Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2012

If you don’t understand finance and accounting, enroll in a course immediately. Read your leading-edge industry publications, Forbes , other finance journals, and popular business books. If you don’t hold a finance or operations position, consider cross training. Address the nuts and bolts of business too.

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Execution How To Finance Competitive Advantage 62

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

They include new enterprises such as Orbian , Prime Revenue , C2FO , Taulia , and Ariba as well as new operations launched by traditional financial service firms such as Citi Group, HSBC, BNP Paribas, and Deutsche Bank. Operations in a Connected World. This improved working capital can be used to fund growth in new markets.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Cost of Capital Transportation Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

We serve two markets that are very different but united by the common need for reliable, safe access to energy: outdoor recreationalists and low-income households in emerging markets. We found an ideal storefront near a busy market in central Bhubaneswar. In addition, stoves are difficult to transport from demo to demo.

Marketing 8

Marketing Microfinance Retail Development 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Companies in multiple industries are already altering their approaches in changing urban markets. Telecom operators often provide the backbone communication networks required to run systems and applications. Companies that want to serve them directly often have to think outside the box when it comes to financing.

Real Estate 15

Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

She distilled the notes about her many accomplishments into an overview of the 10 years in her current role: Keep University’s School of Design (eight graduate programs) running flawlessly for Director, other staff, faculty, and students — during routine operations and emergencies. into multiple global markets.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Already a large domestic market, Frontier Strategy Group’s estimates suggest the country will average growth rates between 7.4% However, India remains a difficult market for multinational firms to enter. India is a large, fragmented, and heterogeneous market. Step 2: Measure operating environment.

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Strategy Operations Policies Environment 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Over the past two decades, there have been many attempts to reform the electric utility market. Consider how Uber opened up the transportation market. In both cases, the two goods (car and real estate) are given value-creating potential through a process of market fragmentation and consumer empowerment.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

.” When Sloan arrived at GM in 1920 he realized that the traditional centralized management structures organized by function (sales, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing) were a poor fit for managing GM’s diverse product lines. Modern Corporation Marketing. auto market. car market.

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Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

How well they''re built and operated is crucial to economic growth and is a key arbiter of an economy''s competitiveness — and yet, virtually every economy faces an array of infrastructure challenges. A focus on the huge need for additional investment and potential difficulties in financing it dominate the debate.

Transportation 13

Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Given how central automotive transportation is to our cities, commerce, and daily lives, saying that AI will change life as we know it is no understatement. This distinction is important because the driver is typically the most expensive part of a transport business, be it taxi services, last-mile logistics, or long-haul trucking.

Automotive 14

Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The car service company just arranged low-cost financing to help add 100,000 cars to its fleet; revenues are growing by 20% monthly ; and New York Magazine proclaimed the company may be – one day – more valuable than Facebook. Uber offers three primary transportation services: SUV, Black Car, and UberX (hybrids and mid-range cars).

Price 15

Price Transportation Discount Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Drone operators will be regularly required, for example, to pass a written test, but won’t, as rumored, need to obtain a pilot’s license. Many use smartphones and tablets as their controllers.).

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 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.” Instead, we should measure and manage behaviors like spending time in markets and designing and executing smart experiments and the values to which employees adhere. And short-term numbers at that.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies. In the fast growth markets of Asia, Africa and Latin America, national governments are responding to a more empowered citizenship, and looking for corporate partners to achieve their development goals.

Globalization 12

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Leaders of corporate strategic development need to analyze all of these considerations and be prepared for disruption to ripple through many functions — not just product development and manufacturing, but also finance, tax, legal, human resources, and IT. Are there operations you would shed?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

“Expect delays” has become the recurring theme of our transportation system. The Future of Operations. The shortage of transport capacity relative to demand will have a profound effect on businesses. Longer supply chains also increase inventory levels and carrying costs related to financing and warehousing.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Digital transformation halts, or fails, for many reasons—but most often it’s because minor changes at the surface level do nothing to affect the fundamental operations of a company. Increasing the social media marketing budget is not digital transformation. Even building an app is not digital transformation.

