Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

To spearhead analytic efforts, he assigned a finance person – who was already embedded in marketing – to create an ROI evaluation framework and integrated her deeper into the marketing function. This now provides its marketing teams globally with predictive decision-making capabilities they never had before.

Finance 13

Finance Marketing P&L ROI 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

They try to make change thinking contagious, embedding it into everything they do from the most fundamental daily interactions to the most complex strategy. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Patrizia Savarese/Getty Images. At best, mergers and acquisitions (M&A’s) have a 50/50 chance of reaching their intended results.

Agility 15

Agility Shaw Learning-by-Doing Efficiency 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Other enterprises and their functions are looking to leverage technology to optimize and augment existing operations. Ultimately, every organizational function is having to manage the pressure of change in digital transformation, business models, and other areas. But in some companies, strategists are bolder.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Content CIO Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

A recent global survey of almost 1,300 IT and business leaders found companies are keenly aware of the importance of agile. In fact, around four-fifths of survey respondents say they’re using agile in some form in all of the principal business functions: R&D (83 percent). Production and operations (82 percent).

Agility 8

Agility Survey Technology Company 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

From my experience, I believe that there are four highly interdependent categories of contributions the CIO and IT function should make. A new component of the IT function must be developed to support this category of work: the Distributed Innovation Group (DIG). Generating Top-Line Growth. Improving Operational Efficiency.

Enterprise Architecture 8

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. In core functional or process transformation initiatives — which are often driven by digitization — we’ve seen examples of people analytics being used to measure activities and find embedded expertise. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

Process 15

Process Strategy Benchmarking Storytelling 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

But what about the more strategic risk areas, such as those related to emerging market entry or acquisition growth strategies? But what about the more strategic risk areas, such as those related to emerging market entry or acquisition growth strategies? They may have streamlined or automated their internal controls.

Risk Management 14

Risk Management Maturity EBITDA Management 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In 2016, the International Monetary Fund estimated that corruption amounted to roughly 2% of global economic output — between $1.5 and $2 trillion globally. Bloomberg Creative Photos/Getty Images. Business needs to play a more powerful role in supporting responsible practices throughout every aspect of their operations.

Company 8

Company Compliance Ethics Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

Our article classifies risks based on their degree of controllability and their connection to the strategy. We identify and describe three categories of risk: preventable risks, strategy risks, and external (non-preventable) risks. Many people, including quite a few U.S. Each requires customized risk management processes.

Risk Management 9

Risk Management CIO Management Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

These structural challenges, along with similar ones in other geographies, will drive up uncertainty in the global business environment. ” The process is full of risks and pitfalls, as it hinges not only on the UK government’s internal coherence but also on a fractious EU and the evolution of the broader global trade regime.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Uncertainty Company Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

With a tsunami of new digital technologies all converging simultaneously — social, mobile, cloud, analytics and embedded devices — there has been, once again, a cry for corporate IT to radically change to enable the digital transformation of businesses. Are all these changes just part of the natural evolution of the IT function?

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Recent events such as the global pandemic have accelerated the work we were already doing in creating the workplace of the future. We are reworking all our HR strategies with these changes in mind. . Never has HR been more important and I am so proud to see how the function has been standing up and leading through this crisis.

Diversity 98

Diversity Human Resources Crisis Innovation 98

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

The reality seems less impressive, as a global IBM survey of more than 1,700 CEOs found that 71% identified human capital as a key source of competitive advantage, yet a global study by Tata Consultancy Services showed that only 5% of big-data investments were in human resources. Consulting firms in the U.S. Insight Center.

Human Capital 12

Human Capital Metrics Analysis Survey 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Adding a chief marketing officer (CMO) became crucial as new channels and media raised the complexity of brand building, while Chief strategy officers (CSOs) joined top teams to help grapple with complex and fast-changing global markets. Defining a data-analytics strategy.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Information Technology Metrics CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Sales could be developing a behaviorally informed strategy, while operations looks for ways to cut costs. All the best strategies, policies, and plans start with a vision — that is, being clear on how you intend for your company to benefit from behavioral science. Get the Vision Right. Be Honest About the Resources You Will Need.

Company 8

Company Committee Ethics Project 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete. Insight Center. Sponsored by SAS.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

As digital technologies continue to transform the economy, many leaders are struggling to set a digital strategy, shift organizational structures, and remove the barriers that are keeping them from maximizing the potential impact of new digital technologies. The Global Digital Economy. Strategies for growth in a connected world.

Industry 8

Industry B2C Agility Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

The company's executive committee has embedded its scores in its Key Business Indicator reports. Global conglomerate Philips also found that it could rely on customer feedback scores as a reliable measure of growth. Considering the sponsors, it's sort of like the Army reporting that what we really need is more battleships. The result?

