Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2018

If you still have all, or part of, your company’s operations in-house, you might want to look at these five ways in which outsourcing is leading other companies just like yours to massive growth faster than they ever thought possible. Top Talent within Easy Reach. Company Expansion Doesn’t Require Larger Premises.

Outsourcing 50

Outsourcing Company Cost Technology 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Or, put more positively: have a much stronger sense of duty, independent of the CEO, actually to do what corporate law says directors should do — really oversee the management of the corporation at a fundamental, not micro, level. All this in addition to stiffening of long-standing regulation of markets [e.g.

Corporate Accountability 8

Corporate Accountability CEO Long-term Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

What makes this case of corporate accountability so important is that it is a discretionary matter of "private ordering" under JP Morgan risk management policies, not under a mandatory rule contained in Dodd-Frank. Claw-backs or hold-backs of past awards could be appropriate for the departed employees.

CIO 8

CIO Committee Risk Management Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

This requirement is in their very DNA or, better, the code we programmed into them when we invented them; seeing as how that was close to 1,000 years ago, corporations have had a pretty long and successful run as the dominant business entity. The strategy works, temporarily putting more cash on the positive side of the balance sheet.

Technology 8

Technology Short-term Long-term Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

Management concepts, by contrast, operate in poorly regulated environments where failures are often brushed under boardroom or faculty carpets. Still, market research suggests that future markets for its products and services could be huge — with the U.N. But the TBL wasn’t designed to be just an accounting tool.

TBL 11

TBL Bottom-up Long-term Early Adopters 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Heins, the new CEO of Research in Motion (RIM), has been plucked from the company's relatively obscure COO position to fill the giant shoes of two longtime co-CEOs as they depart at the behest of angry investors. Alternatively, it could make the most of its strong position in emerging markets to focus on low-cost smartphones.

Strategy 15

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 15