Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

1 killer of collaboration, cooperation, great ideas and innovation in organizations. They are those prickly little creatures that make noises like; “ Yabut, the banks will never back us on this one… Yabut, the market is totally unpredictable… Yabut, we’ve never done that before… ”. Consider leaving a comment!

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

Besides growing the skills of the current workforce, we also focused on attracting the best talents with new skills from the market and at the same time retain our best talents in the organization. Let’s innovate, disrupt, and challenge the status quo. This article was published in the April 2019 issue of The HR Digest magazine.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. On reflection, though, I find that the evidence does not support competitive advantage as a path to longevity.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2016

I’m a big fan of scaling up innovative ideas and making sure they have as much impact as possible. Question 2: How large is the target market for your solution? While each entrepreneur needs to answer for him or herself the question: how large a market needs to be to be worth their attention? Consider leaving a comment!

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HR Digest

AUGUST 1, 2019

job market the tightest it has been in half a century, human resources managers are struggling to attract and retain top talent. But here is the challenge – how do employers create the most competitive benefits which service their true purpose – to attract, retain, reward and engage with top talent in the market?

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

Some of the other initiatives revolve around work-life flexibility, recruiting veteran talent and building a more diverse talent pipeline – all of which support the company’s long-term growth and innovation. This article was published in the April 2019 issue of The HR Digest magazine. People are at the core of this strategy.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

INNOVATION NEEDS A STORY. Too many products innovate because they can, not because they should. Marc Williams is a second generation owner of Williams Helde Marketing Communications in Seattle. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

It had earlier set an ambitious target of taking a quarter of Japan’s auto market, but to achieve that, the chief executive had said that the old way of making and selling cars would no longer suffice. Nissan’s market share in Japan had stalled at just 16 percent, it was faring little better abroad, and losses were mounting everywhere.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

According to the October 2013 Harvard Business Review, the major obstacles to business model innovation are fear and uncertainty. Eighty percent of corporate executives rank business model innovation ahead of the development of new products and services in terms of importance. © 2016 by Brian Tracy. Excerpted from Get Smart! :

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 8, 2016

Can nuclear plants be operated competitively in today’s market? An evolving energy market, led by cheap natural gas and subsidized renewable generation, threatens the long-term financial viability of America’s remaining nuclear power plants. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2016

Indeed, defensive registration of a new domain is an exciting opportunity for a brand to tell its story, and perhaps more importantly, to attempt something bold, innovative, and exciting. Augment the client’s Search Engine Marketing (SEM) efforts. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

.” It’s important to distinguish between different types of innovation, and the responses they require by firms. In a recent publication in the Journal of Product Innovation, we undertook a systematic review of 40 years (1975 to 2016) of innovation research. This model clustered text into 84 distinct topics.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Blockchain has important implications for marketing and advertising. But according to The CMO Survey , only 8% of firms rate the use of blockchain in marketing as moderately or very important. This combination creates a natural barrier to entry and has likely caused marketers to take a “wait and see” approach.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

They prove that the most economically disadvantaged people on the planet create a great market for social entrepreneurs – AND provide a terrific testing ground for innovation and cost control. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

What makes marketing creative? Is it more imagination or innovation? Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur? Historically, the term “marketing creative” has been associated with the words and pictures that go into ad campaigns. Every marketer believes the customer experience is important.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

To achieve that goal, however, we must innovate not only in terms of science and R&D, but also in how we run our business. “We cannot be like Google, but neither do we want to be,” says Kemal Malik, the board member responsible for innovation, “We need to plot our own path.” The innovation agenda.

