The Practical Leader

MARCH 25, 2020

His analysis of the Diamond Princess showed with its optimal conditions for spreading the virus, only 20% were infected. Stock markets should bounce back more quickly than the six years it took the Dow Jones Average from 2007 to 2013 to recover. On February 7, new infections dropped linearly and kept going.

Crisis 91

Crisis Levitt Peer Review Sharpe 91

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2016

As with sailing, the quickest route to strategic success is rarely a straight line, but is, instead, a zigzag of constant adjustments to environmental conditions, combined with more dramatic turns and detours to avoid major storms and to take advantage of changes in the prevailing winds and currents. About the Author. and Aimia Inc.

Long-term 50

Long-term Planning Chief Executive Officer Letter 50

Strategy Driven

MAY 19, 2013

Hindered by simplistic analytics and siloed data, analysis is further limited to a ‘rearview mirror’ perspective of what’s happened. Vice President of Customer Success and a co-founder of Birst. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Speakers include: Paul Staelin. Wei-Chin Call.

Resources 50

Resources Webinar Newsletter Engineering 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

They prove that the most economically disadvantaged people on the planet create a great market for social entrepreneurs – AND provide a terrific testing ground for innovation and cost control. As of February 28, 2013, the company claims: 13,638,438 “lives empowered”. This can be part of your strategy. 656,952 tons of CO2 offset.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Prahalad Open-book 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

Executives who consider and discuss all four types of competition will uncover important insights, and such an analysis can help move your strategy forward. For instance, Target has run marketing campaigns that glorify do-it-yourself alternatives, while IKEA has become synonymous with enabling consumers to do the work themselves.

Stress 10

Stress Insourcing Uncertainty Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

The company’s 2013 annual report contained the usual statements on income, changes in equity, and cash flows — standard stuff. For instance, I want to know more about the franchisees, given how central they are to the company’s success — not just how much revenue they bring in, but also how profitable they are.

Report 10

Report Franchising Analysis Guidelines 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

In 2013, Management Research Group (MRG) completed a large scale global study addressing this question. Each participant was assessed with the Leadership Effectiveness Analysis (LEA), a 360-degree assessment tool measuring 22 leadership practices and more than 20 measures of effectiveness. A strategic approach takes time.

Organization 15

Organization Development Tactics Strategic Planning 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2014

In their best-selling 2013 book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think , authors Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier selected Google Flu Trends (GFT) as the lede of chapter one. But more data in itself does not lead to better analysis, as amply demonstrated with Flu Trends. They don’t matter.”

Trends 8

Trends Short-term Analysis Definition 8

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. But now the situation has reached such a tipping point that larger U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

According to Bain & Company’s analysis, activist investors are now the fastest-growing class of institutional investors—and more than 75% of their demands involve nominating or replacing directors on boards. How much more scrutiny do boards of directors face these days? When Home Depot slipped to last among U.S.

Company 8

Company Bureaucracy Long-term Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

An analysis of holiday letters indicates that references to “crazy schedules” have dramatically increased since the 1960s. In other words, the more we believe that one has the opportunity for success based on hard work, the more we tend to think that people who skip leisure and work all the time are of higher standing.

Brand 8

Brand Participative Short-term Long-term 8

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. Successful AI adopters have strong executive leadership support for the new technology.

Survey 12

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

Many large, successful organizations are more fragile than they seem. Start-ups tend to be anti-fragile; large, successful organizations tend to be fragile. If lucky, a start-up grows and develops a success formula. It''s a great success story, but there''s a catch. and in its home market in the U.K. Not anymore.".

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Customer Intimacy Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

And, while LOCOG (the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games) had great success in achieving its target of £700m in sponsorship revenues, it's also true that many brands didn't pay the asking price — even those that were keen to be persuaded — because they couldn't make a robust enough business case. Initial Findings.

Brand 12

Brand Audience Committee Sports 12

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. In the 2016 book The End of Accounting , NYU Stern Professor Baruch Lev claimed that over the last 100 years or so, financial reports have become less useful in capital market decisions.

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Depreciation IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

One Brookings Institute analysis projected that teacher actions could spread to another 11 states. ” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It found that 6 out of 10 teachers went directly into teaching after earning their undergraduate or graduate degree.

