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Management Tools For Leaders: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy

Rich Gee Group

History: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean is a strategy developed by W. Blue Ocean Strategy — Make The Competition Irrelevant — create demand not currently in existence, rather than fighting over it — a new marketplace that hasn’t been explored/developed. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, professors at INSEAD. Be the Big Fish in the pond.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x This paper is about rethinking the practice of leadership and reforming the way we approach the development of leaders and leadership in our organizations. Unprepared leaders develop work-arounds. revenue increase for companies with high engagement levels. Next Practices.

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Estonia Highlights The Progress Made With Government-As-A-Platform

The Horizons Tracker

Since then, great strides have been made in digitizing various aspects of public services, with the European Commission providing an eGovernment Benchmark to help governments measure their progress. When it comes to developing government as a platform, nations have generally taken slightly unique approaches. Digitizing government.

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Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 1 of 4

Strategy Driven

Business development. Benchmarking the progress made and communicate it outside the community. There have been far-reaching business after-effects from the attacks on September 11, 2001. Losses reported by the airline industry for 2001 compare to an operating profit of $7 billion and a net profit of almost $3 billion in 2000.

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A Framework for Strategists Assessing Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

For instance, ever since Goldman Sachs coined the term BRIC, China and India have pulled ahead of Brazil and Russia, whose growth fell below the group average between 2001 and 2013. Between 2001 and 2014, for instance, Mexico’s rank slipped from 35 to 53; Bangladesh’s from 65 to 130; and Nigeria’s from 94 to 147.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

Business development. So were professional development programs, rewards for random acts of kindness and other empowerment initiatives. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. Without Strategic Planning, there is no benchmarking of specific tactics. Accounting.

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Corporate Universities Should Reflect a Company’s Ideals

Harvard Business Review

If the number of executives from other companies who have been benchmarking GE’s management-development centers is an indication, interest in creating corporate universities is on the rise. At GE, we use our corporate university to “inspire, connect, and develop.”