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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

And so the power of incumbency, firm competencies, and market share is giving way to the ability to engage across companies and industries, innovate, individualize, and deliver. This isn’t a retread of scientific management , nor is it an updated take on scenario planning. It’s an entirely different animal.

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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

And so the power of incumbency, firm competencies, and market share is giving way to the ability to engage across companies and industries, innovate, individualize, and deliver. This isn’t a retread of scientific management , nor is it an updated take on scenario planning. It’s an entirely different animal.

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Why Corporate Social Responsibility Doesn’t Work

Harvard Business Review

This despite doing important work for a company that seemed committed to social responsibility. 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.

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Five Good Reasons to Champion Auto-Analytics in Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

Below are five pointers to frame and guide the conversation for technology geeks and practitioners to champion the use of auto-analytics in their businesses: Auto-analytics can be understood within the tradition of scientific management. Management science has its roots in experimentation and productivity improvement.