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StrategyDriven Enterprises Partners with Xen Wireless to Form StrategyDriven Analytics, a Utility Industry Asset Management Blind Benchmarking Service

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises LLC and Xen Wireless form StrategyDriven Analytics to provide utility industry executives and managers with asset management program benchmarking data supporting operational and investment decisions and fleet and individual plant performance assessments. Plant Maintenance and Operations.

Wireless

Wireless Benchmarking Asset Management Industry

5 Pitfalls of Marketing Waterfalls

Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

As data-driven marketers are taking full advantage of collecting, organizing, and analyzing demand management, many are adopting the classic marketing waterfall model from leading experts such as Sirius Decisions. One size fits all’ marketing waterfalls are too rigid. One marketing waterfall view has become a catchall.

Marketing

Marketing B2B Due Diligence Benchmarking

It’s Time To Stop VCs Driving Entrepreneurship

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

It’s perhaps no surprise, therefore, that data from Rice University shows that market power today is more concentrated in the hands of a relatively small number of incumbents than ever before. It runs the risk that startups targeting niche problems get crowded out in favor of those forced to chase mass market problems.

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Mass Marketing Globalization

Smart Marketing for Small Businesses

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

You probably didn’t answer, “How to implement effective marketing.” ” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations. Benchmark Your Feedback Step 8. Why is marketing important for your business?

Marketing

Marketing Press Release Consultative Brand

Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. It is important to develop these apps, and the techniques associated with applying them, but what about the operating system that runs them? A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x

Leadership Development

Leadership Development Development Leadership Self-aware

A Framework for Strategists Assessing Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Many companies start their search for global growth in an alphabet soup of emerging-market groupings such as the BRIC , CIVETS , MINT , Next 11 , and so on. There are several flaws in using such acronyms as the basis for entering overseas markets. Finally, operating conditions differ significantly within the country groups.

Marketing

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction

As Emerging Markets Slow, Firms Search for “New” BRICs

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

By all measures, emerging markets are having a tough year. However, multinationals still expect their emerging market portfolios to deliver robust growth and increasing profits based on the memory of their performance in recent, more bullish years. Let’s see how this story is playing out in the different emerging market regions.

Marketing

Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain

How Advanced Analytics Is Changing B2B Selling

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

From targeted online advertising to more precise recommendation engines, consumer markets are bursting with innovation around machine learning and advanced analytics. Data-Driven Marketing. The service provides benchmarks and insights to ensure sustainable, cost-effective improvements in blast performance. Insight Center.

B2B

B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering

How CMOs Can Get CFOs on Their Side

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Marketing is in the midst of an ROI revolution. The arrival of advanced analytics and plentiful data have allowed marketers to demonstrate return on investment with a degree of precision that’s never been possible before. To date, however, the reality of marketing analytics has fallen short of the promise.

CFO

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking

The First Step to Fixing U.S. Manufacturing

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. But now the situation has reached such a tipping point that larger U.S. manufacturers are taking notice.

Supply Chain

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up

The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

P&L

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center

New Research: You're Doing Customer Experience Innovation Wrong

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

In a recent Forrester survey of 100 customer experience professionals, nearly half of respondents said that their executive team''s strategy for customer experience is market differentiation. "Innovation" has become a buzzword in the customer experience field. Ground innovations in the business model.

Innovation

Innovation Forrester Business Model Long-term

Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 1 of 4

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

For many years, we will be measuring how loss of corporate credibility has tainted all facets of business, in terms of remediation, replacement, litigation, make-good, rework, damage control, recovery process, settlements to victims, decreased stock market value and sagging retail sales. Rebuilding the community image. About the Author.

Crisis

Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management

How To Really Measure a Company's Innovation Prowess

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Return on equity (net income divided by equity) results from multiplying three key operating ratios: Profitability (net income over sales). Operating efficiency (sales over assets). Investment efficiency (ideas explored divided by total capital and operational investment). Financial leverage (assets over equity).

Innovation

Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage

How To Really Measure a Company's Innovation Prowess

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Return on equity (net income divided by equity) results from multiplying three key operating ratios: Profitability (net income over sales). Operating efficiency (sales over assets). Investment efficiency (ideas explored divided by total capital and operational investment). Financial leverage (assets over equity).

Innovation

Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage

How Israeli Startups Can Scale

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

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO

Improve Decision-Making With Help From the Crowd

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

In January 2013 they created “ IBM iFundIT ,” a program in which volunteers decide where to spend seed money using an intranet site for proposing ideas, commenting, volunteering, and funding. Given the success of the program in 2013, IBM’s CIO decided to invest $7 million to expand iFundIT in 2014. Decision making Operations'

Software

Software CIO Early Adopters Project

Leadership Digital

StrategyDriven Enterprises Partners with Xen Wireless to Form StrategyDriven Analytics, a Utility Industry Asset Management Blind Benchmarking Service

5 Pitfalls of Marketing Waterfalls

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A Framework for Strategists Assessing Emerging Markets

As Emerging Markets Slow, Firms Search for “New” BRICs

How Advanced Analytics Is Changing B2B Selling

How CMOs Can Get CFOs on Their Side

The First Step to Fixing U.S. Manufacturing

The Rebirth of the CMO

New Research: You're Doing Customer Experience Innovation Wrong

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