Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

In the two decades from 1990 to 2010, our country fell from having the sixth-highest rate of female labor-force participation among 22 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD, countries to 17th on the list. Stereotypes and skewed perceptions remain powerful and still impede the advancement of women. References.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Thanks to the proliferation of smartphones, brand and online-shopping websites, social media, and vehicle connectivity, businesses have a unique opportunity to use technology to revolutionize the customer experience and to incorporate the voice of the customer into product development. Give your social media team the resources they need.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

I recently got back from the New Media Expo in Las Vegas. Scheduled before the massive annual CES gathering, it's a powwow for bloggers and other social media enthusiasts, early adopters who are quick to jump on board the next great thing. That doesn't mean doing less overall or abandoning new media.

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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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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

That you would be paid peanuts compared to your old comfortable job, and you would be harassed and bashed in the media constantly. This was the context when on Christmas day 2013, the then designated Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa offered me the aforementioned thankless and non-lucrative opportunity. Turbulence.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations. Post your social media links, speaking dates, press releases, brochures, and articles. Social Media. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Online surveys, social media and voice-of-the-customer events all help to ensure that a fact-based understanding of customer needs drives the company forward. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. There are a variety of tools that aid in capturing customer insight. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

In 2013, Google took a step towards understanding the intent of their users with the Hummingbird algorithm. Perhaps the least concerning implication is that there is systemic bias in our information feeds, that we operate in and are informed by tiny echo chambers. beastfromeast/Getty Images. Force the system to cast its net wider.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

General Motor’s announcement that it plans to idle five North American factories and cut 14,000 jobs has sparked much discussion in the media and outrage in Washington. Capital-intensive factories have a high-fixed-cost, low-variable-cost operating model. Alistair Berg/Getty Images. government. That is what GM is trying to do.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Social media acts as both sound-check and amplifier for traditional media, so CCTV News, though still mandatorily aired across the nation, can no longer assume that its audiences are believers. In October 2013, an incident involving Starbucks unfolded, when CCTV aired a segment “exposing” its relatively higher prices in China.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

It existed in over half the companies in 2013 with 20% officially allowing it, but both these numbers dropped a year later; by 2014, just over one-third said it existed, and only 7% officially allowed it. BYOPC truly exploded, nearly doubling from 44% to 80% between 2013 and 2014, with a jump in unofficial use making the big difference.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

In fact, although we saw examples of companies using AI in computer-to-computer transactions such as in recommendation engines that suggest what a customer should buy next or when conducting online securities trading and media buying, we saw that IT was one of the largest adopters of AI.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The company doubled its revenue last year (2013-2014) to more than $1 billion and its systems are installed in more than 1 million homes in the U.S. They have mastered the use of social media for community building. Through this interface, users can follow other stations, create playlists, and see other users’ behavior.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

That you would be paid peanuts compared to your old, more comfortable job, and you would be harassed and bashed in the media constantly? After a general election that saw an Islamist-led coalition rise to power, the country witnessed two political assassinations in February and July 2013. And you wouldn’t be allowed to complain?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

The business media have had no shortage of these. GE is moving to an outcome-based economic model, bringing the company closer to its customers’ operations. Entravision Communications Corporation is a Spanish-language media company with significant reach in the U.S. Monetizing Digital Assets.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

The current mantra is “Move fast with stable infrastructure”, which speaks to the organizational design challenge of operating at scale in a fickle and volatile world. ” It further revealed a complex and siloed organization, with competing operating assumptions, values, and practices across the group.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

Americans’ demand for media is very high. As Steve Hasker, Nielsen Global President, says , American consumers now have a second 40 hour per week job: consuming media, much of which now streams over phones and computers. This allows you to better manage operating and capital expenses. Both of these were true for Netflix.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

They had a fuller discussion in 2013–2014 — around the time when media reports of the illicit behavior first surfaced. Stumpf testified that he personally became aware in 2013 when, after two years of ineffective solutions within the business unit, the volume of fake accounts was still increasing.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Beyond the media splash it caused, though, the event was viewed as a breakthrough on many fronts. More than 2,500 developers and start-ups have reached out to the IBM Watson Group since the Watson Developers Cloud was launched in November 2013. Remember when IBM’s “Watson” computer competed on the TV game show “Jeopardy” and won ?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2015

