N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

As a CEO, I would strongly suggest you conduct a gut check during your next executive meeting by counting the number of times you hear your CXOs say things like: “That will never work,&# &# We can’t do that,&# “That’s not my problem,&# “We’ve always done it that way.&# Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming?

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 305

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website.

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Supply Chain Retail Bottom-up Newsletter 57

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

The big question for many leaders as they look toward 2011 is: "How can my company be one of them?". Such capabilities could be rapid-cycle product development, point of sale merchandising, large-scale fabrication, and so on. Paul Leinwand is a Partner in Booz & Company's global consumer, media, and retail practice.

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Strategy Fixed Assets Competitive Advantage Long-term 15

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Whether you’re a business student, aspiring entrepreneur, or a practicing executive, you need to discover the winning ways of The Benevolent Dictator. I launched a number of successful business ventures, including OfficeMax and my newest business, Max-Wellness, a new and unique health and wellness retail chain.

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Motivation Management How To Retail 51

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. One retail CTO summed it up well at a recent SAS event when he said, “We don’t want to just struggle through and be hanging by our fingertips when the economy recovers. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

He is training senior executives, leaders and employees in organizations like Google, Nike, Accenture, GE and many other organizations in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Rasmus has a Master’s degree in Organizational Development & Adult Learning and degrees in Philosophy and Human Resources. Her clients include Yahoo!7,

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Productivity Products Strategy Covey 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Have you ever said to yourself, How in the world did [insert name of powerful business executive] get to where he is? That executive who made it big probably doesn’t have more powerful brain cells than you… but what he (or she!) You can afford to invest in developing someone who is interested in developing.

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Bottom-up Sharpe Follow-up Retail 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Like Satan in the book of Job, I've been going to and fro in the earth over the past few months, in my case talking to corporate executives, consultants, and former consultants. Among my questions to them: How are you thinking about strategy these days? This poses a dilemma for consulting firms.

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Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Since the unit’s reported financial results were so good, the executives at the corporate headquarters didn’t ask many questions about the drivers of the unit’s profits – until it was too late. Copyright (c) 2011. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. It took many years for the company to regain its lost position.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

On December 8 th , we’ll be meeting with Christine Magee of Sleep Country Canada to talk about her leadership lessons from close to two decades of building Canada’s best known mattress retailer. Leave a Reply Cancel reply RSS - Posts Subscribe to our Blog Brought to you by: Online MBA Rankings Join our Fan Page The Executive Roundtable Inc.

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COO Crisis Management Crisis Blog 34

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

The people who work in a given department all focus on the same departmental goal— advertising promotes sales, shipping moves the product, procurement buys the parts— and they report to the executive in charge of their department, who measures their performance and rewards or penalizes them according to the department’s own metrics.

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Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

For a retailer, it’s extremely useful to know whether a customer will be back or has abandoned you for good. Starting in the late 1980s , academic researchers began to develop sophisticated predictive techniques to answer that question. This resistance to state-of-the-art statistical models has frustrated the academics.

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Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Troubles at Tesco, the UK’s leading retailer, are mounting. 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. How did this happen?

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Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Three and a half months after announcing a price increase in July 2011, Netflix had lost 800,000 customers and its stock nosedived from $291 to $75. While I don't condone it, most retailers set prices by simply marking up their wholesale costs. Thus, if wholesale prices go up, retail prices do too.

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Price Retail Press Release Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

For a retailer, it’s extremely useful to know whether a customer will be back or has abandoned you for good. Starting in the late 1980s , academic researchers began to develop sophisticated predictive techniques to answer that question. What they found surprised them.

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Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 8

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.

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Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

The Indian government sponsored the introduction of 3G services in 2011 with a $30 billion spectrum auction. It's a reflection of what's happening in the domestic retail space more broadly. Infibeam's founder projects growth of the retail economy from $400 billion today to $1 trillion by the end of the decade.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Writing in the Sloan Management Review, Boston College professor Gerald Kane noted that 87% of executives surveyed indicated that digital technologies will disrupt their industries to a great or moderate extent. Here are three strategies for developing digital distribution approaches that minimize risk: Embrace Stealth.

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Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

The executives of Fortune 500 companies might be able to lose the same bet with impunity, and the founders of venture capital-funded startups are only renting the farm (with the VC’s money) anyway. But for a midsize company, an ambitious investment that you don’t have the wherewithal to execute on can be fatal.

