Eric Jacobson

JULY 5, 2015

With the first half of 2015 past us, here's a look back at the three most read postings on my leadership blog so far this year. Readers will quickly become adept at : Leveraging all the lean resources around them , from their own skill set, local community, and personal circles to professional networks, online resources, and technology tools.

Self-aware 50

Self-aware Leadership Advice Entrepreneur 50

HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

A recent Mckinsey & Company survey shows that since 2015, America has seen only a modest growth in women’s well paid jobs representation in the corporate pipeline. In the five years since 2015, women in high paying job representation in C-suite positions jumped from 17 to 21 percent. Percentage of women: 52%.

Human Resources 52

Human Resources Chemicals Software Engineering 52

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2015

By empowering clients to tailor each engagement to meet their specific project needs – no more, no less – and employing modern communications technologies, StrategyDriven eliminates the barriers preventing small and midsized company leaders from accessing high-end consulting services. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Consultative 50

Consultative Chief Executive Officer Library Company 50

Skip Prichard

MAY 10, 2021

They start by sharing the “Seductive Seven” which is a list of common tactics organizations may use to respond to problems: More technology. For example, we can see data dashboards, organization charts, spreadsheets, new strategic plans, or the latest new technology trend bouncing around social media. The Seductive Seven. More money.

Constraint 107

Constraint PR Policies Tactics 107

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

The World Bank has projected a 9 million skilled and semi-skilled ICT workers shortage to affect Indonesia between 2015-2030. Amidst their country’s tech talent shortage, HP Indonesia is doing its best to focus on its employee retention instead of acquisition efforts, according to Human Resources Online.

Process 59

Process Attrition Trends Training 59

Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2015

StrategyDriven’s assessment practices help reveal the people, process, and technology shortfalls preventing organizations from achieving next level performance,” says Karen Juliano, StrategyDriven’s Editor-in-Chief. “By Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About StrategyDriven. Consider leaving a comment!

Chief Executive Officer 50

Chief Executive Officer Document Benchmarking Library 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2016

If research and development or technology drive your organization, you’ll be at risk for this phenomenon than other kinds of organizations. Rely on HR for advice, not essential decisions. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Don’t deviate from your core values, or you’ll compromise your self-respect.

Short-term 50

Short-term Advice Uncertainty Environment 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g., The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g., The project was launched in 2013, and the RFID system was rolled out in stages starting in the summer of 2015. Marys during the fourth quarter of 2015.

Technology 8

Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

The best advice I can give you is to keep your global business connected. With cloud implementation you'll be able to go wherever your business takes you by accessing it from different technologies, too. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Stay connected with the cloud. Do global business but act local.

Tips 50

Tips Globalization Compliance Competitive Advantage 50

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

A 2015 PwC study of 6,000 senior executives , conducted using a research methodology developed by David Rooke of Harthill Consulting and William Torbert of Boston University, revealed just how pervasive this shortfall is: Only 8 percent of the respondents turned out to be strategic leaders, or those effective at leading transformations.

Development 100

Development Argyris Learning-by-Doing Innovation 100

Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2015

This book is a nostalgic stroll down memory lane in Houston, with small doses of business advice thrown in. As the city lives the 21st Century, we celebrate the historical, utilize state-of-the art technology and reflect changing social needs will always be at the forefront of the future. We're more than a boom or a trend.

Entrepreneur 50

Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage Quality Books 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 9, 2015

Most of the advice reveals a step-by-step guide to remove the button from your menu. Since leaving, Dessau has held senior executive and CMO roles at both private and Fortune 500 companies including StorageTek, Sun Microsystems, AMD, and Stratus Technologies. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Competitive Advantage 50

Competitive Advantage Open-book Learning-by-Doing Content 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

That having an E-mail address or a website makes one an expert on technology. That technology is the most important driving force in business and society. Technology companies must now learn the lessons that steady-growth companies in other industries absorbed. I advised several technology companies during their gravy years.

Self-aware 50

Self-aware System Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

It gives us an opportunity to look back over all of the ideas and advice we published during the year and see what patterns emerge. Of all the ways the world changed in 2014 — economic, cultural, technological, all three — which will matter most to us in 2015? Useful Advice on How to Do Many Things.

Management 9

Management Retail Information Technology Advice 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2015

2015 will be the fifth consecutive year of slowing economic growth. 2015 will be the first year since the 1980s to see capital outflows from the emerging markets exceed capital inflows. This means that, even in 2015, emerging markets will grow at twice the pace of developed markets. Since mid-2014, against the U.S.

Marketing 8

Marketing Depreciation Globalization Analysis 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 17, 2015

That having an E-mail address or a website makes one an expert on technology. That technology is the most important driving force in business and society. Management is relying upon financial people as the primary source of advice, while ignoring the rest of the picture (90%). Team empowerment suffers. Morale is low or uneven.

Self-aware 50

Self-aware System Open-book Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Instead they are waiting for the technology to mature and for expertise in AI to become more widely available. They are planning to be “fast followers” — a strategy that has worked with most information technologies. Even more recent technologies like deep learning are based on research that took place in the 1980s.

