Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

You might call this a North Star tactic , calling on people in an organization to habitually look up from daily minutiae to reorient themselves to their ultimate destination.”. “They avoided distractions of the moment by returning like a broken record to their original rationale for believing in the stock.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2016

3) Harness the new value chain: New technology and the old wisdom of the assembly line go quite well together. The promise of the digital age is being realized with affordable human and technological resources just a click away. Return to the Tactical Execution Forum. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Planning, tactics, organizational development. You employ state-of-the-art technology and are in the vanguard of your industry. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Assignments, responsibilities, functions, relationships, follow-through, accountability. Systems and Processes. Culture and Mission. Philosophy.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Organizations deploy automation technologies as the primary resource in their Business Process Management. Gone are the days were BPO meant Business Process Outsourcing, with Robotic Process Automation technology fueling new millennium enterprises, BPO has taken on a new meaning, Business Process Optimization.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 14, 2016

What kinds of people are necessary to conduct maneuver strategies and tactics? Alex Verjovsky brings over 20 years’ experience in the consulting and technology sectors as both a consultant and entrepreneur. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Alex is a graduate of Columbia Business School.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 29, 2016

As businesses increasingly move their operations to digital platforms, and in particular to cloud space, even the most traditional staples of running an organization are being improved by embracing technology. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Document Sharing at the Basic Level. Consider leaving a comment!

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

of China’s exports in 2016, according to the same report. Likewise Alibaba formed a special task force in 2016 to identify counterfeits and their manufacturers and distributors through data analysis, which it relays to law enforcement. Invest in anti-counterfeit technology. Fake merchandise accounted for 12.5%

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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. Think about the last game you played.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers. Today’s technologies and consumer needs change faster than traditional business road maps can deliver, and employees need to be ready and empowered to move at this pace.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

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. What if disruption comes instead — as I outline in the April 2016 issue of HBR — from the supply side?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

In 2015 over 113 million Americans health records were exposed, and in 2016 the number was over 16 million, according to reports submitted to the U.S. These established methods of approaching health care security would merely need to be updated to cover new forms of cyberattacks and new tactics employed by cybercriminals.

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Before explaining how these collaborations can help, it’s important to note that we observe them already in several industries, spanning mining to technology. These collaborations happen in a transparent way and should not be confused with the harmful collusion tactics that we should be vigilant about.).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

For its background check solution, Checkr wasn’t getting the results it wanted from traditional sales and marketing tactics as it expanded into new market segments. The changes happening in consumer behavior, technology, and media are redefining the nature of creativity in marketing.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

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. Learn more about the Verizon 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report, and access an executive summary here.

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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.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

Reverse mentoring — in which younger staff members share their knowledge of new technology with a more established staff member — can also be effective. Focus on the Self The final three principles are aimed at the potential strategic leaders themselves — these tactics can help them prepare for their personal evolution.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2017

It’s the tactic of giving brand symbols people-like characteristics: Think of Tony the Tiger and the Michelin Man. Today some companies are taking brand anthropomorphism to a whole new level with sophisticated AI technologies. The implications are numerous. Beyond Chatbots. Indeed, Siri seems more persona than product.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

While these tactics are necessary and useful, when used alone they serve merely as Band-Aids to the problem. Large enterprises have been responding to these developments for some time, mainly by applying the methods of startups such as lean experimentation, design thinking, and agile development.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Romney's Boston staffers would monitor these voluminous streams of disparate data to sharpen their tactical decisions. One area where big data doesn't appear to have been a huge factor, but might be in 2014 or 2016, is the PAC effort. And it may have been a smart plan, but the campaign botched the execution.

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