Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Investing in research and development helps to establish this culture and ensure the company will remain ahead of the curve. Customer centricity as a strategy reorients the entire business-operating model around the customer; it means understanding the customer’s point of view and respecting the customer’s interest.

Organization 58

Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 58

Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

The waterfall methodology was a classic approach used for software development. In 2013, the Marketing Sherpa B2B Analytics Study revealed that 63% do nothing or occasionally leverage data to gain any insight. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. About the Author.

Marketing 51

Marketing B2B Due Diligence Benchmarking 51

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2014

As a 2013 company report* stated, “Navistar was selected as a name with a strong sound, a resonance to Harvester, and a connection to its root words “navigate” and “star.” Bezos’ ambitions were as large as the company name, and he eventually developed a business model that would include far more than books.

Brand 58

Brand Marketing Engineering Competitive Advantage 58

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Dig hard into your operation to see what’s wrong. Product development has been a little slow for a while. These days, most of your product developments are minor enhancements that don’t yield better margins. Develop a new model for the sales person of the future. Maybe it is finally time to work on that golf game.

Price 92

Price Innovation Incentives Learning-by-Doing 92

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2013

By developing an accurate view of, and aptly managing, one’s own emotional responses to situations, the rest of you skills and talents are magnified and leveraged. You are missing clues, haven’t developed a wide network, and operate more like individual contributor than a leader. Ask yourself, do I…? All rights reserved.

Self-aware 50

Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Construction Competitive Advantage 50

Strategy Driven

MAY 1, 2014

Find certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB), Women Owned Small Businesses (WOSB), 8(a) Small Disadvantaged Businesses or those operating in areas designated as Historically Underutilized Business zones (HUBZone) within related industries and connect with them to pursue contract awards within these categories.

Open-book 58

Open-book Budgeting Proposal Competitive Advantage 58

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

The Lean Startup is an approach to developing new products that came out of “Agile” software development, with “sprints” (quick deliverables) and fast learning. There is a lot at stake here for GE’s operations strategy. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.” and compete successfully.

Ries 11

Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

This is very different from the way large businesses have operated for decades. What does it mean to operate in a digital business ecosystem? Digital business ecosystems dynamically create and operate value chains that extend their participants'' markets. What does it mean to view innovation as the only competitive advantage?

CIO 8

CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Driving competitive advantage through stakeholder engagement. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. ” Improving risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Executives are bombarded with bestselling ideas and best practices for achieving competitive advantage, but many of these ideas and practices contradict each other. Should you create a blue ocean, be adaptive, play to win — or forget about a sustainable competitive advantage altogether?

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. There’s still time to make AI a competitive advantage.

Survey 12

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

and transplanting it somewhere else, particularly in a developing country. Rocket’s competitive advantage often centers on achieving operational excellence in difficult settings (for example, in Amazon clones, getting books to customers in countries with poor infrastructure).

Business Model 8

Business Model Hotels Supply Chain Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

The company’s cultural dysfunction, it seems to me, stems from the very nature of the company’s competitive advantage: Uber’s business model is predicated on lawbreaking. But I suggest that the problem at Uber goes beyond a culture created by toxic leadership. ” Respect for the law barely merits a footnote.

Licensing 8

Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. legal system is already having trouble keeping up with the pace of developments in transportation. traffic deaths.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Clearly one reason is remittances: according to the World Bank, over $400 billion was sent back to developing countries in 2012. These transfers feed directly into the domestic economies of emerging markets and boost growth, but they do not necessarily push the country up the development ladder.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Metrics Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

But as Netflix and online media channels developed, Blockbuster was no longer unique in fulfilling that purpose, and the way it fulfilled it became anachronistic. And are they still able to deliver on its purpose in a way that increases differentiation and competitive advantage? Is their brand’s purpose is still relevant?

Brand 8

Brand Merchandising Retail Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

Getting the company back on its feet required a major boost in operating efficiency. We succeeded, but by 2013 we worried that we had taken our focus on results too far. After six months of development, we assess each manager again, and this time the assessments have teeth. We asked ourselves: What could we do differently?

Resistance 8

Resistance Long-term Short-term Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

And that same transparency has radically shortened the shelf life of any new competitive advantage. “We’ll 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.

P&L 11

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Business development. Another energy industry client operated coal mines. The process of strategy development is not esoteric. Business development. The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Running the business. Body of Knowledge.

Crisis Management 80

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 80

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Business development. airline industry reported an operating loss of more than $10 billion in 2001 and a net loss of almost $8 billion, according to Air Carrier Financial Statistics Quarterly, a compilation of airline financial reports issued by the U.S. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

Crisis 60

Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 60

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit. These developments, while promising, are not without risks. But the strength of small business is dependent on the availability of bank loans, and the evidence suggests this critical funding may be drying up.

Technology 9

Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

But from the average consumer’s point of view, it can be hard to see Sears’ competitive advantage right now. In a pattern that would become familiar to today’s innovation thinkers, Worthy reports, “the then managements of Sears and Wards alike failed to grasp the significance of these new developments.”.

Retail 9

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business development. Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. Thus, efforts to treat a fraction of one percent took resources away from addressing the other 99.999% of companies’ full-scope planning, training and marketplace development.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

Business development. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture.

Energy 58

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 58

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Business development. This industrial development program carried the theme, “You Can Believe/Puede Creer.” Economic development and community stewardship programs emerged. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Crisis 72

Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 72

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

One 2013 study illustrates this well. Gore & Associates gives people free time and resources to develop new ideas. Looking at all these processes together, it’s clear that culture is the operating system of an organization. Insight Center. How to Be a Company That Employees Love. Sponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting.

Motivation 8

Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8