Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

Social media has come a long way. No doubt there has been incredible business uptake of social media over the last few years. But what if these social media projects were only scratching the surface of social media’s business value? In summary, the third wave of social business will move from enabling the few (i.e.,

Media 13

Media ROI Corporate Accountability Guidelines 13

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Innovation begins with management; by fostering a culture that prioritizes innovation, creativity is incentivized among team members. 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. About the Author.

Organization 58

Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 58

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Too many organizations today have created and tolerated a range of practices in which creativity, innovation, and the fundamental expressions of our thoughts and feelings about our work and our futures are ignored or spurned. If the popularity of social media has taught us anything, it is that people like to be heard. About the Author.

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Six Sigma Productivity Products Chief Executive Officer 66

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Don’t focus on task or project completion. Rather, think what will happen AFTER the project is completed. Great leaders are wide open to new ideas and innovation. Leaders need to be tweeters, and need to lead the way by communicating value and ideas through social media. Outcome, not task. Outcome, not results.

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360-Degree Feedback Leadership Open-book Customer Loyalty 75

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Mark is a frequent speaker and media source, and has been featured in publications such as Business Week , New York Times , Crain’s New York , Brandweek , Chicago Tribune , Chicago Sun-Times , Admap , Bloomberg Markets , Marketing News , and Advertising Age. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Press Release Marketing Human Needs Advertising 50

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. 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. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Beyond the media splash it caused, though, the event was viewed as a breakthrough on many fronts. They knew the answer was not by relying on traditional internal processes and practices for R&D and innovation. Remember when IBM’s “Watson” computer competed on the TV game show “Jeopardy” and won ? So how does it work?

Venture Funding 14

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

In the wake of digital disruption, new media companies are seeking scale and legitimacy, while old media companies explore new business models. The “platform” is a new media company model that has been perfected by the tech industry. Full disclosure: I have written for The Atlantic.).

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Business Model Content Incentives Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Blaming programmers, coders, and project managers for disgraceful design flaws and technical turmoil is too easy and obvious. Emerging problems are flagged sooner; project leaders present their testing protocols and outcomes; and updated expectations are clearly communicated throughout the enterprise. Crap rolls downhill. Look deeper.

Software 8

Software System Project Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Some of us decided to try, and last year for the first time we put out the idea of “Giving Tuesday” – or, more properly styled for the age of social media, #GivingTuesday. With every project, they are spreading the word through their networks, and the connection to #GivingTuesday becomes more valuable.

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Decentralization Media Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. Don’t keep relying on the same old social media platforms. SHRM reports that 84% of organizations use social media for recruiting, and 82% of them use it primarily in the hunt for passive candidates. Well, not necessarily. So venture out.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

My colleague Andy Hargadon noted this when he did an ethnography of the renowned innovation firm IDEO in the 1990s. As an organization or project grows, and as its challenges change, it not only needs to recognize new priorities, it needs to delete or deemphasize old ones. Sales doubled in 2013.

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Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

These companies spent millions to develop digital products, infrastructures, and brand accompaniments, and got tremendous media and investor attention, only to encounter significant performance challenges, and often shareholder dissent. At P&G, then-CEO Bob McDonald was asked to leave by his board, as was Ford CEO Mark Fields.

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Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to consumer-facing service industries like e-commerce, media, and ride- or apartment-sharing, it’s not new to suggest that “software is eating the world,” to use the phrase of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. As a result, software-enabled manufacturing start-ups are poised to have a large economic impact.

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Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

Few industries illustrate the Big Data wars better than the media business. Early results show that it is working — and that many pre-Web media companies should be concerned. subscribers in the first quarter of 2013, a 7% increase over the previous quarter. The Big Data wars are hardly limited to the media industry.

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ROI Company Learning Curve Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Specifically, our analysis found that the net benefits to ranchers ranged from $18 million to $34 million (12% to 23% of revenues) in net present value projected over 10 years. For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% of revenues).

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Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

During the final year, they added three paths to gather a last round of data: 1) The CEO and directors assigned a year-long CEO-level project to each of the three finalists. Or consider managed-health care provider Humana’s decision in 2013 to recruit an outsider as its next chief executive.

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CEO Bottom-up Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Marissa Mayer’s move to ban working from home at Yahoo in 2013 caused a media firestorm over the costs and benefits of this rapidly growing practice. While many firms that depend on innovation discourage WFH because they want interaction among employees, many occupations have these same characteristics as at Ctrip.

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Policies Call Center Attitude Survey Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

But you probably don''t work at Menlo Innovations, where there are no bosses (at least in the traditional sense). It''s an attractive value proposition: It''s projected to be a big part of the 13.4% growth in digital ads between 2013 and 2014. She offers examples of companies that have succeeded with humorous tweets.

Advertising 8

Advertising Video Ethics PR 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. Specifically, what is the role of the leader in creating and sustaining an innovative organization? Or, as Hill puts it, “Conventional leadership won’t get you to innovation.”

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. Specifically, what is the role of the leader in creating and sustaining an innovative organization? Or, as Hill puts it, “Conventional leadership won’t get you to innovation.”

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

Orange Is the New Black became an unexpected hit, helping to put Netflix on the map as a creator of innovative original entertainment. People may fear the trend of more media content coming from data-driven platform companies instead of industry insiders, from eggheads rather than creators.

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Creativity Project Audience Content 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Demand is predicted to expand by as much as 40% in 2013. They foster innovation. By attracting a variety of members from myriad backgrounds and industries, the looser connections of these constantly churning spaces also appear to have innovation advantages. And for good reason. They make starting a business simpler.

Entrepreneur 17

Entrepreneur Case Study Innovation Media 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

The next evolution in digital advertising must be driven by innovative platforms that more effectively help marketers move their businesses forward. Projections put about 22% of all digital media being automated next year – up from just 4% in 2010. Here are the changes I expect we’ll see in the next year or so: 1.

Advertising 9

Advertising Industry Technology Bottom-up 9

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. They attempted nearly 34 projects that failed before developing an iPhone app called Picaboo, which was subsequently rebranded as Snapchat.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

At the end of each year, I apply a framework to surface the most important emerging trends in digital media and emerging technology for the year ahead. It analyzes consumer behavior, microeconomic trends, government policies, market forces, and emerging research within the context of our continually-evolving tech and digital media ecosystem.

Trends 8

Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

More importantly, he offers concrete examples of how any organization—large or small, and regardless of industry—can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent. What do leaders often get wrong when they think of innovation ? Many of them have little understanding of what innovation actually means.

How To 76

How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Over one-third of the world's largest companies surveyed by the Carbon Disclosure Project are already seeing the impacts of climate change on their business. Sustainability innovation opens up: Unilever, Heineken, and EMC ask the world for help. This new world of social media, where everyone has a voice, can be tough on companies.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Between 1993-2013, the value of U.S. Most economists believe that technology, innovation, and consumer tastes are more significant sources of change than is trade. The United States should initiate a competition in policy innovation to help people work. What about the decline in U.S. manufacturing? manufacturing rose about 60%.

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Supply Chain Politics Policies Globalization 8