Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

This was the context when on Christmas day 2013, the then designated Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa offered me the aforementioned thankless and non-lucrative opportunity. I was asked to be Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Information & Communication Technologies. How could I refuse? Turbulence. About the Author.

How To 50

How To Chief Information Officer Tourism Politics 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 9, 2013

As digital technology disrupted Kodak’s business, they held onto the film business as everyone was going digital. When we conceived AdKarma – an online advertising yield optimization service – we acknowledged that it was a completely new business model born out of technology and innovation. It was clear it needed a tribal approach.

Business Model 73

Business Model Advertising How To Entrepreneur 73

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Killing off brands is not a popular or pleasant thought, but we should consider it more often than we do. Some executives may be reluctant to admit – perhaps for sentimental or political reasons — that their brand is sucking out more value from the company than it creates. Profitability isn’t a useful metric.

Brand 8

Brand Merchandising Retail Real Estate 8

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Herminia Ibarra – Thinkers 50 #8 Management Thinker 2015-17, #1 Leadership Thinker 2013-15, Professor at London Business School, former professor Harvard, best-selling author of Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Then Ayse asked us to describe what made us think of them as heroes.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching Human Resources Magazine CEO 70

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

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? Utilizing more than a decade of human capital management, sales and leadership experience, Greg Moran is Founder and CEO of Chequed.com.

Quality 68

Quality Pre-Employment Screening Talent Management Reference 68

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. Women have fewer leadership role models and they arguably have greater demands outside of work competing for their attention. That sounds like progress.

Leadership Pipeline 8

Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2014

ADVISOR – I launched the Gitomer Certified Advisor program in the fall of 2013. LESSON: Don’t stay attached to old technology or products even though they have brought success and profit in the past. POWER – This year I intend to capitalize on the convergent power of reputation, brand, intellectual property, and online distribution.

Succession 50

Succession Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Content 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

No personal website, no personal brand, no social media interaction, and not taking advantage of smartphone technology. If not, invest whatever is needed in people and money to set and maintain a leadership position in all three areas. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Why “21.5″

Media 64

Media Advice Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage 64

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Companies increasingly use digital technologies to circumvent distributors and enter into direct relationships with their end-users. Writing in the Sloan Management Review, Boston College professor Gerald Kane noted that 87% of executives surveyed indicated that digital technologies will disrupt their industries to a great or moderate extent.

Strategy 10

Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

People were asked about GM products, upholstery textures, colors, vehicle designs, and technology, and their feedback was incorporated into GM vehicles. How technology is changing the way we work. Weaver’s staff sent three million mailings a year to GM and non-GM customers, achieving a remarkable 25% response rate.

Media 8

Media Automotive Globalization Active Listening 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

Burberry set out to be the world’s best digital luxury brand, but performance began to suffer after initially improving. This kind of unfortunate decision has happened over and over again, in wave after wave of transformative business technology. It is multi-faceted and diffuse, and doesn’t just involve technology.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

The Google/Alphabet metamorphosis has catapulted Sundar Pichai into one of the highest profile leadership jobs in Silicon Valley. And third, his belief that technology is an equalizing force. The old Google had always been a tricky leadership challenge. So what should we expect from the leader of this “new” Google?

CEO 8

CEO Engineering Advertising Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Getting Mad, Crossing Over, Being Courageous: Leadership in 2012 (Washington Post "On Leadership" blog). THINK OUTSIDE THE BRAND. Innovative Brand Ideas from 2012 (Creativity). Computer Scientists Measure How Much of the Web is Archived (MIT Technology Review). LEADING WITH INTEGRITY. — Andy O’Connell.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Mayo Power Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2013

In this massive piece, Nicholas Carlson analyzes Armstrong''s rise from his days as the owner of a strawberry business, uncovering a leadership trajectory that culminated in a proxy war with an activist investor and a final realization that his baby — local-news and listings provider Patch — needed to be trimmed, or else.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Long-term Short-term CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

But today we’re a $15 billion global consumer and professional appliance firm that includes Frigidaire, AEG, Molteni, Electrolux, Zanussi, and Eureka among its brands. In 2012, Electrolux leadership decided this had to change. Many consumers think of us as a vacuum cleaner company – and indeed our first product, in 1919, was a vacuum.

Marketing 8

Marketing Brand Globalization Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For example, it took Umicore, a global materials technology group, five years (2002–2007) to lay the basis for its transformation from a commodity supplier of base metals into a premium provider of emission control catalysts, rechargeable battery materials and other value-added solutions. Allow time and persevere.

