Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2015

Today, I see Houston as a collection of communities, economic engines and entrepreneurial opportunities. As the city lives the 21st Century, we celebrate the historical, utilize state-of-the art technology and reflect changing social needs will always be at the forefront of the future. I had an aunt, uncle and cousins that lived here.

Entrepreneur 50

Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage Quality Books 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2021

Online shopping for groceries, clothes and other essentials has become more prevalent than ever, and remote working with the help of technology is more widespread increasingly widespread. It is one of the best ways to get your brand noticed and ensure that you rank highly in search engines.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The last decade ushered in an economic meltdown and technological breakthroughs that have forever changed the business world as we knew it. During this time, an engineer named Taiichi Ohno (known today as the father of Toyota) began the task of building a new capacity for Japanese industrial production.

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Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Or, as it turns out, even the vicinity of 1455 Market Street, the address of Uber’s San Francisco headquarters. The geofilters combined amusing visuals and messages with the web address of Snapchat’s job page, all in the hope that a Twitter engineer taking a quick Snapchat break might come across the targeted “Fly Higher! .”

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

"If we want to see more Americans gainfully employed — not in jobs, but with living-wage careers," he writes, we need to invest more in the nonprofit sector and in government programs like our educational system to advance science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) outcomes. WHAT IT DON'T GET, I CAN'T USE.

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GDP Sports Short-term Education 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

A lot of people are worried about the career choices of today’s most talented science and engineering students. That said, it’s easy to see where the concerns come from: Finance was the most popular industry among MIT graduates entering the labor market, with 8.4% And not just their parents.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

These executives have responsibilities we might expect to reside within marketing. That leaves Chief Marketing Officers with a decision — do you see the rise of these roles as an opportunity or a threat? Marketing faces a particular challenge since customer engagement has traditionally been considered its domain.

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Span of Control Sports 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas. Investigate those doing what you want to do. Try new approaches.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2016

It seemed as though everybody from the best-known software giants to basic industrial parts providers was marketing a “latest technological breakthrough” — even if it amounted to little more than a new sensor attached to an old piece of equipment. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies.

Operations 8

Operations Lean Manufacturing Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

The best CEOs call on their management toolkit to transform sales into a growth engine by focusing on three actions in particular: Crank up the analytics. You also need to push sales organizations to find overlooked pockets of growth in "tapped" markets. Make sales a team sport. It's not enough to set budgets and set goals.

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CEO 360-Degree Feedback Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

But they know, at least subconsciously, that 42 years after the Title IX legislation sent American women in droves onto the sports field and then directly to dominance in higher education, only 4.6% And yet the basic truth is that business is not yet really a co-ed sport. drop, from 2004 to 2009, in female engineers.

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Attrition Diversity Sports CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Corporate investment in artificial intelligence is predicted to triple in 2017 , becoming a $100 billion market by 2025. For example, advanced image recognition can be used to track the position of brand logos that appear in video footage of a sporting event, such as a basketball game. Drone- and satellite-based asset management.

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Process Company Supply Chain Software 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Digital technologies enable companies to better engage with their customers and offer superior experiences at affordable costs. Imagine that you’re on a tight schedule driving an 18 wheeler and your engine light comes on when you’re 100 miles from the nearest service station. Customer expectations. What to do?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

Winning Friends and Influencing People How Advanced Socialbots Have Infiltrated Twitter MIT Technology Review Ah yes, those pesky Twitter bots. This includes having an in-house recruiting firm to locate the best engineering talent for the start-ups it funds, a huge boon in a wildly competitive job market.

Engineering 8

Engineering Welch Media Wilde 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Since 1969, Communispond has helped over 600,000 client associates – including CEOs, board chairs, sales leaders, sports, media, and political figures – to achieve business goals by communicating with clarity and power. Check out the search engines for ‘little known facts about …’ or ‘trivia about …’ for ideas.

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Power Audience Kaplan Short-term 56

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Whatever your discipline, doing business today means immersing yourself, and your organization, in a wealth of messy, unstructured, real time data from customers, competitors, and markets — and finding ways to use such data visibility to see what's coming. Big Data examines what people say about what they have done or will do.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Merchandising Retail Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2012

This includes information that we choose to publish ("I'm a small business owner in Florida."), information that others publish about us ("Sarah is a great team player."), and information that is aggregated and shared behind the scenes without our knowledge ("Jonathan spends 400 minutes on sports websites and $300 on specialty foods per month.").

