Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

We are not the political party we vote for. Mark Ingwer is a business psychologist and the founding partner of Insight Consulting Group, a global marketing and strategy consultancy specializing in consumer and business insights. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. We are not the company we work for.

Press Release 50

Press Release Marketing Human Needs Advertising 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The onslaught of mounting stressors include global challenges, such as climate change, terrorism, and political turmoil – as well as personal and professional challenges, such as illnesses, job changes, and organizational restructuring. For many of us, the initial response to stress is to look for external fixes.

Stress 15

Stress Root Cause Analysis Learning-by-Doing Globalization 15

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?

Management 8

Management Globalization Drucker Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

When we reach its second and subsequent chapters, political uncertainty is likely to return and affect the financial, institutional, and real economies. These structural challenges, along with similar ones in other geographies, will drive up uncertainty in the global business environment. Brexit is a process, not an event.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Uncertainty Company Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

Digital technology unfolded on top of a second force that had been building for a few decades: a global movement in public policy towards economic liberalization which was systematically reducing barriers to the movement of goods, money, people, and ideas across the boundaries of nations and industries. But times have changed.

Drucker 8

Drucker Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S. Recently, Bitcoin has become popular in the country with the digital currency trading at $13,000 USD in October (at the time about 50% higher than Bitcoin’s global price).

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

To many, political lobbying is seen as a way to advance special interests at the expense of the greater good. My co-authors, Jinghui Lim and Nick Nairn-Birch, and I examined Lobbying Disclosure Act data collected by the Center for Responsive Politics , to see which firms actually lobby on climate change, and how much they spend.

Politics 8

Politics Competitive Advantage Analysis Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The decline of manufacturing has dominated the political narrative in the United States, but there are dual plotlines within this well-known story. Even more striking, new research from the McKinsey Global Institute analyzes firm-level financial results and finds a stark contrast in performance between the biggest U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

It can generate political capital with government regulators, who may then grant the company greater freedom of movement. Since the tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh in 2013, garment retailers such as Walmart have contributed to improving working conditions for workers.

Execution 10

Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Data contributes not only to brand equity, but to what constitutes product and service delivery in globally connected and hyper-competitive markets. This becomes particularly important in the context of cyber-crime and the alarming rise of business models being held for ransom or political gain.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Intellectual Capital Corporate Accountability Activity Based Costing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Many companies start their search for global growth in an alphabet soup of emerging-market groupings such as the BRIC , CIVETS , MINT , Next 11 , and so on. For instance, ever since Goldman Sachs coined the term BRIC, China and India have pulled ahead of Brazil and Russia, whose growth fell below the group average between 2001 and 2013.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

but in China as well, and there is too much global auto-assembly capacity chasing that demand. For example, the Lordstown, Ohio, factory that makes the Chevy Cruze is running one shift a day, down from three a few years ago, and last year produced 180,000 vehicles, down from 248,000 in 2013. Car sales in the U.S.

Restructuring 9

Restructuring Fixed Costs Consensus Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets. However, oil prices have dropped more than 60% since the interim nuclear deal in November 2013. The Opportunities.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

The report is available online , as is a really rich interactive tool that allows you to slice the data and see how your company compares with some of the global sentiment. 82% of the CEOs in the survey said they were going to spend time changing their customer strategies in 2013. We caught up with PwC U.S. No we're not.

Survey 8

Survey CEO Insurance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

China’s global economic power continues to grow, yet the decision-making dynamics of its top leadership remain a mystery. Standing in opposition are the politically powerful local governments, which have plenty to lose. Which Management Style Will China Adopt? China Economy Global business' What Needs to Change.

GDP 8

GDP Fixed Assets Globalization Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Beijing’s business circles are buzzing this week about what the Communist Party of China (CPC) is cooking up for the Third Plenary Session of the 18 th Party Congress, scheduled to start on November 9, 2013. Which Management Style Will China Adopt? China Global business Government' China’s Next Great Transition.

