Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. Executing this strategy required seamless integration of IBM's product capabilities with its geographic reach. Directness.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. Nokia was so immersed in executing its strategy that it lost sight of its purpose.

Strategy 13

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

When Bernstein hid a set of production lines from managers’ view, the performance of employees on those lines increased by 10% to 15%. 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.

Organization 12

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Increasingly, the CIO and IT must be seen less as merely developing and deploying technology, and more as a source of innovation and transformation that delivers business value, leveraging technology instead of directly delivering it. Define Your Strategy. To that end, the role of the CIO must be strategic instead of tactical.

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

While large consulting firms push expensive “war games” at the leadership level, Jessica ran cheap and quick local games based on local market dynamics. She then fed the results as market intelligence input into a senior leadership competitive game. Consider the example of Pratt and Whitney, a United Technology company.

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Agility Workshop Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. Among other steps, it elevated the role of customer segment heads, giving them authority over products and channels for those segments.

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

Price leadership: A no-frills airline constantly advertises the lowest fares on any route served. Deterring new providers: A professional event technology firm offers rock-bottom quotes to special events to signal its pricing power to any potential new entrants. Another typical trade-off is between resource allocation and profit.

Balanced Scorecard 8

Balanced Scorecard Company Price KPI 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

So they begin tinkering with their core strategy, burning up resources while their companies wander off their tried-and-true growth path. The tales of two companies, cell phone accessories retailer Cellairis and skin care products maker Rodan + Fields, illustrate the dangers of top-level strategic tinkering.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

However, by the middle of the decade, Google was growing, YouTube was forming, and “operational excellence” wasn’t a differentiating strategy in technology. Boards Leadership Strategy' Ballmer effectively led this shift and saw strong revenue growth from it. Ballmer took over, and excelled at, a Box 2 challenge.

Strategic Fit 8

Strategic Fit Rogers CEO Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

In an economy where traditional manufacturing jobs have gone offshore, and globalization and technology have put pressure on U.S. For each city or region the right mix of programs depends on what outcomes the leadership of that area is trying to achieve. A supplier might need a working capital loan to finance a big order.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 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

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

For decades, we’ve often thought of leadership profiles in unique buckets—two popular varieties were the “visionaries”, who embrace strategy and think about amazing things to do, and the “operators”, who get stuff done. Adam Pretty/Getty Images.

Execution 15

Execution Strategy How To Budgeting 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2011

While the technology giant's second-quarter revenue increased by 3%, its relatively new CEO, Leo Apotheker, was forced to lower the forecast for revenue for the fiscal year. The technology market is the epitome of creative destruction. That put it in the right place at the right time as the technology revolution was beginning.

Software 12

Software Technology Intellectual Capital Marketing 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2014

Jim, a brilliant professor of engineering, came on as the new Chief Knowledge Officer and John, an experienced petroleum executive identified by a major shareholder, became Vice President of Technology, Products, and Services. The coach began with a short lecture about high performance organizations and effective leadership.

360-Degree Feedback 10

360-Degree Feedback Offshoring Construction Execution 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Better Place''s most visible and best-publicized innovation was its switchable battery technology, a novel way to overcome the short-range limits and long recharge times dictated by existing battery technology. EV advocates are quick to note that technology improvements in batteries will one day eliminate the range problem.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8