Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

In today’s business market, online brand visibility is key to getting your new start-up off the ground. A strong visibility in search engines and the ability to showcase your expertise and knowledge about your industry online is key to building your customer base and improving customer retention and sales. All rights reserved.

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Tips Engineering Audience Case Study 52

Miles Anthony Smith

MARCH 3, 2018

Evergreen Content Case Study: Why Long Form Content Performs Infinitely Better on Google’s Search Engine You’re probably wondering to yourself, “I don’t believe SEO works anymore.” This piece from Marketo is a great example of evergreen content on the topic of content marketing.

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Content Video Short-term Case Study 56

Lead Change Blog

JULY 4, 2016

In this article, I explore 7 key characteristics of organizations that will survive and thrive in this era.” The Institute for Corporate Productivity and ROI Institute have released the results of a new research study, which looks at positive trends and the state of human capital analytics. Beth Beutler of H.O.P.E.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Advice 170

Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 1, 2023

Retaining quality and impact: Increased flexibility where training retains certain principles such as a clear link to the labour market, work-based learning, independent accreditation and assessment, and capturing outputs for individuals, employers, and the economy. Flexibility and open spend: Under this system any levy incurred above 0.5%

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Productivity Products Short-term Proposal 52

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 15, 2013

Weisbord encourages cultures that take a case-by-case approach, honouring Mary Parker Follett’s “law of the situation,” which not surprisingly focuses on what’s happening here and now. He traces this dynamic back to Frederick Taylor, who was both an efficiency engineer and a fierce advocate of workplace democracy.

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Open-book Books Competitive Advantage Participative 273

Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

George is an industrial engineer. They have begun a Staff Speaks article in their monthly newsletter. This book is packed with loads of practical advice, tips, case studies, suggestions and examples that not only retain, but also engage and make your people as productive as possible. Employee Turnover on the Increase.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Validating proof of concept around social media ROI is a discussion that may have had a bit of relevance 24 months ago, but unless you’ve been stranded on a desert island for the last couple of years you know that numerous case studies abound which validate social media beyond any reasonable doubt.

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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 407

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Ram had led the technical analysis and design teams for their residential and commercial real estate projects, and Hari had overseen the small team of civil engineers in the field.

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Case Study Real Estate Travel Consultative 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 8, 2011

There are two ways to compete in existing markets – gaining brand preference and making competitors irrelevant. Most marketing strategists perceive themselves to be engaged in a brand preference battle. Whole Foods Market. Brand Relevance. Brand Relevance : Making Competitors Irrelevant by David Aaker.

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Brand Aaker Six Sigma Short-term 56

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. And given the budgeting process in most city halls, it was far easier to go to market with only one type of product. “Good idea.

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Case Study Business Model CFO Software 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2011

Pricing is no longer a purely economic challenge to be addressed through studies of market elasticity. The most comprehensive pricing text on the market, Pricing Strategy highlights the stakeholder’s importance in making decisions, as well as key trade-offs to consider when choosing between opposing outcomes. Smith, PhD.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Effective Crisis Handling, Case Studies. So also should diversity, branding, quality, marketing, re-engineering and other important processes. This is regarded as a premiere textbook case of quality crisis management. Unrelated cases but both well handled involved Perrier Water and the Girl Scouts of America.

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Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 71

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

It’s impossible nowadays to launch your online presence without considering the importance of SEO – Search Engine Optimization – in your business growth. Indeed, mastering the art of boosting your SERP ranking — aka your ranking in the search engine result pages – can substantially influence web traffic. It showcases your expertise.

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Content Audience Engineering Affiliate Marketing 10

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Hank has provided senior level advising services for more than 5,000 client organizations (including 100 of the Fortune 500), companies in transition (startup, re-engineering, mergers, going public), public sector entities, professional associations and non-profit organizations. He has worked with all major industries over a 40-year career.

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Drucker Senge Strategic Planning Newsletter 62

Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2013

The Old Became the New Again… The original speed for phonograph records, as invented in 1888, was 78-RPM, which engineers determined to be the most ideal for sound quality. Review case studies and their patterns for repeating themselves. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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Planning Learning Curve Budgeting Learning-by-Doing 62

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. A loan to a gun manufacturer would announce to the world that we really have no principles and that the green thing is just a marketing gimmick. Every lightbulb was an LED.

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Case Study Banking Ethics Guidelines 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

The Old Became the New Again… The original speed for phonograph records, as invented in 1888, was 78-RPM, which engineers determined to be the most ideal for sound quality. Review case studies and their patterns for repeating themselves. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 60

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Niche consultants place emphasis in the areas where they have training, expertise and staff support for implementation… and will market their services accordingly. Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart).

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Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 60

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

A new metric for R&D productivity that I call RQ , or research quotient, lets companies figure out the effectiveness of their R&D investments relative to the competition and enables them to determine how changes in R&D spending will affect the bottom line and the company's market value. Here's a table that accompanies the article.

