Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

The waterfall methodology was a classic approach used for software development. Given the cost of “marketing fuel”, it sure would be nice to know when to press the accelerator or take another path to reach the destination. About the Author.

Marketing 50

Marketing B2B Due Diligence Benchmarking 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

A recent story in the New York Times highlighted a pair of high school students who had experienced considerable success as app developers. Unfortunately, app development came at the expense of schoolwork, resulting in a sharp decline in one developer’s grades as the pair headed into the college application season.

Development 9

Development Levitt Real Estate IPO 9

Coaching Tip

JULY 10, 2014

Leadership development is the number one priority for human resources (HR) leaders globally, according to Talent Management : Accelerating Business Performance , a survey by Right Management, the career and talent management experts within ManpowerGroup. The data was gathered at the end of 2013 by a third-party research expert.

Human Resources 106

Human Resources Leadership Development Resources Development 106

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In fact, MGI analysis of financial data shows that large publicly traded US manufacturing firms, most of them multinationals with revenues greater than $500 million, averaged returns on invested capital of 22% from 1997 to 2013. manufacturers do source from domestic suppliers, they tend to regard them purely as a cost center.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

The Lean Startup is an approach to developing new products that came out of “Agile” software development, with “sprints” (quick deliverables) and fast learning. In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees.

Ries 10

Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The ManpowerGroup Contingent Workforce Index of 2013 showed 40% of all ManpowerGroup consulting engagements blended permanent and contingent workers. That leaves most organizations lacking a clear total workforce perspective and no integrated strategy to engage workers at the right time, cost, and contractual arrangement.

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Until now, the goal has been to standardize and optimize transactions among these components to reduce costs and achieve efficiency. This will lead to new business models, new processes, more meaningful business interactions, innovation, improved and faster decision making, and a more agile organization.

CIO 8

CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

To be fair to the CIO, CEOs have created this problem by emphasizing efficiency and cost-cutting over value creation. Economic performance for organizations whose CIOs were part of the overall development of strategy outpaced that of other organizations by a scale of two to one as discovered in our Economist and HBR studies.

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

As Marco Annunziata , Chief Economist at GE, told me, “We’re no longer selling customers just a jet engine, a locomotive, or a wind turbine; we’re bringing data and actionable solutions along with the hardware to reduce costs and improve performance.” Bill Ruh was selected in 2011.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

Automation anxiety reached new heights in 2013, when Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. ” To illustrate the value of this flexibility, Deming developed a model. Machines aren’t quite this agile (yet), whereas people can be. jobs were “at risk” of being computerized over the next two decades.

Technology 8

Technology Skills Deming Osborne 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Today’s successful companies close the strategy-to-performance gap with a new strategy approach best described as “Decide-Do/Refine-Do” This agile, test-and-learn approach is better suited to today’s tumultuous environment. The rise and fall of Webvan illustrates the cost of an inflexible strategy.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration. The emergence of commercial space has also gone hand in hand with an accelerating pace of technology development.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8