Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The pace of innovation in business is rapid. Each year, new pieces of tech, applications, or software platforms help to improve how businesses operate and the services they can provide to consumers and clients. These are just two examples of how technology is driving the evolution of business.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

If you don’t solve the skills riddle with agility, curiosity, and smart technology capabilities, your organization could fade from existence.” Workers who adapt and grow with the organization in a time of accelerated change will be able to launch products and services that meet market needs. Business development.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 5, 2022

It’s a problem I argued recently that many peddlers of metaverse technologies are falling foul of. He suggested that the majority of organizations focus on the idea, the product, or the technology. The document outlines why customers will want the product, how they will use it, what benefits they’ll reap, and so on.

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Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

This guest post by Amir Golan , VP of Business Development at Signals , shows how important it is to look for the small signals and patterns in big data that are easily lost. In the case of the former, they typically would want to know why and how could they innovate their current product to regain their position as number one.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

What about competing against the innovation of others that could cause the obsolescence of your product or service? What about competing to maintain key business relationships with vendors, suppliers, partners and the like? If you don’t have direct competition you’ll surely have indirect competition.

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 20, 2014

In its heyday, Eastman Kodak Company was an icon of innovation in photography; a juggernaut in its field. Creative changes in customers'' taste, technologies and global economic circumstance continue to destroy the Kodaks of this world. Kodak leadership missed a number of innovative opportunities in the past.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 2, 2021

The move towards service-based business models has been notable for a number of years, with companies like Rolls-Royce being among the pioneers, with their “Power by the Hour” model. It’s a business model that has been especially hard hit by a Covid-19 pandemic in which so much activity has been curtailed.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

If your small business plan can move the nation forward, you’re a step closer to winning Uncle Sam’s financing and support. offers the broadest scope of recovery-funded business opportunities. For funding in education, healthcare, construction, urban development, criminal justice, and the arts, look inside the beltway.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Sure, it’s your business, your idea, your net worth at risk and certainly nobody else will work as hard as you will, but is this really the right way to evaluate who should be the chief executive? In most cases the answer is no it’s not…however this is often times exactly how the decision is made. That’s about it.

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

You create an environment for innovative solutions, employee growth and increased morale. Part of being at the helm of the organization is knowing when someone isn’t a fit; giving them a job in perpetuity hurts your business present and your business future. Be proactive about change. Eliminating jobs won’t solve the problem.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

In many ways, the biggest business developments of 2010 were the things that didn't happen. Small businesses didn't attract capital and thus didn't help reduce unemployment. Technology companies with the capabilities and courage to innovate were bright spots and signals of important trends for the future.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Winning in this environment requires more than new technology ; here are ten ways to become truly social in a world that is not just connected, but interconnected and interdependent: 1) Do away with one-way conversations. Because the company trusts them to devise their own ways to connect with customers in meaningful and innovative ways.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

In this TED video , Sinek explains what he believes to be the reason for Apple’s constant innovations and their repeated successes. While most companies explain that they make great products, Apple is unique in that they begin by telling the consumer “ why ” they make their products. Want to buy one?&# Want to buy one?”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

So why, despite all the evidence to the contrary, do we see so many corporations dip their toes into the pool of innovation instead of diving in? Corporate innovation is already a difficult proposition; why doom it to failure by pursuing it half-heartedly? With the right approach, innovation at a big company is realistic.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

When a CEO announces a major initiative to foster innovation, mark your calendar. In most cases we’ve studied at Innovation Leader, an online resource for people responsible for innovation and R&D, there’s a surplus of good ideas for new products, services and business models.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

One innovative firm in the Bay Area, Flexperience, has created a different talent market: experienced professionals who seek flexible work opportunities. I spoke with Lisa Kay Solomon, vice-president of business development for Flexperience, about how organizations can build sustainable talent management strategies through flexible work.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 8, 2010

If they are feeling your brand understands them and their needs, is innovative, is a good value, and cares about them, they are now ready to jump in and interact with you. Brand loyalty is key to cultivating repeat customers who spread positive word of mouth feedback about your product or service. Are you ready??

