Strategy Driven

APRIL 25, 2014

Before founding WePay, Bill worked in technology investment banking at Jefferies & Company, where he advised enterprise software, digital media and financial technology companies on M&A and capital market transactions. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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Bottom-up Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage Software 81

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2014

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Competitive Advantage 69

Competitive Advantage Learning-by-Doing Training Content 69

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Many of the provisions of the sweeping health-care bill passed by the House of Representatives in March won’t kick in until 2014, however these provisions spell big changes for small businesses. Recent healthcare reform is also adding to economic uncertainty for small businesses.

Uncertainty 57

Uncertainty Insurance Newsletter Incentives 57

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

The analysis, by governance-research organization GMI Ratings, looked at 2011–2014 returns for nearly 400 companies with market cap of at least $10 billion. Large corporations with small boards (around nine to 10 directors) outperformed their peers on shareholder return by 8.5

Analysis 8

Analysis Marketing Organization Company 8

Deming Institute

JULY 30, 2015

I blogged about my experience in healthcare back in 2011 and described how my “hope level” for improvement in healthcare has gone up and down like a sine-wave pattern over the last 20-30 years. Goerner and others have described as the “S-Curve”, a pattern that is recognized by economists, physicists, scientists and marketers.

Deming 28

Deming Influence System Seminar 28

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Our research points to one possible reason: employers increased skill requirements during the recession, when high-skill workers were more plentiful, making it more difficult to fill those positions as the job market began to recover. ” Of course, this theory predicts that skill requirements should fall when the labor market tightens.

Education 10

Education Skills Marketing Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

The paltry market for organic wine around the world belies the fact that over the past half century, countless organic winegrowers and vintners have dedicated great effort to creating a larger market for the category, without much success. While 6% of the wine sold at Systembolaget in 2011 was organic, by 2016 it was over 20%.

Organization 10

Organization Chemicals Retail Reputation 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

Saudi Arabia in particular is not only a major player on oil markets and within OPEC, but also the region’s largest economy that shares its vulnerability to sliding global oil prices with its smaller GCC neighbours. And yet this shift could become a key chance for the region’s economies.

GDP 8

GDP Price Market Segmentation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Marketers have long known that stories capture consumers’ attention and they commonly weave storytelling into their marketing messages. In fact, while the total tourism market in Amsterdam grew 19 percent from 2009 to 2014, the Heineken Experience grew 143 percent. The New Tools of Marketing.

Brand 8

Brand Storytelling Trout Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

A 2014 study from Constellation Research quantified the accelerating rate of change in the enterprise by examining a simple benchmark — the entry and exit of U.S. In 2011, the average tenure dropped to 18 years. The relentless speed of change of customers, markets, and technology has given rise to enormous opportunity.

Technology 8

Technology Industry GDP Content 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

It boasted rapid economic growth, abundant natural resources, and a large (and increasingly wealthy) market of 200 million consumers. Each requires leaders to pay particular attention to nuances related to the Brazilian market. In the early 2000s, Brazil became the darling of corporate investment.

Strategy 8

Strategy Depreciation EBITDA Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2015

Businesses like Facebook are filling an internet access gap in emerging markets that others, including the public sector, may simply never be able to address. Despite having 200 million internet users at the end of 2014, India is not even among the top 10 e-commerce markets in the world, according to a recent eMarketer report.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Marketing Wireless McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

In 2011, GE embarked upon an ambitious attempt to digitally transform its product and service offerings. Nike halved the size of its digital unit in 2014 by discontinuing its Nike+ Fuelband activity tracker and some other investments. We think there’s something more here than executive over-exuberance or slowing markets.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

The myth of Silicon Valley is that venture-funded entrepreneurship is a generalizable model that can be applied to every problem, when in actuality it is a model that was built to commercialize mature technologies for certain markets. The Silicon Valley Model. The Hard Road of Hard Tech. ” An Alternative Path. .”

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

But Slack is generally aimed at the enterprise market and doesn’t specialize in intimate relationships. In the digital content publishing world, I often direct people to the free ebook “ The New World of Content Measurement ,” published in 2014 by the combined content marketing agency + platform Contently. (I

Media 10

Media Quality Metrics Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

billion initiative to build a country-wide fiber optic network that will connect an additional 160 million Indians by 2014. The Indian government sponsored the introduction of 3G services in 2011 with a $30 billion spectrum auction. Indian entrepreneurs are feeling bullish about global markets. Yes, there are challenges.

