The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 23, 2022

“There are a lot of clinicians who are looking for ways to put management tools—such as finance, strategy, operations, and leadership—together to take on larger leadership roles.”. New skills. Then you need to make sure that the incentives physicians face do not run counter to their using the most effective approach for a given patient.

Skills 69

Skills Supply Chain Restructuring Training 69

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 13, 2020

The researchers identify a number of unique characteristics of mass layoffs, not least that they, unlike other crises, are usually deliberately initiated by the organization. Unique crises. Therefore, the firm has control over things like the timing, the location, and how the layoffs are communicated. ” .

Advertising 102

Advertising Automotive Restructuring Price 102

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

But too often we overlook the profound impact these changes have on our organizations. The new work contract – where employees take responsibility for their own careers and corporations provide them with career-enhancing but impermanent opportunities – can be as difficult for organizations to manage as it is for individuals.

Bureaucracy 151

Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

While we were restructuring our services business, we made significant investments in training to help our employees make this skills transition and to introduce a learning culture, as learning is a lifelong journey. Let’s innovate, disrupt, and challenge the status quo. Stefan Ries: The old days of HR are over.

Ries 76

Ries Skills Human Resources Software 76

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Companies and government agencies often make the mistake of viewing innovation as a set of unconstrained activities with no discipline. In reality, for innovation to contribute to a company or government agency, it needs to be designed as a process from start to deployment. As the head of the U.S.

Process 14

Process Innovation Incubator Committee 14

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

The blemish is the abdication of strategic attention by the organization’s most senior marketing executives to the enhancement of brand equity. The role has been relegated to middle managers who are brand custodians, not leaders in innovation. A vast number of famous brand names need brand surgery.

Magazine 100

Magazine Brand Article Marketing 100

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

billion into Nissan, but in return it required more than 36 percent of the company’s ownership and a commitment from Nissan to appoint Renault executive Carlos Ghosn as Nissan’s chief operating officer. Neither a restructuring strategy nor a turnaround leader alone could have engineered Nissan’s historic rebound. Layer Leadership.

Chief Operating Officer 50

Chief Operating Officer Short-term Strategic Fit Restructuring 50

Deming Institute

JUNE 9, 2015

Restructure training. Provide operational definitions of all jobs. As Deming said in Out of the Crisis , “The 14 points…apply to a service organization with little modification.” It isn’t a cookbook with a recipe it is a management system that must be thoughtfully adapted for your organization.

Deming 28

Deming Health Care Restructuring Crisis 28

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? Can you change the way a large organization — such as the federal government — does its work, when all the forces are arrayed for stability and conservatism?

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

The new conventional wisdom on corporate structure is that companies can do better by organizing themselves around customer groups. He also emphasized in a 1999 book that “the wrong structure can doom all other market-driven initiatives in the organization to failure.” In his 2006 survey of U.S. Low industry profitability.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Company Henderson Health Care 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. And it’s one that stems from a very human problem in most big organizations. It seems we’re all racing to get more entrepreneurial.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

One large media organization faces large incumbent players and operates in a market that is growing quickly. Rather than using traditional top-down management practices, the company organized itself into small business units, each of which operates in a local geography. It’s not a good position to be in.

CEO 8

CEO Leadership Metrics Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2018

Managers in an up-or-out organization are expected to advance. Those who don’t are fired, at worst; at best they’re relegated to the outskirts of the organization or placed in stagnant roles. With time saved in managing weapons and equipment, these managers gained time to innovate in other areas.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Operations Restructuring Conference 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

The primary focus was on fixing the acquired firm through financial restructuring, dramatic cost cutting, and strategic slashing. Leaders were driven by short-term profits and rapid action to flip the organization. Large private equity firms (e.g., architectural design, streets, water, electricity, sewage, and regulations).

LBO 8

LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Leaders used to have all the power in these hierarchical relationships, but this is no longer the reality facing many organizations. Traveling down the path set by the service academies, it may well be that the most effective people in any organization are those who are equally adept playing both leadership and followership roles.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

To deliver more value, the human resources function needs to spend more time accelerating operational improvement and less time on its traditional administrative and compliance activities. Bring people into HR with extensive operational improvement experience. In HR, we need to focus on what is important.".

Process 14

Process Compliance Operations Human Resources 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

Over the past several years, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has evolved from simply being an isolated “do good” arm of a company to something more profound that’s changing the way organizations do business every day. How has Coca-Cola integrated these CSR principles into your operations?

CEO 11

CEO Supply Chain Operations Brand 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Many of us are familiar with the hazards of Groupthink - when teams or organizations operate on autopilot and feel a general false sense of invulnerability. In some rare cases, individuals are able to push back against team consensus and help organizations recognize and proactively respond to changes in the competitive landscape.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

We expect the drone market to surge to nearly $7 billion by 2020 globally, driven by regulatory clarification, continuously decreasing component costs, and – most important– ongoing innovation that connects drone capabilities to big-data analytics.

