Strategy Driven

APRIL 7, 2013

Arguably no technology is changing job functions within organizations more than analytics. Analytics tools give decision-makers the best possible intelligence about customers, finances, operations, suppliers, and the market. 72% of large and midsize organizations planned to invest in business analytics in 2012.

Operations 50

Operations Resources Innovation ROI 50

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Allows individuals aged 70 ½ and older who must take RMDs from Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) to withdraw up to $100,000 and donate to charitable organization. Review your investment portfolio to identify certain appreciated positions to sell now before taxes potentially increase in 2013.

Press Release 178

Press Release Discount Insurance PR 178

Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2013

A growing number of organizations are moving toward having more pervasive Business Intelligence (BI) by turning to evidence-based decision making supported by a range of BI and analytics technology and processes that enable decision makers to have the best possible intelligence about customers, finances, operations, suppliers, and the market.

Resources 50

Resources KPI Strategy White Paper 50

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Given the number of baby boomers expected to retire between now and 2030 (the last group of baby boomers reach of the age of 65 in 2030, and, of course, some may choose to work past age 65) organizations need to prepare others to take over leadership roles. Long term vision/goal setting and the ability to communicate that to the organization.

Case Study 228

Case Study Training Development Leadership 228

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

It begins by attempting to put to bed the various doomsday predictions that robots and other AI-driven technologies are going to lay waste to vast swathes of the labor market any time soon, whilst at the same time accepting that changes are inevitably afoot that need responding to, both from an individual and collective perspective.

Technology 45

Technology Report Productivity Products 45

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

For decades, we have heard that emerging markets are poised for huge growth that will yield even greater prosperity. Much like their famed Silicon Valley counterparts, emerging market accelerators aim to boost startups’ potential for raising growth capital.

Marketing 8

Marketing Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Organizations rely on their data in order to make critical operational, tactical, and transactional business decisions that significantly affect the survival and livelihood of their company. Organizations which thrive on customer transactions to generate revenues rely on data automation software to preserve their data integrity.

Software 50

Software Insurance System Operations 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Four years ago, an Oxford University study predicted 47% of jobs could be automated by 2033.

Company 12

Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

Unless you are willing to bootstrap yourself to some degree of validation of your concept, and can convince investors that there is real demand for what you offer, and a really large market, no one will write a check. Let''s suppose your idea is a good, viable business idea, but not a billion dollar market opportunity.

Incubator 8

Incubator Finance Entrepreneur Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

and globally, and Habitat for Humanity, which works in 70-plus nations to provide home construction, rehabilitation, and increased access to shelter and financing, gathered data from their sites to make the case for profound change. Next, the organizations looked outside for models that showed evidence of results in related fields.

Microfinance 9

Microfinance Strategic Planning Finance Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

It is the skillful combination of emotion and logic, people and process, free-thinking and organization. While the study results provided detailed insights about sales organization trends , it also yielded a wide range of statistics that reflect the strategies sales leaders are employing to overcome their top challenges.

Metrics 11

Metrics Telecommunications Telemarketing Software 11

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. They became a tight group as they went down to the factory floor and built products together and looked at market research together. You won’t have a lot of money.

Ries 10

Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? What would the capital markets look like today if a similar tack had been taken when the CFO role was ripe for transformation? Finance Human resources' And HR’s credibility deficit doesn’t help the matter.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2014

With a market size of $8 billion in 2013 Massive Multiplayer Online Gaming (MMOG) is becoming big business. million as of 2013. Some MMOG professional teams players can command six figure salaries, thanks to the finance provided by corporate sponsorships and advertising. Welcome to the brave new world of e-Sports.

Industry 8

Industry Sports Advertising Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Marketing is in the midst of an ROI revolution. The arrival of advanced analytics and plentiful data have allowed marketers to demonstrate return on investment with a degree of precision that’s never been possible before. To date, however, the reality of marketing analytics has fallen short of the promise.

