Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

In most companies, marketers are in charge of assessing the competition. Because of this, close to 60 percent of all competitive intelligence professionals report to marketing. Yet the majority of marketers fail to use their competition analysts strategically, instead using them to gather more “recon” data.

Marketing 8

Marketing Competitive Intelligence Porter How To 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Blame the market, other departments or poor IT-systems for the fact that you are not taking brave, independent action. Always take credit for the work your team did. He has shared the stage with prominent strategists like Michael Porter and reached out to 21,000+ leaders in 30+ countries. Never take the blame.

Strategy 59

Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 59

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The 'iPods' of poverty alleviation and literacy have likely been invented and put to use by small organizations in some corner of the globe, but there is no market for identifying these breakthrough ideas and ensuring widespread adoption.". Consider these examples: 1.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

So when Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter invited HBR last month to attend a class where Kagame was the guest speaker, and talk to him and Kagame afterwards, I was curious but also a little worried about being enlisted as a Kagame salesman. To Porter] How did you hook up with this guy? How did this partnership evolve?

Porter 8

Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

In every aspect of business, we are operating with mental models that have grown outdated or obsolete, from strategy to marketing to organization to leadership. You and Your Team Series. In strategy, an entire generation grew up with Michael Porter’s five forces. The Porter model of strategy isn’t obsolete.

Porter 8

Porter Competitive Advantage Senge Network Economy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Packaged food companies like Kraft and Pepsi use their scale to penetrate markets quickly and efficiently. Consider Porter's value chain. It was no small task for a corporation to get information from the point of sale to internal procurement teams to a diverse manufacturing network. Each of these practices modularizes a firm.

Porter 11

Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Most of the funds in which Kauffman invested failed to beat public market indices, despite the higher-risk nature of their work. Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

It has become an axiom that “strategy is about making hard choices,” as we have been advised for over 20 years by leading thinkers including Michael Porter and Roger Martin. Sephora has become a leader in the cosmetics market by transcending this tradeoff, finding ways to achieve transactions and relationships.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer Apparel Marketing Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

To foster a conversation about the potential implications of connected experiences for designers, technologists, and business people, Albert’s team at Microsoft recently released a short film documentary called “Connecting: Makers.”. Sometimes this is done creatively, as with the razor-and-blades model made famous by Gillette.

Business Model 11

Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

One company that I worked with found that the accuracy of market forecasts for new-to-the-world ideas was roughly equivalent to using the results of a random number generator. That is, something that is just good enough to start the in-market testing process. Leaders kept telling the team they were open to anything.

Innovation 15

Innovation Market Segmentation Porter Sharpe 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Most of the funds in which Kauffman invested failed to beat public market indices, despite the higher-risk nature of their work. Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. The once-dominant Nokia soon lost much of its market cap and was eventually acquired by Microsoft. Insight Center.

Strategy 10

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

Within hours of the earthquake, this corporate foundation dispatched a team of journalists to Port-au-Prince to set up an Emergency Information Service (EIS) for the affected population, disseminating verified, actionable information by SMS messages in Creole.

Porter 12

Porter Core Competence Globalization Business Model 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2016

I first started working for Apple on the PR agency side at Porter Novelli in Sydney, Australia in 1997. Eventually, I was transferred to the mothership, Apple’s Cupertino, California headquarters to join Apple’s product PR team. Wesson Wang. PR played a huge role in this success.

PR 8

PR Press Release Report Porter 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2011

It occurred to me that this was a talent to watch, as I was already familiar with established composers such as George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and others. Every way in which a company markets must be commensurate and fit under definable business strategies. Empowered work teams are more valuable to the organization.

Learning-by-Doing 63

Learning-by-Doing Leadership Strategic Planning Open-book 63

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

It's not to create more jargon, it's to emphasize a point: that social is more than the stuff the marketing team deals with. Many organizations still operate by Porter's Value Chain model , where Z follows Y, which follows X. Mass markets were a convenient fiction created by mass media. How does this work?

Banking 15

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I heard it in a session led by Professor Michael Porter and Dean Nitin Nohria of the Harvard Business School who were sharing a research project on declining American Competitiveness. Letting go takes courage and is not a natural act for most humans, or management teams.

Competitive Advantage 14

Competitive Advantage Porter Goleman Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Some tentative conclusions: There is not much of a market for stand-alone strategy studies any more. co-founded by Michael Porter back in the early 1980s, has seen better days. For us, our strategy informs every big decision we make — what markets to enter or exit, what acquisitions to make, what products to introduce." (The

Consultative 15

Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Because it includes the word media , and the genesis is marketing, most people think of this as the stuff the CMO and their team worry about. This second generation of Social Business terminology was coined by the Dachis Group, a marketing organization, and specifically by Peter Kim , who consults on it. Enterprise 2.0"

Media 8

Media Supply Chain Tools Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

It seems evident that the split does not create a new resource, and it is not obvious why splitting would enable the management team to exploit existing resources better. The main alternative is the Positioning School , whose ideas were most clearly expounded by Michael Porter. So it is hard to explain this decision using the RBV.

RBV 8

RBV Competitive Advantage Resources Media 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. Select a project team.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

As Michael Porter and Thomas H. Improving value can only happen when providers align the focus of their clinical teams and their market strategy on achieving excellent outcomes, and in turn invest the resources to measure and report them. Outcomes inform the composition of integrated care teams. In 2005, when Prof.

Health Care 8

Health Care Fraser Price Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

These ratings are then used by company marketing departments to impress customers, thereby driving volume and revenue. One industry standard promoted by a ratings agency, for example, is that a porter or bellman must “explain features and functions” of a room when delivering your luggage. These ratings cannot be ignored.

Hotels 8

Hotels Travel Porter CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

And having all your doctors on the same team makes it easier to coordinate patient care among different groups of specialists. One-year contracts hold our doctors accountable, with yearly performance reviews that include each doctor’s quality metrics, clinical outcomes, and research. The Cleveland Clinic’s Journey.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Independently, Michael Porter’s Social Progress Index in 2016 specifically highlighted opportunity in Manizales as significantly higher than both Medellin and Bogota. Growth events were almost immediate: An entrepreneur with a line of men’s underwear entered export markets for the first time. Scaling Up Beyond Manizales.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8