LDRLB

JUNE 14, 2011

Tim ended the post with his theory: “Strategic planning is simply an invention to justify the existence of middle management, and not a useful tool for those doing the actual leading or for the guys at the bottom doing the real work.”. His project and product management skill set provide the process oriented mindset to drive this objective.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ryan Covey 104

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside.

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Media Blog Tools Influence 382

LDRLB

JUNE 14, 2011

Tim ended the post with his theory: “Strategic planning is simply an invention to justify the existence of middle management, and not a useful tool for those doing the actual leading or for the guys at the bottom doing the real work.”. His project and product management skill set provide the process oriented mindset to drive this objective.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ryan Covey 74

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

Peter Drucker (1909 – 2005) ‘Father of Modern Management’ and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2002 Email This Post | Print Post | Sign up for our Email Newsletter Speak Your Mind Tell us what youre thinking. and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar !

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Leadership Newsletter Drucker Strategic Planning 50

The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

A successful CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) is likely to have such MAPs as – strong motivation toward options (ie., Satisfy the motive and you will manage the behavior. Since 2002, Carl Harshman — Founder, Institute for Work Attitude and Motivation – has studied hundreds of business leaders’ MAPs. Future Orientation.

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Motivation Leadership McClelland Long-term 100

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Along the way, many defective tires hit the market, subsequently causing SUV rollovers, damage and, in some cases, deaths. Current management of both companies were ill-advised on handling the crises. K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 59

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

About 7 percent of the population wore eyeglasses in 2002, while whopping 65 percent of those in need did not have them. By using another innovation management best practice, they analyzed their system and found that the opticians themselves were the most expensive piece.

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Constraint Marketing Travel Innovation 15

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. Emotional control – successful anger and/or frustration management. Curiosity – inclination to learn.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

It takes tragedies occurring in order for the system to stand back, take focus and fix what is wrong. Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job. It’s a whole new world.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 60

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2013

Between 2002 and 2012, the shareholder return of the average airline company rose an uninspiring 5.6% Of the worst-performing industries between 1992 and 2002, almost 60% percent wound up in the top half in the most recent 10-year period. When you do that, it creates a disruption in the market that can work to your benefit.

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TSR Industry Company Airlines 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. It was very ‘old school’ (a management style that was 40 years obsolete), though it pretended to be ‘new school.’ It charged too much money and got away with it (because mid-managers but brand names of firms).

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

But in a world in which bringing managers in every year for a week of offsite training is so 1960s, how do you make the leadership development process relevant to the global economy? In growth markets like Kenya and Malaysia, people needed to develop marketing and innovation skills. people already had that experience.

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Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

The IT systems put in place specifically for the London Games must meet the needs of 200,000-plus members of the Olympic Family as well as the broadcasters to those four billion viewers worldwide. But the complexity of the project is not only a function of having to cover so many clients, sites, and systems.

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Committee Project Audience Information Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. Steve Jobs failed miserably at managing openness at Apple in the 1980s. Google Android quickly lost market share to the new versions.

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Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us.

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

This means using direct observation, conducting practical experiments, and engaging directly with evidence, rather than relying on opinion, whim, and analysis alone (and, as a prior management consultant, I would include pure market analysis void of testing in this category). Markets down? Market hype? Competition severe?

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Skills Leadership Airlines Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

After breaking even in 2002, net profits continued to rise, to 3.8 Capitec gets many things right in terms of its strategy, including its market positioning, internal operations, and organizational culture. This, however, is only after it has become firmly established in the South African market — and that is a point in itself.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

Companies have long developed and managed their sales people differently from other employees, placing great emphasis on individual performance. From 2002 to 2012, the impact of individuals’ task performance on unit profitability companywide decreased, on average, from 78% to 51%. In one account alone, the improvements have driven $3.5

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Team Metrics Compliance Attrition 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” have grown more concentrated in the past 20 years, meaning that the biggest firms in the industry are capturing a greater share of the market than they used to. What’s Driving Industry Concentration. IT Does Matter.

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Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

Over the past several years, PARC — spun off as an independent, wholly-owned subsidiary of Xerox in 2002 — has reinvented itself as a font of innovation for Xerox and a variety of other organizations worldwide. PARC fell off the innovation radar screen. government, and it does a brisk business in IP licensing.

