Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 5, 2019

In addition to caring for patients in the exam room or operating suite, physicians face challenges of navigating the reporting requirements of new payment models. He went on to become president of the Kentucky Medical Association and in 2016 was honored with the association’s Distinguished Service Award.

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P&L Stress Self-aware Human Needs 150

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

What makes marketing creative? 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. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous.

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Creativity Marketing Agility Budgeting 9

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Strategic planning, how-to instructions. Non-profit organizations operating more business-like. 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 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 52

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 14, 2016

Know how to take appropriate action, or negotiate creatively? and how to supersede our brain to hear accurately (2 free chapters of What? www.didihearyou.com explains how to close the gap between what’s said and what’s heard. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Hear what others mean to say?

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Succession CRM Case Study Efficiency 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

His "Obama for America" fundraising , analytics and "get out the vote" operation was a masterpiece of agile electoral innovation and entrepreneurship. There's not a brand manager, health care administrator, CMO or CIO who wouldn't benefit big-time from benchmarking their own operations to this campaign's. They're right.

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Marketing Chief Technology Officer Case Study Critical Success Factor 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

D&A should be the pulse of the organization, incorporated into all key decisions across sales, marketing, supply chain, customer experience, and other core functions. Start by developing a strategy across the entire enterprise that includes a clear understanding of what you hope to accomplish and how success will be measured.

Organization 8

Organization How To Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In it, the authors, both sociologists, made a compelling argument that, to understand labor market outcomes like inequality, it wasn’t enough to look at the supply and demand for individuals’ skills. However, any discussion of firms and wage inequality must not be limited to discussion of market forces. Related Video.

Marketing 8

Marketing Short-term Incentives Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Specialization in specific markets is almost always a guarantee of success. Excessive customer turnover can be a reasonable indication of poor operation. When a company, from any industry, suffers a crisis, it is essential to know how to handle it and communicate what is necessary with the public. Must have oomph.

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PR Public Relations Crisis Loyalty 13

Deming Institute

JANUARY 9, 2017

Many large investments at our railroad and utility operations are also made with an eye to payoffs well down the road. …. Market Incentives: encourage more patient capital. How to Stop Short-Term Thinking at America’s Companies. The average holding time for stocks has fallen from eight years in 1960 to eight months in 2016.

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Short-term Long-term Deming Management 28

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. The once-dominant Nokia soon lost much of its market cap and was eventually acquired by Microsoft. Insight Center.

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Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 9

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Let’s look at what’s keeping us wedded to our Status Quo and how questions can enable change. that operates consensually to create and maintain our Status Quo; it resides in our unconscious and defines our Status Quo. www.didihearyou.com explains how to close the gap between what’s said and what’s heard.

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Resistance System Servant Leader Banking 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

By 2017 it was operating in over 190 countries, and today close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. It also must face a diverse set of national regulatory restrictions, such as those that limit what content can be made available in local markets. Netflix did not try to enter all markets at once.

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First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It operates in over 190 countries, and close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. It also must face a diverse set of national regulatory restrictions, such as those that limit what content can be made available in local markets. Netflix did not try to enter all markets at once.

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First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems. It is shaping the new game of industrial businesses on a worldwide basis and showing other companies, regardless of their size, complexity, and history, how to proceed. Make the tough calls on people.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Digital transformation halts, or fails, for many reasons—but most often it’s because minor changes at the surface level do nothing to affect the fundamental operations of a company. Increasing the social media marketing budget is not digital transformation. Even building an app is not digital transformation.

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Business Model Industry Metrics Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

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Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Close to 50 years ago, in March 1967, a landmark article described how to change the unit of analysis in medical care from an individual service to a medical episode. These shifts are finally creating the market demand — the business case — for solutions to emerge.

Health Care 8

Health Care Analysis Constraint Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Studies show that it’s also counterproductive resulting in lower profit margins, return on equity , and employee morale ; costly delays as players haggle over the size of the kickback; and poverty and poor governance in the markets where they’re paid. ” Identify “moon markets” and walk away.

Management 8

Management Ethics Cost Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

Organizations can now engage with customers and employees like never before, and the virtual environment holds the potential to drive operational efficiencies, save time and money, and open the exploration of new commercial avenues. Read more from Korn Ferry: How to Develop Leaders Who Can Drive Strategic Change. November 2016).

