N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. link] LEADERSHIP : Disruptive Business Models – N2Growth Blog « Tech4buziness – Eng [.]

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 361

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

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

Speciality coffee shops are competing with retail brands for consumers’ attention in the grocery aisle, new coffee formats are being introduced (such as single-cup brewing systems), and U.S. wholesale grocers (prior to Bell’s arrival in 1977), which meant its market share inside competitive retailers was, naturally, quite low. “By

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

3 May Dear all, On a recent episode of the FT ’s Working It podcast, Ann Francke discussed how to turn around a toxic workplace culture and the importance of holding senior leadership to account. Here are CMI's highlights from 2022 and 2021. You can listen back here.) You can learn more in FE News. Enjoy the rest of your week.

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Breaking Up the Retail-Price Confusopoly 8:25 AM Tuesday November 30, 2010 by Joshua Gans | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print This years holiday shopping season improved somewhat over last year with sales likely to top $11 billion.

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Retail Price Comparison Nalebuff 13

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job. High Costs, Learning Curves. Corporate scandals of each of the last 10 years cost the U.S. Retailers make 70% of their earnings in the fourth quarter of each year.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 60

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

During the past decade, business analytics platforms have evolved from supporting IT and finance functions to enabling business users across the enterprise. Consider the experience of one retail financial services firm. Lower maintenance costs more than compensated for the higher depreciation costs, they said.

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Technology Sample Depreciation Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

It’s not been a great year for venerable retailer Sears, which is reputed to be closing 130 retail stores and laying off more than 5,000 employees. What distinguishes it from lower cost Walmart or more convenient Amazon? Under Wood, Sears became a pioneer in using demographic and economic trends to anticipate customer demand.

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Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. There was no strong association between CEO background and firm performance in high-tech and fashion retail.

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CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Usually, if you search, there are opportunities in your current job and at your current level to display your ability to drive change, even if you are in a support function like finance or human resources. Is the annual planning and budgeting system overly time-consuming and out of sync with the pace of the business?

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Innovation Merchandising How To Proposal 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Who at your company will be put in charge of turning buildings operations from a cost center to a revenue center? Cost Savings. Energy Information Administration, with a combined annual energy cost of over $200 billion. according to IHS, incurring fuel costs in the billions annually. Operational Improvements.

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Energy Resources Information Technology Cost Center 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Who at your company will be put in charge of turning buildings operations from a cost center to a revenue center? Cost Savings. Energy Information Administration, with a combined annual energy cost of over $200 billion. according to IHS, incurring fuel costs in the billions annually. Operational Improvements.

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Energy Resources Cost Center Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

.” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe’s new leadership faces a challenging task. billion in 1997 to U.S. billion a decade later.

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Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 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. To make FastWorks work, changes have been made in several areas, including supplier relations, finance, and roles and responsibilities: Supplier relations.

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Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2011

Walmart's principal problems appear to be largely reputation-related: a phenomenon that has cost the company millions in wasted PR consulting fees and possibly billions in lost, potential market capitalization over the last decade. Keep the low-cost strategy but seek alternative ways for supporting it.

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Engineering PR How To Reputation 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

But it is also one of the most amenable to simple, low-cost behavioral interventions. This program, our Fresh Food “Farmacy ,” has had clinical impacts superior to those provided by medications that cost billions of dollars to develop, and has done so at dramatically lower cost.

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Class Insurance Cost Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Then again, that’s sort of what Bogle’s been doing since 1974, when he took a crisis that was all about him — he’d been fired by his business partners — and somewhat inadvertently turned it into something that was about defending the interests of retail investors everywhere. In finance, that’s a pretty hard case to make.

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Finance Crisis Motivation CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation.

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Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Operations : Approaches problems practically; stands firm on issues, perseveres; maintains a standard of consistency and quality; provides stable leadership and supervision; develops detailed plans and procedures; implements projects in a timely manner; keeps financial records straight. Ive seen this in the organizations where Ive consulted.

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Process CEO Insurance Banking 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The team transformed Gap’s products and stores and helped the company grow faster than any other retail brand at the time. But even more important was the efficiency and productivity of SpaceX’s top-performing design teams, which developed and launched the rocket for a fraction of what it would have cost NASA. Think of Ford Motor Co.

