Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Organizations of all sizes must have the Think Tank.which delineates future operations, including education and training. Most conference evaluation forms are lightweight and ask for surface rankings.rather than for nuggets of knowledge learned. What is their maturity level? That It's Supposed to Be Popular.

Education 50

Education Company Succession Mentor 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

Billions of dollars and millions of hours were spent to build and operate these systems. But as early as 1990, the Conference Board cautioned that half the companies that had purchased such systems regretted going down the path they did. In the second wave, led by Siebel Systems, tens of billions of dollars were spent.

CRM 13

CRM Micromanagement Technology Maturity 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

It’s one thing to note a person working solo in an otherwise empty seminar room, or a group of people huddling around someone’s desk because a conference room wasn’t available. The New York headquarters housed over a third of its workforce, including developers, the sales team, operations, and leadership.

Maturity 10

Maturity Real Estate Survey Project 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Initially, we got the impression that gurus might have little in common other than a desire to get the HBR stamp of legitimacy conferred upon their latest notion. During difficult economic times, organizations often seek ideas on how to cut costs or perform operations more efficiently.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

The Idolbuster

AUGUST 5, 2014

On the way to the church I was on a conference call with a client because the call “couldn’t be rescheduled”. I don’t operate that way. It may sound crazy, but I just feel like I have matured and the person I am becoming is actually someone I am much more proud of.

Training 70

Training Sports Learning-by-Doing Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

At the annual conference of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners late last month, former Enron Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow, who served six years in prison for his part in Enron''s deceptions, offered an explanation. The loss of the investment-grade designation also accelerated other debt maturities.

Price 8

Price Credit Rating Finance Chief Financial Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Almost five years ago, I was sitting in the conference room of one of the world’s largest insurance companies, trying to push the idea of social customer relationship management to their corporate marketing team. The most basic needs of a person are Existential, which then lead into Relatedness and finally to Growth needs.

Insurance 8

Insurance Maturity FAQ Media 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Second, data confers insight and advantage. As you progress in using data in operational and strategic applications, organizational changes will be inevitable. To get to a future state of mature analytical competency, there’s real work to be done in integrating the data you have already.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Software CIO Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Political maturity — in the sense of a robust enough democracy for elections to result in actual power change — for the most part only works in countries like Ghana, where economic development is already advanced and broad-based. Meanwhile, the Chinese have kept building bridges, railroads, and conference centers.

Politics 8

Politics Long-term Budgeting Project 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

This perspective created the industrial economy lens through which most managers perceive their operations. A presentation developed for a conference does not produce much value until it is actually presented, an event which may occur weeks or months after the document is completed. Technology investments work the same way.

CTO 8

CTO Franchising CIO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

This conversation has generated a lot of interesting conversation via blog comments, emails, and face-to-face interactions at conferences and meetings and has revealed a few more insights that should factor into our evolving thinking. As IT steps up as mentor, it needs to mature as well. See also here , here , and here.)

CIO 8

CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

I no longer operated in my personal sweet spot, where my sense of accomplishment after closing a difficult sale or launching a new product was contingent on my having had a concrete deliverable and the sense that my efforts were integral to its success. Management titles allow us to mark our growth, and our maturity.

Management 12

Management Career Creativity Health Care 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Knowing that mature firms must become more venturesome to continue growing, business gurus routinely advise them to embrace failure. And no sector is complete without its own conference. Risk-taking, they say, must be rewarded, even when it does not succeed. The startup sector has its own growing newspaper (online, of course): Xconomy.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

But, as the venture matures, and they continue to close a few big annual deals, they can limit growth since the SaaS model requires higher volumes. But hiring Sales Operations or other “data analysts” without an iterative process in place is a recipe for frustration and expensive failure. And failure doesn’t scale.

CRM 8

CRM B2B Price Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. An advertising-based model.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11