Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Mazzeo : We were continually surprised by the creative strategies that small businesses had developed to compete better in their markets. Instead, we learned that catalytic converters come in all shapes and sizes and it is impossible to know -- without cracking it open -- how valuable the precious metals inside might be.

Travel 74

Travel Learning-by-Doing PR Open-book 74

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Seeking to extend its technological edge (particularly in miniaturization), it acquired more than 100 startup companies while pursuing a vast portfolio of research and product development projects. Nokia was so immersed in executing its strategy that it lost sight of its purpose. ” Develop corporate plasticity.

Strategy 13

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 13

Eric Jacobson

JULY 2, 2014

Mazzeo : We were continually surprised by the creative strategies that small businesses had developed to compete better in their markets. Instead, we learned that catalytic converters come in all shapes and sizes and it is impossible to know -- without cracking it open -- how valuable the precious metals inside might be.

Succession 78

Succession Travel Learning-by-Doing PR 78

The Empowered Buisness

JANUARY 2, 2014

I am in favor of developing a mindset and culture that focuses on positivity, as long as it is authentic. So many companies fall short in their goals because they overemphasize strategy with little/no attention to the cultural aspects that drive it. Strategy can be imitated by your competitors. Don’t get me wrong.

Company 135

Company Organization Cost Self-aware 135

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

When Roger Enrico took the helm as CEO of Frito-Lay, in 1991, the company was developing an innovative and distinctive approach to direct-store delivery that would allow it to consistently deliver the right products to the right stores at the right time. Second, rethink costs in terms of capabilities.

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Cost How To Budgeting Strategic Planning 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The people who work for Ryanair know what the priority is, and thus know how to allocate their time on the job. Among the organizations I have worked with — and others, such as Apple, Amazon, Lego, Ikea, and Western Union, that have highly developed senses of priorities — the payoffs are considerable.

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Project How To Objective Efficiency 8

Change Starts Here

APRIL 24, 2012

When I started putting the methods and tools together that helped my clients overcome challenges and brought them success, a common framework emerged for how to be an effective change agent. The half-hour audio recording, “How to Be an Irresistible Change Agent.”. Define whose support you need and figure out how to get it.

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Webinar Price Resistance Workshop 78

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 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

For the past 10 years, my research, writing, and consulting have focused on the question of how to build robust ecosystem strategies. The blind spot in its strategy and the root cause of its collapse, was its failure to see how progress in the other components of its ecosystem would eliminate the value of the end goal.

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Company How To Technology Strategy 8

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 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

A crucial element of its strategy to win over consumers to its advanced smartphones was to persuade third-party developers to create a vast array of apps for its phones. It helped to establish the Symbian operating system in 1998 and spent a fortune trying to attract developers to the platform. Apple crafted a win-win-win.

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Innovation Supply Chain Telecommunications Core Competence 13

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 12

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

While a company’s purpose generally doesn’t change, strategies and organizational structures do, which can make chasing “alignment” between strategy and the organization feel like chasing an elusive will-o’-the-wisp. And yet it is possible. Your answers to both questions can be plotted on the matrix above.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Take this brief assessment for feedback on how to improve strategic alignment in eight key areas. Most organizational leaders struggle to align day-to-day activities with strategy, even though they know it’s important to do. Let’s compare two fictional companies to see what’s involved.

Strategy 8

Strategy Restructuring Committee Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2013

The reason is that strategy is the only way to figure out to what to pay attention to and how to get better. The act of articulating a desired future state — a decision about where to play and how to win — enables the tracking of progress against the desired state.

Uncertainty 10

Uncertainty Strategy System Efficiency 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

Through visuals, storytelling, and metaphors that resonate with the company''s business leaders, CIOs must develop the skill of showing their stakeholders that foundational investments are the table stakes of innovation. A far better strategy is to take the people that they have and develop them into blended executives.

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CIO Technology Storytelling Strategic Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Many new employees with disabilities need support to get up to speed, but their colleagues and managers may not know how to help them—or have the patience to do it. Offer leadership development opportunities to employees with disabilities. Provide role models.

Compliance 8

Compliance Chief Operating Officer Innovation Survey 8

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"). IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

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Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

At a Global 50 consumer products company, management has developed a governance structure that allows it think about risk proactively, and has aligned its risk profile and exposures more closely with its strategy. Managers could keep the organization within acceptable tolerance ranges, driving performance to plan.

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Risk Management Maturity EBITDA Management 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

Recent allegations of the theft of top-security information connected to the development of sophisticated weapons and air defense systems have only heightened concerns about the security of the nation''s networks. The first focuses on the concept of enhanced public/private information sharing and developing standards. media companies.

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Cooper CIO Risk Management Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Caught up in administrative activities such as managing employee records and planning company picnics, human resources departments can too easily lose sight of their primary function: Making sure the organization has the needed human capital to implement its strategy. We’re not talking about Big Data.

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Company Human Resources Human Capital Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

If your company puts you in charge of developing a foreign market or a new line of business, your challenges are in many ways similar to those facing a startup. Before you can scale the business, you have to understand what your customers really want and value, and how to deliver it to them — and that process requires a lot of flexibility.

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Innovation Conflict of Interest Strategy System 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

For employees to fully understand how your strategy is different and better than the competition they need to be in touch with market realities. The challenge is in how to effectively convey those realities so that your people can act on them. Build behavior based on market and customer insights.

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Strategy Education Content Storytelling 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

For over 50 years, Wal-Mart has pursued essentially the same strategy of “offering the lowest price so its customer can live better.” Wells Fargo has become the most valuable bank in the world by sticking to its strategy of building a value proposition around selling more products per customer than anyone else.

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Company Supply Chain Airlines Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

Again, profit maximization is rarely the sole objective for a firm but just one of many dimensions to be considered, so a good starting point is to consider the company’s balanced scorecard and draw its strategy map. However, they are not as strategic in their thinking about how to capture value.

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Balanced Scorecard Company Price KPI 8

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. Here’s how: Identifying good customers.

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Strategy Team Discount ROIC 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2011

It should resolve to tie all the pieces of its strategy together, create a management team that is in lockstep across the company (or perhaps two companies, as I mentioned earlier), and make HP at least the sum of its parts. In this case, the good — but challenging — news is that luck has little to do with it.

Software 12

Software Technology Intellectual Capital Marketing 12

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

These gaps created another problem for them: In the critical stages following the spill, BP was unable to get input from those who had the knowledge and experience to make the best decisions about how to handle it. What’s more, BP failed to empower people to use their best judgment and take appropriate action.

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67