Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

What did 2010 look like for you and your company? OnPoint Consulting’s 2010 Execution Gap Maker Round-Up… Execution Gap Maker #1: BP (Need I say more?) Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. Did you struggle to regain your post-recession footing?

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Kevin Eikenberry

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

To reinforce one of the most important of all leadership qualities – that of being other focused. The President asked him to repeat the question, and the energy in the room was further dampened. To celebrate the life of the late President Reagan on what would have been his 100th birthday. I’ve chosen not to do that.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

When she tried to get back on the job market after 7 years, Aguilera says “a headhunter said that there was nothing he could do for me.” That’s when she realized: “I needed to redirect my energies towards something I could be proud of” and took courses to set up her own business as a Doula and Childbirth Educator. “I

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Rapid BI

OCTOBER 7, 2012

Social media marketing – tips for success in 2010. Read my 9 top tips for social media marketing below. As entrepreneurs and smaller businesses marketing is a vital yet difficult concept for many of us. Is he a one trick pony? His latest however caught my eye. He included the message: “You reap what you sow…”.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Do you have boundless energy or mesmerizing charisma? While the aforementioned qualities are certainly admirable, they are only valuable if they influence or create action. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. Do you have great vision? Are you a master of strategy? Our Freedom.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

MAY 14, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar Friday, May 14, 2010 Focus - Concentrate on one thing at a time. Unfortunately, multi-tasking has often been perceived as a characteristic of energetic, hard-working, and goal-driven workers; a necessity to get things done in a competitive, time-to-market world. It's a necessity, not a luxury.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Without quality data, the probability of making the right decision is greatly diminished. Increasing data accuracy is subsequently paramount to improving decision quality. Combinations of data bits are logically joined to form the packets of information upon which decisions are made and actions taken.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees. Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2010

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Multinational corporations long have looked for growth opportunities in emerging markets. In 2014, according to the latest United Nations estimate, direct foreign investment (FDI) in emerging markets reached more than $700 billion — accounting for over half (56%) of all global FDI flows for the first time. Crime exacts a toll.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

In 2010, Pepsi pulled its Super Bowl ads and invested $20 million into its Refresh project , which employed crowdsourcing to support good causes. Research by the Content Marketing Institute estimates that 90% of consumer marketers are investing in content. Marketers need to take the same approach. Identify analogues.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Ultimately, Edison’s commercial victories over Tesla were due not to the superior quality of Edison’s ideas but to differences in the men’s innovation capital. Bezos’ approach works especially well when the innovation requires overcoming a lot of market/demand uncertainty (will people buy it?) 2010): 253-269. [6]

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Emphasize how important quality work is. Encourage your employees’ development. Show your employees that their opinions count. Convey to your employees how important their job is to the organization. Provide a climate in which employees can socialize when there is time. Every six months, find the time to discuss employees’ job progress.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

But as social media takes hold and changes the way we do business, organizations that understand the importance of these qualities are the ones that will grow and prosper. As social media transforms the way the world does business, the qualities that make women women will become more valuable than they’ve ever been before.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

But he is most passionate about teaching and living the path of Huna , the ancient science of consciousness and energy healing of the Hawaiian Islands. The benefits of NLP go far beyond sales to help people grow from every single experience, achieve the results they desire and create a better quality of life. James, MA, Ph.D.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that Chinese solar stocks had soared based on market expectations that demand in China for alternative energy will increase given the Chinese government's increasing solar capacity targets. In 1990, there were 227 million houses in China — by 2010, there were 371 million.

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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. For example, Bunge, an agribusiness firm, reported a $56 million quarterly loss in its sugar and bioenergy segments due to drought in 2010. billion in mining projects since 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

They're concerned with growing budget deficits, uncertain tax policy, rising energy costs, and crumbling infrastructure. First, develop a strategy for energy security — then stick to it. We need a plan that will lead to energy independence so that we can stop moving from one energy crisis to another.

