Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

The client is opening new locations in new communities and asks its consultants to formulate a plan of action and oversee operating aspects. Multiple companies find that doing business in a new country is easier when a consortium operates. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Scientists, per research program.

Cooper 50

Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. PM Images/Getty Images.

Cost 10

Cost System Management Franchising 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

For example, at the end of its 2015 fiscal year, Apple’s balance sheet stated tangible assets of $290 billion as a contribution to its annual revenues, with approximately $141 billion worth of intangible assets — a combination of intellectual capital, brand equity, and (investor and consumer) goodwill.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Intellectual Capital Corporate Accountability Activity Based Costing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. In 2016 the company sold its China operation to Didi Chuxing because of the fierce competitiveness of the local player. A year later, Uber admitted defeat in another region, selling its operation in Russia to Yandex.

Transportation 10

Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

ZBB has been around for decades, but is currently enjoying a revival driven by powerful investors like 3G Capital Partners, the force behind the 2015 merger of Kraft Foods and H.J. Who would argue that a business should not eliminate unjustifiable costs?

Zero Based Budgeting 9

Zero Based Budgeting Budgeting Supply Chain Company 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

An Indian investment bank, Avendus, projects 376 million Indian Net users by 2015. Morgan Stanley projects that 3G penetration will reach 22 percent by 2015. A leapfrog effect will mean that three of every four Net users will do so by 2015. Part of what's fueling growth in Net penetration is an explosion in mobility.

Venture Capitalist 14

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Airbnb lets spare room owners make money out of their idle asset and makes the asset easily accessible for more travelers. The idea of offering your spare room on the web is not new, but with Airbnb you don’t have to create your own website and hope that Google-searching travelers find you.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

The company offered financial literacy classes, with topics such as “How to Buy a Home,” and integrated them with classes on travel and wine. By 2020, half of all travelers will be Millennials. Previous generations of travelers liked the idea of knowing that, wherever they went, their hotel would be the same.

Company 8

Company Hotels Travel Class 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. It was a hopeful moment across the region and particularly in Tunisia. How could I refuse?

Politics 11

Politics Chief Information Officer Tourism Environment 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

In 2015, Boeing launched the Aerospace Data Analytics Lab in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University to develop AI technology for airlines. However, when planes travel around the world, communication starts to breaks down. One such project aims to dramatically reduce maintenance costs with AI by standardizing maintenance logs.

USP 8

USP Airlines Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

HDP is a third-party administrator with expertise in the development and management of travel surgery programs, providing strategic and operational management of this program. Geisinger Health System began partnering with Walmart around cardiac surgery in 2012, and joined ECEN for spinal surgery in 2015.

Health Care 8

Health Care Participative System Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

It’s 2015, and by now even latecomers among multinational corporations have decided to include African countries in their emerging market portfolios. Many companies separate their Sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa operations because of strong cultural, economic, and linguistic differences between the two regions.).

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term GDP Contingency Plans 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Highways and bridges are in desperate need of repair, making travel slower—and more dangerous. For instance, the average transit times to move containers from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to Chicago grew from 84 hours at the end of 2004 to 120 hours by early 2015. The Future of Operations. Insight Center.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Foreign investors have flocked to the country’s shores as many of the world’s largest manufacturers have established operations there. This is the overarching goal of China’s 2010-2015 plan. Since China opened up, the nation has travelled through different stages of development. ” chart below).

GDP 13

GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

Those trains routinely operate at speeds of 150 to 200 miles per hour, and in 2012, the average deviation from schedule was a miniscule 36 seconds. Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of pieces marking Infrastructure Week 2015 that will explore the role of leadership in fixing U.S. Fifty years later, the U.S.

Transportation 8

Transportation Innovation CEO Training 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Customers can tweet at JetBlue with questions or problems, and the account helps keep JetBlue front of mind for its followers, even when they’re not traveling. He has led the company to create Predix, a platform for the industrial internet, which had $5 billion in revenue in 2015. Building in-house is not for the faint of heart.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

HMSHost , the largest provider of food and beverage services for travelers in North America, piloted its Engagement Training Program to help frontline managers provide authentic recognition to its employees, listen and solve problems, and deliver specific, actionable feedback to their teams.

Survey 8

Survey Retail How To Reis 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

If your CHRO travels only to accompany you, or keeps in touch with staff primarily through email or one-way communication such as videocasts, you've got a problem. When the staff conversation turns to operating margins, cash flow, inventory, or revenue, does the CHRO tune out? Face time with employees is essential.

Metrics 14

Metrics Human Resources Attrition CEO 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

One popular view of activists is that they are short-term, cut-and-run operators who are looking for a quick profit. By contrast, World Bank data suggests that the average holding period in 2015 for public company shares globally was just over seven months. Many don’t have much operational experience; we certainly didn’t.

CEO 8

CEO Real Estate Long-term Short-term 8

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. Backdoors are lines of code developers intentionally install in firmware so that manufacturers can safely upgrade our devices and operating systems. Drone lanes. Quantum computing.

