Strategy Driven

MARCH 10, 2014

Good to Great was published in 2001 way before social media dominated the scene. Things like rundown hotels, lousy food in a restaurant, rude clerk in a retail store, long lines to be served, long waits on hold, not keeping up with technology, and poor management seem to be pervasive in our society. All rights reserved.

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Collins Customer Loyalty Reputation Competitive Advantage 61

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

In 1998, I advised the Disney corporation and reminded them that Walt Disney’s 100th birthday in 2001 would offer great marketing and positioning opportunities. Technology is but one tool of the trade. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Transition your focus from information to knowledge.

Case Study 50

Case Study Open-book Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Once again, it has started in the bowels of technology companies and startups. Engineers love continuous delivery environments because they can immediately see how their work adds value to the organization. Insight Center.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

Since the Expedition One launch to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2001 — the first long-duration stay on the orbital construction site — NASA’s Human Health and Performance team has been developing expertise in the planning and provision of medical support to crews staying in our world’s most remote environment.

Intangible Assets 10

Intangible Assets Operations Health Care Conference 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Disruptive technologies were terrorizing slow-footed competitors. Start-ups and incumbents alike sought better ways to adapt to the unfamiliar and turbulent environment. In 2001, 17 developers who called themselves “organizational anarchists” met in Snowbird, Utah, to share their ideas.

Agility 8

Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

Keep processes that encourage employees to question the status quo , to engage in observations in all types of environments, to network far and wide for ideas, and to experiment on a regular basis. Keep encouraging everyone at Apple to "think different" and reward those who do. He did this with the string of Apple "iProducts." Before A.G.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Restructuring Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

This work is still ongoing, but in 2011 Gigerenzer and his colleague Wolfgang Gassmaier wrote that heuristics are likely to do well in an environment with moderate to high uncertainty and moderate to high redundancy (that is, the different data series available are correlated with each another). What they found surprised them.

Simon 9

Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

In highly uncertain environments, failures are both useful and unavoidable. This hugely expensive venture (which I actually mention in the article) attempted to import Google's technology to the world of radio advertising and make money the same way the company does on the Internet. Google Catalogs (December 2001 to January 2009).

Succession 15

Succession Advertising Business Model Analysis 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2017

This is surprisingly old — such levels were reached in Japan from 1999–2003 and in Germany from 2001–2004. Japan adopted its Comprehensive Strategy on Science, Technology, and Innovation in 2013. The focus of this strategy is the environment, energy, health and medical care, and social challenges.

Innovation 8

Innovation GDP Health Care Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

In today's tumultuous environment, we believe that the work of sensing and responding to the market is too important to be left to random projects and a "volunteer army"; the processes of external sensing and driving enterprise-level integration needs to be designed, staffed, and owned just like all other processes.

Agility 8

Agility Process Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

In the book we're working on right now, we make the argument that capitalism is evolving because the environment in which it is situated is changing in fundamental ways. Regarding the latter, we point to some well-documented and broadly perceived shifts in the geography, demography, and technology of global economic activity.

Banking 11

Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

The original Napster was shut down in 2001, but its P2P heirs continue to share pirated files, and it paved the way for the rise of iTunes and Pandora — and the fall of Tower Records. Here's the big economic secret that we already know: 20th century institutions aren't fit for 21st century prosperity.

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GDP Hypercompetition IPO Information 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

As more and more firms copy each others' best practices, many of the remaining critical elements of the business environment are determined by governments. In the 1990s, the Clinton Administration pursued "open sectoral" multilateral agreements in information technology, telecommunications, and financial services. 50, February 2001).

Strategy 9

Strategy Globalization Politics Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

What has kept our standard of living one of the highest in the world is our ability to find new ways of doing things; invent exciting and disruptive technologies; and create captivating novel products, processes, and services that delight customers. In 2001, Xilinx's business drop like a rock.

Senge 8

Senge Engineering Innovation Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Microsoft is in the supposedly volatile technology sector. They’ve missed almost every technological breakthrough of the past decade — and yet they earned $237 billion in operating income from 2001 to 2013 working off a strategy that was in place in the mid-1990s. Empirically, this is simply not true.

Sull 9

Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Today’s successful companies close the strategy-to-performance gap with a new strategy approach best described as “Decide-Do/Refine-Do” This agile, test-and-learn approach is better suited to today’s tumultuous environment. Take Dell Technologies, for example. Webvan was forced to cease operations by 2001.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. By 2001, many charities that were still counting on pledged donations and found themselves left in a lurch (though it was also their fault for not casting other nets for funding and being too dependent upon Enron). All rights reserved.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 58

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2012

Business thinkers point to "domain expertise" as an enduring source of advantage in today's competitive environment. Academics and serious economists were dogmatically dedicated to the efficient market hypothesis — contributing to the inflation of an unprecedented credit bubble between 2001 and 2007.

Hammer 19

Hammer Real Estate Uncertainty Career 19

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

It’s achieved impressive results since being founded in 2001, and is run by a committee of about ten people. This works best when: The environment is changing rapidly. However, as digital technologies make it easier to work in a distributed manner, and we enter the social era , flat structures will become increasingly common.

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Case Study Committee Software Hamel 12