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JULY 11, 2010

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Blog Leadership CEO Brand 379

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Moreover if they decide to develop the application should this be done internally with existing staff, or outsourced, and if outsourced will it be done domestically or offshore and who will manage the process. link] Scot Herrick Best practices excuse management of really understanding their business and strategy.

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. In fact, ICOs have upended the conventional pattern of staged experimentation and fundraising.

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Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Resist the temptation to give way to emotional decisioning and you’ll see your career and company soar to new heights of success. Is your article title really about anger management or appropriate emotional expression in business? link] Taariq Lewis Hi Mike: As always, a great blog. I will be curating again, soon. A blog post?

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Blog Leadership Emotional Intelligence CEO 419

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

When you notice an approaching showdown between logic and emotion, resist the impulse to procrastinate. Work within your resistance level. When a task sets off procrastination triggers, we resist doing it. But just how resistant are we? Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. Disconnect.

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Strategy Resistance Cost Advice 12

Chris Brady

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Since people don't like to be told what to do and will generally resist being bossed around, something must happen to convince them to allow what would normally and naturally be considered contrary to their best interest. The camels, however, resisted this fact. Here's how it works.

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Blog Leadership Crisis Travel 125

Chris Brady

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Resist this temptation. Goals are actually quite easy to set; the process is painless, quick, and costs nothing. An action plan might involve joining a health club, working out three to four times a week, and managing your caloric intake. Now, I am not a weight management specialist. Focus is the key. So far so good.

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Goal Blog Letter Open-book 134

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2017

hospitals and health care groups have experimented over the past decade with new management structures and alternative payment models to provide quality health care at lower cost. And it explains why management-led organizations that have not embraced physician input have run into resistance. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Resistance Cost Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

In response, these companies made three significant shifts in their offerings: (1) they turned services into products; (2) they improved convenience while lowering cost; and (3) they leveraged big data to provide tailored customer solutions. Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Wireless Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

Once they understood this point, they aimed to provoke change, but by working within the existing management system, not blowing it up. The data provocateurs I’ve worked with form a diverse lot: scientists, HR specialists, people at the lowest management levels, division presidents, relative newcomers, and seasoned veterans.

Quality 9

Quality Resistance Learning-by-Doing Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Personal savings, insurance, credit, cash transfers from family and friends and other financing mechanisms offer promising opportunities to create security and steady employment but they require a nuanced understanding of product design and the local market conditions in order to be effective.

Microfinance 9

Microfinance Insurance Banking Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

One of senior management's favorite pastimes is moving around the boxes — and the people inside them. Most managers do reorganize with good intentions — to grow revenues, reduce costs, improve customer focus, etc. In their minds, shaking things up is a decisive way to achieve goals.

Market Segmentation 13

Market Segmentation Restructuring Marketing Finance 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

Nearly everyone in health care wants to cut waste and reduce unnecessary costs — until the conversation turns to advanced chronic illness and end-of-life care. Consequently, many people, their families, and their physicians resist hospice until all therapeutic options are exhausted.

Health Care 8

Health Care Sharpe Document Cost 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

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

Interestingly, individuals working in customer service, sales, production, logistics and R&D were more likely to feel that bureaucracy was growing than those working in functions like HR, finance, planning, purchasing, and administration. Bureaucracy is a time trap. Bureaucracy frustrates innovation. Bureaucracy breeds inertia.

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Bureaucracy Survey Politics Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

The thing he created in 1974 was Vanguard , now the world’s third-biggest manager of other people’s money , with more than $2.2 In the process Vanguard has transformed its industry, pressuring rivals to emulate its low-cost ways and changing the popular conversation about investing, possibly forever. So I’ll stick with Bogle.

Finance 8

Finance Crisis Motivation CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The evolution of African markets faces significant barriers: cost, distance, and a lack of infrastructure. Informal retail and cash purchases are the norm, and that has its risks and costs. The second is the need to lower the costs and risk of retail and trade based primarily on cash transactions.

Banking 8

Banking Retail Wireless Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

The failure stemmed from resistance in the U.S. by both insurance companies and cardiologists to a new and expensive drug (which costs more than $4,000 a year, compared to pennies a day for existing drugs). We must start to think differently about how business, management, and strategic intelligence works. Is there just one?

Planning 8

Planning Competitive Intelligence Pharmaceuticals Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

Baruch Lev teaches accounting and finance at NYU's Stern School of Business. And I couldn't resist following up with an email Q&A: Justin Fox: A lot of smart people have been saying for a while now that public-company executives should put less time and effort into dealing with Wall Street. From the government? Ask Solyndra.

