Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Digital leaders, those companies that have managed their digital transformations successfully, all show common characteristics in the way they have shaped their IT to work differently with the business. Service delivery is marked by a ''good enough'' approach to error tolerance, relying more on rapid iterations and short cycle times.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

How does your organization manage the money it spends on digital? In essence, digital investments should be planned and managed according to their current and future contribution to business performance. The portfolio tool can be used as a common frame of reference in management discussions about a number of areas.

Tools 8

Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

The most common conversation I have these days with discouraged employees below senior management levels goes like this: “This company’s bureaucracy is killing me. I have formally researched management tools and techniques for 25 years. We break large problems into manageable tasks. Maybe this group includes you.

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

That's partly because they manage global projects like traditional ones. To get the most from dispersed innovation, managers need a different playbook. Here are three ways to set up and manage global innovation for success: 1. Assign oversight and support responsibility to a senior manager.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

That's partly because they manage global projects like traditional ones. To get the most from dispersed innovation, managers need a different playbook. Here are three ways to set up and manage global innovation for success: 1. Assign oversight and support responsibility to a senior manager.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2013

And because it focuses on acute episodes, REBP acts as a necessary complement to payment and care-delivery models designed to improve prevention and chronic-care management. Finally, REBP gives payers a way to prepare for the future, when episode-based performance management is likely to be a required capability.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Analysis Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

In high-tech products, specialists focus on narrow slices of the value chain where highly specialized skills are necessary. You have to understand these fundamentals to craft trade-policy prescriptions — which, by the way, I think the free trade agreements largely do: A thick supplier market.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization Cost Efficiency 8