Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Seeking to extend its technological edge (particularly in miniaturization), it acquired more than 100 startup companies while pursuing a vast portfolio of research and product development projects. Nokia was so immersed in executing its strategy that it lost sight of its purpose. In retrospect, it seems inevitable.

Strategy 14

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

Or does it focus on customer service and helping the business achieve its strategy? Leaders should consider what the business is trying to achieve and design metrics around areas such as innovation, stakeholder experience, risk mitigation, improving ways of working, and spending wisely rather than less.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Objective Cost Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

Imagine you are the CEO of one of Britain’s oldest and possibly least innovative insurance companies, The Prudential. Unfortunately, in the cases of Mannesmann and The Prudential, neither condition appeared to exist: both new investment projects would have failed the test of the second logic. When Innovation Is Strategy.

Licensing 8

Licensing Competitive Advantage Proposal Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Sure, it must always consider whether to adjust that strategy in the face of new competition, changing customer demand, technological innovation or all three. That’s why the San Francisco-based company tinkered with its strategy the right way, off to the side, in a manner that would minimize damage if the experiment went wrong.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 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 13

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

For finishers, he will have to change its treads—redirect its strategy—while barreling down a highway with no map for what lies ahead. During the final year, they added three paths to gather a last round of data: 1) The CEO and directors assigned a year-long CEO-level project to each of the three finalists.

CEO 8

CEO Bottom-up Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Innovative new hospital designs have changed patients’ experiences and expectations of what a hospital should be. By reducing the number of as-needed injections by hanging nature images in the lounge, the hospital projected a potential cost savings of over $30,000. Rooms with big windows and access to outdoor gardens.

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Hotels Health Care Cost 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

We’ve all been through it — the looming cost project. When Roger Enrico took the helm as CEO of Frito-Lay, in 1991, the company was developing an innovative and distinctive approach to direct-store delivery that would allow it to consistently deliver the right products to the right stores at the right time.

Cost 11

Cost How To Budgeting Strategic Planning 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

It also has partnered with nationally recognized organizations such as the Reach Out and Read program to improve childhood language and literacy, and Health Leads (formerly Project HEALTH), for assessing families’ additional needs and connecting them to community resources. Continuous and coordinated. pediatric primary care remain.

Health Care 11

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 11