Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

A good strategy helps a company clarify the tradeoffs that will be needed to make between short-term improvements and long-term opportunities. When faced with a potential threat of technology or business model disruption, you need to consider two things. Creating an Innovation Strategy.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 22, 2023

Deploy Consistency and Long-Term Thinking in All Decisions Defining long-term goals for an entrepreneur is important because you can easily lose sight of the bigger picture in dealing with everyday tasks associated with being at the top. Putting customers at the center of your business model has many benefits.

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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. Coke isn’t wasting time assessing non-beverage markets or searching for food acquisitions. The proof is in the numbers; Coke’s profit and market cap consistently outpaces their beverage and food rival, PepsiCo. .

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Running your own business involves a lot of decision-making, from figuring out how many employees to hire to when to roll out your next marketing campaign. Rather than make an impulsive decision, successful businesses make informed decisions based on accurate, current information. What kind of data?

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2023

The oilfield services market has been booming due to the growing energy demand. 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.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Too often, when innovation processes fall short, top managers make the impulsive diagnosis that it’s because their people are simply unwilling to change. Unless these are aligned with the organization’s strategic long-term goals, they aren’t supporting the motivation and attitudes needed to drive innovation efforts.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 24, 2021

While naming your business and creating a logo is important, ever wondered how determining your business structure or crafting a detailed marketing strategy might affect your business? Rather than guessing where to start, follow our checklist to start your own small business. Determine your target market.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Instead, do thorough market research to ensure your business idea isn’t making sense to you alone. Market research involves you collecting as much information as possible regarding your target customers, asking the right questions, analyzing potential competitors, and discovering your target market.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Businesses that operate as a collection of independent departments often struggle with cohesion and finding common ground but those with HR as a strategic partner become efficient, uninterruptible success stories. The HR team can be equipped to bring a new platter of insights to the table when properly equipped for it.

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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. Both perspectives are limiting. Take off your glasses and look through fresh eyes.

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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. We can all dream up big ideas, but few of us can bring them to market. It's meant to be.

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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 14, 2019

When he took over as CEO in 2005, he laid out three strategic priorities saying it should be about the future, not the past : Recommit to the concept that quality matters, embrace technology instead of fighting it, and think bigger—think global—and turn Disney into a stronger brand in international markets. Worry about this instead.”

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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. Ultimately, this means combining operations with the most popular platforms on the market is usually a breeze.

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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. Innovation today is as much about how you deliver value as it is about what it is you offer to the market. 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. Innovation today is as much about how you deliver value as it is about what it is you offer to the market. The other domain is leadership.

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Thin Difference

JUNE 29, 2019

How will you talk about it in marketing? When you invest in an employee’s career development, you’re more likely to secure their retention for the long-term. With short, micro-lessons, they can also make time for learning without losing a large portion of their day. How quickly can you integrate this into the new hire process?

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

The days where you could create business plans a year ahead of time and expect to be able to stick to them with nothing changing are long gone. While planning is a necessity to succeed in business, particularly for long-term vision , short-term activity and flexibility are just as important.

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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. Establishing goals, both long- and short-term, in collaboration with staff members will encourage full commitment and participation by the team.

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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. I was directed to two companies already working in this market, Baba Jobs in India and Assured Labor in Latin America. Allen Kramer : Reflection: Work with Assured Labor.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 29, 2019

The firms have traditionally operated in decidedly unglamorous fields, whose markets have seemed unduly narrow, but by ascending to global dominance of those fields, the companies have been tremendously successful. One of the more interesting of these was recently analyzed by French business school INSEAD. Data economy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

The difference between displacement (outperforming existing market incumbents at their own game) and disruption (changing the game) is strategically important, no matter how similar the pain they cause is. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. Displacement generally is easier to combat than disruption.

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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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Women on Business

JULY 12, 2012

Existing companies also have a large opportunity to incorporate social good into their business model. Organizations like B Corporation are in existence to help companies articulate and focus on having good business practices and positively changing the world. To do so requires that we act with the understanding that.

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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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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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Rajesh Setty

JULY 14, 2013

A bad business model cannot be salvaged with a great story. In fact, a solid business model and a great story will at best have 10% chance of succeeding so anything that’s less than a 9 out of 10 on the business model is destined for failure very shortly. Tweet This. Where can you start?

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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? nationally.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

If you want your business to start moving forward, then you need to get out of your comfort zone; goal setting is the ideal way to challenge yourself. Create a growth plan with clear goals and your business will be better able to move forward successfully. Remember to have both short-term and long-term goals, too.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

R&D and marketing typically come at product development from different angles, and R&D’s “things” approach is often at odds with marketing’s “people” focus. In companies where R&D is very powerful, marketers can sometimes be heard complaining about products that are hard to understand and use.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

And there are certainly no “digital ratios” to help your shareholders value your business’s future earnings potential. On a short-term basis, the only thing they can expect in return for focusing on data is the headaches that follow from explaining, justifying, and evaluating their operations to colleagues and investors.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

The topic model allows us to analyze similarities and overlap among topics between published papers. For example, the model revealed that the topic “disruptive innovation” is often mentioned alongside the topic “business model” in many studies. This may happen in two ways.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Many companies start their search for global growth in an alphabet soup of emerging-market groupings such as the BRIC , CIVETS , MINT , Next 11 , and so on. There are several flaws in using such acronyms as the basis for entering overseas markets. Thus, most groupings may be valid only in the short run. Is that smart?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

The same thing is happening in marketing organizations. Data-rich practices such as econometric modeling, analytics and copy-testing offer brand managers an alluring promise of precision and predictability. Thinking in terms of desired consumer behavior can unlock innovative strategies. Here''s why. Surprise is addictive.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2023

If necessary, consider taking out a short-term loan to tide over the crisis. Re-evaluating Business Model and Strategies Sometimes, a crisis is a wake-up call to revisit your business model and strategies. Can you pivot your business to meet changing market demands?

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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. Cost cutting and process improvements always have their place, but on their own accord don't constitute a sustainable business model.

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