Reputation 16

Reputation Media Engineering Technology 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

It sports the near field communication chips I've been dying for ( read: secure mobile payments, instant device to device information transfer ). The Segway was a technological marvel. It took Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos just minutes to come to the conclusion that it had no market value since it didn't fit into our system.

Productivity 15

Productivity Products Sports Quality 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Similarly, when Starbucks baristas make your latte the same way across cafés, or when a software engineer delivers the expected features each sprint, you are witnessing tactical performance. military says, volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity , where technology and strategy changes rapidly.

Organization 10

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2011

We compete with other kids in sports. 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

JULY 20, 2011

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." Imagine a typical stock market portfolio, but instead of buying and selling shares of stock and other financial instruments, players float, advance and develop portfolios of ideas.

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Innovation Webinar Proposal Hamel 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Consider the recent phenomena of shoestring 3D design labs or the biofabrication labs at MIT , which are taking the plunge into synthetic biology with far fewer resources than the genetic engineers at government labs. But when it does come, it will not demand costly breakthrough innovation either in wireless technology or digital marketing.

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Cost Innovation Wireless Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

As a communications technology, it has radically changed the ways we connect with one another. That's why we gather in crowds for sporting events, political rallies, and mass celebrations on New Year's Eve. Technology that hyper-enables it should, logically, thrive. Rather, it's a vast, branded utility. It delivers on E.M.

Media 15

Media Short-term Taylorism Taylor 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Data products are a team sport. Meanwhile, data scientists and engineers have a keen eye for identifying feasible data-powered solutions and a strong intuition on what can be scaled and how. While there’s no silver bullet for simultaneously validating the tech and the product-market fit, staged execution can help.

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Productivity Products How To Long-term 8

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 25, 2010

 Today I would like to highlight a great resource that comes out each month from LinkUp that will help you keep tabs on which direction the employment market is moving.   Why You Should Follow This Report:   I really like the approach that LInkUp has taken with its job search engine portal.  Enjoy!

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

Janitor | custodian | sanitation engineer. Housewife | homemaker | domestic engineer. Bat is sports equipment in baseball. Marketing can be either inward or outward. Companies undergo marketing campaigns to promote products and services to potential customers. Mexican | Chicano | Mexican-American | Hispanic.

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Transportation Consultative Film Strategic Planning 68

Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2013

Technology is but one tool of the trade. The Old Became the New Again… The original speed for phonograph records, as invented in 1888, was 78-RPM, which engineers determined to be the most ideal for sound quality. They came back in the 1980s as sport utility vehicles. Ideas make the future happen. Stores closed on Sundays.

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Planning Learning Curve Budgeting Learning-by-Doing 62

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Technology is but one tool of the trade. The Old Became the New Again… The original speed for phonograph records, as invented in 1888, was 78-RPM, which engineers determined to be the most ideal for sound quality. They came back in the 1980s as sport utility vehicles. Ideas make the future happen. Stores closed on Sundays.

Planning 61

Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 61

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. From Khan Academy to Coursera to edX to the O'Reilly School of Technology, badges increasingly enjoy consideration as human capital's coin of the the realm for online education.

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Innovation Trends Human Capital Venture Funding 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

What most distinguishes innovation leadership, the book argues, is recognition that innovation is a “team sport,” not the act of a sole inventor. From 2005 to 2013, when Nayar led HCL as president and then CEO, the company’s sales, market cap, and profits increased six fold, according to the book.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

What most distinguishes innovation leadership, the book argues, is recognition that innovation is a “team sport,” not the act of a sole inventor. From 2005 to 2013, when Nayar led HCL as president and then CEO, the company’s sales, market cap, and profits increased six fold, according to the book.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

They were talking about technology stocks, and they singled out Ciena. They pointed out that we were a very young company, but our market value was $45 billion—more than the entire U.S. At that point we were a single technology company. SMITH: I’d joined in 1997, around the time it went public, and became CEO in 2001.

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Industry CEO Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

With the exception of custom-crafted luxury goods like bespoke tailored suits and mega-yachts, most of our purchases are still very standardized, and “customization” means picking the 256GB hard drive over the 128GB, or selecting the Sport Package for your new car. The tools to do this are already here.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Productivity Products Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. Media companies are experiencing an extreme form of competition that comes with digital technologies: Everyone is a media company today. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. Bigger marketing budgets may not pay off.

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Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 9