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Too Far Ahead of the IT Curve? (HBR Case Study)
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticlePeachtree Healthcare has major IT infrastructure problems, and CEO Max Berndt is struggling to find the right fix. He can go with a single set of systems... -
Creating Project Plans to Focus Product Development
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleThe long-term competitiveness of most manufacturers depends on their product development capabilities. Yet most companies' development process is unruly... -
Another Look at How Toyota Integrates Product Development
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleChallenged by world-class competitors, manufacturing companies in the United States have greatly improved their product development efforts as well as... -
Embracing Agile
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleOver the past 25 to 30 years, agile innovation methods have greatly increased success rates in software development, improved quality and speed to market,... -
Manage Your Team's "Dissensus"
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHave you ever been in a team meeting and wondered something like, "Why did the boss gave Jamie that assignment? I think Susan is a better match for the... -
Too Far Ahead of the IT Curve? (HBR Case Commentary)
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticlePeachtree Healthcare has major IT infrastructure problems, and CEO Max Berndt is struggling to find the right fix. He can go with a single set of systems... -
3 Project Management Strategies for a Hybrid Workplace
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleMake digital tools work for you - not against you. -
Performance Objectives
Strategy & Execution VideoCommunicate strategic objectives to employees and align their day-to-day activities to their high-level objectives. -
Creating Project Plans to Focus Product Development (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleThe long-term competitiveness of most manufacturers depends on their product development capabilities. Yet most companies' development process is unruly... -
Lessons from the Mayo Clinic on Using Data to Improve Surgical Outcomes
Operations and supply chain management Digital ArticleIts neurosurgery department built a dashboard to track quality of care, negotiate contracts, and inform conversations with patients. -
Put a Good Idea into Action
When strong project management is teamed with creative thinking and subject expertise, the result is greater than the sum of each part. -
You Can Manage Construction Risks
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleAlthough construction is one of the riskiest things any company will do, upper management often ignores the risk or treats it as if it's uncontrollable.... -
To Build an Agile Team, Commit to Organizational Stability
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleSeven evidence-based practices. -
Just Trying to Help (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleEvery year, at the annual summit of Ralston Crane's marketing group, Chief Marketing Officer Ruth McViney homes in on an important organizational objective.... -
Haste Makes Waste
Need to speed up process? Take the time to get it right. -
Failing by Design
Leadership Magazine ArticleUncertain environments call for experimentation. Here’s how to set up the trials—and learn from the errors. -
Performing a Project Premortem
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleIn a premortem, team members assume that the project they are planning has just failed--as so many do--and then generate plausible reasons for its demise.... -
How to Break Up with an Innovation Project
Innovation Digital ArticleIt can still be a positive experience for everyone. -
Four Paths to Business Model Innovation
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleDrawing on the idea that any business model is essentially a set of key decisions that collectively determine how a business earns its revenue, incurs... -
The Olympics as a Story of Risk Management
Strategy Digital ArticleThe colossal commitment to host the games comes with colossal risk management challenges.
