Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Despite the media coverage of Boomers and how a tidal wave of retirements could impact business, many senior managers are kicking the can down the road, putting off the job of creating a system and process for capturing knowledge. Manager can avoid this by taking some steps now to prepare for the day when key workers leave.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. Let’s see what happens when we connect them rather than manage them — that is, focus on the links rather than the nodes. Human capital. We normally think of people as something to be managed.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

And, as the leader of our firm’s management appraisal practice, professional development, and intellectual capital creation, I’ve also carefully studied various assessment approaches and their performance impact. People are hired for IQ and experience and fired for failing to manage themselves and others well.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

According to Litow, the objective was threefold: to support IBMers in their service engagements, to invest the intellectual capital of IBMers in tackling social issues around the world, and to develop the expertise and leadership of IBMers through volunteer opportunities that leverage their skills and abilities.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

According to Litow, the objective was threefold: to support IBMers in their service engagements, to invest the intellectual capital of IBMers in tackling social issues around the world, and to develop the expertise and leadership of IBMers through volunteer opportunities that leverage their skills and abilities.

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Intellectual Capital Library Project Competitive Advantage 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

Three-quarters of the world's CEOs say more emphasis should be placed on measuring the value of non-financial assets such as intellectual capital and customer relationships. This was the headline finding of a recent study (PDF) by the American Institute of CPAs and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

According to Ocean Tomo, a consulting firm focused on intellectual capital, physical assets (plant, property, and equipment) made up more than 80% of the market value of the S&P 500 in 1975. Further, it simpler and less risky for managers tend to stick closely to the previous year’s budget. How much is changing?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

For example, at the end of its 2015 fiscal year, Apple’s balance sheet stated tangible assets of $290 billion as a contribution to its annual revenues, with approximately $141 billion worth of intangible assets — a combination of intellectual capital, brand equity, and (investor and consumer) goodwill.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Its value stems from how business leaders, from senior executives to managers, use it to foster new collaborative behaviors that materially improve business performance. Its business value does not come from social software or a snazzy website, even one with 800 million users.

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Media Intellectual Capital Competitive Advantage Compliance 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

Manufacturers invest most of their capital into physical assets, while high-tech firms invest in R&D to create new intellectual capital. These assets are typically overlooked, undervalued, and under-managed. But all assets are not created equal, especially as the technological landscape changes.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 30, 2016

As our situation in the C-Suite continues, the manager of the top performing sales team offered to me on a coffee break how he planned to reward his team when they hit 330% of their sales goal for this quarter. Agreement is needed on goals and how to achieve them. This was the “Ah-Ha” moment.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

What China makes is generally low-priced, with razor-thin profit margins, is available from almost any emerging market supplier, and contains little distinctive or proprietary intellectual capital. This may all change as China innovates and grows. As that continues, vigorous rates of job growth will resume. Far from it.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2013

To the corporations, the future looks like the enemy, a risk that can''t be managed, an idea that can''t be thought. And, if we have the intellectual capital, maybe get a pied-à-terre. Change management Innovation Strategy' The corporation puts a particular boundary between now and the future.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

It started 30 years ago with the progressive and unusual step (for that time) of shifting from local nationals as country managers to global leaders from other countries. French pharmaceutical company Sanofi recently acquired Boston-based Genzyme to tap into America's intellectual capital in biotechnology.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Software had turned into a stronger driver of revenue in the computer industry than hardware, and HP management had realized that it had to make the shift to sustain its growth. I remember attending a Hewlett-Packard meeting for industry analysts in the early 1990s and hearing HP proudly declare that it was becoming a software company.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. Managers assess performance. To find a cure, we will have to reinvent the architecture and ideology of modern management — two topics that aren’t often discussed in boardrooms or business schools. Power trickles down.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. Managers assess performance. To find a cure, we will have to reinvent the architecture and ideology of modern management — two topics that aren’t often discussed in boardrooms or business schools. Power trickles down.

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Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Since at least the 1980s (the era of deregulation, that is, over which Alfred Kahn presided) managers of big companies have been upbraided for their intolerance to risk. Perhaps not surprisingly, managers of mega corporations remain largely unsold on that notion. Certainly, that's a fair accusation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

What makes the matter fascinating to industry watchers, approximately their equivalent of the Charlie Sheen supernova, is that Gupta served three terms as managing director of McKinsey & Co., In his tenure as McKinsey's worldwide managing director, Gupta displayed macher-like ambition not just for himself but even more so for his firm.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The government agricultural agency teamed up with NGOs to work with ranchers on sustainable agriculture practices, which focused on no deforestation, more cattle per hectare, reforestation, managing water, biodiversity, soil conservation, reducing waste, and helping to improve the welfare of workers and animals.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2012

Most organizations, however, still view social media as a threat to productivity, intellectual capital, security, privacy, management authority, or regulatory compliance. For example, a grass roots "Shores Stores Group" formed among the more than 100 store managers with stores located in vacation communities.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2011

Services, strengthened by the acquisition of EDS several years ago, are both a blessing and a curse: While EDS has many lucrative deals, it also has time-intensive and costly outsourcing deals to manage. While there are many strong managers in place, they not only have different goals but different ways of pursuing them.

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