Venture Capitalist 13

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

in 2011 to 2.9% For a new digital technology to deliver a disruptive innovation, a new technology must leverage two things: A new route to market. As with disruption in the private sector, Estonia’s e-residency program offers both a lower price and fewer features while simultaneously creating a new route to market.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

But the real tragedy happened later: a timid recovery during 2010-11 was followed by a second recession starting in the third quarter of 2011, from which Europe did not start recovering until 2015. Yet the place where the crisis had originated, the U.S., avoided the second recession and continued its recovery. What went wrong?

Crisis 8

Crisis Policies GDP Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Possibly, but the concrete synergies are hard to see, especially considering the $9 billion premium that Microsoft is paying over LinkedIn’s market value as of last week. The last feature of PE acquisitions is that they take the target firm off the market, where it can be managed out of the public eye. It didn’t happen.

Software 8

Software Price Marketing Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Due to the fast growth of the SaaS market and the high valuations of SaaS startups, a move toward SaaS seems very compelling for traditional software vendors. For example, in 2014 IDC estimated that more than one-quarter of enterprise applications would be offered with the SaaS model by 2018, up from one-sixth in 2013.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

It is true that that breaches are expected and have become a regular cost of doing business, but there are deeper reasons for the market’s failure to respond to these incidents. In the third quarter of 2014, Home Depot showed a 21% increase in earnings per share. In the beginning of October, 2014, the largest U.S.

Price 8

Price Long-term Banking Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

In early 2014, American cosmetics and skincare products powerhouse Revlon announced that it would pull out of China completely. Despite entering the world’s largest personal care products market in 1996, Revlon was able to generate just 2% of sales from China 17 years later. 2 in the market. Go for Broke.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Retail Chemicals Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012. Perhaps these cutbacks are a response to overshooting earlier on because of “ globaloney.”

Globalization 9

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. But if you go to the marketing department and ask them, they’re usually clueless.” “Take a football player. He will always know how he performs.

CEO 8

CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. and spends it in international markets. Aldi UK sales grew from $6.3

Retail 11

Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

As a result, companies of all sizes are increasingly hindered in efforts to bring new products and services to market by patent holders claiming infringement of even trivial features. To hold otherwise, the justices explained, would give patent holders the power to control secondary markets — power that patent law never intended.

Innovation 8

Innovation Supply Chain Software Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012. Perhaps these cutbacks are a response to overshooting earlier on because of “ globaloney.”

Globalization 8

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. In 2011 it was $2 billion , good for third place. stock markets over Icahn’s career, it’s a simple factual assertion — the total return on the S&P 500 has substantially outstripped economic growth.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

That’s the message from the just-released DHL Global Connectedness Index 2014, which combines measures of trade, capital, people, and information flows to give a picture of how entwined we citizens of the world are with each other. that is less than 200 miles away and accounts for less than 10% of the world’s outbound tourists.

Altman 8

Altman Globalization Transportation Magazine 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

That’s the message from the just-released DHL Global Connectedness Index 2014 , which combines measures of trade, capital, people, and information flows to give a picture of how entwined we citizens of the world are with each other. that is less than 200 miles away and accounts for less than 10% of the world’s outbound tourists.

Altman 8

Altman Globalization Transportation Magazine 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

I should know: Many of my former colleagues, friends, and family members mentioned these stereotypes in 2011 when I accepted a job helping launch a new publication covering the business aspects of this emerging sector. Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. And more are joining every day.

Industry 10

Industry Retail Banking Brand 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Silver Star, the second-largest soccer ball production firm in town, with over 2,000 employees, learned about the die almost immediately, and by March 2014 was using it for all of its pentagon cutting. One large firm adopted the die early on, even though it was not in the initial group of recipients. What is unusual about this company?

Policies 8

Policies Technology Bottom-up Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Flooding in 2011 in Thailand, harmed 160 companies in the textile industry and halted nearly a quarter of the country’s garment production, increasing global prices by 28%.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Already in 2011 the Chinese spent more time on the Internet than watching TV , while in the U.S. Due to the one-child policy there are many more men than women in China, particularly in rural areas, so competition in the marriage markets is intense and some men have to work really hard to find a spouse. And some adults are lonely too.

Advertising 12

Advertising Retail Media Price 12