Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In 2004, there was a severe earthquake and subsequent tsunami that resulted in profound effects to several Asian countries, including India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Thailand and Indonesia. This is where technology can save the day. Today’s mobile autonomous robotic cart (MARC) technology takes automation a step further.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. In turn, top executives should provide direction on improvement priorities down to front-line workers. And top executives don't have good mechanisms to share their vision downward. But this is rare. In early 2010, Avery Dennison, a $6.5

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HR Digest

AUGUST 31, 2023

Allow workers not identified as executive, administrative or professional staff to get their time back. From 2004 to 2019, the department’s regulations ensured that for U.S. In today’s world, the use of technology is increasingly prevalent. The impact of technology is evident in many aspects of society.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

According to her story, a survey by executive-search firm Spencer Stuart found that about four out of five S&P 500 companies that chose a new CEO last year promoted insiders. That’s the highest proportion since the firm began conducting the survey in 2004, and a big increase since 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

So how do you sell a more expensive economy car, especially one with an unfamiliar, unproven technology? After the economy-focused first generation car proved the viability of the technology, Toyota had a core insight for the second generation car that cracked this conundrum. in a new way.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

For example, in 2004, Renault launched Logan, a small, no-frills family car. Building on Logan's success, Renault has now developed an entire line of low-cost vehicles (under the brand Dacia) all modeled after Logan's technology platform. Yet engineers and scientists love challenges. Ghosn recounts with humor how Dr. V.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Previously a straggling and struggling conglomerate, it bravely focused 100% on mobile communications, was an early adopter and driver of 2G technology, and quickly became a recognised world leader in both supply chain management and brand-building.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Most of the executives I meet with, regardless of their industry, now promote UX as key to their product strategy. For a designer like myself, it''s easy to recognize which executives know their products intimately, and which manage from a spreadsheet. UX, as user experience is known, is the new black in business culture. All of it.".

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

No wonder that a 2008 McKinsey survey found that only 20% of senior executives believe that their corporate philanthropy is effective in achieving social goals. It measures and holds itself accountable for changes in the way that teachers use information and communications technology in the classroom.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

But the Strava case is prescient as we continue to develop digital technologies that influence the emotions and impulses that make us so darned human. Andy O''Connell 38 Slides’ Worth What I Wish I Knew Before Pitching LinkedIn to VCs Reid Hoffman The year is 2004. Technology' So Sorry Want People to Trust You? Just asking.)

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

There was a heartening rally between 1996 and 2004, when growth returned to its 1950s/1960s levels of 3% — a performance almost universally attributed to the efficiency gains from information technology. company executives — except for smarter decisions on adoption of labor-saving technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

And we see many executives trying to take this advice to heart. But starting in the early 2000s, the advantages of scale were mostly eliminated, in large part because of globalization, deregulation, and the rise of digital technology. As business strategists, we see endless amounts of writing about how to achieve differentiation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

They haven't learned the lesson of Comair , whose legacy crew-scheduling software failed on Christmas Eve 2004, costing the company $20 million and stranding 200,000 passengers when 3,900 flights were delayed or canceled. Rather than try to educate the CEO about technology, focus on the portfolio of risks associated with the legacy system.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

However, new unreleased research from Spencer Stuart , a global executive search firm, suggests that we’re giving this sector short shift: There may be specific cases when a consulting background can actually boost company performance, even more so than a more traditional candidate.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

When Charles "Chuck" Schwab returned to the helm to turn around his troubled financial firm in 2004, for example, he installed such a system. The company's executive committee has embedded its scores in its Key Business Indicator reports. Today, the firm no longer suffers from informational imbalance.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

An executive decides on a different and better way to do things, and prepares a sales pitch that goes something like this: First: "We need to change. Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.)

