Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

For example, it can take five years or more to develop today’s high potentials into leadership roles. In finance, the “fox” strategy is similar to using real options , and it can help you make talent decisions just as it helps in your decisions about R&D, manufacturing and finance. Increasingly, you cannot.

Human Resources 8

Human Resources Information Technology Uncertainty Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

When I do get a name, it often differs depending on who I asked—a marketing executive points to one person, while finance identifies someone else. It is time to connect these groups, elevate analytics to a strategic corporate practice, and assign executive leadership to oversee it. Information & technology Leadership'

Company 8

Company COO Information Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. Their strategic use of information technology (IT) presaged the dot.com boom of the 1990s when the Internet made this kind of online ordering commonplace. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare.

COO 12

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

Who, for instance, would have guessed that global NGOs spend nearly 80% more to track their finances and employ nearly twice as many finance staff as comparable for-profit multinationals? The absence of efficient financial management systems reflects comparatively low spending on information technology.

Globalization 8

Globalization NGO Benchmarking Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

And of course, few such managers have a background in information technology. To be done right, integrating such solutions into the enterprise requires not just knowledge about buildings, but also IT and financial leadership. Information & technology' Don’t have a capital budget for energy savings projects?

Energy 8

Energy Resources Information Technology Cost Center 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

A CoE is a team of data scientists, business analysts and domain experts from various business functions — sales, marketing, finance, and R&D, for example — that are brought together to facilitate a cross-pollination of experiences and ideas to find solutions to a variety of business goals. Execution Information & technology Leadership'

Root Cause Analysis 8

Root Cause Analysis Metrics Analysis Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The possibility of failure is high when companies don’t commit senior leadership. Putting leadership capacity where it’s needed. Information & technology Leadership' Building frontline capabilities. In sizing these challenges, most companies will find they need more executive capacity.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Information Technology Metrics CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

Human resources departments are also looking globally at traditionally analytically-intensive sectors ranging from meteorology to medicine and finance to find talented candidates. Information & technology' This talent isn’t cheap: a top data scientist can command a $300,000 salary in the current market.

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Technology McKinsey Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

But with the rapid implementation of electronic health records (EHRs), CNOs are now expected to master new trends in health care information technologies to engage hospital leaders in strategic discussions about major technology investments. The primary driver for new learning is increasingly complex and essential technologies.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Health Care Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Their life anchors are their identification with an institution of great power; influence over individuals, policies, finances, and the community; and constant affirmation of their importance as individuals and of their role as leaders. With retirement, all these anchors disappear from one day to the next.

CEO 8

CEO Execution Policies Power 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

Baruch Lev teaches accounting and finance at NYU's Stern School of Business. He's a man of strong opinions, generally backed up by lots and lots of research. Last year I got to edit his book, Winning Investors Over , and an accompanying HBR article, " How to Win Investors Over." Where is the avoidance of investments?

Short-term 11

Short-term Long-term Parcell Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection." The Ministry of Industry and Information Technologys pavilion will demonstrate "industrial energy savings and the comprehensive use of resources." And on and on. And on and on.

NGO 14

NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. Last year, American campuses produced fewer than 56,000 graduates with the sort of qualifications sought by information technology (IT) firms.”

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

Data managers and scientists of all sorts (not just data scientists) are obvious candidates, as are people who work in finance, planning, logistics, customer service, and the back office of most companies. Driving data quality across an entire company takes top-down leadership, but provocateurs are a crucial first step.

Quality 10

Quality Resistance Learning-by-Doing Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

And of course, few such managers have a background in information technology. To be done right, integrating such solutions into the enterprise requires not just knowledge about buildings, but also IT and financial leadership. Don’t have a capital budget for energy savings projects? New Sources of Revenue.

Energy 8

Energy Resources Cost Center Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

As Tom Davenport, Larry Prusak, and I talk to people about our current research, we hear broad support for its central thesis: that good judgment is not only something required of individuals in leadership positions; it is something that must be embedded in organizations as a whole.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Our research, conducted in partnership with Harvard Business Review, The Economist, CEB (formerly the Corporate Executive Board), Intel, and TNS Global, finds that corporate leadership has lost confidence in the CIO as a strategic partner and views IT as a commodity rather than a difference-maker. Victorio M.

CIO 8

CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

” It might be hard for people in HR to hear, but only 20% of those who responded said that their HR function was enabling them to transform, ranking them even lower than finance — an area not exactly known for its agility. These executives also score highly in their social adeptness, bold leadership, and determination.

Industry 8

Industry B2C Agility Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Truly strategic leaderships — and their boards — should treat Brin's "worst idea" as their most provocative thought experiment for revisiting how they recognize and value data. The classic business perspective typically views these data as high-performance fuel to make the business run faster, better, and leaner.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2012

There has always been a complicated interrelationship between malfeasance and bad data. Throughout history, the spinners, hucksters, and fraudulent have been motivated to "manage the numbers." Conversely, bad numbers make it more difficult to find the fraud.

Quality 12

Quality Banking Crisis Industry 12