Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. Lack of attentiveness to quality has cost the United States its global marketplace dominance. Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs. Access to global markets. Faster innovation. Investment Toward Economic Survival and Growth.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break. In the global economy, can analytic practitioners be hugely successful in their careers while going unnoticed? Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

By comparison, 62% of incumbents in high-income economies on average remained in the top quintile for the same decade. The top-performing emerging-market firms innovate more aggressively than their advanced economy rivals: 56% of their revenue comes from new products and services, compared with 48% for firms in advanced economies.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

New research from the McKinsey Global Institute simulates the potential global macroeconomic impact of five powerful technologies (computer vision, natural language, virtual assistants, robotic process automation, and advanced machine learning). GDP growth a year across the period. Our simulation suggests that it may reach 70% by 2035.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

China, by comparison, is rising in the WTO era. By comparison, China's FDI stock equals 8% of its GDP; more than 70% of that FDI consists of wholly foreign-owned enterprises (as opposed to joint ventures); and foreign firms produce half of China's exports and more than 90% of China's high-tech exports. Today, by comparison, U.S.-China

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

What’s really significant, though, is that by buying WhatsApp, Facebook has signaled its intention of taking on Tencent, China’s biggest Internet company, which is trying to become the global leader in the instant messaging market. Tencent enjoys the advantages of a giant social network as well as a history of innovation.

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Norton Globalization Price Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

Firms like Deloitte have predicted robust consumer demand for smart glasses, with global adoption reaching “tens of millions by 2016 and surpassing 100 million by 2020.” Google has never been afraid to branch out beyond its core business; it expanded beyond search into email, chat, mobile operating systems, and more.

Strategy 9

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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. Finally, operating conditions differ significantly within the country groups. Having said that, it is also true that executives need help managing their globalization gambits.

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Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2014

When I argue that e-commerce isn’t likely to destroy innovative omnichannel retailers , I typically receive passionate responses. In general, however, e-commerce operations aren’t as cheap to run as most people think. in operating margins over the past three years. But how much of the difference do these reasons explain?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

In our research on change agents at the Phoenix Community of FCB Partners , we have found that there are three distinct challenges which require different kinds of change leaders: (1) transformational leaders, (2) innovation instigators, and (3) innovation managers. The Innovation Instigator. The Innovation Manager.

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Balanced Scorecard Innovation Globalization Micromanagement 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. But still sitting on the sidelines?

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

He had no formal authority as a leader, operating without any title or mandate. Companies like Google and 3M have benefited from embracing innovation that comes from all parts of the organization. What are the key actions of strategic leaders who drive innovation without formal authority?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet.

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Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The pay ratio is also a misleading statistic because CEOs and workers operate in very different markets, so there is no reason for their pay to be linked — just as a solo singer’s pay bears no relation to a bassist’s pay. This consideration explains why CEO pay has risen much more than worker pay.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2013

Pay is set by the market and the labor market has gone global, the reasoning goes — and when a Chinese or Mexican worker can do what an American can for less, wages have to go down. Compensation Economy Global business' For decades, most discussions of pay levels and income disparity in the U.S. in recent decades. You betcha.

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Retail Attrition Globalization Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

My evidence is a series of separate surveys conducted by different organizations, including the MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation. In comparison, the U.S. While I agree, I nonetheless believe that the slowdown is due, in part, to an acceleration of “near-shoring,” the practice of producing closer to the customer.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2016

It’s now a multi-billion-dollar global business. Airline operations are a huge optimization challenge. Maybe it’s not an exact apples-to-apples comparison, since you can’t break up an airline into multiple moving parts (at least not yet). Uber, the car-sharing service, has become ubiquitous.

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Organization Airlines Constraint Power 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Any advantages you have now will pale in comparison with a great set of algorithms that differentiates the customer experience. The Global Digital Economy. ” GE adopted its FastWorks initiative, based on lean startup principles, to cut bureaucracy around innovation. This is not guesswork. On both counts. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

Those of us who believe that managers make better decisions when key data are presented visually tend to get very excited about all the innovation going on in the graphical display of information. For a sampling of some new and cool tools, see the popular Hans Rosling TED talk.)

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Supply Chain CIO Information Technology Information 8

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

He demonstrates that the ability to build trust is THE key leadership competency of the new global economy. They settled on 11 (and for each one they carefully selected a slightly less impressive “comparison company”). Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. ” 3. By Daniel H.

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Since energy startups operate in an ecosystem dominated by incumbents, they can benefit dramatically from use of incumbent resources. Corporate venture capital is also increasingly common, as shown by the $300 million fund established by GE, ConocoPhillips, and NRG, as well as notable activity from Total, Dow, 3M, and Procter & Gamble.

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Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

While India remains a formidably challenging market, there are at least three reasons why global firms cannot overlook India without consequences. In fact, JCB makes half its global profits in India. India has added new customers at the fastest rate for Amazon in its history of operations across the world, including the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

lifted the 40-year-old ban on exporting American oil, and the maiden shipments are finding their way to global markets allowing U.S. By comparison, the U.S. Thanks largely to the decline in energy prices, the US airline industry is enjoying operating margins above 15%, according to a recent economic analysis that our firm conducted.

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Price Energy Airlines Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Which leads me to this conclusion; one of the healthiest habits you can operate in is healthy thinking! This has been the biggest contributor to how I operate now. is a Senior Consultant with NextMove and Partner at Innovation Partners International and author of Conversations Worth Having. What is that!?” I could breathe.

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Both then and in 1686, when Lloyd’s was born in a London coffee house, the global insurance industry was a business of utmost good faith , as it remains today. However, even these commodity offerings can find ways to innovate and survive. As with all such innovations, a global standards war is under way.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

For comparison, they hold around 0.6%–0.7% Being able to recruit globally is supposed to help tech powerhouses like Facebook and Amazon find the talent they need. on H-1B visas, boost the economy by increasing innovation, productivity, and sometimes even employment. a competitive edge in the global war for tech talent.

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