Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

Fifty years ago, we did not have television news anchors, software engineers, web designers, or cosmetic surgeons. Imagine you are a product manager at Proctor and Gamble or Unilever and are charged with designing a new line of detergents or packaged food. It is not enough to be a good surgeon, a civil engineer or a litigation lawyer.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

I hope your inspiring and heartfelt thoughts cause others to reflect on the great price that has been, and is continuing to be paid to protect our freedom. At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. Best wishes Bo… [link] mikemyatt Thank you Mark.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Few companies faced bigger self-created challenges in 2011 than Netflix. Last summer the company tried to split itself in two, creating separate websites and pricing structures for its legacy DVD-by-mail business and its newer, growing streaming video service. and 15.4%, respectively, from Q2 to Q4 2011. This represents a 1.7%

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2011

Our understanding of pricing has come a long way since 1890 when Alfred Marshall published his treatise on the economic scissors of supply and demand. Pricing is no longer a purely economic challenge to be addressed through studies of market elasticity. Rather, pricing today must be focused on value exchange. Smith, PhD.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

The company's stacked-ranking system, for example, required managers to rate employees according to a bell-curve pattern. As a result, engineers and developers had a greater incentive to compete with each other than they did to collaborate with each other.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

And some do get the value of shopping for talent now: Engine maker Cummins Inc., jobs in 2011, many requiring engineering or other technical skills. Similarly, Sony gave sound labs engineer Ken Kutaragi enough latitude to progressively develop the Sony PlayStation gaming platform. now with about 14,800 U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Here’s the cold hard truth…if you cheat your family to invest into your career, you and your loved ones will pay a very heavy price. I'm looking forward to learning from you in 2011. I'm looking forward to 2011 and I appreciate your advice and friendship. Best regards, Dan scottgould Mike, This is so good.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

The managing director needs to know when and where we're launching. These were exciting times for their employer, the German automaker Vado, as it moved into the rapidly expanding e-bike industry, but Stefanie, the manager of the new e-bike unit, was feeling the weight of the decisions she faced. "I I can't wait any longer.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2011

It started with just a few dozen people, but as we grew, (2977 employees have attended our yearly summit as of January 2011) I would inevitably get questions about how long we could keep holding such a meeting. Not just managers?" It's all about a simple, focused mission; an effective management team; and great culture.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier. In addition, we found that partnering with an external cloud service provider to deliver SaaS (instead of building and managing the cloud infrastructure on your own) leads to a further 2.9% increase in stock price on the announcement day.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

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. I was in the minority when I wrote that the price increase was a good thing. business ended 2014 with 39.1

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

We see an interesting pattern across the professionally managed companies, those whose CEOs were hired by the board. On a separate track, he launched the device and content ecosystem, starting with iPod and iTunes, that would become the company’s new growth engine. These CEOs are what we call “insider outsiders.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. In 2011 it was $2 billion , good for third place. W]e seek to find undervalued companies in the Graham & Dodd tradition, a methodology for valuing stocks that primarily looks for deeply depressed prices.” He’s been winning a lot of them lately.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

As we move forward we need to be mindful of two principles that must be at the heart of any fundamental health care reform: “no margin, no mission” and “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” As the era of health care cross-subsidization ends, these principles must guide our actions. Kaplan and Michael E.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

But managers make it harder when they think about it only as radical industry reinvention. In 2011, the company partnered with mobile carrier Docomo to offer customers a series of innovative insurance products under the banner One-Time Insurance. And only 15% said digital was helping them to create new business models. Why is that?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

For example, shipments of medical, scientific, and hospital equipment to China have risen 69% percent since 2011. Comparing the five years between 2012 and 2016 to the period between 2007 and 2011, U.S. Over the same period, pharmaceutical exports have doubled. exports to Saudi Arabia of hospital equipment alone increased 54%.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? No single leader can possess every needed attribute.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2014

