Strategy Driven

JANUARY 12, 2024

The innovations are endless, from peer-to-peer payments to automated portfolio managers and trading platforms. Finance digital transformation involves leveraging cutting-edge technologies for better operational efficiency and enhanced strategic decision-making. FinTech companies are putting a new twist on financial concepts.

Finance 101

Finance Technology BPM Company 101

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

They learned and practiced how to communicate effectively and resolve conflicts, build teams to succeed, lead meetings that didn’t waste time, lead change that would stick, walk the talk with our organizational values, and finally how to engage and manage our talent. They spent five times that on one lost lawsuit in one year.

Leadership 63

Leadership Training Peer Review Budgeting 63

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The ones that manage to escape are discount chains —such as T. It also hurts the brands sold inside the stores, which in part explains why consumer product giants like Procter & Gamble are seeing their sales stagnate for products like Tide detergent, Gillette razors, Pampers diapers, and Crest toothpaste.

Brand 11

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

One of senior management's favorite pastimes is moving around the boxes — and the people inside them. Most managers do reorganize with good intentions — to grow revenues, reduce costs, improve customer focus, etc. So what do you do if your organization has been shuffled, turned, twisted, and restructured?

Market Segmentation 14

Market Segmentation Restructuring Marketing Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2016

As more people move to urban areas, cities face ever more economic and environmental challenges, including resource constraints, economic restructuring, aging populations, and pressures on public finances. According to Lucid, building managers can realize significant energy savings purely from operational measures.

Content 8

Content Efficiency Energy Finance 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. Fourth, some argued that GE’s advantage lay in its system of professional management, epitomized by its investments in executive education and management development.

Welch 8

Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

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. Some of the first business functionaries were railroad telegraph operators who managed schedules. When we began our research, we expected to hear a lot about organizational design.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Aggravated and depressed by the decline of their core memory business in the 1980s, Intel’s top management struggled for strategic clarity. They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation.

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

If you ask someone who works in finance (as I had to) about PE and innovation, he or she will likely tell you that PE sponsors aren’t looking for the next big thing—they’re looking for companies that are dominant in a market, aren’t risky, and have a predictable and steady stream of cash to pay back debt.

LBO 8

LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

Ask someone to name the demands that activist hedge funds make of companies and they’ll likely list corporate governance issues like board changes and executive compensation, or perhaps some form of restructuring. In contrast, fair marketing and advertising of products are very important for companies in these sectors.

Proposal 8

Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Conversely, the business may be an “unpolished diamond” that was neglected by its former management for too long and whose value is just waiting to be unlocked. Does the business have a complete, balanced, and cohesive management team? Are the management team and owners prepared to abandon business as usual?

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Matt Ellis at CBRE, a global leader in real estate services, is designing financing structures that will provide capital for clients' energy efficiency initiatives. Their ideas for products, services and management practices may not survive market tests.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Once we release Gravity, we focus on finding our true value, mapping that to realistic market opportunities, create a flight plan (including waypoints to manage progress) and away we go! The book helps readers learn to release their Gravity – those beliefs that hold them down. Once we challenge our beliefs and knowns –the sky is the limit.

Open-book 272

Open-book Greenleaf Blog Marketing 272

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

” But it’s not only the success of your company that’s at stake, says Susan Ashford, professor of management and organization at Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Then, one day, when Julie and C Space’s management team were at the company’s annual off-site retreat, they had a moment of clarity.

Project 8

Project Restructuring Hotels Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The report describes the company’s governance response and changed compliance framework — from holding 20 audit committee meetings in 2014, to substantial organizational restructuring, to enhanced education and training. Also at issue are what and when management told the board and what processes the board had for oversight.

Compliance 8

Compliance Committee Globalization CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

I had experience in marketing, business, and finance — all of it outside the traditional music business. ” We restructured Machine Shop to focus on innovation through non-traditional business partnerships and creative design thinking. Our business now operates like a tech startup, with less hierarchy and far more agility.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. Finally, in earnings call after earnings call, we hear CEOs describing one or two bets — at most — on growth, and devoting most of the time to showcasing the results of restructuring, offshoring and other cost-focused initiatives.

ROE 14

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

The result, at least in developed nations, is a highly unequal corporate landscape, where some firms are incredibly productive and the amount of money a person makes is tied to the company they work for, not just the job that they do. And this growing productivity gap shows up within industries, not just between them.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. A 2017 survey by Kronos and Future Workplace , reveals that the restructuring of work has resulted in significant burnout.

Team 12

Team Conference Restructuring McKinsey 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

According to data from Yahoo finance, company’s market cap exceeds that of Toyota, BMW, Volkswagen, Ford, GM, Honda, Fiat Chrysler, Tesla, and Daimler combined. Yet those stores have successfully redefined retail norms and customer expectations well beyond Apple products and services. So put aside its brand equity.

Automotive 8

Automotive Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Culture, and how to build and sustain one, is one of the toughest challenges for managers, especially in today’s fast-paced, highly competitive organizations. How do you manage the evolution of your company’s culture, and hold on to what makes you great, even as you change and grow?

Technology 8

Technology Company Tools Information 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2017

Some companies, which trade throughout Europe and the UK, will have to restructure their companies to suit new laws. And, with very unique products, you may even be paying for them to be made. Jobs that don’t relate to finance would slowly disappear, leaving not much else for those who don’t want to work with money.

Restructuring 50

Restructuring Course Retail Banking 50