Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Similarly, when another company needed to reduce its expenses, the pain was spread like peanut butter across the different cost centers because the senior management team couldn’t reach a decision about where to focus — which meant that areas with growth potential lost as much muscle as those with less opportunity.

Construction 9

Construction Cost Center Committee Licensing 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

Government in its entirety is a cost-center to society, so we desperately need to create not just jobs, but private sector jobs. Just as we moved from machines to electronics after the second world war, now we are moving into a new age where all business is driven by networks, and the remote control to your life is your mobile phone.

Cost Center 12

Cost Center Entrepreneur Fashion Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2011

With peers in a few CEO roundtables, I've heard things like: "I plan on hiring 3 biz dev people to get $345K per headcount in revenues." Talent, purpose, culture and creating meaning is the peopley work mostly viewed by the performance folks as "cost centers," or departments that exist only to manage legal risk.

Hamel 16

Hamel Customer Loyalty Creativity Cost Center 16

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

In the event you chose not to put the manager on a “performance improvement plan” (which both you and the employee know is a scripted formality), the mandated gravitas of your critique might get you the intended outcome – the employee’s resignation. Your competitor is getting nothing but a disingenuous cost center.

Performance Review 100

Performance Review Review Learning-by-Doing Document 100

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). Interchangeable parts spurred ideas about structuring assembly lines and logistics.

Management 12

Management Software BPM Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

And being more strategic means being more engaged in discussions and planning with marketing. Like marketing, IT is often seen as a cost center rather than revenue generator. .” Collaborate on a digital road map. As I see it, the emerging IT is more focused on external customers. This means being more strategic.

Marketing 8

Marketing Banking Technology System 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

But he doesn't plan to go to another prestigious university. Typically an in-house cost center, service is usually viewed as a necessary evil and constantly targeted for "efficiency." A Stanford Professor quit his job. This is more than a story of online learning or mass dissemination. It can change how we to co-create value.

Participative 15

Participative Decentralization Globalization Cost Center 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

We need policies and plans to provide educational tools and resources that will help cultivate growth and new marketplace opportunities for Hispanic small businesses owners, as well as culturally-relevant training to get more Hispanics in leadership roles within large corporations. Think profit center, not cost center.

Policies 15

Policies Short-term Education Diversity 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

We need policies and plans to provide educational tools and resources that will help cultivate growth and new marketplace opportunities for Hispanic small businesses owners, as well as culturally-relevant training to get more Hispanics in leadership roles within large corporations. Think profit center, not cost center.

Policies 8

Policies Short-term Education Diversity 8