Joseph Lalonde

JULY 27, 2015

Admiral Porter – Try not to cause a total panic. He told Admiral Porter to let the nerds take over. Either the leaders of the business rush in too quickly or they take too long to execute on their vision. Whether that’s market share, souls, or some other metric. You may still be able to contribute.

Cooper 120

Cooper Leadership Porter Video 120

Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

“Here’s what differentiates this book: it bridges concept and principles to execution.” ” (Sam Decker, Decker Marketing). “Full of incredibly useful tools and charts -- all about how small businesses execute strategy.” Most importantly this book is about execution.”

CTO 101

CTO Books Balanced Scorecard Norton 101

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 58

Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 58

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

But as Michael Porter and I write in our recent Perspective article in The New England Journal of Medicine , “ Why Strategy Matters Now ,” providers are unlikely to succeed if they cannot focus on this goal. Engaging in improvement-focused – rather than marketing-focused – transparency is hard work.

Health Care 8

Health Care Marketing Strategy Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Michael Porter, the world's leading authority on competition and strategy, is sometimes the victim of his own success. My premise in writing Understanding Michael Porter was very simply that clear strategic thinking is essential for any manager in any setting, and Porter's work lays out the basic principles and frameworks you need to master.

Porter 15

Porter Strategy Competitive Advantage P&L 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's article in January's HBR tries to advance our world's shared values by arguing that doing right is the best long-term business strategy. But first, let's praise Porter and Kramer. Their article puts Porter's reputational weight behind an idea that in itself has, well, shared value.

Porter 14

Porter Morale Supply Chain Long-term 14

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. Unlearning is not about forgetting.

Porter 8

Porter Competitive Advantage Senge Network Economy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Michael Porter's trilogy of Competitive Strategy , Competitive Advantage , and The Competitive Advantage of Nations sits on every serious strategist's shelf. While it's next to impossible to innovate faster than the market, it is possible to innovate better that the market. For a retailer, it might be logistical acumen.

Company 15

Company Competitive Advantage Prahalad Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Michael Porter's trilogy of Competitive Strategy , Competitive Advantage , and The Competitive Advantage of Nations sits on every serious strategist's shelf. While it's next to impossible to innovate faster than the market, it is possible to innovate better that the market. For a retailer, it might be logistical acumen.

Company 15

Company Competitive Advantage Prahalad Hamel 15

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

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2014

By now, the idea that organizations must adapt in order to maintain both relevance and market share in a rapidly changing world is so ingrained that it’s been reduced to pithy sayings. The recent failures of mass market retailers Sears and J.C. If it ain’t broke, break it. Will you confuse people? What is the cost?

Disruptive Innovation 10

Disruptive Innovation Mass Marketing Fashion Porter 10

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

JUNE 16, 2015

It has become an axiom that “strategy is about making hard choices,” as we have been advised for over 20 years by leading thinkers including Michael Porter and Roger Martin. Sephora has become a leader in the cosmetics market by transcending this tradeoff, finding ways to achieve transactions and relationships.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer Apparel Marketing Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

running according to free-market efficiencies! In fact, as Kaplan and Michael Porter describe in a recent HBR article, "To put it bluntly, there is an almost complete lack of understanding of how much it costs to deliver patient care, much less how those costs compare with the outcomes achieved." Adam Smith 4eva!

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Kaplan Health Care Insurance Porter 20

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

From Michael Porter to Costas Markides and through the Blue Oceans of Kim and Mauborgne, strategy scholars have been urging executives to distinguish their firm’s offerings and carve out a unique market position. For decades, strategy gurus have been telling firms to differentiate.

McKinsey 13

McKinsey Mauborgne Competitive Advantage Porter 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

This cover story, by Michael Porter, suggests that companies and government need to get outside an outdated approach to value creation. Today, Porter says, companies must reconnect company success with social progress, not as philanthropy, but as a way to achieve economic success. trillion by 2020.

Innovation 15

Innovation Succession Porter Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

We aren't the first to see that the world has changed and free market competition no longer produces benefits as if by an invisible hand. Before 1850 there was the market economy, in which many players, engaged in something plausibly resembling perfect competition , collectively met demand without any grand plan to do so.

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Competitive Advantage Porter Politics Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

It's an approach we call creating shared value ( my coauthor Mark Kramer and FSG cofounder Michael Porter wrote about this in Harvard Business Review ). Instead, it entails reconceiving a company's product and markets, reinventing its value chain, and strengthening the productivity of the communities in which it operates. Take Cisco.

