Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. In her new book, The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect, Collaborate, Influence – And Lead , she shows why the Beta model is the key to both business and career success. Earlier in her career, she was an operating executive at R.

Venture Capitalist 77

Venture Capitalist Decentralization Idea Generation Books 77

Eric Jacobson

JULY 22, 2014

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. In her book, The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect, Collaborate, Influence – And Lead , she shows why the Beta model is the key to both business and career success. Earlier in her career, she was an operating executive at R. I call it Alpha.

Venture Capitalist 60

Venture Capitalist Decentralization Idea Generation Books 60

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 21, 2014

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. In her new book, The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect, Collaborate, Influence – And Lead , she shows why the Beta model is the key to both business and career success. Earlier in her career, she was an operating executive at R.

Venture Capitalist 55

Venture Capitalist Decentralization Books Idea Generation 55

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” This initiative will soon connect all 1.3 In turn, this will foster better social outcomes and create new markets and consumer segments.

Company 15

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

In China look at the unique organization of entrepreneurial cells Zhang Ruimin has created at Haier, and in France look at Vinci Group’s success, under Xavier Huillard, with a radically decentralized model designed to foster entrepreneurial creativity in its three thousand constituent companies.

Drucker 15

Drucker Long-term Short-term Decentralization 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In the traditional model of electricity generation, large power plants produce power at a centralized location, which operates at a considerable distance from the points of consumption. For our study, we collected data on 512 strategic initiatives, both centralized and decentralized, launched by 48 leading U.S.

Company 8

Company Disruptive Innovation Decentralization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

“We want to be the number one or number two in all the markets in which we operate” is one of those. For example, consider “We want to increase operational efficiency; we will target Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; and we will divest business X.” Many so-called strategies are in fact goals.

Strategy 15

Strategy Bottom-up Balanced Scorecard Resistance 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

But the data, gathered in our new study " Stop Starving Scale " and compared against benchmarks from APQC (American Productivity & Quality Center), hint at a little-known story: most global NGOs today struggle to master the complexities of managing efficient, integrated operations in large part due to restrictions placed on them by funders.

Globalization 12

Globalization NGO Benchmarking Decentralization 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The rapid pace of change in business and technology means that more and more companies will find themselves being disrupted. One large media organization faces large incumbent players and operates in a market that is growing quickly. We call this operating structure the “network of teams.” What’s a CEO to do?

CEO 8

CEO Leadership Metrics Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. The constant need to drive towards operational efficiency can be avoided through the creation of new organizations.

Innovation 17

Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

In the 1960s and 1970s, he was already anticipating some of the implications of the Big Shift just beginning to emerge: the transition to an information economy, the centrality of knowledge work, and the transformative impact of digital technology on all types of work.

Drucker 14

Drucker Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

In our work at the European Center for Strategic Innovation (ECSI) , we have extensively researched the role of successful Innovation Units. At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level. One remarkable example is Johnson & Johnson’s Innovation Unit.

Innovation 14

Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2014

While retailers and cable companies moved their businesses online years ago, many insurers, struggling with legacy technology and outmoded organizational structures, are playing catch up. Their operating model and governance are suited to the organization’s digital maturity, size and capability levels. Technology'

Insurance 11

Insurance Company Maturity Decentralization 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

It makes much more economic and operational sense to create and leverage a central cadre of professionals than to ask each clinical unit, on its own, to acquire such expertise. Physicians will see these scores, along with information on patients’ preferences, when they meet with patients.

Health Care 8

Health Care Management Cost Efficiency 8

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

Now however, we’re in a third-generation of the learning organization, with new technologies speeding up the rate at which we can both absorb new information and test our assumptions. In a superjob, technology has not only changed the nature of the skills the job requires but has changed the nature of the work and the job itself.”

Competitive Advantage 57

Competitive Advantage Kaizen Technology Learning-by-Doing 57

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

And then we found Alibaba — and it found us — and that connection led to the partnership that ultimately proved to be remarkably successful. This success was built on what we learned from our prior efforts, as well as a resolve to take new risks to do what was necessary to succeed.

Chief Financial Officer 15

Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Operations IPO 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress. The same goes for technology.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

Over the past 20 years the economy has progressively moved away from the traditional model of centralized organizations, where large operators, often with a dominant position, were responsible for providing a service to a group of passive consumers. Recently, a new technology has emerged that could change this imbalance.

Decentralization 15

Decentralization Cooper Technology Operations 15

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

JULY 24, 2013

Each approach has very different objectives and measures of success. At Boeing, all enterprise technology (including digital) investments are managed by the CTO, which enables significant synergies. Enterprises with this structure and approach believe the key to their success is innovation via local management. Convergence.

CIO 13

CIO Organization Committee CTO 13

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Lastly, don’t decentralize marketing…consistent messaging across markets, mediums and constituencies is critical. Marketing is not a part-time endeavor, and if you don’t have a qualified C-level marketing executive leading the charge, don’t just trust things to the most vocal staff member.

Blog 303

Blog Marketing Succession Brand 303

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The number of industrial robots in operation around the world has grown rapidly in recent years, but nowhere more so than in China, where some 30% of the world’s robots are in operation. It looked at the role technology plays in economic recoveries, both in terms of economic growth and the number of jobs.

TCO 83

TCO Decentralization CAPEX Industry 83

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

If we want to talk about success, we need to talk about outcomes , not just outputs. ” But if the outcome — selling more products — hasn’t been achieved, then we have not been successful. This means that most companies are settling for “done” rather than doing the hard work of targeting success.

Project 8

Project Management Uncertainty Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

of the votes were in favor, providing a strong signal that climate change is an important financial risk and that shareholders want to know more about what companies are doing to transform their operations and products to remain competitive in a low-carbon world.

Tips 8

Tips Supply Chain Proposal Decentralization 8

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 27, 2011

After all, one reliable pathway to success is to imitate (or at least closely examine) the top predators and how they function. One can hardly imagine a decentralized decision- making process in his operations. Looking back, we find that even with his successes, the model didn't translate into other areas. GE and HCL.

Succession 113

Succession Welch Leadership Diversity 113

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

it is cheap to operate and expensive to upgrade. Or do we need better technologies that can be more efficient at using the internet we've already got? Only through technology do we have the power to solve the problems facing the internet, while preserving its ultimate value. Needless to say, I believe in this technology.

Fixed Costs 18

Fixed Costs Technology Efficiency Innovation 18

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

it is cheap to operate and expensive to upgrade. Or do we need better technologies that can be more efficient at using the internet we've already got? Only through technology do we have the power to solve the problems facing the internet, while preserving its ultimate value. Needless to say, I believe in this technology.

Fixed Costs 11

Fixed Costs Technology Efficiency Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While flights of imagination from science-fiction writers, filmmakers, and techno-futurists involve things like flying cars and teleportation, in practice smart technology is making inroads in a piecemeal fashion, often in rather banal circumstances. The potential for technologies to enable smart societies is rising. trillion by 2026.

Benchmarking 15

Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 15