The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 12, 2019

Older people are not renowned as being the most innovative, and indeed various biases operate against older people in terms of their creativity and propensity for fresh ways of approaching things. “A good example was the knitting group that met in the library and made a lot of scarves,” the researchers explain.

Innovation 61

Innovation Library Creativity Technology 61

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 15, 2020

A good example was the knitting group that met in the library and made a lot of scarves,” the researchers explain. After they were done, they would put the scarves on the statues in front of the library for people to take in the winter. Classes range from using social media to processing payments for their new website.

Entrepreneur 70

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Library Proposal 70

Strategy Driven

JUNE 1, 2018

Businesses operate at a pace such that they grab for help wherever it is available. Online marketing firms. Serious books in libraries. Professional service firms, including lawyers, accountants, marketing, public relations, quality management. It is lonely at the top. Surveys and their feedback. People Selling Stuff.

Advice 50

Advice Library Seminar Webinar 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2015

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC announced the launch of an online business performance assessment forum; providing innovative thought leadership and collaboration opportunities to help executives and managers better assess the performance of their business operations.

Chief Executive Officer 50

Chief Executive Officer Document Benchmarking Library 50

In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

He climbed the advertising and marketing ladder, and eventually became marketing director at Nabob Foods in Vancouver. I spent a year in the West Vancouver Memorial Library, reading about plot and character and dialogue. Go into the drug store, see what they had on the shelf, and take an order,” he recalls.

CEO 100

CEO Golden Parachute Books Brand 100

In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

He climbed the advertising and marketing ladder, and eventually became marketing director at Nabob Foods in Vancouver. I spent a year in the West Vancouver Memorial Library, reading about plot and character and dialogue. Go into the drug store, see what they had on the shelf, and take an order,” he recalls.

CEO 100

CEO Golden Parachute Books Brand 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The New York Public Library is one of the largest public libraries in the world, with 18 million visitors yearly, a budget of nearly $300m, and 93 branches. Library leaders knew that given the immense changes brought on by digital innovations, as well as shifts in the communities that the Library served, it would need to evolve.

Library 8

Library Strategy Reference Bottom-up 8

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Tony Marx – President and CEO, New York Public Library – the nation’s largest library system. a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. World authority on project management. Non-profit CEOs.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

The client is opening new locations in new communities and asks its consultants to formulate a plan of action and oversee operating aspects. Libraries and other repositories of information and knowledge. Here are some examples of Joint-Venturing: Producers of energy create an independent drilling or marketing entity.

Cooper 50

Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 1, 2015

Each Sevian Business Program manual contains fully developed process procedures, forms and templates, performance metrics, how-to guides, and a library of best practices. Sevian Business Programs were developed based on StrategyDriven’s decades of experience managing and improving complex business operations.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Chief Executive Officer Metrics 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Additional Information This is the second of a series of articles, developed exclusively for StrategyDriven , that highlights the breadth and depth of Communispond’s LearnTO Library. LearnTO Library materials come in a wide range of formats and are available for organization-wide access on an annual subscription basis.

Library 70

Library Kaplan Newsletter Audience 70

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Additional Information This is the first of a series of articles, developed exclusively for StrategyDriven , that highlights the breadth and depth of Communispond’s LearnTO Library. LearnTO Library materials come in a wide range of formats and are available for organization-wide access on an annual subscription basis.

Planning 50

Planning Audience Succession Library 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

We have long taught that network effects can provide market power and sustained or even self-reinforcing competitive advantage (the best kind). Having five different desktops with different operating systems, on the other hand, is clunky. Who wants to have their music library in multiple places?

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Library Travel Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

By 2017 it was operating in over 190 countries, and today close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. It also must face a diverse set of national regulatory restrictions, such as those that limit what content can be made available in local markets. Netflix did not try to enter all markets at once.

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It operates in over 190 countries, and close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. It also must face a diverse set of national regulatory restrictions, such as those that limit what content can be made available in local markets. Netflix did not try to enter all markets at once.

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

For the past decade, emerging digital markets have operated under the assumption that, despite the obvious similarity between a music CD and an MP3 downloaded from iTunes, digital goods are different. In brief, resale markets are dangerous, especially for information goods.

Marketing 8

Marketing Licensing Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

KATERYNA/KONSCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. The blood sample is anonymized and then analyzed by the CareAi AI-based health assistant that references a vast array of medical and diagnosing libraries, dispensing advice with a corresponding rating of confidence. The creators are targeting refugee camps in Europe.

Health Care 10

Health Care Technology System Library 10

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

In a previous post , I outlined the key capabilities I've found to be present in the social ventures that are able to reach sizeable impact (which can be remembered with the acronym SCALERS—they are Staffing, Communicating, Alliance-Building, Lobbying, Earnings-Generation, Replicating, and Stimulating Market Forces).

