The Horizons Tracker

JULY 13, 2020

Similarly, the researchers believe that layoffs don’t necessarily reflect the quality of the firm’s offering, in the way that product-harm crises inevitably do. It’s likely that the merit of the firm’s prior actions will be called into question, however, as will their future prospects. ” .

Advertising 95

Advertising Automotive Restructuring Price 95

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

As leaders, we should be allowing the best of employee behaviors to drive the culture and operations, and not allowing negative behaviors to drag things down. What this CEO needed to do what transition her focus to the core part of the staff who will produce the biggest change in culture and productivity.

Succession 150

Succession Restructuring Training System 150

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Gerald Adolph is a New York-based Senior Partner with Booz & Company with a specialty in strategy and operations for technology-driven businesses. His work primarily focuses on assisting clients with growth strategy, new business development, and industry restructuring. To read Paul’s complete biography, click here.

Restructuring 62

Restructuring Newsletter Strategy Technology 62

Strategy Driven

MARCH 4, 2011

Gerald Adolph is a New York-based Senior Partner with Booz & Company with a specialty in strategy and operations for technology-driven businesses. His work primarily focuses on assisting clients with growth strategy, new business development, and industry restructuring. To read Paul’s complete biography, click here.

Restructuring 56

Restructuring Newsletter Strategy Technology 56

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Gerald Adolph is a New York-based Senior Partner with Booz & Company with a specialty in strategy and operations for technology-driven businesses. His work primarily focuses on assisting clients with growth strategy, new business development, and industry restructuring. To read Paul’s complete biography, click here.

Restructuring 56

Restructuring Newsletter Strategy Technology 56

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Gerald Adolph is a New York-based Senior Partner with Booz & Company with a specialty in strategy and operations for technology-driven businesses. His work primarily focuses on assisting clients with growth strategy, new business development, and industry restructuring. To read Paul’s complete biography, click here.

Restructuring 56

Restructuring Newsletter Strategy Technology 56

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Gerald Adolph is a New York-based Senior Partner with Booz & Company with a specialty in strategy and operations for technology-driven businesses. His work primarily focuses on assisting clients with growth strategy, new business development, and industry restructuring. To read Paul’s complete biography, click here.

Restructuring 50

Restructuring Newsletter Strategy Technology 50

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Restructuring has led to fewer layers of management, also to fewer opportunities for promotion. To retain top talent in the future, executives will need to clearly identify, develop, involve, and recognize key people. Provide opportunities for development and involvement. . The decline in opportunities for promotion. .

Bureaucracy 151

Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

Deming Institute

JUNE 9, 2015

Restructure training. Develop the concept of tutors. Develop increased in-service education. Provide operational definitions of all jobs. They need information that shows when to take action, not just figures that describe the level of production and the level of mistakes in the past.

Deming 28

Deming Health Care Restructuring Crisis 28

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

We thought that creative, capability-rich companies would have paid a lot of attention to the way they organized and the value that restructuring gave them. Instead, our interviews found a willingness to let organizational forms and structures evolve naturally, developing in line with the identity of the enterprise.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2023

This might involve tough decisions like restructuring or letting go of less profitable product lines, but such changes can lead to a more robust business post-crisis. It might highlight weaknesses you were previously unaware of or present opportunities for growth and development. Are there inefficiencies you can address?

Finance 95

Finance Crisis Management Crisis Management 95

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

PL and CM: Coherent companies – those that possess a capabilities system that aligns their strategy with their product/service portfolio – generate superior performance over time, which is what we call the coherence premium. SD : It sounds logical to develop strategy by starting with one’s capabilities. SD : Why now?

Resources 51

Resources Industry System Strategy 51

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

The logic sounds compelling: A customer-centric structure , as the approach is known, can help a company understand its customers better, develop deeper relationships with them, and improve customer satisfaction. Its adoption of customer-centricity yielded a 36% increase in return on assets over the four-year period after the restructuring.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Company Henderson Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

To deliver more value, the human resources function needs to spend more time accelerating operational improvement and less time on its traditional administrative and compliance activities. Bring people into HR with extensive operational improvement experience. In HR, we need to focus on what is important.".

Process 13

Process Compliance Operations Human Resources 13

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Effective followership plays such an important role in the development of future leadership skills that freshman at all the United States service academies (the Air Force Academy, West Point, Annapolis, and the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies) spend their first year in formal follower roles.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

The primary focus was on fixing the acquired firm through financial restructuring, dramatic cost cutting, and strategic slashing. a condo development, apartment building, or golf course). Though autonomous, they can improve their operating capabilities and speed up their time to reinvention by learning from each other.

LBO 8

LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

Like the internet, this technology is designed to be decentralized, with “layers,” where each layer is defined by an interoperable open protocol on top of which companies, as well as individuals, can build products and services. Unfortunately, the exuberance of fintech investors is way ahead of the development of the technology.

