Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

Spend the time identifying the behaviors and skills that express each of your organizational values. Strategy and goal setting. What technical and leadership skills are needed? Every employee I have managed would give up their so-called perks for one thing: clear expectations. Which behaviors lead to promotion?

Teamwork 15

Teamwork Consensus Attrition System 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Venture capitalists have significant pattern recognition skills related to both startup companies and specific markets. Good ones attract board members and other advisers with complementary skills. Ample experience and a diverse skill set helps stakeholders makes sense of what might not be obvious to others.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Innovation Banking Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

Many lack the training and skills to thoughtfully analyze a sourcing request and their aforementioned isolation makes it nearly impossible to truly understand business priorities. Or does it focus on customer service and helping the business achieve its strategy? Instead, requests are taken at face value without second thought.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Objective Cost Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Caught up in administrative activities such as managing employee records and planning company picnics, human resources departments can too easily lose sight of their primary function: Making sure the organization has the needed human capital to implement its strategy. It was U-shaped. It looked like a cross-section of a bathtub.

Company 8

Company Human Resources Human Capital Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Implementing a strategy consists of all the decisions and activities required to turn the two sets of strategic choices I’ve just described into reality. If the corporation has the capabilities, enterprise advantage, and business portfolio it wants, its strategy is implemented.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Mission Statement Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Our research into over 20,000 workers of all skill levels across U.S. 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. They couldn’t adapt to improve their work.

Organization 12

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

Among the half-dozen tactics to improve your leadership communication skills offered by Dr. Andrew Newberg in Fast Company is this juicy nugget: learn to control your inner voice. Verizon made headlines last week with a new approach to mobile-data pricing, but according to Slate's Farhad Manjoo, much of its strategy is still "dumb."

Wireless 8

Wireless Airlines Media Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

The Playbook is a policy menu, based around three core needs of small businesses: access to capital; people and skills; and innovation ecosystems. The type of capital required and its source depends on the type of business, its stage of life, and its strategy for the future. People and skills.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

As overall business strategy planning ties closer to IT strategy, four personas of the next-generation CIO will emerge: 1. One CIO can deliver on all four roles this by upgrading his or her skill sets. Chief "Infrastructure" Officers focus on cost reduction, and account for 65% to 70% of the overall IT budget.

CIO 15

CIO Chief Information Officer Budgeting Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

Through visuals, storytelling, and metaphors that resonate with the company''s business leaders, CIOs must develop the skill of showing their stakeholders that foundational investments are the table stakes of innovation. IT leaders are a unique breed, and they need to possess a heady brew of business, technology, and interpersonal skills.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Storytelling Strategic Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In its strategy to help employees with disabilities build long-term careers, Unilever partnered with Connecticut’s Department of Rehabilitation Services and Southeastern Employment Services to launch a training and placement program. Provide role models.

Compliance 8

Compliance Chief Operating Officer Innovation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

In my research on how experienced managers and professionals step up to bigger leadership roles, I have observed both the value and the difficulty of returning to our youthful, fake-it-till-you-learn-it strategies. ” In their minds, they’re not being inauthentic — they’re simply evolving so they can get the job done.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Finance Definition Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Indeed, the company eventually announced its strategy to venture massively into cloud computing. Our results suggest that CEOs hired from the outside change the strategy more drastically — be it more or less entrepreneurial — than their internally recruited counterparts.

CEO 8

CEO Letter Retail Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

That's because the key variable in a team's prospects isn't just its skill level, but its region and seeding — its position in the brackets — that determine its odds of advancing toward the championship. Braun simplified its merchandising and brand strategy.

Management 15

Management Retail Brand Merchandising 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Those trends dictate different choices for a labor intensive retailer (who should choose Mexico or Turkey), a capital-intensive construction company (pick Indonesia or Turkey), and a high-value manufacturer that needs skilled labor (Nigeria may be the best bet). Finally, operating conditions differ significantly within the country groups.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

As United Rentals, the largest equipment rentals company, shifted its strategy to focus more on national customer accounts, it faced a huge forgetting challenge; branch managers needed to forget the fiefdom mentality. .” Create win-win incentives. Incentives are a powerful lever to convince people they need to forget the old ways.

Company 8

Company Licensing Incentives Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

Overall, we found that more than half of our survey respondents have adopted OSS solutions as part of their IT strategy. End-user organizations will gain more in-depth understanding and skill sets relating to open source software as they venture further into its use. To find out, we surveyed 547 IT leaders in 11 countries.

Software 15

Software Tips Survey Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

This is increasingly risky, as contingent and other non-full-time workers possess more of your vital strategic skills and deal with sensitive intellectual property. ManpowerGroup found that 80% of companies lack a reliable picture of their total workforce. Educate leaders on how and why to optimize a blended workforce.

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

But because midsize companies lack the resources of big companies, which can experiment with multiple new strategies and launch pilot projects, midsize firms are at risk when they divert scarce resources from their core business. And while they love the company’s products, five years ago there was a wide disparity in sales skills.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

For finishers, he will have to change its treads—redirect its strategy—while barreling down a highway with no map for what lies ahead. For starters, he will be running a $75 billion+ enterprise with some 100,000 employees, an army of software engineers and many moving parts.

CEO 8

CEO Bottom-up Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

At that point, Alphatech’s management reassessed its strategy and sales approach. With the Deal Profile in place, many sales people left because they found the new selling behaviors alien to their skill sets and preferences. But by 2012 growth slowed, revenues flattened, and margins declined. Not everything went without a hitch.

Strategy 8

Strategy Team Discount ROIC 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Still, you ought to “ focus on what you want in the foreground ” of your résumé Play up your “skill sets, responsibilities you’ve had, or other areas of your work history where you’ve done exceptionally well.” I sharpened my interview skills before I was actually doing any interviews.

How To 8

How To Letter Learning-by-Doing PR 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

” Leaders like Howard Schultz don’t just have both the visionary and operator skills—they deeply value the connection between the two skill sets. Motivating individuals is a hugely underleveraged tool to close the gap between strategy and execution.

Execution 15

Execution Strategy How To Budgeting 15

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

…And Its Execution Gap Closer Round-Up Execution Gap Closer #1: Netflix Netflix received considerable media attention this year as it demonstrated its ability to successfully execute its strategy to provide video over the Internet.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Yet, its strategy for almost three decades has largely been that of a sustainer, not a disruptor. But once a company is established, innovation strategy means understanding how to leverage distinctive existing strengths to generate value and capture value. Let’s examine a few examples.

Innovation 8

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

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. PFK is now working on expanding its strategy to address the health needs of children with disabilities.

Health Care 9

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2011

It should resolve to tie all the pieces of its strategy together, create a management team that is in lockstep across the company (or perhaps two companies, as I mentioned earlier), and make HP at least the sum of its parts. In this case, the good — but challenging — news is that luck has little to do with it.

Software 12

Software Technology Intellectual Capital Marketing 12