Business Model 8

Business Model Industry Metrics Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The intersection brings the world's largest companies, biggest machines, and most complex projects into the lives of people who are rich in many ways, but not in the experience or finances to manage that kind of engagement. Here's the problem as I've observed it: In frontier markets, isolation is a fiction.

Industry 10

Industry Politics Operations Project 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

And a great potential source of talent with the right skills are professionals who change career lanes — people with experience and training in accounting, finance, human resources and strategy who leave corporate jobs to follow their passion to have a social impact. About 75% come from the private sector.

Chief Operating Officer 12

Chief Operating Officer How To Airlines Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

This will shape agricultural markets in ways we have not seen before. Advanced logistics, transportation, storage, and processing are also crucial for making sure that food goes from where it grows in abundance to where it doesn’t. Food demand is expected to increase anywhere between 59% to 98% by 2050.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Policies Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

When "the core functions of IT — data storage, data processing, and data transport — have become available and affordable to all," he wrote, IT would cease to be a source of competitive advantage. Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

Editor's note: This post was written with Christian Sarkar , a marketing consultant who also works on environmental issues. We need to think big and deploy disruptive technologies and financing mechanisms to house 100 million people by the end of the decade.". dollars). Think Global: This isn't just an India project.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Transportation Cooper Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This makes sense, because the alternative is for behavioral insights to be tried out by individuals or specific departments, and their knowledge and skill are likely to vary: Someone in marketing might use their behavioral knowledge to develop more-effective campaigns, while at the same time someone in HR uses theirs to focus on employee engagement.

Company 8

Company Committee Ethics Project 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Nonetheless, CareMore’s leaders decided to move ahead and launched a Medicaid care-delivery program in Memphis and Des Moines, serving 8,000 to 10,000 patients in each market. Our primary care clinicians operate in multidisciplinary teams. We described our early progress in this 2015 HBR article.

Health Care 8

Health Care Metrics Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Stagnant growth in its core PC market recently led Intel to announce layoffs of roughly 12% of its workforce. The company will also eliminate a key chipset in the difficult tablet and smartphone market. But the past is merely a prologue. How best to draw actionable inspiration from Grove?

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

The problem with the effort, of course, was that building both the necessary African infrastructure and the logistics network needed to transport the non-indigenous crops was going to be a very expensive proposition indeed. A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder.

Company 14

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Transport on the line was so unreliable that crops in the areas it served were routinely left to rot in the fields during the harvest season. Employees frequently attribute breakdowns to incompetence or bad faith on the part of colleagues in other departments: "Those bozos in headquarters [or finance or marketing] screw everything up."

Strategy 11

Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 11

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

With the plethora of reading material on the market today it is not a simple thing to make sure that you’re covering all the bases in a time efficient fashion. Reading transports us to a place beyond ourselves. link] Diploma in Digital Marketing Qualification – MMC Learning | Digital Marketing [.]

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Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. Wall Street began charging a “conglomerate discount,” saying that diverse operations were hard to analyze with confidence.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Digital players wield outsize market power. With products that rely on network effects, these players enjoy economies of scale and dominant market share. Digital markets are uneven. Politics, regulations, and levels of economic development play a major role in shaping the digital industry and its market attractiveness.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization. To begin with quantitative outcomes, the Indian economy is operating at about $45 billion less cash than what it would have been if demonetization had not taken place. The result?

Banking 15

Banking Long-term Short-term System 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

However, it has also been investing directly in companies — making the government a competitor of VC funds and disrupting the sector's market dynamics. The challenge is that senior experienced operational talent in Mexico usually isn't interested in bearing the risk and hardship of working in the still-struggling VC industry.

Industry 14

Industry Telecommunications Incentives Banking 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. to assist with the local go-to-market approach. But is all of that changing?

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The failure last month of green-tech start-up Better Place, which promised to free drivers and nations from oil dependence and revolutionize transportation, has generated both attention and derision. Note to Tesla owners: you are not the mass market). A small number, but these are also small markets.

Mass Marketing 12

Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

They all pay taxes, report their finances, disclose significant shareholders, and comply with the full range of employment, health and safety, advertising, intellectual property, consumer protection and anti-competition laws, to name just a few. But perhaps what tech critics really want are more innovative rules.

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Disruptive Innovation Technology Proposal Innovation 8