Leading Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

During most of the 20th century Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film, and in 1976, had an 89% market share of photographic film sales in the United States. I can’t help but wonder: If Kodak had paid attention to its aging workforce trend, would the company have maintained market share and avoided bankruptcy?

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 20, 2021

This broad trend has worsened during a pandemic that has forced many companies to tighten their belts, even while also demanding more from employees as they adapt to their new circumstances. “The total number of days trained per trainee in the UK has fallen by 18% from 7.8 in 2011 to 6.4 ” Training participation. .

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The number of women in high paying jobs and entering the job market has risen progressively through the years, but there are many hurdles in their journey up the ladder. . For every 100 men promoted to manager, only 85 women were promoted. . For every 100 men promoted to manager, only 85 women were promoted. .

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The website was launched after a 2015 ruling that gave people the choice of taking a cash lump sum from their pension rather than purchasing an annuity. “Making the choice about how to decumulate the wealth in their pension pot is a complex decision for most people, which can have profound long-term consequences. .

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 3, 2014

In the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) business landscape expected to continue for 2015, leaders face many challenges , requiring aggressive, sustained talent management strategies to prepare them for success. Two times more likely to place value on interacting over managing skills. Ask the Coach .

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ExactHire - Leadership

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

The following blog post is adapted from a speech given by Harlan Schafir at the Collective Alternative Executive Speaker Series on September 17, 2015. Today, I’d like to talk about staffing our organizations to meet the demands of growth and turnover–or simply, talent management. Did we fall asleep? Think about it.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 1, 2015

Sevian Business Programs were developed based on StrategyDriven’s decades of experience managing and improving complex business operations. We believe a clear, forward-looking strategy, translatable to the day-to-day activities of all organization members, is critical to realizing success in today’s fast paced market environment.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2020

A croquet picture of the American outlaw valued almost around $5 million in 2015. These things do have their market among connoisseurs. Stamps collection is one of the most common trends among collectors. The market’s quite crazy for Star Wars action figures if you have the rarest pieces.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 5, 2015

My good friend, Sandy Carter, is one of IBM’s General Managers, and their social selling evangelist. Sandy fed me some support data from their recently published IBM’s 2014 Business Tech Trends Report. Data shows the past, reveals the present, and helps predict trends in the future. Mobile is not an option – it’s an imperative.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. It is important to identify swings and trends so that innovation can remain a strength of your business. Time management and “just in time” concepts are applied. Assets are adequately valued and managed. Instill discipline.

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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. Schroeder helped to create a $1 billion company CKS|Partners, the world’s largest integrated marketing communications agency. It's so powerful I wanted to bring it back again this year as 2015 gets underway.

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Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Here’s a sample of how bad things really are: The National Automobile Dealers Association’s 2015 Dealership Workforce Study (the most current study of its kind) found that car sales consultants had the highest turnover at 72 percent annually (non-luxury turnover was 80 percent, luxury turnover was 48 percent). How can they afford not to?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

This review is the basis for most elements that will appear in a strategic plan, including the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, actions, challenges, teamwork, change management, commitment, future trends and external forces. Customer Focused Management goes beyond just the dynamics of service and quality.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

One must understand events, cycles, trends and subtle nuances because they will recur. Futurism: ideas that inspire, manage and benchmark change. The following concepts do not constitute Futurism by themselves: sales, technology, re-engineering, marketing, research, training, operations, administration. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Those numbers are up from 47% in 2014 and 48% in 2015. This growing trend has some retailers with heavy in-store business models shaking in their boots. Of more than 5,000 consumers surveyed, 51% shared that their purchases are predominately completed through an e-commerce site as opposed to a physical location.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 10, 2019

A survey by the Society for Human Resource Management in 2015 found that 50 per cent of those surveyed planned to serve alcohol at the end-of-the-year party and only half of these were ready to regulate the consumption through, the above-listed options. Employers can also serve only light drinks like wine and beer. Social Media.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

My research revealed that their company had in fact founded LLB, which younger generations of management did not know. 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. Discern the differences between trends and fads.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2015

The mentor is a resource for business trends, societal issues and opportunities. If you cannot take the dirtiest job in any company and do it yourself, then you will never become ‘management.’ The management that takes steps to ‘fix themselves’ rather than always projecting. It’s not when you learn.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 26, 2015

This is a trend that we have to focus our efforts on to change. The impact that women have on this country’s market alone is substantial. trillion market. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Diversity & Inclusion business management diversity and inclusion Michelle Patterson strategydriven'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

The year 2015 was a pivotal time when humanity turned more decisively toward building a thriving and sustainable world. Here are eight cross-cutting themes and stories from 2015 that are driving us toward a sustainable world (and two that are doing the opposite): 1. in the first six months of 2015, 70% was renewable.

