Development, Finance and IT Strategy

Healthy Raises

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 14, 2016

In the global economy, each company is constantly adjusting its strategies to enable it to stay ahead of its competition. Cost management strategies are equally important, as the management of all firms is pressured to see how they can manage the cost to help improve the bottom line.

Incentives

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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Their goal is to attract, engage, develop and retain employees – moving talent into, through and out of the organization. HR systems emphasize long-term relationships and high performance, with big investments in selection and development, amortized over a long career.

Strategy

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How Leading Companies Build the Workforces They Need to Stay Ahead

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Business-critical roles — that is, the jobs that are central to differentiating a company from its competitors and successfully executing its strategy — will also change. By recognizing this critical gap early, GE has been able to develop strategies to close it systematically, over time. Take insurance, for example.

Company

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You’re Never Too Experienced to Fake It Till You Learn It

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

It’s how they develop and grow (just as children do, first imitating their parents, then their peers). In my research on how experienced managers and professionals step up to bigger leadership roles, I have observed both the value and the difficulty of returning to our youthful, fake-it-till-you-learn-it strategies.

Learning-by-Doing

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. Workers were carefully trained to follow processes exactly as they were laid out.

Organization

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Corporations: Donate Your Skills, Not Just Your Money

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

We set people up to use their area of expertise, be it strategy, accounting, operations, technology, finance, or human resources. Our professionals cite pro bono engagements not only as critical to their job satisfaction and skills development but also among the best experiences they've had at Deloitte.

Skills

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Yes, Managing IT Is Your Job

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

In a previous post , I described the shift in roles as ING, the Netherlands bank, moves from a traditional method of developing new systems in major steps — with design documents and functional specifications thrown over the wall — to making quick, small changes to systems (using "Agile Scrum").

Competitive Advantage

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Many Companies Still Don’t Know How to Compete in the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

It developed over 1,000 patents related to image capture that commanded billions of dollars in licensing revenues (for access to its “218” patent alone, it was paid $550 million by Samsung and $414 million by LG). By 2005, Kodak ranked No. digital-camera sales (No. 3 globally).

Company

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How to Compete When IT Is Abundant

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Only the largest of enterprises could afford the best technologies, and even for those with the largest bank accounts, IT strategies were limited to basics like CRM , ERP , or email. Kimberly Clark utilizes Salesforce''s Chatter to connect to its customers for development of products. Today, though, Carr''s prediction is coming true.

Supply Chain

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Don’t Turn Your Sales Team Loose Without a Strategy

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

To borrow a telecom industry metaphor, a deal with a customer is the “last mile” in connecting any strategy with business development efforts and marketplace results. So, for most firms, de facto strategy is the aggregate result of the deals their salespeople bring in. But a market never buys anything.

Strategy

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A Playbook for Making America More Entrepreneurial

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

In the past, economic development has prioritized big businesses. But these economic development strategies focused on big businesses, sometimes known as “elephant hunting,” may overstate the importance of large firms. A supplier might need a working capital loan to finance a big order.

Entrepreneur

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Fighting Chronic Disease Starts with Better Pediatric Care

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The United States spends 40% more per patient than other developed countries but suffers the worse overall health outcomes. Instead of being reactive and treating conditions already present, the objective should be to proactively identify children at risk before they develop a health condition and keep them on the path to wellness.

Health Care

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Marketing Analytics Can Improve the Customer Experience - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM GOOGLE ANALYTICS 360 SUITE

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

Almost every organization today is putting customer experience (CX) at the core of its strategy, aiming to provide products and services that meet customers at every touch point. Data-Driven Insight.

Marketing

Marketing Content Insurance Brand

Don't Draw the Wrong Lessons from Better Place's Bust

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Better Place would then use these multi-year contracts to finance its infrastructure investments and battery depreciation. When Better Place was founded, its strategy called for initial rollouts in Israel and Denmark. Within months of the decision it had captured 1% market share in Israel, but by then it was too late.

Mass Marketing

Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term

Nabob and the Coffee Kerfuffle: How the 120-year-old brand managed to maintain its challenger status.

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

As Ogilvy’s Ian MacKellar, who helped develop the current creative platform, would say: “For any campaign or creative idea, it helps to have a conflict, a tension, an enemy.” It made sense, because we looked at the competition as our well-financed enemy, and so there was no way we could win at the spending war,” says Bell. “So

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Healthy Raises

The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

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How Leading Companies Build the Workforces They Need to Stay Ahead

You’re Never Too Experienced to Fake It Till You Learn It

There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Corporations: Donate Your Skills, Not Just Your Money

Yes, Managing IT Is Your Job

Many Companies Still Don’t Know How to Compete in the Digital Age

How to Compete When IT Is Abundant

Don’t Turn Your Sales Team Loose Without a Strategy

A Playbook for Making America More Entrepreneurial

Fighting Chronic Disease Starts with Better Pediatric Care

Marketing Analytics Can Improve the Customer Experience - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM GOOGLE ANALYTICS 360 SUITE

Don't Draw the Wrong Lessons from Better Place's Bust

Nabob and the Coffee Kerfuffle: How the 120-year-old brand managed to maintain its challenger status.

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