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Innovation Short-term Metrics Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2016

However, looking at the surveys and consulting reports, it is unclear what the precise use cases are that will drive this positive ROI from big data. Our goal in this article is to offer specific, real-world case studies to show how big data has provided value for companies that have worked with Microsoft’s analytics teams.

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Supply Chain Price Airlines Advertising 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

I explained this in an article that was published in Harvard Business Review in 2008, before any of those companies began, and, now, 10 years later, that still holds true, as more and more of the business discourse is focused on digital transformation. In other words, they had great business models.

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Business Model Technology Advertising Cost 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Case Study #1: Stay current and build relationships with your colleagues so that you understand what motivates them. The new Work Market website will go live this spring. ” Case Study #2: Create a message that resonates, and forge a path for others to become proponents. . Her efforts paid off.

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Influence How To Case Study Learning-by-Doing 20

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Alice, an outstanding 24-year-old engineer working for a top technology company, wants to launch her own startup within the next five years, but she doesn’t yet have a venture concept. One commented, “No 24-year-old engineer can acquire all of these skills in five years. Juan Díaz-faes for HBR. Cofounders are crucial.

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Engineering Finance Survey Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

This is the context Tracy Goss, Richard Pascale, and Anthony Athos talk about in their article. For decades, the utility-metering industry was dominated by a handful of middle-market companies, many of which still run successful and profitable businesses. The case studies the authors outline in the article are familiar to me.

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CEO Chief Executive Officer Venture Funding Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

Chris Zook and James Allen have also recently tackled this issue their recent HBR article “ Reigniting Growth.” The voluminous case studies and articles about the firm would fill entire file cabinets in the typical business school storage area. Eliminate bureaucracy. Rediscover the mission.

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Company Competitive Advantage Bureaucracy Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

If you were entering the job market in the early 90s, most job descriptions included “Macintosh experience” or “excellent PC skills” in their preferred qualifications. Perhaps news recently came out about a competitor that was able to take advantage of a new tool to optimize their marketing funnel.

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Team Welch Motivation Metrics 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2016

These are still two of the most popular case studies taught in business schools, and because of them, we believe we know why organizations self-inflict crises. Countless executives and MBAs have studied the key lessons, learning about individual and institutional biases that warp our world views.

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Ethics CFO Technology Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Case Study #1: Seek advice from others and uncover the root of your boss’s indecisiveness. ” Frank hemmed and hawed about whether the product was ready to go to market. After each meeting with the engineering team, Alexi sent Frank detailed updates. Stay too long under a boss who can’t make a decision.

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How To Reputation Case Study Advice 9

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. Case Study #1: Reestablish yourself as a senior leader in the organization by being generous with your knowledge.

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Company PR Learning-by-Doing Maturity 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

In the meantime, retail and wholesale markets have stalled around the country. billion, and consumers whom we have identified as bearers of some of the highest “cost of cash” in the world (see our HBR article: “The Countries that Would Profit the Most from a Cashless World” ).

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Banking Cost Policies Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

Healthcare data is also highly prized on the black market because there are so many lucrative ways to use it fraudulently, so it’s often a more attractive target than financial or other personal data. Also describe common social-engineering tricks used to learn login credentials (such as posing as a fellow employee who needs help).

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Health Care Forrester Policies Tactics 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

If that seems counterintuitive, consider the “fundamental tension” that Wasserman presents in his book (and in a 2008 article for HBR) : founders can choose to be “rich” or to be “king.” The founder has to build a company capable of marketing and selling large volumes of the product and of providing customers with after-sales service.

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Succession Leadership CEO COO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2017

” Case Study #1: Underscore the importance of your message and follow up in writing. Jim Jacobs, president of Focus Insite, the market research firm based in West Chester, Pennsylvania, once worked with a colleague — we’ll call him Gary — who was not a good listener. Is there anything I can help you with?”

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How To Follow-up Norton Case Study 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

“You might move from product to engineering to ops.” Case Study #1: Get to know the founder and spend quality time with the team. “I was quite happy running a marketing organization within a larger software company,” Steve recalls. ” Get to know the team.

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Due Diligence How To Learning-by-Doing Case Study 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Fortunately, there are myriad ways to get back up to speed: Enroll in an executive education class; read books and articles on the subject; take an online course. Case Study #1: Cultivate an environment of curiosity and experimentation. Your goal, according to Knight, is to become data literate.

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How To Metrics Analysis Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2018

Case Study #1: Help your employee feel comfortable and emphasize the importance of learning. “Peter was a computer science engineer who’d been programming for 10 years — the basic founding blocks were there. Case Study #2: Partner your employee with a colleague and praise her on what she does well.

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Management How To McCombs Project 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

For example, if you're in sales, you are likely to have a depth of knowledge in that area, but you can also show that you know something about marketing or finance. If you want to drive home that you have expertise, post articles that show, don't tell, you have expertise," says Clark. Case study #1: What boundaries?

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