Education 8

Education Survey Stress Definition 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. While it is easy to categorize business as in line with the free market and progressives as anti-market, the reality is far more nuanced.

Business Model 9

Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Senior management at the new company knew him, his successful track record, and the companies he’d worked for. He was asked to explain his strategies for expanding distribution and introducing new products to market. An author I know was approached by a publisher to write a book for which the publisher had decided there was a market.

Management 8

Management Proposal CEO Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Or pay a freelance consultant to do market research? Clark recommends listing the “concrete skills you need to develop in order to be successful at pursuing your passion full-time.” ” In 2013, she and Robin Smith — a former colleague from Artus Labs — began exploring ideas. Patch weak spots.

Project 8

Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. To answer that deeper question, we carried out a systematic analysis of the 146 unicorns identified by The Wall Street Journal. Narrowly focused.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Consider how the talent exodus is playing out New Zealand: between 2012 and 2013, the country’s researcher headcount (per million of the population) dropped by almost 11% and its ranking in the Global Innovation Index dropped four slots. Our analysis revealed very low scores for both New Zealand and global companies.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Analysis Globalization Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

That's where the Dupont analysis come in. With Dupont in mind, we can come up with a better measurement by sub-dividing ROII as follows: Innovation magnitude (financial contribution divided by successful ideas). Innovation success rate (successful ideas divided by total ideas explored). or "what does 'success' mean?"

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

In a recent analysis of a massive, expensive innovation failure, Kim van Oorschot of BI Norwegian Business School, Henk Akkermans of the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands, and Kishore Sengupta and Luk N. The bad news is that the job market is really tight, and it’s preventing us from hiring the conceptual designers we need.”

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

That's where the Dupont analysis come in. With Dupont in mind, we can come up with a better measurement by sub-dividing ROII as follows: Innovation magnitude (financial contribution divided by successful ideas). Innovation success rate (successful ideas divided by total ideas explored). or "what does 'success' mean?"

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Digital players wield outsize market power. With products that rely on network effects, these players enjoy economies of scale and dominant market share. Digital markets are uneven. Politics, regulations, and levels of economic development play a major role in shaping the digital industry and its market attractiveness.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

They’ve missed almost every technological breakthrough of the past decade — and yet they earned $237 billion in operating income from 2001 to 2013 working off a strategy that was in place in the mid-1990s. He has a nice analysis of how Disney does this. Microsoft is in the supposedly volatile technology sector.

Sull 10

Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

In Q2 2013, mobile revenue per 1K listener hours was $34, up 50% from $22 in 2012. Although increasing mobile revenues are driving down royalty costs as a percent of revenues (52% in 2013 Q2, compared to 61% in FY2012), royalties have risen in each of the past three years, and these cost increases are slated to continue.

CEO 8

CEO Advertising Disruptive Innovation Business Model 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

OCTOBER 7, 2015

market has witnessed a substantial rise of activist investors. According to Schulte, Roth & Zabel’s Activist Investing 2015 Annual Review, a total of 344 companies worldwide were subjected to activist demands in 2014, up 18% from the 291 recorded in 2013. Over the last three years the U.S. Example: Jolly Inc.

How To 8

How To Due Diligence Strategy Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Rather, they trade in outstanding shares in the hope that their market price will increase.

Innovation 11

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. billion in 2013. to assist with the local go-to-market approach.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

If you had asked Singaporeans in 2010 to identify a successful local start-up, they might have paused for a few minutes before mentioning Creative Labs. That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. based WiFi service provider Ruckus Wireless snatched it up in 2013.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

Identifying as a B corporation is a way to publicly claim an identity as an organization interested in both shareholder and stakeholder success. Although any company, regardless of its size, legal structure, or industry, can become a B Corporation, currently most B Corporations are privately-held small and medium-sized businesses.

Company 8

Company Hedge Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

The analysis here is not concerned with which candidate deserved to win or whose message was “better.” Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. Bigger marketing budgets may not pay off. my answer is a sobering no.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Adopting the Chicago School’s assumptions of self-correcting markets, composed of rational, self-interested market participants, some courts and enforcers sacrificed important political, social, and moral values to promote certain economic beliefs. .” U.S. The Rise of the Chicago School.

Policies 8

Policies Politics Stephenson Industry 8