Eric Jacobson

APRIL 20, 2013

It covers basic management, managing staff changes, managing projects, strategic thinking, hiring, delegating, and communication -- and lot''s more. In his book, he explains that to be successful you need to know more than your industry and just the basic concepts of leadership, management and operations. His advice?

Books 56

Books Storytelling Delegation Tactics 56

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 6, 2014

Some went on to dominate a market without any previous background in it. Amar told me in 2013 that some factors have changed since he first published his findings, for example, access to capital is more widespread through crowd-funding, along with a mainstream popularization of entrepreneurship and rise of a global startup ecosystem.

Execution 229

Execution CTO Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 229

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2013

An examination of Big Data and its role in the next generation digital experience for marketers. The first weeks of 2013 were barely out of the gate when one industry analyst was already predicting that Big Data would be Time magazine’s 2013 “Person of the Year.” by Acquia, Inc. Consider leaving a comment!

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Resources KPI Newsletter Budgeting 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC and NTE Solutions partner to provide energy industry executives and managers with asset lifecycle management and regulatory compliance advisory services. Project development and management. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Risk management and compliance. All rights reserved.

Energy 58

Energy Chief Executive Officer Chief Operating Officer Compliance 58

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Your upcoming leaders will need to understand how to do business internationally – international laws and regulations for doing business in various countries, cultural differences, the ability to gauge the market overseas including identifying market for product or services and the competition, developing overseas offices, leading virtually, etc.

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Case Study Training Development Leadership 228

Strategy Driven

MARCH 27, 2013

StrategyDriven advisors work with executives and managers to define their organization’s needs and develop and manage the complex, mission critical projects needed to improve operational effectiveness and lower costs in response to today’s most pressing challenges. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Chief Operating Officer 62

Chief Operating Officer Operations Chief Executive Officer Engineering 62

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. If your knowledge-based industry hasn’t been disrupted yet, get ready. government, excellent project management is extremely rare.

Management 20

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 20

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Senior industry leader adds hands-on management and operational experience to StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities focused advisory services. At StrategyDriven, we’re proud to be working with industry leaders to address these challenges and adapt their organizations so they continue to operate safely, reliably, and efficiently.”.

Chief Executive Officer 50

Chief Executive Officer Execution Operations Asset Management 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

As the IT industry continues to evolve, the question becomes more relevant: how does one build an IT organization that is both impactful and lasting? Recent data has shown the top 1,500 companies worldwide increased their R&D by 12 percent in 2011, as they have identified the need to maintain their edge in their respective industries.

Organization 58

Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 58

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

I think the most important thing that I look for [when funding a project] is really, who’s that champion?” Bezos’ approach works especially well when the innovation requires overcoming a lot of market/demand uncertainty (will people buy it?) I think it’s very helpful to cross-fertilize ideas from different industries.”

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Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Recognizing this fundamental difference, Universal changed its marketing from promoting what it wanted consumers to experience to a testimonial to what the experience was already providing. No longer focusing on their marketing platform – “ride the movies”– they built a new strategy – “Experience an extraordinary escape at Universal.” .’

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Press Release Marketing Human Needs Advertising 50

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Actually, this project started probably three or four years ago when Paul’s last book came out, which is called Jumping the S-Curve. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

The past five years have seen explosive growth in “corporate green bonds” issued to finance climate-friendly projects. While investors bought just $3 billion of these bonds in 2013, they scooped up $49 billion worth in 2017, bringing the total sold since 2013 to $113 billion at an average of $308 million per offering.

Bond 11

Bond Company Long-term Short-term 11

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

During this time, an engineer named Taiichi Ohno (known today as the father of Toyota) began the task of building a new capacity for Japanese industrial production. Ohno was then a student of Henry Ford’s industrial process designs and innovations, but these would no longer work given the circumstances in post-war Japan. In the U.S.

Ohno 50

Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Between recent high-profile hires from the fashion and watch industries to the rumored 18-karat gold Apple Watch, some observers are fretting about the company’s trend toward catering to the highly profitable 1%, possibly at the expense of the rest of us. But is that really right?

Mass Marketing 12

Mass Marketing Marketing Brand Meyer 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that Chinese solar stocks had soared based on market expectations that demand in China for alternative energy will increase given the Chinese government's increasing solar capacity targets. China has also begun offering subsidies for rooftop solar projects. Over half of this money was spent on new housing.

Industry 9

Industry Real Estate Telecommunications Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Retooled industrial-age machinery sits alongside robotic-manufacturing equipment. Aquion is a modern success story for American industry. To account for this shift, we believe a more holistic approach is needed to identify the highest-value, most strategically important industries that will drive U.S. They employ 12.3

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Looking to take an unsuspecting industry by storm? Each industry has practices that drive customers crazy," write the authors of Smart Customers, Stupid Companies. Is there something companies in your industry do that's just as stupid? Is there something companies in your industry do that's just as stupid?