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Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

If you're an experienced professional, it can be tough to find a job in today's market. She was a training manager for a large corporation, advising middle and senior managers on career development. The market dynamics that pushed her out of a job were happening across the whole marketplace for her profession.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2015

The already inflated world of ‘reputation management’ websites lured people into buying advertising in order to create the facade of being a ‘consultant.’ Access to global markets. The mentor is a resource for business trends, societal issues and opportunities. Research shows they can be cut in half.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

By all measures, emerging markets are having a tough year. However, multinationals still expect their emerging market portfolios to deliver robust growth and increasing profits based on the memory of their performance in recent, more bullish years. Let’s see how this story is playing out in the different emerging market regions.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2015

We're more than a boom or a trend. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage Quality Books 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

The company manages a large, disaggregated workforce of “driver-partners” that deliver a relatively standardized experience to passengers, while simultaneously promoting drivers as independent entrepreneurs whose work is characterized by freedom, flexibility, and independence. Customers act as managers.

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ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 5, 2021

In 2015, McKinsey and Company found that companies with a diverse workforce performed 15 to 35 percent better than the national industry median. In both the 2015 and 2018 reports, McKinsey delivered bad news to companies with poor diversity. Include minorities in your company’s marketing campaigns.

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Diversity Compliance McKinsey Bottom-up 111

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

I recently conducted an extensive research project involving more than one-hundred vice presidents of sales at top technology companies (software, cloud, computer hardware, and telecommunications) to better understand the art and science of managing a sales organization today. Field Sales Revenue Trends. Inside Sales Roles.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department. Related Video.

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

The impact of “social entrepreneurs” — individuals who deploy innovation and market forces to fill social needs — is growing. Just as entrepreneurs of all kinds need to anticipate consumer trends and product development, they also need to stay ahead of their hiring needs. Vincent Tsui for HBR.

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Entrepreneur Glocalization Survey McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

This brings order to the chaos of initiatives and provides a clearer basis for narrowing down priorities and managing the cross-functional interdependencies that the best digital solutions often present. Consider the challenge companies face in the rapidly changing market for power train compressors.

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CEO Agility Technology Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Three trends characterize the environment within which global businesses must contend: rising trade protectionism and a concomitant fall in global trade volumes, declining cross border capital flows, and mounting regulatory requirements. This has significant and far-reaching implications for corporate decision making. at the forefront.

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Globalization Banking Policies Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The explosive growth of ride sharing is a big reason why Hertz reported dismal quarterly results in November 2016, leading to a 23% drop in its market value. As of November 2016, the market value of the world’s 179 unicorns was estimated to be $646 billion. In 2015 global M&A volume surpassed $5 trillion — a record.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). Paul Garbett for HBR. There’s nothing wrong with this, per se, as both approaches can pay huge dividends.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

politics is not merely the inevitable result of our free-market system; it is also a consequence of the choices our business leaders make. And the repurchase trend has accelerated radically. The $520 billion that companies spent on 2015 stock repurchases alone is enough to pay the average U.S. Nor are they entirely innocent.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Since early 2015, when he began working with Sodexo’s executive committee as the global services firm’s chief transformation officer, Sunil Nayak has undergone his own leadership transformation. How talent management is changing. ” Insight Center. . ” Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

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Globalization Emotional Intelligence Marketing Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He had a close connection to evolving customers, shrewd instincts about how the market was developing, and a keen sense of the disruption that was needed in the region. In a 2015 report, the Boston Consulting Group labeled the occurrence “ leapfrog successions.” This trend has key implications for talent management.

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Benchmarking Trends Talent Management CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. Managed by Q, a cleaning and office services company in New York City, decided to pay employees higher wages than the prevailing market rate. And wages are stagnant.

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