Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

The Forces of global change can render professional skill sets obsolete almost overnight. The Debrief Imperative is a culmination of over a decade of teaching and practice in Global 1000 organizations. Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

In 2011, the average tenure dropped to 18 years. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. The digital economy is making significant contributions to global gross domestic product (GDP), outpacing global growth by 400 percent. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

To change the global mindset of any company, you have to brave the world beyond the boardroom. We're here to be immersed in one of the world's most dynamic regions, and to see our global business through a sharply focused local lens. The Dubai move is a sequel to the month we spent in Shanghai in 2011. Let the local team shine.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

The Debrief Imperative is a culmination of over a decade of teaching and practice in Global 1000 organizations. Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market. Accelerate performance… learn and leverage this secret tool to organizational success. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

For a number of reasons, the size, complexity scale and symmetry of risk are vastly different in 2011 than 1991. As a result, the risk-reward ratios that we take for granted, such tight global supply chains, may no longer make sense. But did it slowly over several days by extending overhead wires.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

As global oil producers work at cross-purposes, the industry’s traditional boom-bust cycle is being replaced by faster, shallower price rotations based on changes in production. oil supply may be enough on its own to meet all of this year’s growth in global oil demand. The soaring U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

Consider one of the organizations we studied , Wipro BPO, an India-based global leader in the business-process-outsourcing industry. Wipro provides telephone and chat support for its global clients’ customers, who typically are inquiring about services or products (e.g., buying an airline ticket or configuring a printer).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

Facebook had 2,400 employees in 2011; 3,500 in 2012; 4,900 in 2013; and 6,300 today. The combined global workforces of Groupon , Facebook , LinkedIn , Zynga , Yelp , Pandora , and Zillow is smaller than the number that Circuit City fired in January 2009 when it was liquidated. Unfortunately, the odds there are only slightly better.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Industry and academic leaders revealed that the very skills needed for workforce success are the same skills graduating students lack — such as analysis and problem solving, collaboration and teamwork, business-context communication, and flexibility, agility, and adaptability. Consider what’s happening at EMLYON Business School.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. After Jeff Immelt threw down the gauntlet for building a global software center, GE faced significant physical, organizational, and cultural challenges.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

The great thing about operating a small business is that you are inherently more agile than your larger competitors. John came to Swiftpage with a 30 year track record of building highly profitable and sustainable revenue growth for emerging companies and established global leaders. What about product-based businesses?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

At the NeuroLeadership Institute, we’ve been studying this trend closely since 2011. Consulting firms Deloitte and Accenture, global health services client Cigna, and even GE—the company who popularized the idea of forcing people into a performance curve—all announced changes to their performance management systems.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

But renewable energy wasn't," said Dean Nelson, eBay's senior director of Global Foundation Services. It's still about efficiency, it's still about flexibility and agility," he said. In 2011, Facebook started a project called Open Compute to help other companies achieve similar efficiencies. "We

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