Eric Jacobson

MARCH 17, 2024

More specifically, within 14 chapters, Martin explores his recommended new ways of thinking about: Competition Stakeholders Customers Strategy Data Knowledge Work Corporate Functions Planning Execution Talent Innovation Capital Investment Mergers and Acquisitions Roger L. Martin : Strategy and planning are entirely different.

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Rogers Strategic Planning Strategy Planning 109

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

B usiness Model Generation caught my eye in a book store in December – It is rare I find myself in book stores anymore given how many books are sent to me as a blogger and my preference in reading on Kindle or IPad. I could see there was something new about this book and how the authors thought about business models.

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Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Today’s business leaders are faced with many challenges: intense competition, increased regulation, and the need for constant innovation. Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate.

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Tactics Strategic Planning Strategic Fit How To 73

CO2

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Recently, when working with clients to bring the strategic planning process out of the board room and into mail room, we brought to life Motivation 2.0. Each business model calls for different cultures and different reasons for these behaviors. How far do you reach with your strategic planning?

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Strategic Planning Motivation Planning Executive Coaching 76

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Under their stewardship, the CRO implements innovative revenue generation techniques and ensures effective business model operations. Additionally, they must have strong financial acumen, innovative marketing strategies, and an ability to anticipate market trends.

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Long-term Due Diligence Quality Leadership Styles 235

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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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

Most organizations, and even most strategy consultants, are using strategic planning frameworks built for business models that were designed during the industrial age. IT’S TIME TO INNOVATE STRATEGY. STRATEGY INNOVATION. The innovations required to move towards this new paradigm are significant.

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Strategy Strategic Planning Innovation Competitive Advantage 150

Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Below is a summary of how I helped five startups, three middle-market companies, and a business unit of a Fortune 300 company pivot for pandemic-influenced business settings. Challenge Business Model Assumptions. The first step is to evaluate assumptions about the business model.

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Supply Chain ROI Business Model Emotional Intelligence 153

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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Kaplan Business Model Levitt Christensen 151

CO2

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

In summary, business coaching offers a blend of strategic planning, personal development, and operational efficiency, all converging to drive your business towards sustained growth and success. Through business coaching, the CEO and senior management developed effective leadership skills and strategies for team building.

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Leadership Development Development Succession Execution 78

Strategy Driven

JUNE 21, 2021

A growth mindset encompasses a set of behaviors and attitudes that reflect a business owner’s belief that their company’s business model is not set in stone. Such an entrepreneur is open to infusing new talents, innovations and creativity into the business to strengthen it and guarantee its longevity.

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Strategy Market Segmentation Learning-by-Doing Competitive Advantage 103

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

That is the question that many a business is forced to ask at some point during their life cycle. In today’s post I’ll examine the benefits of, and the need for corporate reengineering… Anybody could be a CEO if business were a static proposition. The fact is that business is not a static endeavor.

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Restructuring Blog CEO Brand 305

Chart Your Course

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Cost savings are integral to the business model of most call centers. A few short years ago, companies were still struggling to adapt to a world in which cloud-based solutions and software as a service platforms were threatening to overtake traditional business models. Employee Benefits.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 3, 2022

More specifically, within 14 chapters, Martin explores his recommended new ways of thinking about: Competition Stakeholders Customers Strategy Data Knowledge Work Corporate Functions Planning Execution Talent Innovation Capital Investment Mergers and Acquisitions Roger L. Martin : The goal of strategy is to compel customer action.

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Rogers Management Strategy Books 97

Eric Jacobson

MAY 7, 2023

More specifically, within 14 chapters, Martin explores his recommended new ways of thinking about: Competition Stakeholders Customers Strategy Data Knowledge Work Corporate Functions Planning Execution Talent Innovation Capital Investment Mergers and Acquisitions Roger L. Martin : The goal of strategy is to compel customer action.

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Rogers Management Strategy Books 65

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. Doing otherwise biases the business against innovation because what you are projecting may look unattractive relative to your business today. I don’t think so.

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Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Many entrepreneurs become so invested in their struggle for success that they forget a crucial reality which is business failure. But business owners – thanks to their enthusiasm for innovation – ignore the fact that cash-flow can make or break a business. Cut extra costs. How to perform this action?