Short-term 11

Short-term Long-term Parcell Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

In recent years, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has given hospitals, physicians, and other providers incentives to form accountable care organizations (ACOs), with responsibility for outcomes and costs held by a single entity rather than diffused across independent providers. We still operate that way today.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

These two actions cost almost nothing compared to vast sums often spent — and arguably, often wasted — on efforts to foster innovation. This may sound obvious, but it was in sharp contrast to typical patterns in the pharma industry of recruiting from within, resistance to new thinking, and sclerotic bureaucratic structures.

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Innovation Company Incentives Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

The problem is that it might appear convenient, to those in charge, to take the path of least resistance, which unfortunately exactly what seems to be happening in Greece right now. What makes this charge especially ironic is that applying the rules gives us a relatively rosy picture of the current state of Greece’s public finances.

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GDP Maturity Crisis Report 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, an effort is under way to get insurers, providers, employers, and unions to cooperate in creating a system that can reduce total health care costs and premiums while achieving better outcomes. Dominant providers leverage their market position to raise prices independently of cost or quality.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cooper Insurance Cost 8

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.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

But it isn't true that the entire finance and investment industry is guilty of the cultural lapse that Smith is describing. In fact, if Goldman's senior management and board would like to study a culture that does put clients first, they should hop in a limo and go 110 miles southwest to Valley Forge, Pa.—the

Reference 10

Reference Bond Banking Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

The protests have already cost the CEO of Air France his job : He stepped down after workers rejected his proposal of a 7% wage increase over four years (unions want a 6% immediate increase). last year, unemployment is slowly decreasing , and public finances are improving faster than anticipated. GDP grew by 1.9%

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Proposal GDP Airlines Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

If, by contrast, Tesla’s target was merely a $100 billion market capitalization — frankly, a great target for most companies, as it projects a 7% return annually for the next 10 years — then investors might quickly lose their appetite to continue financing the company. They signed up for transformation, not steady returns.

Planning 8

Planning Marketing Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Most relevant to stunted growth, however, is cultural resistance — the inertial apathy of traditional financial players who are wary of novel, risky investment structures and skeptical about trading some amount of profitability for social return. Corporate social responsibility Finance Generational issues' The first report of the U.S.

Commitment 8

Commitment Banking Class Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Samsung's journey from low-cost OEM producer to a global brand name synonymous with innovation is an admirable one. I can only imagine the resistance involved when an established, hierarchical company like the old Samsung decides to introduce practices that threaten the status quo. August 2011 HBR.

Globalization 10

Globalization Mentor Project Power 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

I have often been struck by the way companies operating in industries as diverse as telecommunications and transport manage to collaborate in a competitive environment, yet health organizations find collaboration difficult even when they are not competing. Health care is not the only industry that is resistant to change.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

The issue is that Greek “resistance”—not just Syriza’s, but also that of the previous government—takes the form of protecting rent-seekers. Besides the short-term costs of such a move, history shows us that Greece has never managed to benefit from currency devaluations. In a country slipping from 1.8%

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

But as their availability increased and their cost decreased — as they became ubiquitous — they became commodity inputs. They resist getting their hands dirty alongside the CIO, even though many of them will readily get down into the mud of a balance sheet with the CFO or strategize the details of global brand issues with the CMO.

CEO 8

CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

There is still a need for accountants and face-to-face meetings, but typically accountants now require such visits for only the more complicated cases that can’t be managed with software or a call. Health care has proved resistant to a similar transition, although everyone would benefit. Barriers to Transformation.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Insurance Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2011

CEO/founder Mark Zuckerberg and his management team clearly don't want the scrutiny, hassle and distraction that comes with being a public company. But Zuckerberg may try harder than the Google guys to resist them. Facebook doesn't want to do that yet. Similar pressures will keep growing at Facebook.

Long-term 15

Long-term Short-term Marketing Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Clinical and administrative staff often view their work as a vocation as much as a profession, and they are historically suspicious of senior administrators and resistant to strategic agendas. Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality. In healthcare, change is even harder than in most industries. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Operations Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

The list includes a health care company that was once near bankruptcy (DaVita), a software firm whose stock price stagnated for a decade (Microsoft), a travel website that faced overwhelming competition (Priceline), a food giant that seemed to lose its focus (Danone), and a steel company that faced new pressure from lower-cost rivals (ThyssenKrupp).

Franchising 14

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

” But it’s not only the success of your company that’s at stake, says Susan Ashford, professor of management and organization at Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Your aim is to “reduce resistance, bring people on board, and band allies and resources together.” ” Ashford concurs. .”

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Project Restructuring Hotels Case Study 8