Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Once upon a time, before the era of big data analytics, corporations had similarly routine business growth issues and threats: i.e.: after years of being the market leader in a specific product category, they quickly begin to lose market share, they wanted to introduce their product into a new market. Technology + Methodology.

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Stage-Gate Productivity Products Innovation 128

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 27, 2012

HR should also be involved with safety committees, training and employee development and company mentoring programs. Carvin is President and CEO at Nobscot Corporation ( www.nobscot.com ), an HR technology company that specializes in key areas of employee retention and development.

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Mentor Trends Committee Compliance 232

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

I also believe that if HR is solely charged with the recruiting efforts for senior management and executive level positions you’ll end-up with a very weak management and leadership team. You may have technology or a product that gives you an edge, but your people determine whether you develop the next winning technology or product.&#.

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Insurance Bottom-up CEO Compliance 299

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Authority on new technology and communication. Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2014

I ask clients to do so without using the words: ‘technology,’ ‘sales,’ and ‘solutions.’ Technology is a tool, which feeds into tactics. The Visioning committee should represent all strata of the firm. Identify strategic objectives and goals. Periodically, test and review the process.

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Mission Statement Benchmarking Tactics Strategic Planning 80

Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams. The most significant hurdle by far is resistance to change from within. Let me explain.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

Some boards have taken the principle further by forming their own innovation committee. The directors of Procter & Gamble, for instance, have established an Innovation and Technology committee; the board of specialty-chemical maker Clariant has done the same; and Pfizer has created a Science and Technology committee.

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Innovation Committee Charan Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

There is no burden on those who proposed a new idea or technology to talk to customers, build minimal viable products, test hypotheses or understand the barriers to deployment. And they count on well-intentioned, smart people sitting in a committee to decide which ideas are worth pursuing. As the head of the U.S.

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Process Innovation Incubator Committee 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

Only six percent of the directors overseeing the world’s biggest banks have any technology experience. Technology is transforming the rules of businesses and reshaping industries in just about every sector. So, what role should a board play in deciding on technology investments and shaping businesses in the digital age?

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Delegation Technology Committee Banking 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. If you have more time, contribute to an association committee. Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas. These three are then best assisted by feedback from other professionals.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

But the board and executive committee are asking the innovation team all the wrong questions — questions that will kill any innovation project. They will try hard to extrapolate numbers from market trends and past experience, rather than thinking about customers, good ideas, and new paradigms. Are you meeting your milestones?"

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Innovation Committee Market Segmentation ROI 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

For years, companies have been pouring money into people, processes, and technology that can help them manage risk. But what about the more strategic risk areas, such as those related to emerging market entry or acquisition growth strategies? Most have done a great job of containing their financial reporting and compliance risks.

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Risk Management Maturity EBITDA Management 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

As the company explored new markets, it began to make additional investments in pre-cellular mobile radios and other componentry in the emerging market for mobile communications. Despite a record of success that is the envy of many a corporate chieftain (41% market share globally?

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Telecommunications Crisis Committee Marketing 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.

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CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2015

During my years working as a pharmaceutical industry executive and advisor to senior management, I have observed that these initiatives typically fail because of one of three challenges: Leadership. These integrated businesses are also typically led by pharma managers who don’t fully understand the acquired businesses and their markets.

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Pharmaceuticals Health Care Industry Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The contemporary CEO must not only be expert at addressing the commercial verities of products, markets, and competitors. These ethical questions arise in the whole range of corporate activity from technology and manufacturing to marketing and sales. The challenges of business-in-society issues arise in many different settings.

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CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention. But only the human oversight committee approves what gets “autonomized” and how it is implemented. They frequently find the technologies are less of a hassle than the people.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Seven years ago, Bank of America launched Neighborhood Builders ®, a program that provides grants and, more importantly, leadership training to managers of "high-potential" non-profit organizations in the communities where the bank does business. The result has been a clear success. It is both local and national.

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Case Study Banking Participative Training 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

While business markets are obviously different from societies in many ways, they share more things in common, especially in today's networked world. Many companies, dipping their toes into social media and Web marketing, try to engage with bloggers who've built up audiences and exert influence over their buying decisions.

