Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

For small to medium enterprises, this means margins may be squeezed to the point to where they can no longer compete in today’s hyper-competitive global marketplace. Businesses are being impacted by a global skills shortage that is hampering manufacturing output and service delivery.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

But they have certainly not repealed the timeless rules of strategy. Yet for too many entrepreneurs, especially those steeped in tech and devoted to product, strategy often seems to be an afterthought. It’s true that nothing beats having a compelling product that customers badly want.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Facilitates better decision-making by identifying projects that align with business strategy. Whether its a growing enterprise or a large organization, Epicflow provides the necessary solutions to drive success in multi-project management. Budgeting and Cost Control Tracks financial data, including budgets , expenses, and forecasts.

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Management Consulted

MAY 28, 2017

In fact, the firm is already beating out heavyweights such as McKinsey, Bain, and Parthenon-EY for strategy projects in the tech sector due to better industry specialty. On the value creation side, Bulger Partners covers 13 different types of value assignments (growth strategy offerings, technical strategy, operations, etc.).

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

The company I lead, Ingersoll Rand, is a 146-year-old organization that over the past few years integrated sustainability and business strategy to anticipate and address major global trends, most prominently climate change. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. While this can be disheartening, it doesn’t have to be this way.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 6, 2018

Business Strategy : The organization’s formula for winning (e.g., Organization Strategy : The placement of power and authority (e.g., and how the work is accomplished, the flow by which products and services are created and delivered (e.g., Organization Strategy : The placement of power and authority (e.g.,

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In today’s business landscape, sustainability is no longer a niche concern; it’s a core component of corporate strategy. BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has emphasized that sustainable investing can lead to better risk-adjusted returns and has integrated ESG factors into its investment strategies.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Many enterprises use “digital” to change how they interact with clients, but that’s too limiting. Explore the position papers that detail the steps to becoming a digital enterprise. Advanced Analytics Are Crucial to Digital Transformation. 6 Digital Trends Are Poised to Transform How We Work.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 8, 2022

I initially started out my career in management consulting, exited to an internal strategy team in industry, and pivoted back to consulting. This two part article series will provide valuable perspective for those who are considering internal strategy teams as their next career option as I unveil my personal thoughts and experiences.

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Epicflow

JULY 12, 2022

The primary goal of becoming a data-driven organization is to improve decision making, which in turn will provide customers with better products or services and as a result increase profitability and facilitate business growth. . Make sure that your company has the right data strategy . Combining flexible databases (e.g.,

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Tom Spencer

MAY 24, 2024

Economic uncertainties, recessions, and unforeseen disruptions can shake the foundations of even the most robust enterprises. Diversify Revenue Streams One fundamental strategy for business resilience is to diversify revenue streams.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2025

It helps standardize project management practices, ensure alignment with organizational strategy, and provide oversight to deliver projects successfully. Support and training providing tools, templates, and training to project teams to enhance their productivity and adherence to standards. Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid).

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Tom Spencer

MAY 17, 2024

Hundreds of articles have been written on strategy, each with an author that presents a unique perspective from years of paradigm-shaking experience. Some even “reinvent the wheel” by rejecting past concepts altogether and introducing an entirely new way of thinking about strategy.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

At its most basic, productivity is the amount of value produced divided by the amount of cost (or time) required to do so. And while this equation seems simple enough on the surface, the strategies for optimizing it have evolved dramatically over the last two decades. sales-related, product-related, program-related, etc.).

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

In researching my book, Mapping Innovation , I found that every innovation strategy fails eventually, because innovation is, at its core, about solving problems — and there are as many ways to innovate as there are types of problems to solve. They lock themselves into one type of strategy and say, “This is how we innovate.”

