HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

it’s also critical to attracting and retaining premier talent to gain a competitive advantage in today’s competitive talent environment. I’m not an HR consultant by trade and have moved five times during my EY tenure, none of which were part of a “master” plan, but they were instrumental in building my career.

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Diversity Career Globalization Learning-by-Doing 52

N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

Pricing impacts everything from strategy and tactics, to finance, to branding, to marketing and sales, to vendor selection and supply chain management, to recruiting and compensation, and to customer satisfaction and loyalty. Why do some consultants get $50,000 a day for their time, while others have to give their time away?

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Price Discount Brand Supply Chain 371

N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

Refusing to surrender, having the ability to make the tough decision, the needed sacrifice, and the focus to place fiduciary obligations above your self interest will allow your company to continue taking ground and will keep the competitive advantage on the side of your enterprise.

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Leadership Gordon Blog Brand 284

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Finance Without Fear : A Guide to Creating and Managing a Profitable Business by William S. Hettinger and John Dolan-Heitlinger Finance Without Fear should be read by anyone starting or managing a business. The easy-to-read style helps remove the fear of finance for the entrepreneur, the small business owner, and the manager.

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Finance Uncertainty Case Study Competitive Advantage 50

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

If your company has passive and/or timid leadership you will face serious problems in sustaining your competitive advantage. Great leaders will do anything to get off the bench and into the game.

Blog 387

Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. logistics, and finance. finance, I.T., He is currently a consultant to several companies and C-suite executives. They result in information hoarding and lack of communication. This issue can become a major performance barrier. Recall how the U.S.

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Industry Stage-Gate Organization Company 267

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

That is to say: they are finding competitive advantage in what were historically reckoned to be (or ignored as) externalities. I think that a "game-changer" along the lines you mention may the increasing capacity of companies to create value by advancing the values of their customers and other stakeholders.

Blog 379

Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 379

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

The right software will unite your workforce whether they are in finance, distribution or manufacturing so that everyone is up-to-date on all processes. Prior to working at SAP, Benoît worked for management consulting and technology services companies dedicated to ERP, Business Intelligence and new technologies.

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Tips Globalization Compliance Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

In order to see the future more clearly, it''s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage. IT went from being a potential source of competitive advantage to being a necessity for competitive parity.

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Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

They all speak of the quality of their talent as a key success metric…in fact, many of them will emphatically state that talent is their single biggest competitive advantage. Rarely do I speak with an executive who hasn’t drunk the talent messaging Kool-Aid.

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Blog Politics Mission Statement Brand 366

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

An idea is not synonymous with a competitive advantage, an idea is not necessarily a sign of creativity, an idea does not constitute innovation, and as much as some people wish it was so, an idea is certainly not a business. I want to start by actually defining what an idea is, and is not.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

When "the core functions of IT — data storage, data processing, and data transport — have become available and affordable to all," he wrote, IT would cease to be a source of competitive advantage. How do companies differentiate in a world where access to technology is no longer a competitive advantage?

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Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

He nodded: "That's our competitive advantage.". If businesses in China can import capital equipment, secure accounting and consulting services, hire the most efficient workers in the country, and secure financing for any project, how then will you compete? I said that I had, and that they were spotless. What did he mean?

Globalization 14

Globalization Competitive Advantage Software Consultative 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Conventional wisdom holds that improving working conditions (which typically costs money) would undermine the competitive advantage these firms enjoy. Producers in less-developed countries compete by keeping costs low. Our research suggests an alternative to this race to the bottom.

Lean Manufacturing 9

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Particularly if your knowledge domain has not already been modeled by your vendor or consultant, it will typically require many months to architect. But you may lose your distinctive competence or competitive advantage if you do not tweak it to fit your context and build everything around it.

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Company Maturity System Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The market for behavioral science is specialized and not yet mature, so your go-to consultancy may not have the expertise to advise you. If you plan for the team to be self-financing after an initial period, how long do you have to make it work — a couple of months, or a couple of years?

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Company Committee Ethics Project 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

How does it drive revenue, profit, brand equity, competitive advantage, etc. How can we improve the risk management, governance, control, and reporting functions for this? Why should we make this investment? What are the potential risks vs. possible rewards and what is the downside of not making the investment?

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Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

A consulting friend, Susaan Straus , points to cognitive preference as an important factor. Ive seen this in the organizations where Ive consulted. In companies where process excellence is a competitive advantage, hes the kind of candidate CEO that more boards should be looking for. The company was too big for that."

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Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

This striking gap signals an opportunity for companies: Secure a competitive advantage by building your employees' ability to succeed in the increasingly complicated labyrinths of today's — and tomorrow's — markets. However, the core skills they need are different.

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Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

The challenge is convincing all those talented individuals seeking finance and consulting positions to take the leap into starting a new venture. Smart companies will use this to create competitive advantage for themselves and for the startups they invest in. Experience at top tech companies predicts success as a founder.

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Succession Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Due Diligence 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Sometimes a strong leader can through force of will create alignment among these warring factions, but in my experience a more consultative approach that respects the legitimacy of everyone’s position achieves better results. A number of years ago, my family company won the Greek franchise of a leading US confectionary manufacturer.

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Company Franchising Retail Incentives 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Moreover, the pursuit of perfectionism rarely results in a competitive advantage, but it will result in time delays, cost overruns, missed deadlines, and unkept commitments. Thanks [link] Joseph Alan Weiss, an independent consultant, use to say – we are here for success not for perfection. I tell that to myself a lot.

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Blog Leadership Competitive Advantage Brand 419

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Making sure the company's key processes are delivering competitive advantage , or if not, that the right fixes are on the way. The executives I know at these companies today believe that having process owners provides them a significant competitive advantage. from 2004 to 2007.

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Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

For example, we foresee professional service firms, such as accounting, law, and consulting, using increasingly complex artificial intelligence models to perform audits, analyze legal parameters, and provide management consulting services. But companies also need to recognize the ways in which these interests are already aligned.

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Skills Engineering Telecommunications Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

It happens every time there’s a big announcement about a national or regional innovation policy that will lead us into the future: We are presented with schemes to strengthen intellectual property rights, enlarge the pool of risk financing, and upgrade the universities while pushing them to collaborate more with industry.

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Policies Innovation Finance Industry 8