Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In their 2008 book "The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage" (Harvard Business School Press), Harvard professors Dr. Robert S. Align the Organisation: align business units and support units both vertically and horizontally; align employees to the strategy. Kaplan and Dr. David P.

System 98

System Balanced Scorecard Execution Strategy 98

Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In their 2008 book "The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage" (Harvard Business School Press), Harvard professors Dr. Robert S. Align the Organisation: align business units and support units both vertically and horizontally; align employees to the strategy. Kaplan and Dr. David P.

System 85

System Balanced Scorecard Execution Strategy 85

CO2

APRIL 30, 2013

In both of the cases I’ve outlined here, the organization’s culture usually dictates its strategy. When it doesn’t (when strategy isn’t shaped by culture), customers and employees tend to get thrown by the bull. Complex systems, like modern aircraft, require a team effort to operate.

Executive Coaching 134

Executive Coaching Operations Strategy System 134

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

Therefore, the ability to manage operation and the capacity to inspire employees is no longer enough. Starting his career as a trainee at 7-11, he worked his way quickly through the ranks, gaining a reputation for operational excellence. To do that, he would need to integrate operations at a scale no one had thought possible.

IT Strategy 8

IT Strategy Strategy Operations Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

Now, in some cases, it can often lower prices than Amazon because Jet.com’s operating model doesn’t rely on holding inventory. In its announcements and ads about the new free shipping service, product prices have not been mentioned. Walmart has held a low-price leadership position from its start.

IT Strategy 11

IT Strategy Strategy Core Competence Price 11

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The study explores the Chinese market after the country’s Ministry of Justice made online legal services a key part of its strategy. The study reveals that there are around 100 online platforms operating in the country for lawyers and other legal professionals to offer their services.

Budgeting 40

Budgeting Participative Marketing Operations 40

Tim Milburn

AUGUST 14, 2012

The first step toward rapid realignment is to get leadership team members aligned with The Main Thing of the enterprise and its strategy. Identifies and eliminates operational and cultural barriers to execution. Track progress and provide feedback. Align the Leadership Team. Defines reality in terms of what needs to change.

System 115

System Critical Success Factor Metrics Consultative 115

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2023

Can BMW convince stakeholders that its strategy is good for the environment and the company’s financial performance?

Environment 11

Environment Strategy IT Strategy Company 11

Change Starts Here

APRIL 24, 2012

The methods in this change guide have been used successfully by people in roles as diverse as human resources, organization development, project management, process improvement, IT, strategy management, sustainability and operations. What is included?

Webinar 78

Webinar Price Resistance Workshop 78

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. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

The current mantra is “Move fast with stable infrastructure”, which speaks to the organizational design challenge of operating at scale in a fickle and volatile world. There is a simple test you can perform to start an honest conversation about strategy and organizational effectiveness where you work.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. We made a number of operational changes to the call center.

Organization 13

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Through the first half of the last decade, a foundation of Nokia's competitive advantage was its unmatched ability to customize a wide variety of phones for operators. A crucial element of its strategy to win over consumers to its advanced smartphones was to persuade third-party developers to create a vast array of apps for its phones.

Innovation 13

Innovation Supply Chain Telecommunications Core Competence 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

a cataract operation can cost $200 or less, compared with $3,500 in the U.S. Ascension saved 10%–15% a year by aggregating all of those contracts and negotiating from the strength of the combined operation. Ascension has another solid reason for pursuing its strategy.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Cost Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Almost 80% of the more than 1,200 senior executives recently surveyed by PricewaterhouseCoopers believe that their organizations have the right strategic intent — but only 54% think they’re executing that strategy well. Distracted by pet initiatives that have little to do with the new strategy, they revert to old habits.

Strategy 8

Strategy Restructuring Committee Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

In order to see the future more clearly, it''s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage. Yet with each wave, the criticality of IT to basic operations and delivery of service to customers continues to escalate.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

This leaves operating managers, the ultimate “consumers” of talent, to choose between two talent acquisitions methods (or “sourcing channels”): Either engage HR to acquire employees or engage Procurement to acquire contingent workers. Create one integrated workforce strategy.

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

GE now operates in 175 countries across the globe.) So a constant reengineering of our business portfolio, operating model, and culture has been a key to our evolution. For an organization to endeavor to change its culture, it needs to take its cue from what changes in its strategy. The context demanded operational excellence.

Welch 8

Welch Six Sigma Agility Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Executing this strategy required seamless integration of IBM's product capabilities with its geographic reach. This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. When the U.S. It is not about you.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2013

We don''t often think about the way we usually operate at work, whether we''re performing an informal five-step process for evaluating a new proposal, or setting priorities for managing our time. So the organization started documenting standard operating procedures to capture employee know-how and wisdom. Should Do" Practices.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Organization Bureaucracy Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

The China head of the packaging business, Li Xin, spent 13 years working in Sealed Air's American and Canadian operations before taking up the China assignment in 2004. Take Kwang-Ro Kim, who launched LG Electronics' India operations in 1997, and led them until he retired a decade later.