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Finance SWOT Tools Software 66

LDRLB

MARCH 11, 2013

[Editor’s Note: We’re delighted to be collaborating with Strategy+Business to bring you interviews with top thought leaders in leadership, innovation, and strategt. The formal strategic planning process is only part of it; the deeper responsibility is ongoing and continuous. To read the full article, click here.].

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Strategy Kleiner How To Leadership 167

Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2021

Post-COVID19, however, many businesses are going to need to find a balance between stability and adaptability. On the one hand, it’s unlikely that many businesses are going to have to change their business model completely. Keep in mind that there is a huge difference between a product or service and a business model.

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Strategy Long-term Supply Chain Transportation 116

Skip Prichard

MAY 10, 2021

For example, we can see data dashboards, organization charts, spreadsheets, new strategic plans, or the latest new technology trend bouncing around social media. Innovation happens because of constraints, not despite them. Innovation happens because of constraints, not despite them.” Kristen Cox.

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Constraint PR Policies Tactics 107

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

This new era of focus on creative problem solving has been ushered in by massive disruption of the old order in business and society. New business models are rapidly emerging from revolutionary Internet, machine learning, and bioscience technologies that threaten the status quo in every field.

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Disaggregation McKinsey Skills Gordon 81

LDRLB

JANUARY 13, 2014

ANDREW: My name is Andrew King and I am a research associate at the Batten Institute which is a research think tank embedded within the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. The Batten Institute has been tasked with helping Darden become a thought leader in innovation entrepreneurship. ” ANDREW: It is great.

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Innovation Tools Open-book Learning-by-Doing 104

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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Innovation Business Model Uncertainty Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

As generations-old business models are upended by innovations in retail, financial services, bookselling, and a host of other industries, companies must continually adjust their strategic positioning to edge out rivals. But then it recovered by innovating — fast. When Innovation Is Strategy.

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Innovation Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

Companies the world over find it tough to turn good ideas into great businesses. That's partly because, as we all know, organizations and cultures rebel against innovations, especially when they are first conceived. Another enemy Nespresso faced was the incumbent business model.

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Innovation Mass Marketing Strategic Planning Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

One of the most common complaints senior executives have about disruptive innovation is its seemingly snail-like pace. How is it, they wonder, that it takes us forever to pursue ideas that promise to create new markets when the world seems to be innovating at a dizzying pace? Innovation' Measure learning, not results.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Uncertainty Strategic Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Game-changing innovation is a beautiful thing. The problem is that large companies find game-changing innovation staggeringly difficult to achieve. Apple was the only incumbent in this period to grow by creating new markets repeatedly through disruptive innovation. What does it take to innovate at scale?

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Innovation Incubator Disruptive Innovation McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

It first influenced business decades ago, through the development of an unmistakably hard skill that senior managers must master: strategic planning. Leaders today would be wise to learn from the past and to view strategic planning and mindfulness together. Before explaining why, though, a bit of history.

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Scenario Planning Strategic Planning Kleiner Management 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Plenty of people — including here on Harvard's blog — espouse the theory that big companies can't innovate. A look at any performance measure shows that innovation can come from either size, and that both arguments are oversimplifications. And the CEO sees enabling a culture of collaborative innovation as key.

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Operations Innovation Industry CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. Growth strategy Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Part of the problem is that the industry is still moving at warp speed, and the company has dwindling resources to deploy against innumerable innovation challenges. Strategic planning fails when: It has fuzzy objectives Why is the company writing a strategic plan? That is a big problem.

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Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

On the efficiency topic, 87 percent of companies represented in the study plan to increase their investments in research and development – with a significant portion of this investment devoted to digital technologies such as mobile, cloud computing, analytics, social media, ecommerce, and machine-to-machine communication. Indeed, U.S.

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Efficiency Maturity Strategic Planning Business Model 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 68

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

Business is dynamic. Regardless of how well-positioned you are, how thoughtfully you've planned for the future, or how well you satisfy customers, your strategic plan will not always be on target. So let me posit these questions: Will your business be affected by mobile internet? Think about this. By 3-D printing?

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Technology Retail Supply Chain Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. Danita Delimont/Getty Images. Few industries are being disrupted as drastically as the retail industry.

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Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Back before the passage of the Affordable Care Act, MedStar’s leaders decided they needed a strategic plan to reimagine the company in 2020. Doing that required developing a new business model in which MedStar would get paid to keep patients well. The innovation portfolio. The investment portfolio.

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Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8