The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 23, 2022

“There are a lot of clinicians who are looking for ways to put management tools—such as finance, strategy, operations, and leadership—together to take on larger leadership roles.”. New skills.

Skills 62

Skills Supply Chain Restructuring Training 62

The Practical Leader

MARCH 2, 2022

” In culture development efforts, leaders will strongly declare their commitment to core values like safety, quality, service, engagement, teamwork, integrity, innovation, and the like. Integration — day-to-day operating decisions are delegated to increasingly autonomous frontline teams.

Commitment 69

Commitment Teamwork Restructuring Morale 69

Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2020

This can cover situations such as growing a business (which requires ‘growth capital’ for expansion or development); financing operational changes such as restructuring to make the business more profitable; financing acquisitions of other companies; or delisting a public company in order to give it private status.

Real Estate 66

Real Estate Finance Hedge Restructuring 66

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

It involves reassessing your business operations, starting with leadership. With this statistic at the back of your mind, one essential step to take is to restructure your company’s money management procedures. Be receptive to innovative ideas. Identify what could have gone wrong with the leadership team.

Finance 85

Finance Long-term Banking Restructuring 85

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 13, 2020

“An alternative response could be to increase advertising spending to compensate for the decreased effectiveness and to consider such higher ad spending in the layoff country as a restructuring cost.” ” .

Advertising 95

Advertising Automotive Restructuring Price 95

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

While we were restructuring our services business, we made significant investments in training to help our employees make this skills transition and to introduce a learning culture, as learning is a lifelong journey. Let’s innovate, disrupt, and challenge the status quo. Stefan Ries: The old days of HR are over.

Ries 76

Ries Skills Human Resources Software 76

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Restructuring has led to fewer layers of management, also to fewer opportunities for promotion. Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent. The CEO of a leading telecommunications company recently embarked on an innovative approach.

Bureaucracy 151

Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

The role has been relegated to middle managers who are brand custodians, not leaders in innovation. Through no fault of their own, they either lack the experience, the clout or the motivation to drive innovation into the brands they manage. But why does brand building have to take a back seat during this era of corporate change?

Magazine 100

Magazine Brand Article Marketing 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Companies and government agencies often make the mistake of viewing innovation as a set of unconstrained activities with no discipline. In reality, for innovation to contribute to a company or government agency, it needs to be designed as a process from start to deployment.

Process 13

Process Innovation Incubator Committee 13

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

billion into Nissan, but in return it required more than 36 percent of the company’s ownership and a commitment from Nissan to appoint Renault executive Carlos Ghosn as Nissan’s chief operating officer. Neither a restructuring strategy nor a turnaround leader alone could have engineered Nissan’s historic rebound. About the Authors.

Chief Operating Officer 50

Chief Operating Officer Short-term Strategic Fit Restructuring 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 12, 2024

The innovations are endless, from peer-to-peer payments to automated portfolio managers and trading platforms. Finance digital transformation involves leveraging cutting-edge technologies for better operational efficiency and enhanced strategic decision-making. FinTech companies are putting a new twist on financial concepts.

Finance 112

Finance Technology BPM Company 112

Deming Institute

JUNE 9, 2015

Restructure training. Provide operational definitions of all jobs. Loren Vorlicky of the Health Services Research Center translated them into a health care context. Dr. Deming included their work in Out of Crisis, pages 201-202: 6. Develop the concept of tutors. Develop increased in-service education.

Deming 28

Deming Health Care Restructuring Crisis 28

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? IRS Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998); and an outstanding, senior executive from the private sector, Charles Rossotti , was appointed for a five-year term to drive the changes.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. As companies grapple with long odds on innovation like these, they are also looking for ways to improve the likelihood of their intrapreneurial success.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

firms with structures organized around customers would grow from 32% to 52% as firms raced to build customer-centric organizations, and he interviewed companies including IBM and Systems Group that had announced customer-centric restructurings. ” A good example of customer-centricity is Tumi , the innovative U.S.-based

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Company Henderson Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

One large media organization faces large incumbent players and operates in a market that is growing quickly. Rather than using traditional top-down management practices, the company organized itself into small business units, each of which operates in a local geography. We call this operating structure the “network of teams.”

CEO 8

CEO Metrics Leadership Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

To deliver more value, the human resources function needs to spend more time accelerating operational improvement and less time on its traditional administrative and compliance activities. Bring people into HR with extensive operational improvement experience. In HR, we need to focus on what is important.".

Process 13

Process Compliance Operations Human Resources 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2018

For instance, Doug shared some new concepts for transforming an insurmountable checklist of requirements into manageable benchmarks and priorities, which he had developed after conducting a comprehensive review of his company’s operations. He also shared supply discipline systems that reduced common inefficiencies.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Operations Restructuring Conference 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

The primary focus was on fixing the acquired firm through financial restructuring, dramatic cost cutting, and strategic slashing. In phase three, PE firms are not simply holding companies waiting to dispose of the property, nor are they operating companies seeking to integrate their acquisitions into an existing business.