Globalization 8

Globalization CEO Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

Like a startup, you have to get the market fit right, but you also have to fight the corporate systems at the same time, dealing with the rules, procedures, and approval processes that every big company has in place to support its strategy. By and large, corporate strategies and the internal rules they engender are good and useful.

Innovation 11

Innovation Conflict of Interest Strategy System 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

We set people up to use their area of expertise, be it strategy, accounting, operations, technology, finance, or human resources. Furthermore, we learned that this mode of giving delivers a greater impact to the community because it helps fill critical capability gaps in nonprofits.

Skills 9

Skills Real Estate Human Capital Project 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

As Quartz reported last year: Members of the Glass operations team have been on the road showing it off to companies and organizations, and they told Quartz that some of the most enthusiastic responses have come from manufacturers, teachers, medical companies, and hospitals. Should Google revise its strategy to pursue that opportunity?

Strategy 10

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Today, operating under the TD Bank umbrella, the outfit has more than 1,000 branches up and down the East Coast, from Maine to Florida, and a well-earned reputation as "America's most convenient bank.". Ferrari pit crews operate largely in silence, despite (or because of) the roar of engines around them.

Banking 18

Banking Retail Open-book Creativity 18

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

For me, IKEA’s success is mostly due to the clarity of its strategy. It offered other items besides furniture (housewares, unique toys), and customers could drop children off a brightly designed, company-operated day care center. IKEA is a company that exemplifies the power of strategic clarity.

Strategy 13

Strategy Document Comparison Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

The continent’s long-term potential remains attractive, but a company’s success in the current environment will depend on its strategy. Companies operating in SSA cannot ignore the country, even though it will suffer substantially from the impact of low oil prices on the currency and business activity.

GDP 8

GDP Politics Marketing Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Nokia was so immersed in executing its strategy that it lost sight of its purpose. Few imagined that this juggernaut, brandishing vast resources with such steely determination, could be quickly brought down. In retrospect, it seems inevitable. ” Aim for the golden mean.

Strategy 14

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

The company’s twenty years of entrepreneurial success had positioned the company to reap greater financial rewards using a more disciplined operational focus. However, by the middle of the decade, Google was growing, YouTube was forming, and “operational excellence” wasn’t a differentiating strategy in technology.

Strategic Fit 8

Strategic Fit Rogers CEO Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

For over 50 years, Wal-Mart has pursued essentially the same strategy of “offering the lowest price so its customer can live better.” Wells Fargo has become the most valuable bank in the world by sticking to its strategy of building a value proposition around selling more products per customer than anyone else. Or consider U.S.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Airlines Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Everyone thinks they have a digital strategy these days. But while your company may have a business or IT strategy that incorporates digital technology, an IT strategy does not equal a digital strategy. Because most IT strategies treat technology in isolation. That is the essence of a digital strategy.

IT Strategy 9

IT Strategy Strategy Class Offshoring 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

Be strategic and operational. High-performing IT organizations appoint executives to sit at the intersection of business areas and the IT function, helping business leaders to shape their IT strategies and marshaling a technology team to deliver against that demand. Stay secure and boost innovation. Reach beyond IT.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Storytelling Strategic Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

At a Global 50 consumer products company, management has developed a governance structure that allows it think about risk proactively, and has aligned its risk profile and exposures more closely with its strategy. Managers could keep the organization within acceptable tolerance ranges, driving performance to plan.

Risk Management 14

Risk Management Maturity EBITDA Management 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Define Your Strategy. CIOs need to develop an affirmative IT strategy that begins by identifying old behaviors to give up, new behaviors to adopt, and remaining behaviors to do differently. It has to come before technology innovation, product innovation, operational innovation, and all the other areas where we eventually must innovate.

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

A company that creates a sustainable competitive advantage, executes well and reinvests to solidify its strategy will find that its share price accurately reflects its value. And if there is no arbitrage to be had, most activists will hunt elsewhere. So how can boards ensure their company is able to grow sustainably?

Company 8

Company Bureaucracy Long-term Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Business-critical roles — that is, the jobs that are central to differentiating a company from its competitors and successfully executing its strategy — will also change. New innovations will change the basis of competition in many markets and alter the sources of advantage for most companies. Take insurance, for example.

Company 12

Company Insurance Engineering Software 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

Its strategy of coming into the market from the high end did not fit the typical demand-side disruption playbook. Tesla has to date operated on the business model of the car industry, selling people vehicles that they own and control. Along the way there has been lots of discussion as to whether Tesla was a disruptor.

Strategy 8

Strategy Automotive Mass Marketing Business Model 8