Harvard Business Review

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. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS. It will not be easy.

Risk Management 8

Risk Management Strategic Fit Banking Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

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.

Innovation 8

Innovation Strategic Fit Competitive Advantage Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Others are a poor strategic fit. Trainers are brought in to teach everyone to be an innovator. There are "innovation boot camps." Ideas come pouring forth from every nook and cranny. Many of them are half-baked and impractical. Others will only tick off supply chain partners or important vendors. Many simply don't have enough upside.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Strategic Fit Innovation Idea Generation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

EB plays the role of a venture capitalist or private-equity board with responsibility to sell, spin-out, or wind-down initiatives that, in practice, are found to be a poor strategic fit. Examples include Prophecy, a crowd-sourcing analytics business, and Koneksa, a consumer sensor initiative.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

A marketing manager’s job, for example, might be to ensure strategic fit, while a compliance offer needs to flag regulatory violations. Make sure everyone knows their roles.

Committee 8

Committee White Paper Document Review 8

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.

Net Present Value 15

Net Present Value Entrepreneur Open-book Strategic Fit 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

In 2001, Smucker's acquired Jif and Crisco from P&G, which no longer saw them as a strategic fit. Smucker's has grown over the past decade largely by taking on cast-off food brands from Procter & Gamble, its Ohio consumer products neighbor, and finding ways to grow them again.

Strategic Fit 15

Strategic Fit Brand McKinsey Class 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

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.

CEO 8

CEO Charan Committee P&L 8

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.

Company 8

Company Teamwork Commitment Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

” Members from each partner organization rate the alliance in areas related to strategic fit, operational fit, and cultural fit. Eli Lilly and Company measures the health of its alliances with a “Voice of the Alliance Survey.”

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Edmondson Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

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 Bottom-up Leadership 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. Only in rare circumstances is “business as usual” a viable value-creating option.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Situation Three: It Does Not Have Good Strategic Fit. Hard factors being the typical features, costs, and capabilities that our clients would look at themselves, and soft factors being things like installation, out of box experience, usability, aesthetics, brand value, etc.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Long-term Learning-by-Doing 8