Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Instead, our interviews found a willingness to let organizational forms and structures evolve naturally, developing in line with the identity of the enterprise. Some of the first business functionaries were railroad telegraph operators who managed schedules. The functional model of organization dates back to the 1850s.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget. Departments can automate a business process in the time it would take to enter IT's development pipeline. Other managers might take notice and started building their own databases.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

All too often companies misunderstand the value of their cybersecurity teams and underfund their development. Security teams have to take an active role in protecting the company as products are being developed; patching security holes in products after they’re out in the world is important but not enough. Insight Center.

Team 8

Team P&L Engineering Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

manufacturers do source from domestic suppliers, they tend to regard them purely as a cost center. Past work by McKinsey found that inefficiencies in manufacturer-supplier interactions add up to roughly 5% of development, tooling, and product costs in the auto industry. Even when large U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In a recent, high-profile example, HP announced in July that it will power all of its Texas data centers with wind energy for 12 years while lowering its operating costs. Here’s why now is the time right to invest in renewable energy sources for the internet: Renewable energy can help reduce a cost center.

Energy 8

Energy Globalization Hedge Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2011

They outperform their industry because they've figured out how to enable the key asset of the new economy: scalably leverage many people's contributions, including the app developers eager to piggyback on the industry's most attractive devices. Yet most organizations still operate much as they did in the industrial age.

Hamel 16

Hamel Customer Loyalty Creativity Cost Center 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

From where we sit, both sides have legitimate beefs: IT complains that, despite the increasing penetration of technology into every nook and cranny of the business , it doesn’t have a seat at the table and no one understands how difficult their jobs are given the constraints under which they operate. It is time to put a stop to this.

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Technology Cost Center Constraint 8