Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

To successfully transform to a more agile enterprise, companies must make conscious choices about where and how to become agile. Based on our experience working with these teams, we recommend senior teams do the following if they want to become more agile: Treat your enterprise priorities as a managed backlog.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

Siri is super, Alexa is awesome, and Cortana’s quite clever, but better bots and digital assistants aren’t going to determine personal productivity’s data-driven future. Tomorrow’s most effective executives will merge and marry workplace data and analytics to digitally design more-productive versions of themselves.

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Harvard Business

MAY 7, 2018

A lean startup approach, we are told, can empower big companies to innovate rapidly and effectively in the face of continual disruption, potentially even transforming enterprises into centers of continual new growth. This is not a one-off or sporadic meeting, but an ongoing conversation played out over regular intervals.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The challenge of running a sustainable enterprise has taken center stage among shareholders. The goals include eliminating poverty, offering affordable and clean energy, achieving gender equality, protecting ecosystems, increasing responsible consumption and production, and much more. Patrizia Savarese/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 10, 2017

By seeing exactly where and how people spend their time — rather than relying on recollections, anecdotes, or assumptions — executives have a solid basis for taking actions that will raise productivity. The company had experienced lackluster sales growth, especially outside of its core product category.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 18, 2018

We found widespread agreement that having great products and services and being a “good corporate citizen” are table stakes in a world of empowered citizens and consumers. ” In a sense, purpose is following the path that digital has taken in the enterprise.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2016

As Marc Benioff, founder of Salesforce.com has noted , “When I look at [our] largest transactions…every transaction was done with the CEO [and] that’s why we’re selling more enterprise software than Oracle or SAP.” ” Despite the advantages, however, selling to executives can be challenging.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2016

Last week, at an internal Cisco meeting, the company’s VP of Supply Chain, John Kern, proudly reported that the project had identified ways to cut energy use by approximately 30%, which will likely save $1 million per year. Disclosure: I was at the meeting as a paid speaker on sustainability strategy.).

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

” It’s a relief to have finally moved on from the era in which corporate responsibility meant feel-good philanthropic efforts divorced from an enterprise’s main activities. Metrics Are Not Your Friends. It can cost more to ensure better labor standards in a supply chain, or to meet environmental standards.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Just as data science and machine learning algorithms now colonize traditional business analytics and workplace attention, data-driven psychiatric research and mental health metrics will similarly reshape executive coaching, cognition, and emotional intelligence. Or perhaps prod you to interrupt less.).

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Harvard Business

MAY 29, 2018

While this seemed like a small bet for a $165 billion company built on the mass production of vehicles, the deal was scouted, in part, by Jim Hackett, then head of Ford Smart Mobility who has since been elevated to CEO. This van is currently being tested in London ahead of volume production in 2019.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Team members want to understand that meeting sustainability goals doesn’t just help the company—it helps customers, communities and the world. In partnership with thinkstep , we created a series of proprietary product greenhouse gas calculators to track our product-related emissions, including emissions generated from electricity.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). BPM reflected the interactions of different stakeholders, from product creation through supply chain to final assembly. How organizations are changing.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Those answers begin building productive paths and platforms for leadership development. A managing partner at a global consulting firm makes a point of coming to the office straight from red-eye flights and radiating productive energy. They’re intended to define leadership behavior in the enterprise.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

After all, if you’re trying to sell a product or strategy, you need to be able to demonstrate that it is both practical and high margin. ” Focus on key metrics. Boosting your financial expertise requires figuring out the metrics by which your company measures success. “They’re not hard to calculate.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Gartner predicts 41 percent of enterprise revenue will come from digital business by 2020—almost double what the percentage was in 2015 (Gartner, 2016). Such organizations do so by prioritizing the things that drive the most value—customers and talent, data, and products—and then they are disciplined in their execution.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2018

As a test case, we decided to use the ML model we built to predict the performance of software projects against a host of delivery metrics. Anticipating that other enterprises may benefit from these lessons, we have organized them into a new machine learning paradigm, which we call ML 2.0. Training the model.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 24, 2017

But it’s also the responsibility of the company to cultivate a culture that shuns corner-cutting and prevents it from accumulating into major scandals, ones that damage the credibility of the business, endanger jobs, and threaten the entire enterprise. If there is a disconnect, that is a red flag. Consider the case of GSK.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 16, 2018

And we call this a move from a business enterprise to a social enterprise—one where businesses need to understand what’s happening in the broader society, in their workplace, and with a rapidly changing workforce. We don’t have an intranet at Salesforce, we use apps. They’re all built on the Salesforce platform.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 29, 2018

” The memo’s bullet points ought to “provide concrete metrics of the impact you’ve had,” descriptions of “solutions you’ve delivered” and financial outcomes for which you’ve been responsible. She then set up a meeting to talk to her boss. What feedback do you have for me?”

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 11, 2010

Management consulting purist, might argue that improving performance and metrics should be the sole focus of my role. John Dupre is an organization development consultant who designs innovative ways to involve people in building more productive and satisfying workplaces. Social Enterprise. Today’s clients demand both.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The team used an outside consultant with experience in automotive product design to train and coach the leader and team members in the new capability. ” The dominant model of care delivery used in the United States is failing to meet this need, forcing patients to leave their homes for office visits and trips to the ER.

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