Strategy Driven

JULY 23, 2020

Businesses, from large corporations and MNCs to small companies and startups, are forced to make significant operational and structural changes. It is an attractive and feasible solution to maintain operations and productivity in the immediate future. Apple and Facebook have also extended their work-from-home operations until 2021.

Restructuring 67

Restructuring Entrepreneur Crisis Operations 67

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Brand Surgery – excerpts from my Marketing Magazine article. by John • February 5, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 1 Comment. The blemish is the abdication of strategic attention by the organization’s most senior marketing executives to the enhancement of brand equity. About John.

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Magazine Brand Article Marketing 100

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 13, 2020

“An alternative response could be to increase advertising spending to compensate for the decreased effectiveness and to consider such higher ad spending in the layoff country as a restructuring cost.”

Advertising 102

Advertising Automotive Restructuring Price 102

In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. To rise from the ashes, our young management team made several tough sacrifices to transform a multi-product, multi-brand operation from generalist to specialist. Specialists beat generalists – always have, always will.

Human Resources 183

Human Resources Restructuring Competitive Advantage Marketing Strategy 183

The Practical Leader

JUNE 14, 2023

Fad surfing in the C-suite often leads to dunking trainees in the training tank , slogans, improvement projects, marketing campaigns, motivational programs, educational fix-them efforts, etc. Too many of these initiatives have a limited scope and are disconnected from daily operations.

Root Cause Analysis 52

Root Cause Analysis Mission Statement Travel Restructuring 52

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

That’s not good news for the job market when workers cannot vouch for the long-term business survival of the establishments they work for. It involves reassessing your business operations, starting with leadership. Re-examine existing marketing activities. How can you get your customers back ?

Finance 85

Finance Long-term Banking Restructuring 85

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Signs of a Lemming Leader: Use of jargon: Do you use the terms restructuring, high reliability, six sigma, just culture, strategic sourcing, population health, or employee engagement in your organization? If you are trying to make your operation more efficient, then say so. “To

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Six Sigma Storytelling Peer Review Restructuring 209

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This was the situation the leaders of Southern New England Telephone Company (SNET) faced in 1994 when Connecticut deregulated the local market. It involved restructuring into wholesale and retail operations and providing an array of new retail services. .

Process 199

Process Telecommunications Tips Productivity 199

In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 6, 2016

And for more than 100 years, the factory pumped out Heinz Ketchup and a variety of baby foods to markets in Canada and the USA. Heinz, like so many other multinationals gave the stereotypical corporate rationale — they said the plant was unprofitable and part of a global restructuring.

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Retail Restructuring Brand Ethics 100

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

While we were restructuring our services business, we made significant investments in training to help our employees make this skills transition and to introduce a learning culture, as learning is a lifelong journey. In HR we now have the chance to move from an operational, back-office function to a leader of change.

Ries 76

Ries Skills Human Resources Software 76

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 7, 2011

But when theories are marketed as fact, I begin to lose patience rather quickly. The Flywheel and the Doom Loop : Jim’s theory here is that “those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap&# (from good to great).

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Collins Leadership Styles Books Restructuring 349

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

It had earlier set an ambitious target of taking a quarter of Japan’s auto market, but to achieve that, the chief executive had said that the old way of making and selling cars would no longer suffice. Nissan’s market share in Japan had stalled at just 16 percent, it was faring little better abroad, and losses were mounting everywhere.

Chief Operating Officer 50

Chief Operating Officer Short-term Strategic Fit Restructuring 50

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Restructuring has led to fewer layers of management, also to fewer opportunities for promotion. Leaders can no longer afford to let the vagaries of the job market determine who leaves and who stays. The decline in opportunities for promotion. . In most companies, pay scales are still tied directly to rank, not performance.

Bureaucracy 151

Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

The job market simply doesn't function the way a market should. That's why at ManpowerGroup we believe that investment ought to focus on youth, who are now entering the market and who most need training. Still, while I cannot overstate the importance of training, it alone will not solve the labor market's structural dysfunction.

Marketing 12

Marketing Restructuring McKinsey Education 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

And the same applies to the affected workers: The tight labor market means there are opportunities for those who go through retraining. Capital-intensive factories have a high-fixed-cost, low-variable-cost operating model. Every day GM operates such factories, it expends more resources that could be redeployed elsewhere.

Restructuring 11

Restructuring Fixed Costs Consensus Operations 11

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 12, 2024

Finance digital transformation involves leveraging cutting-edge technologies for better operational efficiency and enhanced strategic decision-making. Streamlined Processes Fintech innovations have transformed the financial sector, fostering inclusivity, enhancing operational efficiency, and facilitating personalized customer experiences.

Finance 112

Finance Technology BPM Company 112

Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2023

Can you pivot your business to meet changing market demands? This might involve tough decisions like restructuring or letting go of less profitable product lines, but such changes can lead to a more robust business post-crisis. This might involve restructuring existing loans or negotiating payment terms with creditors.

