Mills Scofield

JUNE 3, 2014

As someone who works with a variety of organizations in my roles as strategy and innovation consultant, venture capitalist, professor, and mentor, this question intrigues to me. Alex Osterwalder Business Model Innovation Culture For-Profit Innovation Leadership Mali Health Menasha Packaging Social Entrepreneurship Strategy'

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Business Model Venture Capitalist B2C Entrepreneur 175

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

While social media doesn't shift Porter's model , the social era surely does. Size once gave organizations purchasing power. Most existing big organizations — the 800-pound gorillas — subscribe to Michael Porter's value chain framework. When a community invests in an idea, it also co-owns its success.

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Porter Mass Marketing Supply Chain Retail 17

Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

“Full of incredibly useful tools and charts -- all about how small businesses execute strategy.” The book is filled with concrete examples, processes and checklists that will help a business owner in creating a successful business.” ” (Gary Slinger, Slinger’s Thoughts).

CTO 101

CTO Books Balanced Scorecard Norton 101

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Michael Porter, the world's leading authority on competition and strategy, is sometimes the victim of his own success. Any plan or program is called a strategy. My goal was to present the essential Porter in a form that could be more easily digested and put to work than the original. That's more than just too bad.

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Porter Strategy Competitive Advantage P&L 15

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. These are: Customer Segments – An organization serves one or several customer segments. It seems that they are adapting their work from Micheal Porters 5 forces.

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Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

But very few have made that purpose a reality for their organizations. 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 Gap Between Strategy and Execution.

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Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Health care organizations need to re-think their concept of strategy to thrive in a marketplace driven by competition on value – how well they improve patient outcomes and reduce costs. What are they trying to accomplish when, for example, they publicize surgical success rates or patient experience data and comments?

Health Care 8

Health Care Marketing Strategy Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy. A book-length executive summary that makes Michael Porter's core concepts accessible to everyone. A welcome addition to everyone's business bookshelf and the new "bible" of strategy for years to come. By Joan Magretta. By Scott Anthony.

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Porter Books Innovation Strategy 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

As organizations are collections of human beings, it is perhaps not surprising that most lack grounded awareness about their capabilities and deficiencies. Michael Porter's trilogy of Competitive Strategy , Competitive Advantage , and The Competitive Advantage of Nations sits on every serious strategist's shelf.

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Company Competitive Advantage Prahalad Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

As organizations are collections of human beings, it is perhaps not surprising that most lack grounded awareness about their capabilities and deficiencies. Michael Porter's trilogy of Competitive Strategy , Competitive Advantage , and The Competitive Advantage of Nations sits on every serious strategist's shelf.

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Company Competitive Advantage Prahalad Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

There are new types of insurance companies such as Oscar ; novel provider organizations such as OneMedical , IoraHealth , and ChenMed ; and new health information technology companies such as Castlight , Vital , and WellFrame that aim to use technology to improve care and value. Setting and defining strategy.

Execution 8

Execution Skills Health Care Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2014

By now, the idea that organizations must adapt in order to maintain both relevance and market share in a rapidly changing world is so ingrained that it’s been reduced to pithy sayings. And there are many organizations — from Blockbuster to Kodak, print-only newspapers to pay-phone makers — that no doubt wish they’d followed the advice.

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Disruptive Innovation Mass Marketing Fashion Porter 10

You're Not the Boss of Me

AUGUST 15, 2010

Be Generous Most businesses and organizations provide service in some form or another. And, even within organizations, everyone serves someone. To me, generosity is the key to success in this. In your organization what values do you see at play? It seems simple enough doesn’t it? What do you think? How do you use them?

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Hotels Leadership Blog Porter 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

For example, when Caitlin Zaino, Founder of Porter & Sail, a hospitality company, was expecting her first child, she was desperate find an example of another female founder who’d juggled childbirth and running a startup. The way you set up a startup is indicative of the startup’s future success.”

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Porter Policies Attrition Competitive Advantage 8

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. We just completed a multi-year study of the root causes of enduring success.

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Competitive Advantage Porter Goleman Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

But if you want to win, says Michael Porter , this is absolutely the wrong way to think about competition. Instead, Porter urges a different kind of competition: compete to be unique. There can be many good singers or actors — each outstanding and successful in a distinctive way. Profitability deteriorates.

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Porter Sports Price Benchmarking 19

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I list these below as a guide for anyone — from bloggers, to academics, to strategy consultants — looking to produce world-class thought leadership. During difficult economic times, organizations often seek ideas on how to cut costs or perform operations more efficiently. Tune Your Idea to the Zeitgeist.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

Any promising new initiative — a stand-alone business venture or an innovation in an established organization — hits roadblocks and unexpected obstacles. Recently I''ve advised entrepreneurs and innovators about a different, seemingly better, dilemma: pop-up opportunities that look like short cuts to success.

