In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Optimists favor ‘ doing more with more ,’ placing bets that higher sales and profits will pay for the added investments in headcount or technologies; we’ve all been there at one time or another. A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. Sure, there will be a fallout.

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Human Resources Restructuring Competitive Advantage Marketing Strategy 183

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Ajay is a technologist and business strategist who often obsesses over issues that range from the impact of technology on disruptive business models to entrepreneurship and impact investing. LG has devised payment subscription plans that makes its products affordable. Innovation Sandbox” was the term coined by C.K.

Competitive Advantage 154

Competitive Advantage Prahalad Blue Ocean Strategy Glocalization 154

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Whether it’s a fresher role or one that requires experience, Qualee reports that it takes a new hire approximately eight months to reach their full productivity. Without hitting full productivity, employees often move on to the next opportunity, leaving companies to restart the hiring and onboarding process.

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Process Attrition Trends Training 59

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.

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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.

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Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

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. As the head of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

In sum, CEOs need a frugal innovation agenda. Frugal innovation is the ability to innovate cost-effectively and sustainably under severe resource constraints. Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution. By "good enough," we don't mean stripped-down versions of existing high-end products.

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CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Technologies like 3-D printing, robotics, advanced motion controls, and new methods for continuous manufacturing hold great potential for improving how companies design and build products to better serve customers. Why are older incumbent firms slow to adopt new technologies even when the economic or strategic benefits are clear?

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

The Practical Leader

APRIL 17, 2024

Their unique products and growing revenues were papering over many huge cracks and barely holding them together. They hired consultants and launched a series of restructuring and improvement projects in warehouse and shipping logistics, branding, renovating stores, revamping product lines, customer service training, IT systems, and the like.

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Teamwork Restructuring Project Micromanagement 104

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

In sum, CEOs need a frugal innovation agenda. Frugal innovation is the ability to innovate cost-effectively and sustainably under severe resource constraints. Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution. By "good enough," we don't mean stripped-down versions of existing high-end products.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Wearable technologies, implanted devices, and smartphone apps allow continuous monitoring and create a ubiquitous, 24/7, digitized picture of your health that can be accessed and analyzed in real-time, anywhere. Technological advances based on the Bartender model will also push the boundaries of healthcare into new retail frontiers.

Technology 8

Technology Retail Apparel Customer Loyalty 8

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 25, 2019

Countries around the world are faced with considerable skills, productivity and social inclusion challenges that require novel and innovative approaches to skills development. “Skills improvements complement other key building blocks of an innovative and inclusive economy,” the authors explain. Restructuring.

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Skills Innovation Education Restructuring 71

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Initially when the start-up''s founder, serial entrepreneur Elon Musk, looked at the space industry, he faced a quandary about where to innovate, given the restrictions and mandatory performance criteria for space travel. Musk quickly zeroed in on the one area ripe for innovation: cost reduction. They think about the future.

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Cost Innovation Long-term Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

Like the internet, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are driven by advances in core technologies along with a new, open architecture — the Bitcoin blockchain. Like the internet, in the early stages of development there are many competing technologies, so it’s important to specify which blockchain you’re talking about.

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Banking Media Decentralization Technology 19

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

Or you’re an auto-industry executive and you’re excited by a new technology that you could easily build into your latest model—but contracts with suppliers make such an innovation an impossibility this year, and maybe even next year. But your agreements with your suppliers prevent you from moving quickly. The agreement was called off.

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Innovation Retail Banking Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

It also hurts the brands sold inside the stores, which in part explains why consumer product giants like Procter & Gamble are seeing their sales stagnate for products like Tide detergent, Gillette razors, Pampers diapers, and Crest toothpaste. Maxx and Marshalls—which compete aggressively on price. Price competition hurts.

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Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

Understand your customer's buying cycle better, and you can target your mailings and product offerings more effectively. It a powerful tool for identifying innovations, especially with the opportunities for data gathering afforded by smart technologies and social media.

Marketing 15

Marketing Restructuring Brand Analysis 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

For an upcoming MIT symposium on the topic, we’re focusing on four main themes: customer expectations, product enhancements, collaborative innovations, and organizational forms. Digital technologies enable companies to better engage with their customers and offer superior experiences at affordable costs. Insight Center.

