Strategy Driven

MARCH 9, 2016

You have probably hundreds of examples of experiences, and from them you can cull a sense of your tendencies and behaviors in the face of an unexpected turn of events or sudden difficulties. As you collect your own examples, compare what you did in one incident with your response in another. Watch for the patterns.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

Let me give you a great example…It is not at all uncommon for an executive to tell me that his/her business doesn’t really have any competition. All business (for profit or not) provide goods, services, or intellectual property/capital to a market (or markets) for some form of consideration.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

For example, he worked purposefully to fashion an image of himself as a hardworking, hands-on inventor (he once reportedly smeared soot on his hands and face before an interview to bolster that reputation). [1] For example, Bezos has developed deep expertise in software engineering, robotics, information technology, devices (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2012

The best way to understand the trajectory of your high performance career tomorrow is to look at what's happening to college undergraduates today. The Amazonified, Googlefied and Big Data-soaked — enriched?

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

What you point out, where you really focused in on these markets, where I think one of the best examples is where the end result of a hackathon can end up just totally terminating your entire market, how you plan for strategy then. Yeah, they failed, and I think that’s a great example of the main problem here. LARRY: Sure.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

If you can't answer these questions, then getting to know this leader could advance your career. I can name several times in my own career when my manager's immediate superior was a key factor. I can name several times in my own career when my manager's immediate superior was a key factor. Here are some suggestions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

As the field grows and evolves, the first generation of highly trained, highly passionate young data scientists is being joined by others who hopped on the bandwagon as a simple career move, responding to market demand and hoping for steady employment. The Insight Data Science Fellowship Program started by Jake Klamka is a prime example.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

GE’s talent management people, for example, play a critical role, at both the corporate and business-unit level, in filling key positions, insuring smooth successions, driving company-wide review processes, and building tools that managers can use to direct their own careers. On paper, this approach makes perfect sense.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Visualization is not new, and it’s much older than the “Napoleon’s March” example cited by Edward Tufte as the best information graphic. We were collecting and mapping information long before the printing press. Design Information & technology Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Has your company, for example, developed a customer lifetime value (CLTV) measure? Some Netflix predictive models, for example, that were created on early Internet users had to be retired because later Internet users were substantially different. Decision making Information & technology Knowledge management'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

In pre-Big Data days, for example, a hotel chain used some pretty sophisticated mathematics, data mining, and time series analysis to coordinate its yield management pricing and promotion efforts. Think this example atypical or anachronistic? Decision making Failure Information & technology' A Predictive Analytics Primer.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2013

WF: What do you see as the main career lessons of the book? A classic example is Mark Zuckerberg with Facebook. Freestyle chess — where human and computer teams play together, and outperform either on their own – is the example throughout the book. For example, I’m imagining some analytics software.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

An example of exactly this kind of action caught my eye in an unlikely setting—city government. Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career. Decision making Information & technology Strategy' This in turn creates the opportunity for strategic action.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2014

A marketing research specialist, for example, needs to collaborate with colleagues and clients. In her groundbreaking research , Harvard economist Claudia Goldin found that careers in which work is substitutable tend to have more flexibility and gender equity. Coordination Technology. Job Redesign.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

MBAs who lack programming skills often ask this question when they pursue careers in technology companies. Rather, my goal with the survey was to learn whether MBAs saw this well designed and rigorous course as a good investment of their time, given their career objectives and other course options. It has been edited slightly.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

For example, predictive analytics can reduce employee turnover costs. This month, Credit Suisse said it calculates who is likely to quit , and proactively offers them new career roles. Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career. An HBR Insight Center.

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Career Advancement

APRIL 1, 2019

As an example, instead of telling everyone you’re the best realtor in the region, give daily tips on selling a home. You want social media to help your career, not harm it. Make your posts and status updates interesting. Instead of compromising employment opportunities, it may bring you closer to your dream job or draw in clientele.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Management education today is largely about educating for judgment —developing future leaders’ pattern-matching abilities, usually via exposure to a lot of case studies and other examples, so that they’ll be able to confidently navigate the business landscape. Information & technology' Big Data Demands Big Context.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

For example, a divisional controller may report directly to the CFO and on a dotted line to the VP of the division; which ensures that the controller knows what the "internal customer" (the VP) needs as well as what the direct boss (the CFO) wants. Can you give me an example?" Career planning Managing up Organizational culture'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

