Innovation Excellence

JUNE 8, 2020

Don’t let the past, your management, or your fears censor you. If there is Capex involved, engage early enough the person who will cut the check. It is a way of operating (John Cleese, Monty Python). He is passionate about innovation, brand management, brand communication, and international business. Build diverse teams.

Creativity 66

Creativity CAPEX Wilde Fashion 66

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The number of industrial robots in operation around the world has grown rapidly in recent years, but nowhere more so than in China, where some 30% of the world’s robots are in operation. This growth has prompted many to ponder whether humans are being pushed out of the workforce in favor of their robotic brethren.

TCO 83

TCO Decentralization CAPEX Industry 83

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2013

They can help us manage rainwater and wastewater. and saved $200-$300 million in ongoing operation and maintenance costs). In all of the completed corporate projects, the green option won out toe-to-toe on capital expenditures and operational expenditures. Is it cost competitive?

CAPEX 14

CAPEX Cost-Benefit Analysis Construction Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

A scorecard that links financials with learning initiatives and other operations would serve as a cross-check for managers. Let's say, for example, that you're seeing a pattern of strong store sales for a group of products that were previously perceived as unrelated.

CAPEX 15

CAPEX Balanced Scorecard Hedge Software 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

IT is not something that can be managed from a box on the organizational chart. It may make costs more predictable and shift investments from CapEx to OpEx. Unfortunately, we have found that the focus of governance around IT continues to be on the more operational IT issues of delivering technology capabilities and IT services.

CIO 10

CIO CAPEX Budgeting CRM 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. These indicators and hypotheses were: Investment: The ratio of capex to depreciation. We calculate that U.S.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8