Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

She holds the Ernest L. She''s an expert on strategy, innovation, and leading change. In her latest book, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good , she analyzed how P&G (among other companies) achieved long-term performance. Why is P&G making this move, now? Asking A.G.

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P&L Restructuring Price CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. Manage costs — or add value? Exploiting global opportunities versus managing risk. Today, this tension is perilous for CEOs.

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CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Talk about how complex marketing has become is very much in vogue, but there’s much less discussion about the operational (and diplomatic) muscle CMOs need in order to get things done. Says Abi Comber, Head of Marketing for British Airways: “Having P&L responsibility is incredibly powerful.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

This week, Microsoft is announcing an unusual initiative that it hopes will change how the company operates: an internal fee on carbon. And this charge will, in theory, move managers to make greener choices. It's innovative and committed, but it also points to a massive global failure of leadership on climate policy.

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Price P&L White Paper Energy 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own. Directness. When the U.S.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. Managers still assume that stability is the normal state of affairs and change is the unusual state (a point I particularly challenge in The End of Competitive Advantage ). Townes, and Henry L.

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Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

keep hearing from top executives at large, profitable companies that they're under "P&L pressure." Who declared 7 or 10 or 15 percent growth in earnings a sacrosanct pursuit, above all other corporate goals — like the innovation that leads to novel solutions that address customer needs?

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GAAP Short-term P&L EPS 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. A design studio is geared for collaboration and innovation work with customers and partners.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

My acronym for BUSINESS : B ig-picture U nderstanding S ymbiosis I n N omenclature, E conomics, S ystems, and S ervices WORK : W indows of O pportunity, R equiring K now-how My acronym for GOALS : G etting O rganized A llowing L ifeblood S ystems G rowth O pportunities A nd L egacy S upport THINK : T o H ave I deas, N ew K eys FAILURE : F inding A (..)

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P&L Books Definition Strategic Planning 56

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Millions worldwide have read and embraced John Kotter's ideas on change management and leadership. Leading Change is widely recognized as his seminal work on leading transformational change, and is an important precursor to his newer ideas on acceleration: effectively managing operations while seizing new opportunity.

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P&L Kotter Books Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

Once, the demise of the Great A&P would have been front-page news from Maine to California. For more than four decades, from 1920 into the 1960s, A&P was the largest retailer in the world. A&P remained so powerful for so long for one reason only: because the two brothers who controlled it, George L. and John A.

P&L 14

P&L Retail Real Estate Discount 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. So it's no wonder that business started to wake up to the serious danger that storms and shortages present to their operations, both from direct damage to property and from massive production interruptions (i.e., business continuity").

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Tommy was a director and Jane was the Midlands regional sales manager for Egan & Sons, a supplier of doors and staircases to Westmid for 63 years. But he could not shake his newfound awareness of the amount of money Egan was losing with Westmid — the account's ratio of operating income to sales was a negative 28%.

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Case Study P&L Cost Due Diligence 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

Trade promotion is often the single biggest line item in a manufacturer's P&L. So you can end up in the proverbial situation where the operation was a success, but the patient died. Perhaps the most critical issue is for senior management is to more closely tie trade promotion to their vision for category growth.

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ROI P&L Retail Brand 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Yet they don't work, and their repeated application makes many managers incredibly gender fatigued and frustrated. Every manager I have worked with hates the fact that companies talk about "Diversity and Inclusion," but then they are given targets on women (most don't even target balance). Problem 1: Calling it Diversity.

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Diversity Balanced Scorecard P&L Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

Trade promotion is often the single biggest line item in a manufacturer's P&L. So you can end up in the proverbial situation where the operation was a success, but the patient died. Perhaps the most critical issue is for senior management is to more closely tie trade promotion to their vision for category growth.

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ROI P&L Retail Brand 12

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. Yet for the small handful of companies that have managed to drive growth consistently – even through tough times – the payoff is great. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.

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Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

When leaders come up short, as they often do, the problem may have less to do with them as individuals than with the top-down structures in which they operate. Maybe that mattered less in a world where change was better behaved, but today, senior management's monopoly on "strategic leadership" can rapidly turn a leader into a laggard.

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P&L Supply Chain Bottom-up McKinsey 8

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The Crux : How Leaders Become Strategists by Richard P. Rumelt (PublicAffairs, 2022) What passes for strategy in too many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is a toxic mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. People don’t want to be managed; they want to be led. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Books Leadership P&L Blog 368

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

An innovative care provider organization in Eastern Massachusetts with 30 medical practices and a home health and hospice agency, it already receives almost 80% of revenue from global payments (a fixed payment for all of a patient’s medical treatment during a specified period of time) or other risk contracts. Insight Center.

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Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

A GreenBiz report indicated that progress had slowed or even regressed, but MIT and BCG also declared that sustainability had reached a "tipping point" with more companies putting sustainability "on the management agenda.". Sustainability innovation opens up: Unilever, Heineken, and EMC ask the world for help.

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Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10