Company 8

Company Maturity System Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

But all too often organizations’ approach to mitigating that risk — other than taking the wise step of ensuring that they have the state-of-the art technological protection in place — is more training. In 2015 , the U.S. The human is indeed the weakest link in cybersecurity. It won’t suffice.

Training 8

Training CIO Chief Information Officer Information 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

According to Constellation Research , businesses across all sectors will spend more than $100 billion per year on Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies by 2025, up from a mere $2 billion in 2015. Stephen Swintek/Getty Images. The marketing industry will be no exception. Insight Center. Data-Driven Marketing. Sponsored by Google.

Marketing 8

Marketing Policies Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

The survey gathers perspectives from a small but influential group of executives — chief information officers, chief data officers, and senior business and technology leaders of Fortune 1000 firms. Among the findings: 63% of firms now report having Big Data in production in 2015, up from just 5% in 2012. Insight Center.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer Agility Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

There’s been a gold rush happening in technology these last few years, focused on the Internet of Things, or IoT. And while we’ve found customers for IoT connectivity, the number of our customers who value the new technology has been much lower than industry projections led us to believe.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Early Adopters Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

The idea of creating a fresh new product, the prospect of increasing market share with brand new offerings, or the vision of disrupting some slow-moving incumbent with a radical new technology – these have an inherently strong appeal for companies keen for growth. Should you explore new technologies that will disrupt current products?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Innovation Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Investors also did well: A $100 investment in Ruger in late 2010 was worth $443 in late 2015, while the equivalent investment in the S&P 500 yielded only $163 over that time frame. “Obey the law” is generally good business advice. But for many, guns are also a deadly business.

Licensing 8

Licensing Drucker Retail Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

In 2015, the world pivoted in a historic way toward sustainability. In response to Trump’s election and his statements doubting climate change, many countries that signed the Paris climate accords in 2015 made it clear they would power on (China in particular — see story number three, below). Then came 2016.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Technology is making it easier to connect with rural consumers in so-called media dark areas. As of 2015, the initiative had grown to 70,000 sales agents serving 165,000 Indian villages, and HUL had equipped them with smartphone apps to help them manage inventory and other aspects of their business. Worldwide, there are 3.4

Marketing 8

Marketing Brand Cost Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

Because halitosis was a topic that even “your most intimate friends habitually dodge in conversation,” the ads stepped in to offer advice. Information & technology Social platforms Technology' ” So it’s reasonable to ask: Does Facebook generate common knowledge? ” I suppose that time is now.

Advertising 8

Advertising Information Technology Pharmaceuticals Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Andrew Carnegie’s advice in the 1889 essay “Wealth” was to spend the first part of your life getting as much education as possible, to spend the second part making all the money you could, and to spend the last part giving it all away for worthwhile causes. Now I think both can be used as methods for changing the world.”

Learning Curve 8

Learning Curve Hedge CEO Education 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Drawing from these examples, we also hope to provide some advice on how to deal with the increasing number and variety of cybercriminal gangs. But since the criminals have become increasingly specialized and focused, companies need to have advice tailored to their specific business.

Company 8

Company Banking Information Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

And we see many executives trying to take this advice to heart. But starting in the early 2000s, the advantages of scale were mostly eliminated, in large part because of globalization, deregulation, and the rise of digital technology. But in 2015, CostCo shifted its affiliation to Citigroup’s Visa.

IAM 8

IAM Productivity Products Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

Sites like Delicious, Flickr and 43Things were ushering in the new phenomenon of “user-generated content,” and technologies like RSS and tagging were providing new ways for regular web users to organize and share content. Is that still the right advice in 2015?

Fashion 8

Fashion Blog Audience Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

” If you’re dealing with innovations that have led to a dominant new business model in your industry, that advice is sound, as the leaders of Netflix and Blockbuster can tell you. electric utilities during 2008-2015—a period in which the decentralized model was in its uncertain, nascent phase.

Company 8

Company Disruptive Innovation Decentralization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

Giving its hosts customized information, insight and advice about pricing their property, Coles observed, would lead to better outcomes for Airbnb’s ecosystems. Similarly, Facebook’s Blueprint courseware initiative launched in 2015 champions new user capability.

IPO 8

IPO Human Capital Insurance Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

Uber Technologies , a pending class-action lawsuit by Uber drivers in California, which alleges that drivers are misclassified as independent contractors. We analyzed online driver forums, where tens of thousands of drivers share advice and compares notes on their experiences and challenges with the Uber system.

Management 8

Management Price Disaggregation System 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

” In a 2015 American Heritage Dictionary survey of language experts, 79% disapproved of using “impacts on” to mean “affect.” Our advice: Choose another word. ” Another 39% disapproved of using “impact” to mean “affect” even without that preposition “on.”

Press Release 8

Press Release PR Definition Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

The technological advances of the digital age have allowed the global workforce to be better connected, more collaborative, and have greater personal impact than ever before. In the interviews, executives gave specific advice to leaders for managing engagement during periods of “high change.” Or are they?

Management 8

Management Globalization Drucker Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Since I had never done venture investing before, I was trying to get advice from as many people as I could. Fast forward to 2015, and you see an island transformed. -based venture capitalists about my plans to move my family out to Singapore to oversee Innosight’s nascent investment and incubation arm. “Why Singapore?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8