Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

It’s activity like this that can really do some damage to your bottom line. Weed out early on; technology helps. So, isn’t it time that you examined the root causes of your bad hires and learned how to incorporate science and technology into your hiring practices? Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. The bottom line is that progress in wage equity has hit a wall. Men at the top are more likely to pull other men up by their collars into the C-suite to join them.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Tensions built up between China and Hong Kong as the percentage of the city's residents identifying themselves as Chinese dropped to the lowest level since 1997. And the bottom dropped out of the Indian outsourcing industry, which contracted as much as 80% while the Indian firm Aegis outsourced its call center — to Dallas.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades. As a group, the largest U.S. In some instances, the end results were firm closures and lost jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

women make up nearly 40% of MBA graduates and 40% of managers. In many countries they make up an equal or greater share of tertiary graduates and the professional and technical labor force. And worldwide they are catching up to men in levels of education and workforce participation. Yet in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

Census data from 1990 to 2013. For middle-skilled, middle class workers at middle-paying firms, the chances of moving up the following year were 2.6%. The paper divides earners, skillsets, and firms up into thirds. But for middle-skilled middle class workers at high-paying firms, the chance was substantially better: nearly 12%.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

What's striking about Fast Company's 2013 list of the world's 50 most innovative companies is the relative absence of large, established firms. To get some perspective on this question, I recently talked with Steve Blank , a serial entrepreneur, co-author of The Start-Up Owner's Manual, and father of the "lean start-up" movement.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Drawing on lessons from the auto industry, banking and beyond, he offered provocative prescriptions for coping in a world in which “the real challenge is to decide what you are doing” in the face of tremendous “technological change or market change.”. But, as was his wont, Drucker didn’t just provide answers. What should it be?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

When resources are allocated from the bottom up instead of from the top down, they get out of sync with what the senior team is trying to accomplish. Today most if not all industries are impacted by digitization—mobile technology, big data, and the like. The brilliant decision-makers look at the runway ahead.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The relief was that nearly all the credits for 2013 were sold, with three times as many bidders as there were credits available, and amounting to almost $300 million in proceeds, which in this first round will mostly be allocated to back to the investor owned utilities and paid back to ratepayers as a twice-yearly "climate dividend."

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2013

October 2013) The Dark Side of Generic Drugs Dirty Medicine Fortune Generic drugs can be inexpensive and effective alternatives to their branded counterparts. February 2013) By the People, Not For the People Maximizing Shareholder Value: The Goal That Changed Corporate America The Washington Post In 1963, IBM CEO Thomas J. Gerstner Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Nevertheless, analog spending still rules, as confirmed by Gartner''s 2013 digital marketing spending report. Like so many other revolutions, digital marketing has taken hold from the bottom up. The CMO could tap dance through the average board meeting, as long as revenue tracked up and to the right.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Only a small percentage came up with anything that was truly innovative. Tomorrow''s businesses will have a very different make-up, and the CIO must lead the charge in the face of these changes. This is why innovation is so important and takes up so much room in press and annual reports. Such propositions come from innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

government is constantly sweeping up vast amounts of data on the details of the retail sector — buying and selling, getting and spending — just as it tracks census information and data on economic indicators such as GDP, employment and unemployment, and inflation. So we started digging. We pored over the surveys and documentation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

With yesterday''s iPhone release, Apple changed things up by going to a " good-better-best " pricing strategy on its new devices. As it always does, the company showcased a new and improved iPhone model — the 5S — which provides faster processing, a better camera, and James Bond-like fingerprint security technology.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Listening to the breathless commentary surrounding technologies such as AI and robotics and one could be minded to believe that technology is transforming life as we know it on a scale never seen before. in 2013, compared to 2.5% in 2013, compared to 2.5% The need to disseminate technology. in 1992.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

