Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

But to strategists focused on the big picture, this seems like resistance: “Don’t they see the brilliance of the strategy?” ” So they get defensive and begin working on overcoming the “resistance.” The second gap is a result of the connection between participation and ownership.

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Execution Strategy Metrics Resistance 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

In reality, “handoffs” and transitions prove to be significant operational problems. Top management told store managers and staff to honor requests and obey directives from their new “colleagues”; the resentment and resistance were palpable. All-In Autonomy.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

The cultural and operational challenge for incumbent financial services firms was enormous. When people sign up for Omada’s offering, they receive a wireless, digital bathroom scale, pedometer, resistance band, and tape measure.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Wireless Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. This means that Facebook is the largest participant in the program, and we are really proud of that. My husband was one of the earliest investors in alternative energy technologies in the U.S.,

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Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

You may find it necessary to bring in professional facilitation if you are running into excessive resistance or acrimony. If you mange organizational structure, technology, and expectations with conscious attention to the sharing of knowledge, a knowledge sharing environment will emerge easily. 5) Operational Transparency -.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Offer to send a security representative to participate in the ideation and design process with product teams. One of the hardest things for business leaders to understand is that security teams face live adversaries who, despite headlines about “sophisticated” attacks, usually opt for the path of least resistance.

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Team P&L Engineering Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

They’re given state-of-the-art technology, $2,000 to build a home office, and a large travel budget so they can meet up with other team members twice a year in beautiful, exciting places such as La Paz, Mexico, and Amsterdam. Advances in technology are keeping pace. By one estimate, the number of remote workers in the U.S.

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Company Document Travel Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

The idea that customers can't or shouldn't participate much in the innovation process is one barrier to creativity that companies are rapidly knocking down. This new view and way of operating actually helps companies come closer to achieving the ideal of giving customers what they want, when, where and how they want it.

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Company Software Call Center Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

By identifying opportunities to fundamentally change how administrative services were delivered, the senior executives led by example and communicated a willingness to do their part in cutting costs by focusing on their own departments first – a messaging that helped dampen organizational resistance to change. Capitalize on success.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Don’t get me wrong, recognizing the value of participating in the most powerful medium on the planet by getting in the game is a good thing, but it’s an even better thing when coupled with a plan. I would also suggest resisting the temptation to have all your communications be self-serving. Social Media Influence [.]

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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 407

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies. In 1999, the U.S.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Health care has proved resistant to a similar transition, although everyone would benefit. Just imagine the operational demand if primary care providers also had to actively monitor their patients’ health data between office visits. These are most effective in inducing desirable behaviors when patients participate in lotteries.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Insurance Incentives 8

In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

As an ex-ad man and a lifelong aficionado of great creative, whether it is art or copy, I could not resist the urge to check it out. Time moved on, and during the nineties technology overran, and transformed the creative industry like it did most others. To resist the urge to self-censor. I’m glad I did. To sleep on it.

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Advertising Creativity Industry Bottom-up 265

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Hiring my trainer made all the difference, and pretty soon I was reaping the rewards of resistance training again. Which leads me to this conclusion; one of the healthiest habits you can operate in is healthy thinking! He could have attributed their success to more advanced technology, better marketing, or thinking differently.

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Free-agent physicians operate independently, rather than as part of an integrated team. No participant in the system has good information about patient outcomes and the cost of care. Information technology has often made care integration and value improvement harder, rather than enabling it. Flying blind is dangerous.

Health Care 10

Health Care How To Cost System 10

Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

Welcome to the paradigms that many of us have operated under for some time. Yet, out of fear, they fight, resist and are combative toward change and to those who are change agents. Technology is a tool of the trade, not an ideology or a mantra. Thereafter, tools of the trade (including technology) may be applied.

Transportation 65

Transportation Consultative Film Strategic Planning 65

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Over the months that followed, more than one billion people participated in a “reboot” of the country’s financial and monetary system. Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization.

Banking 15

Banking Long-term Short-term System 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Wall Street began charging a “conglomerate discount,” saying that diverse operations were hard to analyze with confidence. True synergies across the diverse operations were often hard to see. The technology’s flexibility introduces synergies where none existed before. GE might be first to capitalize on this.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

France: Pushing quotas and operational roles. France is one of the rare countries to have so many of their most senior women in operational roles, rather than the staff and support function jobs that has been the initial answer of so many companies trying to balance their teams. You’ll find the more detailed reports here.

Execution 11

Execution Committee Diversity Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

resistance to the AIIB is founded on rational principles. The opportunity costs of not participating could be quite high, with both economic and geopolitical dimensions. Another 70% report that their China operations are performing better or the same as their global operations. technology and communications companies.

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Banking Development Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

But with the rise of digital technology, and with it the ability to get immediate feedback from customers and communities, crowdsourcing has become a powerful alternative for driving important decisions. Over 1,000 IBMers participated from 30 countries, applying to get part of the seed fund of $300,000. It will surely meet resistance.

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Software CIO Early Adopters Project 9

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Due to this resistance, I believe that culture CAN trump strategy, to the extend that the strategy and execution thereof are unsuccessful. In my experience, culture is frequently at the center of resistance to a strategy and the required execution. I think not, and I’ll explain why. Joe Rafter I doubt we are far apart.

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Blog Strategy Brand Bottom-up 366

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

” In the book, I warned that technology might actually destroy more jobs than it was creating. It appears that the biggest culprit is digital technologies themselves. Technology is also the foundation of new species of businesses that are capable of wiping out entire industries. Young workers are taking the biggest hit.

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Open-book Technology Offshoring Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

To wit, 45% of financial intermediaries , such as payment networks, stock exchanges, and money transfer services, suffer from economic crime every year; the number is 37% for the entire economy, and only 20% and 27% for the professional services and technology sectors, respectively. How technology is transforming transactions.

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Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8