Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Many business leaders are fond of the spurious Peter Drucker quote that “you can’t manage what you can’t measure.” For example, same-store sales or sales per square foot measure success in the retail industry, and various volume measures do it in commodity industries. Consider the automotive industry.

Metrics 28

Metrics Retail Sales Automotive 28

Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2016

Companies born before the internet took hold have an enormous challenge: improving their online products and services at the warp speed of their online competitors. Companies that are able to master continuous online product innovation have big advantages: Dramatic reductions in the time it takes to make critical product enhancements.

Company 31

Company Software Productivity Engineering 31

Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

When that happens, D&A initiatives can falter — not delivering the insights needed to drive the organization forward or inspiring confidence in the actions required to do so. What’s the best way to build effective D&A capabilities? Insight Center. Putting Data to Work. Sponsored by Accenture.

Data 28

Data How To Enterprise Travel 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

If you are a senior executive in a company concerned about activists, you have two potential paths: take the defensive (and perhaps expected) posture of defending your current strategy, or embrace the challenge and reassess your company’s path to value creation. Take the time to reassess your company’s path to value creation.

Management 28

Management Apparel Industry Company 28

Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2018

While there’s less buzz around business-to-business markets, these innovations are changing the game in B2B as well, even in old-line industries selling what might be considered commodity products. For a deep dive into the elements, see our related HBR article “ The B2B Elements of Value ”). Insight Center.

B2B 28

B2B Chemicals Engineering Data 28

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

For instance, we examined predatory pricing in the airline industry and illegal product tying by Apple, Microsoft, and AT&T. For instance, we examined predatory pricing in the airline industry and illegal product tying by Apple, Microsoft, and AT&T. What we didn’t expect was the diversity of responses! You wowed us!

Consulting 204

Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2016

Leadership development represents a huge and growing investment for most organizations. In past years leadership development has always been treated as a discretionary expense or even a luxury, and therefore something that could be pared down or eliminated in hard economic times.

Development 28

Development Leadership Operations Efficiency 28

Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2016

Such a high failure rate isn’t surprising, as leaders are trying to create entirely new competencies and wedge them into an organization with strong legacy cultures and operating models. Insight Center. Estimates of digital transformation failures range from 66% to 84%. Are you really bought in, and is your team?

Real Estate 28

Real Estate Course Operations Accenture 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2016

Judging by our interactions with CEOs around the world to date, some of their burning questions are: What are the elements of uncertainty created by Brexit? Judging by our interactions with CEOs around the world to date, some of their burning questions are: What are the elements of uncertainty created by Brexit? Political process.

Industry 30

Industry Financial Strategy Strategy 30

Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2016

Regulators try to model how prices, sales, and even the combining parties’ research and development efforts will change after a merger. That can benefit consumers through lower prices, more innovation, and better products. We know that mergers and acquisitions are challenging for the companies involved. If not, it gets the nod.

Research 28

Research Pharmaceuticals Company Development 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

and other developed economies. A second reason is that our assumptions about good management practices are out of date. Since the 1980s, management practices like the Toyota Production System that promote efficiency, quality, and scale have done wonders to lift the quality and profitability of global manufacturing.

Efficiency 28

Efficiency Government System Development 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Here we outline measures that leaders can take to minimize downside risks and shape outcomes to their advantage. What is going on with Brexit? Where are all the bad outcomes the pundits predicted? Equities are higher than before the vote, consumers continue to buy confidently, and business sentiment is buoyant. Plan for Uncertainty.

Company 28

Company Policies Financial Trends 28

Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2018

Sometimes this is because people want to understand why some prediction was made before they take life-altering actions, as when a computer vision system indicates a 95% likelihood of cancer from an x-ray of a patient’s lung. These rhetorical arguments do not help professionals responsible for regulatory compliance.

Data 28

Data System Intellectual Property Ethics 28

Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

Check out our selection of events for project/resource managers, business leaders, and industry professionals, which will provide you with valuable insights into recent trends and challenges, networking opportunities, and contribute to your professional development.

Industry 52

Industry Automotive Pharmaceuticals Management 52

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Zoltners and Prabhakant Sinha (the Z and the S), the firm has built a reputation for taking things apart, seeing how they work, and putting them back together in much better condition than before. Where did ZS Associates begin, and what are they known for? Founded in 1983 by Kellogg School of Management marketing professors Andris A.

Case Interview 100

Case Interview Interviews Sales Pharmaceuticals 100

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

He wanted his executive team to examine some of those lessons learned and spend a day puzzling through what those insights might mean for their business over the next 3-5 years. Our sports-apparel CEO had the right idea in challenging his team to think about the organization and ask: are we fit for growth, given our strategies going forward?

Apparel 82

Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. That makes it imperative to start thinking about how management will be changed by the most impactful information technology of our time: cloud computing. How organizations are changing.

Change Management 36

Change Management Management Software Productivity 36

Harvard Business

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. Insight center. Insight center. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution.

Strategy 53

Strategy Strategy Strategy& How To 53

Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2017

I asked him whether he had collected any data that could provide him with insights into systematic patterns. Why are some employees more productive than others? Although companies collect a great deal of data about their employees, most of them don’t do a great job of leveraging it for insights to answer these questions.

Data 33

Data Case Interview Analysis Survey 33

Management Consulted

APRIL 6, 2014

An ERP system is an enterprise business management software program that organizes and tracks large company’s resources (cash, raw materials, production capacity, etc.) It helps facilitate error-free transactions and production (before ERP, people actually used odd things like pens, paper and ledgers to keep track of their stuff).

PricewaterhouseCoopers 221

PricewaterhouseCoopers IBM GBS Case Interview Interviews 221

Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2021

Our team is made up of highly-skilled, senior-level consultants from a wide range of backgrounds—educators at top universities, serial entrepreneurs, former C-suite executives, and seasoned process consulting experts. The ultimate playbook for developing brave leaders and courageous cultures. 31 books on leadership and change.

Leadership 52

Leadership Culture Case Interview Company 52