First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 18, 2011

To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * I just finished a two-year project looking at Michael Porter’s [.]. Here is an excerpt from an article written by Joan Magretta for the Harvard Business Review blog.

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Porter Strategy Review Blog 75

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.

Management 52

Management Hotels Porter Learning-by-Doing 52

Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

According the Harvard strategy expert, Michael Porter: "The essence of strategy is deciding what NOT to do.". BOTTOMLINE: The forces of business and human nature cause programs and projects to continually expand , resulting in an ever-increasing misalignment of resources. They need to learn what to stop.”

Porter 101

Porter Drucker Project Resources 101

The Practical Leader

MARCH 29, 2023

Gallen in Switzerland, and Jochen Menges, lecturer in human resources and organizations at the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School. Harvard professor and strategy expert, Michael Porter, says, “the essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” They documented huge differences in comparing 600 companies.

Kaplan 52

Kaplan Porter Absenteeism Participative 52

Mills Scofield

MAY 17, 2013

Instead of spending precious resources designing technical solutions we need to put more effort into helping the independent agents to design new rules of interactions that will enable more efficient, effective solutions to emerge. Data should guide the resource allocation and actions of our collaborations.

Environment 166

Environment Innovation Porter Education 166

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 8, 2011

From consumer goods to our time, every choice in where we’ll invest our resources has to do with PRICE. Join the Bud to Boss Community to Connect to Resourcing Relationships Our new Bud to Boss Community will provide resources and support to help you become the best leader you can be. But PRICE isn’t fixed.

Price 185

Price Porter Workshop Learning-by-Doing 185

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

There are several ways to generate Revenue Streams: Asset sale, Usage fee, Subscription fee, Lending/Renting/Leasing, Licensing, Brokerage fees, Advertising and corresponding Pricing Mechanisms) Key Resources – Key resources are the assets required to offer and deliver the previously described elements.

Business Model 141

Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

Mills Scofield

JUNE 3, 2014

That said, this initial evidence showed that social businesses focus more on achieving a positive impact in each of the nine business model elements — value proposition, customer segment, channels, relationships, key partners, key activities, key resources, costs and revenues — as well as the whole model.

Business Model 175

Business Model Venture Capitalist B2C Entrepreneur 175

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In order to overcome the challenges and barriers arising from changes in working styles and lifestyles, it was suggested that managers must acquire new skill sets and also make use of technological resources. For the widest selection of content, including CPD tools and multimedia resources, check out how to get involved with CMI membership.

Webinar 98

Webinar Education Conference Industry 98

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In the red corner we have the “ positioning school ” (TPS) and in the white we have the “ resource-based view of the firm ” (RBV). RBV argues that in an increasingly unstable world, the possession of valuable, rare, inimitable, and non-substitutable resources is a more reliable key to competitive success.

RBV 8

RBV Resources Positioning Strategy 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

He has shared the stage with prominent strategists like Michael Porter and reached out to 21,000+ leaders in 30+ countries. Relate Articles: Recommended Resources – I Have A Strategy, No You Don’t. He is one of the world’s most influential thinkers on strategy execution and a highly regarded keynote speaker.

Strategy 58

Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 58

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Resources: “ Why Women Volunteer for Tasks That Don’t Lead to Promotions ,” by Linda Babcock, Maria P. Ruchika Tulshyan is the author of The Diversity Advantage: Fixing Gender Inequality in the Workplace and the founder of Candour, an inclusion strategy firm. She is also adjunct faculty at Seattle University.

P&L 11

P&L Porter Download Career 11

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 18, 2015

Define resource constraints (time, money, manpower, etc). Explore new ways to utilize existing resources. With Everest closed for the season, the porters who help mountaineers transport their gear during expeditions were suddenly unemployed. Mudslides and landslides destroyed key walking routes. Move toward the needs.

Innovation 150

Innovation Porter Transportation Tourism 150

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 18, 2015

Define resource constraints (time, money, manpower, etc). Explore new ways to utilize existing resources. With Everest closed for the season, the porters who help mountaineers transport their gear during expeditions were suddenly unemployed. Mudslides and landslides destroyed key walking routes. Move toward the needs.

Innovation 150

Innovation Porter Transportation Tourism 150

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 5, 2011

To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * With Cyber Monday, the tablet wars kicked into full swing. Here is an excerpt from an article written by Joan Magretta for the Harvard Business Review blog. Which [.].

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Review Blog Article Resources 80

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 5, 2011

To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * With Cyber Monday, the tablet wars kicked into full swing. Here is an excerpt from an article written by Joan Magretta for the Harvard Business Review blog. Which [.].

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Review Blog Article Resources 70

First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 20, 2011

Deep Dive: The Proven Method for Building Strategy, Focusing Your Resources, and Taking Smart Action Rich Horwath Greenleaf Book Group Press (2009) Attitude and preparation determine altitude…and also depth There are business situations in which the goal is to ascend (e.g.

Greenleaf 80

Greenleaf Books Review Efficiency 80

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 14, 2011

To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for [.]. I especially appreciate Gans’s insatiable curiosity to consider unorthodox thinking and the insights only it can generate. Judge for yourself.