Organization 8

Organization SPM Content Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

How to Become a Digital Enterprise. 6 Digital Trends Are Poised to Transform How We Work. Fundamentally, though, digital transformation is the result of enterprises seeking to adapt to the storm of new technology affecting markets and customers. How can companies thrive on these changes?

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Technology Industry GDP Content 8

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. Develop and fund a sales and marketing capability from the outset. Let’s look at each of these.

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Innovation Rogers NGO Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Much has been written about how to grow a business. Thus, a far more common challenge is that of scaling down : How to gracefully scale down and close a business – with your reputation, trust, and dignity intact – and live build another business, in another arena, on another day. Home Run Media’s Turning Point.

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Media Hammer Software Company 8

Skip Prichard

MARCH 3, 2021

That’s why I was fascinated by Unfiltered Marketing: 5 Rules to Win Back Trust, Credibility, and Customers in a Digitally Distracted World by Stephen Denny and Paul Leinberger. This is a cultural trend, a new definition of credibility and authenticity that bleeds over into the marketing realm.

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Brand Storytelling Trends Content 121

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

In its 2016 Employee Engagement Benchmark Study, the firm showed that companies that excel at customer experience have one-and-a-half times as many engaged employees as customer experience laggards do. The keys to customer experience excellence show companies how to succeed in the employee experience as well.

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Brand Benchmarking Performance Review Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2016

So when the messaging service WhatsApp entered the market, in 2009 , allowing users to send messages to anyone for free and regardless of their mobile carrier, people gravitated toward the platform. WhatsApp was originally marketed as an app with one purpose: messaging. How to take advantage of the platform. Customer service.

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Brand Real Estate Apparel Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point. They are not employees; they are contingent workers who are nonetheless vital to an organization’s R&D, marketing, and other key processes.

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McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

How to make your company more nimble and responsive. Second, companies are attempting to pick up talent they suspect they cannot recruit directly – often as a catalyst to a broader digital transformation, or as a challenge to their existing IT operations. The answer in too many cases is no. Insight Center. Defensive Moats.

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Company Business Model Price Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

The myth of Silicon Valley is that venture-funded entrepreneurship is a generalizable model that can be applied to every problem, when in actuality it is a model that was built to commercialize mature technologies for certain markets. At first, Opus 12 targeted the largest addressable market it could find: ethanol, an additive of gasoline.

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Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

How are those organizations better because of you? How to Get the Most Out of an Informational Interview. You’ll show how you’d improve their organizations, based on what you’ve done in the past. Let’s look at how to do this by analyzing the resume and LinkedIn profile of a startup marketing executive.

Brand 8

Brand Press Release Marketing B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Instead, they lost the market one customer at a time as people found alternatives in the form of digital photography. Both companies, while under a corporate umbrella, operate as independent brands with largely independent development teams. How did it do this? In each case Facebook paid handsomely — but did little else.

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Film Christensen Short-term Software 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2015

GE is now rolling it out throughout the company, and it will replace our legacy Employee Management System (EMS) by the end of 2016. Our business, the Turbomachinery Solutions unit of GE Oil & Gas, provides solutions and services to upstream and mid-stream customers in seven vertical markets.

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Development Engineering Benchmarking Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

Companies and analysts are scrambling to figure out how to make privacy rules clear, protect user data, and evolve the business models that made them successful in the first place. Both consumers and companies will likely have to manage different rules for different markets, and different technologies. privacy laws.

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Bottom-up Constraint Self-aware Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Venture capitalists are head-over-heels in love with platform markets these days. Most of the so-called unicorns — startups achieving billion-dollar valuations — are platforms: markets that connects buyers, sellers, and others, with the platform standing between them. Platform markets have been around for centuries.

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Venture Capitalist Long-term Marketing Travel 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Steve Jobs said it best: “Marketing is about values. And it’s not just about marketing. By having fifteen “core” values that nobody remembers, you’re needlessly complicating things for your constituents over who you are, what decisions are best for the business, and how to talk about your company. Stop confusing people.

Company 50

Company Entrepreneur Tactics CEO 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

The conventional wisdom is that it takes far longer for many potentially beneficial innovations to be widely adopted in health care than in other industries, especially consumer markets. A winner will be selected in April 2016. All of these projects have stirred new thinking in the health care field.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Cost Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. That knowledge helped them understand how to make change happen inside an organization.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 11