Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Since I had never manufactured and shipped my own product before, I underestimated the continuous cash drain from ongoing production and distribution. If we had planned properly, we would have raised enough financing to see us through the gestation period of a national publication. USI needed money to fund its own growth.

Real Estate 50

Real Estate Advertising Magazine Finance 50

Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2016

If you work for a small firm or a giant organization, in fashion or finance, in Texas or Tanzania, you are competing in a ruthless, globe-spanning Expectation Economy. Opportunistic businesses of all varieties can relieve this tension with innovative new products, services, experiences or entire new business models. About the Author.

Trends 50

Trends Supply Chain Innovation Human Needs 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

My 2016 trends offer early warnings and opportunities for managers in all industries. Here are eight to note for 2016. ” 2016 will bring a host of creative bots that will supercharge our productivity, keep us company, and help us track what others are doing. HR managers can use bots to train employees.

Trends 8

Trends Film Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The ones that manage to escape are discount chains —such as T. It also hurts the brands sold inside the stores, which in part explains why consumer product giants like Procter & Gamble are seeing their sales stagnate for products like Tide detergent, Gillette razors, Pampers diapers, and Crest toothpaste.

Brand 11

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

In my view, however, the structure and processes of the GE board were poorly designed for effectively overseeing Immelt and his management team. The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee. There were three problems in particular: The Board Was Too Big.

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Committee Welch Finance Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. Meanwhile, because digital targets tend to be expensive, acquirers are limited in their ability to use stock to finance a deal. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Company Learning Curve Finance 8

HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The responsibility can range from just shopping for essentials to arranging doctor’s appointments, providing transportation, taking care of finances and medicines or even a full-fledged role of assisting in their daily tasks. were able to access paid family leave in 2016. In the U.S. billion per year. ?This

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Absenteeism Policies Cost Human Resources 105

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. What about the automation of the production line? Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time. Related Video.

Company 13

Company Survey Finance Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

” Almost half the respondents cited finances as the main culprit for their tension, while being over-scheduled, choosing the right gifts, and remaining healthy also contributed to people’s holiday woes. For example, the festive fallout from employee stress and lost productivity cost U.K. And the U.S.

Stress 11

Stress Team Survey Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

launched a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription version of its key product line, Creative Suite, causing its net income to plummet by almost 35% percent the following year. Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier. On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc. and 2.2%, respectively.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

HR Digest

JULY 29, 2020

If you analyze functions like finance, IT, and marketing you will find common drivers of success. According to Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends 2016 , “As technology makes data-driven HR decision-making a possibility, 77 percent of executives now rate people analytics as a key priority, up slightly from last year. Quality Hires.

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Attrition Talent Management Agility Innovation 98

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Does a robot manage your money? A study by Deloitte estimated that “assets under automated management” (including hybrid offerings) in the U.S. This would represent between 10% and 15% of total retail financial assets under management. Kearney predicts that assets under “robo-management” will total $2.2

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

I have interviewed over 100 CEOs, C-suite executives, middle managers, and shop floor workers in more than 25 companies across the world to understand why most companies fail to embed sustainability in their business models and, also, what drives success among the handful that do. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

Incubator 10

Incubator How To Real Estate Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

In manufacturing, leaders invest in plant, property, and equipment and carefully manage production and inventory. Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE, started off 2016 by saying : “We can’t be an industrial company anymore. In retailing, leaders worry about customer retention and dollar per square foot.

Business Model 8

Business Model Industry Metrics Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Yet, in the first quarter of 2016 the company sold only $17 million of Entresto in the U.S. Maybe a brand manager is moved to a different department, but little else changes – the same consultants are hired, the same “best practices” are pursued – and organization itself rarely actually learns.

Planning 8

Planning Competitive Intelligence Pharmaceuticals Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

So here’s how she made sure her résumé attracted the attention of hiring managers when she started applying for chief administrative officer (CAO) positions. Manage junior staff and evaluate performance. Manage and evaluate performance of work-study students and graduate assistants. Expand from U.S.

COO 13

COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Customers overwhelmingly prefer products tied to a social cause. In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. Not surprisingly, more and more businesses are becoming certified for their social responsibility practices.

