Delegation Operations Retail Technology 
Strategy Driven
MARCH 15, 2023
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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 25, 2014
But they don’t think nearly enough about operational meltdowns – technological glitches and other problems that can put them out of business. They are usually quick to recognize operational problems and deal with them before they become disasters. As a result, most are singularly unprepared to deal with them.
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Harvard Business Review
JUNE 3, 2016
In fact, the relentless drive to embrace digital technologies has been ongoing for many decades. What also seems to have been forgotten are the lessons from these earlier attempts to leverage IT (remember that IT is a digital technology). Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 17, 2014
The operative word in that sentence is “founding” or in my case “co-founding.” Of course, a CEO following that approach is less likely to delegate and more likely to be entrenched in work all the time. I have clients who like to play golf. And I often get asked to hit the links.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 27, 2017
Charismatic CEOs enjoy leading and inspiring people, so they don’t like delegating critical business decisions to smart algorithms. Computational autonomy requires that C-suites revisit the hows and whys of delegation. In reality, “handoffs” and transitions prove to be significant operational problems.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 29, 2015
MedStar operated nine hospitals, but realized that its long-held objective of increasing revenue and profits at those venues was unsustainable, given the outcries over runaway medical costs. These new ventures would operate separately from the core hospital assets and would compete in new ways in the health care marketplace.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
Just imagine the operational demand if primary care providers also had to actively monitor their patients’ health data between office visits. The workload problem is further increased by patients’ likely response to enhanced availability, such as what tax accounting and retail customers have enjoyed through digital channels.
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