Trends 8

Trends Film Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Through my leadership development work with the United Nations (UN), I’ve been privileged to work with professionals who operate in some of the world’s most challenging contexts. I take time off, get together with friends, stop traveling on missions for a bit.”

Stress 14

Stress Learning-by-Doing Report Project 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

On September 29, 2015, Techdirt posted “ You Can Now Turn Off Ads On Techdirt ,” explaining all the reasons why they were granting readers the power to not see ads. According to PageFair and Adobe’s 2015 Global Adblocking Report , “there are now 198 million active adblock users around the world.”

Advertising 8

Advertising CRM Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2015

But you should include detailed estimates for travel costs, telephones and utilities, and office supplies. Instead, ask yourself what the budget shows about last year’s operations. Could you increase the anticipated sales for this model by 5% or 10% in 2015?

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Finance Cost Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

The biggest challenge of all may be inspiring colleagues throughout the company to find the time, amidst their travel and deadlines and calendar appointments, to consider themselves a co-conspirator in slow innovation work. If you incubate an interesting function that starts to grow, move it somewhere else in the operational infrastructure.

Innovation 8

Innovation Long-term Trends Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

To answer these questions, I talked to Marc van Zadelhoff, VP of IBM Security, about the current state of cybersecurity and the Ponemon Institute’s 2015 study of cybersecurity around the world, which IBM sponsored. And then you think, “Well, they know I’m having an operation tomorrow, so they must be a legitimate bank.”

Health Care 8

Health Care Hedge Banking Training 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

These cases clearly point to the importance of understanding how platform-employers operate, and how work is structured within semi-automated, algorithmic management systems. District Judge Jed Rakoff recently denied a motion by Kalanick to have the lawsuit dismissed. Uber drivers interact with the platform.

Management 8

Management Price Disaggregation System 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

“My guess is that one hundred percent of United’s employees are superconsumers of travel,” he said. “The romance of travel is near and dear to everyone’s heart. Nordstrom has increased its sales by 50 percent from 2010 to 2015 through both online and offline sales. It’s not for everyone.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

For example, friends and colleagues sponsored a London travel agent with a reputation as a chatterbox to stay silent for twenty-four hours; they collectively donated over £500 in sponsorship while having a blast watching the chatterbox struggle to stay silent. The Profit Proposition. The People Proposition.

Blue Ocean Strategy 8

Blue Ocean Strategy Strategy Execution Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

Experienced operators in the field have better knowledge and more current information than remote dictators or their mercenary agents do. Standard operating procedures fail because the situations are by definition nonstandard. In 2015, the price of oil dropped dramatically.

Agility 12

Agility Team Crisis Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Loyalty programs have proliferated across travel, retail, financial services, and other economic sectors. household participates in 29 different loyalty programs, according to the 2015 Colloquy Loyalty Census. The average U.S. Early adopters could benefit considerably.

Loyalty 12

Loyalty Customer Loyalty Travel Hotels 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

According to a 2015 survey on the patient experience , nearly 30% of patients physically carry x-rays, test results, and other critical health data from one provider’s office to the next. Intentionally Design the Patient’s Job into the System. Smart scheduling systems and patient portals help patients access care on demand.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Technology Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Excluding smaller-scale bombing attacks of police and military targets, the airport bombing has been the 11th mass civilian casualty terrorist incident in Turkey since June 2015, leaving more than 250 civilians dead. The country is suffering from a substantial decline in tourism ( down 23% compared to the first five months of 2015 ).

Tourism 10

Tourism Politics Uncertainty Price 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2016

The car’s interior was cramped and uncomfortable, and the steering wheel–mounted gearbox required exceptional dexterity to operate. ” According to the 2016 Airline Quality Study , the number of complaints filed by travelers on U.S. airlines in 2015 was the highest since 2000.

Airlines 8

Airlines Insurance Industry Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

billion, its budget in 2015 was slightly higher than the total gross sales of General Motors. For instance, in May 2015, an employee answering the phone at the Puget Sound VA in Seattle received a call from a veteran who had broken his foot, driven himself to the hospital’s entrance, and needed help getting into the building.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. They operated with a both/and mindset, seeking to deliver on immediate goals in a way that also built a sustainable future.

CEO 9

CEO Short-term Long-term EPS 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

They created a feeling that no matter how demanding or volatile other aspects of their lives were, things were at least operating as they should within the domestic world in which they had some measure of control. How far from the hotel do solo travelers tend to go at night, and how does that differ by gender?

Document 8

Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

As of 2015, the initiative had grown to 70,000 sales agents serving 165,000 Indian villages, and HUL had equipped them with smartphone apps to help them manage inventory and other aspects of their business. The initiative also provides incomes for women who have few opportunities to make money and cannot freely travel outside of their homes.

Marketing 8

Marketing Brand Cost Retail 8