Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

P&G was able to combine Mach blade technology with its women’s skin care expertise to market women’s shaving products under the Gillette Venus brand. Gillette introduced new shave lotions, deodorants, and shower gels for men using P&G’s soap, lotion, and antiperspirant technology and expertise.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

One technology company targeted a 50:50 pay mix for salespeople in new customer acquisition (CA) roles, but a 70:30 mix for salespeople in account management (AM) roles. Franchise sales have nothing to do with salespeople. Another strategy is to accelerate the commission rate for increasing levels of sales or for sales above quota.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

If you choose to dive into the social media world without a strategy, without understanding how to create social media influence, you will not be pleased with your results. Following are a few tips to help you build influence online: Have a Strategy - If you want to create success and influence using social media you better have a plan.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

So you can read about companies that succeed in having technology systems that support continual improvement or go to conferences and learn, or interact with them online, or even go visit them. What those companies will tell others about what they do will almost never cover most of what is critical. To copy is to invite disaster.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

How can you align leadership across a corporation to support these new, risky ventures when all of their DNA is committed to driving profits in today's franchise? Bruce is familiar with all of these issues from his tenure as Senior Vice-President of Strategy and Marketing for the IBM Corporation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Sales professionals and organizations are responding with new strategies and technologies that allow them to deliver personalized experiences at scale. And once contact is made, the best sellers use technology to gauge whether the information they’re sharing with a buyer hits the mark.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

One large nonprofit system that has been struggling with its costs had a “president of strategy,” prima facie evidence of a serious culture problem! savings and loan industry crisis in the 1980s and 1990s showed us, enough marginal franchises added to a healthy portfolio can swamp the enterprise. As the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

How can you align leadership across a corporation to support these new, risky ventures when all of their DNA is committed to driving profits in today's franchise? Bruce is familiar with all of these issues from his tenure as Senior Vice-President of Strategy and Marketing for the IBM Corporation.

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Short-term Long-term Franchising Maturity 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

While drawing such a map today would require more boxes and more arrows, (and perhaps an independent web of interconnected assets surrounding the ESPN franchise), the fundamental patterns and the underlying insight and intuition would remain quite consistent. Strategy' Does it reveal uniquely valuable assets and opportunities?

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Film Franchising Industry Resources 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

It is also the underlying idea for an effective — and underutilized — growth strategy. Everyone is familiar with the primary methods Gillette used to grow: It innovated via technology (with the Sensor, Mach 3, and Fusion razors), and in 2001 it formally expanded into the women''s leg shaving market with a new brand called Venus.

Price 8

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Skip Prichard

JULY 29, 2019

And to be honest, it wasn’t hard to get people talking, and certain themes took shape very quickly: speed of service, restriction of access, rigidity of policies, complexity of technology, easy of process. ” “A satisfied customers is the best business strategy of all.” ” -Michael LeBouef. .

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 23, 2015

Successful products, services, strategies, and business models now have a shorter shelf-life than ever before in business history, which means that “innovate or die” is not just a cute bumper sticker; it’s a brutal reality of twenty-first century competition. Then they design solutions from the customer backward.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Considering the huge strategic and financial stakes for companies, it’s remarkable how relatively few of them include public policy as an integral part of their ongoing strategy formulation. Unfortunately, engaging in the necessary sophisticated work across varying political cultures is not a natural act for many companies.

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Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

To this end, Merck for Mothers is funding programs that help teach these small businesses franchise design, accreditation strategies, performance-based incentives, and supply-chain management to help address the persistent problem of inventory stock-outs, for example. Measure and evaluate.

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Supply Chain Health Care Self-aware Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

You can make CSR the strategy or even the end goal for your business growth. In McDonald's, he saw that throughout the world McDonald's franchises had similar quality meals for low prices. "If You don't have to separate Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) goals and project goals. Aravind now makes 7% of all IOLs in the world.

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Self-aware Franchising Quality Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The limited access to broadcast technology (among the targeted 33% underserved target population) has spurred the Galli Galli Sim Sim team to learn from the market, improving and evolving content to maximize distribution. Embracing New And Multiple Means Of Distribution.

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Globalization Power Workshop Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

If you want to see how mobile technology can disrupt the very basics of business models and habits established over hundreds if not thousands of years, look at what’s happening in India. In order to create value in India in the coming decade, companies must have a mobile-first strategy.

