Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

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. The employees loved them, and the next thing Katrina knew, her chocolates were being sold in Neiman Marcus.

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Increasingly, the largest retailers in markets across the country are employing sophisticated personalized marketing and thereby becoming the primary shopping destination for a growing number of consumers. Retail has entered the era of Big Data. The biggest retailers are investing accordingly.

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Retail Brand Marketing Industry 15

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. New technologies and socioeconomic trends are reshaping the retail marketplace. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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Resources Newsletter Retail Strategic Planning 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2011

This post is part of the HBR Forum, The Future of Retail. Between 1994 and 2011, the number of farmers markets across the United States grew from 1,755 to 7,175. In other words, these are fundamentally more human retail experiences. It's not just with pop-up vendors, though.

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Retail Technology Efficiency Trends 15

CO2

JULY 6, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. As a reminder, if you are not fully satisfied, you can return your undamaged iPhone to any Apple Retail Store or the online Apple Store within 30 days of purchase for a full refund.

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Letter Blog Executive Coaching Strategic Planning 74

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

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. Some examples include new technologies, changes in customer preferences, new ways of serving customers, and disruptive threats.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

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? Or redesigning a company's entire store system and approach to customers.

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Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

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. But as the amount of data that retailers are able to collect grows and the predictive models keep improving, the models will inevitably become markedly better at predicting customer behavior than simple rules.

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Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 10

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. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age.

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Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2020

as well as the Tohoku earthquake in Japan in 2011. This is where technology can save the day. Today’s mobile autonomous robotic cart (MARC) technology takes automation a step further. As technology continues to advance, automation’s capabilities will only skyrocket. AUTOMATION AND THE SUPPLY CHAIN.

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Supply Chain Compliance Fashion Efficiency 117

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. Forecasting acumen.

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CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Companies increasingly use digital technologies to circumvent distributors and enter into direct relationships with their end-users. 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.

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Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 10

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. There may have been another business that they could have started, utilizing the company’s assets (real estate, technology, staff, etc.)

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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% Technology and the Internet are enabling women to work and run businesses more virtually, often from their homes and often with help from angel funding.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

An executive there took me on a walk around to see the wonders of this fancy LEED gold-certified tower. But, in 2011, ours is a different world, which made me wonder: Were these Hearst facilities artifacts of a by-gone era? A vast swath of e-retailers followed Amazon's example. Is the Seal still something we need?

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Productivity Products Retail Telemarketing 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The only sure thing, especially when it comes to technology, is continuous discontinuity. How can you build your organization’s ability to sense and respond to rapid improvements in technology? Consider General Motors, which is looking to Silicon Valley for innovative ideas and technology that could give it a competitive edge.

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Innovation Telecommunications Technology Entrepreneur 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. The list goes on.

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Industry Retail Banking Brand 10

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

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. Technology. This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Growing the Top Line. Want to cringe?

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Brand B2C Market Segmentation Travel 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

But they don’t think nearly enough about operational meltdowns – technological glitches and other problems that can put them out of business. Unlike much larger companies, midsized firms usually lack deep operational and technological talent who can quickly recognize, understand, and resolve huge systems glitches.

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Operations Company Supply Chain Short-term 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

MAY 20, 2013

UK-based Marks & Spencer launched "Plan A" in 2007 , aiming to make the company the most sustainable retailer in the world by 2015 and incorporate sustainability attributes, such as sustainable cotton or wood, into every product it sells by 2020 (currently one-third of its products have Plan A attributes).

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Metrics Chemicals Simon Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

Everyone is familiar with the primary methods Gillette used to grow: It innovated via technology (with the Sensor, Mach 3, and Fusion razors), and in 2001 it formally expanded into the women''s leg shaving market with a new brand called Venus. For decades, the shaving market was men''s facial hair removal.

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Price Franchising Marketing CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

While competitors like Compaq and IBM sold PCs through retailers, distributors, and resellers, Dell sold directly to its customers, offering highly customized PCs at a time when the cost of computers was high enough to still require significant tradeoffs. Dell''s success can be attributed in large part to its "direct model." The Case of IBM.

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Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

The big decisions are made in the West Wing of the White House, not over in the Executive Office Building where the Council is housed. million people, or about 3% of the country's wage and salary workers, made the minimum wage or less in 2011. Studies of retailers seem to indicate that this might the case. What ails the U.S.

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Price Policies Fashion Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The first is from a Google executive; the second, from an exec at Cisco. Bank of America recently considered a $5 fee for customers to get their own money via their debit card because they have to find a way to fund all those retail storefronts. "There's no way we could ever be this collaborative.". Take banking as a visible example.

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Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

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. Where professionals once wrote memos to be read, 2011 begins an era in which documents are written with touch both in mind and on fingertips. That's right.

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Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Get executive buy-in and foster accountability It’s not enough for executives to agree on the goals, business rules and constraints, and decisions that will be made. Juliano Howard T.

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Resources Process Constraint Objective 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Starbucks is just one of many companies using this type of technology, and it’s not hard to understand why. As the argument goes, that’s good for workers, who don’t want to be bored or overwhelmed, and it’s good for retailers, whose biggest cost and revenue driver is typically labor. on Saturdays.

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Software Management Retail How To 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

These tried-and-true tools of the retail trade might not be as sexy as other forms of marketing. These instruments share a common objective: to influence purchase decisions by equipping consumers with incremental spending power for specific brands and retailers. What does this mean for retailers and brands? Gift cards.

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Brand Loyalty Retail Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

DISH Networks, the owners since 2011 of video rental giant Blockbuster, announced Wednesday the shuttering of all remaining company-owned retail locations and of Blockbuster’s DVD-by-mail service. homes have broadband , and network operators continue to invest in ever-faster cable, satellite, and fiber-based technologies.

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Disruptive Innovation Intangible Assets Retail Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Technology is making it easier to connect with rural consumers in so-called media dark areas. The Philippines is a nation of small retailers. About 95% of the 1 million retail locations are small variety shops, called sari-sari stores. Several HUL executives told me they credited their success in part to that program.

Marketing 8

Marketing Brand Cost Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

But as the digital revolution continues to spark widespread disruption in other industries — automotive, financial services, health care, and retail — who will win? Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods Market is perhaps the purest expression of the blending of the digital and physical worlds of retail.

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Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.”

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Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

The cloud containing most of this data is vast and abstract; the technology that keeps it running takes up real space — a lot of it. Data centers are quickly becoming a pressing issue for many executives as companies consider how to keep costs down and environmental impact to a minimum. The solutions.

Energy 14

Energy Efficiency Industry Telecommunications 14