Chief Executive

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Coupa came out of recession in 2009 with new venture capital and momentum, catalyzing our journey toward our IPO in 2016. CFOs that prepare thoughtfully for what’s coming will be positioned to capitalize on opportunities for growth and scale, even as they brace themselves for potential challenges.

Nonprofit 52

Nonprofit Travel Operations Marketing 52

UVA Darden

AUGUST 21, 2024

Without meaningful action, plastic waste flows into aquatic ecosystems are expected to nearly triple from around 11 million tonnes in 2016 to around 29 million tonnes in 2040. The underlying cost dynamics dictate that a recycling process is only viable when large economies of scale exist.

Manager 64

Manager Marketing Operations Scaling 64

UVA Darden

AUGUST 13, 2024

Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health The Idea and the Action The Challenge Initiative (TCI) offers a unique approach to financing, scaling and sustaining family planning programs that are designed to address the rapid urbanization taking place in Africa and Asia.

Government 59

Government Business Administration Inclusion Implementation 59

Wendy Hirsch

JULY 29, 2020

If you stop to think about it, you can surely see, given the scale and diversity of organizational changes that take place globally, it would be impossible to accurately gauge that rate. Conceptualizing change implementation as operating at various levels of quality can help your organization to avoid unrealistic expectations.

Organizational Change 52

Organizational Change Implementation Operations Metrics 52

Vantage Circle

AUGUST 17, 2022

Pets can now be identified as a proactive method of staying healthy and avoiding health issues, thus saving money on a personal, professional, governmental, and medical scale. A 2016 study by Banfield Pet Hospital found that 67% of employees who took pets to work agreed that their pets made them more productive.

Benefits 52

Benefits Hospitality Scaling Operations 52

Wendy Hirsch

MARCH 24, 2022

The Research : That’s the question posed by Mariano Heyden and colleagues in their 2016 study, which included data from over 450 organizations. As such, middle managers may have a nuanced understanding of operational and cultural challenges (and opportunities) that supports them to undertake effective change initiation.

Manager 52

Manager Organizational Change Diversity Operations 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

In September 2016 we undertook a survey of nearly 300 endowment and foundation managers. Consequently, giant funds are often hamstrung by proportionally tiny operating budgets, which have historically forced them into the all-too-happy hands of intermediaries. But right now that’s not happening.

Operations 12

Operations Assets Media Scaling 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

Organizations can now engage with customers and employees like never before, and the virtual environment holds the potential to drive operational efficiencies, save time and money, and open the exploration of new commercial avenues. November 2016). This age is ripe with opportunity. In the industrial age, value came from machines.

Assets 15

Assets Scaling Operations Metrics 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space.

Scaling 16

Scaling Implementation Digital Transformation ROI 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

By early 2016 there were 20 HR business partners, covering almost 6,000 employees. But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties.

Recruitment 16

Recruitment Compliance Inclusion Staffing 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

In this next chapter, the Philippines — the world’s second-fastest growing economy — will play a crucial role in helping tech companies access the talent to scale efficiently and sustainably. It employs over a million workers and is expected to hit $25 billion in revenues in 2016.

SaaS 15

SaaS B2B Scaling Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

In the fictional world of the video game Watch Dogs , you can play a hacktivist who takes over the central operating system of a futuristic, hyper-connected Chicago. That would represent a 42% increase in the number of connected devices since 2016. In Barcelona , smart water meter technology helped the city save $58 million annually.

Operations 14

Operations Transportation Implementation Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

In this transformation, we are witnessing the decarbonization of power consumption, thanks to the large-scale deployment of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. In 2016, renewable, intermittent energy sources contributed more than 30% to gross electricity generation. GW of new installations in 2016.

Energy 14

Energy Rollout Government Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Sadly, however, given the daunting business survival statistics, most businesses never get an opportunity to scale up. Of those few that do begin to scale, the effort to scale up often fails to last, and the all-too-familiar roller-coaster of life in business heads, or threatens to head, downhill.

Scaling 12

Scaling Media Revenue Software 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Relying on the cloud, KenSci has been able to quickly scale up and offer its services worldwide, without building a sizeable IT-infrastructure beforehand. of firms had adopted it in 2010, whereas 7% had by 2016, which is an annualized growth rate of almost 50%. in 2010 to 7% in 2016, which is a more than doubling every other year.

Scaling 14

Scaling Fixed Costs Software Education 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Growth in 2016 is unlikely to be much higher. East African markets Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania also enjoy strong trade integration with each other, which gives the region additional scale, as it allows businesses to easily operate across borders.

Marketing 14

Marketing Government Transportation Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. PM Images/Getty Images. ” Clearly, more is needed.

Hospitality 14

Hospitality Manager Nonprofit Staffing 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

Twitter replaced most-recent with most-important tweets when they introduced their algorithmic timeline in 2016. Perhaps the least concerning implication is that there is systemic bias in our information feeds, that we operate in and are informed by tiny echo chambers. What can be done?

Media 15

Media Engineering Scaling Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Today, it continues to prevent the large-scale move to bundled payments. Take, for example, the July 2015 announcement by Medicare to launch a mandatory bundled payment program (Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model) in 75 geographic regions by January 1, 2016.

