LDRLB

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Strategy is an analytical process. The positioning school is most closely associated with its undisputed champion, Harvard professor Michael Porter. The positioning school favored a focus on the actual content of the strategy, rather then the formal process of developing it.

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Positioning Survey Strategy Porter 68

Leading Blog

JULY 26, 2011

He first met “Doc” Porter in the early seventies and they click almost immediately. Elias Porter’s Relationship Awareness Theory , on which the book is based, resonated with my Dad. The concept should be taught in schools, however the thought process is essential for leaders. You can look at personal strengths like behaviors.

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Self-aware Porter Discount Tools 264

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 22, 2016

If you have a great customer, your process will always work. If you have the wrong customer, your process will never work.”. There are a few very excellent coaches in the corporate strategy domain, for instance Vijay Govindarajan and Michael Porter.

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Govindarajan Executive Coaching Porter Pharmaceuticals 101

Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 17, 2014

” – Michael Porter. This process will aid you in enhancing your team building, project management, listening, and communication skills. Abby Perkins of Software Providers discusses how to create a culture that breeds employees who are motivated, driven and dedicated to your company’s goals. Follow Abby. Follow John.

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Follow-up Bottom-up Teamwork Porter 394

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 2, 2023

Currently general manager of luxury hotel The Slaughters Manor House, David has been with Andrew Brownsword Hotels Group for over 17 years – stepping into the hospitality industry straight from school as a kitchen porter and working his way up through roles in reception and operations management.

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Management Hotels Porter Learning-by-Doing 52

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

While social media doesn't shift Porter's model , the social era surely does. Most existing big organizations — the 800-pound gorillas — subscribe to Michael Porter's value chain framework. It carries with it one fundamental assumption: that customers are tangential to the process. Big Isn't Enough.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Strategy is an analytical process. The positioning school is most closely associated with its undisputed champion, Harvard professor Michael Porter. It is excerpted from The Portable Guide to Leading Organizations, available now from LeaderLab Press. In the [.]

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Positioning Survey Strategy Porter 68

The Practical Leader

MARCH 29, 2023

Harvard professor and strategy expert, Michael Porter, says, “the essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” Regularly review and adjust the purpose, process, participants, and effectiveness of all meetings. Balance working in the team with working on the team.

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Kaplan Porter Absenteeism Participative 52

LDRLB

JANUARY 30, 2014

Michael Porter has argued that ‘ the essence of strategy is choosing what not to do ’ but the real world essence of strategy is figuring out the best route from available means to desirable ends. We can’t process all the variables and those variables change in ways outside of our control. Strategy is about shaping the future.

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Power Porter Strategy Fashion 142

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

The Empathy Map looks like this: In this chapter the authors walk you through processes to arrive a enhanced design like Customer Insights, ideation, providing an introduction to the value of visual thinking, how to use prototyping, story telling, and Scenario Planning. Showing you how you can shift your perspective.

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Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

The book is filled with concrete examples, processes and checklists that will help a business owner in creating a successful business.” “However, the power of this book is in how it integrates these time tested, common sense ideas into a useful whole.” ” (Bud Bilanich, The Common Sense Guy).

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CTO Books Balanced Scorecard Norton 101

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 new generation of leaders provide an "insider's view" into what young people are thinking, planning, and doing to re-shape the world of business.

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Porter Books Innovation Strategy 11

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Leadership and management skillsets to enrich career aspiration of lawyers in HK and Greater Bay Area The International Academy of Law and Business Administration (IALBA) is in the process of attaining formal accreditation by CMI, whereby it will run Business Administration courses with an emphasis on leadership and strategic management in Hong Kong, (..)

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Webinar Education Conference Industry 98

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

In strategy, an entire generation grew up with Michael Porter’s five forces. In Porter’s view , “the essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you’re trying to accomplish.” The Porter model of strategy isn’t obsolete. The process of unlearning has three parts.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Senge Network Economy 8

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 18, 2015

With Everest closed for the season, the porters who help mountaineers transport their gear during expeditions were suddenly unemployed. Instead of spending between US $1,200 and $4,000 per hour for helicopter services, Matt’s team opted to pay over 1,000 porters to deliver supplies to outlying villages.

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Innovation Porter Transportation Tourism 150

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 18, 2015

With Everest closed for the season, the porters who help mountaineers transport their gear during expeditions were suddenly unemployed. Instead of spending between US $1,200 and $4,000 per hour for helicopter services, Matt’s team opted to pay over 1,000 porters to deliver supplies to outlying villages.

