Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2018

When boiled down to its essence, management is a system of managers, operating in concert, constantly adjusting resources based on new information coming in to keep the business on target. In other words, management is the feedback system of the organization. Just look for the highest?performing Linked Teams.

Hypercompetition 69

Hypercompetition Team Management Information 69

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

Given the hypercompetitive nature of global manufacturing, it wouldn't take much to kill this momentum and put the U.S. Managers typically assume that a worker who meets minimum qualifications can be taught pretty much any job in a short time. back to where it was a couple of years ago. Of particular importance is the hire.

Hypercompetition 12

Hypercompetition Human Capital Short-term Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

A system that fails to fail lacks the capacity to evolve — much less to gain resilience, or, above all, wisdom. And to make it happen, they're learning to shed the red tape, meetings, managers, and memos that made industrial-age business such a dreary, dismal drag. The future's not predicted — it's created. So create it.

Hypercompetition 15

Hypercompetition Ries Definition Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. Even General Motors, which had a bird’s eye view of the Toyota Production System from its joint venture with Toyota at New United Motors Manufacturing Inc. More importantly, managers need to monitor the tool innovation roadmap.

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

In turn — and here's the crucial part — India's likely to be able to create the future: stuff that's globally hypercompetitive, because it's lean, clean, and green, igniting a new basis for export-led growth, and, more than likely, offering better sources of advantage. Now let's go back to the much-maligned WikiLeaks.

GDP 16

GDP Hypercompetition IPO Information 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

You know how your mobile operator manages to slyly slide hidden costs past you — and the service you get is patchy and unpredictable? Once companies have to account for the costs they've been externalizing, new jobs to manage new competencies will emerge. Innovation atrophy. That's the Enronian economy in a microcosm.

Incentives 15

Incentives GDP Hypercompetition Self-aware 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

We see an interesting pattern across the professionally managed companies, those whose CEOs were hired by the board. For new growth areas that now make up 47% of sales, it moved into industrial solutions and digital services, creating systems such as internet-connected elevators. These CEOs are what we call “insider outsiders.”

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15