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WillowTree: Project Driven with a Product Mindset
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details WillowTree began as a small digital products company in 2007. By 2020, it had more than 500 full-time team members operating out of offices in four locations,... -
The Challenge of Sharing Absolutely Everything: The Case of Le Manoir, an Income-Sharing Intentional Community (Part A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This three-part case focuses on Le Manoir, an income-sharing intentional community in the Gaspésie region. A self-managed, self-sufficient community,... -
Executing the Bogibeel Bridge for Social Impact: Risk Planning and Managing Earned Value
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details The case goes on to describe the enormous challenges involved in building the 4.94 km long Bogibeel Bridge in the North Eastern Region (NER) of India.... -
Clothes 'R' Us Point-of-Sale Initiative: Managing IT Programs
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details The case concerns a real $25 million program consisting of nine concurrent projects to deliver and implement a custom-built in-store customer relationship... -
HBR Guide to Managing Strategic Initiatives
Strategy & Execution Book21.95View Details Put strategy into action. Managing a successful strategic initiative may be the key to transforming your company--and propelling your career forward.... -
Performance Management at Afreximbank
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An Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Based Disruptive Innovation in Cataract Screening: The Case of E-Paarvai
Management Case Study8.95View Details This case examines the vital social problem of the rising incidence of cataracts in India, especially in the elderly population. It describes the design... -
The Challenge of Sharing Absolutely Everything: The Case of Le Manoir, an Income-Sharing Intentional Community (Part B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Case Supplement for Case HEC309 -
Harvest City: The Intelligent Procurement System Project
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The Harvest City case describes the implementation of a cloud- and IoT-based intelligent procurement system at a new convention complex in the U.S. Midwest.... -
A-Media Limited: Project Scheduling and Risk Management
Management Case Study8.95View Details On Thursday, July 13, 2017, the project manager and the chief executive officer for A-Media Limited were making a significant decision about their company.... -
Vueling's Mobile Strategy Takes Flight
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Vueling Airlines announced in 2014 that a larger percentage of its IT budget would be spent on mobile applications than on the website. However, the revenue... -
Changing the Landscape at Arcane: Pushback
Management Case Study5.00View Details Case Supplement for Case W29999 -
Integrated Project Delivery at Autodesk, Inc (C)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Describes Autodesk's engagement in Integrated Project Delivery-a new model of risk management, inter-firm teamwork, and multi-objective (aesthetic, cost,... -
Bus Uncle Chatbot - Creating a Successful Digital Business (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case study is set in September 2016 to April 2021. It describes how Abhilash Murthy used the Digital Product Management (DPM) framework to create... -
Shutout Solutions
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details After working together on a university business plan, two entrepreneurs had worked for three years to develop their venture: Shutout Solutions Inc. Their... -
Transforming Government Through Holacracy
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Companies are experimenting with novel forms of organization that distribute power to all workers and decrease or remove the role entirely of the traditional... -
BAE Automated Systems (A): Denver International Airport Baggage-Handling System
Technology & Operations Case Study9.95View Details Describes the events surrounding the construction of the BAE baggage-handling system at the Denver International Airport. It looks specifically at project... -
Vitreon Corp.: The Hyalite Project
Technology & Operations Case Study9.95View Details Considers decisions facing the leader of a manufacturing staff project team assigned to a plant where yields have deteriorated sharply. The process is... -
Agile Project Management
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details The note describes the basics of Agile Project Management as it is applied in areas beyond software development. After describing when agile management... -
Product Development at StubHub: Don't Stop Believin'
Management Case Study8.95View Details Arnie Katz, chief product and technology officer at StubHub (SH), was helping to lead a contest intended to result in innovative and valuable new ideas....
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Play@Work at Yonyou: A Warm Cultural Empowerment Tool, Teaching Note
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WillowTree: Project Driven with a Product Mindset
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details WillowTree began as a small digital products company in 2007. By 2020, it had more than 500 full-time team members operating out of offices in four locations,... -
The Challenge of Sharing Absolutely Everything: The Case of Le Manoir, an Income-Sharing Intentional Community (Part A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This three-part case focuses on Le Manoir, an income-sharing intentional community in the Gaspésie region. A self-managed, self-sufficient community,... -
Executing the Bogibeel Bridge for Social Impact: Risk Planning and Managing Earned Value
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details The case goes on to describe the enormous challenges involved in building the 4.94 km long Bogibeel Bridge in the North Eastern Region (NER) of India.... -
Clothes 'R' Us Point-of-Sale Initiative: Managing IT Programs
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details The case concerns a real $25 million program consisting of nine concurrent projects to deliver and implement a custom-built in-store customer relationship... -
HBR Guide to Managing Strategic Initiatives
Strategy & Execution Book21.95View Details Put strategy into action. Managing a successful strategic initiative may be the key to transforming your company--and propelling your career forward.... -
Performance Management at Afreximbank
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An Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Based Disruptive Innovation in Cataract Screening: The Case of E-Paarvai
Management Case Study8.95View Details This case examines the vital social problem of the rising incidence of cataracts in India, especially in the elderly population. It describes the design... -
The Challenge of Sharing Absolutely Everything: The Case of Le Manoir, an Income-Sharing Intentional Community (Part B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Case Supplement for Case HEC309 -
Too Far Ahead of the IT Curve? (HBR Case Study)
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticlePeachtree Healthcare has major IT infrastructure problems, and CEO Max Berndt is struggling to find the right fix. He can go with a single set of systems...
