Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

To find out, it may be worthwhile to make some sharp distinctions between what Big Data driving AI can do, and what it cannot. If we have enough past information of competitive successes and failures, BDAI is capable of helping leaders develop options. BDAI (for short) is excellent at making sense out of the current state.

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CEO Balanced Scorecard Supply Chain Sharpe 66

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Through this process of steering, we can learn when and if it’s time to make a sharp turn called a pivot or whether we should persevere along our current path.”. The MVP is that version of the product that enables a full turn of the Build-Measure-Learn look with a minimum amount of effort and the least amount of development time.”.

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Ries Company Entrepreneur Agility 216

Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

David Altman, our COO, argues for giving leaders and employees a short, sharp shock: In effect, “If you think change is constant now, then you ain’t seen nothing yet.”. As an example, Altman relates the experience of a large company in the energy sector attempting to reinvent itself in the face of volatile market conditions.

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Altman Six Sigma COO Sharpe 86

HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

By emphasizing communication skills in the performance evaluation process, employers can also encourage their employees to develop their own unique communication styles. Provide opportunities for training and development, and recognize and reward those who excel in leadership. Provides constructive feedback in a supportive manner.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

The sharp focus and direction on your objectives and goals can only be maintained with constant monitoring of your procedures and processes. Whether your focus is on customer service, profits, investing, marketing, or company growth a constant awareness of your current position in relation to where you want to be is essential.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

What promotional vehicles are most successful in your industry? Being sharp means being succinct. Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. Test business development, starting with advice from your banker, accountant, and lawyer. Additionally know what you have to trade.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2019

One has to be razor-sharp and ever ready to learn in this dynamic sector. While important, a business degree is not enough to truly flourish in this industry. Similarly, business skill is a holistic course that helps one develop and shape talent that can be used in a variety of sectors. Learn new market trends.

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Skills Sharpe Trends Course 13

Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

You can spend all the time in the world on strategy sessions, competitive plans, innovation , and product development, but it all falls apart if you don’t have the right talent. This can be contrasted to the Moneyball approach developed by Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane. Hire the Best. Recruit Rock Stars.

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Sports Definition Long-term Quality 103

Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Wouldn’t that give American industry, or the industry of any culture, an important leg up? It’s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington’s corridors of power, they didn’t even stand out.” The developers of the ulcer drug at C. Integrity is no simple matter. PERSEVERANCE.

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Waterman Automotive Learning-by-Doing Industry 140

Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Crafting and writing a branded healthcare executive resume, that differs from the traditional medical resume, can make a significant difference in your executive job search results and improve the opportunities to land that next-level position in pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries. You must appeal to all of these audiences.

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Tactics Execution Pharmaceuticals Human Capital 51

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

​ For example, the job function I have now, digital marketing , didn’t exist when I left college, and had I focused on other areas without adapting as my career progressed, I might’ve missed my calling in digital marketing. Confidence is the #1, must have for everyone's development plans.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Wouldn''t that give American industry, or the industry of any culture, an important leg up? It''s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington''s corridors of power, they didn''t even stand Out." PERSEVERANCE The developers of the ulcer drug at C. INTEGRITY Integrity is no simple matter.

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Waterman Follow-up Automotive Learning-by-Doing 55

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

Yet Russia remains an important part of most Western multinationals’ emerging markets portfolios. For example, in 2014, at the onset of the sharp deterioration in U.S. This environment is altering how multinational firms operate in the country and market their products.

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Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

By the way, you don't have to start from scratch when generating content: Dig up other presentations, industry studies, news articles, reports, surveys — anything that's relevant to your big idea. Wield a sharp hatchet: Once you've gathered lots of material, start cutting mercilessly on your audience's behalf.

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Audience Brainstorming Sharpe Software 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Shale gas will allow the US to be energy independent, create an export industry, and reduce energy costs. Lower costs are already making some industrial sectors more competitive. Position yourself in market segments that will grow. The recession eliminated some market segments and redefined others. Rethink outsourcing.

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Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

A 2015 McKinsey report on 366 public companies found that those in the top quartile for ethnic and racial diversity in management were 35% more likely to have financial returns above their industry mean, and those in the top quartile for gender diversity were 15% more likely to have returns above the industry mean.

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Diversity Team Price Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

I''m actually glad it exists because if it didn''t, my industry probably wouldn''t exist. Clients often hire Open Innovation companies like ours when their research and development teams can''t get past — or maybe over is a better word — the way they have always looked, and where they have always looked for solutions.

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Innovation Open-book Objective Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

Companies need to make sure experimentation is included in their "data toolkits," learn when to use it, and develop the skills to conduct effective experiments. In the unfolding data revolution, companies must develop the capabilities to experiment. Industrial experimentation has a rich history in the service sector as well.

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Sample Information Technology Industry Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

There is no question that the media industry is experiencing dramatic disruption on many fronts—in the way it creates content, distributes content to consumers, and monetizes audiences. How do we maximize our creativity as an industry while integrating data-driven approaches? Humans and Automation. Distribution strategies.

