Nathan Magnuson

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

February 11, 2013. When each individual comes up with different good ideas, the operating environment quickly gets complicated. All too often this leads to a loss of trust, miscommunication, and a decrease in morale, not to mention loss of market share or revenue. Home About Coaching Contact Guest Posts Archives. Michael Hyatt.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises LLC and Xen Wireless form StrategyDriven Analytics to provide utility industry executives and managers with asset management program benchmarking data supporting operational and investment decisions and fleet and individual plant performance assessments. Plant Maintenance and Operations. About StrategyDriven.

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Wireless Benchmarking Asset Management Industry 58

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. It is important to develop these apps, and the techniques associated with applying them, but what about the operating system that runs them? A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x

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Strategy Driven

MAY 1, 2014

With a new budget in place, agencies are starting to spend money again and are looking towards small businesses to help fulfill their contracting goals. According to the SBA Goaling Program, recent updates are increasing contracting opportunities to small businesses. In January, Congress approved a $1.1 trillion spending bill.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Dig hard into your operation to see what’s wrong. So the absence of conflict should not be your goal. Make innovation the number one goal in the company (read: big incentives for achieving innovation goals). And just don’t make it a goal-make it an absolute requirement. You couldn’t be more wrong. About the Author.

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Price Innovation Incentives Learning-by-Doing 92

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Customer centricity: It’s been proven that companies that prioritize their customers see greater business results and continually bring more innovative products to the market. By tuning in to customer needs, a company is able to define the market in ways they could not have identified had they only looked inward. All rights reserved.

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Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 58

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

In 1933, General Motors President and CEO Alfred Sloan established the automobile industry’s first full-time consumer research department under the direction of Henry “Buck” Weaver, a pioneer in market-based decision making. Because of the exponential growth of social media in recent years, and the fact nearly half of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Walmart recently lost $20 billion in market cap in one day, in part because its leadership admitted it needs to invest more into its e-commerce operations. In 2013, Target even told the Securities and Exchange Commission that “digital sales represented an immaterial amount…of total sales.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

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. and spends it in international markets. Aldi UK sales grew from $6.3

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

America’s largest insurer, Allstate, announced plans to invest $1 billion in its India operations. In June 2013, Dallas-based Mary Kay exited from India after six years and over $20 million invested. At the same time Amway and L’Oreal thrived in the same market and personal care sales boomed across most of India.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

and scale up after its recent declines in sales and market share. Employees operate within a hierarchy and are well aware of the guidelines that dictate their behavior. Behavior is even more tightly regulated at Amazon’s warehouses, where target goals and surveillance keep production on schedule.

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Price Decentralization Long-term Self-aware 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. Companies are both operators and investors. These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In fact, MGI analysis of financial data shows that large publicly traded US manufacturing firms, most of them multinationals with revenues greater than $500 million, averaged returns on invested capital of 22% from 1997 to 2013. But now the situation has reached such a tipping point that larger U.S. manufacturers are taking notice.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

At the New Media Expo, I also interviewed Nick Harris, head of digital marketing for Benjamin Moore. In fact, we're now reaching a point where having a scattered focus could truly be deleterious to your goals, because you're only able to half-engage or create mediocre content.

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Media First-mover Advantage Early Adopters ROI 11

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? Now compare that to the context and condition of today’s CHRO role.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Hundreds if not thousands of hospitals have responded to trends such as shorter average hospital stays, fewer surgeries, a shift to outpatient and home care, and reduced reimbursements by consolidating or overhauling their operations and laying off staff. We’ve certainly had to change too. Serious accountability.

