Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Quality is not something that managers assign others to achieve. Rather than assume all is wrong or right with an organization and take a defensive posture, management must view quality as essential to their economic survival or growth. It is not enough for management to endorse quality programs; they must actively participate.

Quality 50

Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Leaders consciously or unconsciously lump employees into three categories: the “stars” consisting of those in management as well high potential employees, the much larger “core” made up of solid contributors, and the rest, employees whose contributions and fit with the organization are questionable. Connecting the U.S.

Long-term 207

Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

To be constructive, we also asked about the things that foster innovation.) The culture at large companies is typically built on a foundation of operational excellence and predictable growth. But creating new places where people can gather to work on projects — subcultures within the larger culture — can be constructive.

Innovation 14

Innovation Company Budgeting Survey 14

Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 3, 2023

Have Talent Management Practices. Part of that involves having talent management practices so you can properly oversee and actually manage your employees. Even ongoing incentives for high-performing employees can be recommended. Your business could become unsustainable to operate.

Succession 156

Succession Word of Mouth Marketing Talent Management Learning-by-Doing 156

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Construction began in 1884 and by some accounts continued around the clock until her death in 1922. ” — the questions we would ask about other kinds of constructions. ” Is management research a folly? is the best-selling management book in history) to prizes to Google hits and article downloads.

Management 8

Management Retail Construction Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Traditional mass manufacturing is based on principles of “Scientific Management” that date back to the 19th century. Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. Managers hold virtually all decision-making authority.

Lean Manufacturing 8

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

My research shows that problems with the supply of equipment and materials — which I call “operational failures” — disrupt care and waste up to 10% of nurses’ workdays. Through a series of observational and experimental studies, I uncovered several reasons for the occurrence of operational failures. Why Do Operational Failures Persist?

System 8

System Health Care Operations Construction 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. When functional boundaries prevail, there is no construct for managing capabilities.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

The EU’s case asserts, among other things, that Google unfairly exploits its dominance in search engines and smartphone operating systems to restrict competition in shopping services, ad placement services, and smartphone app store markets. Google has appealed and is now preparing its defense. What Is a Digital Replica?

Company 8

Company Engineering Operations Construction 8

Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2011

Dean of the Rotman School of Management, Roger Martin, states in Fixing the Game , "We haven’t looked deeper into blameworthy CEO behavior to understand what really caused it. Instead, we’ve looked for a new scapegoat, chosen to operate from the same fundamental theories, and doubled down on the same fixes." THE STORY BEGINS.

Rogers 264

Rogers Simon Crisis Bottom-up 264

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

While pay transparency may accelerate attention being paid to remedying pay discrimination, managers should consider moves toward transparency with their eyes wide open. All efforts to justify these rewards, based on claims that payments to outside fund managers for such exceptional results would have been greater, fell on deaf ears.

Comparison 8

Comparison Incentives Outsourcing Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

The senior commercial and scientific directors formed a “circle of leaders” comprised of 23 senior managers who had no meaningful history of collaboration on strategic initiatives. The only questions the circle should avoid are what to do about current operational problems.

Leadership 9

Leadership Diversity Committee Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2018

Although concerned leaders try to address this problem in many ways — teamwork exercises, mentorship, perks, innovative office spaces, and incentive programs — their solutions miss a simple but pivotal point: Employees are engaged by engaging jobs. Establish Clear Goals for the Big Thinkers.

Creativity 8

Creativity Restructuring PR Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

The answer may be that the innovator’s dilemma is no longer the only paradox at play in innovation management. For managers of industrial-era organizations, the economics of investing in disruptive opportunities were vexing. So naturally, as a manager, you left such innovations to new entrants. The Old Dilemma.

Christensen 8

Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2014

As the world’s economies became more intertwined in recent decades, economists — Harberger among them — began constructing open-economy models that showed workers bearing a larger share of the burden. This makes intuitive sense. Consumers, meanwhile, can buy from foreign suppliers. By comparison, workers are pretty immobile.

Analysis 8

Analysis Comparison Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

How well they''re built and operated is crucial to economic growth and is a key arbiter of an economy''s competitiveness — and yet, virtually every economy faces an array of infrastructure challenges. There is every incentive to be smarter about tackling our infrastructure problems. Pessimism rules, but it needn''t be that way.

Transportation 8

Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Consequently, in 2012 the Army focused on reducing that variation and implemented a redesigned performance management system to address key cost and performance drivers. The Army addressed this disconnect in clinician incentives by developing new workload standards that reflect the type of care being provided.