Company 10

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. In many cases, the change-management challenges of incorporating AI into employee processes and decision making far outweigh technical AI implementation challenges.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Her lab had discovered new ways to convert carbon emissions into useful products, and they believed the technology had enormous commercial potential. If you have an idea to apply mature technology to a well-understood problem, it’s relatively easy to get it financed.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Suffice it to say that a 2016 Mitt Romney campaign isn’t being championed on Wall Street. Startups, on the other hand, aren’t debt financed, because they’re too risky and unproven, and have no assets—not so appealing to lenders. Maybe you remember how savagely the industry was portrayed during the 2012 U.S.

LBO 8

LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

The country’s urbanized and large middle class has maintained a strong preference for foreign-made products despite restrictions due to U.S. and European companies restricting their presence in Iran or exiting the market altogether — and they continue to dampen foreign direct investment prospects in 2016. For non-U.S.-based

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In 1980, Jim Baron, now a professor at the Yale School of Management, and William Bielby, now a professor at the University of Illinois, published a seminal article on firms and inequality. And improved worker productivity and lower turnover frequently more than offsets these firms’ higher labor rates.

Marketing 8

Marketing Short-term Incentives Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

A 2016 analysis of more than 20,000 firms in 91 countries found that companies with more female executives were more profitable. In a 2011 study management teams exhibiting a wider range of educational and work backgrounds produced more-innovative products.

Diversity 8

Diversity Team Bottom-up Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

In this process, called “expression,” the instructions in the DNA are turned into proteins and other cellular products. Consider Pokemon Go, the viral sensation of Summer 2016 and the most popular smartphone game in history. It’s the reason identical twins have different fingerprints. Does biology inform business?

How To 8

How To Decentralization Environment Collins 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models? Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

Last year, Tesla’s Elon Musk admitted that the company’s over-reliance on automation was partly to blame for missed production targets and months of ‘manufacturing hell.’ “Yes, Where I think upskilling is most productive and mutually beneficial is when employers and employees share in the responsibility. To be precise, my mistake.

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Diversity Education Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 111

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Marketplaces allow people to do apples-to-apples comparisons of health insurance products and prices through an online portal. By January 1, 2015, all state-based marketplaces were expected to replace federal funding with state-level financing. We will continue to strive for improvements in 2016. A new consumer mindset.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Through a coordinated, systemic, prolonged intervention with dozens of institutions and thousands of individual participants, new growth of the local companies we trained has directly created over 1033 jobs, fueled by dozens of new private sector financings. strategic hires). day, scale-focused workshops and related activities.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

A central plank of the plan is to “return $8 [billion] to $9 billion to shareholders in 2015 and to reach the top end of its three-year target of returning $18 billion to $20 billion to them by the end of 2016.” ” In 2014, McDonald’s expended $3.2

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 29, 2016

Transforming a sales organization to consistently deliver insights requires new value propositions, case studies and collateral from Marketing, new competencies, skill development, recruiting profiles from HR, and alignment with Operations to refine products and services. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Metrics 50

Metrics Marketing Strategy Case Study 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2017

In 2016 the Scottish National Health Service (NHS Scotland) piloted an approach to value improvement that took both cost and quality into account and turned the management of value into the basic task of the point-of-care manager. The following tools constitute the basic building blocks of the value-management system.

Cost 8

Cost Management Health Care System 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. Steve Jobs failed miserably at managing openness at Apple in the 1980s. Let’s look at the key errors. Insight Center.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Previously dominated by the likes of newspapers, magazines, gyms, utilities, and telecommunications firms, more products and services are being offered to more people through subscriptions than ever before. Philippe Marion/Getty Images. The subscription business model is booming.

IPO 8

IPO How To Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. But so did my peers, whether or not they had children, partners, or aging parents. It was just the industry and firm norm.

Team 12

Team Conference Restructuring McKinsey 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

As of February 2016, the top 10 unicorns for market capitalization are: Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Meituan-Dianping, Snapchat, Didi Kuaidi, Flipkart, and SpaceX. A complete list of unicorns is published by The Wall Street Journal; as of February 2016, it includes a total of 146 companies. Financed by VC firms.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

This article was written by Jennifer Horn for the June 2016 issue of Strategy Magazine. Nabob survived near-bankruptcy in the ’70s by making the tough decision to streamline its business and become a specialist (versus the generalist it was originally set up to be, once carrying a myriad of product lines from coffee to jams to spices).

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Brand Brand Management Advertising Management 100