Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. At Bettcher Industries, we love the meat processing industry; we’ve always loved the meat processing industry and one reason we do is because many others don’t.

Succession 70

Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

The key for every firm — regardless of size — is to figure out how to consistently create value in a demanding, ever-changing market. That is hard no matter what size you are, no matter what industry you're in. HP is #10 on the 2012 list, and IBM is number 19. That's a far more enduring answer.".

Operations 16

Operations Innovation Industry CEO 16

HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

Carey Pellock: Since I joined Neustar in 2012, the company has undergone significant changes – most notably a transition from public to private company status and the arrival of a new CEO. Our values informed our guiding principles, developed by our CEO and implemented by our Executive Committee, for operating through COVID-19.

Leadership 52

Leadership Agility Diversity Competitive Advantage 52

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2014

Some commentators felt the move to New Coke was a marketing gimmick to regenerate interest and sales in the brand after sales erosion due to the “Pepsi Challenge” taste test campaign. When Kraft split off its snack division in 2012, they named it Mondelez. Unless you are a big player with an enormous marketing budget (e.g.,

Brand 58

Brand Marketing Engineering Competitive Advantage 58

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Generation Z , which includes anyone born between 1997 and 2012, influences your business more each day as the generation enters the workforce and its purchasing power increases. It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market. At CO2 Partners, we identify operating values — not aspirational values.

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Generation Z , which includes anyone born between 1997 and 2012, influences your business more each day as the generation enters the workforce and its purchasing power increases. It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market. higher operating profitability. Ernst & Young. greater revenue growth.

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2013

Between 2002 and 2012, the shareholder return of the average airline company rose an uninspiring 5.6% It was just lousy timing if you happened to be in one of these industries, which were all in the bottom quartile of total shareholder returns (share price change plus dividends paid) in the 10 years through 2012.

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TSR Industry Company Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

In some of these markets, minorities are in fact the majority. I'm a product of a market like this. In fact, ethnic grocery stores constitute a $26 billion industry, one that's growing at several multiples faster than the overall grocery, according to IBIS world. Blend the two and you have a winning market map.

Marketing 15

Marketing Stage-Gate Industry Productivity 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

The first one is the marketing effect of IP litigation. And this is particularly interesting given the aggressive marketing strategy implemented by Samsung in the past few years. AdvertisingAge reports that in 2012, Samsung increased its U.S. In particular, there are two features of the case which are worth pointing out.

Marketing Strategy 8

Marketing Strategy Strategy Marketing Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Or, as it turns out, even the vicinity of 1455 Market Street, the address of Uber’s San Francisco headquarters. The fight for new recruits is intense — not just in the tech sector, but across all industries. ” message and think, Hey, maybe it’s time for a change. What’s the trick?

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

” Who knew that it was the dawn of a new era not just for advertising, but for all of marketing? The result is a new era of marketing accountability, in which advertising “budgets” will have turned into marketing “investments.” ” This sea change in mindset will transform marketing forever.

Advertising 8

Advertising Marketing Software Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

The auto industry is a case in point. 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. market for personal computers. Minimize Pain.

Strategy 10

Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

I’ve been surveying executives of Fortune 1000 companies about their data investments since 2012, and for the first time a near majority – 48.4% — report that their firms are achieving measurable results from their big data investments , with 80.7% of executives characterizing their big data investments as “successful.”

Company 11

Company Chief Information Officer Parcell Survey 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. 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.

Transportation 10

Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

There are indeed many interesting applications in niches like prototyping, prosthetics, customized consumer products, jewelry, and even some industrial components such as turbine blades. The Future of Operations. million between 2012 and 2022, while the number of jobs will grow by about 15.6 Insight Center. A skills shortage?

Technology 8

Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 8

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.” Wallace Garrison/Getty Images.

Goal 8

Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 8

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. The biggest retailers are investing accordingly. But it is fast becoming cannon fodder.

Retail 15

Retail Brand Marketing Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. Model 1: Virtual operator.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

That’s the highest proportion since the firm began conducting the survey in 2004, and a big increase since 2012. The reasons were straightforward: An outsider often did not know the industry or its suppliers, customers, or competitors, nor did they know the capabilities of the company and its people.

