Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 27, 2013

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Coaching Tip

JULY 9, 2013

Tom Borders told me that they decided to hire a CEO whose experience was in retailing versus a strategic marketing expert. The new retail-oriented CEO decided to close down their website, fire their internal website experts and contract out information technology by having their books sold through Amazon.com. Related articles.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

If you're looking to conduct cross-continent business, know that you can, but the task is not easy. Managing one location has it's own challenges like keeping up with all of your departments including Human Resources, sales, marketing and the like. The best advice I can give you is to keep your global business connected.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Investing in research and development helps to establish this culture and ensure the company will remain ahead of the curve. Customer centricity: It’s been proven that companies that prioritize their customers see greater business results and continually bring more innovative products to the market.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2013

Is all of your training and product instruction/information downloadable? Social media is there at the forefront of mobile app development – whether you’re there or not. To put myself on notice that my own offerings need to be ahead of the market and ahead of my competition. Can I easily get what I want? Can I pay easily?

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Data is omnipresent and within our grasp yet business truths are still elusive. Finding meaning in that data requires sifting through droves of extraneous information for business insight. SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2015

A veteran of knowledge management, business intelligence, and large-scale technology implementation projects with more than fifty companies worldwide, he has been a technical consultant for the Asian Development Bank, has worked for IBM and Computer Sciences Corporation, and was a fellow at Ernst & Young’s Center for Business Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

We read the odd business book or attend an occasional conference, and that''s the extent of our professional development. Following are some of the richest and deepest places to grab a master''s level education in marketing. Marketing Charts. Interested in marketing to moms? But education has never been easier.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The buzz around using predictive tools to analyze big data in discrete areas of a business is loud and deserved. Long-dominant frameworks like the Five Forces or SWOT analysis have been based, accordingly, on a fundamental, often static or relatively long-duration, set of market and firm characteristics.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

Customer intelligence is at an organizational inflection point. This practice, which is largely the evolution of database marketing, has become a critical driver of business strategy for global organizations in nearly every industry and vertical, because it supports decisions with data. The ability to speak "IT."

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

They adapt quickly and predict trends by continuously curating and analyzing data and developing insights that drive new value. IT has long played a critical role in helping organizations deliver better products and services, improve operations, better manage risks, and develop new business models to stay relevant.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

For instance, in a traditional, customer-centric organization, marketers identify customer segments across multiple dimensions, then define solutions (a mix of products and services) to meet each segment’s needs. But in an outcome-centric organization, marketers target individual customers. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The buzz around using predictive tools to analyze big data in discrete areas of a business is loud and deserved. Long-dominant frameworks like the Five Forces or SWOT analysis have been based, accordingly, on a fundamental, often static or relatively long-duration, set of market and firm characteristics.

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Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

For example, Facebook pages are often receptacles for customer complaints, yet this feedback does not get funneled into the same databases that compile information from areas such as call centers. However, integration across complex organizations takes time and so specialization may be needed in order to develop social-digital capabilities.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

On January 25, the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants held a press conference to call attention to a new framework for integrated reporting (reporting sustainability information alongside financial information in companies' filings).

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Long-term Sample Report Pharmaceuticals 14

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. These "channel" systems helped steer business to American Airlines. ERP systems, RFID , knowledge management, business intelligence) have washed over organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2013

This is a needless limitation based on a piece of information that, in the context of hiring decisions, is essentially arbitrary. By excluding candidates without business intelligence analyst listed as a past title, they rule out many individuals who have the relevant skills and experience required of the job.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Lines of business are now getting their own official technology budgets for non-standard software products.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Brad Peters, CEO of Birst, a business intelligence company, raised the issue of incentives and structure with me in an interview at Saleforce.com’s Dreamforce conference. Though he was writing about Chief Marketing Officers, his advice is equally valuable here.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

Leading proponents of this approach use the data-talks-to-data concept developed by IBM's Jeff Jonas and his team in the Entity Analytics group. This involves combining soft-surveillance data with information from existing business-intelligence and analytics solutions. That's about to change.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) is an idea that has oscillated through many hype cycles over many years, as scientists and sci-fi visionaries have declared the imminent arrival of thinking machines. But it seems we’re now at an actual tipping point. Moore’s Law ), smarter analytics engines, and the surge in data.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

The conventional wisdom is that it takes far longer for many potentially beneficial innovations to be widely adopted in health care than in other industries, especially consumer markets. By comparison it can take 10 to 20 years for a new health care practice to go from development to widespread adoption, according to some estimates.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

While almost all business units, such as HR and sales, have started working more closely with IT, we have become especially interested in the marketing-IT relationship because we’ve seen firsthand just how much of marketing is increasingly powered by technology. Align your vision.

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Marketing Enterprise Architecture Technology Project 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Front-line sales professionals and managers rarely find the majority of these capabilities useful in winning more business for the company. CRMs today also serve a lot of masters, from executives in the C-suite, technology, marketing, finance, and, oh yeah, sales. Integrate your marketing efforts with sales activity. The result?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Today’s fashion in data science favors flashy sophistication with a dash of sci-fi, making AI and machine learning the darlings of the job market. Instead of asking an analyst to develop their statistics or machine learning skills, consider encouraging them to seek the heights of their own discipline first. What about analysts?

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Organization Engineering Learning-by-Doing Storytelling 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Consider its decision to pursue the market for pharmaceutical distribution, or the recent announcement that it will be teaming up with Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase to create joint solutions for reducing the health care spending of more than 1 million employees and their families. .” So where is the link to health care?

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Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

As the consumers, they must be willing to share their information if they expect a seamless, intelligent, and relevant experience across every channel and interaction. An evolving approach is to develop customer data hubs with advanced analytics that enable one-to-one segmentation and real-time decision making. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

This gave ZF access to top-notch expertise in data analytics and the management of information systems. Finance, Logistics, Marketing, Sales, as well as Production and Quality all produced large amounts of data that could be interesting for data science pilot projects. The hardest part was figuring out how the lab would work.

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Company Automotive Project Chief Information Officer 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Companies are already making use of this for innovative business intelligence purposes — for example, Derwent Capital Management uses Twitter sentiment to predict stock-market movements. Governments the world over use social media to push information out to the world. The granularity of the data is impressive.

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Media Business Intelligence Software Trends 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

One noteworthy finding was the need for additional investment in information technology to support the new business model. To do this, they will have to be able to access and analyze claims and clinical data, which will require flexible data-warehouse platforms and business intelligence tools. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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