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Leaders know they need to outperform their competitors to succeed — not by hitting the target with just one or two products, but by winning consistently across their businesses, time after time. To accomplish this, one must have clear answers to some basic strategic questions about the enterprise and its identity: Who are we?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2018

This is where selling the data directly, building it into products and services, using it as input for analytics, and making better decisions come to the fore. enterprise systems, data warehouses, cloud, blockchain), but these new systems have missed the mark. It’s a challenging transition.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Feedback on social media can serve as a valuable source of information for companies, helping them to improve and develop products and services. Anecdotes aside, does this user feedback actually help create better products? Maxime Ge/Getty Images. In our study , we analyze the role that Facebook plays in the innovation process.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 18, 2022

As part of a consulting engagement or broader enterprise strategy alignment, you can expect to plan and run an offsite at one point of your career. So whether you are running a small executive team offsite, or one for a larger group, here are five tips I’ve used to plan a successful strategy offsite.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Experts have opined for decades on the reasons behind the spectacular failure rates of strategy execution. In 2016, it was estimated that 67% of well-formulated strategies failed due to poor execution. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. Imagno/Getty Images. They lack depth in their competitive context.

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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. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. paul garbett for hbr. What is missing from this equation for growth? Insight Center.

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Consulting Matters

JULY 15, 2020

So this quick win is all around how you can begin to either start with your website strategy or refine your website strategy so it is set up to attract and impress your perfect ideal client. So let me share my screen and give you some ideas on how you can start developing your website strategy. Consulting Website Strategy.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

For example, a multi-product technology firm we advised laid out a strategy to significantly increase business with its large enterprise customers by creating single points of contact and focusing on providing solutions as opposed to delivering products. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. Insight Center.

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Effective Managers

JUNE 9, 2021

It can grow and mature together with other enterprises, many of which are driving the economic advances in those areas. I think of these organizational systems in three buckets: the structural elements such as business models, strategy and organization design. Effective Managers is an adherent of focusing on the whole enterprise.

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. How well does your business strategy support the fulfillment of your company’s purpose?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Originating from agile software development, the sprint has entered the business mainstream as an increasingly popular means to accelerate business model, product, or service innovation. Organizations have begun to realize that it can also be applied to a traditionally slow function: strategy. You and Your Team Series. Mark Bonchek.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 19, 2018

Inventive companies like Amazon and Tesla are constantly churning out new products and services, but there is something else that they, and other distinctive enterprises, are also in the business of producing: their version of leadership. Kenneth Anderssson for HBR.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 10, 2017

When doing research for our book , we found that the main reasons most companies suffer from this syndrome are that they make across-the-board cuts that are unconnected to their strategy, and fail to make the cuts sustainable. They put their money where their strategy is and continually cut bad costs and redirect resources toward good costs.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything,” wrote Paul Krugman more than 20 years ago. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. During much of this time, it has been shareholders, not workers, who have reaped the benefits of higher productivity.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Donnie’s media release states that “In Canada … not-for-profit institutions now contribute 8% of the country’s gross domestic product.” Loyal community members can provide the financial capital to keep the community going through donations and by buying products and services. What could have changed?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Business-critical roles — that is, the jobs that are central to differentiating a company from its competitors and successfully executing its strategy — will also change. This should lead to new strategies and, with them, new business-critical roles. Take insurance, for example. John Deere is a case in point.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

To take advantage, companies need to understand what AI can do and how it relates to their strategies. Thus many companies hired a VP of Electricity to help them organize their efforts and make sure each function within the company was considering electricity for its own purposes or its products. Follow history. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

Currently gaining force is a movement to focus for-profit enterprises more on the essential work of enriching societies — that is, benefiting not only those humans who are their owners as publicly traded companies but also those who work in them and who stand to benefit from more purpose-driven innovation.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Jetta Productions/Getty Images. has lost what Harvard Business School’s Willy Shih calls the “ industrial commons ”: indispensable production skills and capabilities. has lost what Harvard Business School’s Willy Shih calls the “ industrial commons ”: indispensable production skills and capabilities.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Most executives today know their enterprises should be aligned. They know their strategies, organizational capabilities, resources, and management systems should all be arranged to support the enterprise’s purpose. Maximizing economies of scale lies at the heart of McDonald’s product-centric business model.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 29, 2020

We regularly work with CEO’s that are frustrated with leader behaviors that undermine enterprise strategy. Simple financial measures, like P&Ls, are an effective way to visibly drive leader accountability, yet they frequently do not match the complexity of today’s strategies.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Economies of scope exist where a firm can produce two products at a lower per unit cost than would be possible if it produced only the one. In contrast, economies of scope is a lesser known concept particularly relevant to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) that may not have access to large markets or the ability to produce at scale.

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