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CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Some companies that made the list were obvious choices; for example, the biggest online retailer now gets most of its profit from cloud services (Amazon). Yet these executives also had an outsider role where they worked on an emerging growth business or consciously explored external opportunities, giving them critical distance from the core.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Some executives may be reluctant to admit – perhaps for sentimental or political reasons — that their brand is sucking out more value from the company than it creates. But as Netflix and online media channels developed, Blockbuster was no longer unique in fulfilling that purpose, and the way it fulfilled it became anachronistic.

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Brand Merchandising Retail Real Estate 8

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

million in 2011. Fortune 500 chief executives were female and 40% of U.S. Representation of women on boards of S&P 500 companies declined to 16% in 2011 from 16.6% They’re starting totally virtual companies, using the cloud for solutions and developing innovative ways to manage staff, time, family and work.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

The word conscious, or more specifically consciousness, is associated with self-awareness, personal development, the greater good, and a worldview that eschews competition, hierarchy, and materialism. One of the payoffs is a turnover rate under 20 percent — a fraction of the turnover that most of his retail competitors endure.

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Company Self-aware Retail CEO 10

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. The list goes on.

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Industry Retail Banking Brand 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Nor do I have to convince leaders to develop new competencies: experience taught them that self-awareness, being able to deal with ambiguity, manage continual change, devolve leadership, and coach their people and are critical to their survival. Over the last twelve months, I have seen the best and worst in leadership.

Leadership 15

Leadership Crisis Banking Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Executives searching for sources of top-line growth should look at what's already in their hands — literally. Smartphone sales in 2011 are estimated to reach 468 million units, a 57% increase over 2010. They're failing to take control and develop a plan. This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Growing the Top Line.

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Brand B2C Market Segmentation Travel 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

Another team developed a plan to reuse and optimize networking systems in offices, which cut energy costs by $22 million. They also want to be involved in developing sustainability strategy. The projects produced financial and environmental benefits, of course. They equip employees with the right tools and training.

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Metrics Chemicals Simon Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2012

As a result, the retailer lost $163 million (compared to earning $64 million in the first quarter of 2011) and suspended its quarterly dividend. This is a lesson that all businesses can learn from — and one I often see in my own work of developing new pricing strategies. Penney doesn't need to be taking on right now.

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Price Strategy Discount Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

He arrived as President at Quaker Foods North America in 2011 to find a strong, trusted brand with nutritional oatmeal products, but he knew there was an opportunity to build upon the legacy of this iconic brand. Innovation managers execute improvements and simultaneously engage and develop people. The Innovation Manager.

Balanced Scorecard 8

Balanced Scorecard Innovation Globalization Micromanagement 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. It’s that time of year again: time for business owners and senior executives to take stock of the past twelve months. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

My friend Mark Zawacki , founder of 650 Labs, which advises companies on leveraging Silicon Valley, has identified three approaches: idea scouting, venture investing, and traditional product research and development. Product Research and Development.

Innovation 8

Innovation Telecommunications Technology Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

As his firm grew, he undervalued and underpaid the executives who ran the supply chain and finance departments. That, of course, meant he did not have highly competent executives running these functions. The CEO must shift the culture toward one that prizes execution just as much as sales. Later that year, Dave’s got $2.1

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Operations Company Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

Michael Levie, a seasoned hotel executive, and Rattan Chadha, a successful retail entrepreneur, were having dinner. In both 2010 and 2011, TripAdvisor voted citizenM “The Trendiest Hotel in the World.” citizenM explicitly used analogical reasoning to develop new elements in its hotels.

Industry 8

Industry Hotels Travel Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. In our experience, there are specific steps CEOs and CMOs can take to develop a working relationship that is dynamic and useful. Here are our recommendations for the CEO: Give the CMO a seat at the executive table.

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Max Brown (to learn more about the book and the numerous book retailers where you can buy a copy, click here to check out the book page on my website ). And, I’ve developed a life-long habit of giving thanks which has helped me immensely in building productive communities of people as a leader in the corporate world.

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Learning-by-Doing Books Commitment CEO 276

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

This story was inspired by " Forecasting private consumption : survey-based indicators vs. Google trends," by Simeon Vosen and Torsten Schmidt, in the Journal of Forecasting (September 2011). It's pure and unbiased, and it's updated every week, so we can see trends as they develop. Will Big Data Kill All But the Biggest Retailers?

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Cost Marketing Management Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

From 2008 through 2011, we were just up against challenge after challenge to keep our business in play. Even in more robust economic times, any retail business has to cope with seasonality. We connect with groups traveling to the southwest — we've created experiences for doctors' associations, for groups of women executives.

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Drucker Creativity Travel Objective 8