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. K-Mart had become the odd retailer out but still kept 1,500 stores for its reorganization. Inevitably, when retailers contract, they blame poor performance upon bad locations.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

If you want to learn how to develop an experimentation organization, read on. Managers are no exception, especially when incentives favor finding causal relationships between variables that are difficult to measure, such as changes in leadership style and team performance. They must embrace a new leadership model.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

d.light’s deeply holistic analysis of the problems faced by people in poverty led to developing inexpensive, durable solar-powered LED lanterns (sold on time payments) to replace kerosene, open fires—or darkness. As of February 28, 2013, the company claims: 13,638,438 “lives empowered”. Two examples: Let There Be Light.

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Productivity Products Prahalad Open-book 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2013

Social media is there at the forefront of mobile app development – whether you’re there or not. Here’s my present situation and what I’m going to be doing to ensure my leadership position for the next decade: I have an app. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Going mobile is not an option.

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Download Customer Loyalty Seminar Media 56

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Business development. The common denominator was open communications with customers, where other retail centers try to stifle mention of incidents. The process of strategy development is not esoteric. Business development. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Running the business.

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Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 80

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Troubles at Tesco, the UK’s leading retailer, are mounting. If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. How did this happen?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Business development. For many years, we will be measuring how loss of corporate credibility has tainted all facets of business, in terms of remediation, replacement, litigation, make-good, rework, damage control, recovery process, settlements to victims, decreased stock market value and sagging retail sales. Running the business.

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Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 60

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

It’s not been a great year for venerable retailer Sears, which is reputed to be closing 130 retail stores and laying off more than 5,000 employees. Founded in 1886 as a mail-order watch retailer, Sears was already 71 when it became an original member of the S&P 500 in 1957.

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Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

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. 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.

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Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The tales of two companies, cell phone accessories retailer Cellairis and skin care products maker Rodan + Fields, illustrate the dangers of top-level strategic tinkering. They had the epiphany that they could use cheap retail space – the carts that sit in the middle of shopping malls – to sell mobile phone accessories, mostly cases.

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Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Rather than aiming at all 17 of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals , for example, companies will likely tailor their sustainability efforts to their commercial priorities. Coca-Cola devotes many resources to creating cleaner water supplies in developing countries. It’s not for every company.

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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. But by the 1990’s, big box retailers had taken over the market and the Service Merchandise brand no longer offered meaningful differentiation.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

There’s even a story that Reed Hastings wanted a meeting with the people at Blockbuster to essentially give them the technology, saying let us handle your DVDs by mail and your future streaming business; you focus on the retail store. It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. DAVID: Yeah.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

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. Zimbabwe’s new leadership faces a challenging task. Years of economic mismanagement.

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Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

doubled from 20% to 40% between July and December 2013, and has stayed at that level since. I studied large-scale change and innovation efforts in 56 randomly selected companies in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. Change leaders move fast.

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Middle Management Six Sigma Taylorism Taylor 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.)

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Here are three strategies for developing digital distribution approaches that minimize risk: Embrace Stealth. Starting in 2011, Mercedes chose to develop direct distribution capabilities for electric bicycle sales under its Smart brand. How can companies position for the future without putting their current business in jeopardy?

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Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

While there are some factors that make social innovation more likely than not — such as intrapreneurs who will champion them — Davis and White find that competing for talent, strong brands, and leadership transitions all correlate with stronger social initiatives.

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Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

For example, even in 2013, Scottish fashion brand Lyle & Scott put out a call for a new CEO on Twitter. — Lyle & Scott (@Lyle_and_Scott) August 29, 2013. According to the executive recruiter leading the search , the owner of Lyle & Scott wanted “a modern, tech-aware retail CEO who is social media literate.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

In 2012, Electrolux leadership decided this had to change. These teams include consumer insight, brand, product, retail, digital, social, and consumer care specialists who now closely work together to create integrated consumer experiences and launch plans. Capability building puts an emphasis on developing “transformation champions.”

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Marketing Brand Globalization Innovation 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

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. So when I asked Mark Krolick—managing director of marketing and product development at United Airlines—about the hypothesis that having more superconsumers as leaders or employees enhances business performance, he smiled.

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Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

And what about getting candid feedback for your own growth and development? That might mean dedicating time to professional networking and enrichment groups so that you keep up with business contacts and develop new skills. “I had to get a master’s degree in real estate development. What the Experts Say. ”

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Real Estate Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing Career 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. >.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

One 2013 study illustrates this well. We saw this play out in retail, banking, telecommunications, and the fast food industry as well. And in one retail organization we worked with, we found that the difference between a low-ToMo and high-ToMo sales associate was 30% in revenues. Insight Center. Sponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting.

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Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

“We’ll spend a lot of time bringing product to market, but we need to plan for the fact that a launch gives us a six-month head start and no more,” says Gary Booker, CMO of Dixons Retail. That approach to linked metrics served as the basis for developing employee incentives, such as bonuses.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11

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. Retail e-commerce sales worldwide are expected to hit $4 trillion by 2020 , about double of where it is now. In 2013 85% of the world’s transactions were in cash.

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Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Two developments bear noting. ” It explains why firms that have anchored their strategies to content have ceded digital leadership to those that have focused on connections. When the pseudonymous Robert Galbraith published A Cuckoo’s Calling in 2013, the novel sold about 1,500 copies in the first month.

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