Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises LLC and Xen Wireless form StrategyDriven Analytics to provide utility industry executives and managers with asset management program benchmarking data supporting operational and investment decisions and fleet and individual plant performance assessments. Plant Maintenance and Operations. About StrategyDriven.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 24, 2012

By: Guest Author, Kyle Lagunas Consumer technologies are infiltrating the workplace. From employee and manager self-service portals to the growing number of social media elements in performance and learning management, the technology employees expect to find in the workplace is changing. Where would marketing be without social media?

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Human Resources Software Media Comparison 79

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

In fact your talk matters little, in comparison to your walk. The most effective leaders have the best “talk”; a great vision, values, wonderful approaches and plans, and people see talk as more than just words – they see the walk. The reality is, they watch and pay much more attention to your feet, than your lips.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 5, 2024

This full-circle approach touches on every part of the business, from how you manage daily operations to how you price your services and how well you treat your clients. Start by thoroughly assessing your current prices in comparison to nearby competitors.

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Tips Customer Loyalty Price Loyalty 121

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives. You would be wrong.

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Business Model Technology Advertising Cost 12

Strategy Driven

APRIL 5, 2024

This full-circle approach touches on every part of the business, from how you manage daily operations to how you price your services and how well you treat your clients. Start by thoroughly assessing your current prices in comparison to nearby competitors.

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Tips Customer Loyalty Price Loyalty 108

Strategy Driven

APRIL 5, 2024

This full-circle approach touches on every part of the business, from how you manage daily operations to how you price your services and how well you treat your clients. Start by thoroughly assessing your current prices in comparison to nearby competitors.

Tips 104

Tips Customer Loyalty Price Loyalty 104

Strategy Driven

APRIL 5, 2024

This full-circle approach touches on every part of the business, from how you manage daily operations to how you price your services and how well you treat your clients. Start by thoroughly assessing your current prices in comparison to nearby competitors.

Tips 99

Tips Customer Loyalty Price Loyalty 99

Strategy Driven

APRIL 5, 2024

This full-circle approach touches on every part of the business, from how you manage daily operations to how you price your services and how well you treat your clients. Start by thoroughly assessing your current prices in comparison to nearby competitors.

Tips 93

Tips Customer Loyalty Price Loyalty 93

Strategy Driven

APRIL 5, 2024

This full-circle approach touches on every part of the business, from how you manage daily operations to how you price your services and how well you treat your clients. Start by thoroughly assessing your current prices in comparison to nearby competitors.

Tips 93

Tips Customer Loyalty Price Loyalty 93

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Sure, people print nostalgic books and holiday cards, but that volume pales in comparison to Kodak’s heyday. Why did this happen? Sponsored by Accenture.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 26, 2014

But after a number of processes are selected with this ‘whoever is interested’ approach, leaders and process Improvement practitioners see that it would make sense to select processes that are underperforming, would provide increases in market share and revenue, or would directly support key strategic initiatives.

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Process Strategy BPM Metrics 59

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

About the Author Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of Retailing , is the UPS Professor of Operations and Information Management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and co-director of the Fishman-Davidson Center for Service and Operations Management. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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Supply Chain Retail Bottom-up Newsletter 57

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

As multinational corporations pursue opportunities in emerging markets, they're bound to stumble if they overlook the developed economies, and vice versa. Without operating in the former, they won't be able to attain economies of scale; sans the latter, they're unlikely to continue developing state-of-the-art technologies.

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Globalization Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology 13

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2023

Financial consultants are a one-stop solution for all your financial concerns – be it tackling operational challenges or looking for investment opportunities for your business. While this process might seem time-saving, it can in fact jeopardise business operations in the long run.

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Finance Budgeting How To Credit Scoring 113

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2019

An example of an objective which is specific is – increasing sales by 25% by the end of the next quarter through an online marketing campaign. In Operations, you could introduce new technology or update your current software. Using KPIs as a benchmark, you can create a comparison between your past and future performance.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. Although the online small business lending market is in its infancy, there is already disagreement over the appropriate level of regulation.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Technology has exploded, giving us instant access to information and knowledge, and it all moves and changes so fast that some of what Boomers have learned during their careers may be obsolete. How do your organization’s strategic and operational goals inform what work roles will be needed in the future? Who will do this work?

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How To Tacit Knowledge Intellectual Capital Newsletter 72

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

For decades, experts and policy wonks have argued that health care is a uniquely inefficient industry, insulated from conventional market forces that operate in the rest of the economy. Poorly performing hospitals do not feel pressure from patients to improve quality because standard market forces do not apply to health care.

