Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Customer centricity: It’s been proven that companies that prioritize their customers see greater business results and continually bring more innovative products to the market. By tuning in to customer needs, a company is able to define the market in ways they could not have identified had they only looked inward. All rights reserved.

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Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 58

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

What’s the best way to get your passion project moving? “If you are committed to making it happen, there are ways,” says Clark. ” Next, make a timeline based on what you think you can reasonably accomplish toward your project in the time you have. Or pay a freelance consultant to do market research?

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Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. The industry realized its highest returns since the Internet boom. LPs pay VCs like asset managers, not investors.

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Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Industry 17

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2014

we are contending with wave after wave of jobs moving overseas, markets that whip up and down, and energy prices rising at an unprecedented rate. Great leaders continuously engage in this conversation, asking themselves questions such as these and committing themselves to the answers they generate. In the U.S., Declaring a mission.

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Chief Executive Officer Learning-by-Doing Charisma Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

But what if these social media projects were only scratching the surface of social media’s business value? Then came the next wave, external social business, rooted in customer service, corporate marketing, and communications. the few marketers who manage corporate social media accounts) to mobilizing the many (i.e.,

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Media ROI Corporate Accountability Guidelines 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

But the Rockefellers’ move may have more impact, for a key reason: their stated commitment to transition the divested funds to clean energy investments. The $50 billion to be divested is a drop the fossil fuel market’s bucket, but to the much smaller clean tech market it’s a tidal wave.

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Venture Capitalist How To Energy Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system.

Strategy 8

Strategy Analysis Operations CFO 8

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

JULY 24, 2012

This of course helps Cisco, but it's the labor market as a whole that benefits when those individuals acquire skills that will be relevant for the foreseeable future. Last August, they pledged to hire 1,000 veterans and spouses of active duty soldiers by the end of 2013 - a noble commitment.

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Discount Training Insurance Education 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that Chinese solar stocks had soared based on market expectations that demand in China for alternative energy will increase given the Chinese government's increasing solar capacity targets. China has also begun offering subsidies for rooftop solar projects. Over half of this money was spent on new housing.

Industry 9

Industry Real Estate Telecommunications Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Today, the company does roughly $50 million in total sales, with the home market accounting for over 80% of them. Consolidation shrinks the market down, often to one remaining, integrated producer, who can still profit by serving a small group of legacy customers. That’s a healthy company. There is no paradox. cut of sales.

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Disruptive Innovation Supply Chain Technology Parcell 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

We think there’s something more here than executive over-exuberance or slowing markets. Several key lessons emerge when heavy commitments to digital capability development meet basic financial performance problems. It requires foundational investments in skills, projects, infrastructure, and, often, in cleaning up IT systems.

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Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Specifically, our analysis found that the net benefits to ranchers ranged from $18 million to $34 million (12% to 23% of revenues) in net present value projected over 10 years. For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% of revenues).

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Back in 2013, a much-touted survey suggested that by 2020 — just over a year from now — a whopping 40% of the workforce would be so-called contingent workers, a number that would include contractors, temps and the self-employed. The measurements can vary a lot and so can the predictions for how much it’s likely to expand.

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Quinn Entrepreneur IPO Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

” The defining characteristics of companies in this super-sector are a commitment to innovation and a focus on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills in the workforce. Average compensation in 2013 across the advanced industries sector was $90,000—nearly double that of workers in other industries.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

And they love to pursue them, deadline commitments or old strategies be damned. System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. By mid-2013, the company was chugging along at a $200 million annual revenue rate. But a new vision is always more exciting to them than the present one.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

At the consultancy where she used to work, Karla Martin, Google ’s Director of Global Business Strategy, watched a partner repeatedly offer the lead role on new business to a white male whom she had previously led on a massive cost-reduction project for a multimillion-dollar client. Those are some eye-opening statistics. ”

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Management Diversity Report Globalization 8

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.

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CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Then came ill-advised decisions — like making a flip phone when market research showed that no one wanted flip phones — and an accretion of layers of management that operated by consensus. Oh, and an offer from then-up-and-coming star Justin Bieber to rep BlackBerry, an offer that was rebuffed by the marketing department.

CTO 8

CTO Apparel Ryan Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

Find at least one or two commonalities with each team member, and demonstrate a commitment to personal engagement and consideration. When mistakes occur, demonstrate a commitment to forgiveness. As a result, the team feels engaged and ultimately more committed to the final decision. Be inclusive and forgiving.

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Team Uncertainty Stress Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

One Brookings Institute analysis projected that teacher actions could spread to another 11 states. ” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It found that 6 out of 10 teachers went directly into teaching after earning their undergraduate or graduate degree.

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Education Survey Stress Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

subscribers in the first quarter of 2013, a 7% increase over the previous quarter. How else did the companies projecting the greatest ROI from Big Data differ from underperformers? ROI leaders see greater potential from Big Data to improve a number of marketing, sales, R&D and service activities. million apiece on it last year.

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ROI Company Learning Curve Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Research I conducted in 2012, 2013, and 2014 with the global advertising agency J. None of us tolerates ambiguity well — particularly when the losses and gains underpin our livelihoods or the projected long-term happiness of our families. She quotes G.K.

Career 8

Career Long-term Planning Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

A professional’s career and their collected Body of Work encompass time, energy, resources, perseverance and lots of commitment in order to produce. Packaging, distribution and marketing of the product. The better it appears to be (marketing, wrapping, price, place of purchase) affects our viewpoint on its quality.

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Long-term Budgeting Quality Consultative 56

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. One resulting project was ‘KFC Kalendar,’ an advertising campaign that showcased community events and public service announcements to diverse communities.

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Franchising Budgeting Pryor Consultative 63

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. A multiyear research project by McKinsey reports the single greatest factor in determining effective strategy execution is people feeling like they are making progress in meaningful work. Boredom seems inevitable.

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Company McKinsey Survey COO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

It analyzes consumer behavior, microeconomic trends, government policies, market forces, and emerging research within the context of our continually-evolving tech and digital media ecosystem. Smart virtual personal assistants: SVPAs started entering the market in 2013. All without you explicitly asking it to do so.

Trends 8

Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. They attempted nearly 34 projects that failed before developing an iPhone app called Picaboo, which was subsequently rebranded as Snapchat.

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Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Consider: Employees, entrepreneurs, and agency partners have flooded the site, pasting in marketing copy for every company product, adding the official bio for each and every senior executive, and including voluminous details of every CSR initiative to their organization’s corporate page.

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PR Public Relations Conflict of Interest Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

economic and security commitment to the Asia-Pacific. 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. is not on “offense”—pushing to open markets—the U.S. TPP is also a practical statement of the U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Politics Policies Globalization 8