Six Disciplines

MARCH 15, 2013

The critical question for every business leader is, “How do I build an organization that consistently executes its strategy?” Technology alone is not enough. New leadership by itself is not the answer. The answer: it takes a complete program. The answer: it takes a complete program. Training, by itself, is not adequate.

Execution 87

Execution Strategy Executive Coaching Learning-by-Doing 87

HR Digest

JANUARY 27, 2019

Apple on its pay-roll has incredibly talented team members who are working on autonomous systems and associated technologies. In August 2018, Apple assigned the leadership of the Titan team to Tesla engineering vice president and Apple veteran, Doug Field, alongside Bob Mansfield.

Project 40

Project Restructuring Automotive System 40

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

It has also been acquiring e-commerce niche players, including Shoebuy and outdoor gear retailer Moosejaw, and digital technology companies, such as search experts Adchemy and cloud platform OneOps. Walmart does need to shore up its e-commerce capabilities, but its attempts to out-Amazon Amazon aren’t a winning strategy.

IT Strategy 11

IT Strategy Strategy Core Competence Price 11

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Effective leadership, like a good marriage, hinges on how you deal with the tough stuff. Take Sarah, the head of IT at a global technology company. Her job was to develop new engagement technologies in her organization, but instead of embracing critical feedback on her ideas, she ignored it. And it hurts your image as a leader.

Parcell 14

Parcell Agility Executive Coaching Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

The CIO paradox is a set of contradictions that lies at the heart of IT leadership. Adopt emerging technologies, while weighed down by the past. Today, however, technology innovation is creating a drastic change — across all major industries — in the way customers want to interact with their suppliers.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Storytelling Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. Their strategic use of information technology (IT) presaged the dot.com boom of the 1990s when the Internet made this kind of online ordering commonplace.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Increasingly, the CIO and IT must be seen less as merely developing and deploying technology, and more as a source of innovation and transformation that delivers business value, leveraging technology instead of directly delivering it. Define Your Strategy. To that end, the role of the CIO must be strategic instead of tactical.

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

Likewise, inspirational leadership, the repetition of value statements, and letting people be themselves are important, but they are by-products of a healthy culture, not the drivers of one. Before we realize it, the organization becomes known for late meetings, face-time, or reactive and apathetic leadership.

Teamwork 15

Teamwork Consensus Attrition System 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

For decades, we’ve often thought of leadership profiles in unique buckets—two popular varieties were the “visionaries”, who embrace strategy and think about amazing things to do, and the “operators”, who get stuff done. Adam Pretty/Getty Images.

Execution 16

Execution Strategy How To Budgeting 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2011

While the technology giant's second-quarter revenue increased by 3%, its relatively new CEO, Leo Apotheker, was forced to lower the forecast for revenue for the fiscal year. The technology market is the epitome of creative destruction. That put it in the right place at the right time as the technology revolution was beginning.

Software 14

Software Technology Intellectual Capital Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

For years, companies have been pouring money into people, processes, and technology that can help them manage risk. At a Global 50 consumer products company, management has developed a governance structure that allows it think about risk proactively, and has aligned its risk profile and exposures more closely with its strategy.

Risk Management 15

Risk Management Maturity EBITDA Management 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

While large consulting firms push expensive “war games” at the leadership level, Jessica ran cheap and quick local games based on local market dynamics. She then fed the results as market intelligence input into a senior leadership competitive game. Consider the example of Pratt and Whitney, a United Technology company.

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Agility Workshop Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. Never confuse charisma with leadership. They listen as well as they speak. The key to that is to build a sustainable culture. Directness.

Globalization 16

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Using the same 1 – 100 scale ask yourself: How well does our organization support the achievement of our strategy? If your organization is incapable of delivering its strategy, the strategy is effectively worthless and your company’s purpose will go more or less unfulfilled.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. Nokia was so immersed in executing its strategy that it lost sight of its purpose.

Strategy 14

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 14

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. Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business?

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2014

Jim, a brilliant professor of engineering, came on as the new Chief Knowledge Officer and John, an experienced petroleum executive identified by a major shareholder, became Vice President of Technology, Products, and Services. The coach began with a short lecture about high performance organizations and effective leadership.

360-Degree Feedback 10

360-Degree Feedback Offshoring Construction Execution 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. The second type, known as adaptive performance , is how effectively your organization diverges from its strategy. military says, volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity , where technology and strategy changes rapidly.

Organization 13

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

As United Rentals, the largest equipment rentals company, shifted its strategy to focus more on national customer accounts, it faced a huge forgetting challenge; branch managers needed to forget the fiefdom mentality. .” Create win-win incentives. Incentives are a powerful lever to convince people they need to forget the old ways.

Company 8

Company Licensing Incentives Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

However, by the middle of the decade, Google was growing, YouTube was forming, and “operational excellence” wasn’t a differentiating strategy in technology. Boards Leadership Strategy' Ballmer effectively led this shift and saw strong revenue growth from it.

Strategic Fit 8

Strategic Fit Rogers CEO Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

Price leadership: A no-frills airline constantly advertises the lowest fares on any route served. Deterring new providers: A professional event technology firm offers rock-bottom quotes to special events to signal its pricing power to any potential new entrants. First: Market share is a dangerous key performance indicator (KPI).

Balanced Scorecard 8

Balanced Scorecard Company Price KPI 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

During those nine months, Cellairis’ leadership had been distracted from their core business. Unlike a startup company, which is supposed to play with alternative strategies until the right one emerges, a midsize firm already has a strategy that is working. After nine months, AMP’d filed for bankruptcy.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

In an economy where traditional manufacturing jobs have gone offshore, and globalization and technology have put pressure on U.S. For each city or region the right mix of programs depends on what outcomes the leadership of that area is trying to achieve. A supplier might need a working capital loan to finance a big order.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Better Place''s most visible and best-publicized innovation was its switchable battery technology, a novel way to overcome the short-range limits and long recharge times dictated by existing battery technology. EV advocates are quick to note that technology improvements in batteries will one day eliminate the range problem.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8