Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

Like the internet, in the early stages of development there are many competing technologies, so it’s important to specify which blockchain you’re talking about. The internet and its layers took decades to develop, with each technical layer unlocking an explosion of creative and entrepreneurial activity.

Banking 20

Banking Media Decentralization Technology 20

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

Coca-Cola is one of the many companies that are making efforts to tackle the world’s greatest societal challenges — water scarcity, climate change, and even the rights of women and girls in the developing world. How has Coca-Cola integrated these CSR principles into your operations? It can be difficult to measure and compare.

CEO 11

CEO Supply Chain Operations Brand 11

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The goal is balance: A coherent company strikes a balance where the right product and service portfolio naturally thrives within a capabilities system consciously chosen and implemented to support a deliberate strategy or way to play. SD : It sounds logical to develop strategy by starting with one’s capabilities. SD : Why now?

Resources 51

Resources Industry System Strategy 51

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

I would recommend a few corporate household remedies: Refocus on the goal. Strategy only works if the primary goal is clear to everyone. Think about where your mistake has taken you, refocus on the true goal, and then re-chart a path towards achieving it. Get yourself out of the way. Regroup, but with flexibility. Move quickly.

Strategy 15

Strategy Metrics Restructuring Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

In our book Repeatability , Chris Zook and I show how top-performing companies typically develop repeatable models that incorporate their strategy in front-line activities. One path to this third goal — call it Type 1 feedback — is closed-loop communication with customers.

Merchandising 14

Merchandising Metrics Restructuring Library 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Instead of having a committee vet ideas, they need a process that operates with speed and urgency , and that helps innovators and other stakeholders to curate and prioritize problems, ideas, and technologies. This quick and dirty development can become unwieldy, difficult to maintain, and incapable of scaling.

Process 14

Process Innovation Incubator Committee 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. In our experience, there are specific steps CEOs and CMOs can take to develop a working relationship that is dynamic and useful. Develop—and stick to—a marketing blueprint. Who should lead our transformation?

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Executives mobilized experts to develop internal applications that mirrored the functionality of Facebook and Twitter, and built a platform that allowed for the creation of internal wiki pages. The company hired many open source technology developers to build new collaboration tools. Even operational efficiency was unaffected.

Media 16

Media Consultative Restructuring Execution 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

One popular view of activists is that they are short-term, cut-and-run operators who are looking for a quick profit. Think of how often activists have pressed for the sale and restructuring of firms and for the dismissal of CEOs. Other activists have expertise in development and commercial real estate.

CEO 8

CEO Real Estate Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Once upon a time, “organization design” meant bringing in a slew of consultants to oversee a large-scale organizational restructuring, most often intended to take out big chunks of cost during an economic downturn. Operations Organizational culture' So leaders at many different levels need to get in on the act.

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2015

“But there’s an art to the ask,” says Diana Faison, a partner with leadership development firm Flynn Heath Holt Leadership. By understanding your boss’s interests and goals, and aligning those with your own case, you are more likely to get what you want. What the Experts Say. Gather evidence.

How To 8

How To Case Study Pharmaceuticals Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. By having these internal hackathons, it is like replicating a Facebook culture, where basically Timeline was developed in 24 hours as people just went about it.”

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The capacity and willingness of managers to plan developed throughout the century. Corporations developed large corporate units dedicated to it. It restructured its operations in the Netherlands by reorganizing 3,500 employees into agile squads. Take Nespresso, the coffee pod pioneer developed by Nestle.

Agility 15

Agility Planning Fayol Strategic Planning 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Jessica Sklar, then the band’s intern and now Machine Shop’s Chief Strategy Officer, evolved the online discussions into in-person meet-ups and events at concerts, developing what came to be known as the “Linkin Park Underground.” Our business now operates like a tech startup, with less hierarchy and far more agility.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating. Adapting to change.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Outcomes define the goal of the organization and set direction for its differentiation. Few health care organizations have made it their explicit goal to deliver excellent outcomes. Here are five reasons why: 1. The conclusion was disheartening – on most procedure types, TCH significantly underperformed. The final result?

Health Care 8

Health Care Fraser Price Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The two approaches share a set of key principles and practices, with the main differences arising from jargon: Sociocracy, developed in the 1970s, was based on principles of cybernetics ; holacracy represents a repackaging of the principles in the vocabulary of software engineering. Misconception 2: The goal justifies any means.

Proposal 8

Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

China’s Communist Party recently approved the 13th Five-Year Plan , designed to guide the country’s social, political, and economic development through the second half of this decade. Interestingly, it is not strictly a “plan,” in the sense of a precise sequence of actions leading to pre-determined goals.

Planning 8

Planning Policies GDP Health Care 8