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Becoming a true digital organization is not just about becoming tech-savvy. 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.

Maturity 8

Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 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

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. Financed by VC firms. billion in a single round of equity financing, the largest private fundraising round for a VC-backed startup ever.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

P&L 10

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

Change management can be a test for any organization. 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. What values drove them?

Management 10

Management IPO Diversity Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Collaborate with colleagues within department and represent department across entire organization. Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards. Meghna has been COO of a small market research company since she earned her MBA several years ago.

COO 13

COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. will grow to U.S. $5 5 trillion to U.S. $7 ZB by 2020.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is the most visible organization tasked with shepherding that inclusive innovative growth. The AfDB has the strongest credit rating of any organization in Africa and in 2008, it surpassed the World Bank in lending to Africa , a signal of Africa’s growing agency in its own development.

Banking 8

Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

A hallmark of skilled leaders and teams is that, as their organizations grow larger and older, as the footprint of a change program expands, they keep looking for signs of once useful but now unnecessary roles, rules, traditions, processes, products, strategies, and services. Sales doubled in 2013.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

The buzz over artificial intelligence (AI) has grown loud enough to penetrate the C-suites of organizations around the world, and for good reason. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space. Photo by Aaron Burson. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The new health insurance market places—the exchanges set up under Obamacare—have become the hot health policy topic. Vital though near-term effectiveness is, the exchanges hold a longer-term potential—they can help reshape the organization, delivery, and financing of insurance. Will they work or won’t they?

Insurance 9

Insurance Goal Health Care Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Since 2013, an estimated 16.4 California’s model is perhaps the most influential: It has affected prices and choice in the market by standardizing plans and aggressively negotiating insurance rates. By January 1, 2015, all state-based marketplaces were expected to replace federal funding with state-level financing.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

First, Kickstarter and other crowd-funding sources have opened up new options for initial finance. In 2013, the multinational contract manufacturer Flextonics — which makes products for Apple and Microsoft — began offering Lab IX , a service that connects startups with manufacturing partners.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Due to the fast growth of the SaaS market and the high valuations of SaaS startups, a move toward SaaS seems very compelling for traditional software vendors. For example, in 2014 IDC estimated that more than one-quarter of enterprise applications would be offered with the SaaS model by 2018, up from one-sixth in 2013.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Both SASB and the IIRC are promoting improved reporting of non-financial information so as to give a better, more holistic, picture of how the organization creates value. For example, in the standalone human capital report from Deutsche Bank (2013), the bank showed trends in its investment in training — and in 2013 investment went down.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. billion in 2013. to assist with the local go-to-market approach.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 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 ). Moreover, Twitter is used by virtually all big Western companies either for marketing or to respond to customers—and sometimes both.

Company 8

Company Airlines Brand Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

In this latest flurry of debate about working long hours , some have intimated that overwork is inevitable in highly competitive industries such as law, finance, and high tech. Counsel on Call was worth nearly $50 million as of 2013 , with over 900 lawyers; it serves one-third of the Fortune 100. But that’s just not true.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Attrition Entrepreneur Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

In the 2011-2012 Market Research Report for BIPAC , performed by Moore Information, Inc., We expect to see more communication from employers to employees in the future ( our 2012 National Pollis set to release in early 2013). And yes, it can be difficult to navigate our nation's evolving campaign finance laws.

Politics 8

Politics Policies Survey Information 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

These managers are more persuasive at getting buy-in from the leaders in their organization, make better strategic decisions, and achieve more stable, more predictable, and longer-term growth. Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

While there is universal agreement that (1) it exists, and (2) that it plays a crucial role in shaping behavior in organizations, there is little consensus on what organizational culture actually is, never mind how it influences behavior and whether it is something leaders can change. Culture is a process of "sense-making" in organizations.

Incentives 8

Incentives Definition Pharmaceuticals System 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. Worthy pointed out in the book, The Shaping an American Institution: Robert E.

Retail 9

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9