Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Over 90% of business operations are now stored digitally, so this increase is not surprising. After the 2013 Yahoo data breach and the recent Equifax hack, operating without proper security measures in place is no longer acceptable. What’s surprising is how so many businesses still take information security lightly.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 9, 2018

With the New Year now well under way, many of us are understandably creating goals and developing plans for what we’d like to achieve over the course of the next 12 months. In the meantime, here are my Top 10 leadership insights of 2017 as chosen by you, the readers of my award-winning leadership blog. “The

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises LLC and Xen Wireless form StrategyDriven Analytics to provide utility industry executives and managers with asset management program benchmarking data supporting operational and investment decisions and fleet and individual plant performance assessments. Plant Maintenance and Operations. About StrategyDriven.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

Despite all of that, the best, most carefully crafted plans may fail miserably. When it finally came to my attention, I realized right away that large-scale, controlled experimentation would revolutionize the way all companies operate their businesses and how managers make decisions. Experiment. There must be a better way.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Organizations rely on their data in order to make critical operational, tactical, and transactional business decisions that significantly affect the survival and livelihood of their company. A business’s life source is its data, and with the recent data breaches and cyber attacks, the state of a business’s data has become a top concern.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. I would say overall we harnessed technology to push the country toward the future. Turbulence.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 20, 2013

While workplaces are swiftly becoming more and more advanced in cloud computing, using social media for marketing purposes, and generally becoming au fait with modern technology, there is one area which is sadly lacking when it comes to technological advancement. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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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. Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. Why did this happen? An easy explanation is myopia. Sponsored by Accenture.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

What you point out, where you really focused in on these markets, where I think one of the best examples is where the end result of a hackathon can end up just totally terminating your entire market, how you plan for strategy then. It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. LARRY: Sure.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Advances in technology — especially digital technology and the increasing role of software in products and services — are demanding that large, successful organizations increase their pace of innovation and make greater use of resources outside their boundaries. Innovation Strategy Technology' So how does it work?

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Since 2013, an estimated 16.4 California’s model is perhaps the most influential: It has affected prices and choice in the market by standardizing plans and aggressively negotiating insurance rates. This reduction will affect all of our operations, including staffing, customer service, outreach, and marketing.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

In 2013, I began reporting on a groundbreaking all-women special operations team made up of the finest, fittest and most driven soldiers chosen from across the Army, Guard, and Reserve. Some of the most tested special operations leaders in the U.S. The shift began in 2010. What made this change possible?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

There is a lot at stake here for GE’s operations strategy. In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.” and compete successfully.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. I would say overall, we harnessed technology to push the country toward the future.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Trade secrets, confidential business plans, and operational security depend on it. But when I put the question to top management, well, they''re busy — not their problem, that''s for sure — and they refer me to the chief information officer or the chief technology officer. To find out, I like to ask questions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

s Co-operative Bank in June 2013. This shortfall resulted in its parent, Co-operative Group, ceding control of the bank to bondholders, including U.S. We have developed a simple yet powerful framework that leadership teams can use to navigate the digital landscape and avoid the kinds of problems that Co-operative Bank suffered.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths. This paper by the Richmond Fed shows how from 1960 to 2005, the U.S. Consolidation of the financial sector has led to similar dynamics in other industries.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

As Quartz reported last year: Members of the Glass operations team have been on the road showing it off to companies and organizations, and they told Quartz that some of the most enthusiastic responses have come from manufacturers, teachers, medical companies, and hospitals. The comparison to the PC is telling.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

We hired roughly 1,000 new employees in approximately 15 months to build our operations, human resources, compliance, and technology teams. (We We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.) When the separation plans were announced, I knew our employees would be anxious.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

This is very different from the way large businesses have operated for decades. What does it mean to operate in a digital business ecosystem? Digital business ecosystems dynamically create and operate value chains that extend their participants'' markets. But CIOs also need to not get caught up in the technology trap.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

More than once you’ve probably looked at some new digital or technological development and asked yourself, “How did we miss that?” ” In order to chart the best way forward, you must understand emerging trends: what they are, what they aren’t, and how they operate. Blockchain.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For example, it took Umicore, a global materials technology group, five years (2002–2007) to lay the basis for its transformation from a commodity supplier of base metals into a premium provider of emission control catalysts, rechargeable battery materials and other value-added solutions. Allow time and persevere.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Our research and client engagement experience has shown us that generating strong returns from the digital sensors, wireless communications devices, digital cameras installed in buildings and other smart, connected devices does not come down to writing big checks or being technologically savvy. Operations in a Connected World.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

On the one hand are the tech start-ups, who advocate for open office plans that emphasize chance encounters. Her work revealed challenges in four key areas: communication in planned meetings, ad-hoc conversations, awareness of teammates and their work, and building trust relationships between teammates. 77 hours compared to.85

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

According to a 2013 CEB study , “only one in four HR organizations have effectively integrated their talent management practices…with the company’s strategic objectives.” A good example is Cognizant, a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

What's striking about Fast Company's 2013 list of the world's 50 most innovative companies is the relative absence of large, established firms. First, he says, the focus of an established firm is to execute an existing business model — to make sure it operates efficiently and satisfies customers.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

On February 13, 2018, the New York Times reported that Uber is planning an IPO. Twitter reported a loss of $79 million before its IPO, yet it commanded a valuation of $24 billion on its IPO date in 2013. Its value growth is powered by the network in place, not by increments of operating costs.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Though technology would have allowed for a significantly virtual enterprise, it was important to Ruh to have a physical building where people could actually be located together. The interiors look like Google’s spare, open office plan with concrete floors and airy workspaces (unlike other GE facilities).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

But for 2013 he was only about 15 percent on target. But his 2013 forecasts were certainly within the realm of the possible; they just failed to materialize this year. Far too often companies watch regulation on a national basis in their countries of operation, missing small regulatory changes occurring in a province or state.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

A whopping 73% of interviewees say they plan to launch innovative customer experiences in the upcoming year — and two-thirds believe that they already have. Other companies pray that technology can save them. Sixty-two percent of our panelists report that technology advancements drive their firms'' innovation activities.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

We’ll spend a lot of time bringing product to market, but we need to plan for the fact that a launch gives us a six-month head start and no more,” says Gary Booker, CMO of Dixons Retail. To hit P&L targets, for instance, the CMO at one technology company focused on shortening the sales cycle.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

However, oil prices have dropped more than 60% since the interim nuclear deal in November 2013. And alongside the country’s bad debt (some estimates say it is $40 billion ), sanctions were commonly evaded through money laundering , which discouraged foreign banks from operating locally. How to Plan for Doing Business in Iran.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

This enables engineers to fine-tune a “high-resolution blast” so that it produces more predictably sized rock and dirt for subsequent loading, hauling and grinding, which together account for most of a mine’s operational costs.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

operates in 13 countries, spanning a dozen languages. I''d need a standing army of translators to manage now, and my plan involves adding many more countries. The most talented individuals in industries such as technology and finance spoke English, either as a first or second language. out of a possible 990 in February 2013.

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