Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Recent research conducted by IBM among global boardroom and C-suite executives in 28 countries found that better cybersecurity is among their top technology priorities. In fact, one of the keys to creating a successful online business in 2016 was to “ show people your site is secure and trustworthy.”

Marketing 8

Marketing Customer Intimacy CIO Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

As a result, when companies are hacked, it can take days for information technology teams to isolate infected systems, remove malicious code, and restore business continuity. But they continue to operate and communicate with other systems until information technology teams shut them down and correct the malfunction. Harm Reduction.

System 8

System Decentralization Information Technology Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. We also found that a focus on innovation tends to go hand in hand with longer-term time horizons.

Innovation 9

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Ironically, the most empathic FTSE companies are a bank and a tobacco firm. banks are proving quicker to wake up to the benefits of empathy, scoring 50% higher than UK ones. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Royal Bank of Scotland/NatWest.

Tourism 8

Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

The economy still hasn’t received a boost from sanctions relief, and many big banks that left the country have not returned. and European companies restricting their presence in Iran or exiting the market altogether — and they continue to dampen foreign direct investment prospects in 2016. However, remaining U.S.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Many business models that make extensive use of digital technology have network-type properties. And they are losing money: Uber’s losses in just the first half of 2016 totaled over $1.27 A second misconception about digital disruption is that new technology will inevitably substitute old technology, rendering it obsolete.

McCallum 11

McCallum Competitive Advantage Consultative Business Model 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Similarly, Microsoft paid $26 billion for loss-making LinkedIn in 2016, and Facebook paid $19 billion for WhatsApp in 2014 when it had no revenues or profits. The balance sheet has also become less useful for banks’ lending decisions because banks rely on asset coverage to calculate their security.

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Depreciation IPO 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. But right now that’s not happening.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Skip Prichard

MARCH 3, 2021

Based on four years of global quantitative research, the book explores the tectonic shifts in consumer sentiment that have come about due to extreme technological immersion. This lack of trust extends into the world of technology, as well. In other words, we want the unfiltered, plain, raw, and unedited truth.

Brand 117

Brand Storytelling Trends Content 117

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

To help business leaders better understand industry disruption, we developed an index that measures an industry’s current level of disruption as well as its susceptibility to future disruption. Incumbents in these industries often own established brands, proprietary technology, and control of distribution channels.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

By 2016, the rise of smart phones seemed to have made the company less relevant: Its revenues were at almost the same level they had been a full decade earlier. Then a new CFO joined the company: Masashi Oka, a financial industry veteran who had played a key role in transforming Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-owned Union Bank in the US.

Company 8

Company ROIC CFO Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. Fast forward to today, and the picture is not so happy. The entrepreneurial society.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Just look at Uber to understand the importance of diversity and product safety or at car manufacturers scrambling to develop a competitive advantage in electric cars as countries seek to decarbonize their economics and fight pollution. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. billion of India’s citizens to voting, banking, government assistance, healthcare, recordkeeping, and more. Develop portfolios of financing to offset risk and achieve greater scale.

Company 9

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

Standing on stage on September 9, 2014 at Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC), Tim Cook announced, “We’ve created an entirely new payment process, and we called it Apple Pay.” It focused on developing a critical mass of cardholders and restaurants in a small geographic area—Manhattan.

Retail 8

Retail Business Model Press Release Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

It has been 10 years since the global financial crisis, and the fall-out continues in the industry that was at its epicenter: banking. There has been a truly dramatic retrenchment from foreign markets, making banking a rare case of an industry becoming less, rather than more, global. For some banks, the answer is simply: Yes.

Banking 8

Banking McKinsey Finance Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

When it comes to understanding the pace of global digital evolution , the digital growth of developed countries usually has little to tell us about the digital future of developing ones. While other ASEAN countries have online users, they aren’t using that technology to shop or do business.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Policies Globalization Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2016

For example, a major bank tried to do a technological transition of their system without sufficient pre-testing. Another bank, doing a very similar transition, ran parallel systems and user acceptance training for several months. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

After Action Review 50

After Action Review Rogers Contingency Plans Leadership 50

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Back in January 2016, I had 45 meetings in the month of January. The healthy habits that I attribute to my success as a leader are practice what I preach, set healthy boundaries, practice mindfulness, exercise, work hard and invest in my ongoing learning and personal development. I work hard day in and out and take massive action.

