Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Startup CEOs need to know how to act once they realize that a new revenue stream is growing faster than the original business concept. As CEO and founder of two of the fastest growing digital advertising companies in the country, I’ve had to make that decision twice. Don’t forget that business is a leap of faith.

Business Model 73

Business Model Advertising How To Entrepreneur 73

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Tesla’s partners eventually sold Tesla Electric Light Company’s patents to George Westinghouse, CEO of the Westinghouse Electric Company. I think the most important thing that I look for [when funding a project] is really, who’s that champion?” says Adobe CEO Shantanyu Narayen (#7 on our list). “I Moreover, it’s hard. “I

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Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Strive Masiyiwa was interviewing him to be CEO of the Nigeria telecoms venture lead by Econet Group, which Strive founded and chairs. ’” Under a different CEO, Econet Wireless Nigeria went on to build a nationwide network of street-side airtime sales. Of course, it helps you understand those foreign markets.

Marketing 8

Marketing Career Wireless Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Meyer writes: So far, Apple has been a company focused on the mainstream, on the mass consumer, in an era where the most reliable profits could be found in the luxury market. To understand the cost of Apple products that we associate with mass market success, we mapped the U.S. But is that really right?

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Mass Marketing Marketing Brand Meyer 12

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

StrategyDriven advisors work with executives and managers to define their organization’s needs and develop and manage the complex, mission critical projects needed to improve operational effectiveness and lower costs in response to today’s most pressing challenges. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

What’s the best way to get your passion project moving? ” Next, make a timeline based on what you think you can reasonably accomplish toward your project in the time you have. As you chip away on your project, continue to give your job the attention it needs. Or pay a freelance consultant to do market research?

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Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Commitment 8

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Actually, this project started probably three or four years ago when Paul’s last book came out, which is called Jumping the S-Curve. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

The company’s stock price has languished for years, and CEO Jeff Immelt—a powerful advocate of the company’s digital ambitions—recently departed the company under pressure from activist investors. The new CEO, John Flannery, is focused primarily on cutting costs. Other senior executives have left as well.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. They became a tight group as they went down to the factory floor and built products together and looked at market research together. You won’t have a lot of money.

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Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Our research points to one possible reason: employers increased skill requirements during the recession, when high-skill workers were more plentiful, making it more difficult to fill those positions as the job market began to recover. project management), specialized skills (e.g., First, some context. Jobs That Newly Require B.A.’s

Education 10

Education Skills Marketing Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

When the company had 60 or 70 people working at its Palo Alto headquarters, founder and then CEO David Kelley (now Chairman) did a masterful job of orchestrating the “Monday morning,” a weekly 9:00 am gathering. BuildDirect was founded in 1999 by CEO Jeff Booth with his good friend Rob Banks. Sales doubled in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Mark Thain, Director of Social Innovation at Barclays, said: “Barclays has run such programs since 2013 and committed several million dollars to new products, services, and even a new line of business, surfacing hundreds of intrapreneurs in the process.” ” Develop: Let them improvise.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of Uber, the ride-sharing giant, proudly declared on September 10 that “very few brands become verbs” The same week Upwork, a platform for hiring freelancers, filed for an IPO, as did Fiverr , which boasts that it offers a “freelance services marketplace for the lean entrepreneur.”

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Quinn Entrepreneur IPO Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Human-capital issues are top-of-mind for CEOs around the world — but their regard for the HR function remains perilously low: In a PwC study , only 34% said that HR is well prepared to capitalize on transformational trends (compared with 56% for finance). Sadly, chief executives aren’t the only ones with this negative perception.

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Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Skouras, the company’s CEO, thought that sounded like a swell idea. System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. In late 2009, CEO Lori Bush was searching for a way to raise the productivity of the company’s sales force. Tinkering can kill midsize companies. The results were remarkable.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? What would the capital markets look like today if a similar tack had been taken when the CFO role was ripe for transformation? A recent survey of CEOs reveals that HR is overwhelmingly viewed as the least agile function.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Andy O''Connell Justin Bieber's Involved, of Course The Rise and Fall of BlackBerry: An Oral History Businessweek For years, every CEO had a BlackBerry. Oh, and an offer from then-up-and-coming star Justin Bieber to rep BlackBerry, an offer that was rebuffed by the marketing department. They said, ''This kid is a fad.

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CTO Apparel Ryan Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

First, it’s not nostalgia for manufacturing that’s driving GE CEO Jeff Immelt and his team to make this decision to focus (again and still) on making the stuff our economy needs. GE’s newly trim company is a victory of making stuff over making markets, and that’s a good thing. Sustainability Data Operations'

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Supply Chain Engineering Energy Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Examples of this trend include the Pebble , a Kickstarter-funded project that has now sold over one million smart watches (and which predated Google’s Android Wear smart watch and the Apple Watch). Other contractors have also begun to engage, seeing real market value.

