Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Every organization is challenged by risks manifest through its many different day-to-day operations. Well-conceived risk management dashboards aid oversight organizations including internal audit, management oversight, and compliance groups, in monitoring the organization’s overall risk profile and risk-based operational performance.

Risk Management 66

Risk Management Management Compliance Benchmarking 66

Strategy Driven

JULY 9, 2013

Major projects typically add significant operational, financial, reputational, and regulatory risk to an organization’s overall risk profile. Corporate Risk Analysis, Management, and Mitigation. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here. All rights reserved.

Risk Management 66

Risk Management Resources Management Benchmarking 66

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Consequently, executive and manager attention and financial support may be disproportionately applied to the capital project(s), particularly in the event of overruns, at the detriment of problem resolution at the organization’s other operating assets. Corporate Risk Analysis, Management, and Mitigation.

Risk Management 58

Risk Management Project Organization Management 58

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. They can sound geeky, but they are developments that every manager needs to understand. There is no point developing vast systems that gather deep information that is rarely, or ineffectively used.

Leadership Styles 83

Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

If you want to learn how to develop an experimentation organization, read on. When it finally came to my attention, I realized right away that large-scale, controlled experimentation would revolutionize the way all companies operate their businesses and how managers make decisions. Any of these questions can go wrong.

Power 94

Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 94

Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

The waterfall methodology was a classic approach used for software development. Without this connection, even more analysis is required which can slow down efforts to keep the next dollar spent to keep up with the consumer. Without knowing, it is hard to adjust, in real time, what the areas are that can be improved. About the Author.

Marketing 51

Marketing B2B Due Diligence Benchmarking 51

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations. Lastly, if you don’t have a capabilities brochure already, develop one now. Connecting with audience members after a speech is a great way to develop qualified leads for your business.

Marketing 50

Marketing Press Release Consultative Brand 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system.

Strategy 8

Strategy Analysis Operations CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012. Specifically, are companies from advanced economies failing to keep up with the big shift?

Globalization 9

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012. Specifically, are companies from advanced economies failing to keep up with the big shift?

Globalization 8

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

There are just two ways to increase ROIC: improve operating profit (by increasing revenues or cutting costs) or invest capital more wisely. Looking at the resumes of current CEOs across developed markets suggests that the answer may be that many lack training in the skills of investment analysis. The bottom line?

CEO 8

CEO ROIC Cost of Capital Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The ManpowerGroup Contingent Workforce Index of 2013 showed 40% of all ManpowerGroup consulting engagements blended permanent and contingent workers. Their goal is to attract, engage, develop and retain employees – moving talent into, through and out of the organization.

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

If it’s a Kickstarter kind of situation, they may be funding, actually, the development of the product before you’ve even put pen to paper. It used to be enough to look at a static market, do a five forces analysis, be able to figure out, do a BCG matrix, all of these sort of old-school tools. LARRY: It was never enough.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In fact, MGI analysis of financial data shows that large publicly traded US manufacturing firms, most of them multinationals with revenues greater than $500 million, averaged returns on invested capital of 22% from 1997 to 2013. As a group, the largest U.S. These costs are significantly higher for U.S. But the future trajectory of U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

If lucky, a start-up grows and develops a success formula. having sacrificed customer intimacy for increased operational excellence gains through widespread cost cutting, are well documented. Organizations worry about fine-tuning their operations to handle the typical situations. Operations Risk management Strategy'

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Customer Intimacy Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Many such “Rocket” companies are poised to become the Alibabas and Amazons for the rest of the world: Jumia, which operates in nine countries across Africa; Namshi in the Middle East; Lazada and Zalora in ASEAN; Jabong in India; and Kaymu in 33 markets across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

Constraint 8

Constraint Marketing Innovation Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

Orica used the data to build pre-blast modeling and post-blast measurement and analysis, packaged in a user-friendly online system called Blast IQ. The service offers the possibility of enhancing an engineer’s marketability and growth and development. Data-Driven Marketing. Sponsored by Google.