Review 80

Review Blog Article Resources 80

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Consider Porter's value chain. The corporations with the resources to coordinate these efforts enjoyed the benefits. 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. Each of these practices modularizes a firm.

Porter 13

Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

This cover story, by Michael Porter, suggests that companies and government need to get outside an outdated approach to value creation. Too often, he says, companies are not part of creating the answers to the problems such as the depletion of natural resources vital to their businesses.

Innovation 15

Innovation Succession Porter Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Few imagined that this juggernaut, brandishing vast resources with such steely determination, could be quickly brought down. Seeking to extend its technological edge (particularly in miniaturization), it acquired more than 100 startup companies while pursuing a vast portfolio of research and product development projects.

Strategy 14

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

is about sharing resources, and no wonder. He knows that in the face of rising population numbers, oil prices and Co2, food resources will be increasingly scarce. It's about survival in an increasingly resource-stressed world. Joseph is on the cutting edge, but not just of raspberries. Joseph's M.O. It is human. It is real.

Porter 14

Porter Emotional Intelligence Rogers Resources 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Michael Porter has done us all a service in identifying that the wealth of modern economies comes from the productivity, innovation and high wages found in their clustered industries — those industries that are found only in certain geographic areas and trade most of their output outside their home areas, both nationally and internationally.

Creativity 15

Creativity Porter Industry Pharmaceuticals 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Let’s look at our current dominant strategy theory: the Resource-Based View or RBV, closely associated with Jay Barney. According to this theory, the “resources” that a firm possesses determine whether it succeeds or fails. Strategic decision-making, therefore, is about building or exploiting “resources.”

RBV 10

RBV Competitive Advantage Resources Media 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

For costing purposes, the maps must identify who performs each step and estimate the time spent by each resource (person or piece of equipment) at that step. Kaplan and Michael E. A high-level example of the output of this exercise is shown in the exhibit “ New Head and Neck Patient Registration at the MD Anderson Cancer Center.”.

Health Care 8

Health Care Kaplan Porter Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

While access to water has been recognized as a basic human right, it is also increasingly clear to see that it is a commodity — a resource in high demand that should be valued according to its supply. By identifying these risks, Coca-Cola is providing a strategic resource for broader communities facing water shortages.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Long-term Short-term Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

Further, once the immediate crisis or disaster has subsided, Thomson Reuters Foundation provides lawyers and legal resources for free to NGOs through two programs, Trustlaw and Trustlaw Connect. (Disclosure: Thomson Reuters Foundation is an FSG client; this data was compiled from interviews with Foundation staff.).

Porter 13

Porter Core Competence Globalization Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Prior to this article's publication, academics had talked for decades about the resource-based view of the firm. Edith Penrose, for example, published The Theory of the Growth of the Firm , generally considered the first book with a resource-based argument, in 1959. So what did Hamel and Prahalad add?

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

Porter and Mark R. The diversified power management company develops innovative products and processes, such as hybrid electric and hydraulic power trains and electric power control systems, that help customers and consumers conserve resources and reduce their carbon footprint. See, for example, " Creating Shared Value ," by Michael E.

Company 10

Company Long-term Porter CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Michael Porter, the strategy expert, believes that the HBS approach is the right one. Treating classroom time as a scarce resource, to be valued highly, and used carefully, is very different from treating it as a bucket to be filled. This misguided debate over MOOCs can be seen in the contrasting approaches of HBS and Wharton.

Christensen 15

Christensen Education Discount Class 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

Meanwhile, Michael Porter explains exactly how health care needs disrupting, professors from INSEAD and MIT debate the merits of the MOOCs that might upend higher education, and our own Sarah Green tells publishers to quit whining about disruption and start enjoying the innovation that goes along with it.

Management 20

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 20

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Although it has no natural resources, Singapore has succeeded by investing large portions of its public budget in education, a strong civil service, and the development of great leaders, proactively moving its economy away from basic manufacturing, to higher value, technology-based manufacturing, then to knowledge-based R&D sectors.

GDP 8

GDP Porter Education Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

In today’s resource-constrained environment, many of us are delivering 120% on the current demands of our job—but devoting little time to developing ourselves further or positioning ourselves for a future move. New ways of working require a precious and scarce resource—time. Value it as much as the required meetings and email duty.

Porter 11

Porter Delegation Learning-by-Doing Project 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

Whether as consumers, investors, voters, or citizens it might just be that if not the lion's share, then at least the cub's share of responsibility for this Great Stagnation lies with us and our predilection for more, bigger, cheaper, faster, nastier — an industrial-age, mass-produced approach to prosperity I call opulence.

Schiller 18

Schiller Porter Fashion Cost 18

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

Each of these units acquires its own resources within constraints authorized by its departmental budget. The IPU is an essential component of the value-based care model advocated by Harvard Business School’s Michael Porter.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting System Innovation Payback Period 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2013

That said, this initial evidence showed that social businesses focus more on achieving a positive impact in each of the nine business model elements — value proposition, customer segment, channels, relationships, key partners, key activities, key resources, costs and revenues — as well as the whole model.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Business Model B2C Entrepreneur 10

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. Beginning with gathering basic resources and ending with delivering goods to customers, markets and businesses will optimize the value chain in order to deliver goods and services to consumers at optimal levels.

Technology 15

Technology Retail Supply Chain Business Model 15