Finance 105

Finance Crisis Management Crisis Management 105

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

firms with structures organized around customers would grow from 32% to 52% as firms raced to build customer-centric organizations, and he interviewed companies including IBM and Systems Group that had announced customer-centric restructurings. Its 2002 restructuring offered little incremental benefit while adding cost and complexity.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Company Henderson Health Care 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

The primary focus was on fixing the acquired firm through financial restructuring, dramatic cost cutting, and strategic slashing. These “buy, fix, manage, and then sell” PE firms were essentially umbrella holding companies while the acquired firms would become better managed before returning to the public market.

LBO 8

LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

A constant theme during meetings over the last three years has been how globalisation and the economic crisis have forced organizations to rethink their strategies and change they way they operate. Worse, organizations rarely show people how to operate in a new structure, which can also undermine effectiveness.

Restructuring 15

Restructuring Operations Consultative Retail 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

One large media organization faces large incumbent players and operates in a market that is growing quickly. Rather than using traditional top-down management practices, the company organized itself into small business units, each of which operates in a local geography. It’s not a good position to be in.

CEO 8

CEO Metrics Leadership Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

He had extensive market knowledge and a stellar track record. Although good at scaling and operating a sales organization, the leader was unable to succeed in a rapidly changing environment that needed experimentation and nimbleness. Consider two examples. Leaders who lack sensitivity have an easier time eliminating poor performers.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Health Care Self-aware Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

For example, Google’s restructuring into Alphabet highlighted just how much the company is spending on new businesses, from self-driving cars to space exploration and more. But those that do account for half of the net value created in the global stock market in a given year.

Company 11

Company Supply Chain Retail Bureaucracy 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The essence of the phenomenon is the fact that each stage in the supply chain plans its capital projects and operations, including inventory levels, based on its future expectations. Macroeconomic data during the 2008 financial crisis show the bullwhip effect operating on a much broader scale. For example , U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic. Are all share repurchases myopic?

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change. It must be marketing. And she put marketing in charge of an organization-wide growth program. Who should lead our transformation?

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

We expect the drone market to surge to nearly $7 billion by 2020 globally, driven by regulatory clarification, continuously decreasing component costs, and – most important– ongoing innovation that connects drone capabilities to big-data analytics.

Competitive Advantage 10

Competitive Advantage Company Outsourcing Analysis 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

How has Coca-Cola integrated these CSR principles into your operations? Restructuring a company to focus on sustainability doesn’t happen overnight, so how long did it take to get everyone on board and how did you deal with any resistance to change? Thus, we operate a value creation model that is globally driven but locally focused.

CEO 11

CEO Supply Chain Operations Brand 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the former, we examined the presence and market penetration of disruptor companies; we also considered incumbents’ financial performance. For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. Supermarkets are a case in point.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Instead of having a committee vet ideas, they need a process that operates with speed and urgency , and that helps innovators and other stakeholders to curate and prioritize problems, ideas, and technologies. Horizon 2 ideas extend a company’s existing business model and core capabilities to new customers, markets or targets.

Process 13

Process Innovation Incubator Committee 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

Gathering Type 2 feedback lets you take a fundamental look at whether your repeatable model remains competitive and whether there are discontinuities in the market that could undermine it. For example, few Western companies today are shifting sufficient resources fast enough to growth markets in the developing world.

Merchandising 14

Merchandising Metrics Restructuring Library 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

Other firms have ventured down this path, including the conglomerate Wesfarmers , with its 200,000-plus staff, and the global hospital operator Ramsay Health Care. ” Take, as an example, the world’s largest mining company by market capitalization, BHP Billiton. Should soft measures be part of a CEO’s scorecard?

TSR 9

TSR Banking Committee Incentives 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Technology has emerged as a competitive weapon in driving operational excellence and superior service quality. From my practice working with bank clients in the continent, here are a few suggestions to make that happen: Restructure staff. Most still put marketing managers in nice cars to look for clients.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Greece did have some good arguments going for it: It had achieved the biggest fiscal adjustment any developed country had mustered so far , stabilized its economy, and restructured its private debt. This is precisely what it did with Greece in the first place, by not allowing it to restructure in 2010, and thus building this mountain of debt.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Policies Crisis Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

labor market over the past 30 years. That is, even while most measures of local labor-market strength had converged back to pre-recession levels, differences in advertised skill demands remain. These patterns are consistent with a restructuring of labor demand towards these skills. production and operatives).

Skills 8

Skills Sample Technology Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

We thought that creative, capability-rich companies would have paid a lot of attention to the way they organized and the value that restructuring gave them. Some of the first business functionaries were railroad telegraph operators who managed schedules. When we began our research, we expected to hear a lot about organizational design.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8