Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams. Let me explain.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Design thinking has been recognized as an important means to innovate in the context of developing new products and technologies. Implementing a strategic technology plan. Michael Tardif has over twenty years of experience applying information technologies to the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of buildings.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 27, 2011

One can hardly imagine a decentralized decision- making process in his operations. General Electric and HCL Technologies provide a good counter example. At HCL Technologies, and India-based IT company, the corporate culture springs at least partly from a broader Asian idea of cooperative action. GE and HCL. Single market.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Robert Pozen knows a little something about thriving at the top — he’s the former chairman of MFS Investment Management, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, and the author of the book Extreme Productivity. What are the most pressing productivity issues executives are facing today, and how can they tackle them?

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Self-driving vehicles, once a science fiction technology, are rapidly becoming a reality that promises to transform our lives – making it safer and more efficient to move people and goods, while reinventing our thinking about transportation. Arizona startup Local Motors developed “Ollie,” the self-driving bus here.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

I further made recommendations that future charitable requests would go through committee and that the client’s partners and key executives were better suited by serving on community boards, thus polishing their own luster. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

New products are, of course, the province of R&D teams or research partners. Some boards have taken the principle further by forming their own innovation committee. Mattes, who had previously led major divisions at Hewlett-Packard, Siemens, and other technology-laden companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

What do the following items have in common: credit cards and streaming or recorded music, robots for production, CAD systems, telephone networks, digital games, computers in products like cars and vacuum cleaners, sensors, and video consoles used in remote mining? Answer: They are all digital and connectable. Coordination.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

France: Pushing quotas and operational roles. There has been a subsequent improvement from 11% to 15% of female Executive Committee members, and 70% of companies in the top 20 now have at least one woman on their senior executive teams – up from 60% last year. Likewise, the number in line or operational roles is essentially static.

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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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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

PL and CM: Coherent companies – those that possess a capabilities system that aligns their strategy with their product/service portfolio – generate superior performance over time, which is what we call the coherence premium. SD : What is the ‘coherence premium?’. SD : What does it mean to have a ‘right to win?’.

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

While security executives have a reputation for stymieing operations and product development with the burdens of technical operations, their role is actually to enable business. Make sure that security is included in discussions on new products and services. Focus as much on culture as technology.

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CAPEX Chief Financial Officer How To Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

report that the Republican National Committee released last week. It could well be that a charismatic candidate who appealed to minorities, made better use of campaign technology, and embraced some modest policy changes (mainly on immigration and gay marriage) could sweep Republicans back into the White House. Lafley and Roger L.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

For years, companies have been pouring money into people, processes, and technology that can help them manage risk. What about the risks that could affect the financial performance (or even the very survival) of the enterprise—risks like brand degradation or product relevance? This is where executives are far less confident.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Then come down—whether it is getting published or getting a new product into stores. Proceed with extreme caution.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

While it’s common in most for-profit and nonprofit businesses for centers of revenue generation to fluctuate in their productivity, a shift of this scale represents a sea change for the health care sector that it must face head-on. This means that to a significant degree historic areas of revenue generation will become generators of losses.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

This kind of competition often drives consolidation mergers, in which two firms combine their production and sales. More commonly, we think of disruptive competition as the rise of a technology or business model that upends the existing order in an industry. Treasury Department. competitors.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Executing this strategy required seamless integration of IBM's product capabilities with its geographic reach. This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Directness. He's personable, but blunt.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic. Corporate culture.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Over ensuing decades, the company expanded into an ever-more-bewildering array of product categories. Often entering new categories through acquisition, at one point it made rubber boots and tires; telephone and power cables; even household products like toilet paper (I’ve seen them myself).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

As a practical matter, for example, these changes in the global policy regime are forcing multinational corporations to scale back and sell parts of their international operations. Imports among the world’s 20 largest economies have fallen as a share of their gross domestic product for four consecutive years. at the forefront.

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Globalization Banking Policies Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

So the chiefs of strategy and technology formed a unique circle of peers — 18 diverse members from across the organization whose task over the next six months was to ask and answer what they felt were the most pressing strategic questions facing the company. That, in brief, is the concept of a leadership circle.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2012

The company was led — as it had been for decades — by a corporate executive committee (CEC) of the top 11 officers of the company who ran the businesses and the corporate functions. That council of barons was replaced by teams for strategy, technology, and operations whose members included the next generation of operating leaders.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

Spare me the slick info-product sales people, and give me authentic, professional practitioners of the art and science of leadership. Consultant training directs the completion of certain skills assessments and a line of questioning that is designed to result in a predictable product; A great leader.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today, many high-profile companies— Cisco , Google , IBM , Samsung , Siemens , Disney , Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank , to name a few—contain such roving consulting groups to help solve the most critical strategy and operations problems throughout the business. Exceed client expectations. Measure success. Customer satisfaction.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2015

Firms who buy up vast swaths of dubious patents and then use them to squeeze settlements out of deep-pocketed (or not) technology companies and their customers troll the federal courtrooms of the Eastern District of Texas, notorious for its excessive jury awards to plaintiffs. That’s an increasingly serious problem.

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Innovation Technology System Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2014

Urban physics has the power to transform workspaces to reflect companies’ true ethos and values, to instill a sense of belonging in employees, and to encourage productivity, engagement, and overall happiness. Consider these ways to think more like an urban physicist in your next office steering committee meeting: Generate more data.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2015

The rationale is simple and elegant: A company with experience selling pharmaceutical products should be able to successfully and profitably sell its large customers (health plans, delivery systems, and governments) other health care offerings. In addition, many top pharma customers (payers, etc.) also sell health care services and solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

As chair of the executive committee that oversaw the entire project, he commissioned 12 planning groups (comprising 150 physicians, nurses, other staff, trainees, patients, and community members) who met weekly for three months. We lined up most of our vendors more than two years in advance. And that saved everyone time and money.

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Health Care Construction Planning Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

And while there''s ample competition from Android – the top operating system in the U.S. Does a unit of market share matter if it''s not being used?" "Welcoming a few non-executive women to your Board has little impact on what companies look like inside," she writes, arguing for progress on executive committees as well.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Outside of 'think tanks' for company executive committees, full-scope education does not occur. Organizations of all sizes must have the Think Tank.which delineates future operations, including education and training. Generally, they are vendors who sell 'off the shelf' products that target small niches within the organization.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Opportunities may range from improving core operations to creating new lines of business — even in the same industry. This information on product returns, warranties, and customer complaints contained a wealth of information on consumer habits and preferences. Size the opportunities and threats. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. The transformation in education technology and markets is happening with the business leaders and money-men of higher education barely present.

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. Some of the first business functionaries were railroad telegraph operators who managed schedules.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

These costs are not operational costs, such as commission fees or transportation costs. Changing technology and markets make it impossible to foresee future contingencies. These processes must be embedded in the governance the partnership — in the workings of the JV board, joint steering committee, or other forums.

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