Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 9, 2014

At the same time, the advent of new ground breaking technologies such as electricity and motorization – today we would call them disruptive – allowed the estates to operate with significantly less staff. A world in flux, now : And it is happening, right now, to businesses in almost every industry, everywhere in the world. 2 above).

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Competitive Advantage Resistance Business Model Consensus 267

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It is a wonderful and unique technology that can transform our lives as well as business ideas. Men are currently dominating the AI industry and 71% of new applicants in this field are male…. AI continues to be a growing source of startups and as technology evolves it will continue to grow. Come on ladies!

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Banking GDP Insurance Globalization 74

Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results. In The Innovator’s Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle with radical innovation in their markets.

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Blue Ocean Strategy Prahalad Christensen Leadership 220

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. Online and Outage Work Management. About Xen Wireless.

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Wireless Benchmarking Asset Management Industry 58

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

But far more important than heroic reputations are the values these captains of industry personified and instilled within their organizations. When reading the news these days, I sometimes wonder if we have completely forgotten the tenets these titans used to shape American industry. And that would be a good thing. * * *. Eich , Ph.D.

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Decentralization Organizational Behavior Short-term Public Relations 284

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 26, 2022

In Oxford’s Michael Osborne and Carl Benedikt Frey’s hugely influential 2013 paper looking at the likelihood of automation for various professions, truck driving was one of the professions that were projected to be automated in double-quick time. Our results suggest that the impacts of automation may not happen all at once.

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Osborne Transportation Operations Hedge 73

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.

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Execution CTO Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 229

HR Digest

AUGUST 24, 2023

The impact of the labor shortage is being felt in many industries, including agriculture, construction, and healthcare. Japan, known for its technological advancements and economic prowess, is facing a significant challenge – a labor shortage. What can Japan do to solve its labor crisis?

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Crisis Chemicals Policies Trends 52

Eric Jacobson

APRIL 20, 2013

This book, by Brain Solis, details the incredible transformation happening in business today, driven by new social and mobile technologies. 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?

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Books Storytelling Delegation Tactics 56

Strategy Driven

JUNE 8, 2016

Can nuclear plants be operated competitively in today’s market? An evolving energy market, led by cheap natural gas and subsidized renewable generation, threatens the long-term financial viability of America’s remaining nuclear power plants. Over the past three decades, the U.S.

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Payback Period Power Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain 50

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category. The Scale – Expanding potential through technology, delegation and partnership. Around 2013 we began to notice an exciting renaissance in the SF tech scene as startups and entrepreneurship took off.

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Entrepreneur Succession Self-aware Storytelling 65

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2021

The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category. The Scale – Expanding potential through technology, delegation and partnership. Around 2013 we began to notice an exciting renaissance in the SF tech scene as startups and entrepreneurship took off.

Entrepreneur 65

Entrepreneur Self-aware Storytelling Early Adopters 65

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category. The Scale – Expanding potential through technology, delegation and partnership. Around 2013 we began to notice an exciting renaissance in the SF tech scene as startups and entrepreneurship took off.

Entrepreneur 65

Entrepreneur Self-aware Storytelling Early Adopters 65

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Over the past two decades, technology has advanced exponentially; and with that burgeoning growth, IT organizations have seen tremendous expansion. 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?

Organization 58

Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 58

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. In contrast, Musk cares about customer needs as well but only at a high level; he picks what he perceives as big important needs that haven’t been met because of technology constraints and is more of a “technology first” innovator.

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Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

One of the things I think is most interesting is there’s a lot of old models of innovation and of strategy that I won’t say they don’t necessarily apply anymore, but they apply to very, very, almost static markets. DAVID: Yeah. I should say we were talking off the air about- Thanks for ruining Everett Rogers’ curve for me.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Tim Milburn

MARCH 14, 2014

In today’s fast-paced world, new technologies change industries overnight. million around the concept and produced an infomercial aimed at the women’s fitness market. The product failed, largely because consumers found it too complicated to use, and because Alden had targeted too small a corner of the fitness market.

Magazine 106

Magazine Bottom-up Self-aware Marketing 106

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. Technology offers real hope for Africa’s economic future.

Management 19

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

For senior marketers, it is a very humbling thought. What if your ideas, your thoughts and even your experience as a trained marketing professional didn''t amount to a hill of beans in terms of the brand''s actual advertising performance? What if, in short, what your company really needs is not a marketer, but a data scientist ?

Marketing 12

Marketing Advertising Chief Information Officer Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Retooled industrial-age machinery sits alongside robotic-manufacturing equipment. This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. Aquion is a modern success story for American industry. We call this super-sector “advanced industries.”

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Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Fortunately, companies are becoming more aware that a data integrity insurance system is a necessity and are implementing new technologies into their business processes in order to safeguard against a data breach. Reports, customer transactions, and revenues can all be affected as a result of bad data.

Software 50

Software Insurance System Operations 50

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

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The last decade ushered in an economic meltdown and technological breakthroughs that have forever changed the business world as we knew it. 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. In the U.S. All rights reserved.

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Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

After an unprecedented decade of growth, analysts wrote off 2013 as a year to forget for Apple. But in our view, Apple faces a deeper problem: the industries most susceptible to its unique disruptive formula are just too small to meet its growth needs. Apple quickly became the largest music retailer in the U.S.

Industry 9

Industry Wireless Advertising Content 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

It’s easy to make a case that Apple is now positioning itself to become more of a provider of luxury-level technology. Meyer writes: So far, Apple has been a company focused on the mainstream, on the mass consumer, in an era where the most reliable profits could be found in the luxury market. But is that really right?

Mass Marketing 12

Mass Marketing Marketing Brand Meyer 12

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. The MMOG that epitomizes the birth of this new industry is perhaps League of Legends (LoL). LoL’s 2013 World Championship garnered online viewership of 32 million on Twitch.tv

Industry 8

Industry Sports Advertising Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit.

Technology 9

Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

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

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. Take technology providers' technical support, with its long hold times "hopelessly complex interactions." To start, try eliminating customer pain points.

Disruptive Innovation 22

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 22

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

This constantly increasing rate of technological advancement and social change is speeding up the pace of business and life itself, leaving most of us feeling time-poor. Technological deceleration , which is not giving up technology, but carefully controlling its use and instead focusing on face-to-face communication.

Tourism 12

Tourism Hotels Transportation Fashion 12

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

In 1998, I advised the Disney corporation and reminded them that Walt Disney’s 100th birthday in 2001 would offer great marketing and positioning opportunities. Houston Symphony Orchestra, 100th in 2013. Technology is but one tool of the trade. Star Furniture, 100th in 2012. Civil Rights Act, 50th. Ideas make the future happen.

Case Study 50

Case Study Open-book Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

The story was picked up by CNN Money , which reported that Lyft’s internal data suggesting 5,560 canceled rides between October 2013 and August 2014. Lock up the good drivers and you lock up the market. Just as with the ride-sharing drivers, technology is making alternative jobs easily available to your pivotal talent.

Industry 8

Industry Supply Chain Engineering Competitive Advantage 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 17

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

JUNE 5, 2018

” Technological developments are often interesting to discuss in relation to relevance. A current example of uncertainty around relevance concerns blockchain , i.e. the technology behind virtual currencies such as bitcoin. In other words, the technology can make brokers and bankers irrelevant. Competition for dependence.

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Stress Insourcing Uncertainty Retail 10

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