Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise. Why is this?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

That digital focus helped Adidas reshape its strategy for today’s mobile, more empowered consumer. The brand embraces data and technology as a way to be faster and smarter in a world where marketers are competing for consumer attention in the moment. ” Data-Driven Growth in a Digital World. ” Read More.

Content 8

Content Brand Storytelling Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

But in the meantime, Google’s choices in marketing and distributing its new product get to the heart of the tension between new opportunities and existing strategy. Glass product manager Steve Lee is quoted as saying: Major new consumer tech products are rarely brought out of the lab at this stage of development.

Strategy 10

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Take Sarah, the head of IT at a global technology company. Her job was to develop new engagement technologies in her organization, but instead of embracing critical feedback on her ideas, she ignored it. What Would Make You More Satisfied and Productive at Work? And it hurts your image as a leader. Is that right?”

Parcell 13

Parcell Agility Executive Coaching Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. It told how American Airlines and others had introduced systems to help their customers choose their products and services. Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g.,

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

For years, companies have been pouring money into people, processes, and technology that can help them manage risk. But what about the more strategic risk areas, such as those related to emerging market entry or acquisition growth strategies? Most have done a great job of containing their financial reporting and compliance risks.

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Risk Management Maturity EBITDA Management 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

Likewise, inspirational leadership, the repetition of value statements, and letting people be themselves are important, but they are by-products of a healthy culture, not the drivers of one. ” Another might interpret a teamwork behavior as “collaborates effectively through encouraging productive disagreements.”

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Teamwork Consensus Attrition System 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., Told this way, the Kodak story is a comforting caricature of the traditional failure to adapt to disruptive technological change. The nature of disruption is changing. inch vs. 3.5-inch

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

As a result, big box retail must shift its strategy — from competing on access and selection to staging big experiences and providing big discounts. The use of technology by leading companies from Apple to Uber to personalize their offerings have raised people’s expectations. Personalization is expected.

Retail 9

Retail Discount Reis Supply Chain 9

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 13

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 13

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

JULY 18, 2011

By that he means that all the things a business does — not just its logo and visuals, but also its strategy, call to action, customer service, communications with customers, and people — combine to determine what it stands for. Intrinsic differentiation can come through in the look, feel, sound, smell, or taste of a product.

Brand 15

Brand Positioning Marketing Productivity 15

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

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. Directness. He's personable, but blunt.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

What should be the value proposition that differentiates our products and services with those customers? These are the choices that a business strategy comprises and they should drive the decisions a business unit’s management team, functions, and staff make every day, including pricing, R&D, where to manufacture, and many more.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Mission Statement Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

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. Conversely, a shared sense of what must be achieved creates the climate for productive cross-functional collaboration.

Balanced Scorecard 8

Balanced Scorecard Company Price KPI 8

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. They need help with financial management, marketing, product development, service delivery, and technology. A New Vision for Retirement: Productive and Meaningful. Be Resilient.

Skills 9

Skills Real Estate Human Capital Project 9

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

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.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Airlines Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

This means identifying risks and opportunities early enough to allow the company to adapt its strategy or in extreme cases, change it. Consider the example of Pratt and Whitney, a United Technology company. This is just one example of how Mars is trying to create and sustaining agility through competitive intelligence (CI).

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Agility Workshop Definition 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., Of course not," he replied.

Consultative 15

Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

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

JUNE 18, 2013

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wants a preliminary framework in place by the end of this summer, with a final set of guidelines ready to go in February 2014. Government Information & technology Risk management' The response to today''s cyber threats can''t be limited to Washington.

Cooper 8

Cooper CIO Risk Management Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

My last post talked about how a little-known company , Grace Manufacturing, took a flexible and opportunistic approach to its strategy when its core business faltered. Further, Japanese products with funny names were looked upon suspiciously by American consumers, much as Chinese ones are today.

Strategy 15

Strategy Automotive Short-term Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

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. selling costs, product returns, customer support). Other times the 'windows to winnow' come in smaller, more everyday events.

P&L 14

P&L Supply Chain Retail Price 14

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. Ballmer effectively led this shift and saw strong revenue growth from it. Ballmer had done his job, but the strategic needs of the organization had shifted.

Strategic Fit 8

Strategic Fit Rogers CEO Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment through the internet of things and analytical software with a suite of products called Predix Cloud. GE’s gross margin was 21% last year, compared with 28% for United Technologies and 30% for Siemens.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

While the Lotus product suite itself declined under pressure from Microsoft, IBM was able to use the deal to pivot its own business into software and services. We simply don’t have enough information to understand its strategies for transforming its business. Still, the Dell strategy is opaque.

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Maturity Software Competitive Advantage 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. The type of capital required and its source depends on the type of business, its stage of life, and its strategy for the future. 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

It was Schultz who famously said “You can walk into [any type of retail store] and you can feel whether the proprietor or the merchant or the person behind the counter has a good feeling about his product. Leaders who master both strategy and execution start by building a bold but executable strategy.

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

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The goal should be to keep children on a trajectory to becoming productive, successful, healthy adults rather than just treating them when they are sick. PFK is now working on expanding its strategy to address the health needs of children with disabilities. Health information and other technology. health care outcomes.

Health Care 10

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Although we had been a market leader for many years, our new products had been launched several months later than the competition — in fact, our time to market had doubled over the previous three years. When I first joined BNP Paribas Fortis, for example, two younger and more dynamic banks had just overtaken us.

Project 8

Project How To Objective Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Yet, its strategy for almost three decades has largely been that of a sustainer, not a disruptor. Its fortunes have been built upon its successes in pushing the technological frontier of the microprocessor. But its essential value proposition — a higher-performing, high-margin product — has not changed. Then there’s Apple.

Innovation 8

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Depreciation 8

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