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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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

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. But can reverse innovation be relevant in the world of high-technology? million customers without using any paper forms or plastic loyalty cards.

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Technology Innovation CRM Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

As 2011 comes to a close, the editors of HBR.org are taking a look back at the most popular blog posts of the year to find out what most preoccupied you, our readers. HBR's 11 Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011. Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma. What Venture Capital Can Learn from Emerging Markets. by Dorie Clark.

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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 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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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking. While so much expansion can be tough on a brand, Santander is moving quickly to rebrand all of its acquisitions under the Santander name and launched substantial marketing campaigns in the U.K.,

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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

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Our most-read slideshow in 2011 was " Difficult Conversations: Nine Common Mistakes." How Retailers Are Reinventing Shopping. Our contributors weighed in with their innovations (and innovators) to watch. Well, a girl can dream.). Video interview. The Tanning of America.

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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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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? The Benevolent Dictator recognizes that entrepreneurship is a gauntlet. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Unlike most rankings, it was based on a systematic analysis of stock-market performance among nearly 2,000 CEOs of the world's largest companies. And Apple's share performance skyrocketed between the time we compiled the data and when he stepped down on August 24, 2011. Market Capitalization increase during tenure: $341.5

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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. She is a seasoned business professional and author, who brings a wealth of real-world experience and an innovative style to her position at Hammer and Company.

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

Penney''s CEO was a catastrophe — an assessment captured in the coverage of his ouster this week: "Former Apple Retail Guru Dumped;" "How Ron Johnson Made JCPenney Even Worse;" and my favorite: "I Am Become Ron Johnson, Destroyer of Worlds." Innovation Leadership Retail' Ron Johnson''s 17-month tenure as J.C. It''s true.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

Remarkably, the leading challenger is online retailer Amazon, with its Kindle Fire tablet. The innovation game is changing. The big difference is that the eReader market of 2007 was an open field; the tablet market of 2011 had a dominant giant. Delivering great products is no longer sufficient for success.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

In 2011, the average tenure dropped to 18 years. Fundamentally, though, digital transformation is the result of enterprises seeking to adapt to the storm of new technology affecting markets and customers. Industries dominated by information-rich assets (think publishing and music) were swept up in the early wave of internet innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

My consulting firm works with many successful market leaders with amazing market shares — 30%, 50%, 70% and even 90%. One example of a company in this situation is Gillette, which has approximately a 70% share of the shaving market. For decades, the shaving market was men''s facial hair removal.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

And last year, he decided that the answer was to take the company private, to escape the hectoring of the public market. Dell''s fortunes have not reversed over the past six years, owing in part to the recession, but more fundamentally to the decline of the PC market. For more background on the potential deal, click here.)

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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. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2011

In this first leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation , we asked the most progressive thinkers and radical doers from every realm of endeavor to share a story, a hack, a disruptive idea, or an experimental design that illustrates how the web can help overcome the limits of conventional management and create Management 2.0.

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Management Innovation Storytelling Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation. Big-box retailers, like Best Buy, now have large, fast growing e-commerce businesses. In recent years, incumbents have fought back. Trends need not be domestic.

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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. Meanwhile, agile Chinese manufacturers such as Geoby have taken the market for cheap transport by storm. Between 2004 and 2011, only 1.4%

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

For many companies, a shrinking middle class means a shrinking top line, as their traditional consumer base migrates to the lower end of the market. For 2011, it all added up to $4.8 A focus on innovating consumer experiences, not company products. Census Bureau, a record 46.2 But not for the J.M. Smucker Company.

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Brand Strategic Fit Retail McKinsey 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

The center of gravity for jobs, wealth, and market opportunities is moving, disrupting the world economic order as we have known it. In 2011, for the third year in a row, the Euromonitor International market research firm ranked Haier as the top appliance brand in the world, calculated its retail volume share as 7.8

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

The Boston Innovation District’s meteoric real estate prices are pushing the very entrepreneurs who made the district sexy towards neighboring districts where rents have not tripled since 2010. With all the buzz around disruptive innovation as a driver of business success in recent years, it’s important not to forget this original meaning.

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Already in 2011 the Chinese spent more time on the Internet than watching TV , while in the U.S. Due to the one-child policy there are many more men than women in China, particularly in rural areas, so competition in the marriage markets is intense and some men have to work really hard to find a spouse. And some adults are lonely too.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Here’s a quick look at what I found: Rohit Bhargava, marketer, professor and author of Likeonomics , recently issued his report: 15 Marketing Trends In 2013 And How Your Business Can Use Them. million in 2011. Representation of women on boards of S&P 500 companies declined to 16% in 2011 from 16.6% of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. In contrast, loans to larger firms have risen every year since hitting bottom in 2011, and are now up about 4% since that low point.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The tales of two companies, cell phone accessories retailer Cellairis and skin care products maker Rodan + Fields, illustrate the dangers of top-level strategic tinkering. They had the epiphany that they could use cheap retail space – the carts that sit in the middle of shopping malls – to sell mobile phone accessories, mostly cases.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

For one thing, thanks to a long history of exclusive municipal franchising regulations that didn’t end until 1992, the two companies don’t overlap in any market—TWC customers will become Comcast customers (and get arguably better technology and service in the process), but no local market will see a decline in the number of competitors.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Innovations like Amazon price checks, or changes to healthcare or shipping enabled by mobile phones, are becoming commonplace. Organizations need to enhance their design and capabilities to survive and stay competitive in a world where innovation matters more. And a lot is happening in Silicon Valley. Product Research and Development.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Each local Goodwill designs their own programs to help job-seekers in their community, innovating as they see fit to help individuals and families. By being both market-driven and customer-focused, each Goodwill can be more effective.

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Business Model Brainstorming Innovation Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

In a previous piece I discussed why some AR apps are destined to be forgotten as gimmicks, and what mistakes marketers should avoid when trying to deploy them. The application was one of the first marketing campaigns that allowed interaction with a digital model in real time. Aside from complex technological advances (e.g.,

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Tourism Technology Content Fashion 9

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The Benevolent Dictator : Empower Your Employees, Build Your Business, and Outwit the Competition by Michael Feuer What does it require to take a concept rapidly and effectively from mind to market? Innovation. The boss must act as the ‘external force’ for continuous, systematic change and innovation in an organization.

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