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. His website, www.gitomer.com , will lead you to more information about training and seminars, or email him personally at salesman@gitomer.com. Chamber New Member Orientation.

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Insurance Committee Customer Loyalty 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. I hope you enjoyed the holiday weekend as well.

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Leadership Gordon Blog Brand 284

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2015

Think: health and finances. His website, www.gitomer.com , will lead you to more information about training and seminars, or email him personally at salesman@gitomer.com. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. My mother died. I’m getting married. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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Open-book Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Seminar 50

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

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. If your company has passive and/or timid leadership you will face serious problems in sustaining your competitive advantage.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

But what's really going on is that Jeff Bezos has trained elements of the investment community to expect that low profits (or big losses) now represent investments that will eventually pay off, not signs of trouble. Amazon has this permission because it has trained its shareholders to believe that everything will work out in the end.

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Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

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. It secured support from suppliers, offered extensive training to factory management, and inspected production lines for adoption of the new management practices.

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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. 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

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. You can’t do that if you want to be secretive.”.

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Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 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?

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Operations Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Retail 14

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.

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Competitive Advantage Industry Finance Ethics 14

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.

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Company Maturity System Engineering 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. These strategies eroded GE’s competitive advantage in everything from consumer electronics and home appliances to trains and aircraft engines.

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Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

The firm effectively trains its people to hire and work with the world’s best and brightest algorithms. ” Firms look to leverage, amplify, and network autonomy into self-sustaining competitive advantage. They use machine learning software to better train machine learning software.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

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. Plan for a realistic amount of sales and interest so you can conservatively manage your finances. Will customers be able to identify and discuss your competitive advantage?

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Entrepreneur Hotels Travel Call Center 9

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.

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Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

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. The authors concluded that when consumers have an option, sustainability can become a competitive differentiator.

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Company Management CIO Energy 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 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

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Companies can fill this need and gain competitive advantage by transforming their stakeholders from bystanders to owners and make sustainability, including as it pertains to social good, part of their purpose. Having the proper training and systems in place is also critical to enabling everyone make sustainability part of their job.

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Incubator How To Real Estate Business Model 10

HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. It is a key competitive advantage. I believe high performing leaders needs to have a well-rounded skillset to lead effectively in the current environment, and the ability to flex and lean in on different capabilities depending on the situation.

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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.

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Diversity Education Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 111

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

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.

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Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 2, 2015

Roughly half report that the two aspects of employee performance most negatively affected by personal finances are stress and the ability to focus on work (50% and 47%, respectively). EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Training vs. Learning: do you want to train? About the Author.

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Education Survey Absenteeism Participative 50

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? With the right support and training, these internal project managers will be your future behavioral analysts.

Company 8

Company Committee Ethics Project 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

How does it drive revenue, profit, brand equity, competitive advantage, etc. your training program in 3 easy steps: No boring slides, free will, and story. How can we improve the risk management, governance, control, and reporting functions for this? Why should we make this investment?

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Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

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.

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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

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. There were few role models and little time for training.

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Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Although much attention has been paid, rightly, to government’s role in providing educational resources and skills to its citizens, we believe it will be hard to stop growing levels of inequality and economic anxiety without companies playing a more active role and assuming more responsibility for training, skilling, and reskilling employees.

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Skills Engineering Telecommunications Incentives 8