Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2015

We can all dream up big ideas, but few of us can bring them to market. An exceptional team that has been well-directed puts the customer in first position, in essence their supreme boss, with the primary hope that if a customer's expectations are exceeded, that customer can become a customer for life. Projects are always short.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2016

There is no satellite navigation that will tell you which exits to take, there are no lanes marked out that you should stay within and there is not even a road ahead that shows you the way – and if there is, then you’re probably just copying one of your rivals and, more than likely, in a difficult competitive position. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

This is one of the most powerful ways enterprise social collaboration positively affects the workplace: it improves employee satisfaction, increases individual recognition and gives voice to those who might otherwise go unnoticed. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. It creates transparency and security.

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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.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We believe a clear, forward-looking strategy, translatable to the day-to-day activities of all organization members, is critical to realizing success in today’s fast paced market environment. Several of our senior professionals previously held leadership positions within major healthcare organizations. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 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.

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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.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

We should be encouraging our teams to approach every area of the business innovatively – including customer service, processes, organizational design, marketing, and leadership. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. In the new business world, innovation should not be restricted to product development.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

Let’s say you’re working in a new market, far away from headquarters, and you need to get approval for an initiative that is somewhat outside the company’s current strategy. As we spoke to them, Mansfield and his team shared five insights on how to work with senior management to get strategy-stretching innovations to market: 1.

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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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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?

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Emerging market diaspora populations have been on the rise, thanks to the continued march of globalization, and today’s diaspora communities are better connected with their homelands than ever before. Emerging markets and their indigenous companies should see this as an opportunity to boost their competitiveness.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

They create value not by making things but by designing what gets made, determining markets for products, and generating consistent customer satisfaction. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The value generators in today’s economy are no longer factory workers but what we call coordination workers. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

What’s the best way to get your passion project moving? Knowing where your professional passions lie puts “you in a good position,” says Dorie Clark, the author of Reinventing You : Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future. .” As you chip away on your project, continue to give your job the attention it needs.

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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.

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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. But a few years ago, delays in signing new hires were impairing its expansion; in 2013, the average time to hire was 100 days.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

In the figure below, these four competition types are positioned along two dimensions, which reflect two distinct questions: (1) “Are there customers for which to compete?” Therefore, the retail market is actually several markets. ” and (2) “Are we being outcompeted?” Competition for preference.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2014

we are contending with wave after wave of jobs moving overseas, markets that whip up and down, and energy prices rising at an unprecedented rate. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. In the U.S., About the Author. Consider leaving a comment! This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

How do you use your résumé to tell stories that match those new positions’ requirements? You can have a foundational version that compellingly articulates your most important information, but you may have to alter it, perhaps only slightly, for each position you’re applying for. Here’s how.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

It shouldn’t happen, but it does: You realize much too late that your innovation project is in deep trouble. The following highly condensed fictional case study draws on their paper “Anatomy of a Decision Trap in Complex New Product Development Projects” in Academy of Management Journal. Were you misled by the data?

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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. project management), specialized skills (e.g., Jobs That Newly Require B.A.’s

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Most companies make big investments in leadership development, rolling out intensive internal programs for high potentials, sending key leaders off to expensive executive education programs, or hiring personal coaches for those moving into key positions at the top of the company. Business is moving too fast.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

Nearly four in ten employers say they have open positions for which they can't find a candidate with the right qualifications. Obtaining even one IT certification will improve a job seekers' odds of finding employment, as 60 percent of large businesses report having a hard time filling tech positions.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

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. They became a tight group as they went down to the factory floor and built products together and looked at market research together. You won’t have a lot of money.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

But in the meantime, Google’s choices in marketing and distributing its new product get to the heart of the tension between new opportunities and existing strategy. Despite the Glass for Work announcement, it is clear both from the case and the company’s public positioning that it conceives of Glass first and foremost as a consumer device.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

The increasing acceptance of boomerang employees is partly due to the “tight job market,” according to Michael Watkins, chair of Genesis Advisers , professor at IMD , and author of The First 90 Days. ” Be positive. ” Be positive. What the Experts Say. “Former employees are known quantities.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. But here it is midyear and the signals are decidedly more positive. Position yourself in market segments that will grow. The recession eliminated some market segments and redefined others. If you did, then take action now.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Embedded sustainability efforts clearly result in a positive impact on business performance. billion in mining projects since 2010. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

The World Bank puts the figure at 38% in Nigeria , while the Economist projects 55% for young black South Africans. In June 2013, some Harvard Business School classmates and I launched a social enterprise ( WAVE: West Africa Vocational Education ) targeted at the youth unemployment issue.

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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

JUNE 29, 2015

GE has also introduced it to American customers at the 2013 Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Texas. A recent test project for Christiansen and the team has been in the Ormen Lange natural gas field off the Norwegian coast. Kendall, European Marketing Manager of Shell.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The new health insurance market places—the exchanges set up under Obamacare—have become the hot health policy topic. Liberals believe that market pressures, by themselves, will be too weak to prevent hospitals, doctors, and other providers from sustaining what economists call ‘rent seeking’ activities. Will they work or won’t they?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Project Apollo Archive/NASA Johnson Space Center/Flickr. First, the frontier technologies that NASA needed were not already available on the market; they had to be developed from scratch by specialized contractors. In this model, the relational approach was one of positional authority and hierarchy.

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