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MAY 22, 2023

One classic 2012 article from BCG , “Your strategy needs a strategy,” shows how. Implementation should be carefully planned and executed to minimize disruption to business operations and ensure that the strategy is effective in achieving its intended goals. Business strategy is an art form in itself.

Strategic Planning 52

Strategic Planning Digital Transformation Implementation Organizational Development 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

In the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics, for example, the global financial crisis caused private developers for the Olympic Village project to withdraw, requiring a refinancing package backed by government. Consider, too, that when threats materialize at large-scale events, the damage often spills over to other parties.

Risk Management 16

Risk Management Manager Insurance Government 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2013

northeast in October 2012, ranks as the second-costliest hurricane in American history, causing an estimated $68 billion in damages. These services, which are not currently valued in the marketplace, protect both people and commercial and residential assets. and saved $200-$300 million in ongoing operation and maintenance costs).

Assets 13

Assets Operations Benefits Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. Model 1: Virtual operator.

Assets 12

Assets Operations Insurance Telecommunications 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Manager, Operations. Manager, Operations. Date: January 20, 2012 20:41. To: Ioana Romana, VP Operations. Date: January 23, 2012 14:18. Date: January 23, 2012 14:42. Date: January 23, 2012 17:52. He’s part of my operations team now, and he hopes to transition to a management position.

Engineering 15

Engineering Operations Education Manager 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

On February 16, 2012, Barclays of U.K. NPCI has one major asset: The 60+ large banks in India connected to its ATM Network. Instant, 24/7, 365 days/year operation — the first such remittance solution without the need for cards of any kind, money moves from account to account instantly using mobile as the channel.

Banking 18

Banking B2B Accounts Transportation 18

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Yet huge opportunities exist in using digital technology to evolve your business model by rethinking your existing products, economic models, and digital assets. In January 2012 , the company also launched One Day Auto Insurance – a new kind of auto insurance that can be purchased on mobile phones. Monetizing Digital Assets.

Insurance 14

Insurance Assets Media Engineering 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

That puts vast new arrays of assets in play, from crowds to drones, sensors to shoppers. If teams can leverage those assets, hard and soft, digital and real-world, mass them quickly or marshal them with precision accuracy, teams can gain advantage as never before. Common Operating Pictures. The Invisible Children, Inc.

Media 15

Media Assets Marketing Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

My company understands that we do not operate in a bubble. In some parts of the world government mismanagement of community development (deliberate or otherwise) has led to civil strife, sometimes resulting in armed conflict, creating a security scenario where business simply cannot continue to operate.

Banking 14

Banking Assets Government Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Eaton’s acquisitions of Westinghouse’s distribution & control business (1994), Aeroquip-Vickers (1999), and Cooper (2012), increased revenues by roughly one-third with each addition. PPG (originally “Pittsburgh Plate Glass”) is a splendid example of such a transformation. Safeguard the short-term performance of the ongoing business.

Cash Flow 14

Cash Flow Revenue Sales Sales 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

The Challenge of Investing in Digital Assets. Unlike their industrial peers, managers of asset-light businesses focus little on the balance sheet. Instead, they’re taught to focus on their income statement and optimize their operations around preserving profitability. It’s as simple as that. The challenge?

Balance Sheet 14

Balance Sheet Manager Assets Software 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Penney's disastrous 4th quarter 2012 loss of $2.51 The key shareholder currently driving Penney's decisions, Bill Ackman , is a savvy activist investor who knows how to agitate for quick capital market hits, like spin-offs of non-core assets, splitting up of companies, and forced mergers. Penney, the results are usually disastrous. (In

Sales 16

Sales Sales Assets Operations 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

If either the data asset itself or the algorithm on top of it seems to be cutting edge or proprietary, I wouldn't go shout it from the rooftops. Data is an asset, like everything else. To take the Obama campaign as an example, look at their move from having two databases in 2008 to one in 2012. I guarantee you that was not easy.

Scaling 18

Scaling Assets Hospitality Implementation 18

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. Since its launch in 2012, Flyknit has reduced 3.5 ” Improving risk management.

Assets 15

Assets Operations Revenue Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

They begin with different values, invest in different assets, and choose different leaders. For most organizations, this is the least risky option, and a good middle road, despite the fact that many traditional organizations often see digital network operators as threats rather than allies. Difficult, but not impossible.

Digital Transformation 13

Digital Transformation Assets Real Estate Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Insurgent startups, such as Instagram and Snapchat, manage to operate with far fewer resources than legacy companies in the same industry in the “pre-digital” era. Instagram had only 13 employees when it sold for $1 billion to Facebook in 2012, and Snapchat has approximately 350 employees. Look at Yahoo or even eBay.

Scaling 14

Scaling Engineering Assets Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

When Avon Products CEO Sheri McCoy took the helm in April 2012, she acknowledged that resolving a bribery crisis in China would be a slow process, but she had no idea how slow — it’s proving to take longer and cost more, she told analysts, while also mounting multiple initiatives. Turnarounds operate on several time frames.

Assets 12

Assets Change Management Software Media 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. So it's no wonder that business started to wake up to the serious danger that storms and shortages present to their operations, both from direct damage to property and from massive production interruptions (i.e., business continuity").

Energy 17

Energy Real Estate Government Marketing 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

Crowdfunding of equity capital for startups is one of a handful of jewels in the crown of the JOBS Act that swept through the House and Senate in a rare and refreshing show of bipartisanship, and was signed into law by President Obama April 5, 2012. I have talked to crowdfunding proponents in the venture community and the US government.

