HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

While we were restructuring our services business, we made significant investments in training to help our employees make this skills transition and to introduce a learning culture, as learning is a lifelong journey. Let’s innovate, disrupt, and challenge the status quo. The HR Digest: How are you going to shake things up next?

Ries 76

Ries Skills Human Resources Software 76

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Not that Nissan’s management had not been trying to make the right decisions to staunch the losses. Neither a restructuring strategy nor a turnaround leader alone could have engineered Nissan’s historic rebound. Becoming a strategic leader is an acquired capacity that can, in our view, be mastered by managers at all levels.

Chief Operating Officer 50

Chief Operating Officer Short-term Strategic Fit Restructuring 50

The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Most progressive organizations today are using leadership competency models to outline the key skills and behaviors they want to see in their supervisors, managers, and executives. We’ve been guilty of facilitating workshops with management teams pulling competencies out of thin air. have failed.

Leadership 65

Leadership Restructuring Quality Report 65

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

In sum, CEOs need a frugal innovation agenda. Frugal innovation is the ability to innovate cost-effectively and sustainably under severe resource constraints. Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution. These visionary CEOs aren't caving in to Wall Street's demands for short-term gains.

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

As Steve Jobs steps down as Apple's CEO — and Tim Cook takes over — many folks are wondering whether Apple can keep its innovation engine humming. During Jobs' absence from 1986-1998, Apple's innovation premium dropped by 30% as the company quit innovating and its investors lost confidence. Can he do it?

Innovation 13

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Restructuring Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

In sum, CEOs need a frugal innovation agenda. Frugal innovation is the ability to innovate cost-effectively and sustainably under severe resource constraints. Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution. These visionary CEOs aren't caving in to Wall Street's demands for short-term gains.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? IRS Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998); and an outstanding, senior executive from the private sector, Charles Rossotti , was appointed for a five-year term to drive the changes.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

Or you’re an auto-industry executive and you’re excited by a new technology that you could easily build into your latest model—but contracts with suppliers make such an innovation an impossibility this year, and maybe even next year. But your agreements with your suppliers prevent you from moving quickly. The agreement was called off.

Innovation 8

Innovation Retail Banking Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. As companies grapple with long odds on innovation like these, they are also looking for ways to improve the likelihood of their intrapreneurial success.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

managers , he said the proportion of U.S. firms with structures organized around customers would grow from 32% to 52% as firms raced to build customer-centric organizations, and he interviewed companies including IBM and Systems Group that had announced customer-centric restructurings. In his 2006 survey of U.S.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Company Henderson Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

And we have figured out why: analytics forces changes on the C-suite that the CEO has to anticipate and manage, but many don’t. Frequent restructurings of the analytics function. These forces must be understood and managed for the entire initiative to succeed. Chief Analytics Officers (CAOs) were frequently replaced.

CEO 8

CEO Competitive Advantage ROI CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

Managers have little choice about facing challenges , whether they come from competitors, economic conditions, or customer demands. The first manager explained that his organization was responding by cutting their own budget. However, they can choose whether they treat those challenges as problems or opportunities.

Budgeting 15

Budgeting Restructuring Uncertainty Morale 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2018

Managers in an up-or-out organization are expected to advance. This sort of environment breeds constant pressure to compete with colleagues for the best assignments and promotion opportunities. It’s why companies like Colorcon and Deloitte are giving their performance management systems an overhaul.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Operations Restructuring Conference 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Its opening sentence: "Despite another quarter of robust corporate profits, an ominous impulse is stirring at many big companies — restructuring.". In his work on responsible restructuring, Cascio discovered profitable alternatives to employee layoffs. This strikes us as a knee-jerk reaction and a bad idea.

Restructuring 11

Restructuring Open-book Creativity Motivation 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

To do so, they need to find a way of interacting with the Greek state, which is notorious for slowing down businesses, imposing a mountain of regulation and protecting incumbents by discouraging innovators. Yet they hesitate to restructure, hoping that rolling debt over will allow them to restrict their write-offs.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Banking Media Bottom-up 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Companies today operate in a business environment that encourages incoherence. This, in turn, increases the company’s leverage with suppliers and allows it to be extraordinarily efficient in moving inventory and managing working capital. PL and CM: It’s easier to accommodate incoherence than to fight for coherence.

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Much of how I view sustaining an innovative business culture comes from observing my husband maintain those cell cultures. Most innovative companies have an impressive ability to generate lots of ideas. As the cells used nutrients, they produced byproducts, some of which were inhibitory to growth, and even toxic. Gore & Assoc.,

Innovation 8

Innovation Restructuring Rogers Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

It a powerful tool for identifying innovations, especially with the opportunities for data gathering afforded by smart technologies and social media. As a consequence, the company restructured the website so that consumers came to the product offerings through their hair-care problems. CUSTOMER INTELLIGENCE INSIGHT CENTER.