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How To Chief Technology Officer Audience Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Sales professionals and organizations are responding with new strategies and technologies that allow them to deliver personalized experiences at scale. Part of asking the right questions is understanding who’s on the buying committee, which is particularly challenging given that 6.8 larger deals sourced through social platforms.

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B2B CRM Franchising Media 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Conventional thinking has suggested that leadership positions go to those who aggressively plan their careers with a keen eye for building the right skills to reach top jobs. Note that this inclusive process is not decision-making by committee or by consensus. Others believe that leaders are born, not made.

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Open-book Career Rogers PR 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Do any of us really believe that changing the composition of a few board committees, or recruiting a few more independent directors, would have allowed HP to maintain its status as one of the most prosperous organizations ever to rise from Silicon Valley? Which leads to my second big thought about the current HP news.

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Venture Capitalist CEO Long-term Magazine 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2011

Cisco's councils and boards — a language that already suggests committees rather than goal-oriented projects — were supposed to speed things up and stimulate more innovation by creating cross-functional groups that could generate ideas about market-facing, solutions-oriented projects and organize across the organization to get them done.

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Team Sports Teamwork Bureaucracy 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Meanwhile, new technologies are making it easier for sustainability investments to pay off in the middle to long term. So for a compensation committee to justify a new metric, it needs to have a strong business case. But for those that are ready for the concrete commitment, it can pay off in long-term market leadership.

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Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. His first act was to abolish IBM's corporate executive committee. Never confuse charisma with leadership. They listen as well as they speak.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

When I ask, "How will this fit into your leadership strategy?" What do you mean, 'leadership strategy'? If a high-potential program is not part of a well-conceived strategy for leadership development, your main result is going to be a terrific program for training the future leaders of your competition. Come give us one!"

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Long-term Short-term Participative Training 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

When I ask, "How will this fit into your leadership strategy?" What do you mean, 'leadership strategy'? If a high-potential program is not part of a well-conceived strategy for leadership development, your main result is going to be a terrific program for training the future leaders of your competition. Come give us one!"

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Long-term Short-term Participative Training 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

Every year, FVA conducts an industry-wide technology search to identify new and emerging solutions, and it shares the results as a service to its member companies. And although he seriously doubted it could work in a field as specialized as drive-train technology, he was willing to find out. It might not actually work.

Innovation 8

Innovation Maturity Engineering Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Spend quality time with every member of the executive committee. Colin Watts, who has played a leadership role in innovation and strategy functions at Walgreens, Campbell Soup, Johnson & Johnson, and Weight Watchers, suggests getting a “clear market definition ideally grounded in customer insights.”

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Innovation Planning Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In its 2013 proxy statement , GE announced that it is searching for director candidates who will bring technology, marketing, finance — and “leadership” experience to the boardroom. Leadership Boards' In recent years, the competitive fires of capitalism have been pushing directors to the fore as well.

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Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.

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Tacit Knowledge Long-term McKinsey Venture Funding 15

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

GE vice chairman Beth Comstock spoke to the issues of speed and continual customer input in a 2014 interview, when she said, “We work in these very complex, deep industrial technologies. You want to get as close to perfection in some of these technologies as possible, but the goal also has to be progress, not just perfection.

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Company Airlines Ries Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

In the case of a retailer we studied, data and analytics were part of a difficult battle for market share. In the case of a telecom provider, a cross-functional executive committee was created to oversee the analytics team and ensure that its efforts were aligned with the company's strategy. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER.

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Strategy Committee Retail Information 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

The surest way to build a company whose leadership will outlast your own is to focus your attention on the few essential things that your company can do better than anyone else. Are we focused strategically on markets where we can compete effectively? Are we focused strategically on markets where we can compete effectively?

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Merchandising Budgeting Pharmaceuticals CEO 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

When the Chinese Communist Party’s central committee wraps up the Third Plenum on November 12, 2014, a shift from efficiency to innovation will likely be one of the major planks in its vision for China. However, only 13% believed that China would have overtaken the US on the technology frontier by then.

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Innovation Globalization Venture Capitalist GDP 8