Coaching Tip

APRIL 19, 2016

Fast forward to the early 1990s and a new disruptive technology appeared in Kodak’s market: digital photography. In 2004, Kodak shed 25% of its workforce and was de-listed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The impact of this failure to reframe was dramatic.

Leadership 70

Leadership Film Reputation eBook 70

Mills Scofield

APRIL 29, 2019

Blue Lobster at the South Bristol Coop , 2004. They think they’re innovative because they make something in green instead of just red, but they stick with their industries, markets, customers, and (usually dying) business models. What’s with blue lobsters? Well, a blue lobster is rare, about 1 in 2 million , and very beautiful.

Innovation 91

Innovation Stage-Gate Blanchard Social Capital 91

Women on Business

OCTOBER 1, 2012

This gives you an instant marketing presence in front of potential clients. Decide how marketing activities will be initiated between partners such as handing out marketing material at various networking functions, exchanging banners and links on websites or share a big marketing project. Learn from industry leaders.

Strategy 226

Strategy Mentor Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 226

Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Bill George – He has taught leadership since 2004 and is a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, where. Dorie Clark – Dorie is a marketing strategy consultant, professional speaker, and frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, TIME, Entrepreneur, and the World Economic Forum blog.

Porter 150

Porter Christensen Consultative Influence 150

LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2012

Take the time to look at other industries. You’ll be surprised what you can learn and how that information can affect your own business or industry. But look at the opportunities – online marketing, social media, niche products and services, specialization, the list goes on. Mine was marketing.

Entrepreneur 154

Entrepreneur Bureaucracy Brand Creativity 154

Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Information gathering and analytics acumen that looks externally at markets, competition, and the company’s reputation, and internally at the organization’s culture, teams, and performance levels. But in October 2004, private equity firm Behrman Capital bought out the founder for $200 million.

Leadership 217

Leadership CEO Planning Long-term 217

Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 5, 2019

His life took a turn in 2004 and he “managed to taper off the drugs.” That said, there is a related piece that needs to be addressed: Healthcare is an industry that desperately needs to improve the cultures of its organizations, big and small. Photo by Online Marketing on Unsplash.

P&L 150

P&L Stress Self-aware Human Needs 150

LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2012

Take the time to look at other industries. You’ll be surprised what you can learn and how that information can affect your own business or industry. But look at the opportunities – online marketing, social media, niche products and services, specialization, the list goes on. Mine was marketing.

Entrepreneur 92

Entrepreneur Bureaucracy Brand Creativity 92

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Matt Sweetwood, branding expert, defines personal branding as: " Personal branding is the practice of people marketing themselves and their careers as brands -- the ongoing process of establishing a prescribed image or impression in the mind of others about an individual." Your personal brand is the mark you leave on the world. .

Brand 68

Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Senior industry leader adds hands-on management and operational experience to StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities focused advisory services. At StrategyDriven, we’re proud to be working with industry leaders to address these challenges and adapt their organizations so they continue to operate safely, reliably, and efficiently.”.

Chief Executive Officer 50

Chief Executive Officer Execution Operations Asset Management 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

They prove that the most economically disadvantaged people on the planet create a great market for social entrepreneurs – AND provide a terrific testing ground for innovation and cost control. Children can get better grades; parents can start cottage industries. This can be part of your strategy. 656,952 tons of CO2 offset.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Prahalad Open-book 50

Deming Institute

DECEMBER 14, 2017

A product or a service possesses quality if it helps somebody and enjoys a good and sustainable market. Forty years later, in 2004, Shoichiro Toyoda was honored with the Deming Medal from the American Society for Quality. Post by Bill Bellows. The basic problem anywhere is quality. What is quality? Edwards Deming.

Quality 48

Quality Deming Ohno System 48

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Earlier this year, I received some lessons on what wins in frontier markets from former Coca Cola CEO Neville Isdell. Young markets need a long investment horizon," Neville told me. He''s a firm believer that many US firms struggle in frontier markets because they''re compelled to a short term view. You''re wasting my money''".

Long-term 8

Long-term Marketing Short-term Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

In 2004, Apple's CFO, Fred Anderson, left the company. There are other markets waiting to be disrupted, for sure. If Apple is to maintain the level of success it's achieved in the past 15 years, it may need to enter those industries in the next 15. Not unlike, say, Apple's entrance into the mobile phone industry.

Marketing 11

Marketing Stage-Gate Advertising Price 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

You''re CEO of a once great company, now beleaguered on all sides by competitors and a rapidly changing industry. And last year, he decided that the answer was to take the company private, to escape the hectoring of the public market. How do you get back on top? For more background on the potential deal, click here.) So will it work?

Rivkin 15

Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Yelp has expanded rapidly since it was founded in 2004 in San Francisco. Although my research focused on restaurants, it's likely that Yelp and other consumer-review sites are helping (or have the potential to help) independent businesses in a variety of industries, from retailers to tax preparers to tutors to dental practices.