Library 13

Library Entrepreneur Operations Health Care 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Decision scientist: Which content to license, which sales lead to follow, which medicine is less likely to cause an allergic reaction, which webpage design will lead to more engagement or more purchases, which marketing email will yield higher revenue, which specific part of a product user experience is suboptimal and needs attention.

Engineering 13

Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

ROGER HARRIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. 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. But that’s only one side of the story.

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

The EU’s case asserts, among other things, that Google unfairly exploits its dominance in search engines and smartphone operating systems to restrict competition in shopping services, ad placement services, and smartphone app store markets. However, digital markets do not follow the contours of conventional industry structures.

Company 9

Company Engineering Operations Construction 9

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Thomas Jefferson had one of the most exhaustive personal libraries of his time prior to donating it to the Library of Congress (which many joked Roosevelt had read). 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.

Blog 419

Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2018

andrew nguyen/hbr staff/the new york public library. One of his techniques was to assemble diverse teams of colleagues — longtime veterans, corporate newcomers, marketers, technologists — put them on buses, and tour various locations across Europe, where his business unit was based.

Participative 14

Participative Creativity Library Training 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2015

Prime, which normally costs $99 annually, includes benefits such as free two-day shipping, same-day delivery in some areas, streaming video, streaming music, Kindle library, photo storage, and early access to sales. However, operating income was $178 million (thus, a measly 0.2% So why do we care?

Retail 8

Retail Price Forrester Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

Others race to build a bigger library of downloadable movies. Gathering Type 2 feedback lets you take a fundamental look at whether your repeatable model remains competitive and whether there are discontinuities in the market that could undermine it. Some Amazonians try to reduce out-of-stock merchandise.

Merchandising 13

Merchandising Metrics Restructuring Library 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

For people who crave a bigger challenge, at least 27 Fortune 500 companies — including Dow Corning, Intel, PepsiCo, FedEx, IBM, and Pfizer — now operate pro bono programs in emerging economies such as India, Brazil, Vietnam, and Ghana, according to a survey by CDC Development Solutions.

Participative 13

Participative Library Entrepreneur Survey 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

MEHAU KULYK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. Healthcare data is also highly prized on the black market because there are so many lucrative ways to use it fraudulently, so it’s often a more attractive target than financial or other personal data. Over the past year, the healthcare industry found itself under constant attack.

Health Care 9

Health Care Forrester Policies Tactics 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

There’s a wonderful scene (one of many) in Michael Lewis’s new book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt , in which John Schwall, then the head of product management at RBC Capital Markets in New York, decides one day in 2011 to figure out how stock trading had evolved into a high-speed, unfair race he thought it had become.

Long-term 8

Long-term Open-book Marketing Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

Courtesy of Boston Public Library. But to capture the full potential of the shipping container, we needed to change how ports operated, how union employees were compensated, how ships were designed, and the very structure of business in the logistics industry. What happens when that all changes?

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Brand Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

For one thing, thanks to a long history of exclusive municipal franchising regulations that didn’t end until 1992, the two companies don’t overlap in any market—TWC customers will become Comcast customers (and get arguably better technology and service in the process), but no local market will see a decline in the number of competitors.

Technology 8

Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Together, we've constructed school libraries, repaired churches, built roads, and, crucially, ensured clean water through new aqueduct systems. On a recent trip, he briefed me on his business plan and on the school's operations with the maturity and confidence of a seasoned entrepreneur.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

After all, it grew from $7 billion in 2003 to $171 billion in 2013 by entering established (albeit still-emerging) markets with superior products — something the model suggests is a losing strategy. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation. Doing so would require some nifty regulatory maneuvering.

Industry 9

Industry Wireless Advertising Content 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

” As a team, your collective goal is to come up with “agreed-upon norms that you’ll all operate within,” says Burkus. If concentrating at your office proves difficult, Burkus recommends asking your boss for permission to work elsewhere — the local library or a nearby cafe — on occasion. Can you help?”

Open-book 14

Open-book Conference Brainstorming Public Relations 14

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

You can also consider a business that awakens a massive industry then dominates the market shares globally at the same time, busting misconceptions about the way the food service industry must treat employees. $16 In southeast Michigan – arguably the toughest labor market in the world. UAW wasn’t too happy about that.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

You can also consider a business that awakens a massive industry then dominates the market shares globally at the same time, busting misconceptions about the way the food service industry must treat employees. $16 In southeast Michigan – arguably the toughest labor market in the world. UAW wasn’t too happy about that.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You could tell by the language he used: "So we realized that streaming and DVD by mail are becoming two quite different businesses, with very different cost structures, different benefits that need to be marketed differently, and we need to let each grow and operate independently.". And with good reason.

Strategy 10

Strategy Christensen Price Engineering 10