CEO 8

CEO Automotive Survey Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system. The new rivals revolutionized customer expectations, causing Nokia’s Symbian operating system to become outdated. Not until there’s an option.

Strategy 8

Strategy Analysis Operations CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

We chose Brazil’s beef industry as the location of our case study , both for the size and complexity of the industry and for its impact on the planet. We found that sustainable and deforestation-free practices created significant financial benefits for all players in the industry’s value chain. of revenues).

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Many such bulletins focus on radically changing the nature of competition in an industry, as Apple did for music and Uber did for taxis. But managers make it harder when they think about it only as radical industry reinvention. Latino audience, a market that collectively has over a trillion dollars in purchasing power.

Business Model 8

Business Model Insurance Technology Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Together, these constituted radical moves for an industrial company headquartered on the East Coast.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Digital transformation, the industrial internet, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and a plethora of other innovations are fundamentally changing the nature of work. New innovations will change the basis of competition in many markets and alter the sources of advantage for most companies.

Company 12

Company Insurance Engineering Software 12

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. They are fiercely focused on operations, because they know that's how money is made or lost. We are shifting our center of gravity to emerging markets."

Globalization 15

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time. It has been our responsibility to lead the consortium of IT partners involved in designing, building, and operating the massive, mission critical IT infrastructure and solutions that support the Games.

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Committee Project Audience Information Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

In 2012, GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt launched GE’s digital strategy to connect minds and machines, combining a legacy of innovative industrial manufacturing with cutting-edge data and analytics expertise. ” Failure to grasp such disruptions — and adapt quickly — can be fatal. Insight Center.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

A recent USC study shows that across multiple and diverse markets, industries are 25% more likely to be “highly concentrated” than they were 20 years ago. Yet at the same time, America’s largest companies are more than twice as likely to lose market share than in 1980. corporate consolidation.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Pharmaceuticals Industry Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Yet, when the marketing team suggested that Cabot become a certified B Corporation, I was skeptical. In 2012, Cabot became a certified B Corp. It also makes us part of a community of like-minded business leaders and provides a platform for shaping the sustainable practices of our industry.” Our story is not unique.

Cooper 8

Cooper Benchmarking Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

The scrappy startup, launched in 2012, offered a blades-by-subscription service for as little as $3 a month and quickly grew to a team of 45 engineers and 3.2 And it’s a telling tale about whether the consumer products industry can get a digital business model right. million subscribers. There are three possible rationalizations.

Business Model 8

Business Model Retail Brand Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. In many industries, drones are poised to generate what Paul Nunes and I call Big Bang Disruptions, with the FAA itself estimating $100 billion in new business growth.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

These interviews were conducted with salespeople across a wide variety of industries including high technology, telecommunications, financial services, consulting, industrial equipment, healthcare, and electronics, to name a few. Product Commoditization. Price versus Value. 800 Pound Gorilla. Nice-to-Have" Product.

Telecommunications 16

Telecommunications CRM Price Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2017

They were associated with nearly 2,400 publicly traded firms in the S&P 1500 from 1992 to 2012. We did not observe an obvious selection bias in which industries hired lawyer CEOs. And we saw no evidence that companies in riskier industries choose MBAs and firms in more conservative industries choose lawyers.

CEO 8

CEO Accrual Accounting Pharmaceuticals Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

” A quarter century later, not much seems to have changed: fewer than five out of the 100 CEOs on HBR’s 2014 list of best-performing CEOs even mention “return on capital” on their official biography — and none of those five lead companies listed in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) or in the EuroStoxx50. .”

CEO 8

CEO ROIC Cost of Capital Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

Look out across today’s ultra-competitive smartphone market and you’ll see something resembling the religious wars of the Middle Ages. And the havoc being wreaked — in higher prices, banned devices, and stifled innovation — is laying waste to the industry landscape. This is no quaint summer-weekend reenactment.

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Software Industry Construction 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

No matter how you look at it, there have been terrible, unintended outcomes from the introduction and marketing of next-generation prescription opioids. How did the making and marketing of drugs like OxyContin go so terribly wrong? has quadrupled, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). .” Commercial.

Incentives 8

Incentives Pharmaceuticals Crisis P&L 8