Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2011

In order for any change to occur – whether it’s a decision to purchase a product, or an implementation to add new technology – whatever touches the ultimate solution must buy-in to the change. In 1983, in London, I started up a body shop/recruitment company to support the ‘new’ language and ’4GL’ support technology called Focus.

Case Study 50

Case Study Technology Resistance Project 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

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Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

What receives far less attention is that, more and more in our increasingly complex, volatile, and fully-globalized business world, the effectiveness of such action depends on a powerful partnership between the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and the General Counsel (GC).

CFO 8

CFO Chief Financial Officer Compliance Due Diligence 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

I think you’ll find that your view of the world will change dramatically when you rely upon your own observations, as opposed to what you read in a management report, or what you hear third or fourth hand in a meeting. The Unaware CEO : These CEO’s will take any report or piece of information at face value.

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Blog Gordon CEO Consultative 417

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

US News and World Report – One of America’s 25 Best Leaders. Authority on new technology and communication. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. US News and World Report #1 Best Hospital in the United States – Fortune ‘100 Best Companies to Work For,’ 14 consecutive years. Non-profit CEOs.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

But even if you don’t have a team of direct reports, we are all leaders who come from different walks of life with varied experiences that shape our core values. Graham Keen "Inspirational CEO/CFO turned positive-psychologist resiliently transforming businesses & financial performance."

Brand 68

Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2018

About 30 minutes prior to her weekly one-on-one with the CEO, the chief marketing officer at a multibillion global financial services firm received a cryptic email from him with the subject line “The Trouble with CMOs.” The CMO began by meeting with her direct reports. Don Farrall/Getty Images.

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CFO CEO Agility Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies.

Industry 11

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

Chief "Innovation" Officer: Looking for disruptive technologies to drive innovation. For example, at the Las Vegas Sands Corporation — an analytics heavy business — Rom Hendler serves as SVP, Chief Marketing Officer, and interim CIO. Match the CIO reporting structure to the strategic goals of the organization.

CIO 8

CIO CFO Chief Information Officer Business Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

But massive disruptions in business models, technology, and the work force have been throwing up massive new challenges for CIOs and other technology leaders. Consequently, CIOs and business leaders with a technology focus face more cacophony and challenge than ever before. Reporting structure. Organizational DNA.

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CIO Succession Fast Follower Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

When I do get a name, it often differs depending on who I asked—a marketing executive points to one person, while finance identifies someone else. Analytics requirements can span business units, database and analysis systems, and reporting hierarchies. Where should the CAO report? Information & technology Leadership'

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Company COO Information Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

That the CHRO role, although at first it may look career limiting, can have more impact than any other position reporting to the CEO? Rick Jensen, who left a big job in marketing to become SVP, Chief Talent Officer at Intuit, recalled a lesson he learned in marketing: “Fall in love with the problem.”

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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

Since its founding just eight years ago, Uber has become one of the best-known brands in the world, has presence in over 80 countries, has market share reported at 77% in its core U.S. The history of internet-based technology platform businesses shows that in the growth phase, rapid losses of position are possible.

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CEO IPO Energy COO 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Virtually every 21 st century business scandal is reducible to a morality tale of a technology that allows us to do things we couldn’t before, coupled with major institutional failures that were enabled by failures of omission and commission of corporate leaders. These lessons are valuable, but incomplete for today’s world.

Ethics 9

Ethics CFO Technology Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

But today, acquiring and interpreting customer data inherently must involve both the marketing and IT departments. In fact, recent research [PDF] conducted by the CMO Council, suggests that this process should start with the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and the Chief Information Officer (CIO). Find Common Ground.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Norton Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Nothing about markets or strategies — CEOs have canned answers for that kind of thing. How about this, the boardroom version of Sophie''s Choice: "Who would you rather fire, the CFO or the CSO?". We''re not a technology firm." "We Companies mistakenly write off these reports as irrelevant to them. federal agencies.

CEO 8

CEO CFO Offshoring Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The digital work crisis is this unnerving pace of technological change, complex global networks, and lists product and service variation in almost infinite work streams, a whole tone of digital distractions, and fundamental access to more data than humans can handle. And this is the digital work crisis. Think about that, Angelia.

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Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. IT isn''t somebody else''s job, it''s ultimately theirs.

CEO 8

CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

People and Organization : In late 2010, GE CEO Jeff Immelt decided to give country managers P&L responsibility for all of GE in their countries and have them report to vice chairman John Rice, who would be stationed in Hong Kong. It was the first time a vice chair would be based in an emerging market.

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P&L Fixed Assets Charan Delegation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

With so many professional fathers and mothers depending on this common wisdom, it’s no wonder workforce opt-out rates aren’t budging and so many working parents report feeling exhausted and overwhelmed. ” Have a Plan B — and don’t wait for a crisis to use it. To get flexibility, don’t ask — sell.

Stress 14

Stress Long-term Short-term Contingency Plans 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2011

There were about 10 people involved — the CEO and his direct reports — and we met for two days offsite, in a hotel, so we wouldn't be distracted. A problem in marketing might be assigned to the head of operations. I wrote that in a journal entry about seven years ago. A strategy offsite. I had prepared meticulously.

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CFO CEO Hotels Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

As the CFO of Macy’s put it recently, “ “We’re frankly scratching our heads.” And in the years that followed, conventional retailers’ confidence in the future increased as Census continued to report puny online sales. ” But it’s not happening as pundits predicted. And then the gale hit.

Retail 8

Retail Real Estate B2B CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. A platform connects providers and users in a multisided market. A platform can be a business platform (a multisided market), a software platform (a cloud-based subscription service), or an engagement platform, (a user-generated community). Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Competitive products came on the market, but none were as popular as the Express. Terranola’s market cap skyrocketed to $8.1 It seemed that many market players, notably Jeremiah Hughes, thought the Terranola story was too good to be true. As CFO, A.J. At the stock’s peak, nearly a third of shares were sold short.

Case Study 8

Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

The second source of revenue is trying to change the fact that corporations report large profits to the capital markets and relatively small profits to tax authorities. If we make it more the case that you have to base your taxes on profit reports to capital markets, that can raise a fair amount of revenue as well.

Globalization 8

Globalization CEO System Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

Aside from the most obvious slip-ups, such as leaving passwords in plain view or failing to report a lost or stolen corporate device, many people today are uploading personal and corporate information into third-party, collaborative platforms without thinking twice about how secure this action might be.

Health Care 8

Health Care Hedge Banking Training 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The very idea of leading people in jobs is changing with the democratization of work and the continued advance of digital technology. Digital technology is increasing the complexity and options associated with this plurality of work. market partners to GE) can take advantage of the unique GE learning experience. Expert Coaching.

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Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8