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Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

“Do a test run on a project that is a bit less urgent and give your team full accountability and see how it goes,” Chatman says. “Ask a colleague you trust: ‘How’s that project going? .” “Ask a colleague you trust: ‘How’s that project going?’” Step back slowly.

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Micromanagement Team How To Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

New research led by Lan Jiang, an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Oregon, shows that if you give a shopper an unearned reward, she’ll probably have mixed feelings if she’s observed by other people, such as shopper No. It''s an attractive value proposition: It''s projected to be a big part of the 13.4%

Advertising 8

Advertising Video Ethics PR 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. The transformation in education technology and markets is happening with the business leaders and money-men of higher education barely present.

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 16, 2019

This has certainly been the case at HeroX, a spinout from the XPRIZE group that was created in 2013 with the express wish to make it easier for organizations to create the kind of challenges for which the XPRIZE have become famous. But if trained the right way, juniors have tremendous potential,” József Boda, CEO of CodeCool told me.

Education 52

Education Software Skills Engineering 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

in 1999 with the dream of: “changing people’s lives with science and technology” — and then he delivered this in a big way, becoming probably the richest person in China, and the only Chinese member of Forbes ’ “top 12 most powerful entrepreneurs for 2013”. .

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Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Research I conducted in 2012, 2013, and 2014 with the global advertising agency J. with people ranging from janitors to CEOs, old as well as young — were thinking of changing not just their jobs, but their careers. More than half of the respondents to our surveys — all over the U.S.,

Career 8

Career Long-term Planning Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

And our own survey of 795 large companies (average revenue of $22 billion) in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America found average per-company spending on IoT initiatives — $86 million in 2015 — was projected to grow to $103 million by 2018. running out of ink), and it enticed many customers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2015

As I reported in an earlier piece for HBR.org : A software CEO I spoke with recently said he avoids job candidates with advanced software engineering degrees because they represent an overinvestment in education that brings with it both higher salary demands and hubris.

Software 8

Software Engineering Incentives CRM 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

I come in after the wrong consultants have given bad advice, after knee-jerk reactions to changing business climates had taken tolls on existing market players. Its CEO (John Y. Corporate cultures depend upon real-time conditions, projected outcomes and policies that promote steady growth.). Colonel Sanders died in 1979.

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Franchising Budgeting Pryor Consultative 63

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Determined to feature a global perspective, the authors include narratives of executives within India-based IT company HCL Technologies, the German division of online auctioneer eBay, and the marketing division of automaker Volkswagen in Europe. Willing to Take Chances. “He let them play it out.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Determined to feature a global perspective, the authors include narratives of executives within India-based IT company HCL Technologies, the German division of online auctioneer eBay, and the marketing division of automaker Volkswagen in Europe. Willing to Take Chances. “He let them play it out.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2018

We were working hard on getting product-market fit right, so anything we could do to get more customers and to find the right feature mix was a critical learning opportunity. If someone had a marketing grader idea, chances are I would say “yes” to it. You have half-baked projects all over the place.

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P&L Strategy Press Release Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

In the 2013 report of the same population, 82% of workers around the world did not trust their bosses to tell the truth. For instance, one CEO client asked me to review his remarks to employees following a difficult analyst call announcing missed earnings. Corporate executives spent months trying to nail down a new market strategy.

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Company McKinsey Survey COO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

Kickstarter is one of a growing number of crowdfunding platforms for gathering money from the public to fund all sorts of projects. IBM saw these online social systems for investing in new ventures and decided they would like to develop a similar system internally for selecting innovative projects.

Software 8

Software CIO Early Adopters Project 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Brandt, CEO and founder of The MPI Group and an award-winning journalist, has devoted more than two decades to studying leadership in effective, purpose-driven organizations. Bringing a new prescription drug to market, for example, now costs nearly $2.6 Why should customers have to rekey their data over and over when buying something?

How To 76

How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Take the case of General Electric, whose CEO, Jeff Immelt, recently delivered a widely noted speech on globalization and strategy, which included the following: Today: Big companies are distrusted; governments and global institutions are failing to address the world’s challenges; globalization is being attacked as never before.

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Globalization Education Policies Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Between 1993-2013, the value of U.S. We should run pilots, test performance, and then either build on the experience or end the project. CEOs and top executives visited Capitol Hill to explain the importance of trade agreements. is not on “offense”—pushing to open markets—the U.S. manufacturing?

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Supply Chain Politics Policies Globalization 8