Lead on Purpose

MAY 5, 2009

Jim’s passion is product management and product marketing. With over 20 years of technology industry experience, he has a fresh and current perspective in leading product management teams and has a gift for taking conceptual ideas and turning them into strategic reality using methods based on market sensing best practices.

Marketing 113

Marketing Productivity Products Ethics 113

Mills Scofield

APRIL 20, 2013

My boyfriend Brian and I were backpacking in Washington State when he proposed. The engagement caught me off guard, but I didn’t know then just how many more surprises that proposal would lead to--in my professional life. This is a wonderful story, with lessons for all of us! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. Marcie Muehlke.

Supply Chain 159

Supply Chain Fashion Proposal Learning Curve 159

Strategy Driven

APRIL 5, 2012

Advocacy by John Daly provides actionable methods to effectively market ideas such that they are acted upon by the organization. Rather, reputation, relationships, timing, and persuasive messaging is needed to garner the attention and buy-in necessary to gain action on one’s proposals. by John Daly. About the Reference.

Resources 50

Resources Proposal Competitive Advantage Politics 50

LDRLB

JUNE 30, 2011

I’ll propose some alternatives in my next few posts and I am very interested to hear your thoughts on them. Rather, it is for organization-altering decisions such as: Do we expand into this market? Mission Discernment: A preventative ethics strategy for leaders in Catholic health care organizations. 2010, Nov-Dec).

Strategic Planning 97

Strategic Planning Planning Mission Statement Gordon 97

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

The typical request for proposal (RFP) has a bunch of standards about what has to be offered by the vendor, but far too little (or nothing) about what happens after the company takes ownership. Make certain that third-party proof, in video, is a major part of your proposal. That’s the bad news. Why did you lose the sale?

Proposal 58

Proposal Price Long-term Customer Loyalty 58

LDRLB

JUNE 30, 2011

I’ll propose some alternatives in my next few posts and I am very interested to hear your thoughts on them. Rather, it is for organization-altering decisions such as: Do we expand into this market? Mission Discernment: A preventative ethics strategy for leaders in Catholic health care organizations. 2010, Nov-Dec).

Strategic Planning 90

Strategic Planning Planning Mission Statement Gordon 90

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

In retrospect, if I had to write it again, I’d include a section or chapter on ethics. The ongoing explosion of technologically-enabled business opportunities inherently expand the ethical dilemmas, quandaries and trade-offs managements will confront. Ethics Information & technology Innovation' but sometimes, they will.

Ethics 8

Ethics Zimbardo Explicit Knowledge Kahneman 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

If your mind is full of things you keep meaning to get done, your head won’t be in the game Do the hard stuff first: outbound sales calls, proposals, etc.

Press Release 182

Press Release Fraser Discount PR 182

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Nowadays, marketers are inserting their content in much more effective ways. But what are the ethical lines this paid-for content should not cross? Paid integration" is like product placement for journalism; "the marketer is weaved into a narrative, sometimes overtly." It can stay factual and cite sources.

Ethics 8

Ethics Content Guidelines Media 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Multinational corporations long have looked for growth opportunities in emerging markets. In 2014, according to the latest United Nations estimate, direct foreign investment (FDI) in emerging markets reached more than $700 billion — accounting for over half (56%) of all global FDI flows for the first time. Crime exacts a toll.

Marketing 8

Marketing Company Compliance Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

I’ve been a consultant for almost 20 years, advising companies on complex challenges in ethics, risk, and responsibility. Happily fading from memory is the cliché that ethics and compliance teams effectively constitute a “business prevention department.”

Ethics 14

Ethics Short-term Long-term Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Studies show that it’s also counterproductive resulting in lower profit margins, return on equity , and employee morale ; costly delays as players haggle over the size of the kickback; and poverty and poor governance in the markets where they’re paid. ” Identify “moon markets” and walk away.

Management 11

Management Ethics Cost Bureaucracy 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

We have a proposal for a good place to start: auditing. Companies have long been required to issue audited financial statements for the benefit of financial markets and other stakeholders. It is reasonable to anticipate that emerging regulations might be met with market pull for services involving algorithmic accountability.

Ethics 13

Ethics Report System Sample 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The contemporary CEO must not only be expert at addressing the commercial verities of products, markets, and competitors. In virtually every country across the globe, a broad range of governmental and ethical issues directly and immediately shape what companies can and cannot do. But the U.S.

CEO 8

CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Some consumer advocates — among them the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the House of Lords — have proposed that increasing transparency could help protect consumers from being manipulated by defaults. Our research offers insights for how marketers and policy makers might leverage defaults to improve consumer well-being.

How To 8

How To Participative Influence Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

I rationalized that I’d only be rearranging market shares, I wouldn’t be expanding the market. I sent them the proposal they requested. But I knew I’d feel that way even before I sent the proposal, and I’d sent it anyway. I feel embarrassed that I submitted the proposal.

Tavris 8

Tavris Proposal Industry Project 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. The Stanford Center for Internet and Society keeps an active list of laws proposed, passed, and defeated across the U.S.).

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Or is the problem simply that speculators have taken over the market for a crucial commodity? Markets that existed mainly for the convenience of industry have become dominated by exchange-traded funds, hedge funds, and investment banks. So, on balance, having a futures market appears better than not having a futures market.

