Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2023

If you’re considering a career in the oil field, it’s important to consider your interests and skills—research industry trends and projections to determine long-term job stability and growth. With a steady increase in the demand for oilfield services, companies need to innovate to meet the growing demand.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 13, 2019

When organizations consider stepping outside of their traditional boundaries to engage with other players in new types of business innovations, they are often a bit lost in how to go about developing such a strategy process. There is a small innovation cycle consisting of a repetition of co-creation events and prototyping.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Based on interviews and ethnographic fieldwork, the author has uncovered how the emergence of professional short-term-let landlords has contributed to the displacement of local residents from their homes. They increasingly want a lifestyle that encapsulates mobility, flexibility, and collaborative business models.

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LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

Others experience the inherent tension but let short-term goals and fire-fighting consume their lives – at the expense of preparing for and positioning themselves for the future. This one little question lies at the intersection of two big fields – leadership and innovation. The other domain is leadership.

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LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

Others experience the inherent tension but let short-term goals and fire-fighting consume their lives – at the expense of preparing for and positioning themselves for the future. This one little question lies at the intersection of two big fields – leadership and innovation. The other domain is leadership.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Consumers are also demanding that business recognizes the impact it has on society and that it aligns the 3P’s—purpose, profit, and planet. No longer is it acceptable for CEO’s to focus on short-term gain to line their pockets. In the short term, that is,” he is quoted as saying.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 30, 2021

Operating a business in this regard isn’t easy at all, and this, in many cases, leads to companies becoming stagnant as you get comfortable where you’re at now. This is common and not always the wrong decision; when you’re comfortable and can see that your business model will remain sustainable, why risk anything?

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In the CEO Afterlife

JANUARY 20, 2016

Business Models Change and So do Core Competencies. That said, business models need not be static. Great strategies create long-term stability. When strategic intent is clear and concise, it provides the impetus for uncovering long-term opportunities. Great strategies guide short-term execution.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 6, 2015

So fast is the pace of change today that, with shrinking product life cycles and success ever more fleeting, companies are finding that the basis of competitive advantage is rapidly eroding and their business models are soon obsolete. Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide. Related articles.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 29, 2013

Some focus on short-term goals and on deepening their depth of knowledge in their domain of interest. Others have a long-term vision that enables them to differentiate various patterns and see how these will help them succeed. Radjou is an independent strategy consultant and author of the NYT bestseller Jugaad Innovation.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2012

Quick, tell me your organization’s business model. Can you tell me what a business model is? It’s a lot more than just making money – making money is the output, not even the outcome, let alone the model. Your organization, whether for-profit or not-for-profit, has a business model.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2015

In my new book, Endless Encores , a veteran CEO named Daphne spends an evening talking with an up-and-coming executive named Paul, helping him come to terms with the potential first failure he could be facing following a huge initial success. Projects are always short. Careers can be short or long. It's meant to be.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

China has not been a huge technology innovator, despite being the world’s second-largest investor in R&D , but Chinese businesses have found ways to use innovations in processes, business models, and customer experience to their disruptive advantage.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Iger truly embraces innovation. The decision to disrupt a business model that is working for you requires no small amount of courage. It means intentionally taking on short-term losses in the hope that a long-term risk will pay off. That’s a big ask, in terms of a company’s culture and mindset.

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Chart Your Course

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Cost savings are integral to the business model of most call centers. Believe it or not, dogmatically squeezing every last cent out of wages and employee costs can actually lead to higher spending in the long term. In this way, putting innovation to work (quite literally) offers other benefits as well. Employee Benefits.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 29, 2019

The digital economy stretches beyond the BAT group however and includes an armada of digital innovators who are thriving off the back of robust and invaluable user data. One of the more interesting of these was recently analyzed by French business school INSEAD. They utilize digital technology to disrupt traditional business models.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Owners work for both long-term objectives and short-term objectives. Owners don’t take misguided short cuts. What do you say when you talk to a business leader who has achieved a certain level of success and doesn’t want to pivot even when facing a rapidly changing landscape? Their job is to delight customers.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 16, 2013

A powerful way to do this, called mobile recruitment uses text messaging (SMS: Short Message Service) to allow workers to find jobs. While the country had been on Assured Labor’s longer-term radar, I brought the bandwidth to actually take the first steps and identify its potential for short and medium-term company growth.