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Innovation Porter Merchandising Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

Giving cash can make an immediate difference when donated to reputable organizations with boots-on-the ground staff and volunteers. So the Foundation convened aid organization leaders and asked how it could help. As Japanese leaders and citizens prepare to turn this corner, donors worldwide will continue to offer help.

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Porter Core Competence Globalization Business Model 13

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.". The Innovation Continuum. Consider these examples: 1.

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Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm. Innovation Leadership Strategy' In the end, your shareholders, the real ones—the ones who care about long-term performance — will thank you for it.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Sometimes, it seems they've always loomed large: for decades, Michael Porter has been synonymous with strategy, and John Kotter with change management. Malcolm Gladwell references their experience in his famous "10,000 hours" argument in Outliers: The Story of Success.)

Reputation 8

Reputation Case Study Ries Kotter 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

In November 2010, to big fanfare at Unilever's London headquarters, chief executive Paul Polman boldly articulated a new strategy. To most of us, this did not sound like typical corporate strategy, but Polman's reframing of what it means to succeed in business is not an isolated example. And of course, more pressure on climate.

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Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

If you are at all familiar with Michael Porter's work , think about this as an industry developing its value chain. The ability to identify "break technologies" is just one step in building and sustaining successful enterprises. At any given point in time, the market will find equilibrium. Think about this.

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Technology Retail Supply Chain Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

As you take some time to reflect, relax, and renew before the year to come, we offer you our most popular multimedia content from the year that was: podcasts, videos, slideshows, and infographics that we hope help you chart a successful course in 2012. Life's Work: HBR Interviews 10 Fascinating People. Audio podcast.

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Video Porter Charisma Customer Loyalty 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2013

As someone who works with a variety of organizations in my roles as strategy and innovation consultant, venture capitalist, professor, and mentor, this question intrigues to me. Social entrepreneurs launching ventures may ask themselves if their business models need to be different. All businesses are social.

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Venture Capitalist Business Model B2C Entrepreneur 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Like the rising temperature of the water the proverbial frog is sitting in, organizations are feeling the social era all around them, but failing to notice how significant a change it has produced. It's something that allows organizations to do things entirely differently — if we let it become the backbone of our business models.

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Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

If policymakers hope to be successful in their efforts to promote entrepreneurs and small businesses, they need to know what works – in short, they need a “Playbook” for small business job creation. An effective policy strategy for small businesses needs to focus on the unique needs these companies have.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Drucker’s theory of the business was a set of assumptions about what a business will and won’t do, closer to Michael Porter’s definition of strategy. What successful companies are doing right. In addition to what a company is paid for, “these assumptions are about markets. Insight Center.

Business Model 8

Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2015

As Apple, Warby Parker, Net a Porter, and Shinola all know: Cool is perhaps the crucial factor in the success of new products. Textbook digital strategy! Every organization, or leader, in history that has tried to buy their way to cool has learned the hard way: cool has to be earned. Cool is not trivial. ” Why?

Fashion 8

Fashion Advertorial Porter Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

It was this received opinion Michael Porter was questioning when, in 1979, he mapped out four additional competitive forces in “ How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy.” Strategies for staying ahead. Focusing on a few key success factors, critical resources, and core competencies (maybe a reference to C.

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2011

Just as companies have books of business and corporate cultures, so do individuals, who in turn populate and influence organizations. The second looked through the analogies and focused upon business strategies and methodologies. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. by Hank Moore.

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

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

Yet, by pursuing too many priorities, these CEOs may actually be risking future success even more. Since my initial conversation at Apple, I have made a point of asking leaders to define strategy. I've polled more than 200 leaders since and they have universally defined strategy as: "Saying what you want to do and how to do it."

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CEO Porter Strategy Definition 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

First among these were BCG executives Philip Evans and Thomas Wurster, writing some 18 years after Bell’s article in the seminal “Strategy and the New Economics of Information.” What successful companies are doing right. Insight Center. Making Money with Digital Business Models. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

Beyond drawing individual lessons from the book, corporate leaders should turn the central framing question on their organizations — asking how they will measure their company's lives. The company's core business faces increasing pressure, meaning that future success will require some degree of transformation.

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Christensen Company Consensus Gilbert 13

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?

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Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

Today’s digital world is organized around two centers of gravity: the U.S. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Perhaps the most notable exception is the success of Israel’s Yozma (Hebrew for “initiative”), a $100 million venture capital fund that was initially state-owned but is now privately run.

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