Marketing 15

Marketing Restructuring Brand Analysis 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

That’s the management goal that Tony Hseih, founder of e-commerce giant Zappos, aims to achieve by the end of 2014. Think of it as management operating system 3.0. Management consultant Brian Robertson took that idea and founded HolacracyOne, a firm dedicated to helping companies (including Zappos) achieve this corporate ideal.

Koestler 13

Koestler Company Restructuring Travel 13

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 8, 2013

In my experience, the most effective long-term engagement strategies build a foundation on which front-line managers feel empowered to create an environment that promotes employee enrichment. In turn, it was the manager’s responsibility to help clear a path and coach their employees into a new position. Connect with them.

Strategy 276

Strategy Development Restructuring Learning-by-Doing 276

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

From my practice working with bank clients in the continent, here are a few suggestions to make that happen: Restructure staff. Most still put marketing managers in nice cars to look for clients. Within a decade, 80% of staff should be able to automate activities like customer onboarding, sales, support, and investment management.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

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.

Uncertainty 14

Uncertainty Politics Restructuring Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. And then the innovators improve the technology steadily over time, allowing it to serve more and more of the overall market, which causes great trauma for incumbents who stuck to their legacy ways of doing things. Our survival depended upon it.

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

This shift demands that businesses manage and operate so that they can attract the right people, retain them, and ensure they can do their best work. An environment where employees demand a seamless work experience no matter where they are and the tools to make that happen. The result: the reimagined workplace.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Technology Restructuring Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

This environment and the behavior produced by the prevailing set of beliefs to which CEOs subscribe have deepened a widespread public distrust of corporations and capitalism. Stock-based incentive compensation aligns the self-interest of management with shareholders, and a performance-based pay system increases employee motivation.

CEO 15

CEO Short-term Long-term Restructuring 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

The ability to immerse oneself in terabytes of data, identify (individually or collaboratively) what''s most important and restructure it in an accessible, meaningful and usable form for a variety of audiences will increasingly be an essential skill. Planning and successfully executing a complex meal is an exercise in project management.

Class 9

Class Education Supply Chain Sports 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Especially when an organization is asked to become more innovative and to perform beyond normal levels, having followers with an unusually strong belief in the leader and their vision increases the odds of success. If not managed well by both, a slippery slope can lead to behavior that will destroy the success that they have achieved.

Charisma 8

Charisma Self-aware Leadership Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Skill development is clearly a major priority for companies and managers these days. Managers learn how to articulate a business opportunity in ways that energize team members. The company’s president convened a meeting of the executive management group to organize the improvement effort.

Project 8

Project Parcell How To Short-term 8

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

Fluid and innovative business strategies centered on adaptability, foresight, and competition are replacing traditional management methods. With the shift towards a more democratic work culture, management is evolving towards decentralization– emphasizing proactive and watchful guidance.

Strategy 217

Strategy Competitive Advantage SWOT Strategic Planning 217

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

This tool becomes advantageous for technical communicators, project managers, and engineers doing contract work to both promote their skills and expertise, educate potential clients, as well as maintain multiple projects and clients. Robotic Process Automation works effectively in an agile development environment. About the Author.

Tools 50

Tools Document Restructuring Software 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. When making a purchase decision, customers use an average of six different channels, which are often managed by different parts of the organization. Who should lead our transformation?

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

One of the dilemmas of firms in rapidly transforming environments is that their ownership structure may get in the way of making tough decisions. As noted management expert Geoffrey Moore told me with respect to high-velocity competition, "I''m not sure you ever want to be in the public markets." Take Motorola, for instance.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Though many would call that decade NASA’s golden age, we’d argue that NASA’s innovation and influence is even greater today. NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

It seems that every week, one or another announces a new “Center for Health Care Value” or “Center for Health Care Innovation.” Comparison of outcomes is essential to disseminate innovations from one individual or team to another. For more, see this HBS case.).

Health Care 8

Health Care Fraser Price Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

And thanks to the way bankruptcy laws were restructured under George W Bush, you can't get out of the college loan even if you become bankrupt. We manage this transition very carefully. It's important to remember that we're not so good at understanding the subtleties of environments that make them attractive to people.

Education 12

Education Stage-Gate Insurance Class 12

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2016

It animates us as people and fuels organizational innovation, value creation, and growth. They cast about searching for a toehold by rebranding or restructuring with no meaningful understanding of how and why they exist. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. About the Author.

Hedge 50

Hedge Long-term Restructuring Maturity 50