Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 17, 2014

The critical question for every business leader is, “ How do I build an organization that consistently executes its strategy?”. Technology (i.e., The answer: it takes a complete program. The reasons other approaches do not last is that they are missing key elements. performance mangement software) alone is not enough.

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Execution Strategy Executive Coaching Software 91

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Everyone thinks they have a digital strategy these days. But while your company may have a business or IT strategy that incorporates digital technology, an IT strategy does not equal a digital strategy. Because most IT strategies treat technology in isolation. They grow faster.

IT Strategy 9

IT Strategy Strategy Class Offshoring 9

Six Disciplines

MAY 10, 2011

While all of us agree there's a disconnect between strategy formulation and strategy execution, the developers of the Balanced Scorecard (Robert Kaplan and David Norton) offer up this terrifying observation: On average, 95% of a company's employees are unaware of, or do not understand, its strategy.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 29, 2024

” He goes on to quote a highly successful Silicon Valley venture capitalist, “In the world today there’s plenty of technology, plenty of entrepreneurs, plenty of money, plenty of venture capital. What’s in short supply is great teams.” ” Good managers foster teamwork.

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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

Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 20, 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. The answer: it takes a complete program. The answer: it takes a complete program. The reasons other approaches do not last is that they are missing key elements.

Execution 83

Execution Strategy Executive Coaching Learning-by-Doing 83

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. The answer: it takes a complete program. The answer: it takes a complete program. The reasons other approaches do not last is that they are missing key elements.

Execution 87

Execution Strategy Executive Coaching Learning-by-Doing 87

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Ajay is a technologist and business strategist who often obsesses over issues that range from the impact of technology on disruptive business models to entrepreneurship and impact investing. Strategy bottom of the pyramid prahalad strategy' [Editor''s Note: This is a guest post from Ajay Swamy. You can find him at [link].].

Competitive Advantage 154

Competitive Advantage Prahalad Blue Ocean Strategy Glocalization 154

HR Digest

JANUARY 27, 2019

Apple on its pay-roll has incredibly talented team members who are working on autonomous systems and associated technologies. When Apple shifted its strategy in 2016, it also laid off workers from this same group. Through a spokesperson, Apple has acknowledged the move, saying, however, that there are still opportunities in the space.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Whether a company succeeds or fails ultimately depends on whether it hired the right people to effectively execute its strategies. Complimentary Resource – Recruitment Technology. The most important decision a company makes about employees is whether to hire them. Complimentary Resource – Social Media Basics for Recruiting.

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Resources Guidelines Quality Long-term 50

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The study explores the Chinese market after the country’s Ministry of Justice made online legal services a key part of its strategy. Given this context, a recent study exploring the role of online marketplaces in the legal profession is particularly interesting.

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Budgeting Participative Marketing Operations 40

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

In this blog we take a look at three reasons why you need to get a Technology Consulting Company on board and how they can help you. Having an IT strategy in place means that while your business continues to grow and succeed, your IT systems can support that growth and contribute to it. Future Proofing Your Business.

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Consultative Technology Budgeting Reputation 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. ” Beyond the skills required to perform specific jobs, technology will also determine which jobs matter most in the years to come. Take insurance, for example.

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Company Insurance Engineering Software 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2018

I don’t think I’ve learned more about strategy, technology, and culture from any other company I’ve studied. Netflix is a technology juggernaut whose analytics, algorithms, and digital-streaming innovations have changed how customers watch movies and TV shows. Strategy is culture, culture is strategy.

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Technology Sharpe Strategy Content 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

It used to be “What’s your IT strategy?” ” Then it was “What’s your internet strategy?” ” Now it’s “What’s your digital strategy?” — digital strategy is on fire as today’s “it” strategy.

Strategy 8

Strategy Technology Strategic Planning Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

Just as previous technology and business shifts have changed the role of the CIO, the new, more consumer-oriented business models of the social revolution will favor a new breed of business and technology leader. As overall business strategy planning ties closer to IT strategy, four personas of the next-generation CIO will emerge: 1.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Budgeting Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

That digital focus helped Adidas reshape its strategy for today’s mobile, more empowered consumer. The brand embraces data and technology as a way to be faster and smarter in a world where marketers are competing for consumer attention in the moment. ” Data-Driven Growth in a Digital World. ” Read More.

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Content Brand Storytelling Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise.

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Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

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. When you fail to engage with a conflict, you can’t gather the input you need to find a workable solution. Is that right?”

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Parcell Agility Executive Coaching Learning-by-Doing 14

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.

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CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 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

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.

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

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. The CIO paradox is a set of contradictions that lies at the heart of IT leadership.

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CIO Technology Storytelling Short-term 8

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.

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Risk Management Maturity EBITDA Management 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

But we knew that by putting prototypes into the wild, we’d start to learn how this radical new technology— something that sits on your face, so close to your senses—might be used. Should Google revise its strategy to pursue that opportunity? That is the question Glass is asking, and I hope in the end that is how it will be judged.”.

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Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

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.

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Software Technology Intellectual Capital Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

PFK is now working on expanding its strategy to address the health needs of children with disabilities. Health information and other technology. Technologies hold promise for remote monitoring and intervention. whether someone is employed and his or her earnings over time).

Health Care 10

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., Told this way, the Kodak story is a comforting caricature of the traditional failure to adapt to disruptive technological change. The nature of disruption is changing. inch vs. 3.5-inch

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Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Differentiation increasingly requires more innovative thinking, and the use of very specific areas of expertise (like Apple’s winning design, a capability that wouldn’t have been prioritized in most technology companies before Jobs). Leaders who master both strategy and execution start by building a bold but executable strategy.

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Execution Strategy How To Budgeting 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Almost 80% of the more than 1,200 senior executives recently surveyed by PricewaterhouseCoopers believe that their organizations have the right strategic intent — but only 54% think they’re executing that strategy well. Why the gap? Let’s compare two fictional companies to see what’s involved.

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Strategy Restructuring Committee Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

If the corporation has the capabilities, enterprise advantage, and business portfolio it wants, its strategy is implemented. If the unit has the customers, value proposition, and skills it has chosen to have, its strategy is also fully implemented.

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Execution Strategy Mission Statement Definition 8

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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

It's an important move, more for what it tells us about Google and the evolution of its strategy than it does about the restaurant rating game. Using mobile technology, users could scan the Google logo to find out more. Today, Google announced that it had acquired Zagat , the popular restaurant ratings provider.

Real Estate 15

Real Estate Review Comparison Quality 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

Every process that is created, every system installed, every technology that is used, every structure that is designed, every job title that is given will reinforce or dilute the culture. Strategy and goal setting. Accountability becomes easier to measure and success easier to attain.

Teamwork 15

Teamwork Consensus Attrition System 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wants a preliminary framework in place by the end of this summer, with a final set of guidelines ready to go in February 2014. Government Information & technology Risk management' The response to today''s cyber threats can''t be limited to Washington.

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Cooper CIO Risk Management Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

By that he means that all the things a business does — not just its logo and visuals, but also its strategy, call to action, customer service, communications with customers, and people — combine to determine what it stands for. Dan's smart observation is that "Brand is everything, and everything is brand."

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Brand Positioning Marketing Productivity 15

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.

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