Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2015

I started in the insurance business in 1993 as a fresh graduate from East Carolina with a finance degree. He wasn't going to throw me into the 10 foot deep water immediately, but he did make the impact known that I had to learn how to eat what I kill. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved.

Insurance 50

Insurance Committee Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

If the project fails, it is a learning experience-and one that individual will remember for a very long time. HAVING ‘ZERO TOLERANCE’ REGARDING PERSONAL VS. BUSINESS FINANCES. If it can’t do that, what’s the point? For this reason and others, the ‘family business’ trend is flourishing.

Objective 50

Objective Morale Long-term Project 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

We chose to study diversification because business scholars drastically changed their views about it during this period, which allows us to see if students changed their minds as a result of what they learned. corporations from 1985 to 2015. Up until the 1960s, scholars viewed diversification as a valuable strategy.

Influence 13

Influence Education Pharmaceuticals Finance 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

HelloFresh has also had impressive growth rates, with revenues reaching about $300 million in 2015, a huge increase from its $3 million in 2012. But is there something about these specific companies that others can learn? Financed by VC firms. Unicorns have become widely studied and very popular in business press. billion.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

In 2015 Doreetha Daniels received her associate degree in social sciences from College of the Canyons, in Santa Clarita, California. And almost all of us have limits on our time and finances — due to kids, social organizations, work, and more — that make additional formal education impractical or impossible.

Education 8

Education Press Release Offshoring Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Although medical trainees spend years learning about physiology, anatomy, and biochemistry, there are few formal avenues through which trainees learn fundamental leadership skills, such as how to lead a team, how to confront problem employees, how to coach and develop others, and how to resolve conflict. Insight Center.

Training 13

Training Leadership Health Care Education 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

Palmisano’s main complaint with public companies, he said when I asked, had to do with “the regulatory environment and the role that’s being defined for the board.” They do, however, have to be managed intelligently. But they need to figure out what to tune out — and learn to manage Wall Street rather than being managed by it.

Stage-Gate 9

Stage-Gate Strategic Planning Welch CFO 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

For most of 2015, I was the director of Rhode Island’s SBM, known as HealthSource RI, which more than 32,000 Rhode Islanders use to purchase health insurance. Marketplaces allow people to do apples-to-apples comparisons of health insurance products and prices through an online portal. A new consumer mindset. Financial challenges.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is significant — there were 6,822 claims of sexual harassment in 2015. Indeed, a 2015 survey showed that 71% of women do not report sexual harassment, and far fewer bystanders report harassment that they have witnessed. I said, ‘I sure have.

Report 12

Report Long-term Training Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

The Lean Startup is an approach to developing new products that came out of “Agile” software development, with “sprints” (quick deliverables) and fast learning. It’s now being tried in manufacturing since GE and others believe that rapid learning cycles with customers will reduce the risk that you build something you can’t sell.

Ries 11

Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

And to do that, we need an independent team to go in, get the job done (and get out). They need to learn how to partner with Chinese and Brazilian and Israeli and Egyptian entrepreneurs, and sell to customers everywhere. Do we really want to beat India at developing clean tech, cheap medical devices, and affordable housing?

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Microfinance Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

It’s true that some technologies need further development, but some (like traditional machine learning) are quite mature and have been available in some form for decades. Even more recent technologies like deep learning are based on research that took place in the 1980s. We think this is a bad idea.

Company 8

Company Maturity System Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

All too often, MBA students’ previous work experiences center on investment banking, private equity, financial services, consulting, etc – in fact, about 56 percent of Wharton’s 2015 incoming MBA program participants fall in these categories. Finally, you just don’t know this person as well as you think you do.

Company 13

Company Venture Funding Banking Education 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2015

The first rule of expertise, I’ve learned, is never to call yourself an expert. Here’s what I learned in the course of researching my book Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It. Not so much. That’s for others to determine. You and Your Team. Persuasion.

Influence 8

Influence Audience Media Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

In other words, you can build the biggest data lake imaginable, but if you don’t know what you’re trying to find and you don’t have the right data to do it, then you’re not going to get where you want to go. AI is fueled by data, and so it only makes sense that the more data you have, the smarter your AI gets, right?

USP 8

USP Airlines Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

But do board members actually know how to provide proper oversight and help their companies navigate this perilous landscape? This is acutely the case when companies “outsource” political contributions by funding trade associations, politically active nonprofit organizations, and other groups that do not disclose their donors.

Politics 8

Politics Committee CPA Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

In our experience, most companies are already steeped in technology and learning fast about how it can transform their businesses. Launched in August 2015, Predix helps companies see how their machines and infrastructure are performing so that they can improve them constantly. All of this has to happen fluidly and rapidly.

