Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2015

What skills did you develop? Use this list of questions to develop questions specific to your own industry, business, and product and service lines. Gallup’s annual Economy and Personal Finance survey for 2013 revealed that 70 percent of Americans do not prepare a detailed personal budget. Finding Your Direction.

Goal 50

Goal Planning Marketing Succession 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

And once they know what they want, how can they convince hiring managers that their skills will translate — especially if they’re not quite sure they will? He tried tech, finance, and real estate — all to no avail. Today, she’s a VP and General Manager for a prominent Fortune 500 corporation.

Career 12

Career Skills Real Estate Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Nearly all physicians take on significant leadership responsibilities over the course of their career, but unlike any other occupation where management skills are important, physicians are neither taught how to lead nor are they typically rewarded for good leadership. Leadership curricula should focus on two key sets of skills.

Training 13

Training Leadership Health Care Education 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? Baseline financial skills are still essential, but international experience, industry knowledge, investor relations acumen, technology expertise, and strategic prowess are now just as much part of the package.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

The prosperity of nations and the health of economies is linked to the educational attainment levels and size of a skilled workforce. For businesses, the danger of underinvesting in skills can be great. This was a major theme at the Global Education & Skills Forum last week in Dubai.

GDP 8

GDP Education Finance Globalization 8

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.

Human Capital 14

Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The ManpowerGroup Contingent Workforce Index of 2013 showed 40% of all ManpowerGroup consulting engagements blended permanent and contingent workers. This is increasingly risky, as contingent and other non-full-time workers possess more of your vital strategic skills and deal with sensitive intellectual property.

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

In a study conducted with Google Europe , Roland Berger assessed the digital maturity of French companies, looking into three distinct dimensions: equipment, practices and uses, and organization and skills. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. The third step is about developing an organization that will foster digital practices.

Maturity 8

Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

This, of course, raises an obvious question: Why are so few CEOs skilled at capital allocation? Looking at the resumes of current CEOs across developed markets suggests that the answer may be that many lack training in the skills of investment analysis.

CEO 8

CEO ROIC Cost of Capital Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

Chamber of Commerce supports companies in developing circular economies (CEs), and China — like Europe — has developed policies and legislation around CEs. Soon after, it developed a financing offer for refurbished equipment, which mirrored the warranty and service experience offered for new products.

Policies 8

Policies Asset Management Cost Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

When we began collecting data in 2013 to explore differences between startup acceleration in emerging markets and in high-income countries, we expected stark differences. The most successful accelerators identify the respective entrepreneur’s specific financing needs rather than assuming that there is one path to success and scale.

Marketing 8

Marketing Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Trish Costello, founder of Portfolia, knows her “why”: assist starts-up in growth and financing. Then, in 2013, she launched Portfolia, a platform that allows start-ups to raise money from the crowd, whether family, friends, or professional investors. Then in 2013, he made a big gamble on a how.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Conference CRM Career 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. Even large digital natives such as Amazon and Google have turned to companies and talent outside their confines to beef up their AI skills.

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. It seems only logical that they would extend into corporate strategy and finance.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? The most talented individuals in industries such as technology and finance spoke English, either as a first or second language. out of a possible 990 in February 2013. Many had been educated in English-speaking institutions.

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

In 2013 spending on care for people with the disease in the United States topped $100 billion. This program, our Fresh Food “Farmacy ,” has had clinical impacts superior to those provided by medications that cost billions of dollars to develop, and has done so at dramatically lower cost. Lee Hodges/Getty Images. >.

Class 8

Class Insurance Cost Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

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. The CMO also worked with the finance office and product managers to link pricing and benchmark data into the RFP process, which improved quality and response times.

P&L 10

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

More than once you’ve probably looked at some new digital or technological development and asked yourself, “How did we miss that?” In 2013, technical glitches caused a three-hour stop at the Nasdaq. And it potentially eliminates the need for all intermediaries in most transactions, even those outside finance.

Trends 8

Trends Film Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Clark recommends listing the “concrete skills you need to develop in order to be successful at pursuing your passion full-time.” ” Once you have a list of necessary skills, figure out how to acquire them. Clark suggests identifying ways to “stretch your job description” to learn new skills.

Project 8

Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. Building Empathy.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We’ve been teaching and testing Microsoft Excel for a decade, and a survey of several hundred office staff we ran suggests we spend more than 10% of our working lives spreadsheeting , and for those working in research and development or finance, it’s more like 30%, or 2.5 Scaling Your Team’s Data Skills.

Bottom-up 15

Bottom-up Productivity Products Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

But eight months before completion, in August 2013, while presenting our expansion plan to the hospital’s board, we had an epiphany. High-cost providers (doctors and nurses) were often spending more than half their time on tasks beneath their skill level. physician assistants) in the ED. The data were startling.

Health Care 8

Health Care Diversity Proposal Document 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

A witty comment or botched response on Twitter can travel to Facebook and even news websites in minutes (think of the Oreo tweet during the Superbowl blackout of 2013 ). We supplemented our model by using an algorithm and dataset developed by University of Pennsylvania to identify the apparent gender of our subjects and their followers.

Company 8

Company Airlines Brand Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Politics, regulations, and levels of economic development play a major role in shaping the digital industry and its market attractiveness. In 2013 85% of the world’s transactions were in cash. Most of the developing world is overwhelmingly cash-dependent; in Malaysia, Peru, and Egypt, only 1% of transactions are cashless.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8