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Make Your Strategy More Agile
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Simplify Outdated Corporate Processes
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Must Finance and Strategy Clash?
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleMarketers and finance people seldom see eye to eye. The makers say, “This product will open up a whole new market segment.” Finance people respond, “It’s a bad investment. The IRR is only 8%.” Why are they so often in opposition? The financial criteria used to decide if a project will be profitable are entirely […] -
How to Make Sure Agile Teams Can Work Together
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Why Cross-Functional Collaboration Stalls, and How to Fix It
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The Biggest Mistake You (Probably) Make with Teams
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThroughout most of my career, I've made a big mistake in the way I've lead teams - and wouldn't be surprised if you have, too. Which is more important... -
Marketing Performance—What Do You Expect?
Project management Magazine ArticleA good plot, good friends, and full of expectation; an excellent plot, very good friends. Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I Special Report When trying to assess performance, there is no business function top executives worry about more than marketing. Most of them look at the marketers in their companies as something between vacuum-cleaner salespeople […] -
The Conflict Resolution Skills Every Project Manager Needs
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How Corporate Investors Can Improve Their Odds
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What Sort of Checklist Should You Be Using?
Time management Digital ArticleLike zillions (or at least tens and tens of thousands) of other non-surgeons, I’ve been reading Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto. It’s a wonderfully entertaining and thought-provoking book. (If you want the short version, you can listen to HBR’s Katherine Bell interviewing Gawande here.) Gawande convincingly makes the case that medicine — in particular surgery […] -
Why Bad Projects Are So Hard to Kill
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleEven at the prototype stage, experts were saying the technology was obsolete. Yet, in the face of tepid consumer response, the company stubbornly kept... -
Does Your Project Have a Purpose?
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ABCs of the Critical Path Method
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe critical path method (CPM), one of a variety of quantitative tools for business decision-making, is a simple technique for analyzing, planning, and... -
The Biggest Lie in Corporate America Is Phase 2
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleSoftware development is a frenzied decathlon of activity, constantly pressed on all sides by resource constraints, budgets and deadlines. Many items originally... -
Four Ways to Exceed Clients' Expectations
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleWhen it comes to pleasing clients, there's no substitute for high-quality work and a cooperative attitude. After all, that's what you're being paid for.... -
6 Questions to Ask Before Starting a Big Project
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A Film Director’s Approach to Managing Creativity
Managing people Magazine ArticleWhen someone mentions a film unit, most people think of location shooting—depending on their generation it’s either Robert Shaw duelling the shark off Martha’s Vineyard or John Wayne and the U.S. cavalry charging through Death Valley! But, in fact, most major films are made in a series of predictable phases, of which shooting is only […] -
Meetings That Work: Plans Bosses Can Approve (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe plan meeting is where a project becomes real; it is where people make the decision to go forward with an idea or not. Yet managers often overload...
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The Premamrutha Dhaara Project: A Sustainable Drinking Water Solution with Social Impact
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Access to clean water is so critical for development and survival that the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal number 6 (SDG-6) was to ensure... -
The Year in Tech, 2024: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
22.95View Details A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech--all in one place. Generative AI, Web3, neurotech, reusable rockets to power the space economy--new technologies... -
Cathay Pacific (B): Implementing an Integrated e-Freight Solution
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Strategy Execution Module 11: Using Diagnostic and Interactive Control Systems
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This module reading introduces diagnostic and interactive control systems. Diagnostic control systems are the management-by-exception systems that managers... -
Project Definition: Using the Logical Framework
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details The document presents the basics of the Logical Framework Approach (LFA), a methodology to ensure that the most critical parts of a project are well defined... -
Eurotunnel: Eyes Wide Shut
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Through the example of the high-profile Eurotunnel project, the case shows how important contracts and agreements are in project management. Seen through... -
The Baminica Power Plant Project: What Went Wrong and What Can Be Learned
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details This case describes a series of events over an eight-year period involving a power plant project in the Caribbean. An executive from the project developer,... -
IBM: The Iterative Software Development Method
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details This case follows IBM's use of iterative software development to manage projects. The head of IBM's Rational Product Development is asked by the head... -
UK Government Digital Service: Moving Beyond a Website
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details In 2011, the UK founded a new government agency known as the "Government Digital Service" (or GDS). Facing significant budget challenges, several high... -
A Project Management Methodology
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details This technical note presents a project management methodology for managers. The methodology is applied over the course of the main phases of the project... -
Nestle's Globe Program (C): "Globe Day"
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China Sourcing Group: Delivering on Time
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In 2004, U.S.-based China Sourcing Group, which specialises in premium and gift products, established a sourcing office in Shanghai. The Shanghai office... -
Agile: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
22.95View Details More than a buzzword, agile is a powerful business tool for all. To the uninitiated, agile is a software development and project management process involving... -
Reinventing Project Management: The Diamond Approach to Successful Growth and Innovation
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Business-driven Research at IBM Research India
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details What is the right mix between business-driven and pure research? This case considers the question in the setting of IBM Research India, where a management... -
Transport Solutions: TCS Helps its Transformation to an Agile Enterprise
Management Case Study11.95View Details Transport Solutions was a global travel services company with headquarters in the United Kingdom (UK). It had a matrix organization design with 5 lines... -
University Hospital: The Joint EP/CATH Lab Decision
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Health care management requires careful planning for efficient operations, in an environment where technology, best practices, and patient demands continue... -
Mat MacGregor (A)
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HBR Guide to Collaborative Teams
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HP 3D Printing (C)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details In the 2010?s, one of HP?s divisions located Barcelona, Spain, decided to enter into the 3D printing business under an OEM contract. The division was...
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The Premamrutha Dhaara Project: A Sustainable Drinking Water Solution with Social Impact
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Access to clean water is so critical for development and survival that the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal number 6 (SDG-6) was to ensure... -
Make Your Strategy More Agile
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIncorporate vision and improvisation. -
The Power of Small, Flexible Teams
Ed Gilligan, president of American Express Company, describes how a small, cross-functional team launched Small Business Saturday in three weeks. -
When Confidence Helps Project Managers - and When It Gets Them into Trouble
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleLessons from the spectacular success and crushing failure of the architect of the Suez Canal. -
The Year in Tech, 2024: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
22.95View Details A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech--all in one place. Generative AI, Web3, neurotech, reusable rockets to power the space economy--new technologies... -
Cathay Pacific (B): Implementing an Integrated e-Freight Solution
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details This case is designed as the second part of a two-part case study on Cathay Pacific's cargo operations, but it can be used separately on a stand-alone... -
Simplify Outdated Corporate Processes
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThree principles to help you bring order to chaos. -
Strategy Execution Module 11: Using Diagnostic and Interactive Control Systems
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This module reading introduces diagnostic and interactive control systems. Diagnostic control systems are the management-by-exception systems that managers... -
Must Finance and Strategy Clash?
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleMarketers and finance people seldom see eye to eye. The makers say, “This product will open up a whole new market segment.” Finance people respond, “It’s a bad investment. The IRR is only 8%.” Why are they so often in opposition? The financial criteria used to decide if a project will be profitable are entirely […] -
Project Definition: Using the Logical Framework
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details The document presents the basics of the Logical Framework Approach (LFA), a methodology to ensure that the most critical parts of a project are well defined...