Company 10

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Just as America''s visa rules enabled the rapid growth of India''s information-technology companies over the last two decades, the Obama Administration''s recent drive to reform immigration regulations could prove to be a turning point for them. That''s when they launched premium brands such as Lexus and Acura.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Information Technology Automotive Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Nevertheless, analog spending still rules, as confirmed by Gartner''s 2013 digital marketing spending report. But I would suggest that there is something more fundamental happening behind the numbers; something lurking in the very nature of digital marketing and what it asks of leadership and what it means for accountability.

CIO 8

CIO Marketing CRM Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

Major organizational changes, covering everything from recruiting and branding to regulatory approvals and marketing, happened in rapid succession, with a hard deadline of 12 months to get it all done for the IPO — and 18 months from the IPO until our full separation from GE. Change management certainly tested us.

Management 11

Management IPO Diversity Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

A few months ago, Ram Charan proposed splitting HR into two parts: one to oversee leadership and organization, and one to handle administration. Indeed, according to the Association for Talent Development, nearly 40% of corporate training in 2013 was delivered through technology, and that number is projected to grow.

Human Capital 14

Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

Research has shown that executives with social CEOs say their CEOs’ social media presence makes them feel inspired (52%), technologically advanced (46%), and proud (41%). For example, even in 2013, Scottish fashion brand Lyle & Scott put out a call for a new CEO on Twitter. WANTED: #CEO for our iconic british brand.

Media 8

Media CEO Video Chief Executive Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

On November 15, 2013, China announced dramatic new social and economic policies contemplating much greater reliance on market forces than it has in the past and inviting private-sector participation and foreign competition in industries long previously controlled by the central government. China will grow faster in 2014 than in 2013.

Policies 8

Policies Class Health Care Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

DTNA is the largest heavy-duty truck manufacturer in North America, selling trucks under brands such as Freightliner, Western Star, Thomas Built, and Detroit Diesel through more than 1,300 dealers. To the senior leadership team, this wasn’t just about telematics or new revenue. Build and share a transformative vision.

Engineering 9

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

DTNA is the largest heavy-duty truck manufacturer in North America, selling trucks under brands such as Freightliner, Western Star, Thomas Built, and Detroit Diesel through more than 1,300 dealers. To the senior leadership team, this wasn’t just about telematics or new revenue. Build and share a transformative vision.

Engineering 9

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Meanwhile, new technologies are making it easier for sustainability investments to pay off in the middle to long term. Since the tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh in 2013, garment retailers such as Walmart have contributed to improving working conditions for workers. It was an ambitious but concrete plan.

Execution 11

Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 11

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

OCTOBER 21, 2013

It seems to me that this emphasis on authenticity is an important counterbalance to earlier assumptions that people gained leadership powers by dint of titles or positions in hierarchies. So yes, be authentic – but don’t break the mold so completely that others need to spend energy figuring out how to engage with your leadership.

Drucker 8

Drucker Diversity Pharmaceuticals Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? Though technology would have allowed for a significantly virtual enterprise, it was important to Ruh to have a physical building where people could actually be located together. She told me how difficult it was.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

The symptoms of poor alignment are often obvious, especially to those who work in the company, but also to customers who do not experience the service they expect from a company’s branding and advertising. Each state poses a different leadership challenge. Your answers to both questions can be plotted on the matrix above.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Please note that titles used here reflect the positions the individuals held in 2013, when we conducted the interviews for a separate article ). ” Staton identified the challenge of managing a global brand: “We had the McDonald’s brand, and in each country our market share and the product life cycle were in different stages.

CEO 8

CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. You should be exploring new segments and experimenting with new ideas to expand your brand and occupy the space. If you didn''t cut the budget for innovation, technology, and product development over the past five years, good.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The business environment today has indeed become mindboggling complex due to accelerating globalization and rapid technology changes. The goal of this movement is to form communities of socially-responsible companies with enlightened leadership that are driven by a higher purpose and a stakeholder orientation.

Ethics 8

Ethics Morale Airlines CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? Baseline financial skills are still essential, but international experience, industry knowledge, investor relations acumen, technology expertise, and strategic prowess are now just as much part of the package.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The challenge is obvious: the quickening pace of technological change has shrunk the shelf life of skills acquired by today’s university graduates to just a few years. In a 2013 Deloitte survey of executives at large companies, 39% said they were either “barely able” or “unable” to meet their needs for talent.

Skills 8

Skills Company Core Competence Career 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. To have the influence to help set business strategy for the company, CMOs need to translate customer insights into terms meaningful to senior leadership.

P&L 10

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. I spoke with Patty McCord, the former chief talent officer of Netflix from 1998 to 2013. And even if you’re successful at overcoming those obstacles, it’s very hard to keep up the momentum. Building Empathy.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Mars focuses on categories and brands where it can lead and obtain a scale advantage, and it creates value by growing those categories. Tata Consultancy Services, the India-based information technology (IT) services and solutions company, operates in an environment it can neither predict nor change. Applying the Strategy Palette.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8