Women on Business

JANUARY 12, 2011

Tanya energizes leaders to help them light the spark in their teams that results in: the proliferation of ideas and innovation,shorter cycle times, more collaborative environments, and high customer and employee loyalty. Please join me in welcoming Tanya Maslach of Elevati, Inc. to Women On Business. You can learn more about Tanya below.Â

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Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

He is also a syndicated columnist and contributing editor on topics of leadership and innovation, his theories and practices having been taught at many of the nation’s top business schools. Myatt has been recognized as one of the world’s top 25 leadership experts , and is acclaimed for his contributions to the field of leadership.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 26, 2012

Here's a guest post from entrepreneur Duncan Murtagh," an Irishman living in Taiwan, who has been to New Hampshire several times": How can we move past the tough times of 2011 to a more profitable 2012? A = Adapt – How about adapting the successful drive-through services that the fast food companies offer to the fast-casual market?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

For example, Whole Foods Market is combating rising health-care costs through a range of innovative health-care and wellness plans: • Health insurance plan: As a self-insured company, we spent over $200 million in fiscal 2011 on health care for our team members (this is how we refer to "employees" at WFM).

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas. Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations. Investigate those doing what you want to do.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 19, 2011

It identifies your company’s red flags, and provides a powerful and innovative methodology to transition from failure to flourish. Jobs was determined to bring the technology to market and anyone who stood in his way would not have a place at Apple. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Rudderless Leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

The decisions, which were both unanimous, significantly scaled back the ability of patent holders to slow innovation by competitors, tipping scales that many legal scholars believe have become badly imbalanced. Taken together, the two cases will improve the innovation environment for companies in fast-changing industries.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K.,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

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. and spends it in international markets. Aldi UK sales grew from $6.3 billion to $8.6

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In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 17, 2011

by John • October 17, 2011 • Branding , Human Resources , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 3 Comments. Never in the history of marketing has there been so much talk about branding. The conversation in the 2011 branding world is well beyond product and service brand discussion by marketers and ad agencies.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Even before Google bid $6 billion to buy Groupon, the online coupon startup, earlier this week, the media and businesses alike were trying to make sense of this innovative new promotional tool. Businesses need to find ways to offer discounts to budget conscious customers while minimizing cannibalization of full-price purchases.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2013

Advantages typically include an established customer base, brand equity, market knowledge, and financial resources. Digital encyclopedias such as Microsoft''s Encarta and later, Wikipedia, virtually destroyed the market for the venerable print edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Competition Disruptive innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K.,

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2011

The benefits of Groupon (discounted prices and access to vendors you may not have known about) are largely optional or discretionary — it isn't the kind of service one uses for essential goods and services. Give it a 2. That's a 1. The user interface for Groupon offers no particular advantage, as the offers come by email.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. The more trust that exists between players, the more efficiently the system, market, or organization will work. One part of fostering creativity and innovation is to accept the inevitable failures.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. That's right. Contestification.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

As Levie put it, “in this industry, people already think they have innovated if they have painted a grey wall green.” In both 2010 and 2011, TripAdvisor voted citizenM “The Trendiest Hotel in the World.” The industry had largely been unaltered since the onset of hotel chains over half a century ago.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Consumer markets in the developing world are an enormous but still-untapped opportunity for companies seeking new sources of growth. The challenges – market development, product design, logistics, communication — deter many companies from even considering rural markets in developing countries. Worldwide, there are 3.4

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2011

For decades, marketers have segmented their target customers to get a read on who will buy a product or service. Marketers no longer need to be so indirect about figuring out what a customer will do or like. Worse, your old segmentation may distract you from major shifts in customer behavior that could cost you your customer base.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2017

Over the past five to six years there has been a rush of capital and talent into startups; investment in them has grown nearly eightfold since 2011. To that end, it is working with entrepreneurs to introduce innovative solutions to the developing world. accounts, portfolio management, mortgages, car loans, person-to-person payments).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. As of March 2017, the market capitalization of the ether token was more than $4 billion.). Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

He is poised to become the leader in this segment of a multi-billion dollar market. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. In 2011, Havens’ collaboration with IBM procurement paid off, winning Havens four significant projects.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

How the most innovative providers are creating value. We interviewed leaders in 37 private for-profit and non-profit primary care programs identified in the Center for Health Market Innovations database and operating in over 25 developing countries. Market focus.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

As Darrell Rigby argued in a 2011 HBR article , every 50 years the retail industry goes through a major disruption. Toys “R” Us emerged in a wave of category killers and discount stores that arose in the 1950s and 1960s. The rise of urban centers led to department stores. Automobiles created suburbs and shopping malls.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. The logic of NPV is to project cash flows into the future and then discount those flows back into today’s dollars at a given cost of capital. Copyright 2011. Be prepared. About the Author.

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