Leading Blog

JULY 26, 2021

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The information age got itself into full swing about 100 years ago, and we’re still living in it these days because of the amount of new information that can spring up in any sector in any market anywhere on the globe. It’s often a lot cheaper to run business through technology! Copyright 2007-2017 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

In an exclusive interview with HR Digest, Trent Henry, EY’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), shares key strategies driving EY’s commitment to diversity, innovation, employee well-being, and leadership development. Through Henry’s insights, HR professionals gain valuable perspectives on navigating HR leadership in a dynamic environment.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 31, 2023

In a previous article , I explored how technology is generally not feeding through into productivity statistics. Data shows that despite considerable advances in technology in the last decade, productivity has largely remained flat. and France.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Once upon a time, HR tech scene was as dull and vapid as getting ghosted by a recruiter in a slow job market. A handful of companies dominated the market, all them strong, pedestrian. But recent years have seen an explosion of interest in the global human resource (HR) technology market, particularly in North America.

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

"Workforce Skills Upgrade: A New Competitive Advantage" SAP is one of the few companies leading diversity & Inclusion, having implemented a comprehensive workforce skills upgrade since 2017. The HR Digest: Under your leadership, SAP successfully implemented a comprehensive workforce skills upgrade in 2017.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 8, 2016

To survive and prosper in 2017, companies must adopt a way of managing that is based on their capacity to learn and change—consciously, continuously, and quickly. Successful companies and leaders constantly search for market opportunities/threats and take quick, creative action. Guest post from Michael G. Are you ready?

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Authority on new technology and communication. Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 26, 2019

These executives tell me frankly that they don’t have the revenue stream, the market share, or the margins their products and services deserve. Typically, Finance, Marketing, and Operations all have input, direct or indirect, on the creation and revision of the strategic plan. I call this obstacle The Disconnect.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 1, 2018

Online marketing firms. Corporate leadership. Technology consulting firms. People with whom you work in community and charity leadership roles. Leadership programs. Professional service firms, including lawyers, accountants, marketing, public relations, quality management. Internet solicitors and sellers.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Cyber attacks spiked 164% in the first half of 2017, compared to the same period in 2016, entailing 918 disclosed breaches-according reports on broadcaster CNBC. Middle-market businesses often assume they’ll be overlooked by attackers, whether due to a large number of similar companies, or a lack of enticing assets. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Just because you have hired the best possible people for every leadership role in your company doesn’t mean they are all going to get along all the time. Perhaps the marketing team is pushing for one set of goals while the sales team wants to go another way. Copyright 2007-2017 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. The Scale – Expanding potential through technology, delegation and partnership. In the fall of 2017, we set off on the first of several lengthy expeditions to Europe. Improves lives and heightens human interactions.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2021

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. The Scale – Expanding potential through technology, delegation and partnership. In the fall of 2017, we set off on the first of several lengthy expeditions to Europe. Improves lives and heightens human interactions.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. The Scale – Expanding potential through technology, delegation and partnership. In the fall of 2017, we set off on the first of several lengthy expeditions to Europe. Improves lives and heightens human interactions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

What makes marketing creative? Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur? Historically, the term “marketing creative” has been associated with the words and pictures that go into ad campaigns. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 15, 2017

If Napoleon lived in the technology era, would he have a Twitter account? Social media allows them to expand their leadership to a wider audience. He improves the way people perceive his leadership by allowing everyone to post comments and ask questions. The Power of Social Media Leadership. I bet he would.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

However, 48% of the mid-sized world market leaders come from Germany. Drucker Forum 2017: Growth and Inclusive Prosperity. This article is one in a series related to the 9th Global Peter Drucker Forum, taking place in November 2017 in Vienna, Austria. The most important difference is the continuity of the leadership.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

In 1998, I advised the Disney corporation and reminded them that Walt Disney’s 100th birthday in 2001 would offer great marketing and positioning opportunities. These anniversaries should be celebrated in 2017: NASA’s move to Houston, 55th. Technology is but one tool of the trade. University of Texas Medical Branch, 125th.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2017

