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. You can read more on mastering this difficult balancing act in the Hay Group 2013 Best Companies for Leadership study.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 28, 2013

This post first appeared 1/24/2013 on SmartBlog on Leadership : The year 2013 has begun, and with it a new year of scrutinizing CEO performance. The veteran “Worst CEO” writer and market insider Greenberg picked Groupon’s Andrew Mason, who didn’t appear on either of the first two lists. It’s worth taking one last look at 2012?s

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

I was struck not only by their disciplined approach but also by their freedom to discover, develop and design within broad operating parameters—conditions I did not typically associate with large, for-profit corporations. Michigan), is president of Eich Associated , a marketing and public relations consulting firm. Eich , Ph.D.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

It’s perhaps no surprise, therefore, that data from Rice University shows that market power today is more concentrated in the hands of a relatively small number of incumbents than ever before. It runs the risk that startups targeting niche problems get crowded out in favor of those forced to chase mass market problems.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 31, 2014

Before my trip to Catalyst Atlanta 2013 , I purchased the Acer C710-2856 Chromebook laptop. I wasn’t sure how I was going to like this laptop as it uses a different operating system than I’m used to. There’s not another laptop on the market that I could find near that price. If so, what did you think about it?

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 25, 2020

In Technology and Cooperation Help Fight the Pandemic Chelsea writes, “The threat from COVID-19 should be taken seriously, but there are reasons for rational optimism even during a pandemic.” Stock markets should bounce back more quickly than the six years it took the Dow Jones Average from 2007 to 2013 to recover.

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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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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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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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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. It often helps if the executive in charge is not from IT, but from operations or marketing, and that there are close links with customer-facing and other operational roles. They are transforming each and every business model.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2013

A growing number of organizations are moving toward having more pervasive Business Intelligence (BI) by turning to evidence-based decision making supported by a range of BI and analytics technology and processes that enable decision makers to have the best possible intelligence about customers, finances, operations, suppliers, and the market.

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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.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Organizations rely on their data in order to make critical operational, tactical, and transactional business decisions that significantly affect the survival and livelihood of their company. A business’s life source is its data, and with the recent data breaches and cyber attacks, the state of a business’s data has become a top concern.

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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. 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.

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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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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.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 20, 2013

While workplaces are swiftly becoming more and more advanced in cloud computing, using social media for marketing purposes, and generally becoming au fait with modern technology, there is one area which is sadly lacking when it comes to technological advancement. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Investing in technology can help lift people out of poverty, and investments that use technology for development are good for business, creating millions of new customers. Using information and communications technology (ICT) for development is fairly common, but surprisingly, most digital divide projects don’t generate revenue.

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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.

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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.

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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. So where Ford incorporated everything into one integrated mega-plant, Ohno designed operations for a network of factories. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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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. ” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology. Generate and nurture your own talent channels.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Companies increasingly use digital technologies to circumvent distributors and enter into direct relationships with their end-users. Writing in the Sloan Management Review, Boston College professor Gerald Kane noted that 87% of executives surveyed indicated that digital technologies will disrupt their industries to a great or moderate extent.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe. dollars.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department.

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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. How technology is changing the way we work. But where and how do you start? Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

financial services sector went from 13,000 of independent banks to half that number, while the top ten banks grew from 20% market share to 60%. As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

As Quartz reported last year: Members of the Glass operations team have been on the road showing it off to companies and organizations, and they told Quartz that some of the most enthusiastic responses have come from manufacturers, teachers, medical companies, and hospitals. Glass may yet turn out to be a great consumer success.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

What, another clarion call urging executives to fundamentally rethink their business models through digital technology? Yet huge opportunities exist in using digital technology to evolve your business model by rethinking your existing products, economic models, and digital assets. The business media have had no shortage of these.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

In a previous piece I discussed why some AR apps are destined to be forgotten as gimmicks, and what mistakes marketers should avoid when trying to deploy them. Aside from complex technological advances (e.g., Aside from complex technological advances (e.g., This technology let people virtually “try on” a product.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The network effect, which describes how services and technologies become more valuable as more people use them, has driven the success of many internet companies. The advertising guru David Jones dubbed this mixing of branding and technology as “brandtech.” They leverage technology in innovative ways.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

The directors of Procter & Gamble, for instance, have established an Innovation and Technology committee; the board of specialty-chemical maker Clariant has done the same; and Pfizer has created a Science and Technology committee. To that end, Diebold recruited a new CEO in 2013, Andy W.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

There is a lot at stake here for GE’s operations strategy. In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.” and compete successfully.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

By year’s end, the seven biggest emerging markets were larger than the G7 , in purchasing power parity terms. Far from Silicon Valley, Shanghai, or Singapore, a German company, Rocket Internet, has been busy launching e-commerce start-ups across a wide range of emerging and frontier markets.

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