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Transportation Energy Globalization Budgeting 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Chinese companies want access to energy, raw materials, and food that will support growth in their economy and in their customers’ needs—especially at the high end. Buying Smithfield allowed Shineway to sell pork in the Chinese market at a premium price. Access to mature global markets. producer of pork. Technology.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Build a Re-Founding Team. Since then its stock has more than doubled.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

In 2010, the United Nations Global Compact conducted a survey [PDF] on sustainability and found that 93% of businesses consider it important to their future success. In another example, a large US-based specialty retail chain wanted to determine the chief drivers of store energy efficiency in order to reduce usage and greenhouse emissions.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

In general, successful strategies include posting quality content that people want to consume, letting customers tell their stories and post their grievances, and then responding to their criticisms. Marketing 101 principles still apply. So for goodness’ sake, respect what they have to say and take their input to heart!

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. The diverging fortunes of two recent spin-offs in the energy industry illustrate how financial markets value autonomy from the parent. has its former parent deprived it even from basic maintenance investments?)

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

Haven't we been down this road before with energy and carbon emissions? Here are a few highlights from the 2010 CDP WD report, which went out to 302 of the world's largest companies. The Ripple Effect : Water Risk in the Municipal Bond Market (Ceres). Doesn't this sound familiar? Water Futures (SAB Miller).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Young Africans are unleashing entrepreneurial energies as governments continue to enact reforms that improve business environments. But participants are poorly trained and produce low quality products. The same applies to affordable housing, energy, and water. Aba, Accra, and Ouagadougou are some major craft cities.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

By year’s end, the seven biggest emerging markets were larger than the G7 , in purchasing power parity terms. Far from Silicon Valley, Shanghai, or Singapore, a German company, Rocket Internet, has been busy launching e-commerce start-ups across a wide range of emerging and frontier markets. Stall Out countries are also aging.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 22, 2010

When used wisely, social media really can help you build high-quality professional relationships that will pay off for both parties offline. Increasingly, the line between our personal and professional lives is becoming blurred, and information posted online can easily make the jump from one to the other even if you don’t intend for it to.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Pure Internet-plays Betterment and FutureAdvisor launched in 2010 and Wealthfront in 2011. The company delayed entering the robo-advisor market until it had results from two years of testing. But Vanguard’s robo-advisor platform hit the ground running in its May 2015 debut and by the end of the year had $31.1

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

Founding CEOs realize—or fail to realize—that their maniacal energy and personal devotion can only take their enterprises so far. Yet those resources don't exist in the social enterprise market—even though the need is essentially the same. Normal business complexity sets in.

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Finance Franchising Business Model Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

India love first peaked in July 2008 when India’s government of the time risked its very survival in support of a nuclear energy deal led by Washington. At the same time Amway and L’Oreal thrived in the same market and personal care sales boomed across most of India. ’s branded generic-medicine unit in India for $3.7

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

The quality of air indoors is a major health issue so our R&D team came up with a carpet tile designed to contain the fine dust that can cause asthma and other respiratory problems much more effectively than hard floors and regular carpets. Resource Revolution: Meeting the world's energy, materials, food, and water needs, November 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Every industry, no matter how traditional — agriculture, automotive, aviation, energy — is being upended by the addition of sensors, internet connectivity, and software. It dominated the ultra-profitable, digital-photo-kiosk market, even pushing archrival Fuji out of Walgreens’s retail-pharmacy juggernaut.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. These innovation playgrounds vary wildy in quality, creativity and breadth. Devices of all kinds have gone from advertising, branding, and marketing media to promotional platforms. That's right.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

Of course, no one likes to pay taxes, but the Danes don''t complain as much as you might expect in part because they receive a high quantity and quality of public services for their taxes. Having startup policies without taking care of access to IPO markets is like having a fast new ramp onto a pot-holed dirt road.

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