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Beyond looking silly, the much bigger risk — the risk to the business — is that when we throw terms around imprecisely, we risk introducing confusion into the strategy we're trying to execute. technologies could be used on organizations' intranet and extranets". is too technological. Enterprise 2.0"

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

But both trade and political alignment lumbered slowly forward until the current quarter and many American executives had become flustered with their India initiatives. Ambassador to India from 2004 to 2009, was more successful in part because his long tenure enabled him to gain trust, respect and apply his learning effectively.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

In 2004, Michael Dell left the company, replaced by Kevin Rollins, a former Bain consultant who joined the company in 1996. As Lerner summed it up for me in an interview, "There seemed to be a pretty positive track record in terms of technology companies after buyouts.". By the mid 2000s, much of Dell''s competition had faded.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

This helped ALL's executives do four things: achieve alignment, adapt to local circumstances, foster coordination across units, and make better decisions. Strategies often falter in execution because of insufficient coordination across the organization. The team decided to adopt a simple-rules approach to the work ahead.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

On the one hand, new technologies have enabled neuroscience to discover that men and women tend to be wired differently in ways that incline men — can it be? Men on the job must feel besieged. Two seismic shifts are underway that are irrevocably changing the ways in which we've believed work works.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

We studied the German mobile-handset market during the feature-phone era of 2004-2008 — a dynamic period in which competition was about equipping devices with new functions such as photography. Although technologically advanced, this did not prove profitable and Motorola had launched little else to compensate.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

Cable executives think a lot about the feared-vs.-loved The first CableCARDs came out in 2004; since then the FCC has issued repeated rules changes aimed at getting the things to catch on. Customers Strategy Technology' loved tradeoff, I wager. But actually doing something about it, well, that''s too scary.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 1, 2014

Two more rovers followed in 2004. Spirit and Opportunity both landed successfully using the same airbag technology as Pathfinder. Rod also led leadership training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center for C-Suite executives. After a long night on Mars, the Sojourner rover made its way off the landing platform and into history.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

A few years ago one of the most vexing questions for marketing executives was whether big corporations were going to have to do what Bharti Airtel had done. Airtel’s move left many executives stunned. Rather than being destroyed by digital technology, they’re strengthened by it. The New Marketing Organization.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

Some of the failure is likely attributable to the fact that many company leaders, including executives, have what’s called marketing myopia —a nearsighted focus on selling products and services, rather than seeing the “big picture” of what consumers really want. Why is this? ” Take programmatic ad buying.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Compliance is crucial for pharmaceutical makers such as Abbott and Amgen – a “ Form 483 ” warning from an FDA inspector can shut down a drug facility in an instant and even land top executives in jail. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Norway was the first to adopt a quota for female board members (40%) in 2004. and European executive recruiters. ” Another male director, referring to board nominations on several technology companies, responded that “Not a single time was there a mention of hiring a woman — it was never brought up.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

They were talking about technology stocks, and they singled out Ciena. At that point we were a single technology company. We’d developed a technology that allowed companies to dramatically expand the capacity of existing fiber optic cable, so you could put more data through a network without digging up miles of fiber.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

One of the most significant came in early 2004 when we decided to relocate from San Francisco to Las Vegas. Two days after our executive team made the decision, we held a company meeting and announced the move. In the years since Zappos was founded, we’ve had to make some big decisions. We’ve also expanded far beyond shoes.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

But as Apple’s profits multiplied from 2004 through 2011, it was clear that, as you now call it, “ return of capital ” to shareholders was not a pressing priority for Mr. Jobs. And, legitimized by MSV, a prime way in which corporate executives fuel this hope is by doing massive stock buybacks. I disagree with this priority.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

As recently as March 2015, for instance, Rebecca Homkes and Don and Charles Sull said in “ Why Strategy Execution Unravels – and What to Do About it ”: “Since Michael Porter’s seminal work in the 1980s we have had a clear and widely accepted definition of what strategy is.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

But in an age when Google and Facebook — founded in 1998 and 2004, respectively — are two of the biggest companies in the world, those days are over. To help bring cool new technology to the world? “Startups are no longer niche; they have gone mainstream,” says Daniel Gulati, coauthor of Passion & Purpose.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

After a few weeks of watching no click throughs, Kaufer executed his second pivot: a cost per click model (now known as CPC). The company agreed to be acquired by Expedia/IAC in 2004 for $210 million in cash , a huge win for all, particularly given their amazing capital efficiency: they had only raised $4 million in venture capital.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

When people think of mentoring, they often think of an older executive counseling a young upstart. In their book, The 2020 Workplace , Meister and Willyerd talk about reverse mentoring in which a more junior person advises a senior person on things like new technology. But mentoring has changed a lot in the last few decades.

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