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Health Care Marketing Quality Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

They all take advantage of four technologies that once were scarce and expensive but are now plentiful and cheap. These technologies can be combined in numerous ways, and we are just starting to see companies really taking advantage of the possibilities. It is becoming a technology plugged into almost every conceivable object.

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Technology Wireless Short-term Long-term 15

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

Many established actors in the health care industry – including insurers, brokers and providers – are searching for ways to increase their market clout. Many insurers simply exit a market once a rival negotiates an MFN. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. Johns Hopkins is not alone. Such an exit can be disastrous.

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Crisis Health Care Insurance Newsletter 64

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). We know that technologies often take a long time to diffuse and to deliver benefits.

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GDP McKinsey Long-term Technology 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. Just as you would in your office, when you’re online make sure to hold yourself accountable.

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Guidelines Management Media Newsletter 62

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Bill is responsible all aspects of the business including sales, marketing, content development, and the delivery of Communispond courses by certified faculty. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. About the Author Bill Rosenthal is the Chief Executive Officer of Communispond Inc., a K-12 education publisher focusing on mathematics.

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Library Kaplan Newsletter Audience 71

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. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. In the elevator business, you can be hugely successful and highly profitable by going unnoticed.

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Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 53

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The United States, which needed allies against the Soviet Union, not only tolerated Japanese protectionism but also transferred advanced technology to Japan and subsidized Japanese firms. China, by comparison, is rising in the WTO era. Today, by comparison, U.S.-China China, by contrast, is simply open.

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Comparison GDP Technology Outsourcing 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In fact, by some measures, the best emerging-market firms are more competitive than firms in advanced economies including the United States and the United Kingdom. Indeed, it is much harder for this plethora of emerging-market firms in the outperforming countries to get to the top and then stay there.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Digital technology has been roiling markets and disrupting companies for more than two decades, but despite that lengthy history, incumbents are still struggling to enact and deliver on digital transformations. Sponsored by DXC Technology. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide. How the best companies get up to speed.

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Strategy ROI Technology Cost of Capital 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Bill is responsible all aspects of the business including sales, marketing, content development, and the delivery of Communispond courses by certified faculty. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. About the Author Bill Rosenthal is the Chief Executive Officer of Communispond Inc., a K-12 education publisher focusing on mathematics.

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Planning Audience Succession Library 51

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The network effect, which describes how services and technologies become more valuable as more people use them, has driven the success of many internet companies. The advertising guru David Jones dubbed this mixing of branding and technology as “brandtech.” They leverage technology in innovative ways.

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Brand Apparel Software Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

As Quartz reported last year: Members of the Glass operations team have been on the road showing it off to companies and organizations, and they told Quartz that some of the most enthusiastic responses have come from manufacturers, teachers, medical companies, and hospitals. The comparison to the PC is telling.

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Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

The marketing, underwriting, and servicing of SME loans have largely taken a backseat. banks are going to survive the coming wave in financial technology (fintech), they’ll need to finally take digital transformation seriously. Other sectors of retail lending have not fared much better.

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Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2014

In general, however, e-commerce operations aren’t as cheap to run as most people think. Their economics greatly resemble those of mail order catalogs—in fact, many e-commerce businesses continue to use catalogs in their marketing mix—and they aren’t all favorable. in operating margins over the past three years.

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Retail Price Forrester Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

In the early 1990s, executives and managers welcomed information technology — databases, PC workstations, and automated systems — into their offices. Every update or response to the market required multiple steps; it cost time and performance. Sometimes, by the time changes were in place, the market had already moved.

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Process Company Market Segmentation Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Unfortunately, Zuckerberg’s “platform” reference has elicited many comparisons of Oculus to Google’s purchase of Android , the company that would provide Google with its own smartphone operating system. Virtual reality is not a disruption to the computing market, instead it stands poised to disrupt content consumption.

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Disruptive Innovation Automotive Software Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

On August 1 Uber announced that it is selling its Chinese brand and operations to Didi Chuxing for $1 billion, its annual burn rate in that market, in exchange for a 20% stake in the local competitor. A cautionary tale from the past: After acquiring EachNet.com, eBay controlled 80% of the Chinese e-commerce market in 2003.

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Network Economy Globalization Discount Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

While this “lab-bench to bedside” approach has improved healthcare globally, it can take years, even decades, for an innovation to get to market, often with limited input from patients themselves. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier.

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Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 9