Strategy Driven

APRIL 6, 2015

What are your social goals this year? My good friend, and IBM’s social evangelist, Sandy Carter, asked me to comment on what’s next in the world of social selling for 2015. Here are the Social Media and Social Selling Trends for 2015 : Social media and social selling are entering the next phase. Social sales. Eh, I have no idea!

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Media Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Seminar 50

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

The OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) started testing individual problem solving skills in 2012 and added collaborative problem solving skills in the 2015 assessments. Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.” Earl Nightingale.

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Disaggregation McKinsey Skills Gordon 80

Strategy Driven

APRIL 15, 2015

Buyer Personas do a great job targeting marketing and sales campaigns to reach the most probable buying audience. Here’s a question: Do you want to sell/market? The belief is that if you can sell/market appropriately – the right campaign to the right buyer with the right solution at the right time – buyers will buy.

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Consensus Brainstorming Marketing Audience 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2015

What drives leadership performance? Mindset is our disposition goal, and principles serve as the guideposts and enforcers. Other leadership principles will be defined based on experience and core beliefs. In the 2015 Millennial Report , 37% volunteered up to 10 hours and 31% volunteered more than 11 hours a year.

Diversity 50

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

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2015

The ‘brand’ is a marketing term. Customer experience” comes right out of marketing surveys, which rarely ask for real feedback or share the findings with company decision makers. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The strategy, culture and vision are many times greater and more important.

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Strategy Strategic Planning Budgeting Risk Management 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 23, 2015

Given you’re responsible for your team achieving its goals, you probably lean toward the other one which defines “work” as “activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result.”. We call that second piece 'leadership capital.' He regularly writes about leadership on the thoughtLEADERS Blog.

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Team Competitive Advantage McKinsey Energy 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2015

As a reaction to industrial reforms and the strength of unions, a Hard Nosed style of leadership was prominent from 1910-1939, management’s attempt to take stronger hands, recapture some of the Captain of Industry style and build solidity into an economy plagued by the Depression. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Hostile Takeover 50

Hostile Takeover Management by Objectives Objective Scientific Management 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Futurism is a continuum of thinking and reasoning skills, judicious activities, shared leadership and an accent upon ethics and quality. The following concepts do not constitute Futurism by themselves: sales, technology, re-engineering, marketing, research, training, operations, administration. Quotes on The Future. ” Yogi Berra.

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Benchmarking Crisis Management Rogers Tactics 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

While sales objectives are most common, trade shows may also be behavior, product, distribution or marketing oriented. Perform informal market research. Develop action plans for accomplishing your goals and getting the right people to visit with your company at the show. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

How To 50

How To Follow-up Participative Objective 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Much has been written about the troubling lack of women in leadership roles generally and in health care in particular. In 2015, we conducted a workforce analysis that revealed a significant shortage of women in leadership at our company. At Lilly, we have tackled this problem head-on. Insight Center. The Future of Health Care.

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Positioning Leadership Health Care Diversity 10

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

In 1998, I advised the Disney corporation and reminded them that Walt Disney’s 100th birthday in 2001 would offer great marketing and positioning opportunities. These anniversaries should be celebrated in 2015: The Galleria, 45th. Goal Inspiring. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The Astrodome, 50th.

Case Study 50

Case Study Open-book Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing 50

ExactHire - Leadership

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Research in 2015, stated that 37% of all small businesses had adopted cloud computing, and by 2020, this could rise to 78%. The goal is to make a website or internal server inoperable. The cloud is one of the best business tools to be developed in recent years. The cloud computing industry is currently worth $55 billion.

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Document Operations Cost System 52

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. Our research involved a detailed cross-case analysis of five major corporations operating in Australia over 10 years, from 2005 to 2015. Wallace Garrison/Getty Images.

Goal 8

Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Life-threatening experiences (loss of business or market share, economic recession) signal the urgency for the team to collaborate. Setting goals that are too low. Marketing’s importance was fully embraced in the 1960′s. Marketing departments deal most often and immediately with the side effects of poor quality.

Quality 50

Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 5, 2021

Diversity is complicated, and that’s why most companies fail to meet their Diversity, Equity & Inclusion goals. In 2015, McKinsey and Company found that companies with a diverse workforce performed 15 to 35 percent better than the national industry median. Workplace Diversity Goals in Hiring.

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Diversity Compliance McKinsey Bottom-up 111

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

It’s an opportunity to bring your goals into focus and transfer your ideals into the real world. Use your goals and visions to define your mission … The examples you seek to set. The goals you set out to accomplish at each sales opportunity. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Mission Statement Customer Loyalty Ethics Seminar 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

The same study found that identifying people with the right skills in a rapidly changing market is the top issue impacting recruiting. But it’s not just technology and markets that are changing—workers are changing too. Read more from Korn Ferry: How Organizations Can Thrive in the Digital Economy.

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Content Survey Talent Management McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

But if ASEAN businesses are going to capitalize on this new scale, they must contend with a scarcity of available leadership talent in the region. And more complexity will come with the creation of the ASEAN Economic Community at the end of 2015. Make long-term career plans, but remain open to possibilities.

