Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 19, 2011

Apple is now the most valuable company in the world in terms of market capitalization and U2’s recent tour just became the highest grossing of all time, crushing the previous record held by the Rolling Stones. Already we’ve committed to teaching nine workshops in 2012, five in the U.S.

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Workshop Webinar Magazine Conference 307

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 15, 2013

By contrast, the two books reviewed below offer highly specific ways of engaging culture to build more effective, productive, and innovative organizations. The authors note that interactivity is well served by social media platforms, which facilitate and sometimes mandate two-way communication. Behave less hierarchically!

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Open-book Books Competitive Advantage Participative 260

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

The following six ideas emerged this past year as powerful "innovation invitations." They'll be sources of — and resources for — innovation differentiation this coming year. If your organization doesn't find them innovatively interesting, then be careful: they may be wielded by the competitors you most dread.

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Innovation Health Care Globalization Media 16

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 2, 2019

These costs can become worse due to the natural aging process and the modern media landscape that scatters our attention in an increasing variety of ways. They believe these costs can be mitigated with the right approach however.

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Sample Cost Training Media 65

Women on Business

JANUARY 30, 2012

Who is running and leading the companies that make the products women are buying for themselves and their families? In 2012, 18 of the Fortune 500 companies will have women CEOs at the helm. Even more interesting is that we’re now seeing women lead companies in industries that have been historically male dominated.

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Power Cooper Diversity CEO 248

Strategy Driven

APRIL 25, 2014

Front and center in this shift is platform businesses – small business cloud-based companies, online marketplaces and crowdfunding sites. Between 2000 and 2012, the US labor force lost over a million private wage and salary workers yet in that same time frame, over 10 million working proprietors entered the marketplace.

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Bottom-up Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage Software 77

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 7, 2014

Despite the prevalence of language exalting teamwork, Schein notes that promotional and rewards systems in many companies remain almost entirely individualistic. To learn more about the Top Picks in business reading from strategy+business, check out their article Best Business Books 2012. This has not happened.

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Schein Leadership Teamwork Self-aware 248

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Social Nation : How to Harness the Power of Social Media to Attract Customers, Motivate Employees, and Grow Your Business by Barry Libert It’s time to join Social Nation and prosper!

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. There are two ways to set revenue targets.

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

So with apologies to those who don't share this passion, I present to you the September 2012 Leadership Development Carnival, NFL Kick-off Edition. Sharlyn Lauby , from HR Bartender, gets a big hit with Your Company’s Next Innovation Will Be the Result of Empathy. Posts are organized by NFL team conferences and divisions.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Benchmarking 243

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

In his blistering, 172-page decision, Judge Leon did much more than simply reject the government’s claim that combining two companies that do not compete with each other would harm consumers. Justice Department’s view of a static media landscape is dead and buried.

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Media Content Video Price 8

leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Within the last year, I’ve attended dozens of meetings with communicators in which a single, consistent order is dispatched: “We’ve got to incorporate social media in ALL our strategies.”. Then there are those thoughtful thinkers who pause for a moment to go deeper in understanding what it means to be strategic with social media.

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Wilde Media White Paper McKinsey 165

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2012

As posted on your business Facebook page by your customer, or as recommended by customers on their social media accounts? Here are more painful ‘reputation’ questions about your company and your products : What are you doing to build it? What are you doing to innovate it? Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Brand Reputation Customer Loyalty Industry 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

Few industries illustrate the Big Data wars better than the media business. Early results show that it is working — and that many pre-Web media companies should be concerned. Netflix''s first foray into original programming, the "House of Cards" series, has been a big hit (although the company doesn''t disclose ratings).

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ROI Company Learning Curve Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

For instance, Snapchat’s recent IPO filing revealed that the company grew revenues by 600% (to $404 million) in 2016. Airbnb has nearly doubled its user base every year since 2012 and is now worth $30 billion — nearly as much as Marriott International, the world’s largest hotel chain. Considering the following.

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Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Rapid BI

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

They need to innovate , they need to meet the changing expectations of customers. By not doing any of these things on a regular basis, in 2012 and beyond, can we really claim to be acting in a professional way? As the pace of change increases, firms of all sizes need to adapt fast. I don’t think so. Dramatically. It is not difficult.

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B2B Competitive Advantage Trends Learning-by-Doing 49

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2014

million customers and an annual revenue of 4 million dollars, social media service Buffer has grown by introducing useful products and exemplary customer service. Buffer builds tools to help businesses manage and analyze their social media activity. billion dollars in sales (a 50% increase over 2012) in the Etsy marketplace alone.

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Company Business Model Workshop Metrics 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

The business media have had no shortage of these. In our survey research , a mere 7% of executives said that their company’s digital initiatives were helping them to launch new businesses. Business model innovation is hard. There is another way to make money from business model innovation. Why is that?

