Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

As if that weren’t tough enough, another challenge for corporate leaders is how to make sense of strategic alignment at both the team / business unit level (or division or department, however it is classified) and at the enterprise level. Superior technical innovation is at the heart of its strategy and its organizational design.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

The first — which we’ll call Company A — focuses on translating its strategy into action as quickly as possible. Leaders and their teams are strapped — and competing — for resources. 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

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

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

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. That long stint earned him the trust of the global CEO, Bill Hickey, and his top management team. What matters in an emerging market isn't nationality alone.

Globalization 8

Globalization CEO Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Her answer to the paradox is to populate organizations with "zero-gravity thinkers": innovators "who are not weighed down by the expertise of a team, its politics, or 'the way things have always been done.'" 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

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

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. Glass is different.

Strategy 10

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

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

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Nokia was so immersed in executing its strategy that it lost sight of its purpose. The human capacity to operationalize a purpose is evident in the sublime unspoken synergy of a great athletic team, the interplay of a fine symphony orchestra, or the vibrant functionality of a healthy community. In retrospect, it seems inevitable.

Strategy 14

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

Be strategic and operational. Most CIOs find it relatively easy to convince an executive team to invest in a technology that increases near-term revenue. IT is highly strategic, intensely operational, hard to staff and extremely expensive. The CIO paradox is a set of contradictions that lies at the heart of IT leadership.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Storytelling Strategic Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

Procurement teams are often disconnected from the functions they serve and the markets they engage. Procurement teams tend to rely on processes that are far too slow to support the business’s needs. Or does it focus on customer service and helping the business achieve its strategy? Organizational isolation. Glacial processes.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Objective Cost Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

. “We found the perfect strategy” ranks with “And they lived happily ever after” as a perpetual myth. A strategy is never excellent in and of itself; it is shaped, enhanced, or limited by implementation. Top leaders can provide the framework and tools for a team, but the game is won on the playing field.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy COO CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

These behaviors include ensuring that everyone on a team gets heard, giving actionable feedback, empowering team members to make decisions, and making it safe to propose novel ideas. Companies should put systems in place to help not only individuals with disabilities, but their managers and peers as well.

Compliance 8

Compliance Chief Operating Officer Innovation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Only the largest of enterprises could afford the best technologies, and even for those with the largest bank accounts, IT strategies were limited to basics like CRM , ERP , or email. And given the complexities involved in building up competitive IT weaponry, businesses won by out-spending and out-resourcing their opponents.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

They may have done a swell $2 million strategy study for a client, but then have to watch from the sidelines as a more broadly based firm swoops in to do the $15 million project — a total systems redesign, say, or a corporate reorganization — entailed in implementing the strategy. Monitor & Co.,

Consultative 15

Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

In an ongoing global survey of senior executives , more than half of the respondents said they didn’t think their company had a winning strategy, and two-thirds said they didn’t think their organization had the right capabilities to execute its strategy. Operating as these companies do takes a lot of confidence.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Fashion Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

He talked with HBR about why a company’s culture is more important than its strategy — and some of the innovative tactics that CEOs have used to help create a high-performing culture. As human beings, we like to operate in small tribes. Sure enough, over the next 18 months, we had only two corrections as a team.

CEO 12

CEO FAQ Restructuring Performance Review 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

The best companies are able to distinguish between these consumers by precisely valuing their operating profit potential, not just gross margin or volume. They do this by building consumer P&Ls through cross-functional teams across marketing, sales, supply chain and finance, much like some companies have built account and product P&Ls.

P&L 14

P&L Supply Chain Retail Price 14

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

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. ” and “What are we able to achieve?”

Execution 15

Execution Strategy How To Budgeting 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Capacity, not strategy, was determining which projects launched and when. Prioritization at a strategic and operational level is often the difference between success and failure. ” It is a tool that executive teams can use to help them prioritize strategic initiatives and projects: Purpose.

Project 8

Project How To Objective Efficiency 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Plus, as a result of a lack of cross-organizational coordination and cooperation, Nokia wasn’t able to improve its proprietary operating system, Symbian, which would have allowed it to support a more sophisticated smartphone. Many innovative ideas became the victims of in-fighting among managers who had competing objectives.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

They put their money where their strategy is and continually cut bad costs and redirect resources toward good costs. Management teams at such companies spend a lot of effort separating out the costs that truly fuel their distinct advantage from the ones that don’t. Second, rethink costs in terms of capabilities.

Cost 10

Cost How To Budgeting Strategic Planning 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

We need new models of pediatric primary care with the following features: Comprehensive and team-based. To be successful and cost-effective in holistically addressing children’s total wellness will require a large team of non-medical personnel with diverse training and skills to work with children and their parents.

Health Care 10

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2011

It could also include sophisticated software based on the WebOS (the operating system HP leveraged from the Palm acquisition). Assuming smart execution, creation of a subsidiary would allow a strong management team to own its success in the consumer market and build a strong competitor to take on Apple.

Software 12

Software Technology Intellectual Capital Marketing 12

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

The change in management, which included Bell and Powell, meant a big change in how the company would operate in the following decades. Its strategy to get out ahead of the competition rested on the innovative, hard, vacuum-sealed packaging its then-parent company, Jacob Suchard, was using in Europe at the time.

Brand 100

Brand Brand Management Advertising Management 100