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. Create one integrated workforce strategy.

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

As if that weren’t tough enough, another challenge for corporate leaders is how to make sense of strategic alignment at both the team / business unit level (or division or department, however it is classified) and at the enterprise level. Superior technical innovation is at the heart of its strategy and its organizational design.

Banking 12

Banking Strategy Film Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

The first — which we’ll call Company A — focuses on translating its strategy into action as quickly as possible. Leaders and their teams are strapped — and competing — for resources. Distracted by pet initiatives that have little to do with the new strategy, they revert to old habits.

Strategy 8

Strategy Restructuring Committee Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

In order to see the future more clearly, it''s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage. Yet with each wave, the criticality of IT to basic operations and delivery of service to customers continues to escalate.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

The China head of the packaging business, Li Xin, spent 13 years working in Sealed Air's American and Canadian operations before taking up the China assignment in 2004. That long stint earned him the trust of the global CEO, Bill Hickey, and his top management team. What matters in an emerging market isn't nationality alone.

Globalization 8

Globalization CEO Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Whether it's the stubborn inefficiencies of the health-care system , the ever-rising costs of the higher-education system , even the slow-motion collapse of the US postal system , leaders with unrivaled expertise and decades of experience can't seem to develop creative solutions to dire problems. billion — not a bad decade.

Banking 16

Banking Retail Open-book Creativity 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

As Quartz reported last year: Members of the Glass operations team have been on the road showing it off to companies and organizations, and they told Quartz that some of the most enthusiastic responses have come from manufacturers, teachers, medical companies, and hospitals. Should Google revise its strategy to pursue that opportunity?

Strategy 9

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 9

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 11

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2013

We don''t often think about the way we usually operate at work, whether we''re performing an informal five-step process for evaluating a new proposal, or setting priorities for managing our time. So the organization started documenting standard operating procedures to capture employee know-how and wisdom. Should Do" Practices.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Organization Bureaucracy Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

Be strategic and operational. Most CIOs find it relatively easy to convince an executive team to invest in a technology that increases near-term revenue. The most effective approach to developing blended executives is to develop a program that rotates IT people into business roles, and business people into IT.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Storytelling Strategic Planning 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. It is a fight that every manager is familiar with, but nowhere is the challenge bigger than when the existing strategy is not aligned with the demands of the situation you are in.

Innovation 9

Innovation Conflict of Interest Strategy System 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

These behaviors include ensuring that everyone on a team gets heard, giving actionable feedback, empowering team members to make decisions, and making it safe to propose novel ideas. Offer leadership development opportunities to employees with disabilities. Provide role models.

Compliance 8

Compliance Chief Operating Officer Innovation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

. “We found the perfect strategy” ranks with “And they lived happily ever after” as a perpetual myth. A strategy is never excellent in and of itself; it is shaped, enhanced, or limited by implementation. Top leaders can provide the framework and tools for a team, but the game is won on the playing field.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy COO CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

In an ongoing global survey of senior executives , more than half of the respondents said they didn’t think their company had a winning strategy, and two-thirds said they didn’t think their organization had the right capabilities to execute its strategy. Operating as these companies do takes a lot of confidence.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Fashion Apparel 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

MARCH 2, 2011

The days when you could make a living responding to companies' discovery of strategy, as in "Gosh, we gotta get ourselves one of those," are gone with the 1970s (or maybe the 1990s in the "developing world"). Strategy has triumphed, the installed base is huge, no self-respecting company would be without one. Monitor & Co.,

Consultative 15

Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2011

It could also include sophisticated software based on the WebOS (the operating system HP leveraged from the Palm acquisition). Assuming smart execution, creation of a subsidiary would allow a strong management team to own its success in the consumer market and build a strong competitor to take on Apple.

Software 12

Software Technology Intellectual Capital Marketing 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

For decades, we’ve often thought of leadership profiles in unique buckets—two popular varieties were the “visionaries”, who embrace strategy and think about amazing things to do, and the “operators”, who get stuff done. And last, they make sure the entire organization is motivated to go the journey.

Execution 15

Execution Strategy How To Budgeting 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Capacity, not strategy, was determining which projects launched and when. Prioritization at a strategic and operational level is often the difference between success and failure. If people were available, the project was launched. If not, it stalled or was killed. But many organizations do it badly. One employee, Mary, got the message.

Project 8

Project How To Objective Efficiency 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Plus, as a result of a lack of cross-organizational coordination and cooperation, Nokia wasn’t able to improve its proprietary operating system, Symbian, which would have allowed it to support a more sophisticated smartphone. Many innovative ideas became the victims of in-fighting among managers who had competing objectives.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

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. We need new models of pediatric primary care with the following features: Comprehensive and team-based. Children and families need to be able to access their care team promptly. Continuous and coordinated.

Health Care 9

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

They put their money where their strategy is and continually cut bad costs and redirect resources toward good costs. Management teams at such companies spend a lot of effort separating out the costs that truly fuel their distinct advantage from the ones that don’t. Second, rethink costs in terms of capabilities.

Cost 9

Cost How To Budgeting Strategic Planning 9