Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Technologies like 3-D printing, robotics, advanced motion controls, and new methods for continuous manufacturing hold great potential for improving how companies design and build products to better serve customers. Why are older incumbent firms slow to adopt new technologies even when the economic or strategic benefits are clear?

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

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. cities integrate smart technologies into municipal buildings. Smarter Buildings: The Foundation for Smart Cities.

Content 8

Content Efficiency Energy Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Take this brief assessment for feedback on how to improve strategic alignment in eight key areas. Before rewiring operations, leaders: wrestle with the nuances of the strategy. diagnose how well the organization’s activities are currently aligned with it. But after six months the plan starts to falter. establish decision rights.

Strategy 8

Strategy Restructuring Committee Short-term 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

These models are intended to provide leaders with additional insight into what motivates followers and how to improve individual and team performance. Brown-Nosers constantly check in with their leaders and operate by seeking permission, rather than forgiveness.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Previous research has suggested that a primary driver of this job polarization is something called routine-biased technological change (RBTC), an unfortunate mouthful whereby new technologies substitute for repetitive, middle-skill jobs and complement analytical, high-skill jobs. labor market over the past 30 years.

Skills 8

Skills Sample Technology Depreciation 8

Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 21, 2021

Change can involve the adoption of new technologies, reengineering, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, culture blending, or any of a number of other forms. Being Change-friendly operates from a platform of respect and caring, not intimidation and contention. Others will resist getting in the car at all.

Hotels 124

Hotels Stress Resistance Restructuring 124

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The first (whose name is disguised to spare blushes) is TEKCO, a technology company. The company hired many open source technology developers to build new collaboration tools. Even operational efficiency was unaffected. TEKCO followed a traditional approach to an IT implementation. As a result, the platform never took off.

Media 16

Media Consultative Restructuring Execution 16

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy. Large downturns (such as this recession), technology disruptions, or regulatory shifts create discontinuities that simply accelerate the industry’s evolution toward this equilibrium state. by Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi.

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

We believe that there is no longer any doubt about how to increase the value of care. Although an overlay is less disruptive than restructuring the organization of care, it adds cost and essentially treats the symptom of faulty organization rather than the cause. The question is whether providers can make the necessary changes.

Health Care 9

Health Care How To Cost System 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The question forced the team to deconstruct the business and reconstruct it based on technological developments and competitive moves. They sponsor one-off presentations of "megatrends" or "potential discontinuities" but rarely discuss how to adapt their business model to the future.

Merchandising 13

Merchandising Metrics Restructuring Library 13

Skip Prichard

MARCH 21, 2021

“Any business leader who wants to succeed in a changing economy must become an expert at talent mobility – how to define it, support their workers and leverage it for strategic advantage.” What are a few of these trends and how are they already showing up? How should organizations restructure and change in light of it?

Trends 102

Trends Policies Career Real Estate 102

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Dave didn’t advocate any particular design model, just one the leader knows how to employ and one flexible enough to be applied to the range of organizational situations a leader faces in the course of a career. Are you competing on the basis of on-going product or technological innovation? Operations Organizational culture'

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 8

Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 13, 2014

Two factors making global thinking a key variable for the future are the dramatic projected increases in global trade and integrated global technology, such as e-commerce. Future leaders will have to learn how to manage global production, marketing, and sales teams to achieve competitive advantage. Demonstrating technological savvy.

Competitive Advantage 140

Competitive Advantage Globalization Diversity Technology 140

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

In this excerpt from their new book, Strategy That Works , Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi explain why distinctive capabilities are vital to success, and address a fundamental question that many companies overlook: How to bring these capabilities to scale, so that every part of the enterprise can call on them.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

P&G is in the midst of a major restructuring, and has laid off thousands of people. P&G''s board has been under a great deal of pressure from an activist investor who has made his views on the pace of the restructuring clear and vocal. Why is P&G making this move, now? Why switch horses midstream? The absence wasn''t so brief.

P&L 8

P&L Restructuring Price CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

As digital technologies permeate all aspects of their operations, companies around the world anticipate the need for massive change over the next five years, according to a new global survey by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services. Read More from DXC Technology: The Questions IT Should Be Asking to Empower Employees.

Technology 8

Technology Company Content Business Model 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

For me businesses are as much or more about the people than they are about the products and markets …so those tough restructuring calls (or sometimes the shut it down calls) are the hardest things ever. On with the interview… Mike Myatt: For our readers not familiar with your background, could you give us a brief Bio?

Open-book 272

Open-book Greenleaf Blog Marketing 272

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 14, 2021

Never in the history have so many technologies matured at the same time from social, mobile, cloud, artificial intelligence, sensors, quantum computing, and more. The combinatorial effects of these technologies have suddenly accelerated progress exponentially toward the hyperconnected world, we live in today.

Brand 96

Brand Insurance Participative Open-book 96

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

How to make your company more nimble and responsive. Google’s restructuring as Alphabet is one sign of its entry into several new vertical markets, including driverless cars, smart homes, smart cities, and health. In many cases, as with Skype, the size of the European operation shrank after the acquisition. Insight Center.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8