Women on Business

JANUARY 30, 2012

Even in countries where you’d expect women to have no voice at all, thanks to computers and smart phones becoming more prevalent worldwide, people everywhere are getting informed and empowered, which ultimately has an effect on culture. In 2012, 18 of the Fortune 500 companies will have women CEOs at the helm.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

More importantly, he offers concrete examples of how any organization—large or small, and regardless of industry—can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent. What do leaders often get wrong when they think of innovation ? Many of them have little understanding of what innovation actually means.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 25, 2014

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. Enterprises with over 1000 employees lost over 1 million employees between 2002 and 2012 while enterprises with less than 25 people gained over a 1.5

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 17, 2019

The last few years have seen intense scrutiny of social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, both of whom have been accused of facilitating the manipulation of voters during elections by nefarious actors using human and autonomous networks to create and spread misinformation.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 28, 2013

More information, however, does not necessarily lead to better decisions. Leaders are now hard pressed to make decisions because they have too much information. Hence, editing and accessing relevant information are vital. We can’t assume that instant information will lead to long-term quality of communication.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 17, 2020

This was followed by a subsequent announcement on the 5th April, where the watching world were informed that Johnson had been admitted to hospital as a ‘precautionary measure’, thus rendering the British response to the pandemic in the hands of his nominated deputy, the foreign secretary Dominic Raab.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

Justice Department’s view of a static media landscape is dead and buried. ” The judge was faced from the outset with a stark choice: Was the relevant media market the traditional one, with a handful of pay TV providers offering largely similar channel bundles to disconnected viewers? .

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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? What are you doing to innovate it? They don’t have to talk about their competition – Apple is the innovator. Create internal excitement about innovation and new ideas. What’s your social reputation?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

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! And these days, there’s no better way to do that than through social media – in essence, by building your company’s own Social Nation.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2012

And soon, like the Yellow Pages, newspapers, and magazines, the majority of printed media will only be available online as a download or from some ASP. They innovated, took risks, made it easy to do business, and created products that consumers wanted. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Amazon killed Borders.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? That might be three to five years in a relatively fast-moving business like media, but 20 years for aircrafts or jet engines. Growth strategy Innovation' There are two ways to set revenue targets.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

The Super Bowl in-game broadcast had zero social media TV integration. Likely, the common internal social media struggles got in the way. Incorporating social media into the epic annual broadcast would have created adversity internally. Why was this so innovative? Why did NBC and the NFL miss the boat? Keep it organic.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

The business media have had no shortage of these. Business model innovation is hard. There is another way to make money from business model innovation. To many people, this kind of change doesn’t feel like it’s real business model innovation. Why is that? Unbundling Existing Value Propositions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Thanks to social media, the number of conversations taking place about products and companies has exploded exponentially. These numbers are likely to go even higher as viewers enhance their television experience with Twitter and other social media. Spreadsheets and reports simply aren’t up to handling this mountain of information.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

Few industries illustrate the Big Data wars better than the media business. Using their treasure troves of information on online customer viewing habits, they''re designing new TV series that their data tells them will win. Early results show that it is working — and that many pre-Web media companies should be concerned.

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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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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. Does this frighten IP attorneys?

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Individuals have access to information, tools, and resources once reserved for institutions. He used this information to formulate a marketing strategy that spoke to the customers in a language they understood. In 2012, they were ranked as the 4th fastest-growing tech company by Technology Fast 500. The result? The results?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Local governments are not known for being at the forefront of innovation and technology. Draw a dotted line to the future, and you can see how social media could transform citizens’ relationship with all sorts of governmental agencies and services. Social media can help narrow the search for violators.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

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. Papert later co-founded the Epistemology and Learning Group within the MIT Media Lab. More specifically, Lego robots.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2012

The latest statistics from the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) show a 54% drop in reported incidents during the first half of 2012 as compared to the same period in 2011, some of which is certainly attributable to improved analytics. But travelers and businesses still face a big challenge from pirates.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2012

The latest statistics from the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) show a 54% drop in reported incidents during the first half of 2012 as compared to the same period in 2011, some of which is certainly attributable to improved analytics. But travelers and businesses still face a big challenge from pirates.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

Procter & Gamble wanted to become “the most digital company on the planet” in 2012, but ran into growth challenges in a difficult economy. Therefore, no managers should view digital — or any other major technological innovation — as their sure salvation.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

Not too long ago, I was asked to give a presentation on the state of digital media and how well brands are intersecting the worlds of marketing and technology. Prior to my closing keynote, there was a panel discussion about the state of media. One senior media executive was discussing the power of "a four screen world."

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

It's a process that hinges on a two-way exchange of information: Voters tell the candidate what they care about, and the candidate tells voters what he or she stands for. It's an effort to talk about issues in a way that engages people. It's a bid to develop a rapport with current and would-be supporters.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2017

By 2033, economists predict that tech innovation could convert 30% of today’s full-time occupations into augmented services completed “on demand” through a mix of automation and human labor. As citizens, we have a need to know where our information comes from.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Using our robust data archive system which captures electronic health record, medical and prescription claims, and other information, we create dashboard displays for use by leadership, operational teams, and clinicians to reveal population-level trends and identify patients and clinicians for targeted interventions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Vint Cerf, considered one of the co-creators of the Internet's architecture, wrote in a 2012 New York Times Op-Ed that "The Internet stands at a crossroads. Both a young child's brain and our young, global Internet brain are in highly creative, experimental, innovative states of rapid development -- just waiting to make connections.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Taking place on November 27, 2012, #GivingTuesday's goal is to show that the holiday shopping season can also be about giving back. Both organizations have worked on uniting communities to harness social media for social good, and #GivingTuesday was a logical framework to bring Americans together for this purpose.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Instead of blasting a single ad everywhere, Big Data allows for incredibly targeted messages delivered to customer segments according to their very personal preferences and the specific media they consume. ” He says, “When I joined UCB, I quickly realize that unlike consultancy, information is just the beginning.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Our research has found that embedded sustainability drives financial performance through mediating factors such as innovation, operational efficiency, risk reduction, employee recruitment, engagement and retention, customer and supplier loyalty, competitive advantage, reduced cost of capital, and improved marketing and sales.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

For the Globe and its counterparts, the competition is not one rival or game at a time, like baseball; it is multiple digital media offerings and others-to-be-named-later. One symptom of decline is withholding information. Henry, like any leader seeking strategic change, can benefit from these turnaround lessons.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

That’s because even after they determine the right ways to use information to delight their customers, managers must address one equally important challenge. In this article we will present three ways that information-based competition is challenging existing management practices. Insight Center. The New Ways to Compete.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

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. It sold the site to Shutterfly as part of its bankruptcy plan for less than $25 million in April 2012. People went from printing pictures to sharing them online.

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