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. IT companies, in particular, need to be deliberate in getting out in front of change or risk being surpassed by advancing technology. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Fortunately, companies are becoming more aware that a data integrity insurance system is a necessity and are implementing new technologies into their business processes in order to safeguard against a data breach. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. A monthly recurring subscription of $9.95

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Software Insurance System Operations 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Weed out early on; technology helps. So, isn’t it time that you examined the root causes of your bad hires and learned how to incorporate science and technology into your hiring practices? EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Quality Pre-Employment Screening Talent Management Reference 68

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The last decade ushered in an economic meltdown and technological breakthroughs that have forever changed the business world as we knew it. We are facing a new world – one that calls for new approaches to generating consistent competitive advantage. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 21, 2013

For example, in the field of medicine, new technologies are constantly being developed to help aid and assist patients. If the people working in that field do not have the skill set and have not practiced with these technologies in an educational setting, then how are they going to be able to provide the support and care that is needed?

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Education Letter Competitive Advantage Talent Management 59

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2014

Holy frijoles, 2013 is over! What was your 2013 resolve? Technology shifts. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. How did you do? How did those resolutions and goals you made at the end of last year work out?

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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. Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. Don’t answer the question with technologies, offerings, or categories.

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Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 21, 2013

Degree in Project Management, combined with over 20 years of hands-on PM experience in the high technology, telecommunications, and clean energy sectors. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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Project Management Film Telecommunications 58

Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2014

Young companies located in these hubs—particularly technology firms—are able to attract technical talent and maintain close proximity to their investors and mentors. These factors have led to other cities taking advantage of their smaller tax bases and educated labor forces to attract more cutting-edge companies to their areas.

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Company Real Estate Strategic Planning Venture Capitalist 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit.

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Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

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. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Instant success. I’ve certified more than 100 advisors.

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Succession Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Content 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

No personal website, no personal brand, no social media interaction, and not taking advantage of smartphone technology. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. What has changed is that salespeople HAVE NOT CHANGED. All rights reserved.

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Media Advice Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage 64

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Houston Symphony Orchestra, 100th in 2013. Technology is but one tool of the trade. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Living in the past is not good, nor is living in the present without wisdom of the past. Star Furniture, 100th in 2012. Civil Rights Act, 50th. Beatles coming to America, 50th.

Case Study 50

Case Study Open-book Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

The European Commission believes that digital business ecosystems are critical to Europe''s future competitive ability, and the key to realizing "this promise of fostering the development of those technologies, systems, applications and services that are critical to achieving higher growth, more and better jobs, and greater social inclusion."

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CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 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.

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Competitive Advantage McKinsey Advice Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 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. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.” You won’t have a lot of money. There will be a very small team. You can’t do that if you want to be secretive.”.

Ries 10

Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

While the obvious decisions that CEOs need to get right involve strategy and competitive advantage, too many executives delegate away three critical decisions that they need to own: decisions about goals, resource allocation, and people. The best executives understand which ones they need to focus on and which ones they can delegate.

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P&L Fixed Assets Charan Delegation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

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. Just as with the ride-sharing drivers, technology is making alternative jobs easily available to your pivotal talent. Everyone is familiar with Glass Door, Monster.com, and LinkedIn.

Industry 8

Industry Supply Chain Engineering Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

Frustrated by these limitations, the global information-technology service provider Atos, headquartered in France, sought an internal collaboration system that would do away with email’s “closed” form of communication.

Company 8

Company Competitive Advantage Tools Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

subscribers in the first quarter of 2013, a 7% increase over the previous quarter. We found that companies with huge investments in Big Data are generating excess returns and gaining competitive advantages, putting companies without significant investments in Big Data at risk. Information & technology Innovation Strategy'

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ROI Company Learning Curve Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Absent regulatory barriers, Google can so easily extend its search technology to new regions and countries that would-be rivals struggle to find an untapped location. Overcoming local challenges can create entry barriers against future competition and generate value for the venture.

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Business Model Hotels Supply Chain Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

’ the questions must be asked, ‘WHY did we start doing WHAT we’re doing in the first place, and WHAT can we do to bring our cause to life considering all the technologies and market opportunities available today?’” Is their brand’s purpose is still relevant?

Brand 8

Brand Merchandising Retail Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategy involves choices about what products and services to offer, which markets to serve, and how the company should best set itself apart from rivals for competitive advantage. Although they developed digital photographic technology, too many people in the company focused on the core organizational competence of film.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Driving competitive advantage through stakeholder engagement. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. That conventional wisdom has now reversed.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

The technological advances of the digital age have allowed the global workforce to be better connected, more collaborative, and have greater personal impact than ever before. More than a year after its publication, I’m still reeling from the results of Gallup’s 2013 Global Workforce Study. Or are they? Or are they?

Management 8

Management Globalization Drucker Uncertainty 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.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies. As was discussed in Chapter 8, technology constitutes one tenth of 1% of any organization’s overall Big Picture. In 1999, the U.S. Consider leaving a comment!

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

” — which advised them to stake out a sustainable position based on a unique advantage — codified it. However, as early as the 1980s, strategy theorists began to warn that competitive advantage wasn’t static — that today’s advantage may not be sufficient tomorrow.

Strategy 10

Strategy Competitive Advantage Porter Automotive 10

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

Though I wrote all my books on computers, I wrote the modern technology chapters on the typewriter, to make points to myself that the readers could never have grasped. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 58

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

In 2006, 26-year-old Frank Wang started up DJI in a dorm room at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. As part of his graduate thesis, he perfected an electronics flight controller, a critical element of drone technology. billion, with the company growing at a compounded annual rate of over 100% between 2013 and 2017.

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Business Model Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

I spoke with contributor Don Sull , who teaches strategy at MIT and the London Business School, about the tension between scholars who put sustainable competitive advantage at the center of strategy and those who argue that some industries are changing too quickly to allow for sustained performance.

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Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Innovation 10

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

QAspire

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Open means we have access to all fundamental knowledge, resources, technology, online courses etc. Because in this world, continuous and self-directed learning is the only sustainable competitive advantage we all have. In this economy, just having (and hoarding) knowledge is not powerful, what you do with that knowledge is!

Media 174

Media Competitive Advantage Learning-by-Doing eBook 174

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

democratized communication technologies like Skype) and more physical touch points (e.g. Emerging markets and their indigenous companies should see this as an opportunity to boost their competitiveness. In their October 2013 HBR article on diaspora marketing, Nirmalya Kumar and Jan-Benedict E.M.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Metrics Incentives 8