Strategy 8

Strategy Banking Venture Capitalist Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

What I am pretty sure about is that the how of Apple's fall (or continued rise) will hinge on strategy — because strategy has driven its success. Because strategy is all about making choices. To quote Porter: "Strategy renders choices about what not to do as important as choices about what to do."

Strategy 9

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Colleagues compare email triage strategies with the fervor they once reserved for their local sports franchise, and an entire industry has sprung up to tackle email pain by offering solutions at both the personal and organizational level. In our ongoing preoccupation with digital overload , nothing comes in for more hatred than email.

Strategy 8

Strategy Franchising Tools Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

That sort of money should allow you to open 10 new centers next year, not through franchising as you'd planned, but under your direct ownership and control. The director wasn't expecting her, but Gloria liked popping into the franchises unannounced to get an unvarnished view. Three million euros.". Hours were flexible.

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Case Study Franchising Health Care Follow-up 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

.” But if you are the Ford Motor Company and face the prospect of investing billions in new technology while your century-old business model is overturned, you might first have a few questions. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Full disclosure: my company, Innosight, has advised Ford on strategy ). What do they really want?

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Business Model Transportation ROI Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

We’ve hit a point of acceleration in video and wearable technologies that provide us with information that we’ve never had in the past about how to optimize player performance. We talk about things like yield management, demand curves, and perishable inventory — factors that dictate our pricing strategies.

Price 8

Price Team Sports Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2012

The answer isn't as simple as we might wish: their leaders have pursued a variety of strategies, and there is no single "best practice" formula for scaling a social venture. A given venture's "scaling strategy," however, can be thought of as the particular emphasis it puts on each of these capabilities relative to the others.

How To 14

How To Franchising ROI Entrepreneur 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

An innovation strategy has to include both. Yet, its strategy for almost three decades has largely been that of a sustainer, not a disruptor. Its fortunes have been built upon its successes in pushing the technological frontier of the microprocessor. How has this strategy worked? Let’s examine a few examples. Absolutely.

Innovation 8

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Real Madrid is one of the most recognized soccer franchises in the world. With over 500 million dedicated fans, it also happens to be one of the most innovative franchises when it comes to fan engagement. “Advances in technology have helped us reimagine fan engagement and create new business models that we never thought possible.

Sports 8

Sports Brand Content Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

New applications and new industries emerged, including virtual reality and the Internet of Things, proving the viability of an “if you build it, they will come” strategy for gigabit services. By 2009, however, Verizon had scaled back plans for more fiber and DSL technology was falling behind improvements in cable.

Succession 8

Succession Construction Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

The founders were told the service would have no demand, they couldn’t be the ones to meet the demand, they didn’t understand technology, and the management team had no track record (the god of VC’s success philosophy). For Eat24, that meant small, local, family restaurants — not the big chains and franchises.

Marketing 8

Marketing Franchising Competitive Intelligence Advertising 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Any number of franchised coaching offerings can be purchased at affordable prices, numerous affliliations with the hot coaching brand de-jure are available for the asking, or if all else fails coaches can just go it alone as a solo practitioner – the more the merrier right? Here is my bottom line take. Thanks for stopping by John.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

While advances in health care in the developed world often emphasize new technologies, in developing lower- and middle-income countries simply expanding the reach of basic primary care services is crucial to improving health. Financial tools.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

But that policy came at the cost of badly degraded incentives for providers to invest in new technologies, leaving the EU with minimal cable Internet, fiber-optic networks, or high-speed mobile broadband. regime are just as determined to make sure the EU instead doubles down on a strategy widely acknowledged to have failed utterly.

Price 8

Price How To Policies Report 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

Fostering entrepreneurship has become a core component of economic development in cities and countries around the world. The predominant metaphor for fostering entrepreneurship as an economic development strategy is the “entrepreneurship ecosystem.” Family businesses squash entrepreneurial initiative in order to protect their “franchise.”.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Bureaucracy Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Media companies are experiencing an extreme form of competition that comes with digital technologies: Everyone is a media company today. ” It explains why firms that have anchored their strategies to content have ceded digital leadership to those that have focused on connections. Essential Background. Sarah Green Carmichael.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

One might add that at the time of the Founders, America had approximately 2 million people, and many fewer had the franchise than today. mid-term elections staring us right in the face, I thought it would be an interesting time to examine the difference between statesman and politician. M [link] James Strock Great points, Mike.

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