Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2011

It's true that Apple's success in the last decade has been built on a remarkable string of innovations, which seems harder to "codify." When one of Apple's design teams was tasked with developing a DVD-burning software program for high-end Macs, developers spent weeks putting together a plan. Yet turnover at Apple is low.

P&L 14

P&L Supply Chain Retail COO 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Any standing meeting, whether it’s of a departmental leadership team, a cross-functional group owning a process like innovation or talent management, or a task force managing a six-month transition to a new technology, should be designed and linked to a broader governance plan.

P&L 12

P&L How To Finance Metrics 12

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

In team development, research has shown that individual learning works best when accompanied by team learning. [1]. So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field.

Team 52

Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. implement frequent, rapid, project-specific evaluations instead of annual performance reviews).

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

Generally speaking, executives are compensated for things under their control: moving projects along, the stewardship of a P&L, and for the company hitting financial targets. Ideally, these R&D projects would have been selected and maintained for their maximum ability to produce outcomes.

Incentives 8

Incentives Pharmaceuticals Crisis P&L 8

The Empowered Buisness

OCTOBER 20, 2015

A leader wearing the hat of teacher focuses on building competencies and thinking capabilities – such as how to read a P&L statement or presentation skills. While competition can be a blessing, fueling higher standards and innovation. Teaching focuses on cognitive skills and capabilities. employees’ beliefs and values.

P&L 100

P&L Strategic Planning Game Theory Mission Statement 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

With three efficient plants staffed by 3,000 employees, it had reinvented itself to become an innovative manufacturer of modular steel staircases and fiberglass doors. These deductions, which totaled 12% of sales, had previously been collapsed into a single line item in the P&L for each customer. The Power of Customer Costing.

Case Study 14

Case Study P&L Cost Due Diligence 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Increased demand for transparency and its close partners, (a) the quest to define and develop useful sustainability metrics and (b) the growing sustainability data explosion. CEO Peter Loscher declared Germany's plans to move aggressively toward renewables "the project of the century.". The greening of the supply chain.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. The logic of NPV is to project cash flows into the future and then discount those flows back into today’s dollars at a given cost of capital. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

An innovative care provider organization in Eastern Massachusetts with 30 medical practices and a home health and hospice agency, it already receives almost 80% of revenue from global payments (a fixed payment for all of a patient’s medical treatment during a specified period of time) or other risk contracts. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Over one-third of the world's largest companies surveyed by the Carbon Disclosure Project are already seeing the impacts of climate change on their business. To make the exercise feasible and affordable, they turned to Columbia University, which developed a new algorithm for fast carbon footprinting. Company Stories.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 9