Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

IT has long played a critical role in helping organizations deliver better products and services, improve operations, better manage risks, and develop new business models to stay relevant. The fact is, organizations that raise their analytics IQ are far more likely to successfully manage a chaotic, dynamic business environment.

Technology 8

Technology Content Market Segmentation Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

New innovations will change the basis of competition in many markets and alter the sources of advantage for most companies. Business-critical roles — that is, the jobs that are central to differentiating a company from its competitors and successfully executing its strategy — will also change. Take insurance, for example.

Company 12

Company Insurance Engineering Software 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2015

Any strategy lives or dies on the basis of its customer value proposition. In pharmaceuticals, there are blockbuster drugs targeted at mass-markets segments. Strategy requires choice , clear communication , and coherent performance management practices, not just stirring metaphors, with the people who deal with customers.

Market Segmentation 8

Market Segmentation Mass Marketing Price Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Executives set value propositions for their products — the target market segments, the benefits they provide, and their prices. Your personal value proposition (PVP) is at the heart of your career strategy. Steve's interest and skill at manufacturing operations is the cornerstone of his PVP.

Market Segmentation 15

Market Segmentation Ethics Career Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

The hospital has operating rooms, clinical laboratories, a pharmacy, and provides an array of services, from diagnostics to surgery. It consists of a network of investor-physicians, operating from buses that had fallen into disuse, and offering exactly what people need such that they value it. Doing that will make all the difference.

Innovation 15

Innovation Market Segmentation Price Fashion 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

This gives marketing an opportunity to measure and manage itself in new ways. In the past, marketing measured success by sticking to budgets and winning creative awards. Today, the ability to measure data and adjust strategies in real-time enables marketing to prove its value to the business in entirely new ways.

Creativity 14

Creativity Marketing Agility Budgeting 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

A few years ago, the chief operating officer launched a customer quality initiative to improve six core processes and assigned executives to "own" each process. It then tried a more traditional functional management structure but then found it lost customer focus. How can you break this cycle?

Company 8

Company COO CFO Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. In the case of Baker Hughes and Halliburton’s planned merger a few years ago, the Justice Department detailed how it thought the amount of competition would rise or fall (mostly fall) in 30 market segments. How to make your company more nimble and responsive.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Cooper Airlines 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

You need to take the time to understand the laws in different markets you are operating in. You need to find additional revenue streams so that the business can continue to operate smoothly in different situations. Additional revenue streams don’t need to come from a separate business entity or another operation.

Insurance 50

Insurance How To Finance Market Segmentation 50

Six Disciplines

JULY 14, 2011

The six fundamental disciplines involve strategy, planning, organizing, executing, innovating, and organizational learning. In this discipline, we help you to systematically review and renew your mission, values, market segments, competitive position, strategic position, vision, and agreeing what to stop doing.

SWOT 103

SWOT Market Segmentation Benchmarking ROI 103

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

In this adaptation from the new book, Your Strategy Needs a Strategy (HBR Press, 2015), BCG strategy experts make sense of the all the different, and competing, approaches to strategy: Which strategy is right for your business? How do we simultaneously implement different strategies across different business units?

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on short-term tactics and current operations while failing to think and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses — and it’s hard to fault them. There are ways to avoid these blind spots, however. Interviewing and Hiring.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Team Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on short-term tactics and current operations while failing to think and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses — and it’s hard to fault them. There are ways to avoid these blind spots, however. Interviewing and Hiring.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Team Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

And these messages use strong market segmentation. How do women in that market get information? It''s a cautionary tale as marketers in the West rush to cash in on the mobile gold rush. Innovations in Digital and Mobile Marketing An HBR Insight Center. Quality vs. Frequency: What''s Your Mobile Strategy?

Strategy 8

Strategy Marketing Market Segmentation Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Top 10 Operational Impacts of the GDPR (IAPP). Internet companies have had over a decade to integrate basic data collection and use safeguards into their operations, including limiting the data they collect and adopting international information security standards. New Business Models, Old Strategies. GDPR Explained (CNET).

Advertising 11

Advertising Cost Business Model Information 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

A similar proposal to Split Finance would likely have been rejected out of hand by organization leaders (and Harvard Business Review editors), because its obvious that the Finance function must fit the organization strategy and leader capabilities. Human resources Leadership Talent management'

Charan 14

Charan Finance Human Resources Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Google Fiber, as the effort was named, entered the access market intending to prove the business case for ultra-high-speed internet. After deploying to six metro areas in six years, however, company management announced in late 2016 that it was “pausing” future deployments.

Succession 8

Succession Construction Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Don't rely on a single India strategy. We commonly see European and American companies assign an India market entry initiative to their Hong Kong, Shanghai or Beijing office. Save yourself some trouble and manage India from India. After all, it's a lot easier to manage a single distributor. It's beneath her class.

Marketing 15

Marketing Market Segmentation Retail Travel 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

In June, it was reported that Apple's new mobile operating system, iOS6, will include gay and lesbian couple icons as emoticon selections. This kind of inclusive environment not only warms the LGBT talent base to your company, but also their friends and family, who happen to make up 60% of the population according to a recent CNN poll.

Advertising 17

Advertising Market Segmentation Diversity Chemicals 17