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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. Change is innovative. These anniversaries should be celebrated in 2016: Houston Community College, 45th. Apply thinking processes to be truly innovative.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

For example, EnableSoft’s automation tool can be deployed easily to operational staff in order to execute processes like entering customer information, creating accounts, processing multi-layered transactions, and even web scraping market data used to boost performance. Knowledge workers are businesses’ source of innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. An alternative emerging at healthcare institutions worldwide is human-centered design and co-creation, a set of approaches that can accelerate and humanize healthcare innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Most businesses wouldn’t survive without driving demand for their products or services, either through marketing and advertising or through involving users so deeply in the design of the product that word of mouth spurs adoption. The same is true for social innovators. But even the most needed innovation does not sell itself.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2016

Another slump in Chinese markets has led to global market turmoil. One of my predictions for 2016 was that we should expect further Chinese market volatility after last summer’s market crash. Last week the Chinese authorities tried to limit the fall of the market through the use of so-called circuit breakers.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

This is the beauty of “creative destruction” – the term coined by innovation prophet Joseph Schumpeter almost a century ago. Incumbents have to keep innovating, lest they be overtaken by a new, more creative competitor. Instead, innovation will be a force that furthers them. That’s a significant jump.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

There have been books on fundraising and some articles on volunteer management and the business aspects of running non-profit organizations. Innovating programs, strategies and methodologies. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. The difference between displacement (outperforming existing market incumbents at their own game) and disruption (changing the game) is strategically important, no matter how similar the pain they cause is. They’ve simply undercut Western competitors by offering cheaper prices.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

In early 2016 economists David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson published an influential paper that highlighted some of the costs of global trade. would shift toward work that was more valuable and innovative. companies to become more innovative? Is it possible that trade has hurt rather than bolstered American innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

For instance, Snapchat’s recent IPO filing revealed that the company grew revenues by 600% (to $404 million) in 2016. 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. ” Those fears are not entirely unfounded.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2016

A radical demographic shift is transforming the nature of consumer markets. Marketing savvy just isn’t enough to track these consumers. The young may be the darlings of marketers, but for companies chasing growth, the truly glamorous market is the elderly. Juan Díaz-Faes for HBR. spending on home improvement.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This kind of innovation is almost a textbook example of frugal innovation. What’s more, many of the innovations originate in relatively poor, underdeveloped regions or are designed to serve low-income customers, which means that the innovators have no choice but to be frugal.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Suffice it to say that a 2016 Mitt Romney campaign isn’t being championed on Wall Street. And a recent working paper out of the Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics ( DICE ), a think tank of sorts, focuses on the latter by exploring whether leveraged buyouts (LBOs) make firms more innovative.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

A decade ago, the Mach 3 razor was Gillette’s premium offering for men, until the Fusion line was launched in 2006 at a 40% price increase, followed by the Fusion ProGlide in 2010 and the Fusion Proshield Flexball in 2016—to name a few of the brand’s major releases. Smaller brands have been picking up the slack.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In fact, by some measures, the best emerging-market firms are more competitive than firms in advanced economies including the United States and the United Kingdom. Indeed, it is much harder for this plethora of emerging-market firms in the outperforming countries to get to the top and then stay there.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

Physicians, nurses, and others who work on the front lines of patient care are an important potential source for innovations that could improve patients’ health and reduce the cost of care. Boston Children’s Hospital designed an innovation accelerator to overcome these hurdles. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

A recent report by the consultancy BCG documented a general decline in sales among consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies in the United States during 2017, with mid-sized and large companies losing market share and small companies increasing theirs. Consultancy Catalina also revealed that 90 of the 100 top brands had all lost market share.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

So we embarked on an in-depth study of our own employees, based on a proprietary, multi-faceted process we use for market research. We held our own feet to the fire by sharing our findings with leaders and employees in 2016. compared to 54% in 2016. But before we could solve the problem, we had to understand it. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

The original reason given for the drastic demonetization action was to expose the so-called “black” market, fueled by money that is illegally gained and undeclared for tax purposes. Innovation and Creativity Emerged Around Digital Payments. Here, the government’s innovative capacity shone through.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2016

Executive teams often struggle to land innovations that will significantly grow the business. A chronic problem is their emphasis on searching for breakthrough innovation — the creation of a truly new, highly valued product or service that could redefine their industry and lead to unprecedented revenue growth. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2017

At end of 2016, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky asked on Twitter what the company could launch in 2017. In our study , we analyze the role that Facebook plays in the innovation process. About half of these firms have introduced a new product or service to the market or have significantly improved existing products or services.

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