Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. Final Request… The strength of our community grows with the additional insights brought by our expanding member base.

Supply Chain 57

Supply Chain Retail Bottom-up Newsletter 57

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. New technologies and socioeconomic trends are reshaping the retail marketplace. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

Resources 50

Resources Newsletter Retail Strategic Planning 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

As of February 28, 2013, the company claims: 13,638,438 “lives empowered”. Now, a completely different industry: wholesale food components and retail baking. Located in economically depressed Yonkers, NY, the company was the first in New York State to achieve B Corp certification. The lamp becomes a ladder out of poverty.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Prahalad Open-book 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 10, 2014

In many instances, companies did go from good to great – or at least from good to very good. The key is these companies sought improvement. It revolves around self-assessment, an agreed-upon game plan of action, measurable results, and an overall spirit that includes individual work, teamwork, and remarkable leadership.

Collins 54

Collins Customer Loyalty Reputation Competitive Advantage 54

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Both industrial, machine-like robots and digital, computerized robots have revolutionized the way companies operate. A higher demand for products and services compels businesses to require even more staff to fill customer service, data analytical, retail, financial, and other functional roles. About the Author. All rights reserved.

Engineering 50

Engineering Process BPM Taylorism 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 27, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. The increase in private sector jobs suggests that retail and factory jobs will continue to climb. Health insurance costs for small businesses increased from 1999 to 2007. Juliano Howard T.

Uncertainty 57

Uncertainty Insurance Newsletter Incentives 57

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Why do you have a shiny card with a printed message and foil stamped company signature – and NOTHING personal? The bad news is it’s so full of retail shopping incentives, mobs of people, and ‘today only deals’ that the festivity of Thanksgiving is somewhat lost in the shuffle. Leadership words that need to be banned.

Mission Statement 58

Mission Statement Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Library 58

Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2013

NOTE WELL: Every major company has a mobile app so you can easily access their stuff. Here’s my present situation and what I’m going to be doing to ensure my leadership position for the next decade: I have an app. Mobile accessibility both for the purpose to connect and to purchase is becoming dominant among retailers.

Download 56

Download Customer Loyalty Seminar Media 56

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Granted, the personalities, quirks, and antics of the employees of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company are taken to extremes, but we find them funny largely because they’re true. Oh – and if you’re interviewing someone from a company that went caput, make sure that the interviewee’s attitude didn’t contribute to the downfall.

Motivation 52

Motivation Management How To Retail 52

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Performance measurement typically drives much of the way a large company works. Supplementing profits with ROIC and revenue growth is a step in the right direction to ensure that the profits a business earns are actually creating value, not simply over-consuming capital that another company could better deploy.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Strategy Driven

JUNE 9, 2014

Not just your company and your products – you personally. EXAMPLES: Retail sales, banking, trading stocks, buying cars, traveling, and, most important, the ability to research the opinions and outcomes of others. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN A PRISTINE REPUTATION. Then stay there.

Customer Loyalty 63

Customer Loyalty B2C Reputation CRM 63

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

Companies that grow face a predictable problem: over time, the business becomes way too complex for its own good. I see this a lot in companies that have moved heavily into what I call the “exploitation” phase of a competitive advantage , or the phase that comes after the initial launch and successful ramp-up.

Company 8

Company Competitive Advantage Bureaucracy Retail 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Michael Hammer and Lisa Hershman provide the tools for focusing on work that creates real value for customers, including: How to get people to move from ‘worm’s-eye view’ of thier jobs to a ‘bird’s-eye view’ – to understand what the company really does and the role they have in achieving results.

Hammer 50

Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. One retail CTO summed it up well at a recent SAS event when he said, “We don’t want to just struggle through and be hanging by our fingertips when the economy recovers. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

Real Estate 66

Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Rajesh Setty

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. She has a particular interest in Media and Retail companies and their transition to a Web-centric world. Posted in the Leadership category. HELLO THERE AND WELCOME.

Entrepreneur 28

Entrepreneur Licensing Newsletter Books 28

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

This non-traditional, gung-ho guide is not afraid to lay out the leadership methods that can effectively get a new business off the ground, and through the requisite fast-track growth phases that produce tangible success measured by your bottom line and your wallet. billion sale in his 16 years as CEO Beating the competition is never easy.

Bottom-up 50

Bottom-up Sharpe Follow-up Retail 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

In September, the company expects to begin shipping its all-electric Model 3 to non-employee customers, who have already logged 500,000 pre-orders. This despite the fact that the company lost nearly two billion dollars in the past two years alone. There’s little argument that Tesla is a wildly innovative company.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 10

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

Brand 66

Brand Globalization Banking Long-term 66

Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Know your values… as an individual and as a company. Don’t go it alone… reach out for support through peer groups, coaches and other experts who can help you build your personal resilience and support you in your leadership. Expect change… when you expect change, you can plan for it and you will be prepared to react when times shift.

