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

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2015

I started in the insurance business in 1993 as a fresh graduate from East Carolina with a finance degree. How to hire, fire, train, and market business. A higher level membership that attracts more of the high-level business owners and managers. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

Insurance 50

Insurance Committee Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage 50

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development. If your mentoring and training programs don’t focus on the development of action oriented leaders then you are simply breeding obselesence, and utlimately…failure. Great leaders will do anything to get off the bench and into the game.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2015

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Open-book 50

Open-book Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Seminar 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

For example, the finance department approves what to buy, facilities maintains equipment, HR tells employees how to conserve energy, and marketing manages the company’s corporate sustainability reporting. Managing utilities has also become more complex as the energy landscape has evolved. At best, it can manage costs.

Company 8

Company Management CIO Energy 8

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. Traditional mass manufacturing is based on principles of “Scientific Management” that date back to the 19th century.

Lean Manufacturing 9

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 9

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. To stay competitive, businesses rapidly embraced PCs, and the subsequent transition to the client/server era.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. Fourth, some argued that GE’s advantage lay in its system of professional management, epitomized by its investments in executive education and management development.

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Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

At their training center in Louisville, they bounced ideas and product prototypes off of retail salespeople who came to learn about GE’s products. But as Kevin Nolan, vice president of technology, said, “With FastWorks we’re learning that speed is our competitive advantage. At times it drove the materials manager crazy.”

Ries 10

Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word. Elite MBAs (Management by Algorithm) are the new normal. Top management would have to trust its computationally brilliant bidding software.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 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

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

I have interviewed over 100 CEOs, C-suite executives, middle managers, and shop floor workers in more than 25 companies across the world to understand why most companies fail to embed sustainability in their business models and, also, what drives success among the handful that do. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

Incubator 10

Incubator How To Real Estate Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

These inward-looking groups were able to impose discipline on their practice: enforcing standards, mentoring and training new entrants, and refining and building on old expertise to create new more valuable knowledge. How does one put a check on this kind of unproductive jousting?

Operations 13

Operations Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Retail 13

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. Establishing the right relationship parameters (i.e.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

If the AI you are adopting employs machine learning, you will have to round up a substantial amount of training data. For instance, if an AI system is trained to create product recommendations based on customer demographics and the demographics change dramatically in new data, it may provide biased recommendations.

Company 8

Company Maturity System Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2012

Citing Richard Peterson, managing partner of MarketPsych (a firm that provides psychological and behavioral finance training for the industry), DeCovny notes that these are some of the traits that also predict success on Wall Street. To understand the implications of all this, it helps to define psychopathy.

Competitive Advantage 13

Competitive Advantage Industry Finance Ethics 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

However, most companies require considerable planning and need both a competitive advantage and a solid business plan in order to succeed. Your projections for the business should not be wildly optimistic so you can manage your expectations and those of any partners. Consider the type of business and industry. We built a U.S.-based

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Hotels Travel Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One reason for the paltry performance is that while other business areas, like sales or finance, are considered to be core functions, innovation is often considered to be something that’s “nice to have” rather than essential. Another pervasive reason is that senior executives are trained as operators, not innovators.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

companies like Clari forecasting client-by-client sales to help prioritize deals) and with coaching and training (Textio’s* predictive text-editing platform to help employees write more-effective documents). Next up will be finance, transportation, and agriculture because of the volume of data available and their sheer economic value.

Software 8

Software Transportation Tools Learning-by-Doing 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. It is a key competitive advantage. How are you planning to manage these challenges? The HR Digest: C. How do you think it was possible and what were the steps you took as a CHRO to motivate employees to work as a team and achieve it?

Supply Chain 109

Supply Chain Human Resources Diversity Transportation 109

HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

A 2016 report from the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity estimates that 30 percent of young adults will not graduate from secondary school with the skills they need to hold most jobs in the digital world. A growing number of business leaders see the value of upskilling, but there’s much to be done.

Diversity 111

Diversity Education Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 111

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

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? Each of your behavioral interventions will be a project, and it will need to be managed as such. This role requires having skills in algorithms, machine learning, and programming.

Company 8

Company Committee Ethics Project 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

I often observe ego centered conflicts among senior executives, which turn into a competition for turf, budget, power, influence, control, and ultimately survival. How can we improve the risk management, governance, control, and reporting functions for this? How does it drive revenue, profit, brand equity, competitive advantage, etc.

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Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

For most governments, financing the global goals campaigns will be a stretch; governments have already reneged in the past on commitments for similar targets. Furthermore, if membership of this club develops significant cache, then it becomes a powerful branding tool and a lever for competitive advantage.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. With GE’s recent announcement to split off its remaining finance operations , and Honeywell also considering divestment, the pressure on these groups remains in force.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 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. My leadership training is from the Marine Corps. New Flash : speed trumps perfectionism. I completely agree with General Patton.

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Blog Leadership Competitive Advantage Brand 419

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

The gurus have written detailed descriptions of how companies should establish the process owners, process councils, and other pieces of a formal process governance structure to manage their six to 10 core, cross-functional processes. These companies kept top-management attention on critical processes and KPIs.

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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. For one thing, they will have a competitive advantage in the political environment we have entered.

Skills 8

Skills Engineering Telecommunications Incentives 8