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Innovation Porter Transportation Tourism 150

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Consider Porter's value chain. Or, more simply, these processes make a very complex, integrated, value chain start to resemble much smaller, specialized, chains. If you frequent the HBR Blogs, you may have noticed that a couple of weeks ago I was fairly vocal about Nilofer Merchant 's dismissal of Porter's value chain.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 12

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. Its customers are happy to wait ten minutes or more (an eternity by McDonald's stopwatch) for non-processed, fresh burgers cooked to order. Instead, Porter urges a different kind of competition: compete to be unique.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

To obtain an understanding of the costs, the center is applying a combination of two management tools: process mapping from industrial engineering and activity-based costing from accounting. The actionable cost savings from process improvement. Circles indicate the time estimates for each step in the process.

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Health Care Kaplan Porter Cost 8

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 firm is now in its second year, with a team of 13, and zero attrition by new parents.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

While scale can create real advantage, it also can carry downsides such as molasses-like decision making processes or inflexibility. 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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

While scale can create real advantage, it also can carry downsides such as molasses-like decision making processes or inflexibility. 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

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Creating shared value , a paradigm for how companies engage with society pioneered by Michael Porter and FSG, captures this trampoline mentality very well. Audi helped spearhead a technology solution to this problem, which will enable excess renewable energy to be captured, stored, and used in its production processes.

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Porter Supply Chain Energy Competitive Advantage 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Michael Porter's article in the March issue of HBR on choosing the United States makes the point that in choosing where to locate even high value-adding business activities, many companies don't do a very thorough costs/benefits analysis. They tend to focus on the obvious and most easily measured benefits (lower wage costs, tax rates, etc.)

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Benchmarking Cost-Benefit Analysis Analysis Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

And of course, products can now be connected with other products, leading to new analytics and new services for more effective forecasting, process optimization, and customer service experiences. In his classic book Competitive Strategy , Michael Porter describes three generic strategies: differentiation, cost leadership, and focus.

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Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

But as Michael Porter and I write in our recent Perspective article in The New England Journal of Medicine , “ Why Strategy Matters Now ,” providers are unlikely to succeed if they cannot focus on this goal. Make no mistake – improving value for patients is hard.

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Health Care Marketing Strategy Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

More impressively, by linking all the machines together, they were able to predict — and subsequently improve — overall process reliability and product quality. Over the years, they have excelled at collecting, producing, and processing raw data to create valuable analytics and insights, which are subsequently distributed and commercialized.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2012

But the ways some companies and technologies are aiding in the process gives me a glimmer of hope. Hassle-Free Gift Returns (Consumer Reports). I have a habit of refusing to return unwanted or duplicate gifts because of the hassle (and/or I'm lazy).

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Porter Fashion Retail Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Michael Porter has defined value as “health outcomes achieved per dollar spent.” Porter and colleagues adapt microeconomics to health care through their definition of output: patient-centered health outcomes. This process should produce an evolving set of measures that will be imperfect initially but improve over time.

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Health Care Porter Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

Porter and Mark R. One of Adidas's latest sustainable innovations is DryDye technology, which removes the need for water in the dyeing process. See, for example, " Creating Shared Value ," by Michael E. That's the good news. The bad news is that stellar performance on both dimensions is no common or easy feat.

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Company Long-term Porter CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

The IPU is an essential component of the value-based care model advocated by Harvard Business School’s Michael Porter. This annual process makes it problematic for the department to invest in an innovative technology. Problem 3: Separating operating- and capital-budget timelines and processes.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The rationale behind their findings is that old colleagues bring knowledge of the process, as well as prior norms (and awareness of past storms) from old teams while the new members bring fresh ideas that enhance the creativity of the show. The most successful years had a Q score around 2.6

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Team Diversity Porter Project 11

You're Not the Boss of Me

AUGUST 15, 2010

Cheers, Landon Reply Gwyn Teatro August 16, 2010 at 10:32 pm Hi Landon, What I hear you saying is that it is the tendency to approach “best practices&# as if they were management processes, devoid of emotion, which when replicated, should produce the same spectacular results regardless of the attitude with which they are approached.

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Hotels Leadership Blog Porter 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The first is his almost off-hand initial stipulation that the factors affecting a business that a computer can process are quantitative.

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Porter Price Technology Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

For a variety of reasons, we are not leading the world in creating innovative products, services, and processes in our businesses and workplaces." It paints a worrying picture of Canadian innovation. As Martin wrote, "This comes from a poor innovation record.

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Innovation Porter Rogers Human Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Michael Porter and I recognized this limitation in our work studying the organization and structure of cancer-care delivery and published a case study that aims to track the complexities of navigating the healthcare system. It’s no surprise that complex processes will face challenges in implementation.

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Health Care Policies Porter System 8

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. But occasionally, there is a glimpse into the process of how someone can emerge, quickly and powerfully, into the public consciousness. Skills development comes first.

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