Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Posted by Thornton May on November 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment The classic Harvard Business School case “Otisline (A)” 1 begins with the quote, “… our objective is to go unnoticed.” In the elevator business, you can be hugely successful and highly profitable by going unnoticed.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

The employment shift from occupations that require mid-level skills toward those at the high and low ends is one of the most important trends in the U.S. labor market over the past 30 years. Think of word processors replacing typists or engineers using AutoCAD software. And that’s just what we find.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

He is Chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , the leading provider of social software, services, and analytics that improve business performance. Tweets that mention ‘Woman Up’ (and Win in Business): How Valuing Traditionally Female Strengths Gives You an Edge in a Changing World : StrategyDriven -- Topsy.com says: December 8, 2010 at 7:17 pm [.]

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 22, 2010

As the chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , a company that provides social software to businesses, quite literally, it’s my job to be social media savvy. He is Chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , the leading provider of social software, services, and analytics that improve business performance.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

The worldwide trend of rising economic inequality applies not only to individuals. Economywide ROIC has trended downward since the 1980s, falling from above 6% in the mid-1960s to 5% in 1980, then to 3% in 1990, and to only a bit more than 1% by 2010. What are the underlying drivers of this trend? There are many.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

Consider some of these numbers: In 2010, Ericsson set the bar for much of the subsequent IoT hype by predicting there would be 50 billion internet-connected devices by 2020. When the IoT trend started surfacing, we, like many other copmanies, pored over the analysts’ projections. Software, in contrast, is incredibly fast.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

Blockbuster went bankrupt in 2010. The cause of these trends is not clear. Finance may be moving from a period without much competition into one of disruption, while technology is moving from a period of intense innovation into one of concentrated market power. In other words, the problem here is not temporary market power.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

We've extensively analyzed the applications to the Echoing Green fellowship between 2006 and 2011, and built a rich dataset that allows us to rigorously study trends in the field of social enterprise. In 2010 and 2011, almost 50% of the applicants to Echoing Green relied on hybrid models, versus 37% in 2006.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

The trend towards more extreme weather appears to be continuing around the globe. New workers are not entering the market as fast as veterans — particularly engineers — are retiring. In 2010, Florida Power & Light estimated that 65 percent of its workforce was near or eligible to retire. In the U.S.,

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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

APRIL 19, 2017

Examining 46,934 resumes shared on Glassdoor by people who graduated between 2010 and 2017, the researchers looked at each person’s college major and their post-college jobs in the five years after graduation. There’s also the pesky issue of market forces and the skills that society values. ” (Sigh.)

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Implement and update the model Using analytical software such as SAS, build and implement the model.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Economic growth has been stuck in low gear for almost a decade now, averaging around 2% a year since 2010 while productivity growth, the key to increasing living standards, has been languishing near historic lows since the financial crisis. Today, that trend has slowed slightly in both countries, contributing only 0.3 in 2014 to 2020.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Adoption risk: Adopting technologies or responding to market, business, and technology trends too quickly or too slowly; reactively or over thought, without considering how non-technical implications or unintended consequences contribute adoption risk. Businesses make irrational, fallacious decisions on prior sunk costs.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

has slowed , and that in most industries the biggest firms have higher market share than they did a decade ago. Despite those trends, our research suggests that technology can in fact provide an advantage to small and new firms. of firms had adopted it in 2010, whereas 7% had by 2016, which is an annualized growth rate of almost 50%.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Mostly because it’s fundamentally more difficult to lead an organization than ever before, due to a confluence of leadership trends and external factors. Yet even as we connect people and the world’s population rises 7 percent between 2010 and 2020, the number of working-age employees will actually decline in many industrialized nations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

On the other side of the debate, H-1B supporters argue that the program brings needed skills into the labor market, which helps firms remain innovative, productive, and competitive. In the private sector, for instance, software developers, petroleum engineers, and data scientists were found to be in high demand. .

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. Because more people used PCs, and wrote software for them, they became the default choice for nearly everyone. Bigger marketing budgets may not pay off. Apple learned this the hard way.

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