Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. At the company level, it is quite clear that digital maturity is synonymous with stronger economic growth and a higher level of well-being for employees. We found that the more digitally mature companies grew revenue at six times the rate of their less mature counterparts.

Maturity 8

Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2017

Compare that with 67% and 66% in 2016 and 2015, respectively. It’s not that employees are getting less tech-savvy; it’s that the market demands more of each and every one of them. Jobs requiring greater analytical skills, for example, grew at a 77% clip from 1980 to 2015.

Skills 11

Skills Company Technology Tools 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

economy, according to white paper issued by 2015 Strategic Innovation Summit: Enabling Economies for the Future at Harvard University. They move quickly when new information arrives and the market shifts, building businesses that advance their industries and contribute to their communities. Local Support.

Company 8

Company Content White Paper Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

The past year has been difficult for many markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). While SSA was predicted to grow above 5% year-over-year in 2015 at the beginning of the year, actual GDP growth is more likely to come in at around 3–4% year-over-year. Growth in 2016 is unlikely to be much higher.

GDP 8

GDP Politics Marketing Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

PwC’s 2017 Risk in Review report revealed that 47% of corporate officers said they track their risk appetite – up from 36% in 2015. No amount of research and iterating will guarantee market success. Choose an optimal launch date based on your timeline and market variables. Deliver that on time. Then iterate.

Content 8

Content Creativity Maturity Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Instead they are waiting for the technology to mature and for expertise in AI to become more widely available. 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. We think this is a bad idea.

Company 8

Company Maturity System Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

These include manufacturing, budgeting, planning, sales and marketing, and customer service. By comparison, $1,000 of Chipotle stock purchased the same year and sold at its peak in 2015, before the e-coli scare, would have only been worth about $5,000. Major changes to any one of these elements affect the others and the whole.

Business Model 14

Business Model Technology Advertising Cost 14

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

It is usually technical or sales/marketing in nature. What is their maturity level? Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author.

Education 50

Education Company Succession Mentor 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Since the initiative expanded from a small pilot program in Western Europe, consumer enthusiasm has been so strong that the partners now expect the disease will be eliminated, as measured by World Health Organization standards, by 2015.

Maturity 10

Maturity Mass Marketing Brand Comparison 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2016

In a network, individual roles become more fluid and a company’s engagement plan must mature beyond offering only paychecks or products. For example, Microsoft’s Windows Insider Program reimagined its most loyal customers as an extension of it product development and marketing teams. million in 2015.

Business Model 8

Business Model Mission Statement Decentralization Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Among the findings: 63% of firms now report having Big Data in production in 2015, up from just 5% in 2012. Among the findings: 63% of firms now report having Big Data in production in 2015, up from just 5% in 2012. We are entering that same phase of maturity with Big Data. Develop the right metrics.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer Agility Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

So far, 2015 has produced 30 unicorns. But as start-ups mature, the grow-at-all-cost narrative will be replaced by a flight to capital efficiency and profitability. As a start-up founder, my biggest competitors in the talent market are no longer the local family conglomerates. They’re tech companies from the U.S.,

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Technology B2B GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He had a close connection to evolving customers, shrewd instincts about how the market was developing, and a keen sense of the disruption that was needed in the region. In a 2015 report, the Boston Consulting Group labeled the occurrence “ leapfrog successions.” Why take the risk? In other words, he had the right mindset.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Trends Talent Management CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

A recent USC study shows that across multiple and diverse markets, industries are 25% more likely to be “highly concentrated” than they were 20 years ago. Yet at the same time, America’s largest companies are more than twice as likely to lose market share than in 1980. corporate consolidation.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Pharmaceuticals Industry Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

That''s been the finding of economists Barry Eichengreen of UC Berkeley, Donghyun Park of the Asian Development Bank in Manila, and Kwanjo Shin of Korea University in Seoul in two recent studies of growth slowdowns in emerging markets around the world. Remember, these difficulties are the fruits of success. China Economy Finance'

GDP 9

GDP Banking Finance Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

And because the traditional supermarket industry is highly concentrated (for example, in the UK, the top seven food retailers account for 87% of the grocery market), retailers have considerable market power to make change.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

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. Do: Project maturity by acting more formal and reserved in your first few weeks on the job to showcase how you’ve grown.

