Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

Traditional marketing — including advertising, public relations, branding and corporate communications — is dead. Many people in traditional marketing roles and organizations may not realize they're operating within a dead paradigm. Actually, we already know in great detail what the new model of marketing will look like.

Marketing 22

Marketing Social Capital Media Influence 22

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

How to start measuring the factors that are most critical to the success of the business and identify the metrics that express them. The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance. All rights reserved.

Hammer 50

Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

On your road to success (whether it be to increase profits, become an industry leader, capture more market share, etc.), I saw literally millions and millions of dollars flow into projects that had no real metrics and timeline in place. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. All rights reserved.

Project 50

Project Wilde Entrepreneur Goal 50

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

This in turn leads to a very focused, coordinated, and ultimately a very passionate work environment. It sounds like a supportive, mature environment you are describing; where ego isn't the main thing but doing the right thing is. link] mikemyatt Thanks for your comment and kind words John. That's consensus."

Consensus 388

Consensus Team Building Blog Team 388

Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

What trends do you see in the market, and how does your competition relate to them? Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. How clear are you about the criteria for success? How well equipped are you to measure your company against those criteria?

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Industry Follow-up Skills 62

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

So, a decade ago, marketing professor Florian von Wangenheim ( now at the ETH Zurich technical university in Switzerland) and his then-student Markus Wübben ( now an executive at a tech incubator in Berlin) set out, in Wangenheim’s words, to “convince companies to use these models.”. Ergo: heuristics win.

Simon 11

Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 11

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

The simple truth is that lowering standards is never a good thing in any environment. While my list had more "diversity" it was a larger list based upon specific metrics as the standard for qualification – diversity was not one of these metrics. Race or gender have nothing to do with blogging ability.

Diversity 350

Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 350

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

From 2006 to 2011, the number of startups founded and funded outside of California, Massachusetts, and New York has grown by almost 65%. But it is an important metric. And because of the increase in entrepreneurial activity, there are also more companies chasing those dollars in secondary markets around the country).

IPO 9

IPO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage 9

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. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

So, a decade ago, marketing professor Florian von Wangenheim ( now at the ETH Zurich technical university in Switzerland) and his then-student Markus Wübben ( now an executive at a tech incubator in Berlin) set out, in Wangenheim’s words, to “convince companies to use these models.” Ergo: heuristics win.

Simon 8

Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

First, I examined the social media networks of a sample of social entrepreneurs who applied to participate in the 2010 or 2011 summer accelerator programs run by the Unreasonable Institute. But there may be something deeper at play here: No one yet knows how to systematically produce social value by using markets and business acumen.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Sample Follow-up Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

They are starting an estimated 1,288 companies each day, up from 602 in 2011-12. The women who make it to leadership roles perform better than their male peers , by several metrics. Evaluate men and women up for promotion on the same metrics, rather than judging the men on potential and the women on experience.

Middle Management 11

Middle Management Metrics Entrepreneur Consultative 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

The road map starts with creating an environment for frontline workers to imagine innovative new ways of delivering care. The reason we chose it was it had a wing where we could rebuild the physical environment — part of the change necessary to create the model cell. Tightening that ship will not get you to zero.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Process Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

If you ask venture capitalists in Silicon Valley how they measure the success of business entrepreneurs, they would no doubt list off metrics having to do with fast growth: funding raised, people hired, customers acquired, revenue produced. The assumption is that company growth is good. I'm not sure either frame is right.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Mentor Microfinance NGO 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Flooding in 2011 in Thailand, harmed 160 companies in the textile industry and halted nearly a quarter of the country’s garment production, increasing global prices by 28%.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. They’ve lived through tumultuous times before and the status quo has always returned.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Operations Quality 8

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Make a mental note to recreate this “listening environment&# every time you are in the presence of your teammates. After graduating from my undergrad education (2007) I unexpectedly joined my parents’ company as the Global Sales and Marketing Director…it has been amazing yet seems to be a daily trial by fire test.

Leadership 418

Leadership Ethics Course Learning-by-Doing 418

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

But what should take the place of that alpha metric as a better indicator of economic health? Today, the Legatum Institute releases its 2011 Index, and we were eager to know what might have changed. And a couple of companies have told us they use the Prosperity Index as a resource when they assess the potential of new markets.

GDP 11

GDP Social Capital Globalization Entrepreneur 11

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

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. How do you optimize resources in poorly defined decision-making environments – or in cases where scenarios are well-defined or ineffective?

Resources 50

Resources Process Constraint Objective 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2017

To measure human capital, you can deploy metrics such as our productive power index , which looks at the cost of organizational drag and the benefits of effective talent and energy management on your overall productive power. As the adage goes, you can’t manage what you can’t measure.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Management Company ROCE 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

To this end, several efforts — including the Genomic Data Commons , ORIEN , and CancerLinQ — have been established to facilitate data sharing among clinicians and researchers and to create an open environment in which data sharing is more commonplace. For some, that meant flying across the country several times.

Metrics 8

Metrics Health Care Learning-by-Doing Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

One of the dilemmas of firms in rapidly transforming environments is that their ownership structure may get in the way of making tough decisions. As noted management expert Geoffrey Moore told me with respect to high-velocity competition, "I''m not sure you ever want to be in the public markets." Take Motorola, for instance.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

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. This is the environment in which Toys “R” Us thrived. Cash registers were plentiful and easy to find, and success was measured with metrics like sales per square foot and average size of transaction.

Retail 10

Retail Blue Ocean Strategy Mauborgne Comparison 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

The employment-to-population ratio — the simplest of job-market metrics — shows a sharp drop for men in particular in the last recession. job market has taken since 2008, this is understandable. percentage in 2011: 21.9). This doesn''t mean times are good for male workers. Given the beating the U.S.

Organization 8

Organization Trends Long-term Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

One-year contracts hold our doctors accountable, with yearly performance reviews that include each doctor’s quality metrics, clinical outcomes, and research. To remain viable in today’s rapidly evolving environment, health care systems must reduce costs while continuing to improve quality and outcomes. The Cleveland Clinic’s Journey.

Health Care 9

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

“I think we have a shot at building the best office building in the world” were the words Steve Jobs used to describe Apple’s new headquarters in 2011. They acquire huge customer bases and receive staggering market valuations while employing a relatively small number of people. Their business models are fluid.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Technology Hedge Project 8

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. Many conventional metrics we use to estimate value are based on faulty assumptions. Copyright 2011. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Columbia University. About the Author.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50