System 8

System Health Care Quality Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

At home, the UK faces dissolution pressures if Scotland seeks to salvage its EU membership, while the EU has every incentive to make Brexit a painful experience to deter other defectors, making the outcome of negotiations difficult to predict. There are significant drivers of uncertainty domestically and abroad. Real economy. Run scenarios.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Short-term Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Many business leaders are fond of the spurious Peter Drucker quote that “you can’t manage what you can’t measure.” I understood the concern of our store operators, but customers were asking for the service.” To manage the risks of measurement biases, companies must check and recheck their core metrics.

Metrics 8

Metrics Business Model Retail Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

But most successful companies used electricity and motors to reinvent their existing businesses, whether in manufacturing, transportation, or construction. Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. We normally think of people as something to be managed.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 2, 2020

The rule allows employers to use non-discretionary bonuses and incentive payments to satisfy up to 10 per cent of the standard salary level. There will be no changes in overtime protection for police officers, paramedics, nurses and laborers, including those in non-management production line work.

Safe Harbor 84

Safe Harbor Proposal Long-term Comparison 84

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

First constructed to defuse tensions following two world wars and help create a bigger and deeper marketplace, it was then refurbished as an aspirational club to which poorer southern European and former Soviet Bloc countries could belong. Regulation-drafters must be replaced with change managers, and circulars with action plans.

Long-term 8

Long-term Crisis Politics Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The Harvard researchers believed that their expertise in value-based health care delivery could help the physicians and the insurer construct a superior BP contract in which the insurer paid a lower price, providers preserved their financial margins, and patients enjoyed superior outcomes. The Motives of the Pilot’s Members.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care How To Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

In slightly more formal terms, Id suggest that they were able to take on, at least in tiny part, five of Robert Merton and Zvi Bodies six standard functions of a financial system: settling payments, providing information, setting incentives, pooling resources, and transferring resources. We ask that you adhere to the following guidelines.

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They go by names like corporate social responsibility, sustainability, shareholder advocacy, social assessment and auditing, consumer action, government regulation, leadership development, ethics, realignment of incentives , attracting long-term investors , creating shared value , and more. treating suppliers as partners). Change the Rules.

CEO 11

CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. The returns to society and the overall economy were equally impressive.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

  Perhaps there is a third interpretation, one that would indicate that the advertising gurus over at Audi are geniuses because they managed to inflame a controversial subject to the point where a blogger would waste some of his precious time writing to his 3 loyal readers about a commercial! 

Politics 77

Politics Blog Travel Letter 77

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2018

” Another is, “How will a company like that ever be managed?” Likewise, the airlines have demonstrated that well-constructed alliances can be a powerful way to build market position and capitalize on scale. These new organizations are likely to operate quite differently from traditional corporations.

Incubator 8

Incubator Insurance Cost of Capital Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2018

It’s a potential problem in all kinds of areas: colleagues who have a strong rivalry at work, managers who need to make their numbers for the quarter, even political parties that spend campaign funds to attract votes. Now, Sam also managed the bank’s error account. Of course, this is illegal and unethical.

Ethics 13

Ethics Comparison Participative Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

After deploying to six metro areas in six years, however, company management announced in late 2016 that it was “pausing” future deployments. Construction costs fell, and the speed of deployments increased. Continued expansion of broadband capacity was on the verge of stalling.

Succession 8

Succession Construction Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

In a perfect world, governments would have the cash and the consensus to fund and coordinate the construction of the infrastructure required to sustainably accommodate a rapidly urbanizing world. The world is not short on capital — a startling $43 trillion of assets is currently under management in the United States alone.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2011

Feeling cooped up in the executive offices and oppressed by the presence of the media, MacDonagle had gone outside to breathe some air — actually, some tobacco smoke — and had invited the sharp young program manager Samantha Van Sant to join him. And you have to have a contract that gets the incentives right.".

Case Study 14

Case Study Incentives Report Budgeting 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

We wanted to become the Southwest Airlines of new home construction. So we added more training and developed incentive programs. Now that's incentive! But we might not have made those changes, or made them in time, if there hadn't been that source of management inspiration. That also meant focusing on service quality.

Airlines 14

Airlines Chief Executive Officer Attrition Incentives 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.”

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. At Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. Executive education students at Harvard Business School. Times are tough for many businesses, yet some are holding their own, even thriving.

Education 8

Education Execution Content Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

For example, Walmart doesn't succeed just because of a strong operations group. It has sophisticated functions that together manage user-generated content, the in-depth tracking of consumer buying behavior, and the innovation of new features based on the resulting insights. Permanent cross-functional teams tend to fare better.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

Take the incentive out of “climbing the ladder.” ” People don’t fight for management roles as much when management is not an end goal. At Facebook, moving into management is not a promotion. At Facebook, moving into management is not a promotion. It’s a lateral move, a parallel track.

Politics 14

Politics Tactics Review Learning-by-Doing 14