B2B 8

B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

From our analysis of a number of core shifts and conversations with the CEOs who have undertaken them, we have drawn five keys to success: 1. vehicles decreasing from 40% of total in 2000 to 17% in 2013), by destination (e.g., from 80% in 2000 to 50% in 2013), and by exposure to the economic cycle. Allow time and persevere.

Company 10

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space.

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Not really, suggests our analysis. For instance, ever since Goldman Sachs coined the term BRIC, China and India have pulled ahead of Brazil and Russia, whose growth fell below the group average between 2001 and 2013. Finally, operating conditions differ significantly within the country groups. Is that smart?

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

At the high end of artificial intelligence are systems like cognitive computing that are allowing driverless cars and other machines to develop the capacity to learn from their experiences in the world — by incorporating nuances, remembering outcomes, and adapting to mistakes. (A First, let’s get our bearings.

Company 8

Company Insurance Call Center Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Conventional forecasting, planning and analysis methods are not equipped to deal with dynamic complexity. With hard work and study we advanced to a heuristic — that is, we started to understand what variables mattered and developed a sense of the cause and effect. Operations Research Strategy'

Senge 8

Senge Tools Definition Drucker 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

On March 15, 2013, World Consumer Rights Day, CCTV aired a special report criticizing Apple’s i-Phone customer service policy in China for providing only a one-year warranty when Chinese law mandates two. In October 2013, an incident involving Starbucks unfolded, when CCTV aired a segment “exposing” its relatively higher prices in China.

Media 8

Media Report Brand Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. Better analysis of those insights can improve marketing return on investment (MROI) by 10-20 percent and drive average profit growth of 14 percent.

P&L 10

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

But eight months before completion, in August 2013, while presenting our expansion plan to the hospital’s board, we had an epiphany. Our eight-person senior leadership committee, led by the department chair (me) and a hospital senior VP, outlined three core functions: quality, operations, and process improvement (PI).

Health Care 8

Health Care Diversity Proposal Document 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Twitter reported a loss of $79 million before its IPO, yet it commanded a valuation of $24 billion on its IPO date in 2013. The building blocks for a digital company are research and development, brands, organizational strategy, peer and supplier networks, customer and social relationships, computerized data and software, and human capital.

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Depreciation IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Each environment corresponds to a distinct archetypal approach to strategy, or color in the strategy palette, as follows: predictable classical environments lend themselves to strategies of position, which are based on advantage achieved through scale or differentiation or capabilities and are achieved through comprehensive analysis and planning.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants? billion in 2013.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Just 36 percent of CMOs, for example, have quantitatively proven the short-term impact of marketing spend, according to the 2013 CMO Survey (and for demonstrating long-term impact, that figure drops to 32 percent). Together with the CFO, the CMO must develop a set of objectives that directly deliver on financial objectives and business goals.

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The global sharing economy market was valued at $26 billion in 2013 and some predict it will grow to become a $110 billion revenue market in the coming years, making it larger than the U.S. Just in the last month, Pennsylvania’s Public Utility Commission issued a cease-and-desist order on Lyft and Uber operations.

Business Model 9

Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Although this can present leadership challenges related to shifting strategy, culture and operations, it certainly isn’t rocket science. Back in 2012, Erasmus’s CEO, Professor Hans Buller, was a huge proponent of VBHC and led the development of the organization’s 5-year VBHC strategy with one of us (Dr.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Compliance Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Politics, regulations, and levels of economic development play a major role in shaping the digital industry and its market attractiveness. In 2013 85% of the world’s transactions were in cash. Most of the developing world is overwhelmingly cash-dependent; in Malaysia, Peru, and Egypt, only 1% of transactions are cashless.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

We recently set out to remedy that, and our analysis suggests that Arab inventors play a major role in U.S. Despite these limitations, we believe this analysis is valuable, and an improvement on our limited existing knowledge. In the five-year period from 2009 to 2013, there were 8,786 U.S. In 2013 there were approximately 1.02

Innovation 14

Innovation Analysis Technology Efficiency 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

The analysis here is not concerned with which candidate deserved to win or whose message was “better.” Two developments bear noting. The outcome is a “ratings bubble” within which companies operate. Competition and private firms operating in their self-interest typically lead to well-functioning markets.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11