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Porter Core Competence Globalization Business Model 12

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. Keep the time to evolve your work.”.

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Porter Delegation Learning-by-Doing Project 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2016

I first started working for Apple on the PR agency side at Porter Novelli in Sydney, Australia in 1997. Over this period, Apple would prove the cynics wrong and dazzle the world with its groundbreaking innovations, masterful marketing and against-the-grain approach. Wesson Wang. PR played a huge role in this success. Be hands on.

PR 8

PR Press Release Report Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I heard it in a session led by Professor Michael Porter and Dean Nitin Nohria of the Harvard Business School who were sharing a research project on declining American Competitiveness. An example was a discussion session of tired-looking European finance ministers, defensive and elusive about the speed of acting on the Euro crisis.

Competitive Advantage 14

Competitive Advantage Porter Goleman Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Like Satan in the book of Job, I've been going to and fro in the earth over the past few months, in my case talking to corporate executives, consultants, and former consultants. Some tentative conclusions: There is not much of a market for stand-alone strategy studies any more. Monitor & Co., Of course not," he replied.

Consultative 15

Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

Increasingly, I see people looking starry-eyed to business and markets to solve social problems. My view is that pretending companies and markets hold all the answers actually puts at risk our ability to deal with our most pressing societal problems — and to help our most vulnerable citizens. I have an M.B.A.

Porter 9

Porter Welch Health Care Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The first is from a Google executive; the second, from an exec at Cisco. It's not to create more jargon, it's to emphasize a point: that social is more than the stuff the marketing team deals with. Many organizations still operate by Porter's Value Chain model , where Z follows Y, which follows X. How does this work?

Banking 16

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Beyond looking silly, the much bigger risk — the risk to the business — is that when we throw terms around imprecisely, we risk introducing confusion into the strategy we're trying to execute. Some people tie it to Michael Porter's Shared Value concept. Moving marketing from a monologue to a dialogue. Individual.

Media 9

Media Supply Chain Tools Porter 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

Meanwhile, Michael Porter explains exactly how health care needs disrupting, professors from INSEAD and MIT debate the merits of the MOOCs that might upend higher education, and our own Sarah Green tells publishers to quit whining about disruption and start enjoying the innovation that goes along with it.

Management 18

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 18

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

And there are many reforms that can facilitate this, such as increasing the horizon of executive pay, as I have argued before. If earnings are low, “the market sells first and asks questions later” as the adage goes. An investor can outperform the market by simply waiting to collect the dividend.

Short-term 8

Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Our most-watched video was " Rethinking Capitalism " with Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter. In this forward-looking item, we kicked off the year with a practical infographic tool to help executives identify which geographies to invest in — and which to avoid. Interactive infographic. Audio podcast.

Video 14

Video Porter Charisma Customer Loyalty 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

Michael Levie, a seasoned hotel executive, and Rattan Chadha, a successful retail entrepreneur, were having dinner. As Levie put it: “I think that when you decide on a niche market, what you decide on what you want to be doing, do that extremely well and don’t do other things.

Industry 8

Industry Hotels Travel Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2013

There is a clamor of voices demanding the rebooting of capitalism, from academics (such as Michael Porter) and politicians (like Al Gore) to investors (such as CalPERS) and Occupy''s street activists. Investors, meanwhile, compensate for the lack of knowledge about issues central to longer term value by pricing in a risk premium.

Report 8

Report Short-term Press Release Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

The rising tide of New Capitalism, what Michael Porter calls " shared value " and what Umair Haque calls " thick value ," is perhaps the most important reaction to the corruption and greed that spurred the most recent global economic crisis. The authors have an implicit negative view on business. For them, profit seems to be a dirty word.

Suri 13

Suri Godin Real Estate Construction 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

In most companies, marketers are in charge of assessing the competition. Because of this, close to 60 percent of all competitive intelligence professionals report to marketing. Yet the majority of marketers fail to use their competition analysts strategically, instead using them to gather more “recon” data.

Marketing 8

Marketing Competitive Intelligence Porter How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

Six years ago, Harvard’s Michael Porter and FSG’s Mark Kramer made the bold statement that shared value — the idea that the purpose of a company is to achieve both shareholder profit and social purpose — would “reinvent capitalism.” Andy Roberts/Getty Images.

Marketing 11

Marketing Porter Metrics Brand 11

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