Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 2, 2013

In China the basis is the family system which operates not only in the People’s Republic, but also overseas in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, Europe and North America. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Utilize networks.

Competitive Advantage 68

Competitive Advantage Content Marketing Newsletter 68

Strategy Driven

APRIL 16, 2014

Peter Fingar, co-author of Business Process Management : The Third Wave , then asks these measurement corollaries in his 2013 article “How Do Your BPM Metrics Measure Up?”. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Are we doing things right? Are we doing the right things? Are we measuring things right?

Metrics 52

Metrics Process BPM KPI 52

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

We are facing a new world – one that calls for new approaches to generating consistent competitive advantage. The near-universal rush to cut costs and headcount is more likely distracting us from, rather than enabling, the real work of retooling our enterprises to be competitive in this new world. All rights reserved.

Ohno 50

Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Despite the realization that computer software greatly enhances the efficiency with which businesses operates, the use of recruitment software is not widespread. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. A monthly recurring subscription of $9.95

Succession 64

Succession Talent Management Software Human Resources 64

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

They want to operate where they are most comfortable. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Be warned, toxic people don’t like boundaries because they want to shift responsibilities according to their mood or the project. All rights reserved.

Competitive Advantage 58

Competitive Advantage Bottom-up Airlines Project 58

Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

The ‘lead’ is rightfully labeled as MQL, or SALs which helps a marketing operations person understand the definition for each defined stage, but it doesn’t help a practitioner understand if the customer segments being targeted are over indexing or under indexing, based on their investment and executional plan.

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.” EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †.

Brand 58

Brand Marketing Engineering Competitive Advantage 58

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

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. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Organization 58

Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 58

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

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2013

You are missing clues, haven’t developed a wide network, and operate more like individual contributor than a leader. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Blame others for outcomes. Failing leaders don’t ask; they tell. All rights reserved.

Self-aware 50

Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Construction Competitive Advantage 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We were a mediocre, at best, institutional operation with a sense of entitlement. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Our real problem was we were not holding our leaders and staff accountable. A monthly recurring subscription of $9.95

Leadership 64

Leadership Training Peer Review Budgeting 64

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Dig hard into your operation to see what’s wrong. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Right about now you are feeling like you have this CEO thing down cold! Maybe it is finally time to work on that golf game. You couldn’t be more wrong.

Price 92

Price Innovation Incentives Learning-by-Doing 92

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

There is a lot at stake here for GE’s operations strategy. 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. 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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% From 1993 to 2013 the cattle herd in the Brazilian Amazon rain forest — covering most of country’s northern region — expanded by nearly 200%, to more than 60 million head.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

The current mantra is “Move fast with stable infrastructure”, which speaks to the organizational design challenge of operating at scale in a fickle and volatile world. ” It further revealed a complex and siloed organization, with competing operating assumptions, values, and practices across the group.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Walmart recently lost $20 billion in market cap in one day, in part because its leadership admitted it needs to invest more into its e-commerce operations. In 2013, Target even told the Securities and Exchange Commission that “digital sales represented an immaterial amount…of total sales.”

Airlines 8

Airlines Retail Loyalty Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

They are called upon to advise companies that must manage risk in an increasingly complex global operating environment and navigate disruptive technologies that threaten their business models. Second: Is this a company with a clear competitive advantage? At the same time, board members face far greater scrutiny than ever before.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage McKinsey Advice Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

A company that creates a sustainable competitive advantage, executes well and reinvests to solidify its strategy will find that its share price accurately reflects its value. When CEO Tex Gunning took over in 2013, he spent weeks in depots and on trucks and wrote to every frontline employee asking for input.

Company 8

Company Bureaucracy Long-term Competitive Advantage 8

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 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

JUNE 24, 2015

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). Overcoming local challenges can create entry barriers against future competition and generate value for the venture.

Business Model 8

Business Model Hotels Supply Chain Globalization 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

JULY 15, 2016

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. As Rita Gunther McGrath describes in her compelling book The End of Competitive Advantage , in the 1980s Fuji was a distant second in the film business to Kodak.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert 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. While cars have been getting smarter and smarter, the removal of human operators is what will dramatically change the law.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 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. We still need strong operational results if we are going to stay competitive. We asked ourselves: What could we do differently?

Resistance 8

Resistance Long-term Short-term Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

The brand died a slow death, beginning when Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in 2010 and then ultimately when its acquirer, Dish Network, decided to shut down all video rental operations in 2013. And are they still able to deliver on its purpose in a way that increases differentiation and competitive advantage?

Brand 8

Brand Merchandising Retail Real Estate 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

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. 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. These developments, while promising, are not without risks.

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. On those grounds, he says, things look bad not just for Sears and all large chain stores, which before the war were considered a threat to so many Americans’ dreams of setting up their own independent local retail operations.

Retail 9

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

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. In 1999, the industry reported an operating profit of almost $9 billion and net income of more than $5 billion.

Crisis 60

Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 60

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Another energy industry client operated coal mines. Activities include media-spokesperson training, field and operations staff training, coordination of corporate response and message points, community liaison, collateral materials writing-production, video archiving-production, media relations, monitoring and expert testimony. .”

Crisis Management 80

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 80

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Once your team is operating with nominated leaders, it is your job to ensure that things flow easily without any major hiccups. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Have more regular meetings. A monthly recurring subscription of $9.95

Competitive Advantage 64

Competitive Advantage Open-book Learning-by-Doing Delegation 64

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. In the 1990s, another international conglomerate purchased Bridgestone-Firestone.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Start your FREE trial membership * and receive: FULL ACCESS to StrategyDriven’s premium content for 14 days. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. A monthly recurring subscription of $9.95

Energy 58

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 58

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

One 2013 study illustrates this well. Looking at all these processes together, it’s clear that culture is the operating system of an organization. A great culture is not easy to build — it’s why high performing cultures are such a powerful competitive advantage. Insight Center. That’s high-ToMo.

Motivation 8

Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Start your FREE trial membership * and receive: FULL ACCESS to StrategyDriven’s premium content for 14 days. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. A monthly recurring subscription of $9.95

Crisis 72

Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 72