CEO 13

CEO Agility Technology Industry 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

As JPMorgan Chase’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, warned in a June 2015 letter to the bank’s shareholders, “Silicon Valley is coming.” It’s been more than 25 years since Bill Gates dismissed retail banks as “dinosaurs,” but the statement may be as true today as it was then.

Banking 12

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

To understand how traditional software vendors can move to the SaaS model while managing the transformation’s challenges, we studied how the stock market reacted to publicly listed firms announcing they wanted to introduce a new SaaS offering from 2001 until the end of 2015. On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc. and 2.2%, respectively.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

In 2015, CareMore embarked on a journey to transform care delivery in Medicaid with the aim of leveraging its 20-year history in providing comprehensive care for seniors under Medicare. We described our early progress in this 2015 HBR article. Hero Images/Getty Images. To many at the time, we were fools. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Metrics Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

Companies can get stuck trying to analyze all that’s possible and all that they could do through analytics, when they should be taking that next step of recognizing what’s important and what they should be doing — for their customers, stakeholders, and employees. • Machine learning and cognitive computing.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

In six years of working across 60 countries in search of the perfect health system, I have been fascinated by the fact that every country wants to deliver safe, consistently good, financially sustainable health care, but no one has been able to do it. This is simple to say but difficult to do. So what can we do? Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

How do you measure empathy on social media? The energy, finance, and technology sectors tend to tweet using a male-biased tone of voice. Women account for 62% of Twitter users , visiting 40 million times more than men do each month. But the worst have exported their old tricks to new media. They aren’t anonymous.

Company 8

Company Airlines Brand Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Where do they shop? How do we know what they do like? But shifting to meet Millennials’ expectations is something big companies just have to do. Big financial services companies are challenged when it comes to connecting with younger consumers, particularly about personal finance. The internet.

Company 8

Company Hotels Travel Class 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 2, 2015

Roughly half report that the two aspects of employee performance most negatively affected by personal finances are stress and the ability to focus on work (50% and 47%, respectively). Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Training vs. Learning: do you want to train? Or have someone learn?

Education 50

Education Survey Absenteeism Participative 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

We have written extensively on shareholder activism , and one of us coauthored a study in the Journal of Finance showing that, on average, activists produce value for targeted companies. By contrast, World Bank data suggests that the average holding period in 2015 for public company shares globally was just over seven months.

CEO 8

CEO Real Estate Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

In addition, people believe that diverse teams breed greater conflict than they actually do. The information becomes more familiar without much effort, and so they feel that they’re learning. On some teams, members were assigned distinct roles (Artistic, Event, and Finance Manager), thus increasing diversity of viewpoints.

Diversity 8

Diversity Team Bottom-up Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Karen’s communication, and others like it, represent a success for us: We had built a system to assure that we encouraged criticism – in essence inviting patients to speak their minds – so that we could learn and improve. We move pretty quickly on these. Insight Center. Innovating for Value in Health Care.

System 8

System Quality Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. The data captured a 20-year period, from 1995 to 2014. This work builds on earlier research into CEO qualifications.).

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

To identify emerging trends, I use a six-part methodology beginning with seeking out those on the fringes doing unusual experimentation or research. ” 2016 will bring a host of creative bots that will supercharge our productivity, keep us company, and help us track what others are doing. Bots do more than offer conversation.

Trends 8

Trends Film Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Failure to optimize “openness” Because platforms depend on the value created by participants, it’s critical to carefully manage the platform’s “openness” – the degree of access that consumers, producers, and others have to a platform, and what they’re allowed to do there. Insight Center.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve found that managers who fully embrace a superconsumer strategy learn more from their consumers through increased empathy. “The learning curve in any industry is steep, but it is particularly so in the airline industry. Longer tenure reduces the challenge of a steep learning curve.”

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

in 2015 and is on track to reach a targeted 2.5% At 20%, China’s share of global R&D expenditure in 2015 was well above Japan’s at 9% or Germany’s at 6% and second only to that of the U.S. Part also lies in aspects of the Chinese socio-cultural context such as the legacy of rote learning and respect for hierarchy.

Innovation 8

Innovation Drucker Policies Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

By our measures, companies that were managed for the long term added nearly 12,000 more jobs on average than their peers from 2001 to 2015. In recent years we have learned a lot about the causes of short-termism and its intensifying power. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. We calculate that U.S.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

We introduced the Digital Evolution Index in HBR in 2015 to trace the emergence of a “digital planet,” how physical interactions — in communications, social and political exchange, commerce, media and entertainment — are being displaced by digitally mediated ones. Today’s Digital Landscape. Demand conditions.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

of those in these markets said that currency volatility posed the greatest material risk to their pricing strategy during 2014 and 2015. For example, the Russian ruble depreciated from being 37 rubles to the dollar in September 2014, to being close to 70 rubles to the dollar in January 2015. Federal Reserve. HQ without consulting them.

Price 8

Price Globalization Depreciation Marketing 8