In Science , a team of Harvard-affiliated researchers published their findings that GFT has over-estimated the prevalence of flu for 100 out of the last 108 weeks; it’s been wrong since August 2011. They don’t matter.” Or, “Since Facebook has a billion accounts, it has substantively everyone.”. Can we do better?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

It consumes 20% less fuel than an equivalent 767; which, given today's increasing fuel prices and airlines' diminishing profit margins, should make it an extremely desirable aircraft. While the first 787 was originally scheduled to be delivered back in 2008, a string of delays and cost overruns meant that deliveries didn't start until 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Coca-Cola was not alone in facing increasing costs in 2011; one of my clients, Kimberly-Clark, took an earnings hit from record pulp prices. The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The solution, we decided, was to acquire a local company that had already gained traction in the market and that could provide us with proven local management as well as help us with web search, which had become a priority after we bought U.S. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Both were offered free to consumers and merchants.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

Among the lessons which we learned from the Y2K Bug exercise were: When they want to do so, company leadership will provide sufficient resources to plan for the future, including crisis management and preparedness (of which computer glitches are one set of ‘what ifs.’). Unprofitable pricing. Crisis management.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart). Entrepreneurial, small business management. Human resources management. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Academic, research. All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

By now everyone knows the story: Kodak went into a free fall that led to bankruptcy in 2012 because it failed to respond to the disruption of digital technology — even though one of its own engineers invented a technology for capturing a digital image in 1975. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

In 2011, that number was 250 million. In an information-overloaded world, you are asking your friends to pay the hefty price of their precious mind space. Here are some reasons why you're the business, and your friends are your customers: First, your friends pay for your product. In 2009, we produced 27 million tweets per day.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

Engineers gave it rave reviews, and investors were lined up. He then maneuvered nerdy engineers to build his sexy devices. Wireless rights became more flexible, ceding spectrum management to the market. Soon, carriers everywhere — and, by 2011, all four national networks in the U.S. — would feature iPhones.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

One result is that they keep their cards close to their chests about what they are looking for (at first), while expecting you to reveal everything – your finances, pricing, ownership, human resources, production processes, quality assurance, customer service procedures, KPIs, and existing customers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2012

In the past year, the technology has managed to dip to a price point and the functionality has become attractive enough that a consumer market is really materializing. GE announced recently that it is printing working parts for aircraft engines; Airbus says it will someday print an entire aircraft.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The key, of course, is managing when rivalry is appropriate — and when it's dangerous for both your employees and your company. Why Your Virtual Garden Doesn't Yield Any Crops How Zynga Went from Social Gaming Powerhouse to Has-Been Ars Technica Ars Technica Between 2007 and 2011, Zynga seemed unstoppable.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Snapchat, an idea conceived in 2011, is now valued around $16 billion, with more than 100 million active users who send an average of over 400 million snaps per day. All Airbnb does is offer a connection between home and flat owners with rooms to rent to people looking for a lower-priced alternative to hotels.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

Posted on August 20th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Rants , Talent Management By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth My question is this: Is your intellect an asset or liability? Winning an argument isn’t particularly difficult, but it may come at a very expensive price. Thanks Brian.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

In contrast, when Samsung and Sony were deciding whether to launch LED TVs, which offered better picture quality than plasma TVs at a slightly higher price, there was lower uncertainty about demand because customers were already buying TVs. How much uncertainty does your industry you face?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Greater productivity meant lower prices and faster growth, leading to increased industry dominance. Vox is a digital publishing company known, in part, for its proprietary content management system.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

These lawsuits have been enabled in part by the efficient-market teaching that “in an open and developed securities market, the price of a company’s stock is determined by the available material information regarding the company and its business.” This debate is happening because in Halliburton Co. John Fund, Inc. ,

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

master’s and PhD students in science and engineering, “enabling international students who complete degrees in these fields to move to green card status.” to fund poorly managed programs to subsidize rural and low-income communities. ” No technology company would object to that proposal.

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