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Big Data, Big Opportunity

Chartered Management Institute

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. It often helps if the executive in charge is not from IT, but from operations or marketing, and that there are close links with customer-facing and other operational roles. They are transforming each and every business model. The reason?

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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business Review

The current mantra is “Move fast with stable infrastructure”, which speaks to the organizational design challenge of operating at scale in a fickle and volatile world. Each state poses a different leadership challenge. Many have speculated since about failures of its leadership under its bullish former CEO, Fred Goodwin.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

Overly simplistic notions – “the people who do the advertising”– were based on stereotypes that never accurately reflected the range of responsibilities that many CMOs had. To have the influence to help set business strategy for the company, CMOs need to translate customer insights into terms meaningful to senior leadership.

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

With the coming of the automobile and national radio advertising, James C. On those grounds, he says, things look bad not just for Sears and all large chain stores, which before the war were considered a threat to so many Americans’ dreams of setting up their own independent local retail operations. Competition Leadership Retail'

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How to Stop Micromanaging Your Team

Harvard Business Review

. “For the sake of your team, you need to stop,” says Muriel Maignan Wilkins, coauthor of Own the Room and managing partner of Paravis Partners, an executive coaching and leadership development firm. ” The acid test of leadership, she says, “is how well the team does when you’re gone.”

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The Big Picture of Business: The Colonel and Me

Strategy Driven

In 1959, radio stations used to do live remotes from advertisers’ locations. It occupied one counter at 2-J’s Hamburgers, an established Austin restaurant, owned and operated by Ralph Moreland. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. I wrote editions of the Kalendar for radio and newspapers.

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What the CEO of the “New” Google Needs to Do Next

Harvard Business Review

The Google/Alphabet metamorphosis has catapulted Sundar Pichai into one of the highest profile leadership jobs in Silicon Valley. The old Google had always been a tricky leadership challenge. Avoid the risks of a leader tasked with playing defense.

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