Succession 316

Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

On November 8, 2016, India’s government did something that had no other government had attempted before at the same scale: it decided to remove 86% of the country’s currency notes by value from circulation. Ashima Narula/EyeEm/Getty Images. The country is moving rapidly toward a digital-first economy.

Banking 14

Banking Long-term Short-term System 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

If you want to see how mobile technology can disrupt the very basics of business models and habits established over hundreds if not thousands of years, look at what’s happening in India. By July 2016, virtually every Indian had a mobile telephone and access to text messaging, primarily using 2G technology. population.

Strategy 8

Strategy Banking Venture Capitalist Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

As the use of these expensive drugs grows, there seems to be no way traditional insurance models will be able to pay for them without breaking the bank or requiring patients to assume a big chunk of the cost. In 2016, the company had to pull its gene therapy for potentially fatal fat-processing deficiencies from the E.U.

Business Model 9

Business Model Insurance Cost Bond 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The capacity and willingness of managers to plan developed throughout the century. Corporations developed large corporate units dedicated to it. In the face of relentless technological change, disruptive forces in industry after industry, global competition, and so on, planning seems like pointless wishful thinking.

Agility 15

Agility Planning Fayol Strategic Planning 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

On a website, in a nightclub, at an airport, or in front of a bank counter, everyone wants us to prove that we are who we say we are. Ninety percent of businesses responding to the International Chamber of Commerce’s 2016 Global Survey on Trade Finance pointed to anti-money laundering as the most significant impediment to trade.

Document 9

Document Decentralization Banking Insurance 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2017

Today some companies are taking brand anthropomorphism to a whole new level with sophisticated AI technologies. Studying those deployments led to several insights around three new types of decisions executives face at the intersection of technology, personality, and strategy. The implications are numerous. Beyond Chatbots.

Brand 9

Brand Disintermediation Ethics Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Also known as “token sales,” this new fundraising phenomenon is being fueled by a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs, and crypto-investors who are backing blockchain-fueled ideas. How technology is transforming transactions. Business in the Era of Blockchain. Sponsored by Accenture.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Both industrialized nations (including the UK, Singapore, and Australia) and developing states (such as China, Nigeria, and Chile) have instituted national real-time payment systems to match the speed of business. Bank and Wells Fargo, to startups like Ripple Labs and the company I represent, Dwolla. payment system.

System 8

System Industry Report Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Today, we face the risk that investors, traders, and regulators are failing to understand the extent to which technological progress is — or more precisely is not — reducing financial uncertainty. in November 2016. Two areas are of particular concern.

Crisis 9

Crisis Uncertainty Finance Price 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

A third of VC investments in Europe were focused on the UK in the first quarter of 2016, according to CBInsights. In certain areas of technology, the country is the undisputed leader for the continent: with London as the center of fintech in Europe, for example, fintech investment in the UK was $5.4 billion as compared to $4.4

Safe Harbor 8

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Then came 2016. In 2016, two dwarf the rest: the election of Donald Trump and significant action on climate change. For most of 2016, the world moved quickly on climate. At the state level, New Jersey passed a big new gas tax , and Oregon , Illinois , and California developed robust energy and climate policies.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

To wit, 45% of financial intermediaries , such as payment networks, stock exchanges, and money transfer services, suffer from economic crime every year; the number is 37% for the entire economy, and only 20% and 27% for the professional services and technology sectors, respectively. How technology is transforming transactions.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

The increasing use of phishing by cybercriminals to trick users into divulging their password credentials is the most alarming — a recent report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) found that 2016 was the worst year in history for phishing scams , with the number of attacks increasing 65% over 2015. journalists.

Policies 8

Policies White Paper Technology Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Of these, only three, Switzerland, Ireland, and Estonia, made it to a commendable “Stand Out” category – which means that their high levels of digital development are attractive to global businesses and investors and that their digital ecosystems are positioned to nurture start ups and internet businesses that can compete globally.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

A 2011 McKinsey study estimated that the internet accounted for 21% of GDP growth over the previous five years among the developed countries studied, a sharp increase over the 10% contribution over the 15 years prior. Of late, it is China, not Silicon Valley, taking the lead in developing mobile technologies.

Politics 8

Politics McKinsey Katz Technology 8