Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

An answer to this was anything but obvious, and I struggled to find one shortly after my friend Katie and I were laid off from what were supposed to be dream jobs with an online shoe retailer. We knew that choosing the latter entailed taking, quite probably, the greatest risk in the face of an unstable economy; yet, in the end, we did anyway.

Fashion 124

Fashion Press Release Discount PR 124

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 17, 2017

What’s challenging is running into retailers who don’t use it. Amazfit watches are sold at a ton of retailers like Amazon, Gearbest, etc. This ring is considered a “contactless” payment device, so that means it uses RFID technology and the user can simply tap their ring on the sensor. Setting up Apple Pay is easy.

Brand 60

Brand Retail Technology Discount 60

Strategy Driven

MARCH 27, 2014

These days, more people than ever use technology, including mobile devices, to conduct their professional and personal business. A password management system is a much better solution. Use a disposable email address : These days, it’s fairly common to be asked to provide an email address by retailers and on account applications.

Tips 51

Tips Risk Management Letter Software 51

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Special Edition 50 – An Interview with Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of Retailing examines the use of analytics to improve an organization’s supply chain performance in a way that ultimately enhances the bottom line. To read Marshall’s complete biography, click here.

Supply Chain 57

Supply Chain Retail Bottom-up Newsletter 57

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

New technologies and socioeconomic trends are reshaping the retail marketplace. The IBM Institute for Business Value recently surveyed over 30,000 people in three mature and three growth markets to discover what consumers will want from retailers in the future.

Resources 50

Resources Newsletter Retail Strategic Planning 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2017

If your business is to thrive, it is essential that you manage your workforce effectively. Human resources management is all about striking a balance between encouragement, rewards, and sanctions. Rather than relegating it to the bottom of the pile, you should place employee training at the center of how you manage your employees.

Training 50

Training Budgeting Bottom-up Long-term 50

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

Widget manufacturing companies team with retail management experts to open a string of widget stores. Managing mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Hardware, software and component producers revolutionizing the next generation of technology. Distribution centers and networks for retail products.

Cooper 50

Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 12, 2017

You managed to come up with a product that was not only worth creating, but that was actually able to be made – so give yourself a pat on the back. You may need a box for your technological device, foam padding for your breakable designs or even specialist intermediate bulk containers for your food product. All rights reserved.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Supply Chain Brand 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

When Amazon announced last week that it will acquire Whole Foods Market, a grocery chain with over 450 retail stores and deep industry talent, for $13.7 You could almost hear the three-year plans of every grocer, and nearly every other traditional retailer, grinding through the shredding machines. retail sales, or $391 billion of $4.9

Retail 8

Retail Planning Agility Innovation 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Examines ways to maintain and grow value through mergers, acquisitions, and portfolio management.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

Each issue is packed with thought-provoking content and insight into the business issues that affect all companies competing in today’s technology-driven marketplace with recent contributions by best-selling author and researcher Tom Davenport; social media guru Chris Brogan; and Myron Scholes, world renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner.

Real Estate 66

Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

It needs to shine on the high street, particularly if you are part of a retail company. One possibility is to utilize available technology. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. More Than A Business Space. Photo courtesy of Pexels. You should be aiming for your business venue to be more than just space.

Film 50

Film Content Media Marketing 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 10, 2014

Things like rundown hotels, lousy food in a restaurant, rude clerk in a retail store, long lines to be served, long waits on hold, not keeping up with technology, and poor management seem to be pervasive in our society. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. It’s how you get from crappy to good.

Collins 53

Collins Customer Loyalty Reputation Competitive Advantage 53

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

New research from the McKinsey Global Institute simulates the potential global macroeconomic impact of five powerful technologies (computer vision, natural language, virtual assistants, robotic process automation, and advanced machine learning). We know that technologies often take a long time to diffuse and to deliver benefits.

GDP 9

GDP McKinsey Long-term Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2011

manufacturing jobs continued at a slower rate into 2007, with another million or so jobs lost. Then came the 2007 recession and worldwide financial and economic crisis. Employment in the wholesale and retail trade also is slowing down; industrialization (in the form of e-commerce and online retailing) is undoubtedly one reason.