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Team Human Capital CEO Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Executive directors are usually selected for their leadership qualities; they often have experience with generalized management or leadership experience rather than narrow expertise or technical acumen. Why should knowledge of IT be an exception? The truth is that many industries today employ outdated technology.

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Technology Zero Based Budgeting Banking CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2018

In the following months, the CMO began to look for opportunities where her team could proactively step “into the gap” — to take a leadership role on an opportunity that none of the other functions picked up. The goal was to get feedback and strengthen the thinking to maximize the potential impact on growth.

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CFO CEO Agility Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

We found that directors of all political stripes care a lot about the economy and cybersecurity, and that Republican and Democrat directors are aligned in their concerns about political instability and healthcare costs, even though they may have conflicting views on how these costs should be contained.

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Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Some companies that made the list were obvious choices; for example, the biggest online retailer now gets most of its profit from cloud services (Amazon). While Amazon has expanded its core retailing platform into new categories, such as food and streaming content, in parallel it has built the world’s largest cloud computing enterprise.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Yes, everyone would agree that we have serious economic policy issues at home about creating jobs, stimulating growth, increasing exports, improving education, investing in R&D, encouraging high-tech manufacturing — and about reconciling the cost of any governmental initiatives with significant debt reduction.

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Offshoring Outsourcing Supply Chain Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

region, as it navigates a dramatic shift from competing by offering integrated, comprehensive medical services to offering lower cost preventive care. MedStar operated nine hospitals, but realized that its long-held objective of increasing revenue and profits at those venues was unsustainable, given the outcries over runaway medical costs.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

As part of our ten-year longitudinal study on executive transitions, which included more than 2,700 leadership interviews, we did a rigorous statistical analysis (including more than 90 regression analyses) to isolate the skills of the top-performing executives.

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Execution Supply Chain Analysis Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. Would you rather drive productivity that way or increase your labor costs by 10 percent? One of the biggest obstacles for brick-and-mortar retailers that are trying to win online as well is internal organizational conflict.

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Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Real digital transformation requires transformation at a deeper level—transformation of the leadership team’s core beliefs. In retailing, leaders worry about customer retention and dollar per square foot. Changes at the surface create small, local differences. Changes of belief percolate throughout an organization.

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Business Model Industry Metrics Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

With the company's retail insights into the browsing, shopping, and purchasing behaviors of its customers, its views into entrepreneurial investment through its Web Services offering, and its Kindle and Fire media consumption devices, Amazon is extraordinarily well-positioned to strategically invest in explicit companies or particular sectors.

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Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

At one American retailer, an autonomous ensemble of algorithms replaced the entire merchandising department. Human leadership defers to demonstrable algorithmic power. Leadership in these organization demands humility and a willingness to convert trust in numbers into acts of faith.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

I wrote a couple of months ago about Chinas leadership in the clean tech race , but at the macro level. I wrote a couple of months ago about Chinas leadership in the clean tech race , but at the macro level. He advises some of the world’s biggest companies on environmental strategy. Follow him on Twitter at @GreenAdvantage.

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

But perhaps the costs have risen, too. More on: Economy , Finance , Global business Join the Discussion | Email/Share Previous Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative Never miss a new post from your favorite blogger again with the Harvard Business Review Daily Alert email. But perhaps the costs have risen, too.

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

And when misclassification is adopted as a business strategy by some companies, it quickly undermines other, more responsible employers who face costs disadvantages arising from compliance with labor standards and responsibilities. All of these issues rushed back to mind recently when the political leadership at the current U.S.

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Document Insurance Construction Cooper 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

What most companies (and economies) dont do is to stop doing — and thats a self-defeating problem. We seem to be clueless about making room for deep questioning and thinking: reflecting. What most companies (and economies) dont do is to stop doing — and thats a self-defeating problem.

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Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

We have written extensively on shareholder activism , and one of us coauthored a study in the Journal of Finance showing that, on average, activists produce value for targeted companies. Pension funds differ from mutual funds or index funds, which differ from retail. The potential for a true alliance fizzled as the battle was joined.

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CEO Real Estate Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

“We’ll spend a lot of time bringing product to market, but we need to plan for the fact that a launch gives us a six-month head start and no more,” says Gary Booker, CMO of Dixons Retail. I see far too many data that don’t go anywhere and that’s just a cost.”. All that has elevated – and complicated – the role of CMO.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 8