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Media Advertising Audience Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

Win or lose, I'll Have Another's situation provides useful lessons about business and markets. Daniel Kahneman , a renowned psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in economics, developed this concept in the 1970s along with his collaborator, Amos Tversky. And it's a lesson you can apply as you consider prices in the market.

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Beyer Tversky Price Kahneman 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

By the way, you don't have to start from scratch when generating content: Dig up other presentations, industry studies, news articles, reports, surveys — anything that's relevant to your big idea. Wield a sharp hatchet: Once you've gathered lots of material, start cutting mercilessly on your audience's behalf.

Audience 8

Audience Brainstorming Sharpe Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

Just as professional development doesn't inherently require pain, pain's presence doesn't necessarily signal personal progress. The former is like a runner struggling to perfect their stride after the tenth kilometer of practice; the latter is a sharp pain suggesting a torn tendon. This goes beyond the "no pain, no gain" clichés.

Innovation 14

Innovation Self-aware Resistance Sharpe 14

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 20, 2020

The team were striving to understand the best way to keep people, and the economy, safe until a vaccine is developed, which the team assumed was 76 weeks. Our research on modeling COVID-19 spread and the economy shows that it is critical to open the markets gradually while continuing the quarantine of seniors,” the researchers say.

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Short-term Peer Review Long-term Sharpe 82

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

—Andrea Ovans Getting the Vapors Kodak Moment The Economist With the European Parliament set to vote next week on whether electronic cigarettes should be regulated as medical products, this is a good time to reflect on the inroads this disruptive technology is making in the slow-moving, not-very-innovative tobacco industry.

Management 8

Management Health Care Insurance Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

. “Eliminating my commute frees up seven more hours per week I can spend reaching out to clients,” or “my being in Chicago allows the company to cover the Midwest markets efficiently and at no additional cost” are more compelling, inarguable statements than “I wanted to spend more time at home.”

How To 8

How To Long-term Tactics Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

We confirmed this observation by developing a database of all public companies in the global stock markets and tracking their performance over 25 years. Many businesses lose this sharp sense of purpose as they grow. This is why only 13% of employees worldwide feel any personal engagement with their work at all.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist Long-term Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

Win or lose, I'll Have Another's situation provides useful lessons about business and markets. Daniel Kahneman , a renowned psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in economics, developed this concept in the 1970s along with his collaborator, Amos Tversky. And it's a lesson you can apply as you consider prices in the market.

Beyer 9

Beyer Tversky Price Kahneman 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Imagine a team at a ski company that's faced with a big problem: When skiers make sharp turns at high speeds, the edges of their skis lift from the snow, causing the skiers to sometimes lose control. Eventually, they found a great solution in an unlikely place: the music industry. The team needed to lessen the vibrations of its skis.

Software 8

Software Innovation Sharpe Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Our work covers each brand’s visual identity, from the product itself all the way to the marketing and merchandising activities that bring a brand to life across different platforms—music, sports, fashion, and so forth. Let’s say that in the room there is a marketer who tells me the brand is not visible enough.

Organization 8

Organization Brand Six Sigma Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

Drawing from a military war-game tradition, this involves having a multi-disciplinary "Red" team identify the range of such events, prioritize them for action and develop plans for prevention and response. The implications of the report for risk management go far beyond the nuclear industry.

Risk Management 10

Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis Report 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2017

When people asked what that meant, Michael had assured them that every C3 show on RBN would still have “that Carla magic”—an emotional center, sharp dialogue, and surprising plot twists—that garnered high ratings, especially in the coveted 18- to 34-year-old demographic. And you still find time for business breakfasts!”

Case Study 10

Case Study Succession Long-term Delegation 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

At last," the chairman had said, "we have a foothold in the electric vehicle market. The only person not applauding was Wang Xiguo, the engineer who had led the development of Prime's power train technology. It was among the fastest-growing Chinese automakers, and it was racing to get into the hybrid market.

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Case Study Technology Tacit Knowledge Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

It has been 10 years since the global financial crisis, and the fall-out continues in the industry that was at its epicenter: banking. There has been a truly dramatic retrenchment from foreign markets, making banking a rare case of an industry becoming less, rather than more, global.

Banking 8

Banking McKinsey Finance Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Until a few years ago Steve Cronce’s Raphael Industries did $1 million dollars a year of specialized industrial painting for customers within driving distance of their plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is poised to become the leader in this segment of a multi-billion dollar market. I am no longer limited by geography.”

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

But the tobacco industry worldwide, in fact, has pledged to do just that. The pledge came from Eliminating Child Labor in Tobacco Growing Foundation , an industry-supported initiative based in Geneva with members such as Phillip Morris, Altria, and British American Tobacco, among many others. Economics & Society Ethics Multinational'

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Supply Chain Licensing Sharpe Industry 8