Policies 8

Policies Uncertainty Long-term Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Uber built up staff, procedures, and software systems whose purpose was to enable and mobilize passengers and drivers to lobby regulators and legislators — creating political disaster for anyone who questioned Uber’s approach. How is an Uber manager to know which laws should be followed and which ignored?

Licensing 8

Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Everyone we spoke to in the company was polite, helpful, and increasingly apologetic. But trying to get paid by a global company with 80,000 employees, I came to realize that noone owned the problem. Megafirm had outsourced the management of the problem to us. And yet somehow they couldn’t pay us. And it is a general tendency.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Chief Financial Officer Delegation Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

In countries without policies that facilitate conciliation, managers overwhelmingly think that women "choose" family commitments over work. The real issue is to develop the corporate leadership skills to manage a feminizing talent pool and a feminizing customer base. See our 2013 Global Gender Balance Scorecard.

Energy 8

Energy Balanced Scorecard Metrics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Inter-domain complexity challenges us whenever a hospital patient has co-morbidities (heart and liver problems for example), or a business problem spans marketing and finance, or a political problem bridges foreign relations and domestic economics. Among them will be a common sense that complexity is dropping, not rising.

Finance 8

Finance Education Drucker Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

But both trade and political alignment lumbered slowly forward until the current quarter and many American executives had become flustered with their India initiatives. In June 2013, Dallas-based Mary Kay exited from India after six years and over $20 million invested. Today there appears to a second gold rush to India.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

“Still No Progress After Years of No Progress,” reads Catalyst’s recently released 2013 census of women directors and executive officers in the Fortune 500. To increase the sample size for a country-focused analysis of New Zealand, we administered the survey to a second wave of New Zealand directors between December 2012 and March 2013.

Diversity 10

Diversity Survey Sample Analysis 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

This reinvention demonstrates that substantial organizational change is possible, even amid barriers such as regulations and politics. The space industry is now a global, multi-faceted, multi-stakeholder endeavor, where commercial activity accounts for the lion’s share of value.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

When it comes to discussions on the various challenges leaders need to address in today’s fast-changing global economy, there’s one topic that merits a proper assessment as to whether or not it’s really an issue for today’s organizations. “How ‘Gen X’ Managers Manage”, in Osland J.S.,

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P&L Fraser Motivation Organizational Behavior 264

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

In the 2016 Edelman Global Trust Barometer survey, of more than 33,000 people around the world, only 27% of leaders were seen as behaving in open and transparent ways. In the 2013 report of the same population, 82% of workers around the world did not trust their bosses to tell the truth.

Company 8

Company McKinsey Survey COO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Most Americans — and both political parties — have come around to the view that attracting skilled immigrants is good for the U.S. In a global economy, it is increasingly clear that the country with the most educated, diverse pool of qualified talent will win. in the fourth quarter of 2013. And it’s essential to the U.S.

Diversity 8

Diversity Globalization Competitive Intelligence Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

A GreenBiz report indicated that progress had slowed or even regressed, but MIT and BCG also declared that sustainability had reached a "tipping point" with more companies putting sustainability "on the management agenda.". After Sandy raged across the eastern coast, Businessweek blared on its cover " It's Global Warming, Stupid."

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Over the last two decades, business leaders in the West have been responding to risks posed by profound changes in the global economy, in technology, and in demographics. Having navigated globalization and rapid technological change, businesses may be scuppered by the social and political responses to them.

Politics 9

Politics Supply Chain Offshoring Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Much of continental Europe is convulsed with similar combinations of disaffection , protectionism , and, in some cases, nationalism and even racism that have morphed into a more-or-less generalized anger against globalization. Economists, policy makers, executives, educators, the press, and others must become more adept at anger management.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

Yet as the global recession continues into its fifth year, there are signs that businesses are adapting. In fact, the brain is well-equipped to manage short-term stress: it releases adrenaline, raises the heart rate, and makes us more alert so we can handle whatever situation is causing the stress. Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Long-term Dunning Stress 8