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Innovation Business Model Wilde Brainstorming 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Industries with a higher share of IT workers saw more concentration between 2002 and 2007, even after controlling for M&A activity and several other variables. They document that physical investment (machines, factories, equipment) has declined relative to intangible investment (software, data, employee training, management).

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Document Industry Software Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Let's take another example: AT&T's acquisition of cable companies TCI, MediaOne and Cablevision (Boston only) for approximately $130 billion in 1999-2000 and its subsequent sale of the resultant AT&T Broadband to Comcast for $44 billion in 2002. It is difficult to destroy that much value in only two years! The logical propositions: 1.

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Strategy Construction Motivation Incentives 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

These investments included Nordstrom.com and a perpetual inventory system that allowed Nordstrom to offer a consistent multi-channel experience by 2002. First came a new point-of-sale system that included personal book software so that salespeople could track individual customer requests and needs online. Insight Center.

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Strategy Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

“Everyone who has worked with American management can testify that the need to satisfy the pension fund manager’s quest for higher earnings next quarter, together with the panicky fear of the raider, constantly pushes top managements toward decisions they know to be costly, if not suicidal, mistakes,” he wrote.

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Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

IBM has been building a talent system that both aligns with and accelerates this phenomenon of the external disaggregation of work. How talent management is changing. Development programs must evolve from a static, closed-system approach. Boundaryless or open-systems learning is the next step in this migration.

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Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

managers , he said the proportion of U.S. firms with structures organized around customers would grow from 32% to 52% as firms raced to build customer-centric organizations, and he interviewed companies including IBM and Systems Group that had announced customer-centric restructurings. In his 2006 survey of U.S.

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Restructuring Company Henderson Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

On August 1 Uber announced that it is selling its Chinese brand and operations to Didi Chuxing for $1 billion, its annual burn rate in that market, in exchange for a 20% stake in the local competitor. And in addition to tangible assets, one has to think about investments in people, systems, brands, and intangibles.

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Network Economy Globalization Discount Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

In addition to what a company is paid for, “these assumptions are about markets. Writing in 2002, the depths of the dot.com bust, she says that business models are “at heart, stories — stories that explain how enterprises work. They are about identifying customers and competitors, their values and behavior.

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Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

The key for every firm — regardless of size — is to figure out how to consistently create value in a demanding, ever-changing market. Back in 2002 , when Sam Palmisano took over, IBM had four main businesses each organized on a global basis: hardware, software, services,such as back-office outsourcing, and personal computers.

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Operations Innovation Industry CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% This economic growth has not only led to the development of a burgeoning middle-class in these markets, it has fueled an increase in the number of citizens actively engaging in philanthropy. growth in GDP.

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Globalization Venture Capitalist Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

As global companies focus their strategies on developed and emerging markets, they require substantial cadres of leaders capable of operating effectively anywhere in the world. America's higher education system is a magnet for talented leaders from all over the world. Coca-Cola has been a pioneer in developing global leaders.

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Competitive Advantage Globalization Development Intellectual Capital 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

We counter that managers who would see their businesses survive the next few decades of extreme economic volatility will need to develop some literacy about oil and its complex relationships with the economy. GDP in 2002 to a painful 9.8% Yergin's dismissal of these risks premature and repetitive. This, we submit, is impossible.

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Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

” We then collected nine years of play-by-play data (2002 – 2010), totaling almost half a million unique plays. technology), rivalry could be an important lever for managers to pull to incentivize risk-taking. They drive corporate strategy, marketing, and research and development, as well as individual investment decisions.

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Participative Rogers Influence Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

There was a spike in the 2000s when Venezuela began to provide petroleum at deeply discounted market prices, and that peaked just before the 2008-09 financial crisis. It is probably the best, most well-trained workforce at the cheapest labor-market price that any international investor could find anywhere in the world. But, oddly, U.S.

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Biotechnology Tourism Human Capital Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

While he was at Amazon from 1997-2002, Greg Linden prototyped a system for making personal recommendations for other products to customers as they checked out. Problem was, a marketing Senior Vice President thought these would distract customers from completing their purchase and didn't think Linden had proof it would work.

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Execution Education Long-term Guidelines 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Bill George is best-known as the former CEO of Medtronic, where the company's market cap grew from $1.1 Upon his retirement in 2002, Bill invented a new life and purpose (by making little bets, I might add shamelessly) to write and to teach. What other resources have you found useful in developing this system?

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Open-book Chemicals Chief Operating Officer Goleman 9