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Nine Key Strategies for Going Beyond Great

Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2021

There are three fundamental forces that are transforming the nature of global businesses. And third is “a technological revolution fueled by the exponential growth of global data and digital technologies.”. Strategy #1: Do Good, Grow Beyond. Strategy #2: Stream It, Don’t Ship It. Strategy #3: Refine Your Global Game.

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Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 19, 2023

The latest IPCC report into the world’s progress on limiting global warming urges faster action across the board to avoid warming exceeding 1.5ºC. The latest IPCC report into the world’s progress on limiting global warming urges faster action across the board to avoid warming exceeding 1.5ºC.

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

The real story behind IBM's success is the course Palmisano set for 21st century global enterprises. Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. They listen as well as they speak.

Globalization

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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

Strategy

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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

The current mantra is “Move fast with stable infrastructure”, which speaks to the organizational design challenge of operating at scale in a fickle and volatile world. There is a simple test you can perform to start an honest conversation about strategy and organizational effectiveness where you work.

Banking

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Leaders Can No Longer Afford to Downplay Procurement

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

Today’s corporations are directing more and more of their budgets toward a complex web of global specialist providers and suppliers to help deliver on their businesses’ core strategies. A recently released global study of nearly 2,000 publicly traded companies found that 69.9% Is it a process-oriented, savings-obsessed function?

Budgeting

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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

This leaves operating managers, the ultimate “consumers” of talent, to choose between two talent acquisitions methods (or “sourcing channels”): Either engage HR to acquire employees or engage Procurement to acquire contingent workers. Create one integrated workforce strategy.

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VW’s Board Needed More Outsiders

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

With a strong, competent, and independent chair able to step in and assume responsibility (and possibly act as interim CEO), a company in a crisis that destroys its leadership is better placed to navigate the storm. Hayward’s leadership had contributed to BP underplaying safety its U.S. Take the case of BP.

CFO

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5 Ways to Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

In an ongoing global survey of senior executives , more than half of the respondents said they didn’t think their company had a winning strategy, and two-thirds said they didn’t think their organization had the right capabilities to execute its strategy. Operating as these companies do takes a lot of confidence.

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The Case for Improving Work for People with Disabilities Goes Way Beyond Compliance

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Our research shows that the same inclusive leadership behaviors that leverage diversity to drive innovation and market growth can enable managers to support individuals with disabilities. But teaching managers to display inclusive leadership behaviors is just the first step. And they are more likely to have their ideas endorsed.

Compliance

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Three Ways CIOs Can Connect with the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

There is a marked dissonance between CIOs and the C-suite — a fact that we uncovered in new research conducted with HBR, The Economist, CEB, and TNS Global. Define Your Strategy. It has to come before technology innovation, product innovation, operational innovation, and all the other areas where we eventually must innovate.

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How Mature is Your Risk Management?

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

At a Global 50 consumer products company, management has developed a governance structure that allows it think about risk proactively, and has aligned its risk profile and exposures more closely with its strategy. At the same time, they are effectively containing financial reporting and compliance risks.

Risk Management

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A Playbook for Making America More Entrepreneurial

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

In an economy where traditional manufacturing jobs have gone offshore, and globalization and technology have put pressure on U.S. For each city or region the right mix of programs depends on what outcomes the leadership of that area is trying to achieve. This research shows that the market for middle skills operates very poorly.

Entrepreneur

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How to Excel at Both Strategy and Execution

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

For decades, we’ve often thought of leadership profiles in unique buckets—two popular varieties were the “visionaries”, who embrace strategy and think about amazing things to do, and the “operators”, who get stuff done. receive stock options and health insurance.

Execution

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Your Organization Wastes Time. Here’s How to Fix It.

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

Companies wind up in trouble and squander the time, talent, and energy of their workforce when they lose focus, spend money on things that don’t make a difference to employees or the future of the business, and use operating models that are out of whack. redesign the operating model. Redesign the Operating Model.

Zero Based Budgeting

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Nine Key Strategies for Going Beyond Great

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Leaders Can No Longer Afford to Downplay Procurement

The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

VW’s Board Needed More Outsiders

5 Ways to Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap

The Case for Improving Work for People with Disabilities Goes Way Beyond Compliance

Three Ways CIOs Can Connect with the C-Suite

How Mature is Your Risk Management?

A Playbook for Making America More Entrepreneurial

How to Excel at Both Strategy and Execution

Your Organization Wastes Time. Here’s How to Fix It.

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