2008 Operations Restructuring 
N2Growth Blog
JANUARY 3, 2011
This is so much the case that some CEOs will avoid restructuring initiatives at all costs. There are even some business theorists that warn against undertaking complex restructurings because of the great risks involved. That is the question that many a business is forced to ask at some point during their life cycle.
CO2
JUNE 29, 2010
It is very important for leaders wanting to create Self-Starters to articulate a clear vision, values and set of goals for their teams, as this type operates by seeking forgiveness rather than permission. Brown-Nosers constantly check in with their leaders and operate by seeking permission, rather than forgiveness.
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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.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 8, 2012
To deliver more value, the human resources function needs to spend more time accelerating operational improvement and less time on its traditional administrative and compliance activities. Bring people into HR with extensive operational improvement experience. In HR, we need to focus on what is important.".
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. Ford CEO Alan Mulally tried to mitigate the impending bullwhip during the 2008 financial crisis by imploring the U.S. automobile industry.
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.
N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
For me businesses are as much or more about the people than they are about the products and markets …so those tough restructuring calls (or sometimes the shut it down calls) are the hardest things ever. Sometimes they aren’t happy calls – and that’s when it gets really hard.
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