Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

The client is opening new locations in new communities and asks its consultants to formulate a plan of action and oversee operating aspects. Libraries and other repositories of information and knowledge. Here are some examples of Joint-Venturing: Producers of energy create an independent drilling or marketing entity.

Cooper 50

Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The New York Public Library is one of the largest public libraries in the world, with 18 million visitors yearly, a budget of nearly $300m, and 93 branches. Library leaders knew that given the immense changes brought on by digital innovations, as well as shifts in the communities that the Library served, it would need to evolve.

Library 8

Library Strategy Reference Bottom-up 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

He is the author of two best-selling books on the topic: “ The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership ” and “ The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle “ We met in front of a group of students from Hope College’s Center for Faithful Leadership.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

He is the author of two best-selling books on the topic: “ The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership ” and “ The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle “ We met in front of a group of students from Hope College’s Center for Faithful Leadership.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

As I discussed in an earlier post , that case addressed the question of whether a book buyer, having taken ownership of a physical book, is at liberty to turn around and sell it. In brief, resale markets are dangerous, especially for information goods. But that question is, to slightly mix metaphors, only the tip of the iceberg.

Marketing 8

Marketing Licensing Short-term Long-term 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year? Contrast this with the fact that CEOs of Fortune 500 companies read an average of four to five books a month. Even more impressive is that some of the most successful leaders throughout history were known to read one book every single day.

Blog 419

Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

In our book Repeatability , Chris Zook and I show how top-performing companies typically develop repeatable models that incorporate their strategy in front-line activities. Others race to build a bigger library of downloadable movies. Many companies pride themselves on moving from quarterly to monthly customer feedback sessions.

Merchandising 13

Merchandising Metrics Restructuring Library 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

There’s a wonderful scene (one of many) in Michael Lewis’s new book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt , in which John Schwall, then the head of product management at RBC Capital Markets in New York, decides one day in 2011 to figure out how stock trading had evolved into a high-speed, unfair race he thought it had become.

Long-term 8

Long-term Open-book Marketing Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

For people who crave a bigger challenge, at least 27 Fortune 500 companies — including Dow Corning, Intel, PepsiCo, FedEx, IBM, and Pfizer — now operate pro bono programs in emerging economies such as India, Brazil, Vietnam, and Ghana, according to a survey by CDC Development Solutions.

Participative 14

Participative Library Entrepreneur Survey 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

When designed well , these spaces can foster collaboration by “offering opportunities for serendipitous interactions with people all over the company,” says David Burkus, an associate professor at Oral Roberts University and the author of the forthcoming book Friend of a Friend. Can you help?”

Open-book 13

Open-book Conference Brainstorming Public Relations 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You could tell by the language he used: "So we realized that streaming and DVD by mail are becoming two quite different businesses, with very different cost structures, different benefits that need to be marketed differently, and we need to let each grow and operate independently.". And with good reason.

Strategy 10

Strategy Christensen Price Engineering 10

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

Of the companies who continue to operate without a plan, 40% of them will be out of business in the next 10 years. 50% of the population reads books. Of all high school graduates, 37% will never read another book after formal schooling. Of all college graduates, 16% will never read another book. Yet, only 5.1% 50% do not.

Budgeting 78

Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 78

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

Maybe the passage of time has dulled my memory of what it was really like, or maybe the wonderfulness of the phone rep led me to believe that this was a different sort of operation. If that''s right, the cable operators will only get more aggressive about this as the years go by.

Market Penetration 8

Market Penetration Industry Telecommunications Strategy 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

This is a book for the times we live in—and one that for many companies could mean the difference between success and failure. ’) Of course, time has marched on since the book was written, and plenty of other well-known companies have dropped the execution ball in the meantime (BP in the most spectacular fashion).

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

From The New York Public Library. All-inclusive global talent market. This quadrant might include work where employees are colocated and the operations and workers are easily accessible through physical connections. Social policies support boundary-less work beyond traditional full-time employment.

Human Resources 8

Human Resources Technology Globalization Trends 8