Retail 14

Retail Outsourcing Technology Education 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The Great Recession of 2007 to 2009 was under way. This second transformation will be triggered not by regulation but by rapidly evolving technology. The banks that have nearly completed their regulatory agenda have a head start, since they can free up more financial and human resources to address evolving technology.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Bottom-up Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2015

Just as it’s hard to remember what life was like before the iPhone, it can be hard to remember business before there was CRM software — back when you still had to explain that it stood for “customer relationship management.” The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center.

CRM 8

CRM Management Taylorism Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

That''s the question Michael Dell has been asking himself since 2007, when he retook the top job at the computer company he founded in 1984. Competitors like IBM and Compaq struggled with the politics of managing their various channel partners and lagged Dell in inventory management. Dell returned as CEO in 2007.

Rivkin 15

Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

In the past, time management experts would recommend that you divide up your work into A tasks, B tasks, and C tasks. Doing all aspects of a job seemed possible then, if you just followed some basic time management rules. Doing all aspects of a job seemed possible then, if you just followed some basic time management rules.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Seminar Productivity Products 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. These CEOs are what we call “insider outsiders.”

Franchising 14

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 14

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

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. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

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. It's only this year, for the first time, that services revenue surpassed technology revenue. But the flames were about to rise.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA How To Crisis Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

New data shows that sustainability is an increasingly important factor in attracting and managing talent. For instance, in 2008 Simon Colbeck, head of technology for clothing, was concerned about the huge volume of garments that end up in landfills every year. Sustainability Talent management'

Metrics 8

Metrics Chemicals Simon Energy 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. Current management of both companies were ill-advised on handling the crises. K-Mart had become the odd retailer out but still kept 1,500 stores for its reorganization. In 1999, the U.S.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

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. The idea was to transform his theory of disruptive innovation into an investment thesis.

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Discounted Cash Flow 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

For instance, Apple filed applications for the original iPhone only four days before it was announced in 2007; for the original iPod in 2001, the filing was one day before release. Companies who rely on innovative product design to separate themselves from their competitors must effectively manage these risks.

Magazine 8

Magazine Engineering Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

That is, rather than employ a new technology to disrupt a company’s business model, an upstart disrupts the entire breadth of an entrenched value chain by wresting control of a critical asset. Apple quickly became the largest music retailer in the U.S. Jobs and Apple were able to run this play again with the introduction of the iPhone.

Industry 8

Industry Wireless Advertising Content 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

Critical topics include leadership development of executives, mindset changes in the evolution from manager to executive to leader, executive mentoring, insights into how top professionals evolve, plateaus of professional accomplishment, developing a winning work ethic, lifelong learning and the accrual of business wisdom. Mid-Manager.

Business Development 51

Business Development Development Learning-by-Doing Ethics 51

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Every performance management paradigm, every mission statement, could point to a different definition of success – and therefore to a different way to “optimally” allocate resources. Best practices for resource optimization are tied to performance management by answering questions such as: “Were recommended decisions put into action?”

Resources 50

Resources Process Constraint Objective 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

A mid-level manager in this 5,000-employee hospital, she is leading a 70-member group on patient flow as part of a larger organizational effort. Her ability to lead and inspire — to become a change leader from her position as a mid-level manager — is helping her team produce results. I found a few defining characteristics: 1.

Middle Management 11

Middle Management Six Sigma Taylorism Taylor 11

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. 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

JUNE 22, 2012

My analysis: Productivity software does no good unless one commits to change, alters behavioral traits and commits to time management. Communications is fundamental to maintaining, but technology is only as good as the people using it. Many managers have poor people skills, as well as poor verbal-written communications skills.

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. At Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. It’s worth noting that the companies and business units in my study were tracked between 2001 and 2007. How do they do it?

Education 8

Education Execution Content Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

Sephora, the cosmetics retailer, has been widely recognized as a leader in integrating its digital marketing efforts into its overall strategy. When I joined in 2007, it was obvious Sephora had the right ingredients to become a world-class digital brand — willingness to take risks, commitment to customers, and passion for educating clients.

Brand 9

Brand CTO Marketing Retail 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Fueling this dynamism, Africa is adopting technology at a furious pace: it will soon have double the number of smartphone connections than North America. From 2007 to 2016, the brewer saw its African sales outside of South Africa climb from $280 million to $1 billion. billion by 2050.

Brand 8

Brand Case Study Globalization Marketing 8