Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Today, the guild mentality persists within companies, where functions such as marketing, sales, finance, IT, human resources and R&D all have their own area of special expertise. Each initiative claims it is critical to the success of the organization, yet their competition puts that very success in jeopardy.

Operations 15

Operations Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Retail 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Conventional wisdom holds that improving working conditions (which typically costs money) would undermine the competitive advantage these firms enjoy. Producers in less-developed countries compete by keeping costs low. Our research suggests an alternative to this race to the bottom.

Lean Manufacturing 13

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

As gerajohm commented, "The best executives I have met have had a great understanding of how to use technology to gain competitive advantage and improve operations. They worked together to identify the technologies that could improve the company''s competitive advantage versus technologies that were needed to support the business.

CIO 9

CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

Over the last 30 years I have served a large range of organizations as either a director or a trustee with the specific role of helping them exploit IT for competitive advantage. From my experience, I believe that there are four highly interdependent categories of contributions the CIO and IT function should make.

Enterprise Architecture 9

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

And that same transparency has radically shortened the shelf life of any new competitive advantage. “We’ll The CMO also worked with the finance office and product managers to link pricing and benchmark data into the RFP process, which improved quality and response times.

P&L 14

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

They’re analogous to autonomous resources, as opposed to human resources, departments. ” Firms look to leverage, amplify, and network autonomy into self-sustaining competitive advantage. That said, a culture of cocreation and collaboration becomes the only way to succeed.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

If you plan for the team to be self-financing after an initial period, how long do you have to make it work — a couple of months, or a couple of years? Being clear about this will help you direct your resources to those programs that stand the best chance of early payback. Alternatively, human resources might be the right place.

Company 9

Company Committee Ethics Project 9

HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

In an exclusive interview with HR Digest, Trent Henry, EY’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), shares key strategies driving EY’s commitment to diversity, innovation, employee well-being, and leadership development. Our DE&I approach is multifaceted.

Diversity 52

Diversity Career Globalization Learning-by-Doing 52

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

It shouldn’t matter if you are in the finance department or leading the marketing team. I recently talked with the Chief Human Resource Officer of a significant player in the insurance industry about this exact topic. Get your hands dirty: Intentionally plan to get in the field of sales and then do it. Visit the “trenches!”

Team 370

Team Insurance Human Resources Strategy 370

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Successfully implementing such a capability could dramatically affect headcount in human resources functions, but also in other functions, such as sales. For one thing, they will have a competitive advantage in the political environment we have entered.

Skills 8

Skills Engineering Telecommunications Incentives 8