Mills Scofield

JUNE 16, 2013

In a world filled with Pay-Day lenders that ruin lives, CGF is starting to making a difference by innovating the basic business model. Recognizing that this paradigm is untenable, at CGF we are using business model and other innovation to scale a solution that is affordable and financially viable for us as an organization.

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Innovation Microfinance Business Model Self-aware 161

CEO Blog

JANUARY 28, 2011

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Friday, January 28, 2011 5 Leadership Styles that Work A guest post by Art Gould Recipes for Success: 5 Different Leadership Styles That All Work! The best way to find out what makes a company successful is to look at the top. They are the founders and daily drivers of their companys corporate cultures.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Adobe’s radical transformation from a product-based business model to a service-based one raised eyebrows in the industry, with many software vendors now wondering how radically they should approach the SaaS model. Disclosure: One of us works at Amazon Web Services, a provider for many SaaS businesses.).

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

When you think of Apple you immediate think of a company that has built a strong brand around quality design. Design will impact your messaging, positioning, business modeling, team building, resourcing, branding, and virtually every functional aspect of what you do.

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Brand Blog Reputation Parcell 267

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

What, another clarion call urging executives to fundamentally rethink their business models through digital technology? The business media have had no shortage of these. While there is certainly merit in questioning your business model, revolutionary business model transformation remains elusive despite the buzz.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Perhaps most importantly they have the ability to align interests and sell the vision unifying leadership, management, staff and external stakeholders as well. Great leaders understand how to manage conflict and close positional gaps. Section III: Strategy. Section IV: Tactics. Section VI: Persuasiveness.

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Blog Leadership Benchmarking Tactics 366

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Hank Moore is an internationally known business advisor, speaker and author. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. Edwards Deming. Presidents.

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Drucker Senge Strategic Planning Newsletter 62

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Just because someone says something doesn’t mean it’s true…Moreover just because “Company A&# had success with a certain initiative doesn’t mean that “Company B&# can plug-and-play the same process and expect the same outcome.

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Developing effective conflict resolution skill sets are an essential component of a building a sustainable business model. If so, you likely have issues with conflict. Real leaders don’t play favorites, don’t get involved in drama, and they certainly don’t tolerate manipulative, self-serving behavior.

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Blog Fashion Brand Self-aware 419

Strategy Driven

MAY 11, 2016

As Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund states: if women were employed at the same rate as men, GDP would increase by 5 percent in the United States, by 9 percent in Japan and by 27 percent in India. Training and networking are important when it comes to create a business or scale the corporate ladder.

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Mentor GDP Education Engineering 50

Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 7, 2010

An enterprise business model was developed that takes in all the processes across all the business areas. Processes are categorized by a Business Cycle (end to end business process) which are “owned&# by a majority of non-financial senior leaders. Thanks for sharing this one.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Vijay Govindarajan's and Chris Trimble's article, " The CEO's Role in Business Model Reinvention ," appeared in our January-February 2011 issue. The article urged forward-looking CEOs to manage reinvention with a "three-box approach": Box 1: Manage the present. Box 2: Selectively forget the past.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. But they will need to adopt the more hard-headed way that Silicon Valley companies evaluate acquisitions for their deals to pay off. Insight Center.

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Company Business Model Price Technology 8

CO2

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Each business model calls for different cultures and different reasons for these behaviors. Every company can implement strategic planning by involving all or many employees at every level. All the things that get lost when trying to sell the ideas to the company when they had no say in the decisions that were made.

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Strategic Planning Motivation Planning Executive Coaching 76

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

It is much less obvious, and usually harder, to change the design of a current service system, introduce new customer experiences, or build a better business model — but the return on those investments may be much higher. Today, every company, small or multi-national, new or incumbent, can obtain innovation capacity.

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Budgeting Innovation Business Model Technology 12

You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 2, 2011

Managing & Leading…Lessons from Gilbert & Sullivan was really fun to write. Managing Your Personal Impact…One Boss’s Story will show you what I mean. Finally, before moving on to 2011, I went back to a post I wrote in June, 2009. Lise Reply Gwyn Teatro January 4, 2011 at 1:04 am Lise, Thank you. Happy New Year!

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Review Gilbert Diversity Blog 46

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

When all attributes are equal in a competition, the company who gets the contract has a personal connection. For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. I also chose to write for online business groups, and hence, you are reading the result. Mine your backyard.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Companies increasingly use digital technologies to circumvent distributors and enter into direct relationships with their end-users. These relationships can create efficient new sales channels and powerful feedback mechanisms or unlock entirely new business models. As a result, many B2B companies remain stuck in a stalemate.

