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. Patience and a long-term view. When the U.S.

Globalization 16

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 16

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

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

MARCH 13, 2017

Companies wind up in trouble and squander the time, talent, and energy of their workforce when they lose focus, spend money on things that don’t make a difference to employees or the future of the business, and use operating models that are out of whack. redesign the operating model. Redesign the Operating Model.

Zero Based Budgeting 14

Zero Based Budgeting Organization Budgeting How To 14

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. It could also include sophisticated software based on the WebOS (the operating system HP leveraged from the Palm acquisition).

Software 12

Software Technology Intellectual Capital Marketing 12