In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 29, 2011

There are all sorts of strategies in today’s business – at the top is corporate strategy, followed by a slew of functional and sub-functional strategies ranging from marketing to waste management. billion in sales) provides huge economies of scale throughout the operation, especially in production, fixed overheads, distribution and marketing.

Strategy 131

Strategy CEO Company Competitive Advantage 131

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

There are all sorts of strategies in today’s business – at the top is corporate strategy, followed by a slew of functional and sub-functional strategies ranging from marketing to waste management. billion in sales) provides huge economies of scale throughout the operation, especially in production, fixed overheads, distribution and marketing.

Strategy 97

Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 97

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

There are all sorts of strategies in today’s business – at the top is corporate strategy, followed by a slew of functional and sub-functional strategies ranging from marketing to waste management. Frankly, strategy is overused and misused; the word is tossed around corporate boardrooms with reckless abandon. Monsanto is a good example.

Strategy 74

Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 74

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Depending on the engineering background of these data scientists, these work products are either deployed directly to the production system, or if they are prototypes they are handed off to software engineers to help implement, optimize and scale them. Here are five key areas that contribute to data science operations.

Engineering 12

Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 12

Strategy Driven

MARCH 24, 2021

Now, however, these are some of the most prominent forces shaping digital marketing. These new trends make marketing more targeted than ever and allow you to connect on a much deeper level with your customers. There’s no doubt that the upheaval of 2020 helped accelerate some changes that the marketing world was already seeing.

Marketing 74

Marketing ROI Content Marketing Strategy 74

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Instead, it should try to persuade them that competition in the mobile space is radically different from that in traditional markets and consequently, the European Union — and the United States, for that matter — should revamp their antitrust laws. Instead, it has just focused on the mobile-operating-system market.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Incentives Operations Engineering 8

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

Most people tend to look at acquisitions from a rather myopic and traditional M&A perspective: making a strategic or synergistic purchase of an operating entity on an accretive basis. However restricting your view of acquisitions to operating companies is like playing a football game with only one play in your playbook.

Real Estate 353

Real Estate Company Brand Operations 353

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

An aircraft engine is unlikely to become a purely digital product any time soon! We don’t expect Amazon or Microsoft or IBM to design, make, and market agricultural tractors, aircraft engines, or MR scanners. Companies like Rolls Royce design and manufacture jet engines. The Challenges for Digital Natives.

Industry 8

Industry Software Six Sigma Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Due to the fast growth of the SaaS market and the high valuations of SaaS startups, a move toward SaaS seems very compelling for traditional software vendors. if the vendor makes clear in its announcement that the SaaS offering is provided in parallel to a perpetual licensing model.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

and China, it has a large population of engineers and factory workers, its intellectual property is widely respected, and it is easy to find English-speaking managers there. India was one of the first expansion markets for Abbott, after Canada and the U.K, American success stories in India. billion in sales. billion population.”

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Supply Chain Decentralization Automotive Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

But as global technology brands penetrate African economies, it is becoming evident that most local startups are experiencing new levels of competition, which could potentially disrupt their operations. Across African markets, information and communication technology (ICT) is facilitating the process of socioeconomic developments.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Entrepreneur Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2015

Our business, the Turbomachinery Solutions unit of GE Oil & Gas, provides solutions and services to upstream and mid-stream customers in seven vertical markets. In recent years, our customers have faced a tough market; our challenge has been to ensure continued growth while reducing their costs rapidly.

Development 8

Development Engineering Benchmarking Cost 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Check out the search engines for ‘little known facts about …’ or ‘trivia about …’ for ideas. Bill is responsible all aspects of the business including sales, marketing, content development, and the delivery of Communispond courses by certified faculty. Yet another good grabber is the startling fact.

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Power Audience Kaplan Short-term 56

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

GE is outfitting its core industrial products – from jet engines and gas turbines to CT/PET scanners – with sensors that monitor various parts of the machinery. GE is moving to an outcome-based economic model, bringing the company closer to its customers’ operations. Monetizing Digital Assets.

Business Model 8

Business Model Insurance Technology Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2011

In reality, each country needs the other to succeed in order to thrive — to finance growth, secure export markets, train talent, transfer technology, and more. For example, pharmaceutical firms license compounds to each other and co-promote products in different markets.

