what can marketing do to regain respect?

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Real Estate ROI CFO 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Successfully reimagining the work of the future– the who, where, and how of what gets done – can only happen if you truly view talent as an essential ingredient in competitive advantage, not just as a cost. Any CFO will look at multiple ways to reinvest financial capital.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency CFO Technology Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Making sure the company's key processes are delivering competitive advantage , or if not, that the right fixes are on the way. The executives I know at these companies today believe that having process owners provides them a significant competitive advantage. from 2004 to 2007.

Process 15

Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15