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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 June, all SBMs except Hawaii’s had reached that goal. The average credit was $270 per month. Burwell, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

To determine the best approach to using ICT for development (or ICT4D, as it’s sometimes called), Huawei recently interviewed 150 telecom operators, government bodies, regulators, NGOs, and social enterprises in 11 countries. Technologies that don’t meet this goal are exacerbating the digital divide, not helping to close it.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

The study results reveal there are 15 significant differences between how high-performing, average, and underperforming sales organizations perceive themselves, measure performance, staff their organizations, and operate. Sales & Marketing Sales'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. But if you go to the marketing department and ask them, they’re usually clueless.” “Take a football player. He will always know how he performs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

This is very different from the way large businesses have operated for decades. Until now, the goal has been to standardize and optimize transactions among these components to reduce costs and achieve efficiency. What does it mean to operate in a digital business ecosystem? Most of these benefits have been achieved.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

As Diane Mulcahy explained in a 2013 Harvard Business Review article : ”Angel investors — affluent individuals who invest smaller amounts of capital at an earlier stage than VCs do — fund more than 16 times as many companies as VCs do,” she wrote, “and their share is growing.” Steven Moore.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

The goal was to keep litigation from occurring, which was met. Another energy industry client operated coal mines. Crisis planning and strategies should be intertwined with security issues, financial goals, workforce empowerment and many other corporate dynamics. Finally comes Crisis Training. Body of Knowledge.

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Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 80

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Trade secrets, confidential business plans, and operational security depend on it. Losing that kind of information can mean a plunge in stock price and market share. Verizon''s newest data breach investigations report for 2013 tells us — yet again — that cyber security depends on people as much as technology.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% of the world market, and the second-largest beef producer and consumer. of revenues) and $13 million to $62 million (0.01% to 0.7% of revenues). million (0.01% to 0.6%

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

The commission ratios vary from development to marketing to finance, administration, sales and customer support, and in the various areas are based on the metrics the individuals are most able to directly control. Everyone knows what the monthly operational "nut" is. Do we need another programmer to meet a critical goal?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

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. Rebuilding the community image. About the Author.

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Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 60

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

He had spent the last two months interviewing for a position as director of operations at a sporting goods company. His resume was spot-on — he’d spent five years as a sporting goods sales rep and several years as an operations manager doing “everything from ordering for shops, to speaking with dealers, to sales.” His goal today? “To

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Management Proposal CEO Human Resources 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

CEOs also tell us that CIOs do not understand where the business needs to go and how IT should support strategic goals. But even though they know they must innovate in response, they don''t know how to do so in the complex global market. Traditional products are simply becoming windows into information-based, services-delivered value.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

“Retailers are all using scanner data to track what happened at the point of sale ,” says Sam Hui, an associate professor of marketing at NYU’s Stern School of Business. ” Lezon, along with Alex and Ani’s head of merchandising and head of sales operations, used the data to inform product placement.

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Retail Chief Technology Officer Technology Merchandising 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Both examples fit the conversation that should be going on in the C-suite, but isn''t, because it makes people nervous, and because people lose visibility and perspective of what is changing around them as they focus on their goals. IT management ROA ROI'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

John Mackey, co-founder and co-CEO of Whole Foods Market, discovered his noble purpose early in his life. The goal of this movement is to form communities of socially-responsible companies with enlightened leadership that are driven by a higher purpose and a stakeholder orientation. Both Mackey and Mulally are smart individuals.

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Ethics Morale Airlines CEO 9

Mark Sanborn

DECEMBER 5, 2021

His wife, Erika, joined the team in 2013, and today Envisioning Green is a husband-and-wife-owned, boutique-style landscape construction and maintenance company being featured in a business book. . Much of their business relies on what they call “relationship marketing.” every afternoon to work. . Keeping Clarity.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

In the meantime, retail and wholesale markets have stalled around the country. billion annually in currency operations costs. The disruptive action did not originate in a small segment of the market; it was launched nationwide. Supply chain transactions, real estate deals, and even weddings and funerals have been frozen.

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Banking Cost Policies Supply Chain 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. Along the way, many defective tires hit the market, subsequently causing SUV rollovers, damage and, in some cases, deaths. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. What Causes Crises.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

In a recent Forrester survey of 100 customer experience professionals, nearly half of respondents said that their executive team''s strategy for customer experience is market differentiation. They also believe that innovation will help them achieve these lofty goals — and they''re investing accordingly.

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