This continues a trend The Association of National Advertisers first reported in 2013. We want to leverage social media, content marketing, and integrated models but every time we ask our agency for a proposal, it comes back as advertising. I’m sick of it. Continuity has become more important than campaigns.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

We say the big bang disruption is this better and cheaper product or service that enters, and then because it’s better and cheaper, rational consumers who can spread information now much more easily among themselves through social media and so on, they’re going to tell each other, hey, don’t buy a standalone GPS navigation device.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

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. If so many companies are using social media, it must be effective, right? Well, not necessarily.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2016

In December 2013 he was an up-and-coming young San Francisco entrepreneur and CEO of an incubator, when he posted an offhand comment on Facebook about homelessness in his city. Nobody can truly understand the ecosystem they operate in without getting out and wading in it. Greg Gopman has had an interesting two and a half years.

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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. First, Kickstarter and other crowd-funding sources have opened up new options for initial finance.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Many such “Rocket” companies are poised to become the Alibabas and Amazons for the rest of the world: Jumia, which operates in nine countries across Africa; Namshi in the Middle East; Lazada and Zalora in ASEAN; Jabong in India; and Kaymu in 33 markets across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

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Constraint Marketing Innovation Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

As a long-time business journalist in the mainstream media, my professional and personal reputation was on the line. billion in 2013 – up about 15% from the year before, according to our 2013 Marijuana Business Factbook. In all honesty, I shared some of these concerns as well. medical marijuana sales hit an estimated $1.5

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

But for 2013 he was only about 15 percent on target. But his 2013 forecasts were certainly within the realm of the possible; they just failed to materialize this year. Far too often companies watch regulation on a national basis in their countries of operation, missing small regulatory changes occurring in a province or state.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Trade secrets, confidential business plans, and operational security depend on it. Verizon''s newest data breach investigations report for 2013 tells us — yet again — that cyber security depends on people as much as technology. Often such breaches are discovered only by third parties — like the FBI or the media.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Crisis management is so much more than handling of the media. Unfortunately, the follow-through never transpired after the media coverage died down. Another energy industry client operated coal mines. ” Provide complete answers, and respond to media requests for additional information in a timely manner.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

” In order to chart the best way forward, you must understand emerging trends: what they are, what they aren’t, and how they operate. We’ll see advanced bots manipulating social media and stocks simultaneously. In 2013, technical glitches caused a three-hour stop at the Nasdaq.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

Despite all the media attention venture capital gets, it’s far from the most common source of startup funding. The experiment ran for eight weeks in the summer of 2013, and spanned 21 startups, 4,494 investors, and nearly 17,000 emails. Steven Moore. ” Last year total U.S. angel investments ran to $24.1

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

operates in 13 countries, spanning a dozen languages. out of a possible 990 in February 2013. When I post using social media, whether it is through Twitter or our internal social media tools, I can engage and connect immediately. What do you do? Hire interpreters? My company, Rakuten, Inc. points in October 2010 to 737.3

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Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

billion in its 2013 IPO) that investors have plowed into it. WordPress operates as an open-source ecosystem with a venture-backed corporation, Automattic , at its heart. Internet Social media Venture capital' The company has piles of money — $3.6 And the company’s latest (Oct. It might also be really bad business.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Please note that titles used here reflect the positions the individuals held in 2013, when we conducted the interviews for a separate article ). Their concerns fell into three broad categories: talent, operating in a global marketplace, and regulation and legislation. Operating in a Global Marketplace. Ken Powell of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The Boston Red Sox 2013 World Series championship will long be remembered as proof that you can turn around nearly anything. For the Globe and its counterparts, the competition is not one rival or game at a time, like baseball; it is multiple digital media offerings and others-to-be-named-later. Think small as well as big.

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How To Airlines Open-book CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

The company has adopted an Amazon-esque strategy; it now owns and operates twelve large warehouses well located to deliver loads of flooring, roofing, and other heavyweight building materials to do-it-yourself homeowners and contractors. Sales doubled in 2013. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days.

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Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

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. Today the company has annual revenues above $20 billion, competes in healthcare and electronics operations and derives significant revenues from document solutions.

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