Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Over the past two decades, technology has advanced exponentially; and with that burgeoning growth, IT organizations have seen tremendous expansion. Innovation begins with management; by fostering a culture that prioritizes innovation, creativity is incentivized among team members.

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Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 58

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

As technology becomes more disruptive and we see more importance placed on big data and artificial intelligence, what will matter most are those things that make us human – the soft skills. How do we create the future while managing the present? Best Leadership Books of 2013. Blog Post ). Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner James M.

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Books Leadership Cialdini Govindarajan 150

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.

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Business Model Advertising How To Entrepreneur 73

Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2016

Right now, at this very minute, there are hundreds if not thousands of brands out there heightening your customers’ expectations. Change – environmental, political, social, cultural, technological, economic – is occurring constantly. Companies like Google are heightening expectations around data-driven personalization.

Trends 50

Trends Supply Chain Innovation Human Needs 50

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.

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Brand Merchandising Retail Real Estate 8

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. General Bernie Banks – Former General US Army, head of Leadership Development West Point, currently Associate Dean Northwestern Kellogg School of Management.

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Executive Coaching Human Resources Magazine CEO 70

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. What this means for 2013 is that women have a huge opportunity to convert their connections into career advancement. That sounds like progress. The Start Up Paradox.

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Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

It has also helped shape the practice of management. Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. How Google manages.

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IPO Management Engineering Innovation 14

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.

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Succession Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Content 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

Change management can be a test for any organization. Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. Change management certainly tested us. We separated, went public, and created a name and a brand. What did we do?

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Management IPO Diversity Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

If businesses are to continue using personal data to create value for themselves and for their customers, they will need to manage it as carefully as they would money, in four key ways. Similarly, trust erosion triggered by Edward Snowden’s revelations of government surveillance in mid-2013 are estimated to have cost U.S.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Cost-Benefit Analysis Reputation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

What if your ideas, your thoughts and even your experience as a trained marketing professional didn''t amount to a hill of beans in terms of the brand''s actual advertising performance? It does more than sell; it tells a story that captivates our imaginations and connects us to a brand — and to others who share in the brand sentiment.

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Marketing Advertising Chief Information Officer Technology 12

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.

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Media Automotive Globalization Active Listening 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

Many companies are still working through this stage by managing all social media at the corporate level. In 2013, there was already executive commitment and discussion around turning internal social media projects into strategic imperatives owned by lines of business. After all, people buy from people, not companies.

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Media ROI Corporate Accountability Guidelines 13

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

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.

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Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

But that doesn’t mean that new technologies aren’t going to usher in a lot of disruption to the financial system. Traditional economists (and, yes, that label could well describe both of us) often ignore a crucial separation between money (the “what”) and the payment technology (the “how).

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Banking Technology System Disruptive Innovation 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. When online emerged it became a new silo, followed by mobile and social. With this growing complexity, the journey was becoming increasingly fragmented and difficult.

Marketing 8

Marketing Brand Globalization Innovation 8

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.

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Offshoring Information Technology Automotive Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Though many HR managers would take exception to those findings, they do, overwhelmingly, want more of a strategic voice than they have now. These areas fall under the fourth rubric, business partner, because their managers need a strong understanding of strategic priorities in order to recruit, prepare, and engage employees to meet them.

Human Capital 14

Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Despite the popularity of apps, brands spend more than ten times as much on paid search advertising as they spend on ads on apps. Thanks to cookies, brands can target ads to customers online both on their site and on other sites users visit after they leave (aka "re-targeting"). Advertising Technology' Why the discrepancy?

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Advertising Loyalty ROI Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

” Meanwhile, many publishers have solid brand identities that are alluring to platforms. It’s not technologically difficult for publishers to add platform-like elements, and vice versa. Sometimes, they also hope to develop a content management system that other publishers can license and use to distribute their content.

Business Model 8

Business Model Content Incentives Audience 8

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.

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Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Despite the popularity of apps, brands spend more than ten times as much on paid search advertising as they spend on ads on apps. Thanks to cookies, brands can target ads to customers online both on their site and on other sites users visit after they leave (aka “re-targeting”). Advertising Technology'

Advertising 8

Advertising Loyalty ROI Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

The Verge reported that Uber sent out brand ambassadors with burner phones and credit cards. The story was picked up by CNN Money , which reported that Lyft’s internal data suggesting 5,560 canceled rides between October 2013 and August 2014. .” Competition Employee retention Talent management'

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Industry Supply Chain Engineering Competitive Advantage 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. And management is paying attention to many other opportunities. Disruptive innovation Information & technology Internet'

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. And management is paying attention to many other opportunities. Disruptive innovation Information & technology Internet'

Engineering 9

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

The science of storytelling and brand performance. Orica is now codifying the decision logic of the most experienced blasting managers through predictive modeling to serve up personalized recommendations on demand. Insight Center. Data-Driven Marketing. Sponsored by Google.

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B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 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.

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Company Intangible Assets Depreciation IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

We need dramatic improvements in energy and water efficiency, and massive rollouts of renewable energy and clean transportation technologies. GE has many products that fit this mold, which the company has bundled under its ecomagination brand for 10 years. But we have to do it new ways now, with clean technologies.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Engineering Energy Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The conversation turned to the growing complexity of the business environment, and the question was inevitably posed: What had I, as a business professor, managed to figure out about what it takes to succeed under such conditions? Leadership Managing uncertainty'

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Drucker Diversity Pharmaceuticals Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Health spas, stone fireplaces, and five-star restaurant chefs are amenities typically associated with luxury hotel brands such as The Ritz-Carlton and Four Seasons. In 2013, about 96% of eligible heart attack Medicare patients received this basic medication, which means 5,761 patients admitted for heart attack did not.

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Survey Health Care Process Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

subscribers in the first quarter of 2013, a 7% increase over the previous quarter. This may not be a big surprise; many of the early Big Data technologies such as the Hadoop Big Data system came from Internet companies themselves such as Yahoo and Google. Information & technology Innovation Strategy'

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ROI Company Learning Curve Retail 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 6, 2019

This is a fundamental marketing model that worked 80 years ago and will work 80 years from now, regardless of what new technology arises that changes the way we shop for and purchase goods or services. First, I learned about the 4 P’s of Marketing—Product, Price, Place, and Promotion.

Marketing 11

Marketing Advertising Price Real Estate 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

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