Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Transformation processes demand risk taking, the development of new staff capabilities and a strong focus on innovation. Grundfos, the Danish water pump manufacturer, is among the legacy organizations that have intentionally restructured their rewards systems to boost innovation. Assessing your organizational immune system.

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System Innovation Restructuring Short-term 161

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

If your initial reaction is to feel overwhelmed by these updates, then consider the role of an average employee who is more likely to be replaced more permanently through job cuts and organizational restructuring efforts. You might be able to help both the employees and yourself find some balance by fully understanding the role of HR.

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Trends Efficiency Learning-by-Doing Tools 109

HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2021

What sorts of “insight” are expected from technologies? A new IBM report shows that half of CHROs identified for the study recognize the possibilities for innovation in HR operations and the acquisition and development of talent. How does AI become key to this dynamic? What risks do employees face in the modern workplace?

How To 111

How To Due Diligence Leadership Pipeline Stress 111

HR Digest

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Agile HR can be defined by its principles of responsiveness that encourage restructuring of work to facilitate immediate feedback, planning, and action. Originally designed for software development, Agile has gained traction in various business functions, including HR, due to its adaptive and iterative approach to work.

Agility 59

Agility Short-term Reference Examples 59

In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Optimists favor ‘ doing more with more ,’ placing bets that higher sales and profits will pay for the added investments in headcount or technologies; we’ve all been there at one time or another. A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring.

Human Resources 183

Human Resources Restructuring Competitive Advantage Marketing Strategy 183

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Whether it’s a fresher role or one that requires experience, Qualee reports that it takes a new hire approximately eight months to reach their full productivity. Without hitting full productivity, employees often move on to the next opportunity, leaving companies to restart the hiring and onboarding process.

Process 59

Process Attrition Trends Training 59

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Ajay is a technologist and business strategist who often obsesses over issues that range from the impact of technology on disruptive business models to entrepreneurship and impact investing. LG has devised payment subscription plans that makes its products affordable. [Editor''s Note: This is a guest post from Ajay Swamy.

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Competitive Advantage Prahalad Blue Ocean Strategy Glocalization 154

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.

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Restructuring Newsletter Strategy Technology 50

The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 10, 2011

In their case, the biggest internal changes they identified were: Leadership/Culture Development. Sales Training/New Business Development. New Technology. Improving Efficiency/Productivity. Organizational Restructuring/Building. Organization/Leadership Development. Personal Growth/Balance/Development.

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Video Restructuring Brainstorming Morale 56

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Restructuring has led to fewer layers of management, also to fewer opportunities for promotion. Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent. To retain top talent in the future, executives will need to clearly identify, develop, involve, and recognize key people.

Bureaucracy 151

Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

QAspire

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer The Quest of Better Outcomes: Hierarchy And Process In quest of better outcomes (efficiency, results, productivity, improvements etc.), a lot of companies focus on restructuring their organization structure (hierarchy). Not aware of such an organization, though. Vamsi´s last blog.

Process 130

Process Deming Restructuring Efficiency 130

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. Why are older incumbent firms slow to adopt new technologies even when the economic or strategic benefits are clear?

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

The Practical Leader

APRIL 17, 2024

Their unique products and growing revenues were papering over many huge cracks and barely holding them together. They hired consultants and launched a series of restructuring and improvement projects in warehouse and shipping logistics, branding, renovating stores, revamping product lines, customer service training, IT systems, and the like.

Teamwork 104

Teamwork Restructuring Project Micromanagement 104

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

Like the internet, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are driven by advances in core technologies along with a new, open architecture — the Bitcoin blockchain. Like the internet, in the early stages of development there are many competing technologies, so it’s important to specify which blockchain you’re talking about.

Banking 19

Banking Media Decentralization Technology 19

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

Making the right investments in learning and development programs has never been more important – or more of a challenge – for business leaders. billion dollars on learning and development programs, many executives still grapple with how to improve and enhance their effectiveness.

Development 8

Development Mentor Learning-by-Doing Restructuring 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. This could mean exploring new markets, investing in technology to improve efficiency, or upskilling your staff to handle a broader range of tasks.

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Finance Crisis Management Crisis Management 95

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

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Rather, they are boldly restructuring every function in their organizations to boost their firms' long-term ability to deliver affordable and sustainable solutions to increasingly cost-conscious and eco-aware consumers. By "good enough," we don't mean stripped-down versions of existing high-end products.

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

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

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. As the head of the U.S. Segments of the U.S.

Process 13

Process Innovation Incubator Committee 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 30, 2012

Understand your customer's buying cycle better, and you can target your mailings and product offerings more effectively. It a powerful tool for identifying innovations, especially with the opportunities for data gathering afforded by smart technologies and social media. Take Fenwick , a leading forklift truck manufacturer in France.

Marketing 15

Marketing Restructuring Brand Analysis 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. Product managers that I previously thought were hopeless became effective. John Fedele/Getty Images. Emotional competence.

Skills 15

Skills Morale Ethics System 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2018

My recent paper , coauthored with Naoshi Ikeda and Sho Watanabe of Tokyo Institute of Technology, empirically tests this quiet life hypothesis with Japanese data. Do managers really work less hard without competition and monitoring? Left to their own devices, do managers really prefer the quiet life?

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Management Marketing Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

These sorts of analyses are helping EY, where some of us work, by working with Microsoft Workplace Analytics to help clients to predict the likelihood of retaining key talent following an acquisition and to develop strategies to maximize retention. An early example comes from an organization restructure we have been working on.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Analysis Survey Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

For an upcoming MIT symposium on the topic, we’re focusing on four main themes: customer expectations, product enhancements, collaborative innovations, and organizational forms. Digital technologies enable companies to better engage with their customers and offer superior experiences at affordable costs. Product enhancements.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Rather, they are boldly restructuring every function in their organizations to boost their firms' long-term ability to deliver affordable and sustainable solutions to increasingly cost-conscious and eco-aware consumers. By "good enough," we don't mean stripped-down versions of existing high-end products.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. Second, that GE had a technology advantage in complex industries, and that its technologies could be shared across its businesses. Silicon Valley and the rise of information technology.

Welch 8

Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

According to the International Labour Organization, workers in developed and developing countries are facing increasing strain at work. Researchers at the University of Buffalo found that stressors, big and small, help us develop the skills to face other taxing or stressful circumstances in the future.

Stress 15

Stress Root Cause Analysis Learning-by-Doing Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

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. As global competition has pressured firms to move portions of their businesses overseas, some have gone so far as to offshore research, development, and design.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Innovation Restructuring Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The first (whose name is disguised to spare blushes) is TEKCO, a technology company. 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.

Media 16

Media Consultative Restructuring Execution 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

There is no way to simultaneously align the organization's structure with products, functions, geographies, market segments, customers, capabilities, personalities, and technologies (to name a few). So what do you do if your organization has been shuffled, turned, twisted, and restructured?

Market Segmentation 13

Market Segmentation Restructuring Marketing Finance 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

From leadership transitions and restructurings, to mergers and acquisitions, to regulatory changes, there seems to be constant unrest in the workforce. As part of their change story, they developed a unifying internal communications campaign called the “Nature of Next” that articulated the reasoning and vision for the acquisition.

Resistance 15

Resistance Commitment Uncertainty Restructuring 15