In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 15, 2012

Proactivity is the secret to long-term success. Steve Jobs and Larry Page took note of the environment in which their companies would operate but fretted little about it. That’s because success for Page and Jobs hinged on the strategic choices they made – primarily which products and applications to bet on.

CEO 242

CEO Chief Executive Officer Critical Success Factor Discount 242

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Instead, they should use a portfolio tool that classifies all existing, planned, and potential digital investments into four categories based on an assessment of their current and future contribution to business success. With this model, an investment can be defined as strategic, key operational, support, or high potential.

Tools 8

Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

His "Obama for America" fundraising , analytics and "get out the vote" operation was a masterpiece of agile electoral innovation and entrepreneurship. The Obama campaign's techniques, tools and technologies deserve detailed and dedicated attention from every organization that takes data-driven decisions seriously. They're right.

Marketing 8

Marketing Chief Technology Officer Case Study Critical Success Factor 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Most successful technical leaders I know avoid getting in the way of their best people's productivity. Then again, Mayer's Google background (and impact) suggested that she was predisposed to consider physical (co)presence as essential to digital innovation success as computational/design brilliance. It's possible.

Critical Success Factor 8

Critical Success Factor CEO Agility Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

One of the most critical success factors we found at Coty was that it was not who was tapped as a leader or even a team’s technical skills that mattered most. Operations in a Connected World. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Kotter’s book Accelerate.). Insight Center.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Kotter Critical Success Factor Learning-by-Doing 9

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Their future success is contingent upon becoming disproportionately more valuable as more people use them. A commitment to a desired business outcome is the critical success factor. successful big data overseers seek to answer, "What value matters most, and what marriage of data and algorithms gets us there?"

Execution 16

Execution Critical Success Factor Engineering Innovation 16