Women on Business

DECEMBER 16, 2011

News and Insights from Business Women (December 16, 2011). Movers and Shakers: Karen Wimbish, Director of Retail Retirement for Wells Fargo. Cam Simpson of Bloomberg Markets Magazine reveals some disturbing news about human trafficking. Best Jobs for Women in 2012. At the top of the list is post-secondary teacher.

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Stress Tips Hammer Management 167

Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

An answer to this was anything but obvious, and I struggled to find one shortly after my friend Katie and I were laid off from what were supposed to be dream jobs with an online shoe retailer. We knew that choosing the latter entailed taking, quite probably, the greatest risk in the face of an unstable economy; yet, in the end, we did anyway.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 9, 2010

It’s your job to recruit, cultivate, and develop the up and coming Extreme Leaders in your midst. You’ve heard it before: develop people. However… The most overlooked way to develop Extreme Leadership in others is to let them participate in your development. You still have until midnight December 14th to vote. Do it now

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Workshop Blog Learning-by-Doing Video 179

Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

The steps she took next to bring her chocolates to a larger market would bring her great success over the course of the next decade. Katrina followed that initial success by branching out of her apartment and opening a retail store in Chicago just two-months after her chocolates launched in Neiman Marcus. Katrina didn’t give up.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 25, 2011

Design by 12GrainStudio Team Building & Leadership: Case Study; Increased Trust=Faster Implementation of Decisions & Problems Solved Cheaper Tuesday, January 25th, 2011 Posted by: mike The following is a true story, of value added results that come from Create-Learning’s Team Building & Leadership Processes. All rights reserved.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. When was the last time you entered a new market?

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 300

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Special Edition 50 – An Interview with Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of Retailing examines the use of analytics to improve an organization’s supply chain performance in a way that ultimately enhances the bottom line. Thank you again for listening to the StrategyDriven Podcast !

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Supply Chain Retail Bottom-up Newsletter 57

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Brimming with confidence after their recent success in China's biggest cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, both foreign and local marketers have expanded into many smaller cities across the country. This market was estimated at around RMB 2.9 This market was estimated at around RMB 2.9 RMB (around $1.48

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Marketing Franchising Retail Budgeting 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

Companies that demonstrate strategic coherence — think Wal-Mart and Coca-Cola — earn a market premium in terms of higher earnings and greater shareholder value. The big question for many leaders as they look toward 2011 is: "How can my company be one of them?". There's no doubt about it; numbers don't lie.

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Strategy Fixed Assets Competitive Advantage Long-term 15

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Consider these 11 ideas from the Radical Times Webcast series by SAS Marketing Director Jonathan Hornby: 1. We want to come out strong.”

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

It turned out that the unit was driving profits by raising prices and cutting marketing and advertising expenditures. Higher prices and reduced advertising created an opening for competitors to take away market share, which they did. So while profits were rising and ROIC was high, market share was declining. Copyright (c) 2011.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

At its core, reverse innovation describes solutions adopted first in poorer, emerging nations that subsequently—and disruptively—find a market in richer, developed nations. The very definition of "high-technology" hints at something typically reserved for the developed world.

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Technology Innovation CRM Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Some tentative conclusions: There is not much of a market for stand-alone strategy studies any more. The days when you could make a living responding to companies' discovery of strategy, as in "Gosh, we gotta get ourselves one of those," are gone with the 1970s (or maybe the 1990s in the "developing world"). Of course not," he replied.

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Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The Benevolent Dictator : Empower Your Employees, Build Your Business, and Outwit the Competition by Michael Feuer and Dustin Klein What does it require to take a concept rapidly and effectively from mind to market? And though it’s not easy, this means reining in your hard-to-handle employees while still developing their talents.

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Motivation Management How To Retail 51

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. ” Organic wine was not strongly embraced by distributors and retailers, either. .”