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

The HP Board of Directors has to be focused on prevention and good business practices to build a long term strategy. that focuses on customers and innovation. HP Has Decreasing Product Quality. Take for example my LaserJet printer.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

So why, despite all the evidence to the contrary, do we see so many corporations dip their toes into the pool of innovation instead of diving in? Corporate innovation is already a difficult proposition; why doom it to failure by pursuing it half-heartedly? With the right approach, innovation at a big company is realistic.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

Physicians, nurses, and others who work on the front lines of patient care are an important potential source for innovations that could improve patients’ health and reduce the cost of care. And they often lack much of the expertise needed to transform an idea into a viable product. The Leading Edge of Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2012

With today's breathless enthusiasm for innovation, it's hard to remember when, as far as the management literature was concerned, innovation was something that guys in white coats who worked for companies like DuPont did in the R&D lab. Innovation, or venturing, was slowly working its way onto the leadership agenda.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Then come down—whether it is getting published or getting a new product into stores. Design stems from USE.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

A strong personal brand is so much more than a memorable name or product. It is arguably even more important than a business' brand, as businesses may come and go, but your personal brand is yours forever. . John Purkiss ​"I help people to transform their businesses, their careers and their lives."

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Strategy Driven

MAY 26, 2021

But although AI is a real and genuine technology, the potential and tangible applications of modern AI advancements are far from what Hollywood movies and novels by authors such as Philip K. Both of these are focused on business intelligence and deep learning with traditional ML at their core. Dick would have us believe. MonkeyLearn.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Consider the case of an organization in our consortium, the Connected Commons , that uncovered a ground-breaking audio/visual technology which would differentiate the organization in existing channels but also had the potential to open up entirely new markets. The group was surprised several times by the demands of external stakeholders.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. It told how American Airlines and others had introduced systems to help their customers choose their products and services. These "channel" systems helped steer business to American Airlines.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

In the same way, industrial product buyers are seeing their relationship to equipment manufacturers changed by smart, connected things. In many cases, it is no longer the industrially manufactured product that is the focus, but rather the web-based service that users access through that device.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

For that reason, the "Lean" mentality is one of the most powerful tools in the innovator''s arsenal — in startups and mature corporations alike. That has resulted in some misconceptions that can be counterproductive in the quest for innovation. Patient capital. In a good start-up, these characteristics are not hard to find.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

. “A lot of lifestyle businesses used to not be able to get started in larger-run manufacturing which was a pitfall for any small-scale renaissance,” observes Mark Hatch, founder of TechShop , a chain of urban maker spaces in U.S. metros like Austin, Pittsburgh, and the Bay Area. This opens up possibilities.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

Innovation, a critical component to success for today’s companies, is about coming up with new ideas. That’s why companies go to great lengths to design offices that encourage spontaneous encounters , and why dense cities, where people can bump into one another on the street, are more innovative than sparser suburbs.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2016

Consider the core mission of the modern IT department: Taking in all the technology “mess” (often from several different divisions), developing the necessary competencies, and delivering savings and efficiency to the company. Enter data and analytics, which provide an opportunity for such innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

We see ourselves as risk-takers and innovators. Today more than ever, the entrepreneur is celebrated, failure is accepted as a cost of doing business, and starting your own company is seen as a path to achieving the American Dream. There also have been innovative new entrants in accounts receivable lending such as Fundbox and C2FO.

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Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

Should you follow conventional wisdom and write-up a thirty-page business plan? model, startups will have more success if they adopt lean and agile business development principles, where failing fast is the premium strategy and the lean business model reigns supreme. You call this your minimum viable product (MVP).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Running the business. Business development. No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. Computer activity constitutes less than 1% of the technology picture.

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