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Business Model Insurance Technology Audience 8

In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 6, 2013

Wouldn’t you expect more innovation? Some companies brand exceedingly well. They endorse a whack of dough into media and they continue to extend brand names into other categories, but they are falling short in spearheading brand equity growth. There’s a smorgasbord of reasons why great brands and great companies lose their way.

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Brand P&L Human Resources Brand Management 260

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

One response to today’s climate crisis has been a belief that markets and corporate innovation will provide the solution. As business tycoon Richard Branson has proclaimed in 2012, “our only option to stop climate change is for industry to make money from it.”

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Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

In 2012, one of us — Gregor Gimmy, a California-based serial entrepreneur and former IDEO consultant — accepted a new role at BMW’s corporate R&D headquarters. Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

Grab, which launched its service in 2012 with 40 drivers in Malaysia, came late to the ride-hailing game, only after Uber had established a formidable position in the United States. In 2016 the company sold its China operation to Didi Chuxing because of the fierce competitiveness of the local player.

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Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Jobs was an innovator at heart. It's fascinating to watch where Cook has spent his time at work so far in 2012. Put two-and-two together, and you simply see less innovation with Cook at the top than with Jobs. Wages and working conditions, particularly in China, have and will continue to receive intense media scrutiny.

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Supply Chain Retail PR Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

The company created impressive digital capabilities, labeling itself a “digital industrial” company, embedding sensors into many products, building a huge new software platform for the Internet of Things, and transforming business models for its industrial offerings. Yagi Studios/Getty Images.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. Don’t keep relying on the same old social media platforms. SHRM reports that 84% of organizations use social media for recruiting, and 82% of them use it primarily in the hunt for passive candidates. Well, not necessarily. So venture out.

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Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

” Social media and digital platforms giving local start-ups global reach increasingly facilitate “born global” start-ups. ” In other words, today’s innovators don’t “go global”—globality is baked into their origins. from 2012 to 2014. Set your company up for success.

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Globalization Entrepreneur Innovation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Four Destructive Myths Most Companies Still Live By. Do you perpetuate these productivity-destroying falsehoods at your company? Five Things You Should Stop Doing in 2012. Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma. The concept of reverse innovation applies in finance, as well. Don't bother. by Tony Schwartz.

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Blog Silverman Govindarajan Letter 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Buyers increasingly expect to check with their peers before they'll purchase from a company — using social media, peer communities, old fashioned live events and conferences, personal and professional networks, and other connective tools. Social media understands this and facilitates it. Traditional media also gets this.

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Reference Tips Media Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

It seems that everyone is freaking out about teens abandoning social media sites like Facebook. Immigrants were responsible for significant innovation in the manicure business: They developed the idea of the stand-alone, inexpensive nail salon, which stimulated demand, which led to wage increases, which led to further economic growth.

Advertising 15

Advertising Idea Generation Innovation Diversity 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

Companies are using AI to prevent and detect everything from routine employee theft to insider trading. Social media companies use machine learning to block illicit content such as child pornography. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Patrick George/Getty Images. Insight Center.

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Banking Strategic Fit Risk Management Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

Way back in the first decade of the new millennium, when Craigslist seemed like the biggest threat facing newspapers, founder Craig Newmark paid visits to lots of media companies and media conferences. These days, it''s an open question whether newspaper companies can maintain any kind of a profit margin at all. .

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Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

What used to be a hierarchy with the company at the top is now a network with the customer at the center. Laura Messerschmidt, Vice President of Marketing at Outright (a GoDaddy company), discovered through extensive customer research a new tax law that would significantly affect millions of customers and prospects. The result?

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Venture Funding Brand Marketing Content 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

Rather than publish another whitepaper on the topic, the company struck on a different communication tool: Legos. Ericsson used Lego Mindstorm robots in a demonstration at the 2012 Mobile World Congress to bring to life its vision of how connected machines might change the way we live. More specifically, Lego robots.

Education 12

Education Human Resources Participative Training 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Buyers increasingly expect to check with their peers before they'll purchase from a company — using social media, peer communities, old fashioned live events and conferences, personal and professional networks, and other connective tools. Social media understands this and facilitates it. Traditional media also gets this.

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Reference Tips Media Case Study 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

That first banner that Modem Media, the fledgling digital agency where I worked, built for AT&T, was helpful, and it was useful. We knew, as my Modem Media boss G.M. Innovative shops like Modem Media, Razorfish, and Agency.com were snapped up. billion in 2012 to $20.89 But most companies dabble.

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Advertising Media Content Brand 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

million subscribers, not far off our 2012 prediction that there were at least 40 million U.S. That’s when the company suffered through the Quikster controversy and a protest over its price increase. Americans’ demand for media is very high. Think of it as Kickstarter for established companies and their consumers.

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Business Model Loyalty Brand Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Huffington grew up in Athens and studied in London before starting her career as a politician and media entrepreneur. Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. between 2006 and 2012 had at least one immigrant cofounder. Musk migrated from South Africa to the U.S. as young adult.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8