Mobile technology presents all marketers with a tantalizing proposition. While many of these strategies apply both within and outside the consumer packaged goods industry, there is no secret sauce and all marketers should ask themselves what their unique mobile framework should be in 2013, and beyond. Monetize mobile media?.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

So what’s the solution for these companies, who have stocked themselves with entrepreneurial employees and VC-minded execs but still can’t seem to round the corner and start innovating and growing at a pace that keeps up with the outside world? Open the doors. Let the light stream in. Get out of the building.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

of private-sector workers were union members in 2013. With Labor Day coming up, I figured I should just go ahead and read it. Not only are unions a much weaker political force than they used to be, they also no longer really represent those at the bottom of the economic ladder. Now union membership is down to 11.2% of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

With yesterday’s iPhone release, Apple changed things up by going to a “ good-better-best ” pricing strategy on its new devices. Often times a premium product with large market share encounters a new wave of competition that is winning customers via rock bottom prices. billion in iPhones in 2013 alone.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The Boston Red Sox 2013 World Series championship will long be remembered as proof that you can turn around nearly anything. The team ended last season at the bottom of the standings (Las Vegas odds were 28 to 1 that they’d make it to the World Series), but rallied this year. Facing the facts squarely is a turnaround imperative.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

While our competitors catch up, we have to get into the mindset of already moving onto the next thing. 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. That bottom line sensibility is crucial.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

What’s more, those that take this initial step are getting a leg up on AI’s future, since that step is going to be a prerequisite for everything that follows. From just a few thousand queries a month in 2013, ABIe now handles 100,000 — from all of the company’s employees, and not just from agents.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2015

I’d love to say it’s simple to get started, but if you use the version of Outlook that I use — Outlook 2013 — you’ll need to navigate a rabbit’s warren of clicks and commands. Make sure you hit “Save Changes” at the bottom. It’s worth it. Three Common Saves.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. Some 62.4%

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Nonetheless, between 2012 and mid-2103, Banner has captured nearly $70 million in savings, and by 2017, the savings will contribute $256 million annually to its bottom line. E-mail us at healtheditors@hbr.org , and sign up to receive updates here. million by creating an internal facility for drug compounding and packaging.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Technology has prompted tremendous change in the advertising industry—change that would have been inconceivable even a decade ago. Technology will only be able to deliver on its promise of moving TV dollars online if it creates greater process efficiencies, drives more commerce, and enables deeper engagement with consumers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Microsoft is in the supposedly volatile technology sector. 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. It’s easy to get caught up in the hype.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

doubled from 20% to 40% between July and December 2013, and has stayed at that level since. In those cases, mid-level managers weren’t merely managing incremental change; they were leading it by working levers of power up, across and down in their organizations. Embrace speed at every possible juncture.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

In 2013, for instance, Buttigieg called for staffers in just 1,000 days to address, through rehabilitation or demolition, 1,000 vacant and abandoned properties blighting the city. That a place like South Bend has been able to cultivate this kind of bottom-up innovation makes sense. It’s hardly an isolated example.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Apple fuses technology with design. Innovating from the bottom up. “We could advance the core technology without being tied to a particular product. That creates a rich problem set, which helps draw top-notch researchers to Google who, in turn, create even more exciting new technology.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

The point is that when things like this go wrong, there is no nincompoop problem; instead, there’s almost always a much larger Nincompoopery problem, in the way that a company has failed to understand, design, and deliver customer value in ways that satisfy customers and boost the bottom line. What Leaders May Get Wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

For much of the 20th century, it was possible to argue that the inequities of life stemmed from the incomplete expansion of technology, industry, and the market, and would be resolved by further modernization. And in every single economic expansion in those same years, 70% to 80% of the income growth went to the bottom 90% of the population.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

As a 2013 HBR article explained, “Conglomerates may be regarded as dinosaurs in the developed world, but in emerging markets, diversified business groups continue to thrive.”. Rather than dictating decisions from the top down, Alibaba lets them roll up from the individual businesses. The article, by J.

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