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Organization Chemicals Retail Reputation 10

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

The Benevolent Dictator : Empower Your Employees, Build Your Business, and Outwit the Competition by Michael Feuer and Dustin Klein What does it require to take a concept rapidly and effectively from mind to market? You can afford to invest in developing someone who is interested in developing. Consider leaving a comment!

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Bottom-up Sharpe Follow-up Retail 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

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 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In 2011, we published an article in HBR examining the surprisingly rapid growth of African economies and consumer markets. Growth has slowed sharply among oil exporters and North African countries affected by the 2011 Arab Spring democracy movements—but the rest of Africa posted accelerating growth at an average annual rate of 4.4%

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Globalization Long-term GDP Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Our traditional market research is telling us something else. Google trends," by Simeon Vosen and Torsten Schmidt, in the Journal of Forecasting (September 2011). I think the reason you trust traditional market research is that you have to pay for it out of your budget." Our market-research people know what they're doing.

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Cost Marketing Management Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Here are three strategies for developing digital distribution approaches that minimize risk: Embrace Stealth. Starting in 2011, Mercedes chose to develop direct distribution capabilities for electric bicycle sales under its Smart brand. market for personal computers. For example, Cree Inc. Minimize Pain.

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Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 10

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only. All rights reserved.

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Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

Every new market I look at seems to have an Amazon-style copycat — a website that looks, functions, and sells products a lot like a well-known online retailer. In India there''s Flipkart , in Russia there''s Ozon , and in Thailand, Indonesia, and other South East Asia markets there''s Lazada. In some cases this is true.

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Globalization First-mover Advantage Retail Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

The Indian government sponsored the introduction of 3G services in 2011 with a $30 billion spectrum auction. As unit economics enable ever cheaper smart phones (the lowest price in the market is now $65), their penetration will rise. It's a reflection of what's happening in the domestic retail space more broadly.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The bullwhip effect is the amplified response to demand signals as one moves “upstream” in the supply chain: from retailers to manufacturers to suppliers to commodity providers. Here’s a hypothetical illustration of the bullwhip effect: A retailer might experience an X% drop in sales owing to some external event.

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Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 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. But others were surprising, given their states before embarking on transformation.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

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. Our research on China’s prospects, in comparison to the development trends of 167 countries over 60 years, highlights the magnitude of the opportunity.

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Strategy Insurance Transportation GDP 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. Consumers opt in. They are inherently social.

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Brand Storytelling Trout Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

’ the questions must be asked, ‘WHY did we start doing WHAT we’re doing in the first place, and WHAT can we do to bring our cause to life considering all the technologies and market opportunities available today?’” In 1921, two brothers started the company to serve the ham radio market.

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Brand Merchandising Retail Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Despite the fact that Niantic, the American software development company that developed Pokémon Go, has failed to maintain high levels of engagement on the game (its current user base is now 30 million users), the phenomenon demonstrated AR’s potential to be adopted by mainstream culture.

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Tourism Technology Content Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

The company was hell-bent on entering a new market but knew it had to automate its warehouse to do so. The malfunction caused major delays shipping toys to retailers. Not surprisingly, many of those retailers refused to pay when the toys finally did arrive, too late for the holiday season. Their ability to execute.

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CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 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

JANUARY 7, 2015

Large numbers of developers responded, and some offered immensely popular applications such as Printicular from MEA Labs , which allows users to print photos at Walgreens from either their phones or their accounts with Facebook, Instagram, or Dropbox. Twitter acquired TweetDeck in 2011. As a result, it floundered for a while.

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Levitt Real Estate Business Model Early Adopters 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.

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Industry Retail Banking Brand 10

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. Notably tech firms acquired an average 250 tech companies annually between 2002 and 2011 and 350 in the years since. Defensive Moats.

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Company Business Model Price Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

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. Four main factors go into developing and positioning an app strategy: Brand. A brand also has to be aligned with the market profile of the consumer segment.

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Brand B2C Market Segmentation Travel 11