LBO 8

LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

Just because a company can offshore some portion of its operations doesn’t mean it should. Offshoring some portion of a firm’s innovation may be beneficial, the authors argue, but beyond a certain point it becomes counterproductive.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Innovation Restructuring Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. But companies in this state often face increasing pressure to improve efficiency and reduce operating costs in their legacy businesses, and this pressure attracts opportunistic disruptors.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

We expect the drone market to surge to nearly $7 billion by 2020 globally, driven by regulatory clarification, continuously decreasing component costs, and – most important– ongoing innovation that connects drone capabilities to big-data analytics.

Competitive Advantage 10

Competitive Advantage Company Outsourcing Analysis 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

How has Coca-Cola integrated these CSR principles into your operations? Restructuring a company to focus on sustainability doesn’t happen overnight, so how long did it take to get everyone on board and how did you deal with any resistance to change? Thus, we operate a value creation model that is globally driven but locally focused.

CEO 11

CEO Supply Chain Operations Brand 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

Frequent restructurings of the analytics function. Ironically, this allows them to actually gain stature as the “innovators” are discredited and C-suite power shifts back to how it was. ” Create an environment of rapid innovation. Chief Analytics Officers (CAOs) were frequently replaced.

CEO 8

CEO Competitive Advantage ROI CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

For example, Google’s restructuring into Alphabet highlighted just how much the company is spending on new businesses, from self-driving cars to space exploration and more. economy is not just the opportunity for raw innovation, but the ability to scale new technologies within large global companies.

Company 11

Company Supply Chain Retail Bureaucracy 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Technology has emerged as a competitive weapon in driving operational excellence and superior service quality. From my practice working with bank clients in the continent, here are a few suggestions to make that happen: Restructure staff. Innovate ferociously. Across Africa, banking is being redesigned. Think about local needs.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Many of us are familiar with the hazards of Groupthink - when teams or organizations operate on autopilot and feel a general false sense of invulnerability. The answers in turn can set up the team to successfully adapt to the present, while also creating the foundation for future innovation and success.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic. Corporate culture.

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Some innovative and determined professionals working in world's largest and most complex corporations are choosing to stay put and use their corporate platforms to lead change. An increasing number of mission-driven, innovative professionals are finding they can't resist this opportunity. Some are recent graduates.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

The Future of Operations. The latter are troublesome because the knowledge base and skills required to operate in the new realm are so fundamentally different. I was faced with undertaking a massive restructuring and write-downs to get the unit back to a competitive position. Sometimes they are a fit, but often they are not.

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

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. P&G is in the midst of a major restructuring, and has laid off thousands of people.

P&L 8

P&L Restructuring Price CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

This shift demands that businesses manage and operate so that they can attract the right people, retain them, and ensure they can do their best work. Companies that leverage these technologies to enhance their talent strategies are tapping into a whole new way of thinking about work and restructuring the way work is done.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Technology Restructuring Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Think of it as management operating system 3.0. The approach comes with its own lengthy constitution which details how to restructure an organization peopled with leaders who are held accountable for their own roles and contribute equally to the success of the entire unit. Not exactly fertile ground for collaboration and innovation.

Koestler 13

Koestler Company Restructuring Travel 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

We’re often seeing so-called blockchains that are not really innovative, but instead are merely databases, which have existed for decades, calling themselves blockchains to jump on the buzzword bandwagon. Such a fundamental restructuring of a core part of the economy is a big challenge to incumbent firms that make their living from it.

Banking 19

Banking Media Decentralization Technology 19

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

This month he’s publishing his second book based on the interviews: “Quick and Nimble: Lessons from Leading CEOs on How to Create a Culture of Innovation.” He talked with HBR about why a company’s culture is more important than its strategy — and some of the innovative tactics that CEOs have used to help create a high-performing culture.

CEO 12

CEO FAQ Restructuring Performance Review 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

While a natural inclination, this group is (by design) representative of current operating units and functions, which often have a status quo to defend. The only questions the circle should avoid are what to do about current operational problems. That, in brief, is the concept of a leadership circle.

Leadership 10

Leadership Diversity Committee Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

to the revolution in Libya, from the continuing economic upheaval to Steve Jobs announcing his resignation as CEO of Apple and to HP restructuring their business, and from earthquakes to hurricanes and floods, each event is yet another chink in our sense of stability and control of the environment around us. From News Corp.

Uncertainty 14

Uncertainty Politics Restructuring Technology 14