Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

For directors, this is simply a fact of life, and the best way for a company to avoid activist attention is simply to deliver the fundamental performance that leads to long-term value creation. Even — or perhaps especially — if the founder is long gone, these traits should be top of mind for boards of directors.

Company 8

Company Bureaucracy Long-term Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. Your answers to both questions can be plotted on the matrix above.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Patience and a long-term view. Palmisano warned against prioritizing shareholders or other constituents, calling this "a false choice," and explaining that "Long-term management is a serious challenge in a world driven by short-term thinking. Directness. He's personable, but blunt. It is not about you.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

A new study from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that, according to the 2015 US government’s definition of disability , a significant portion of the white-collar workforce has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity: 30% of a nationally representative survey of 3,570 white-collar employees.

Compliance 8

Compliance Chief Operating Officer Innovation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2013

The common thread is that today''s model of capitalism overemphasizes short-term financial data and neglects information that gets at the true sources of sustainable value creation — things like innovation, brand equity, customer loyalty, and key stakeholder relationships. But there are other reasons too.

Report 8

Report Short-term Press Release Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

That digital focus helped Adidas reshape its strategy for today’s mobile, more empowered consumer. And we’re using technology to enable our end-to-end business to create the best experience for our consumers — and ultimately build a relationship we can grow in the long term.” ” Read More.

Content 8

Content Brand Storytelling Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

In her underappreciated book, The Innovation Killer , Cynthia Barton Rabe, a former innovation strategist at Intel, explains how "what we know limits what we can imagine." The term it used to describe its strategy was "retailtainment" — making it fun for customers to do business in an industry that was devoid of personality.

Banking 18

Banking Retail Open-book Creativity 18

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

Stay secure and boost innovation. As long as the mainframe systems aren''t broken, let''s not fix them. Today, however, technology innovation is creating a drastic change — across all major industries — in the way customers want to interact with their suppliers. Be strategic and operational. Grow blended executives.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Storytelling Strategic Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

Their innovation efforts tend to be focused wholly on the creation of new value; meanwhile, the question of how exactly they will be compensated for it usually goes unexamined. In general, companies don’t devote enough time to thinking about value capture. Why is it that?

Balanced Scorecard 8

Balanced Scorecard Company Price KPI 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

Americans have long believed in the importance of entrepreneurs to the health of our economy. We see ourselves as risk-takers and innovators. The Playbook is a policy menu, based around three core needs of small businesses: access to capital; people and skills; and innovation ecosystems.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. The second type, known as adaptive performance , is how effectively your organization diverges from its strategy. Adaptive performance manifests as creativity, problem solving, grit, innovation, and citizenship.

Organization 12

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Innovative new hospital designs have changed patients’ experiences and expectations of what a hospital should be. Before the hospital brought in their architect, the care team devised its strategy and process for providing a new care model to mothers and their premature infants.

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Hotels Health Care Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Everyone thinks they have a digital strategy these days. But while your company may have a business or IT strategy that incorporates digital technology, an IT strategy does not equal a digital strategy. Because most IT strategies treat technology in isolation. This gives the effort a clear and manageable focus.

IT Strategy 9

IT Strategy Strategy Class Offshoring 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

When doing research for our book , we found that the main reasons most companies suffer from this syndrome are that they make across-the-board cuts that are unconnected to their strategy, and fail to make the cuts sustainable. They put their money where their strategy is and continually cut bad costs and redirect resources toward good costs.

Cost 10

Cost How To Budgeting Strategic Planning 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Capitec gets many things right in terms of its strategy, including its market positioning, internal operations, and organizational culture. ” Indeed, Capitec is more focused, in terms of what it does and does not do, than most companies and certainly most banks. Resisting revenue temptations. Evolving purposefully.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

PFK is now working on expanding its strategy to address the health needs of children with disabilities. Experimentation will be needed to determine how such holistic pediatric-care programs can best achieve long-term return on investment. whether someone is employed and his or her earnings over time).

Health Care 10

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

While every other player in the electric car space was focused on innovating individual pieces — vehicles, batteries, charge spots — Better Place''s strategy was unique in innovating the larger puzzle to deliver an affordable drive-anywhere, anytime solution. Note to Tesla owners: you are not the mass market).

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

This article was written by Jennifer Horn for the June 2016 issue of Strategy Magazine. Not long after, you took aim at the coffee bean itself, ruling out the seeds that didn’t quite fit your strict flavour and aroma standards. It wasn’t long before the competition matched Nabob’s vacuum pack, says Bell.

Brand 100

Brand Brand Management Advertising Management 100