Cost 8

Cost Fraser Hedge Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Myriad potential public policy-related risks and opportunities for companies arise across a broad spectrum of political and economic systems — from the state capitalism of former Communist states to the “ mixed economies ” in traditional “liberal” democracies, from developed to developing markets.

Policies 8

Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

The New York Times exposed the international retail giant's history of bribing Mexican government officials in order to dominate that market. Facilitation payments" and other "costs of doing business" in various markets can no longer be condoned. Wal-Mart made headlines recently for all the wrong reasons. Take Wal-Mart, for example.

Execution 12

Execution Retail Report Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Guaranteeing anonymity (that is, the removal of PII) in exchange for being able to freely collect and use data — a bread-and-butter marketing policy for everyone from app makers, to credit card companies — might not be enforceable if anonymity can be hacked. ” (PDF) proposed by Paul M. Schwarz and Daniel Solove.

Proposal 8

Proposal Policies Information Technology Price 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The study assembles considerable evidence about the hidden business model of major pharmaceutical companies: to devote most of their research budget to developing hundreds of drugs that provide few if any advantages over existing drugs and then market them heavily to doctors and patients. Negative results are usually not published at all.

Business Model 15

Business Model Company Pharmaceuticals Price 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

That quote points to what marketers might call an authenticity problem. “As far as balancing the potential good with the bad, I wish I could propose a way forward. Ethics Social media Technology' .” He also notes that he’s not really into it. “I myself know the value of privacy,” he writes. Probably not.

Media 8

Media Ethics Blog Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Acutely aware of the competitive edges timely data offers sophisticated investors, the company's ever-entrepreneurial cofounder once proposed that Google launch a hedge fund. Yes, this exercise will surface all manner of ethical — and possibly legal — conflicts and risks. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER. How to Repair Your Data.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Phillips , the Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics, and others have found. There is heated discussion about the various mechanisms in place, and proposed, to include more women on boards. They’re simply convinced that they did. Heterogeneous groups, on the other hand, come to better solutions.

Osgood 8

Osgood ROE Diversity Bond 8

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

They want the companies they buy from to trade in an ethical and responsible way, and for the organizations they work for to not only make a positive difference to the world, but to offer them work that is fulfilling and enriching in equal measure. .

Entrepreneur 68

Entrepreneur Long-term Crisis Mentor 68

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

For example, if you enjoy connecting with people, you could use that skill to be a psychologist or a marketer. Sign up for a new cross-company initiative or propose taking something off your boss’s plate,” suggests Dillon. Ethics Feature. These are the strengths that you want to improve. ” Freedom. .

Career 8

Career How To Finance Case Study 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Niche consultants place emphasis in the areas where they have training, expertise and staff support for implementation… and will market their services accordingly. Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart).

Consultative 59

Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 59

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Maybe it’s estimating how much a market will grow next year, or finding the best strategy to beat a competitor. national security experts to assess a hostage-rescue strategy and evaluate what “another national security expert” proposed. Paul Taylor/Getty Images. In a second study, we asked 164 U.S.

Participative 10

Participative Cost Strategy Ethics 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

One of your executives comes to you with a proposal: she wants to lower the quality of service at the restaurants, reduce product safety standards, use deceptive marketing practices, lower employee pay, and adopt worse environmental practices. Why do anti-profit beliefs persist in a market society? Paul Garbett for HBR.

Company 8

Company Short-term Long-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Whether you are working in a large corporation with a presence in all the major markets or you're an owner operator with a single website, it is likely that your communications will reach people from a wide variety of cultural origins. If you are in business, then you are in a global business.

Advertising 14

Advertising Audience Banking Influence 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

Whole Foods Market cofounder John Mackey and professor Raj Sisodia argue for the inherent good of both business and capitalism. But it's a skill you must cultivate to succeed: You'll lose time, money, and influence if your e-mails, proposals, and other important documents fail to win people over. by John Mackey and Rajendra S.

Books 8

Books Creativity Cooper Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

By introducing the idea of holographic computing and baking it into every Windows 10 device from launch forward, Microsoft is offering developers, marketers, and ultimately consumers, completely new ways to do what they already want to do. On the one hand it was proposing a future where we would have ubiquitous computing on the go.

Forrester 8

Forrester Technology Execution Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2011

For the other broad context, we have to go to the undeniable success of pro-market reforms introduced during the Thatcher-Reagan years, and "underwritten" by economists like Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek. The young men and women robbing stores are not, as some believe, an example of the failure of liberal market reforms.

Politics 13

Politics Proposal System Ethics 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

We all make pitches every day — for that highly-prized account; to a client who's reluctant to accept your scary proposal; for a skeptical CFO to loosen the purse strings; or for a wary new team to believe in you. Here's what I've learned about winning pitches like these: 1.

Belief Systems 16

Belief Systems Tips Audience CFO 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Just as medical science has broken down patients’ clinical needs and created corresponding specialties, we propose a framework for major types of patient suffering so that health care providers can organize themselves to address suffering more effectively.

Health Care 8

Health Care Quality Constraint System 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Can you share specific examples of how these capabilities have measurably impacted market value? Over the last four decades, drivers of market value have shifted significantly. In the late 1970s 95% of market value was derived from earnings. Fast forward to the 2020s, and earnings now account for only 15 to 20% of market value.

Ulrich 52

Ulrich Leadership Diversity Audience 52