Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

While most bosses would frown on playing Halo at the office, it’s video games that are driving much of the innovation in video, virtual reality, and collaboration technologies today—something that has important implications for how we work, especially with far-flung colleagues. Virtual reality promises a solution.

Technology 8

Technology Video Conference Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

economy in 2016. Whether it’s the customer relationship management platforms used by sales teams, enterprise resource planning software used by purchasing teams, or the account-based marketing technology employed by marketing teams, the business intelligence platform can recognize a unique URL and attach it to clean, usable data.

Business Intelligence 8

Business Intelligence Affiliate Marketing Competitive Intelligence Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

. “Personal experience makes me a more effective marketer.” Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers. Digital transformation is not just about technology. Help Employees Embrace Agility.

P&L 11

P&L Agility Fashion Media 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

It is tough to beat the market and over long periods of time indexing has been shown to outperform most active managers. On the other side, fans of active management see it as a trend that can damage market efficiency and lead to distortions in market prices. But what’s the role of investors?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

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. who have distinct needs and can be reached with tailored tactics. Companies can also use a segmentation strategy in times of change.

Brand 8

Brand Benchmarking Performance Review Participative 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. Facebook’s tactic appears similar to that of other established companies: It controls possible disruptive events that appear to pick off customers based on initially niche cases by buying the competition.

Film 8

Film Christensen Short-term Software 8

Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 12, 2018

To do that it has made use of imaging technologies such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and positron emission tomography (PET), along with brain wave analysis technologies such as quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG). This makes empathy a handy data-gathering tool that’s employed in the decision-making process.

Organization 247

Organization Self-aware Stress Leadership Styles 247

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

But the scale of the problem means cybersecurity should be a concern for every executive, from HR to Marketing. From among the different tactics, targets and perpetrators, the study identifies nine basic attack patterns that cover more than 85 percent of security incidents and 90 percent of security breaches. The risk is growing.

Content 8

Content Industry Finance Report 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Leading technology companies are increasingly soliciting their users to take political action on their behalf to defend controversial business models from regulation, support new programs, and promote their moral values in active political battles. We’re being introduced to a new lever of corporate influence on democracy.

Politics 8

Politics Real Estate Morale Business Model 8

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

Among the companies that use this practice are Southwest Airlines, Harley-Davidson, and Whole Foods Market, which have all enjoyed sustained growth after adopting explicit practices of transparency. Create multiple paths for raising and testing ideas Developing and presenting ideas is a key skill for strategic leaders. All rights reserved.

Development 100

Development Argyris Learning-by-Doing Innovation 100

Mark Sanborn

MAY 10, 2019

This post on leadership challenges was originally published in 2016 and has been updated for 2019. While speaking to a global technology company in the Middle East, I was fascinated to hear that their C-level executive customers were most worried about innovation in business models—more so than the impact of technology.

Ethics 40

Ethics Business Model Follow-up Innovation 40

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2017

In the world of marketing, brand anthropomorphism can be a powerful mechanism for connecting with consumers. It’s the tactic of giving brand symbols people-like characteristics: Think of Tony the Tiger and the Michelin Man. Consider advanced chatbots, like Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, and Microsoft’s Cortana.

Brand 9

Brand Disintermediation Ethics Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

Neither digital technology nor the corporation itself is necessarily to blame for the current predicament. Technology may be involved with all this, but pointing to digital things as somehow causative is a mistake. Digital processes, applied to the same old tactics, simply exacerbate the same old problems.

Technology 8

Technology Short-term Long-term Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In 2001 the list of companies with the highest market caps was dominated by blue chips. The market now rewards the long-term vision and continual investment in new growth represented by these younger enterprises. While these tactics are necessary and useful, when used alone they serve merely as Band-Aids to the problem.

CEO 8

CEO Consensus Management Metrics 8