Strategy Driven

JULY 28, 2019

However, there is an intangible asset that is very difficult to quantify — but without it you cannot ultimately succeed. This asset is, of course, alignment. Harris is Associate Vice-President and Country Manager for Allergan PLC in Brazil. efficiency). About the Author.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Now, if we have learned to manage our selves and how we present ourselves, and if we have a strategic story to tell, and if we are able to sell that story to others, this is still not enough. This southeast axis we can call “managing change.”. This influence comes from a variety of sources and can be effective or ineffective.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2013

Recommended Resource – Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes. Recommended Resources Strategic Planning business management business planning I Have A Strategy No You Don’t strategydriven' Recommended Resources – The Oracle Speaks. Recommended Resources – The Pause Principle.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Today, the majority of market value is made up of intangible assets (networks, platforms, intellectual property, customer relationships, big data) more than physical assets. In fact, it’s not even close: intangible assets make up over 80% of the S&P 500’s market value — a complete reversal from 1975.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Benjamin Graham , the father of value investing, seldom met the managers of the companies he invested in because he felt they would tell him only what they wished him to hear and because he didn’t want to be influenced by impressions of personality. So is there something different about the managers who do succeed?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

For example, at the end of its 2015 fiscal year, Apple’s balance sheet stated tangible assets of $290 billion as a contribution to its annual revenues, with approximately $141 billion worth of intangible assets — a combination of intellectual capital, brand equity, and (investor and consumer) goodwill.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

What we asked people was, at this point in their lives, are they actively building, maintaining, or depleting their tangible and intangible assets? Actively building both tangible and intangible assets is crucial to creating a long and productive working life. What the Old Can Learn from the Young.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Decades ago, a company’s market value was nearly equivalent to its tangible assets—buildings, machinery, materials, financial capital, and so on. In 1975 intangible assets were just 17% of the market value of the S&P 500. We now look for verification before trusting a company.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Earnings also seem to matter less for CEO pay: companies are reducing profits-based cash bonuses and shifting toward stock-based CEO compensation, partly to keep opportunistic managers from cutting back on valuable investments as a way to report higher profits. For example, see Item 7 of Facebook’s annual report.).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

An informed shareholder, who looks beyond earnings numbers and analyzes the company’s intangible assets, would notice that the firm has mortgaged its future. Critically, short-term selling by shareholders need not entail short-term behavior by managers. She would sell her shares, pushing the stock price down.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

These “superstar” sectors include financial services such as banking, insurance, and asset management, professional services, internet and software, real estate, and pharmaceuticals and medical products. Acquisitions, bold investment in intangible assets, and attracting talent can ultimately make the difference.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2014

Some studies (see here or here ) have shown that during periods of economic growth, family-managed companies in the US actually perform better than professionally managed businesses. In our sample, the average advertising intensity (advertising expenditure divided by total assets) of the family companies fell marginally, from 2.0%

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Second, for small and rapid-growth technology companies, the problem is compounded by the fact that, while rich in intangible assets, they typically lack the kind of collateral (equipment, inventory, real estate, etc.) banks require to secure commercial loans.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

That includes identifying your current mix of assets and the business model that your asset portfolio creates. For example, do you make and sell things, hire skilled employees and provide services, develop and new IP like software or pharmaceuticals, or build and manage digital networks, be they transactional, informational, or social?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Say that in a roomful of managers, and you get nervous laughter. The Balanced Scorecard's primary form of novelty is that it takes into account the intangible assets that are so crucial for information-age companies. "Creative accounting" is really bad. Except when it's good.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The companies that provide those services and enable us to share what we have (insights, relationships, assets) with others not only are valued more highly by investors but also are relatively asset-light themselves. This is quite a shift. On the top right are creators; this is where the most value is being created these days.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

In September 2016 we undertook a survey of nearly 300 endowment and foundation managers. Large investors rely on an assortment of intermediaries to help them with their investment activities, including asset managers, such as hedge funds, investment banks, and consultants. But right now that’s not happening.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Because senior managers tend to focus on the short-term operational and financial aspects of their companies rather than the intangible assets that are worth so much more. Health Risk management Sustainability' So why doesn’t every company do what CVS did? CVS, I hope, has shown us the future.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

Medicines, instruments, consumables, and exercise devices belong to material assets; intangible assets involve medical expertise on board and on the ground, processes, procedures, and protocols. Training crew members to manage their care.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

Example: Carol owns a small business and needs a customer relationship management (CRM) platform. Identify the characteristics of your key customer groups, including their level of engagement, their unmet needs, and any tangible or intangible assets that could be leveraged in a co-creative relationship.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MAY 25, 2021

It’s so easy to lose sight of the things that you can’t see. There is a tendency to believe that if something cannot be quantified, it does not exist.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

Digital firms are as valuable for their intangible capital as were the 20 th century firms for their land, building, and factories. Hence, successful digital firms, even if incurring losses, prove attractive acquisition targets for firms that create value by mixing and matching acquired intangible assets with their own.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

Just lengthening that second stage of full-time work may secure the financial assets needed for a 100-year life, but such relentless work will inevitably deplete precious intangible assets such as productive skills, vitality, happiness, and friendship. The same is true for education.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

Richard Harvey, in earlier testimony, said that the company managed to avoid about $7.7 Second, the rise of intangible assets, like patents and widgets, means that transfer pricing issues become central, and so high tax rates become more untenable as they increase the incentives to be aggressive. And yet legal scholar J.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

But while such information exchanges have become technically feasible, they are not yet financially beneficial to the information provider and difficult for the customer to value and incorporate into their management systems. The practice of management itself must evolve for this capability to emerge.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

But while such information exchanges have become technically feasible, they are not yet financially beneficial to the information provider and difficult for the customer to value and incorporate into their management systems. The practice of management itself must evolve for this capability to emerge.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

corporations to accumulate assets in those affiliates (now estimated at $2.6 trillion), enabling them to manage their portfolios more efficiently. By eliminating the tax on repatriated dividends that U.S. companies receive from their foreign affiliates, the bills remove the incentive for U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

That model still exists, including in online publishing where companies like Automattic, maker of the open source content management system WordPress, sell hosting and related services to publishers. Vox is a digital publishing company known, in part, for its proprietary content management system. Why, then, did Apple prevail?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Over the years, I have heard from plenty of managers who have lamented that the pressure of quarterly earnings targets imposes a heavy toll on their ability to focus on the long term. Some of the managers actively advocate doing away with quarterly reporting. Moreover, twice yearly reporting would make companies less transparent.

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