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

When applied to a business model, the ratio can be used to illustrate several theories, including the idea that 80% of an organization’s output is generated by 20% of its employees. This will not only improve efficiencies but also cultivate new thought leaders whose innovations should bring about future process solutions.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Indeed, in the UK, dozens of energy companies face bankruptcy as the long-term contracts they have signed with customers on low prices render their business model unviable in a world in which the price of liquefied natural gas rose by two-thirds in less than a month. The green economy. Sharing the wealth.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

As the Internet of Things (IoT) spreads, the implications for business model innovation are huge. Filling out well-known frameworks and streamlining established business models won’t be enough. Albert Shum , Partner Director of UX Design at Microsoft, notes: “Business models are about creating experiences of value.

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QAspire

JUNE 26, 2014

This was the topic of June Edition of #IndiaHRChat in presence of special guest Faisal Hoque – an entrepreneur, author of Everything Connects – How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation and Sustainability (McGraw Hill, Spring 2014) and contributor to FastCompany and Huffington Post. VUCA is real.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

Innovation is famously difficult — many projects end up losing money, frustrating employees, and going nowhere. And yet corporations and governments spend billions of dollars annually pursuing innovation. Innovation projects often fail because the resources are spent on the wrong kind of innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

What, another clarion call urging executives to fundamentally rethink their business models through digital technology? The business media have had no shortage of these. While there is certainly merit in questioning your business model, revolutionary business model transformation remains elusive despite the buzz.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Business is fluid, dynamic and ever evolving, which means that static advice is at best short lived, but most times is simply incongruous with the very nature of business itself. Innovation, improvements, or these 'Next' Practices should be looked at in all facets of your business value proposition, your core.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

” It’s important to distinguish between different types of innovation, and the responses they require by firms. In a recent publication in the Journal of Product Innovation, we undertook a systematic review of 40 years (1975 to 2016) of innovation research. This may happen in two ways.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2011

billion to Google just a few short months ago, in November of 2010. Just a couple of weeks ago, I suggested in an article published in the European Financial Review that Groupon's business model suffers from some alarming weaknesses. Using this analysis, Groupon's business model would rank 36 out of a possible maximum of 70.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

But because most providers’ business models still depend on fee-for-service revenues, reducing volume (and increasing value) cuts into short-term profits. How, then, are innovative providers redesigning care so that, despite financial pain in the short term, they achieve long-range success?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

To achieve that goal, however, we must innovate not only in terms of science and R&D, but also in how we run our business. “We cannot be like Google, but neither do we want to be,” says Kemal Malik, the board member responsible for innovation, “We need to plot our own path.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Much fanfare has been paid to the term “disruptive innovation” over the past few years. Christensen has even re-entered the fold clarifying what he means when he uses the term. Disruptive innovations are: Cheaper (from a customer perspective). Disruptive innovations are: Cheaper (from a customer perspective).

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HR Digest

MAY 31, 2023

” Coined to illustrate how LGBTQ+ symbolism has been co-opted by corporations to amplify consumerism; this term highlights a lack of substantive progress for LGBTQ+ communities despite the ostensible support displayed. In short, genuine allyship is not only the right thing to do, but it is also good for business.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

The innovation mindset isn’t just about product innovation. Some organizations have focused on product innovation for so long they don’t know how to innovate in any other areas. For example, in 2010, Microsoft —one of the world’s best product innovators for the last two decades — launched a social phone called Kin.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

CEOs of large companies face a conundrum: they are confronted with a growing number of frugal consumers clamoring for affordable solutions, yet their existing corporate culture and incentive systems are designed to support a "bigger is better" business model — not to deliver more with less.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

It employed a business model that would make it very difficult for the current market leader to respond. Even using what seemed to be conservative assumptions, the team’s long-term projections showed a big, profitable idea. And certainly scaling the business will likely involve the existing business.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

For many companies considering how digital technologies could or should transform their business models, the questions they face are questions of unprecedented uncertainty, where past experience may be no help. The greatest temptation is to replicate your current business model digitally. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

Many politicians and commentators mention two critical factors in accomplishing this: increasing innovative capacity and reducing bureaucracy. First, they are less likely to take risks – which means they are unlikely to invent new products, processes, or business models. And it all starts in school.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

When Karl Ronn recently said, "Companies that think they have an innovation problem don't have an innovation problem. I featured Ronn, a former P&G executive (and current executive coach and entrepreneur), in several places in The Little Black Book of Innovation , most notably for his rant against the evils of focus groups.

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