Competitive Advantage 10

Competitive Advantage Company Outsourcing Analysis 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

Just because a company can offshore some portion of its operations doesn’t mean it should. Offshoring some portion of a firm’s innovation may be beneficial, the authors argue, but beyond a certain point it becomes counterproductive.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Innovation Restructuring Globalization 8

HR Digest

AUGUST 9, 2024

Infineon’s layoffs plan follows the company-wide restructuring efforts that were announced earlier in May following their Q2 FY 2024 results. Many companies are working towards restructuring efforts, changing gears to steer the company towards where the demand is.

Planning 52

Planning Restructuring Press Release Cost 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

Frequent restructurings of the analytics function. While CEOs typically understand the transformative potential of big data/analytics, they often do not consider the flip side of the coin — that analytics efforts unleash forces within an organization that can threaten the analytics program itself.

CEO 8

CEO Competitive Advantage ROI CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

As executives who have spent our lives assessing and implementing digital technology in every type of organization, we often get asked by them: “What should I learn today so that I’ll have a job in the future?” For example, the original Google car found it hard to compute the context within which it was operating.

Skills 15

Skills Morale Ethics System 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. But companies in this state often face increasing pressure to improve efficiency and reduce operating costs in their legacy businesses, and this pressure attracts opportunistic disruptors.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

The end result: a holacracy centered around self-organizing teams who actively push the entire business forward. Think of it as management operating system 3.0. Not exactly fertile ground for collaboration and innovation. It’s not a new concept. There are reasons to think the experiment might work at Zappos.

Koestler 14

Koestler Company Restructuring Travel 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

This shift demands that businesses manage and operate so that they can attract the right people, retain them, and ensure they can do their best work. Companies that leverage these technologies to enhance their talent strategies are tapping into a whole new way of thinking about work and restructuring the way work is done.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Technology Restructuring Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

to the revolution in Libya, from the continuing economic upheaval to Steve Jobs announcing his resignation as CEO of Apple and to HP restructuring their business, and from earthquakes to hurricanes and floods, each event is yet another chink in our sense of stability and control of the environment around us. From News Corp. 1) Infrastructure.

Uncertainty 15

Uncertainty Politics Restructuring Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

This month he’s publishing his second book based on the interviews: “Quick and Nimble: Lessons from Leading CEOs on How to Create a Culture of Innovation.” He talked with HBR about why a company’s culture is more important than its strategy — and some of the innovative tactics that CEOs have used to help create a high-performing culture.

CEO 12

CEO FAQ Restructuring Performance Review 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Organizations develop processes through repeated problem solving. They can even require cultural change, which is difficult for established organizations. The Future of Operations. The latter are troublesome because the knowledge base and skills required to operate in the new realm are so fundamentally different.

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

A few years ago Dave Ulrich, a management thought leader from the University of Michigan, made a comment I found both insightful and profound: “ Every leader needs to have a model of organization design.” As a result, organization design is no longer just a big bang event. Through low-cost sourcing and manufacturing?

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Technology has emerged as a competitive weapon in driving operational excellence and superior service quality. From my practice working with bank clients in the continent, here are a few suggestions to make that happen: Restructure staff. Innovate ferociously. Across Africa, banking is being redesigned. Think about local needs.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

So the chiefs of strategy and technology formed a unique circle of peers — 18 diverse members from across the organization whose task over the next six months was to ask and answer what they felt were the most pressing strategic questions facing the company. This kind of approach to special challenges that companies face is new.

Leadership 10

Leadership Diversity Committee Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The lure of establishing an organization that uses market mechanisms to achieve its mission is substantial. Some innovative and determined professionals working in world's largest and most complex corporations are choosing to stay put and use their corporate platforms to lead change. Some have decades of experience in their industry.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2018

Although concerned leaders try to address this problem in many ways — teamwork exercises, mentorship, perks, innovative office spaces, and incentive programs — their solutions miss a simple but pivotal point: Employees are engaged by engaging jobs. For these conversations to work, you need to have a growth mindset as well.

Creativity 10

Creativity PR Restructuring Mentor 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Many organizations have started using social media tools internally to interact with their employees. Even operational efficiency was unaffected. Enjoyment is well known to be a strong motivator of innovation. This increases the speed with which innovations spread across various countries and regions.

Media 16

Media Consultative Restructuring Execution 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

2 Embed the key sources of differentiation in the organization, working with front-line employees to create a set of nonnegotiable principles that embody the strategy and inform every decision. 3 Ensure that the organization is agile, that it can adapt quickly to changes in the marketplace.

Merchandising 14

Merchandising Metrics Restructuring Library 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

It’s tempting to think of distinctive capabilities as a kind of artistry performed by an elite corps of high-potential talent: the elite players work long hours and deliver unusual results, while the rest of the organization struggles along in its usual incoherent fashion. The functional model of organization dates back to the 1850s.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8