Apparel 15

Apparel Pharmaceuticals Finance Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. That might be three to five years in a relatively fast-moving business like media, but 20 years for aircrafts or jet engines.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Companies are beginning to utilize their employees’ behavioral data — generally known as people analytics — to better understand and improve their sales operations , with strong results. Time spent with each of their customers as compared to addressable market.

Analysis 8

Analysis B2B Engineering Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

Since the courts are about to make a ruling that will profoundly affect its prospects, it might interest you to learn more about how its entire business is engineered to exploit existing copyright law. has no television license tax. The company, meanwhile, has announced plans to expand its service to 22 additional markets.

Licensing 8

Licensing Content Supply Chain Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

No matter how nimble, innovative, or globally networked your organization or business is, it will run smack into the limits of its capabilities just by virtue of operating in today''s dynamic world. To push through these limits, you need to tap into a nearly bottomless force of adaptability known as symbiosis. Prepare for the unexpected.

Company 8

Company Short-term Brand Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

Boston Scientific a few years back launched a secret project to reverse-engineer the technology of its single-source supplier of coronary stents. The long-standing exclusive arrangement between Xerox and Fuji Photo Film in Japan is one example; pharmaceutical licensing across markets is another. It can work, but it's rare.

Management 11

Management Airlines How To Pharmaceuticals 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

It has also become a laboratory for reinventing some of the most intractable operating practices of "modern" management. You're invited to play a real role in influencing the destiny of the company by joining your colleagues in a stock market-based game called "Mutual Fun." The Newport, R.I.-based Practice "constructive disruption".

Innovation 12

Innovation Webinar Proposal Hamel 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

While thinking about onboarding talent that you don’t even “own” is counterintuitive, the likelihood of project success falls significantly when agile talent operates without a clear understanding of the work and their role. Insight Center. Corporate Culture for a Digital World. Sponsored by Accenture. Manage the politics.

Management 8

Management Agility Middle Management After Action Review 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

While having the right education is an essential asset in today’s cutthroat job market, it can become difficult to obtain a position without experience using various applications and technologies that enhance and amplify one’s resume. Appsbar: www.appsbar.com.

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Tools Document Restructuring Software 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

Crushing the “Propaganda Stations” In considering radio license renewals in 1929, a certain station caught the attention of Hoover (now U.S. FCC licensing rules diminished freedom in the emerging electronic press. Homogenized content, with far less diversity than an open market would support, was the result.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Other companies can do the same. Build a Re-Founding Team.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

For example, the delays associated with social conflict at large mining operations can run in the vicinity of $20 million per week. Yet the same companies that spend months and millions tweaking operational details devote only a small fraction of their resources to understanding and addressing the social risks they face.

Company 9

Company Supply Chain Real Estate Stakeholder Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

How can we create $12 trillion a year in market opportunities by 2030? But a recent report concludes that meeting the goals in just four out of 60 sectors (food and agriculture, cities, energy and materials, and health and wellbeing) could indeed open up market opportunities worth up to $12 trillion a year in less than 15 years.

Chemicals 12

Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 12

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

A market that wants a great product (Product-Market Fit). A well formulated Go-To-Market Strategy. It took years for Apple to gain traction despite offering what critics consider to be a superior operating system. It began as a small direct sales operation, with no plan for national distribution. A great product.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Marketing Strategy Budgeting 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” have grown more concentrated in the past 20 years, meaning that the biggest firms in the industry are capturing a greater share of the market than they used to. What’s Driving Industry Concentration. IT Does Matter.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

DNA genetic testing company 23andMe fell behind on its communications with the FDA, resulting in a temporary ban on marketing the company’s personal genetic screening services to the public. and shifts its local focus to engineering and testing. Unfortunately, these investments are unlikely to yield meaningful benefits.

Innovation 13

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2018

This is part of the toolkit of maintaining their “license to operate.” Second, the rise of the clean economy is creating new, exciting growth markets for copper. A pure EV requires roughly 4 times as much copper as an internal combustion engine. And EVs need a lot of copper.

Energy 8

Energy Trends Globalization Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

” Vodaphone is considering moving its headquarters out of the UK and its CEO Vittorio Colao had told the BBC that a Brexit would preclude it from a giant new single market. Engineers from the EU have been key to the successes of many UK companies. The digital talent market in the UK is already tight.

Safe Harbor 8

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. Consider the Scandinavian media firm Schibsted, which engineered an impressive digital transformation through a philosophy of connectedness. Bigger marketing budgets may not pay off.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11