Hospitality 12

Hospitality Transportation Administration Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

These have forced AirBnB, Tesla, and Uber to make costly concessions to their operating practices or to exit certain markets altogether. The petition was seen as instrumental in getting the city council to adopt new regulations which permitted Uber to operate legally. How can new firms overcome the regulations that protect incumbents?

Government 14

Government Sales Sales Transportation 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

has increasingly come to rely on innovation and entrepreneurship to drive growth — but we haven’t achieved the scale of entrepreneurial society we need to offset the effects of globalization and automation. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society.

Government 15

Government Scaling Compensation Inclusion 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Just last month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a warning to banks about a pending large scale attack known as an ATM “cash-out” strike, in which waves of synchronized fraudulent withdrawals drain bank accounts. Yet a much broader and more debilitating attack isn’t farfetched. How can we prevent such a scenario?

Banking 15

Banking Assets Risk Management Accounts 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Since the beginning of 2016, the financial performance of hospitals and health systems in the United States has significantly worsened. The root cause is twofold: a mismatch between organizations’ strategies and actual market demand, and a lack of operational discipline.

Hospitality 8

Hospitality Insurance Cash Flow Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2017

The more users you have, the more valuable the platform becomes for all your users; hence scale becomes a powerful competitive advantage. For instance, Instagram launched Stories, a feature seemingly derivative of Snapchat, in August 2016. The debate over how sustainable “operational advantages” are continues to this day.

Advertising 15

Advertising Marketing Benefits Scaling 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

The 2016 Summer Olympic Games are opening in Rio de Janeiro amid environmental and health concerns ranging from the Zika virus to polluted competition waters. They really wanted the opportunity to show off to the rest of the world and demonstrate that they, too, could host such a large-scale international event.

Travel 15

Travel Scaling Operations Revenue 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

Bureaucracy is the managerial operating system of virtually every medium- and large-scale organization on the planet. In 2016 Zappos fell off Fortune magazine’s Best Places to Work for the first time in eight years. Why is bureaucracy so difficult to eradicate? First, it’s familiar.

Implementation 14

Implementation Compensation Operations Diversity 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2017

According to a 2016 report from the UNEP-hosted International Resource Panel , water demand will outstrip supply by 40% by 2030. In many parts of the world, the increased operational and infrastructure costs are simply passed on to consumers. And demand is increasing. As one U.S. In other regions, however, (e.g.

Assets 13

Assets Software Metrics Revenue 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

In 2016 the leadership team of a national retail organization asked us to help boost their frontline performance. They reached out to us because we wrote a book describing how these performance outcomes would be improved with an operating model that increases motivation.). The approach is now being scaled across the organization.

Retention 15

Retention Revenue Sales Sales 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Venture capitalists have their radar out for and provide ample resources for the catalysts to scale up very quickly. Think like a large-scale entrepreneur. More such catalysts are entering the fray every day. Here are several lessons that leaders of legacy companies can draw from GE’s transformation: 1.

Software 14

Software Engineering Recruitment Energy 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

Bloomberg reports that the American solar industry had a record first quarter in 2016, and for the first time, it drove the majority of new power generation. For example, an operations engineer in the coal industry could retrain to be a manufacturing technician in solar and expect about a 10% salary increase.

Energy 15

Energy Engineering Government Administration 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

On November 8, 2016, India’s government did something that had no other government had attempted before at the same scale: it decided to remove 86% of the country’s currency notes by value from circulation. Ashima Narula/EyeEm/Getty Images. The result?

Digital Transformation 15

Digital Transformation Banking Government Inclusion 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

In the original research, each item was measured with a 7-point Likert scale where 1 = strongly disagree and 7 = strong agree. In one case, two operational leaders at Kelly Services, a workforce solutions firm, created a Business Resource Group to promote leadership development and increase employee engagement. Owens ET AL.,

Energy 15

Energy Employee Engagement Scaling Leadership Development 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In 2016, HubSpot published a research study showing that a majority of Internet users dislike most forms of pop-ups and mobile ads and see online advertisement as intrusive and negatively disruptive. In 2016, Google is reported to have generated an average of $73 per active user via ads. Ending the Google-Facebook Advertising Duopoly.

Marketing 14

Marketing Advertising Media Compensation 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. In 2016 the company sold its China operation to Didi Chuxing because of the fierce competitiveness of the local player. We respect the hyper-local culture in places we operate,” Tan said.

Transportation 14

Transportation Recruitment Advertising Real Estate 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

And you probably won’t even know you’ve been affected until it’s too late to prevent significant damage to your company’s finances, operations, and reputation. But the scale of the problem means cybersecurity should be a concern for every executive, from HR to Marketing. The average DDoS attack delivers 1.89

Hospitality 11

Hospitality Assets Operations Software 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The assumption is that a merger will make it easier to achieve economies of scale, develop a large but narrow network of preferably healthy patients, establish data registries, and integrate expensive technology. Five main factors make our clinical partnerships work: Joint operating committees that meet regularly.

Hospitality 12

Hospitality Staffing Metrics Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

These long-term numbers are just for scale and to, well, scare us into action. the day after Obama’s announcement, China said it would cap CO2 emissions starting in 2016. Third, and most important, business needs to change how it operates fundamentally. Ten states have already hit the goal.) It’s not just the U.S. —

Energy 10

Energy Scaling Assets Administration 10