Disruptive Innovation 22

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 22

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

Trends 265

Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Or, as it turns out, even the vicinity of 1455 Market Street, the address of Uber’s San Francisco headquarters. The fight for new recruits is intense — not just in the tech sector, but across all industries. ” message and think, Hey, maybe it’s time for a change. What’s the trick?

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. The industry realized its highest returns since the Internet boom. These VCs live entirely on the fee stream.

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Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Industry 18

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

By all measures, emerging markets are having a tough year. However, multinationals still expect their emerging market portfolios to deliver robust growth and increasing profits based on the memory of their performance in recent, more bullish years. Let’s see how this story is playing out in the different emerging market regions.

Marketing 8

Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

For instance, Target has run marketing campaigns that glorify do-it-yourself alternatives, while IKEA has become synonymous with enabling consumers to do the work themselves. An example of competition for preference is the retail industry, which has long been a battleground for customer preferences. Competition for preference.

Stress 11

Stress Insourcing Uncertainty Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Looking to take an unsuspecting industry by storm? Each industry has practices that drive customers crazy," write the authors of Smart Customers, Stupid Companies. Is there something companies in your industry do that's just as stupid? Is there something companies in your industry do that's just as stupid?

Disruptive Innovation 12

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Our research points to one possible reason: employers increased skill requirements during the recession, when high-skill workers were more plentiful, making it more difficult to fill those positions as the job market began to recover. industries, we indeed found strong evidence of this upskilling. First, some context.

Education 11

Education Skills Marketing Industry 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

I recently conducted an extensive research project involving more than one-hundred vice presidents of sales at top technology companies (software, cloud, computer hardware, and telecommunications) to better understand the art and science of managing a sales organization today. Sales is both an art and a science. Quota Attainment Average.

Metrics 12

Metrics Telecommunications Telemarketing Software 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

You’re ready to make a career move, up to a higher level or into a different industry or an entirely new field. Initiate whatever needed to ensure projects’ success. Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards.

COO 14

COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

These are the images many outsiders have of the medical marijuana industry. Moving from a daily metro newspaper to a “pot” publication caused some head-scratching among many acquaintances – even though I was entering a $1 billion-plus industry at the time. Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros.

Industry 11

Industry Retail Banking Brand 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

As the world becomes more digitized, generating more information surrounding products and services and speeding up processes, large and small companies in every industry, even manufacturing, are starting to compete more like the software industry, with short product lifecycles and rapid decision-making. You won’t have a lot of money.

Ries 11

Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Some old technologies, after being rendered obsolete by better and cheaper alternatives (indeed even after whole industries based on them have been decimated), manage to “re-emerge” to the point that they sustain healthy businesses. No doubt you are aware of the explosion of the market – some call it a movement – in handcrafted products.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Supply Chain Technology Parcell 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system.

Strategy 8

Strategy Analysis Operations CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

These interviews were conducted with salespeople across a wide variety of industries including high technology, telecommunications, financial services, consulting, industrial equipment, healthcare, and electronics, to name a few. At other accounts, prospective buyers weren't experienced with purchasing products. Nice-to-Have" Product.

CRM 17

CRM Telecommunications Price Long-term 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

The company created impressive digital capabilities, labeling itself a “digital industrial” company, embedding sensors into many products, building a huge new software platform for the Internet of Things, and transforming business models for its industrial offerings.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

This of course helps Cisco, but it's the labor market as a whole that benefits when those individuals acquire skills that will be relevant for the foreseeable future. Last August, they pledged to hire 1,000 veterans and spouses of active duty soldiers by the end of 2013 - a noble commitment.

Discount 15

Discount Training Insurance Education 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

They use the internet and social networks to unearth best practices, often in other industries and sectors. Take Unilever’s “UL2020” CEO Paul Polman, an advocate of purpose-driven leadership, launched the program in 2013 in order to grow leaders who would thrive in a world of constant turbulence and change.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

We chose Brazil’s beef industry as the location of our case study , both for the size and complexity of the industry and for its impact on the planet. We found that sustainable and deforestation-free practices created significant financial benefits for all players in the industry’s value chain. of revenues).

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

Unicorns operate in industries with big, entrenched incumbents, but they’re able to grow quickly by focusing on a good—sometimes big—idea. Smaller competitor Box already is working on other innovations, including a project management app. Both are true to some extent and much has been written in this arena.

IPO 8

IPO Innovation Price Operations 8