Retail 14

Retail Mass Marketing Comparison Advertising 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

That’s the highest proportion since the firm began conducting the survey in 2004, and a big increase since 2012. The reasons were straightforward: An outsider often did not know the industry or its suppliers, customers, or competitors, nor did they know the capabilities of the company and its people.

CEO 8

CEO Automotive Survey Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

Why is there is a cottage industry of executive search firms focusing on “reverse board searches,” where they proactively work to place executives on outside corporate boards? In an effort to explore executives’ motivations for serving on boards, we looked at how board service is evaluated in the executive labor market.

Execution 9

Execution P&L CEO COO 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The electronics giant had seemingly lost its dominant position in the gaming console market, with the Nintendo Wii’s surprise success overshadowing the more powerful but pricier PS3. Few product releases are as hotly anticipated, fiercely competitive, or widely debated as those that keep the console wars waging. Learn From Your Mistakes.

Strategy 12

Strategy Price Case Study Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

They get stuck making incremental improvements that are rooted in existing competencies, markets, and business models. Toyota had industry survey data showing that customers said they would pay up to 20% more for hybrid cars. When combined with a smart marketing campaign, the car became a symbol of the whole environmental movement.

Core Competence 14

Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Brand 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

Companies that can successfully implement Continuous Development throughout their organization will find dramatic strategic benefits, including: Faster time-to-market. And that satisfaction leads to a more attractive work environment in a competitive talent market. Continuous Development is a growing trend in the software industry.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2012

Li Jiaxiang , Chairman of Air China from 2004 to 2008 and the #1 performing corporate leader in China according to our new ranking (just published in the Harvard Business Review China and the centerpiece for the magazine's launch events in Beijing and Shanghai). Our measure is objective, using stock market data as opposed to reputation.

Long-term 13

Long-term Short-term Globalization Reputation 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

After all, he has asserted since 2004 that global oil production was nothing to worry about, and that there would be few effects on the economy. Conventional crude ended its 150-year-long growth trajectory in 2004 and flattened out around 74 million barrels per day. And we must correct some of Mr. Yergin's assertions.

Price 9

Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2017

The usual argument is that our peculiar mix of government policies, private health insurance markets, and the design of public health insurance have produced a health care system that, in the words of economists Alan Garber and Jonathan Skinner , is “uniquely inefficient.” ” Does this sound familiar?

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Insurance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. Take steel.

Bond 8

Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

The companies we surveyed – in 13 manufacturing and service industries in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America – are using AI much more frequently in computer-to-computer activities and much less often to automate human activities. How it will impact business, industry, and society. Insight Center.

Company 12

Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

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. Samsung, a classic pioneer in the handset market, also had a successful year in 2006.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Incentives Innovation Follow-up 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. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

The center of gravity for jobs, wealth, and market opportunities is moving, disrupting the world economic order as we have known it. In 2011, for the third year in a row, the Euromonitor International market research firm ranked Haier as the top appliance brand in the world, calculated its retail volume share as 7.8

Globalization 15

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Flooding in 2011 in Thailand, harmed 160 companies in the textile industry and halted nearly a quarter of the country’s garment production, increasing global prices by 28%.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

If you're among the many multinational CEOs planning to appoint a local executive as your next country head in an emerging market such as Brazil, China, or India, you may want to think again. Knowing the market and possessing networks are important, but that's not all your company needs for success today.

Globalization 8

Globalization CEO Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

What we found surprised us: Companies that are great at both strategy and execution don’t follow the prevailing practices of their industries. They avoid getting trapped on a growth treadmill, chasing multiple market opportunities where they have no right to win. .” First, these companies commit to an identity.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Fashion Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2011

Bergfors acknowledges that industry-wide climate-friendly beef is still a long way off, so Max Burgers plants trees in Africa to offset its carbon footprint. In 2004, a golden marketing opportunity came along with the launch of the documentary Supersize Me , which followed director Morgan Spurlock as he ate only McDonald's food for 30 days.

Strategy 14

Strategy Brand Marketing Company 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The beauty of these vans, and the reason I believe they’ve been dreamt up by managers in very different businesses, is that they perform a wide variety of marketing functions. This has helped cement the manufacturer’s brand as the most safety-minded player in the industry. Customer service Marketing Sales'

B2B 8

B2B B2C Education Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2011

Yesterday HP announced that it would exit the PC and tablet computer business , focusing on higher-margin "strategic priorities of cloud, solutions and software with an emphasis on enterprise, commercial and government markets." Consider how HP and Apple faced the changes in the PC market almost exactly a decade ago. •On

Software 9

Software Maturity Resistance Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

An example of strategic burnout can be found at Lego around 2004. An example of strategic boredom is illustrated in Clayton Christensen’s famous work on the disk-drive industry. Leading disk-drive manufacturers found it nearly impossible to maintain their success when the technology and market structure began to change.

Strategy 8

Strategy Strategic Planning Stress Hamel 8

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. Rackspace went public in 2008 — shortly before the financial markets went belly up. In short, it is their primary management system. Accounts with declining scores saw revenue fall by 24%.

Customer Loyalty 13

Customer Loyalty Loyalty CEO Intellectual Capital 13