Banking 20

Banking Media Decentralization Technology 20

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2014

Click the arrow below to find out where all those hours went: Some of that time was productive, no doubt. How companies can use time effectively is just one piece of a larger and ultimately more important puzzle: how to increase the productivity of their people. Managing people Productivity' But how often does that work?

Human Capital 11

Human Capital Restructuring Committee Comparison 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

A constant theme during meetings over the last three years has been how globalisation and the economic crisis have forced organizations to rethink their strategies and change they way they operate. Worse, organizations rarely show people how to operate in a new structure, which can also undermine effectiveness.

Restructuring 15

Restructuring Operations Consultative Retail 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. For example, the original Google car found it hard to compute the context within which it was operating. Emotional competence.

Skills 14

Skills Morale Ethics System 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

There is no burden on those who proposed a new idea or technology to talk to customers, build minimal viable products, test hypotheses or understand the barriers to deployment. Most importantly, minimal viable products and working prototypes will have been tested. government federal research agencies to turn ideas into products.

Process 13

Process Innovation Incubator Committee 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

Just because a company can offshore some portion of its operations doesn’t mean it should. That appears to be the case with the offshoring of research and development, according to a new paper from the Center for European Economic Research. But for most firms, the paper’s findings are worth bearing in mind.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Innovation Restructuring Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The essence of the phenomenon is the fact that each stage in the supply chain plans its capital projects and operations, including inventory levels, based on its future expectations. Macroeconomic data during the 2008 financial crisis show the bullwhip effect operating on a much broader scale. For example , U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Technologies like 3-D printing, robotics, advanced motion controls, and new methods for continuous manufacturing hold great potential for improving how companies design and build products to better serve customers. Organizations develop processes through repeated problem solving. The Future of Operations.

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

The solution is to show some humility and to consider restructuring things so that your actions have some checks and balances. To do that, you may need to develop a hybrid approach that mixes the new, adjusted strategy with some older practices. Regroup, but with flexibility. Choose a new starting point for execution. Move quickly.

Strategy 15

Strategy Metrics Restructuring Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

Coca-Cola is one of the many companies that are making efforts to tackle the world’s greatest societal challenges — water scarcity, climate change, and even the rights of women and girls in the developing world. How has Coca-Cola integrated these CSR principles into your operations? It can be difficult to measure and compare.

CEO 11

CEO Supply Chain Operations Brand 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

To help business leaders better understand industry disruption, we developed an index that measures an industry’s current level of disruption as well as its susceptibility to future disruption. For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Greece did have some good arguments going for it: It had achieved the biggest fiscal adjustment any developed country had mustered so far , stabilized its economy, and restructured its private debt. This unfortunate state of affairs is partly the result of the difficult negotiating hand Greece dealt itself. This looks unlikely.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Policies Crisis Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Executives mobilized experts to develop internal applications that mirrored the functionality of Facebook and Twitter, and built a platform that allowed for the creation of internal wiki pages. The company hired many open source technology developers to build new collaboration tools. Even operational efficiency was unaffected.

Media 15

Media Consultative Restructuring Execution 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2018

Job personalization is best applied when there are clear inflection points: when career trajectories are stalled, during corporate restructuring, or in recruiting for open positions. Yet, as organizations develop over time, even the jobs that require the most creative thinking tend to become fixed and rigid. We ideated constantly.

Creativity 9

Creativity Restructuring PR Mentor 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Once upon a time, “organization design” meant bringing in a slew of consultants to oversee a large-scale organizational restructuring, most often intended to take out big chunks of cost during an economic downturn. Are you competing on the basis of on-going product or technological innovation?

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

to the revolution in Libya, from the continuing economic upheaval to Steve Jobs announcing his resignation as CEO of Apple and to HP restructuring their business, and from earthquakes to hurricanes and floods, each event is yet another chink in our sense of stability and control of the environment around us. From News Corp. 2) Technology.

Uncertainty 14

Uncertainty Politics Restructuring Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

P&G is in the midst of a major restructuring, and has laid off thousands of people. P&G''s board has been under a great deal of pressure from an activist investor who has made his views on the pace of the restructuring clear and vocal. But new products or categories that might be in the pipeline don''t spring up overnight.

P&L 8

P&L Restructuring Price CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

There is no mechanism that reliably signals which skills employers need so that individuals and schools can develop those skills. The Labor Market Maker would also alert schools that operate in the region where skills are in short supply so that they could adjust their class mix and direct students accordingly. competiveness.

Marketing 12

Marketing Restructuring McKinsey Education 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

While a natural inclination, this group is (by design) representative of current operating units and functions, which often have a status quo to defend. Or the circle might ask what new products or services the company could capably provide to maneuver into an entirely new marketplace.

Leadership 10

Leadership Diversity Committee Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. In our experience, there are specific steps CEOs and CMOs can take to develop a working relationship that is dynamic and useful. Develop—and stick to—a marketing blueprint. Who should lead our transformation?

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8