Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

We thought that creative, capability-rich companies would have paid a lot of attention to the way they organized and the value that restructuring gave them. Instead, our interviews found a willingness to let organizational forms and structures evolve naturally, developing in line with the identity of the enterprise.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. To be sure, robots will help people develop these types of skills, but a person – preferably you – will possess them.

Skills 15

Skills Morale Ethics System 15

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Effective followership plays such an important role in the development of future leadership skills that freshman at all the United States service academies (the Air Force Academy, West Point, Annapolis, and the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies) spend their first year in formal follower roles.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

From leadership transitions and restructurings, to mergers and acquisitions, to regulatory changes, there seems to be constant unrest in the workforce. As part of their change story, they developed a unifying internal communications campaign called the “Nature of Next” that articulated the reasoning and vision for the acquisition.

Resistance 15

Resistance Commitment Uncertainty Restructuring 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

workers and unemployed citizens tells the story: The majority of workers surveyed (55%) report that they are under pressure to develop additional skills to succeed in their current and future jobs. As a result, they tend to focus narrowly on technology skills, the Accenture survey reports. An Accenture survey of 1,088 U.S.

Skills 14

Skills Survey Human Resources Document 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

The complexity of the Shuttle and its reliance on 1970''s technology drove costs up. Working against NASA as well was a heritage of exploration: unique space missions that pushed technologies and space travel to the edge. SpaceX developed a plan for sustaining the lower-cost business model over many years. They think big.

Cost 8

Cost Innovation Long-term Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

P&G is in the midst of a major restructuring, and has laid off thousands of people. P&G''s board has been under a great deal of pressure from an activist investor who has made his views on the pace of the restructuring clear and vocal. Of course a company should never neglect its largest developed markets.

P&L 8

P&L Restructuring Price CEO 8

Skip Prichard

MARCH 21, 2021

From demographics to technology, the economy is changing dramatically and so is the way we work. Policy makers must ensure that with this much more fluid work that workers are supported with good pay, good benefits, collective bargaining rights and continued skills development regardless of the construct in which they are working.

Trends 102

Trends Policies Career Real Estate 102

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Once upon a time, “organization design” meant bringing in a slew of consultants to oversee a large-scale organizational restructuring, most often intended to take out big chunks of cost during an economic downturn. Are you competing on the basis of on-going product or technological innovation?

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 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. Creating a leadership circle is a step toward addressing these shortfalls.

Leadership 10

Leadership Diversity Committee Long-term 10

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

These free tech tools can be directly applied in a work role or used simply to build one’s creative and technical skills. These free tech tools can be directly applied in a work role or used simply to build one’s creative and technical skills. Put these four technologies in your tech toolbox. Docs.Zone PDF Converter: docs.zone.

Tools 50

Tools Document Restructuring Software 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

To this end, teachers’ work has subsequently been the subject of major restructuring over the past three decades. Teachers also have little influence over professional development content, school-wide organization, or school budget decisions. Schools needed to function more like businesses and successfully compete for students.

Education 8

Education Survey Stress Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

As digital technologies permeate all aspects of their operations, companies around the world anticipate the need for massive change over the next five years, according to a new global survey by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services. Read More from DXC Technology: The Questions IT Should Be Asking to Empower Employees.

Technology 8

Technology Company Content Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Technology has forced music artists to completely rethink the way they approach their businesses. They’re extending their brand into areas like technology, gaming, fashion, and lifestyle content — essentially becoming entertainment platforms. Use creative content to communicate our brand’s point-of-view.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Comcast, DISH Network, AMC holdings, Liberty Media, News Corporation, and Viacom have traditionally had dual-class shares — arguably to maintain news independence — a more important recent development is the widespread adoption of dual-class structure by technology companies. So, a one-size-fits-all policy would not work.

Class 10

Class Maturity IPO Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

In August 1987, for example, under severe United States pressure, the Israel government abruptly and controversially cancelled the Lavi fighter development project that was to be Israel's answer to the F-16 and the societal equivalent of NASA's moon program. The reality is, they almost always adapt and grow in creative and novel ways.

Company 8

Company Bureaucracy Restructuring Bottom-up 8