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Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

How to make your company more nimble and responsive. Sometimes this model fits reality. The merger was called off when the companies saw the DOJ’s tally, presumably because the parties expected they’d lose in court. This kind of competition can also be affected by mergers and may in itself drive deal making.

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Company Supply Chain Cooper Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

The metric was an attempt to put a thin veneer of respectability on what are extremely disconcerting profitability numbers for the company. In the first quarter of 2011, Groupon posted a net loss of $113.9 Yet, the company reported ASCOI of positive $80.1

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

business ended 2014 with 39.1 The success Netflix is enjoying was far from certain if you recall the summer of 2011. That’s when the company suffered through the Quikster controversy and a protest over its price increase. Think of it as Kickstarter for established companies and their consumers.

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Business Model Loyalty Brand Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

billion Tumblr deal pay off when she said that the 14,000-employee company would work very hard to ensure it didn''t "screw it up" by imposing Yahoo!''s Our research (discussed in detail in a 2011 Harvard Business Review article one of us coauthored) distinguished between two basic types of acquisitions. Since Yahoo!

Advertising 8

Advertising Business Model Audience Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Companies that claim to be “transforming” seem to be everywhere. 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.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

economy is still in a deep funk, and for many small business owners that means business isn’t exactly booming. Growing an Entrepreneurial Business : Concepts & Cases by Edward D. Hess Growing an Entrepreneurial Business is a textbook designed for courses that focus on managing small to medium sized enterprises.

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Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete. Insight Center.

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Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

In 2011, GE embarked upon an ambitious attempt to digitally transform its product and service offerings. The company received much acclaim for its transformation in the press (including some from us). Ford invested heavily in digital initiatives only to see its stock price lag due to cost and quality issues elsewhere in the company.

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Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

What is a business model (and how do I innovate one)? How a company creates, captures, and delivers value; codifying the current business model is the critical first step of business model innovation. Build a business model designed around the low-end customer's job-to-be-done.

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Innovation Govindarajan Disruptive Innovation Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

However, although there aren’t any dominant players, there are social network companies seeking to stake out “high-quality” territory. Similarly, Facebook doesn’t specialize in purveying journalism, even though almost every news company posts articles on Facebook.

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Media Quality Metrics Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Tencent and Alibaba, the two leading Chinese Internet companies, recently announced a collaboration with insurer Ping An to offer insurance products online. insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K., Most companies have taken steps toward “digitization.”

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Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The two biggest product stories of 2011 were arguably Lipitor and the iPhone 4S. Although the two stories could not appear to differ more, both offer business leaders strategic lessons that are intriguingly similar. Apple use life-cycle management to explore a new way to drive the business and business model forward.

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Disintermediation Industry Pharmaceuticals Price 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

"This business model is right for a company selling Purina Dog Chow, circa 1970.". Same business model architecture, two entirely different responses: obvious or unachievable. Same business model architecture, two entirely different responses: obvious or unachievable. They get it. They live it.

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Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

It was only a few years ago that Governor Deval Patrick poured some $58 million into the company and their much-lauded breakthrough solar technology (String Ribbon). Business Models: The right focus for scale equity is proven business models, not emerging technologies.

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Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

We’re now entering a new era of innovation , one that the model doesn’t quite fit, and we will have to develop new approaches to build the future. The Silicon Valley Model. In 1968 an investor named Arthur Rock backed executives from Fairchild Semiconductor to start a new company, which would become known as Intel.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2014

The “IT” label is part of the glass ceiling that has limited business technologists for decades. In too many companies, IT leaders, relegated to their cost centers, are subordinate to other C-level executives. In other, more forward-looking companies, the situation is radically different.

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CIO Information Technology Forrester Technology 10

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

The reality is that many businesses are quick to recognize great ideas, but they often have no plan for how to successfully integrate them into their business model. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions. Failed initiatives are costly at several levels.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

Imagine you''re a first-time entrepreneur with an unvalidated business idea and no track record of making money for investors. You may have another kind of track record, such as working successfully at a large company. Sridhar had a small network management tools business that basically functioned as a highly profitable cash cow.

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Incubator Finance Entrepreneur Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Slowing Chinese economic growth coupled with confidence-sapping tumult on the stock market have set alarm bells ringing at companies about their future growth prospects in China. Consumer-facing businesses have an important role to play as the Chinese government nudges its economy from an investment-led to a consumption-led model.

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