Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I call the opposite of a strategy tourist a Strategy Execution hero. Change jobs regularly to outrun major execution challenges. Blame the market, other departments or poor IT-systems for the fact that you are not taking brave, independent action. Strategic Planning execution innovation leadership strategy'

Strategy 59

Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 59

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. Nokia was so immersed in executing its strategy that it lost sight of its purpose. Insight Center.

Strategy 13

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

In every aspect of business, we are operating with mental models that have grown outdated or obsolete, from strategy to marketing to organization to leadership. In strategy, an entire generation grew up with Michael Porter’s five forces. The Porter model of strategy isn’t obsolete.

Porter 8

Porter Competitive Advantage Senge Network Economy 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” Innovation Leadership Strategy' No, it’s to maximize shareholder value.

Levitt 11

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

The new ideology would not see markets as an end in themselves; instead, it would value global trade and investment to the extent that they contributed to a flourishing middle class, not just to greater aggregate national wealth. And in that he sounds a lot like Michael Porter, Dominic Barton, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, etc.

Consultative 14

Consultative Porter Management Press Release 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

politics is not merely the inevitable result of our free-market system; it is also a consequence of the choices our business leaders make. Had corporate executives made that choice, the shape of the economic recovery, average wages, and economic inequality would look very different today. Nor are they entirely innocent.

Politics 8

Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

As one of my executive MBA students recently told me, “I know that I have to carve out more time to think strategically about my business, but all my peers are executing to hilt and I don’t want to fall behind.”. Below are six tips that came out of a conversation with my executive MBAs: 1.

Porter 10

Porter Delegation Learning-by-Doing Project 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The good news is that millennial men are changing the way they define leadership and demanding work that fits around their families. And a group of researchers in the UK found that organizations can dramatically reduce the amount of time their employees spend on email, if they can convince executives to stop emailing so much.

Management 19

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Independently, Michael Porter’s Social Progress Index in 2016 specifically highlighted opportunity in Manizales as significantly higher than both Medellin and Bogota. Growth events were almost immediate: An entrepreneur with a line of men’s underwear entered export markets for the first time.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2011

It occurred to me that this was a talent to watch, as I was already familiar with established composers such as George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and others. Every way in which a company markets must be commensurate and fit under definable business strategies. ‘Don’t Make Me Over’ – Branding is NOT strategy.

Learning-by-Doing 63

Learning-by-Doing Leadership Strategic Planning Open-book 63

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The HBS team has been using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC), an approach initially proposed by one of us (Bob Kaplan) and Michael Porter, to help providers pursue the value-based delivery of care. Each Mayo Clinic value-improvement project must: gain senior leadership support, including an approved charter.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

So when Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter invited HBR last month to attend a class where Kagame was the guest speaker, and talk to him and Kagame afterwards, I was curious but also a little worried about being enlisted as a Kagame salesman. To Porter] How did you hook up with this guy? How did this partnership evolve?

Porter 10

Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 10