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 success of this business model spawned many imitators who have since adopted this style within their corporations.

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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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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. Make sure existing products, processes, and culture do not prohibit the SaaS model from blossoming.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

And for-profit companies have something to learn from our philosophy — by putting social good at the center of their business models. It's also critical to make the greater good an essential part of your business model. First, in any social enterprise it's important to remember not to start with an "ask."

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Leaders who operate behind a veil of secrecy are only setting themselves up for a rude awakening. I don't view this as a lack of transparency, but rather a display of astute business sense. Ambiguity in communication offers opaque expectations maybe we have to think more and more about its paradox. should anything be transparent?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Developing effective conflict resolution skill sets are an essential component of a building a sustainable business model. Closing gaps becomes much easier when you can position differences as non-adversarial and operate within a framework of trust. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 11, 2016

According to the US Department of Education, the number of computer science degrees peaked at 37 percent between 1984 and 1985 compared to only 18 percent in the period between 2008 and 2011. Martine is also founder the Women Initiative Foundation (WIF) , in coordination with global energy player and expert operator ENGIE.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

The next time you hear someone question an investment into design solely for the purpose of reducing expenditures, I would suggest that you think long and hard before doing so as few things in business produce the return on investment that a reputation for quality design can yield.

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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

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. Yet Nokia hung on to the Symbian operating system despite knowing its weaknesses in the eyes of the consumer.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Their core is the design and the idea, the operating system, plus the network environment such as iTunes. Cost cutting and process improvements always have their place, but on their own accord don't constitute a sustainable business model. As an example, Look at Apple! But Apple does not manufacture them. But manufacturing?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2012

If you don’t hold a finance or operations position, consider cross training. You can read books about HR and marketing, but getting your head in and hands on the finances and operations will pay huge premiums later on. ’ I have built my entire business model on the opposite approach, however. Recently the St.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

These relationships can create efficient new sales channels and powerful feedback mechanisms or unlock entirely new business models. But they also risk alienating the longstanding partners that companies count on for their core business. The auto industry is a case in point.

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CO2

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Each business model calls for different cultures and different reasons for these behaviors. They become much more connected to the organizations operating values, vision and mission – they finally understand why they are doing what they are doing. About the Author As President and Co-founder of ACI Telecentrics, Inc.,

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Our research (discussed in detail in a 2011 Harvard Business Review article one of us coauthored) distinguished between two basic types of acquisitions. In the first kind, a company acquires another to strengthen its current business model. We call such deals "leverage my business model" (LBM) acquisitions.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Here is another of those articles: How Intermountain Trimmed Health Care Costs Through Robust Quality Improvement Efforts by Brent James and Lucy Savitz (2011). However, our payments also fell—often even further than our operating costs. Intermountain thus lost more than $9 million per year in operating margins.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

This is the essence of Groupon's declaration last week that it will remove the controversial accounting metric called Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income (ACSOI) from its financial statements. In the first quarter of 2011, Groupon posted a net loss of $113.9 In fact, we are really losing a lot of money.".

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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. Converting consumer certainty into consumer cash flow is a key part of making money from digital business models, many of which use subscription models. Making Money with Digital Business Models.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

One of the most enticing global entrepreneurial opportunities these days is taking a digital business model that works in the U.S. Several students in my Leading Global Ventures class at Harvard Business School have done just that over the past few years, and many more would like to follow suit.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

in 2011 to 2.9% Many governments have been focused on both making themselves more efficient through digital technology (such as making it easier to renew passports through online portals) and making their countries more attractive to digital technology companies (by reducing the cost of doing business within their borders).

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Notably tech firms acquired an average 250 tech companies annually between 2002 and 2011 and 350 in the years since. Second, companies are attempting to pick up talent they suspect they cannot recruit directly – often as a catalyst to a broader digital transformation, or as a challenge to their existing IT operations.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

A McKinsey study released in May 2011 stated that, by using Big Data to the fullest, retailers stood to increase their operating margins by up to 60% — this, in an industry where net profit margins are often less than 2%. Independent retailers are savvy operators and are eager to join the fray if given the opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In the second quarter of 2011, China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth slowed to 9.5%. When trying to build new growth businesses, Christensen observes that organizations need to employ an emergent strategy-making process. Experimentation is required to build new businesses and industries. That was down from 9.7%

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

And of course: What’s the business model for any of the above? ” In other words, Williams concluded that ad-supported models were encouraging both product designers and creators on the Medium network to focus on pageviews, and that was bad. has folded; the other, Catchpool, is still operating.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2013

After all, as the program organizer said in some exasperation, these guys were "working with a business model that hasn't changed since the time of Charles Dickens!". In the ten years or so since running that course, the assumptions underpinning a lot of the business models at law firms have come unraveled.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

“The venture capital model works well when the primary risk is finance risk — as the entrepreneurial team works to scale their business model — but it doesn’t work so well when technological risk and market risk coincide,” Errol Arkilic, an investor that specializes in hard tech ventures, told me.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

States and power companies can design their own way to compliance using a mix of onsite operational improvements and “beyond the fence” innovations, such as increased reliance on renewable energy sources, low-cost energy efficiency measures, and demand response, which compensates electricity customers for conserving energy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Product and business models are evolutionary by nature, but we see four things a young company must get right: The founding team. Unbalanced teams grow more so over time, as like hires like, resulting in an operation with lopsided competencies. Twitter 2006-2011) and vice versa (e.g., The core values.

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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. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

To help customers reduce decision-anxiety , some firms are building their business models around fewer and simpler choices. And Dell strictly limits the number of components in its computers as a way of controlling its customized assembly operations. What's your view? As a consumer, do you want fewer (and better) choices?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. Trust reached an all-time low of 24 percent in 2011, down from 69 percent in 2008.". Don''t get us wrong.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The new game is to think about the business model and strategy for not just the company but the entire ecosystem. In 2011 GE, the company famous for exporting great leaders, imported one when it recruited Bill Ruh from Cisco to lead GE’s push into software and analytics. Think like a large-scale entrepreneur.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

While Congress is considering the PROTECT IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011), there is a philosophical divide regarding the best way to deal with online piracy. Any measure to minimize piracy for a company such as Google would increase operating costs.

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