COO 34

COO Crisis Management Crisis Blog 34

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

The news wasn''t terribly surprising as 2012 had been a challenging year: sales were down by $4.3B, the company lost close to $1B, and its stock price dropped by more than 50%. Just as important, Johnson was trying to significantly change the retailer''s merchandise offerings and hence, its customer base. So now what should J.C.

Merchandising 8

Merchandising Discount Retail Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Companies that claim to be “transforming” seem to be everywhere. Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. Core r epositioning.

Franchising 14

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

As a leadership strategy, mindfulness helps people to be more effective by directing focus to the most pertinent task at hand. Google’s most popular mindfulness course, “Search Inside Yourself,” offered since 2007, has thousands of alumni. The mindfulness training is open to all employees at several company locations.

Emotional Intelligence 8

Emotional Intelligence Stress Participative Retail 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 28, 2015

I kept the logs and learned about the music, the record companies, the composers and much more. That was a cue for the studio DJ to play a commercial for the Career Shop, a clothing retailer. This holds true for any company-organization and for any person. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Pryor 50

Pryor Mentor Learning-by-Doing Audience 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

At some point most executive teams will make a bet-the-company decision. Southwest’s decision in 2007 to hedge against increases in the price of jet fuel proved remarkably prescient. In the popular mind, there’s a lot of luck and inspired leadership behind successful choices like Southwest’s. Most business problems are complex.

Hedge 8

Hedge Restructuring Execution Download 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2013

In 2007, I wrote a case study for Harvard Business Review , “ Boss, I Think Someone Stole our Customer Data.” Now six years later, an actual event has occurred that is eerily similar to that fictional scenario: a trusted retailer’s point-of-sale system security was breached and a large amount of customer data may be compromised.

Crisis 8

Crisis How To Crisis Management Media 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

It's been nearly a year since Nokia CEO Stephen Elop shot off his burning platform memo as a way of shaking up the phone company's leadership. In 2007, for instance, when Amazon introduced the original Kindle, it was far from clear whether e-readers would ever catch on in a big way. The book retail platform was not yet burning.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA How To Crisis Depreciation 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Ford Motor Company and the Firestone Tire Company had partnered and collaborated for almost 100 years, stemming from ties of their founders. In the 1980s, Bridgestone Tire Company purchased Firestone. Any company or organization is like a tree. Retail stores are about more than just storefront locations.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. What did 2010 look like for you and your company? But there’s only one that really matters: Did your company effectively execute its plans and initiatives? Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

Corporate executives must develop themselves for the next level and to be useful to their companies and communities in the future. This is a primer for executives and the heirs apparent to company leadership. Any company or organization is like a tree. Many books have been written on the subject of leadership.

Business Development 51

Business Development Development Learning-by-Doing Ethics 51

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

Any company or organization is like a tree. None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). Of the companies who continue to operate without a plan, 40% of them will be out of business in the next 10 years. 35% of employees steal from the company.

Budgeting 85

Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 85

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

A major oil company had a plant explosion and proceeded to do a good job of communicating afterwards. Thus, lawsuits flew in the company’s face. Any company or organization is like a tree. None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company).

Crisis Management 81

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 81

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 10, 2011

This non-traditional, gung-ho guide is not afraid to lay out the leadership methods that can effectively get a new business off the ground, and through the requisite fast-track growth phases that produce tangible success measured by your bottom line and your wallet. billion sale in his 16 years as CEO Beating the competition is never easy.

Innovation 50

Innovation How To Retail Motivation 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At any given moment, about 5%–7% of companies either are in free fall or are about to be. And here’s a sobering fact: Only about 10%–15% of those companies will ever pull out of it. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Any company or organization is like a tree. None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). Dedicated providers of the service stated in the original company mission become frustrated when they don’t understand the reasons for shifting priorities.

Strategic Planning 71

Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 71

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Starting as a door-to-door salesman, raising to Vice President of Sales for Universal Gypsum, and ultimately a board of director for several large companies including Coca-Cola, Farley believed that doing several things at once was the key to accomplishment. retail store chain owner) Principle: Strive for a specific goals.

Hotels 50

Hotels Customer Loyalty Advertising Benchmarking 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

The insightful companies examine their own backyards… applying the discussions, uncoverings and applicabilities to how they will better manage in the future. Any company or organization is like a tree. Companies had to overcome the poorly handled crises, as well as mount their own proactive strategies. by Hank Moore.

Crisis 60

Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 60

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2015

Starting as a door-to-door salesman, raising to Vice President of Sales for Universal Gypsum, and ultimately a board of director for several large companies including Coca-Cola, Farley believed that doing several things at once was the key to accomplishment. retail store chain owner) Principle: Strive for a specific goals.

Hotels 50

Hotels Advertising Customer Loyalty Follow-up 50