LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. One simple question lies at the heart of a continuous struggle that most leaders and organizations face: how do we succeed today while simultaneously creating the future? Innovation today is as much about how you deliver value as it is about what it is you offer to the market.

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Innovation Kaplan Short-term Long-term 114

LDRLB

JULY 17, 2012

And to top it off, most organizations are set-up to reward predictability and control – the exact opposites of what’s required to lead during disruptive times. Leaders who possess the unyielding intention of creating breakthroughs give themselves a leg up by ensuring everything they do adds a completely new level of value to the market.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Christensen Kaplan 133

LDRLB

MAY 23, 2012

During an organization’s start-up days, it’s much easier to test-drive new ideas since there’s not much to lose. In contrast, the most innovative leaders and companies continually engage customers to help them reinvent their offerings and their organizations. Innovation innovation kaplan Leadership'

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Innovation Kaplan Banking Incubator 88

LDRLB

MAY 23, 2012

Soren Kaplan is the author of Leapfrogging and a speaker, educator, and managing principal at InnovationPoint , where he teaches leaders how to create business breakthroughs. In contrast, the most innovative leaders and companies continually engage customers to help them reinvent their offerings and their organizations.

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Innovation Kaplan Banking Incubator 141

LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. One simple question lies at the heart of a continuous struggle that most leaders and organizations face: how do we succeed today while simultaneously creating the future? Innovation today is as much about how you deliver value as it is about what it is you offer to the market.

Innovation 113

Innovation Kaplan Short-term Long-term 113

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

It turned out that the unit was driving profits by raising prices and cutting marketing and advertising expenditures. Higher prices and reduced advertising created an opening for competitors to take away market share, which they did. So while profits were rising and ROIC was high, market share was declining. Copyright (c) 2011.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

” (Sam Decker, Decker Marketing). ”Overall, I found this book to be well-organized, yet a slow read because my brain kept exploding with ideas while reading selected units.” Skip Angel, Random Thoughts of a CTO). ” (Gary Whitehair, High Performance Business). “But the book doesn't stop there!

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CTO Books Balanced Scorecard Norton 101

Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2011

By developing their talent – their uniquely human ability to communicate – your organization will flourish in the digital age. Communispond can help you grow your leaders, increase your sales, and build communication expertise throughout your organization. He also served as President of Kaplan College, a division of Kaplan Inc.,

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Kaplan Audience Chief Executive Officer Seminar 67

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. By developing their talent – their uniquely human ability to communicate – your organization will flourish in the digital age. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. At the heart of every employee is talent.

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Library Kaplan Newsletter Audience 70

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. By developing their talent – their uniquely human ability to communicate – your organization will flourish in the digital age. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. At the heart of every employee is talent.

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Planning Audience Succession Library 50

LDRLB

JANUARY 14, 2013

When it comes to business, great things can also happen when we apply the catalytic energy of the New Year to our teams and organizations. 2013 represents a great opportunity to leapfrog our mental models and innovate our way to breakthroughs for ourselves, our teams, our organizations and, of course, our customers.

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Strategy Leadership Innovation Uncertainty 160

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

If the erosion of a market requires a new business model, that’s change management. The organization becomes a perpetual motion machine. For example, Gary Kaplan, president of XL Catlin’s North American Construction insurance, got his division started by formulating some major strategic goals. Costs reduced?

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Management Kaplan Short-term Innovation 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

By developing their talent – their uniquely human ability to communicate – your organization will flourish in the digital age. Communispond can help you grow your leaders, increase your sales, and build communication expertise throughout your organization. He also served as President of Kaplan College, a division of Kaplan Inc.,

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Power Audience Kaplan Short-term 56

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

. “This goes to the heart of intelligent systems design,” asserts Jerry Kaplan, author of Humans Need Not Apply. ” Kaplan, a longtime Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and investor, flatly dismisses efforts to humanize or “managerialize” smart machines as “excessive and gratuitous anthropomorphism.”

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Review Kaplan Performance Review Kaizen 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

This unwavering focus on an underserved market segment, even when there are others who could benefit from the nonprofit’s programs, drives all aspects of the organization’s strategy, pushing successful nonprofits to design the best solutions for that customer’s situation. Marketing: Forge aligned partnerships.

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Strategy Market Segmentation Crisis Entrepreneur 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The organization now has guidelines and data on over 100 product categories from bread, books, and computers to clothing, TVs, and toys. Rob Kaplan, Director of Sustainability at Walmart, gave an example of this important difference using electronics. Sustainability Supply chain Market research Retail & Consumer Goods'

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Productivity Products Supply Chain Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

That is, conjuring up a set of ideas and practices that are so original that established companies can’t begin to make sense of them, let alone respond to them — and painting a vivid picture of what your organization can become if it delivers on its change-the-game agenda. That, to me, is what Gone Nutty! Pop-Tarts are all about.) Seriously?

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Innovation Kaplan Insurance Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2011

Education tracks, organization charts, and industry value chains are all brackets waiting to be busted. We are placed into boxes in organization charts based on age and tenure, constrained from contributing beyond our "seed." Don't settle for where you and your organization are seeded by so-called experts. Be an innovator.

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Innovation Health Care Kaplan Education 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

Professors Steve Kaplan at the University of Chicago and Morten Sorensen at Copenhagen Business School have analyzed over 2,600 ghSMART assessments of candidates for C-suite positions and concluded that boards often overweight amicability in their hiring decisions. Wanting her team to feel valued, she led by consensus.

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CEO Consensus Kaplan Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

But, as Michael Porter and Robert Kaplan of Harvard Business School have argued , we need to examine costs at a more granular level at which clinical outcomes are matched with the business and administrative processes. These trends likely result in market-share gains for providers that deliver high quality at lower costs.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

In the last six years, a Harvard Business School team has worked with dozens of health care organizations to help them understand the true costs of their treatments for many medical conditions. One of the team’s central findings is that TDABC cannot be delegated to the finance function.

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Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8

LDRLB

OCTOBER 22, 2012

As study author Steve Kaplan puts it, “Persistent leaders don’t give up>” Never giving up is common with successful company leaders and business entrepreneurs. The moment you stop improving your organization, it starts to die. Among the variety of traits examined, persistence and execution were the most important.

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Power Kaplan Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 167

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

All too often, when marketers talk about their “social strategy,” they really mean a digital marketing strategy implemented on social platforms, rather than using social dynamics to benefit their business. Pepsi actually lost market share and fell to number three in the cola wars for the first time in modern history.

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Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8