Leadership 8

Leadership Globalization Long-term Execution 8

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2015

P odcasting was a massive trend in 2014, virtual summits are in 2015. For me as the host, this summit was a powerhouse of lessons on leadership, interacting with true leaders, and organizing a global event with massive organic growth. Leadership is not about the leader, it’s about serving those who follow.

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Organization Leadership Engineering Entrepreneur 120

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Our goal is to fuel your fire, but that''s only the beginning. It’s been a battle to personally keep my focus on where I’m ultimately moving the company while trying to handle budgets, customer-service relationships, inventory management, and marketing. Question : What will 2015 bring for CED and its passionate fan base?

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Entrepreneur Advice Apparel Audience 73

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. For multinational firms, Russia’s attractiveness lies primarily in the size and sophistication of its market.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2016

A network strategy is a plan that aligns business goals to a shared purpose, identifies the functional roles most critical in the platform, and outlines the interactions and rewards required to sustain the resulting relationships. Which bigger-than-business goals do you hold in common with the network? million in 2015.

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Business Model Mission Statement Decentralization Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. Roland Berger applied its methodology to the French labor market and estimated that 42% of French jobs could be at risk. What are the organization’s goals? Becoming a true digital organization is not just about becoming tech-savvy.

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Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

The overarching goal of most business schools is to train future leaders to lead. But how well schools meet this goal, and to what extent their teaching influences their students’ leadership, is an open question. corporations from 1985 to 2015. Andy Roberts/Getty Images. firms, and put the brakes on diversification.

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Influence Education Pharmaceuticals Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

What was so horrible about publicly traded companies that he’d consider being a CEO again, but only if he could avoid public markets? In the cover story of the latest Bloomberg Businessweek , Nick Summers reports that many IBMers now refer to what is officially called Roadmap 2015 as “Roadkill 2015.”

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Stage-Gate Strategic Planning Welch CFO 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010. Top startups already have market leading solutions.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

It’s no secret that most companies value leadership over just about anything else. However, in my experience, there’s another component more important than strong leadership—an element that rarely gets the spotlight, because it’s all about not stepping into the spotlight. That’s not to say leadership isn’t important.

Leadership 50

Leadership Early Adopters Follow-up Long-term 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

A new study from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that, according to the 2015 US government’s definition of disability , a significant portion of the white-collar workforce has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity: 30% of a nationally representative survey of 3,570 white-collar employees.

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Compliance Chief Operating Officer Innovation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

While the men of Finisterre could flee economic conditions in Spain, there is no escaping employment market upheaval in the digital age. In emerging markets, labor’s share of GDP is declining in 42 out of 59 countries, including China, Mexico and India. With the right leadership, I think so.

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GDP Porter Education Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

And because the traditional supermarket industry is highly concentrated (for example, in the UK, the top seven food retailers account for 87% of the grocery market), retailers have considerable market power to make change. As owners of private label food products and shelf space, large food retailers can play a leadership role here.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Here are some steps you should take to build for 2014-2015: 1. Position yourself in market segments that will grow. The recession eliminated some market segments and redefined others. This is the time to revisit the market spaces you occupy and position yourself to ride the uptick. Reset your goals and KPIs.

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Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Instead, Alibaba is what you get if you take every function associated with retail and coordinate them online into a sprawling, data-driven network of sellers, marketers, service providers, logistics companies, and manufacturers. In 2015, she prepared to sell a batch of 15 new clothing items at 3:00 p.m. Think enabling not managing.

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Business Model Technology Retail Short-term 234

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

“That partner simply couldn’t remember that it was my leadership, my work — aided of course by the team and that one guy (we’ll call him Jim) — and that I’d been instrumental in hiring Jim and promoting him while I was leading it,” she says. He did such a great job with that cost reduction project.’”

Management 8

Management Diversity Report Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

A 2015 McKinsey report on 366 public companies found that those in the top quartile for ethnic and racial diversity in management were 35% more likely to have financial returns above their industry mean, and those in the top quartile for gender diversity were 15% more likely to have returns above the industry mean.

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Diversity Team Price Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

True platform innovators aren’t just market matchmakers using data-driven algorithms to drive better buyer-seller matches; they invest in new value creation. In platform markets, cultivating user capability becomes as strategically important as reducing transaction costs. What really makes them work? Sponsored by Accenture.

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IPO Human Capital Insurance Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Their scope and pace often run counter to the rhythms of company goals. Their extended timelines struggle to weather leadership change. It’s understanding, for example, how automation and self-driving cars will slowly but radically transform job markets and proactively building new strategies to address those changes.

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Innovation Long-term Trends Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

With the end of Climate Week 2015 and to encourage other companies to make similar bold commitments, allow me to share what we’ve learned. It starts with leadership support. Embedding the values of your commitment into every aspect of your organization requires strong leadership to uphold these values.

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Energy Commitment Globalization Operations 8