Customer Loyalty 14

Customer Loyalty Loyalty CEO Intellectual Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

There are several ways in which a company's actions and thinking need to change as it starts drawing on the knowledge embedded in social technologies. Buzz used to be an intangible — something you just felt. But don't expect to be able to neatly fit those sources of information into your old intelligence-gathering process.

Media 15

Media How To B2C SWOT 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

The promise of global progress has become a reality for many — but not for all. The promise of global progress has become a reality for many — but not for all. While globalization has increased aggregate prosperity and reduced inequality across nations, it has also created winners and losers within nations.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. Embedded sustainability efforts clearly result in a positive impact on business performance. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

For them, sustainability is a thing to tackle, a functional area; it's a what , like marketing or product development. For them, sustainability is a thing to tackle, a functional area; it's a what , like marketing or product development. It's a way of operating that creates the most value when it's embedded throughout the organization.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Business Model Trends Quality 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

This might divert efforts from the smartphone strategy, perhaps resulting in somewhat higher overall smoking rates, sacrificing some efficiency and cost savings in favor of greater equity. Ambitious programs to improve the U.S. health care system typically include improving population health in their objectives. Sponsored by Medtronic.

Health Care 8

Health Care Incentives Efficiency Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

If you are not familiar with the term, the Internet of Things refers to a dramatic development in the internet''s function: the fact that, even more than among people, it now enables communication among physical objects. It''s all thanks to the Internet of Things. So will some six billion devices.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Business Model Software Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

In December 2012 and January of this year, Tata Consultancy Services surveyed 1,217 executives from large companies (revenue of more than $1 billion) in a dozen global industries in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. Few industries illustrate the Big Data wars better than the media business.

ROI 8

ROI Company Learning Curve Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

Sami Luukkonen, Accenture’s Global Electronics and High Tech Industry Lead, thinks the world has changed, and that today, too much secrecy can stifle innovation — especially in high tech. Each of these things adds a layer of intelligence and functionality. The ingredients of WD-40? Also kept in a bank vault.

Industry 8

Industry Productivity Products Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

The next step was to figure out a strategy to reach these goals, and, more broadly, to ensure a culture of belonging and managerial competence in inclusion. The next step was to figure out a strategy to reach these goals, and, more broadly, to ensure a culture of belonging and managerial competence in inclusion.

Diversity 8

Diversity Engineering Goal Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

In these high-tech pockets, context is almost invisible: institutions function, data is the coin of the realm and a digital application’s “killer” value proposition rules the day. In this way, tech companies operate from a distance; they are not usually embedded within the local environments. Why stop now?”

Politics 8

Politics Marketing Innovation Environment 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Although based in New York City, it serves a global audience of researchers and tourists. Convinced, the library’s management team created three innovation communities with each one focusing on a core library function: circulation, collections, and reference. The conversation would be neither bottom-up nor top down.

Library 8

Library Strategy Reference Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

a family-owned $35 billion global business with a commitment to collaboration. In 2011 senior HR leaders at Mars decided that we would study our global workforce and try to crack the code of how to maximize team effectiveness. Most corporate team building is a waste of time and money. Seventeen of those years were with Mars Inc.,

Team Building 15

Team Building Team Bond Commitment 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

For example, a multi-product technology firm we advised laid out a strategy to significantly increase business with its large enterprise customers by creating single points of contact and focusing on providing solutions as opposed to delivering products. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. Insight Center.

Strategy 8

Strategy Strategic Planning Learning-by-Doing Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

How can he create cross-functional teams where data experts work with product teams? Bogdan Dreava/EyeEm/Getty Images. Not a day goes by without the announcement of the appointment of a new VP of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a Chief Data Scientist, or a Director of AI Research. Now Michael is stuck on how to proceed further.

Technology 8

Technology Constraint Tools Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

Perhaps it’s to make communication easier for everyone in your global organization. This is where the opportunity lies — in collaboration that includes the final approvers, embedding legal teams in the design and innovation process. It’s probably happened to you. A team initiates a new big idea. Here’s how.

Innovation 8

Innovation Team Compliance Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

The Global Digital Economy. Strategies for growth in a connected world. Plants grow, people grow, even whole forests, jungles, and coral reefs grow — but eventually, they stop. This doesn’t mean they’re dead. But in the current business landscape, that’s just not permitted. The cash does nothing but collect.

Technology 8

Technology Short-term Long-term Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Emerging market diaspora populations have been on the rise, thanks to the continued march of globalization, and today’s diaspora communities are better connected with their homelands than ever before. more global travel and larger immigrant communities). That’s due both due to increasing information flows (e.g.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Metrics Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

treasury secretary Larry Summers, and they both rely on “global openness, absence of prejudice, and fact-based decision making.” One aspect of long-termism is supporting a society in which a business is embedded. The success of business and the success of the United States depend on each other, says former U.S.

Long-term 8

Long-term Policies Short-term Politics 8