Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

If you’re involved in CEO selection, this requires that you both hire the right CEO and understand when the company’s strategic situation suggests that a different CEO is more likely to win. Retaining a leader whose profile no longer fits the strategic imperatives of the business can have disastrous business consequences. Two poignant examples: Steve Ballmer was a strong fit for Microsoft’s challenges when he was promoted to CEO in 2000.

Strategic Fit 8

Strategic Fit Rogers Company Operations 8

David A Fields

APRIL 16, 2019

For example, strategic fit, duration of project, or … Continued. Before Goldilocks was eaten by the three bears (or was it the three pigs?), she fussily spotted the ideal porridge, chair and bed for herself. What’s the ideal consulting opportunity for your consulting firm? There are myriad guidelines you could apply to pinpoint your ideal consulting opportunity. The post How to Spot Your Goldilocks Consulting Opportunities appeared first on David A. Fields.

Consultative 105

Consultative Guidelines Strategic Fit Project 105

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 24, 2017

What’s left in apparel and sporting goods is a good strategic fit with Nike’s operations. This is strategic sacrifice. That makes an organization operationally and strategically stronger. So I ask you—if the concept of strategic sacrifice and doing less better worked in a less-complicated business world, why wouldn’t it work now? Do Less Better is the name of my book. Do Less Better is also a culture and a strategy of organizations and their leaders.

Company 131

Company Apparel Competitive Advantage Human Resources 131

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

It required an individual who could both think and act strategically, a person who brought a strong sense for strategy and a personal capacity to lead its execution. Becoming a strategic leader is an acquired capacity that can, in our view, be mastered by managers at all levels. We provide a six-step checklist for doing so: The Strategic Leader’s Checklist. Learn to Lead Strategically. Ensure Strategic Fit. Convey Strategic Intent.

Chief Operating Officer 86

Chief Operating Officer Restructuring Strategic Fit Sports 86

Bernd Geropp

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Unfortunately lots of managers talk to their employees like that: “The financial uncertainty and lack of confidence in the market place has been increasingly challenging, but due to our strategic fit, our synergies achieved and our core competencies we think outside the box to add more value and have a win-win situation with our customers to sequentially leverage our efforts and to improve our bottom line. – Are you a leader? Photo: nenovbrothers/ Resource: www.bigstock.com.

Micromanagement 107

Micromanagement Delegation Core Competence Strategic Fit 107

Harvard Business

JANUARY 17, 2017

If, as Michael Porter wrote , competitive advantage stems from how “activities fit and reinforce one another… creating a chain that is as strong as its strongest link,” then strategic fit is something that the Venetian Republic had in spades. One huge advance in technology — ships that could survive at sea for months, even years — weakened Venice’s competitive advantage and the strategic fit of its competencies.

Porter 47

Porter Strategic Fit Competitive Advantage Entrepreneur 47

Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2018

But determining whether AI crime-fighting solutions are a good strategic fit for a company depends on whether the benefits outweigh the risks that accompany them. Below, we explain some of the steps they’re taking: Evaluating the strategic fit. As managers examine how AI can assist them in identifying criminal activities, they should also consider how it fits in with their broader AI strategy. Patrick George/Getty Images.

Banking 28

Banking Strategic Fit Real Estate Tools 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

” Members from each partner organization rate the alliance in areas related to strategic fit, operational fit, and cultural fit. The Association for Strategic Alliance Professionals , a cross- industry organization dedicated to advancing the skills of alliance management professionals, offers a variety of tools and educational and developmental opportunities to support your efforts.

Productivity 31

Productivity Products Pharmaceuticals Airlines 31

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Wireless Health Care Strategic Fit 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Others are a poor strategic fit. This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Growing the Top Line. There it was again in the Wall Street Journal on August 29: a beloved and uplifting, but unfortunately not effective, approach to driving growth through innovation. The idea is that companies need to encourage innovation from everyone and at every level in the organization.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Strategic Fit Incentives Idea Generation 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Becton Dickinson and others have employed a method that my colleague Russ Eisenstat and I developed—the Strategic Fitness Process —to enable employees to speak the truth to management safely about the alignment of the organization with strategy and values. Employee trust in management and commitment to the company have been in decline for decades. Yet we know that trust and commitment are essential for high individual and corporate performance.

Commitment 11

Commitment Airlines Teamwork Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

The net present value and strategic fit of a given relationship or initial introduction in one's Lucky Network might be foggy at best, but unintended benefits often manifest for those who embrace relationships with openness. There are no guarantees to entrepreneurial success. Your concept may be bold, your passion high, your intelligence and analysis exceptional, but there will always be external factors beyond your control.

Net Present Value 13

Net Present Value Entrepreneur Strategic Fit Fashion 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

But a closer look at Smucker's reveals a powerful set of growth strategies driving these results: A strategic approach to acquisitions. In 2001, Smucker's acquired Jif and Crisco from P&G, which no longer saw them as a strategic fit. The idea is that a business unit that no longer fits one company's objectives can become the foundation of new growth somewhere else. This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Growing the Top Line. According to the U.S.

McKinsey 12

McKinsey Strategic Fit Class Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

This brings the advantages of holding off on anointing an internal executive who may not be quite ready—but at the same time retaining the top contestants and allowing for a strategic redirection. They are less likely to hand-off the process to a search firm, more likely to make company strategy the first criterion in narrowing the field, and more likely to discern who would constitute the best strategic fit.

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Committee Charan CFO Strategic Fit 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Decisive actions are required to tackle the factors that prompted the spin-off in the first place, which in many cases are underperformance and/or a lack of strategic fit leading to chronic underinvestment in the development of the business. There is little consensus as to whether firms that find themselves spun off from other companies – either as new, standalone companies, or under the stewardship of new parent companies – perform better or worse than they did before.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Kahneman IPO Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

The projects all touched on areas of great strategic concern to the company, and the directors required each of the candidates to report their appraisals and plans to the board. Making that “strategic fit” was surely a factor in Microsoft’s selection of Mr. Nadella, who evidently brings a special appreciation for cloud computing and mobile devices, a new world that the next CEO has to face even if his predecessors had belatedly done so.

CEO 8

CEO Pharmaceuticals Committee Strategic Fit 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Situation Three: It Does Not Have Good Strategic Fit. Corporate indecision and misalignment of strategic objectives let promising products fall by the wayside. How does your product fit into it? How can you tell if the product you are working on is likely to succeed or fail?

Marketing 9

Marketing Benchmarking Strategic Fit Project 9