In PwC’s 2017 Global Digital IQ Survey, 52% rated their digital IQ as strong. The survey, conducted among 2,200 technology executives, identified critical skill gaps such as cybersecurity and privacy. It’s not that employees are getting less tech-savvy; it’s that the market demands more of each and every one of them.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2018

About 30 minutes prior to her weekly one-on-one with the CEO, the chief marketing officer at a multibillion global financial services firm received a cryptic email from him with the subject line “The Trouble with CMOs.” Finally, the CMO began insisting that marketing deliver greater financial accountability.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In 2017, three minutes after the day opened at midnight, $1.5 At the peak, Alibaba’s technology platforms processed 325,000 orders and 256,000 payments every second. It’s amazing when you think that VISA’s stated capacity as of August 2017 was 65,000 payments per second globally. Singles Day is a technological marvel.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2018

In competitive markets, managers have a strong incentive to give their best effort. ” Similarly, without sufficient monitoring by owners of the firms or the stock market, managers might be tempted to enjoy the quiet life instead of making hard decisions or taking on difficult tasks. .” Kenneth Andersson for HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In the 2016 book The End of Accounting , NYU Stern Professor Baruch Lev claimed that over the last 100 years or so, financial reports have become less useful in capital market decisions. Facebook’s gross margin of 76% on its 2017 revenues of $46.5 Facebook’s gross margin of 76% on its 2017 revenues of $46.5

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Fact: When it comes to marketing spending, analog still outstrips digital by a factor of three to one. Digital marketing provides targeted reach and measurable impact. Innovative digital marketing approaches in social media, CRM, and other areas dominate the discussion. Shouldn''t CMOs and all marketers be shocked by this?

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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. Watch for pitfalls: commitment can collapse when there are changes in leadership, when tasks get reprioritized and when budgets run short. Craft a Culture of Encouragement.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Extrapolating from past trends is useful but limiting in a world of accelerating technological change. Rising sea levels flood Manhattan in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 , prompting hedge fund managers and real estate investors to create a new intertidal market index. Science fiction can help.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Technological innovations have radically transformed the business landscape in many ways over the last two centuries, from the introduction of steam power to the market conquest of radial-ply tires. Fix leadership skills first. Experiment with frontier technologies. joshua sortino/unsplash.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After being denounced for years for its dictatorship and destructive economic policies, Zimbabwe entered a new chapter in November 2017, following the military’s removal of president Robert Mugabe, who ruled the country for 37 years. This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

From leadership transitions and restructurings, to mergers and acquisitions, to regulatory changes, there seems to be constant unrest in the workforce. And it wasn’t just about new job opportunities or increased market share. Alan Copson/Getty Images. But according to one survey of more than half a million U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Meanwhile, new technologies are making it easier for sustainability investments to pay off in the middle to long term. So far in 2017, our firm, Semler Brossy, has identified 200 shareholder proposals on the environment among the Russell 3000 companies, already exceeding 2016’s total. It’s not for every company.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Over the past 18 months, Sergey’s experience has been echoed in offices in Ukraine, South Africa, Turkey, Brazil, and many other emerging markets that have faced substantial currency depreciation due to the drop in commodity prices and the flow of capital to the U.S. Normally, MNCs raise prices in the emerging market, (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In 2017, CIO magazine reported that around one-third of all customer relationship management (CRM) projects fail. Those failures can mean a lot of things — over-budget, data integrity issues, technology limitations, and so forth. ” The EVP of marketing was pleased she could now track the assignment of every single lead.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

Today’s climate challenge is so far beyond our collective experience that it demands a radically different kind of engagement from senior leadership teams in the private sector. The threats that climate change poses to business, markets, and, indeed, capitalism are peculiarly hard for most top teams to spot, let alone act on.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. Digital technology is widespread and spreading fast. Digital players wield outsize market power. Based on their stock prices on July 6, 2017 , Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook were the five most valuable companies in the world.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

I met the team at Vineyard Vines while doing research about data-driven marketing technologies for my book, Marketing, Interrupted , and was able to learn firsthand about the company’s beginnings, and what has made them so successful today. Data-Driven Marketing. Insight Center. Sponsored by Google.

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