Company 13

Company PR Learning-by-Doing Maturity 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2013

We spoke with Mike Moorman, a senior leader in ZS Associates'' B2B sales and marketing practice and a leading authority on sales management, about how inside sales (which refers to sales positions done remotely from headquarters, without face-to-face meetings with clients) is transforming the way that B2B companies interact with their customers.

B2B 8

B2B Power Market Segmentation Customer Intimacy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Writing about “the stages of life” in the early 1930s, Jung argued that we need schools to prepare people in their middle years for something approximating true maturity. This would come as no surprise to the great psychologist Carl Jung, who envisioned just such an expansion of higher education more than three quarters of a century ago.

Education 10

Education Class Maturity Sports 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

In this adaptation from the new book, Your Strategy Needs a Strategy (HBR Press, 2015), BCG strategy experts make sense of the all the different, and competing, approaches to strategy: Which strategy is right for your business? In a visionary setting, firms win by being the first to create a new market or to disrupt an existing one.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

New workers are not entering the market as fast as veterans — particularly engineers — are retiring. While the labor challenge is especially stark in the U.S., utility systems in most advanced economies are facing similar demographic dynamics. In the U.S.,

Energy 8

Energy Industry Engineering Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Our partnering skills were maturing, so we became more precise in our evaluation process and expectations. Indeed, market share in each service line has grown substantially. For instance, within six years, our total-service-area market share for inpatient rehabilitation has risen by 8.6 Only time will tell.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

IBM Watson’s progress in the health care market is a significant example and driver of the transformation, providing big lessons to IBM and to every large company that must disrupt its own business — or watch competitors do it first. They know how to achieve product/market fit and which ideas to pursue later on.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Eric Jacobson

MAY 22, 2017

Because, in 2015, Millennials comprised 35 percent of the workforce--nearly 54 million workers. A cohort’s mature identity is achieved through a newly found freedom of self-definition. They are the biggest generation and they are always going to be written about and marketed to. Much of what is written is hyperbole.

Management 50

Management Self-aware Maturity Learning-by-Doing 50

Eric Jacobson

JULY 11, 2016

Because, in 2015, Millennials comprised 35 percent of the workforce--nearly 54 million workers. A cohort’s mature identity is achieved through a newly found freedom of self-definition. They are the biggest generation and they are always going to be written about and marketed to. Much of what is written is hyperbole.

Management 50

Management Self-aware Maturity Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

While India remains a formidably challenging market, there are at least three reasons why global firms cannot overlook India without consequences. Similarly, when Renault entered India and introduced Kwid in 2015, Maruti and Hyundai had almost 70% of India’s large and fast-growing sub-compact car market.

Globalization 8

Globalization CAGR Class Marketing 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. Digital players wield outsize market power.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

This gap between insurers and customers can be widened into a gulf by trust brokers, who dominate the top-heavy insurance brokerage market and benefit from its opacity and byzantine operating standards. In 2015 these top three players generated 48% of the revenues among the top 50 brokers in the U.S.

Insurance 11

Insurance Industry Policies Market Penetration 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, IoT is at the peak of Gartner’s 2015 hype cycle, which suggests the next phase will be disillusionment, and it will be years before we see real productivity gains. The internet of things (IoT) and industrial internet in the United States, Industrie 4.0

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Engineering System Efficiency 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

becoming the second largest smartphone market in the world. billion in 2015. In 2015 alone the country attracted $9 billion in venture capital and was home to four “unicorns” — privately held ventures valued in excess of a billion dollars. Although only one-fifth of its 1.3 The evidence continues.

Price 8

Price Globalization Forrester Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. It focused its efforts on earning a majority share of Europe’s digital classified advertising market (a product that connects buyers and sellers). Bigger marketing budgets may not pay off.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11