Assets 16

Assets Government Marketing Compensation 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style. Zhou reportedly felt that the original Yahoos were overpaid and lazy, whereas the Yahoo team felt bullied and believed Zhou wasn’t focused on the Yahoo operations. Those issues slowed us down on the product side as well.

Accounts 13

Accounts Revenue Operations Marketing 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Investors' aversion to physical-product start-ups is understandable — the two recent asset-bubble-induced recessions proved that these companies' need for materials, supply chains, distribution networks, and labor hampers them from responding quickly to sudden declines in sales.

Operations 11

Operations Assets Engineering Sales 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

has a new "white paper" out with the rah rah title, " Financial Services: Safer & Stronger in 2012." For Bogle, that's because the company where he spent his peak earning years was structured as a mutual — owned by its customers and operated on their behalf. The largest U.S. leaving long-time archrival Fidelity in the dust.

Balance Sheet 15

Balance Sheet Banking Insurance Compensation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

In 2012 the world's problems grew more complex, but America's top 400 charities saw very little growth in their resources to address them. At Opportunity we see experienced, resourced entrepreneurial donors as a major asset for our organization. Today, Roger is president of the school, elected by his peers.

Nonprofit 8

Nonprofit Assets Engineering ROI 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

We measure the golfing habits of a subset of CEOs of S&P 1500 firms from 2008 to 2012. Separate tests focusing on operating performance and stock market valuations both suggest that high levels of CEO leisure are associated with underperforming firms.

Compensation 14

Compensation Assets Marketing Implementation 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

No wonder, then, that executives have placed predictive analytics at the top of the executive agenda since 2012, according to a recent Accenture survey. Effective use of predictive analytics involves mastering a new set of management, operational, and financial techniques and disciplines.

Balance Sheet 10

Balance Sheet Assets Diversity Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Among their trophies in 2014 was a complete housecleaning at Darden Restaurants, the largest operator of full-service restaurants in the U.S. Much the same occurred at Canadian Pacific Railway in 2012, when Pershing Square Capital Management acquired control of its board.

Assets 12

Assets Risk Management Government Recruitment 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. They must retain enough control over core assets to maintain control of the ecosystem and to make money.

Software 14

Software Assets Marketing Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Morgan Asset Management’s Head of Diversity Gordon Cooper told me his firm is now introducing a Legal ReEntry Program. (In In November 2012, I wrote an article for HBR about the emergence of returning professional internship programs across a wide range of sectors: for-profit, non-profit, military and academic institutions.

Diversity 10

Diversity Recruitment Assets Inclusion 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Companies have been striving to harness and leverage the power of their data assets for decades. That is the finding of a survey (PDF) and series of follow-up interviews conducted by NewVantage Partners with C-level executives and function heads representing companies and government agencies during the second half of 2012.

Metrics 9

Metrics Operations Government Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

A 2012 survey of board practices reported that almost none of the large-cap companies had a director under the age of 40. The digital transition needs to both protect profitable operations and assets, while making the transition to a new digital business or digitally enhancing part of the existing business.

Digital Transformation 9

Digital Transformation Risk Management Operations Assets 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

RFID tags were the first wave of IoT implementation and are already playing a large role in locating inventories, vehicles, people, and assets. The Future of Operations. million between 2012 and 2022, while the number of jobs will grow by about 15.6 Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate. labor force will grow by about 8.5

Marketing 11

Marketing Transportation Travel Assets 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Penney's disastrous 4th quarter 2012 loss of $2.51 The key shareholder currently driving Penney's decisions, Bill Ackman , is a savvy activist investor who knows how to agitate for quick capital market hits, like spin-offs of non-core assets, splitting up of companies, and forced mergers. Penney, the results are usually disastrous. (In

Sales 9

Sales Sales Assets Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

No wonder, then, that executives have placed predictive analytics at the top of the executive agenda since 2012, according to a recent Accenture survey. Effective use of predictive analytics involves mastering a new set of management, operational, and financial techniques and disciplines.

Balance Sheet 8

Balance Sheet Assets Diversity Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

Feeling that he needed an experienced operating and marketing partner, the then 29-year-old Jobs lured Sculley to Apple with the now legendary pitch: "Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life? billion in 2012. Here are five of Jobs's greatest mistakes, all of which history shows he ultimately learned from: 1.

Assets 9

Assets Marketing Engineering Recruitment 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

In our opinion, which of the two is the more successful depends on the context in which the business operates. Initially these savings are mainly physical, as you stretch the use of tangible assets such as plants, networks and systems. By 2012 as the firm became more focused, this split had evolved to 85% coatings and 7% glass.

Scaling 8

Scaling Revenue Accounts Government 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

tax code (HBS professor Mihir Desai described one reasonable approach in a 2012 HBR article ), coupled with a more sensible rule on inversions. which seems like it would perversely up the incentive for companies to move operations out of the country. Right now a U.S.

Revenue 8

Revenue Sales Sales Government 8

Vantage Circle

JANUARY 9, 2024

Compliance & Security : ADP prioritizes data security and compliance with complex regulations, giving you peace of mind knowing your data is safe and your business is operating legally. Since it operates on the cloud, managers can easily access essential data with just a few clicks and work from anywhere.

Software 64

Software Compliance Onboarding Administration 64