In an era of rapid technological and social change, in which new management jargons seem to rise even faster than the disruptive startups that coin them, the career of Peter Drucker is perhaps as instructive as his writings themselves. But the story behind his career only begins there.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

Research focused on the careers of 14 highly successful CIOs found that, beyond the skills needed by all C-level executives (an extensive network, emotional intelligence, leadership, etc.), IT management Information & technology Organizational culture' CIOs especially need: an integrative mind. focus and vision.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

Consider the situation faced by a leading provider of outsourcing and information technology consulting services with approximately $1.5 The idea was to increase the focus on clients, improve flexibility and scalability, eliminate redundancy and excess costs, accelerate growth and profitability, and improve career opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

There are new types of insurance companies such as Oscar ; novel provider organizations such as OneMedical , IoraHealth , and ChenMed ; and new health information technology companies such as Castlight , Vital , and WellFrame that aim to use technology to improve care and value. It would be a shame if they did.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

My team would have people with deep functional knowledge and skills (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, and information technology) to align surrounding processes. For example, HR managers tend to defend the status quo. And to succeed at that game, HR professionals must make fundamental changes in the way they operate.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2014

Because new technologies frequently require specific new skills that schools don’t teach and that labor markets don’t supply. Since information technologies have radically changed much work over the last couple of decades, employers have had persistent difficulty finding workers who can make the most of these new technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Sure, an ample pile of dollars can be attributed to big spending on a few analog media channels, like Super Bowl ads, for example. Information & technology Marketing Social media' Shouldn''t CMOs and all marketers be shocked by this? The Digital CMO. Now, a few CMOs may feel unfairly implicated here.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

To be clear, I publish these plots because they are so utterly typical of the successful analyses I’ve participated in throughout my career. For example, I often take a long bike ride on summer Sundays. I heard great example recently. Information & technology Personal effectiveness' Now let’s dig in.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

For the last three years of his career, he was responsible for the $6 billion portion of the Air Force budget dedicated to IT, where his main responsibilities ranged from Air Force cyber activity to IT upgrades to career field management. Give us a sense of the challenge of keeping up with technology as a military CIO.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2013

As forms of online learning and screening get more sophisticated, adding more elements of participation and linking more explicitly to career gatekeepers, will we be plugging leaks in the diversity pipeline—or adding more? Hiring Information & technology Talent management' A Fairer Way to Make Hiring and Promotion Decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

And now on top of that explosion, we can also analyze “unstructured” data, such as text and video, to pick up information on customer sentiment. For example, when IBM’s Watson computer played ‘Jeopardy!,’ He told me: “I’ve spent my whole career in travel and IT.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

I had worked for several businesses during my career by that time that had become conglomerates, some fairly large, and then had divested themselves of various businesses. I think music is a great example of that. Oracle is an example. And then what we look for is for something to have changed in the underlying technology.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

This may be difficult, especially if you''ve hand-picked your management team and their careers depend on you. You need to provide true leadership here, as others will follow your example. Information & technology Leadership' Second, break the group think habit.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

A reasonable career move would be to specialize in "lower level" attacks like, well, corporate espionage and intellectual property theft. As long as Internet culture allows or even supports that kind of "freedom" (as, for example, a culturally acceptable extension of BYOD policies), companies are in real danger.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Typically a graphic depiction of the organizational components to be addressed in a redesign (for example, McKinsey’s 7S model, which includes strategy, structure, systems, staff, skills, and so on), every consultant and his brother flogs an organization design model. So leaders at many different levels need to get in on the act.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Even technology, information technology, you know, they’ve invested in treating that as a tier-one asset. And in each of these situations, there were young gifted leaders that had the foresight to use these new categories as rocket fuel for their careers. Let me give you an example of that.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

For example, when new executive leaders join organizations, one of their first acts may be to freeze major expenditures and reevaluate all requests. For example, I remember one information technology decision-maker telling me, "There''s no such thing as picking the wrong solution so long as it helps you land your next job.".

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

Taylor, chair of Columbia University's Department of Religion and author of a book critical of tenure , estimates that a college ties up between $10 million and $12 million of its endowment to support a single tenured professor for a 35-year career. For example, a 2011 UCLA study of 6,768 U.S.

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