In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 23, 2012

For most of my career, I operated within intensely competitive arenas where fractions of market share points were worth millions of dollars. The companies that employed me were generally the underdogs in battles against bigger, better-financed organizations. This is a tremendous competitive advantage for the smaller player.

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Power Sports Competitive Advantage Advertising 208

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

While they may be good at dreaming up new financial products, they are not so hot when it comes to taking a completely fresh look at their business. Today, its separate and highly successful online banking and broking operation Boursorama has attracted nearly half a million customers. Willingness to fail. Leaders hold the key.

Banking 251

Banking Leadership Business Model Competitive Advantage 251

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2021

What are the products and services you want to provide to your customers? You can consider opening a franchise for any established company where you will only require to find a proper location and arrange funds for your operations. The price fixation of your products. Preparing a Proper Idea. The outreach of your business.

Break-even Analysis 75

Break-even Analysis Analysis Licensing Price 75

N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

If you’re passionate about something it means you care so much that it hurts…Refusing to surrender, and having the ability to make the tough decision or the needed sacrifice, will allow your company to continue taking ground and will keep the competitive advantage on the side of your enterprise.

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Brand Depreciation Blog Politics 353

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

It has been my experience that whenever methodologies become productized objectivity is removed from the equation. Whenever you are being pitched a product as a solution I suggest you exercise extreme caution. As always, I welcome your comments below… Share and Enjoy: View Comments myersk Agree.

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? If your company can’t be operated by mere mortals, you need to reexamine your business logic. Even their advertising model is simplistically brilliant.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

magazine’s offering of information, products, services, and online tools for business or management. Linked-In Linked-In is larger than ecademy, and perhaps a bit more polished, and while still valuable it is not nearly as productive a community as ecademy. Inc.com Inc. N2 is a proud member of Linked-In.

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Directory Magazine Blog Brand 167

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. Competition : Does your pricing place you at a competitive advantage, or disadvantage in the market?

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Price Discount Brand Supply Chain 371

HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

Companies with greater diversity not only have higher retention, but they have higher revenues and operating results, as well as higher brand recognition in their marketplaces. it’s also critical to attracting and retaining premier talent to gain a competitive advantage in today’s competitive talent environment.

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Diversity Career Globalization Learning-by-Doing 52

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 10, 2019

With VoIP termination taking the telecom industry by storm, and it’s continuing to grow each year, carriers are looking for ways to woo customers by offering a competitive advantage. If you’re an enterprise user, having flexibility is crucial to your operational efficiency and your bottom line. The Wholesale Model. Automation.

Price 65

Price Competitive Advantage Industry Bottom-up 65

Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Successful leaders in Medical Affairs, Clinical Operations and Medical Scientific Liaison positions will use their resumes to market themselves as cross-functional leaders that have made an impact across many aspects of the business—not just the scientific areas. You must appeal to all of these audiences.

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Tactics Execution Pharmaceuticals Human Capital 51

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

JUNE 19, 2015

Organizations rely on their data in order to make critical operational, tactical, and transactional business decisions that significantly affect the survival and livelihood of their company. An organization’s customers, transactions, operations, and reports can all be affected by its data integrity.

Software 50

Software Insurance System Operations 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 22, 2012

All too often, business founders embed themselves within the operational fabric of the company they create; setting it up for failure upon they departure. These include: offering products and services employees or technologies can deliver in the owner’s absence. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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Resources Competitive Advantage Reference Operations 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2012

Create a competitive advantage, set the right tone, make effective decisions, keep talent inside your doors, and establish credibility-all while navigating unfamiliar and turbulent waters. If you don’t understand finance and accounting, enroll in a course immediately. Address the nuts and bolts of business too.

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Execution How To Finance Competitive Advantage 62

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

If you're looking to expand in a location where the native language is not in your skillset, have a contact or service in place in order to spread awareness about your products and services. 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.

Tips 50

Tips Globalization Compliance Competitive Advantage 50

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.

Leadership 284

Leadership Gordon Blog Brand 284

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

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Today, the guild mentality persists within companies, where functions such as marketing, sales, finance, IT, human resources and R&D all have their own area of special expertise. Each initiative claims it is critical to the success of the organization, yet their competition puts that very success in jeopardy.

Operations 13

Operations Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Retail 13

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Leaders focused on products, profits, processes, and procedures are aiming too LOW. The churches I had previously worked with operated from the the philosophy this is church, and if people want it they will come. Thanks for laying out key success factors. In addition, you mention game changes are “relational.&#

Blog 379

Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 379

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We remained steadfastly committed to having all our staff from custodians, plumbers, and bus drivers to engineers, architects, and finance directors, trained in the culture we wanted to create and the culture we expected each of our people to honor. We were a mediocre, at best, institutional operation with a sense of entitlement.

Leadership 64

Leadership Training Peer Review Budgeting 64

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.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

Most people tend to look at acquisitions from a rather myopic and traditional M&A perspective: making a strategic or synergistic purchase of an operating entity on an accretive basis. However restricting your view of acquisitions to operating companies is like playing a football game with only one play in your playbook.

Real Estate 353

Real Estate Company Brand Operations 353

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. Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. Operations in a Connected World.

Lean Manufacturing 8

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

A company has an innovative idea, which for a while provides competitive advantage. As I concluded in a piece last year on the debate over too much versus too little competition: There’s a pessimistic synthesis between the competition and concentration stories. Instead, he argues, the U.S.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Kaplan Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Levitt agreed, noting that the trouble starts when over time companies come to define themselves not by what they do for customers but by the products they sell or the categories in which they compete. As it notes, “When we operate according to these principles, the stockholders should realize a fair return.”.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

No, the issue I have with the suggestions that adopting Flash or allowing iTunes to work on devices made by Sony is that it reflects a misunderstanding of the competitive advantage that Apple has forged by the way it has structured its industry category. But this strategy comes at a price. Sound familiar?

Competitive Advantage 13

Competitive Advantage Software Health Care Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

As the world becomes more digitized, generating more information surrounding products and services and speeding up processes, large and small companies in every industry, even manufacturing, are starting to compete more like the software industry, with short product lifecycles and rapid decision-making. and compete successfully.

Ries 9

Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 9

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. The discipline they brought to these often loosely-run businesses drove much of the post-war productivity boom. True synergies across the diverse operations were often hard to see.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 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

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?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Telecom operators often provide the backbone communication networks required to run systems and applications. Companies that want to serve them directly often have to think outside the box when it comes to financing. Digital natives such as Didi and Uber are operating customer-facing mobility platforms in cities around the world.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 8

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. Air Products, Nokia, and Shell, among others, followed this advice and created top-level process owners. How many times have you heard "I'm a finance person" or "I'm a marketer"?)

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Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism. This is not just case-by-case evidence.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

Recent analysis by Bain and SAP found that only 7% of bank credit products could be handled digitally from end to end. Comparatively, online lenders have limited brand recognition, and acquiring small business customers online is expensive and competitive. Other sectors of retail lending have not fared much better.

Banking 10

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

For many businesses, this is equivalent to overspending on energy by that amount to achieve current production levels. 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.

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Company Management CIO Energy 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Most customers are interested in your content first (how much you know about their pain points) before purchasing your products or services. You (Inhouse) Sometimes the best content comes from those who know your product or service best, you. It's not necessarily about the client's product or service itself. (No It grows sales.

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105