Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

The answer often reopens the typical debate about technology; namely should a business invest in tech or should it instead focus on other factors of success such as hiring the right team, keeping track of the trends on the market and managing your brand reputation. Copyright © 2007-2018 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 30, 2020

68% of Americans felt “anxious” or “extremely anxious” about keeping their families safe (The American Psychiatric Association, 2018). 47% of Americans report feeling alone or left out (Cigna US Loneliness Index, 2018). Workplaces are buffered from some societal trends, but they are not immune. Develop a Positive Culture.

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HR Digest

JULY 15, 2019

Amidst the trending technological advances reshaping what we know as work, government policies and employee increasing expectations biting more deeply recently due to talent drought, the ultimate focus of every organization are how these factors and more can be engineered to effectively achieve a sustainable future.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

could become the world’s largest oil producer in 2018, surpassing Saudi Arabia and Russia. output comes from fracking operations that have cut costs dramatically since slumping prices in 2014 forced dozens of companies into bankruptcy. Analysts have predicted that U.S. How did we get here, and what does it mean for the industry?

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 22, 2018

In the VUCA world in which we now operate many businesses have become more agile, networked and team centric in order to respond to the challenges of more competition and digital disruption. However, up to now many of these approaches have been implemented in functional areas like sales and operations, and the C-suite has been left unchanged.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

On June 25, 2018, Facebook lost market capitalization of more than $100 billion in just two hours of trading after it announced its quarterly performance, despite exceeding analysts’ earnings forecasts. The level and trend of a company’s top-line metric is an advance indicator of the success of its business model.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

Interestingly, all these intrusions into business operations typically do not come from the Kremlin but from local officials who seem eager to gain the Kremlin’s favor amid instances of elevated international tensions. This environment is altering how multinational firms operate in the country and market their products.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

While aggregated data is often challenging to find, the recent Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) found 126 million women starting or running businesses, and 98 million operating established (over three and a half years) businesses. million new jobs to be created in the SME sector by 2018 will be created by woman-owned SMEs.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2018

The truth is that the worlds of activism and impact investing are converging much more swiftly than most people realize — and this union holds enormous promise for those who wish to see the creation of capital markets that support sustainable economic development. According to US SIF , at the end of 2018 there was $8.72

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Spreadsheets were developed, resources were marshaled, budgets were approved, and the work began. Note that the table implicitly projects limited investment and a slow start to the new growth initiatives, with no new revenues in 2017, modest new revenues in 2018, and significant new revenues really only beginning in 2020 and 2021.

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ExactHire - Leadership

AUGUST 19, 2021

Companies need employees now, and if companies do not meet their staffing needs to operate, doors will close—maybe permanently. A Brookings report published in March 2018 found that 45% of those released from prison did not have any reported pay in the first calendar year after they returned home. It’s never been more clear.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

How can companies navigate Africa’s many challenges and translate its growth trends into profitable, sustainable enterprises? By 2016, SABMiller had brewing operations in around forty of Africa’s fifty-four countries. In Nigeria, for example, SABMiller developed a new brand, Hero.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Organizations such as Amazon, IBM, Salesforce.com, Facebook, and Google, have all engaged in substantial API “releases” that permit developers to access information so they can build new applications or businesses. APIs are programming routines or protocols that allow software applications to share data.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Pricey (and for now, socially awkward-looking) HUDs will likely be a sliver of the nearly half-billion units that will ship by 2018. Hospital-borne infections like MRSA cost hospitals about 10 percent of their operating budgets, and the overall US health care system about $35 billion. Not necessarily.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Early-stage planning is under way to introduce the methods in other regions in Scotland, beginning in 2018. After an initial period, local coaching and facilitation capabilities were developed at Raigmore Hospital to facilitate the spread and scale-up of the approach system-wide. The box score. Thus far, results are promising.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

Accenture Research recently concluded a study of future workforce trends , including in health care, and the data point to significant growth for the industry, both in terms of jobs and revenues, as AI moves beyond rudimentary automation and enables greater collaboration between humans and machines.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Mostly because it’s fundamentally more difficult to lead an organization than ever before, due to a confluence of leadership trends and external factors. billion in 2018, roughly half the world’s population. By April 2014, Nike was waving the white flag by laying off most of the FuelBand’s development team.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

This week, Canada announced it would tax carbon nationally by 2018. At the state level, New Jersey passed a big new gas tax , and Oregon , Illinois , and California developed robust energy and climate policies. I do believe companies will expand their horizons, looking more at systems, not just their operations and value chains.

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