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Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

I don’t mean a few quarters of sluggish growth or a one-time product flop, but a radical shift in its market, a major technology disruption, or a disastrous strategic bet that threatened the company’s very existence. It was a great idea for a conference, yet it amounted to a hill of beans.

Company 8

Company Long-term Conference Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

Offshoring some portion of a firm’s innovation may be beneficial, the authors argue, but beyond a certain point it becomes counterproductive. With nations like China ramping up their innovative capacities, why stop at offshoring manufacturing or customer support?

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Offshoring Innovation Restructuring Globalization 8

In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 6, 2013

The conversation in the world of branding is well beyond product and service brand discussion by marketers and ad agencies. Wouldn’t you expect more innovation? I am not suggesting restructuring the entire brand management system. Never in the history of marketing has there been so much talk about branding.

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Brand P&L Human Resources Brand Management 260

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. He wrote a short document titled Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager and used it to train his team on his basic expectations.

Skills 15

Skills Morale Ethics System 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Now that technology allows us to work anywhere, on any device, work is something people do — not just a place to which they go. New ways to improve business productivity, flexibility, and agility are no longer just nice to have: They are essential for the modern workplace. Sponsor Content from GoToMeeting.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Technology Restructuring Competitive Advantage 8

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. In most banks, inexperienced young managers are asked to handle digital products.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

PL and CM: Coherent companies – those that possess a capabilities system that aligns their strategy with their product/service portfolio – generate superior performance over time, which is what we call the coherence premium. SD : What is the ‘coherence premium?’. SD : What does it mean to have a ‘right to win?’.

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Resources Industry System Strategy 51

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. Incumbents in these industries often own established brands, proprietary technology, and control of distribution channels. Others are exploring subscription models.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The first (whose name is disguised to spare blushes) is TEKCO, a technology company. The company hired many open source technology developers to build new collaboration tools. Enjoyment is well known to be a strong motivator of innovation. TEKCO followed a traditional approach to an IT implementation.

Media 16

Media Consultative Restructuring Execution 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The rapid pace of change in business and technology means that more and more companies will find themselves being disrupted. They look at their business as platforms, not just as products and services. Geographic business units are responsible for hiring the right people, selling their products, and provisioning new customers.

CEO 8

CEO Metrics Leadership Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

They seem increasingly focused on productively cultivating that core 20% to 25% of people who reliably generate the 70% to 80% of enterprise value. Workflows and innovation initiatives have been artfully reorganized around "projects" to facilitate faster, cheaper and easier contingent participation. Who is their Salman Khan ?

Human Capital 9

Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 9

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.

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P&L Restructuring Price CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

There is a palpable sense of systemic instability in the face of political, economic, technological, social, and indeed meteorological uncertainty. They are infrastructure, technology, internationalization, communication, and the balance of continuity and change. 2) Technology. From News Corp. 1) Infrastructure.

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Uncertainty Politics Restructuring Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

Or had a decade of disruptive innovation in interactive, internet-based video thoroughly altered the competitive landscape, largely leaving the incumbents behind? New forms of content, new distribution technologies, and new business models are emerging at a dizzying pace. and abroad.

Media 8

Media Content Video Price 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Nothing gets done in organizations without followers, as they are people closest to the customers and issues, creating the products, taking orders, and collecting payments. Research has consistently shown that more engaged employees are harder working, more productive, and more likely to stay with organizations than those who are disengaged.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

These dynamics make it hard for teams to recognize or to be fully cognizant of new disruptive challenges, while also stifling the creative innovation that is necessary to proactively confront such challenges. Here’s what will replace it, and here’s what we need to do now to survive and thrive.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

The mismatch between the skills that companies need and the capabilities of people applying for job openings can result in delays in product releases, lower customer satisfaction, and loss of revenue. As a result, they tend to focus narrowly on technology skills, the Accenture survey reports. There's a lot at stake here.

Skills 14

Skills Survey Human Resources Document 14

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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

And that means educators worldwide must revisit how they want to make their most important product — their students — more valuable. Scenario planning is as essential for strategy formulation as it is for the design of next generation technologies and industries. Cooking Science & Technology. Everybody eats.

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