Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2016

Organizations I work with increasingly struggle to straddle two painfully polarizing operating principles. But the managerial and operational ability to act on that data-driven information may not. The greater your or your team’s decision rights, the more empowered and accountable you are.

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RACI Agility Brand Management Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

When it comes to operational improvement, organizations today are light years ahead of where they were two decades ago, but there's no time to celebrate yesterday's wins. Ford, for example, reengineered its global product development process to keep all parties, including suppliers, up to date on the status of new products in its pipeline.

Process 16

Process Strategy Offshoring Information Technology 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

His "Obama for America" fundraising , analytics and "get out the vote" operation was a masterpiece of agile electoral innovation and entrepreneurship. There's not a brand manager, health care administrator, CMO or CIO who wouldn't benefit big-time from benchmarking their own operations to this campaign's. They're right.

Marketing 8

Marketing Chief Technology Officer Case Study Critical Success Factor 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

They inhibit brilliant silo-spanning marketing, cross-silo offerings, brand consistency over products and markets, disciplined organization-wide marketing resource allocation, and the development of marketing excellence centers for capabilities such as social media or events. In fact team building can be the primary objective.

Brand 15

Brand Aaker Objective Team Building 15

Leading Blog

AUGUST 21, 2012

Every successful business has, at its heart, a theory of the business—an underlying set of supporting objectives and a corporate philosophy that gives people a foundation on which to operate. The CEO of Connecticut's Farmington Bank told George that its Main Thing is to "Drive economic development in central Connecticut.".

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Organization Mission Statement How To COO 285

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Rather it’s an on-going nipping and tucking of organizational resources to achieve both growth and efficiency at multiple levels: the company overall, the operating group level, and even within functional groups like human resources and information technology. Operations Organizational culture'

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Remember that connections are not the same thing as relationships, but that connections can develop into relationships with the proper effort on your part. link] mikemyatt Hi Jerry: Kudos to you and your team on the closing, and even more so for your approach. What more proof does one need?

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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 407

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

It’s how their executives develop the skills to lead across cultures and learn the inner workings of a global business; it’s how rising leaders advance into the senior ranks. You and Your Team Series. Many companies expect their aspiring leaders to work abroad. That’s the reality. Career Transitions. Andy Molinsky.

Career 9

Career Globalization Constraint Follow-up 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

A brand can’t just be a promise; it must be a promise delivered. And brand stewardship can no longer be under the exclusive purview of marketing departments and brand managers. Brands may drive communications activities, but little else. Smart companies form brand councils to meet this leadership imperative.

Brand 8

Brand Strategy Advertising Brand Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

Some companies now actively involve stars in their product development process and other aspects of their businesses. Undoubtedly, some of these relationships are simply glorified brand endorsements and can be classified as CDINO (Creative Director In Name Only), but some celebrities are having a bona fide impact on companies.

Creativity 8

Creativity Brand Advertising Video 8

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

As Ogilvy’s Ian MacKellar, who helped develop the current creative platform, would say: “For any campaign or creative idea, it helps to have a conflict, a tension, an enemy.” And everyone is trying to climb to the top of that to get ahead,” explains Heather Fadali, senior brand manager for coffee at Kraft Heinz, Nabob’s parent company.

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Brand Brand Management Advertising Management 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Food fads develop quickly in today’s marketplace. Amid this changing environment, you’ll find rows and rows of marketing teams at the Mid-Western headquarters of America’s largest food companies — in no industry does marketing appear to play a more prominent role. Put the product ahead of the brand. Kale, quinoa, or chia anyone?

Word of Mouth Marketing 8

Word of Mouth Marketing Brand Marketing Incubator 8