Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

For well over a century managers have achieved increasing productivity on ever larger scales by dividing and subdividing work into smaller and smaller units. The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance.

Hammer 50

Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The Great Recession of 2007 to 2009 was under way. In the United Kingdom, reforms have gone so far as to require banks to separate their investment banking activities from their retail divisions in the near future to protect depositors. Investment bank Bear Stearns collapsed. Lehman Brothers toppled.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Bottom-up Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. Sustaining innovation inhabits the world of incremental change, deliberate strategy , and most financial and management theory. Disruptive innovation Finance' New-market disruption is more complex.

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Discounted Cash Flow 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Some companies that made the list were obvious choices; for example, the biggest online retailer now gets most of its profit from cloud services (Amazon). We see an interesting pattern across the professionally managed companies, those whose CEOs were hired by the board. Today this unit accounts for 29% of revenue.

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 13

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 29, 2014

produced between 115,000 to 210,000 net new private-sector establishments each year from 2001 to 2007. The number of private-sector business establishments grew just 2 percent from 2009 to 2012 after growing 12 percent from 2001 to 2007. One company can have multiple establishments (e.g., Net new business establishments in the U.S.

Real Estate 97

Real Estate Health Care Insurance Construction 97

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Shipment volumes through North American ports, which fell 20% in 2009 from a record peak in 2007, are now higher than they were in 2007, and port-expansion plans from Vancouver to Los Angeles/Long Beach are bogged down by political wrangling. Then the recession hit, and the problem receded as port traffic slowed.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Since the term was coined in 2007 , impact investing — the idea that private capital can be deployed to alleviate pressing social needs like access to clean water, affordable housing or preventative healthcare while returning a financial profit — has attracted significant public and media attention.

Banking 8

Banking Commitment Class Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

I met Slovenian entrepreneur, Sandi Cesko, in 2007 when his Ljubljana -based multi-channel retail operation, Studio Moderna , had about $70 million in sales. For you entrepreneurs, the challenges of scale-up are first and foremost the responsibility of managements and boards. It is hell to manage.". Even better.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2017

Many online retailers are also starting to use a co-browsing function. You manage to get the customer onto your site, they fill their cart with all the products they want, get to the checkout page, and then poof! Copyright 2007-2017 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Keep an Eye on the Checkout. Photo courtesy of Pixabay.

Tips 50

Tips B2C B2B FAQ 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

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. This book states the case for more of a macro-focused approach to management. Retailers make 70% of their earnings in the fourth quarter of each year.

Ethics 59

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

After Jacobs' revival, top corporate managers at Danaher got religious about process improvement — so much so that they created their own version of Lean: the Danaher Business System. According to a 2007 article in Business Week , "Despite its low profile, Danaher is probably the best-run conglomerate in America.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma Process Tips Lean Manufacturing 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

“This is not happening just in retail, or in IT-producing sectors,” said Chiara Criscuolo, an OECD economist and coauthor of the report. ” Similarly, in 2007 Giulia Faggio and John Van Reenen of the London School of Economics and Kjell G. “It’s happening a bit across the board.”

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2017

Most of this work is handled online, where you will browse websites like AliExpress and other wholesale retailers. Jobs that don’t relate to finance would slowly disappear, leaving not much else for those who don’t want to work with money. Copyright 2007-2017 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

Restructuring 50

Restructuring Course Retail Banking 50