Leading Blog

MARCH 29, 2013

Here, the authors share how to develop that perspective: How we see the world—our leadership perspective—shapes our thoughts, decisions, and actions. Learn more at www.fromsmarttowise.com. * * * Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *. Know your limitations, and try to see beyond them.

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Crisis Workshop Short-term Business Model 285

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2021

You can consider opening a franchise for any established company where you will only require to find a proper location and arrange funds for your operations. Describing the offerings of your services, the product life cycles, intellectual properties as well as the research and development procedures of your business. Conclusion.

Break-even Analysis 77

Break-even Analysis Analysis Licensing Price 77

Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2013

The relationship combines StrategyDriven’s leading experience in asset lifecycle management and regulatory services with NTE Solutions’ capabilities in all aspects of power development, from engineering to commercialization. Risk management and compliance. Project development and management.

Energy 58

Energy Chief Executive Officer Chief Operating Officer Compliance 58

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Senior industry leader adds hands-on management and operational experience to StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities focused advisory services. At StrategyDriven, we’re proud to be working with industry leaders to address these challenges and adapt their organizations so they continue to operate safely, reliably, and efficiently.”.

Chief Executive Officer 50

Chief Executive Officer Execution Operations Asset Management 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Perhaps the technology team want to spend more time developing an upgrade to your product, but the finance team insist the money is better spent elsewhere. As the departments become larger and more focused on their individual areas, there is an increased chance some of they may end up at odds.

Company 50

Company Software Asset Management Long-term 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

With a conventional business that choice consistently conveyed an incredible danger since you needed to “invest” your own money before you could get something fully operational. Regularly it took, at any rate, a year prior to you could hope to perceive any benefits. Thank heavens for the internet. Get your own domain.

How To 77

How To Advertising Affiliate Marketing Chemicals 77

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.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

Chamber of Commerce supports companies in developing circular economies (CEs), and China — like Europe — has developed policies and legislation around CEs. We are academics and practitioners focused on product recovery economics and life cycle asset management. The Three Approaches. Two Success Stories.

Policies 8

Policies Asset Management Cost Productivity 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. First, large index asset managers, such as Blackrock, State Street, and Vanguard.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

These “superstar” sectors include financial services such as banking, insurance, and asset management, professional services, internet and software, real estate, and pharmaceuticals and medical products. Often when superstar cities fall, they tend to be advanced economy cities, replaced by a developing economy city.

Industry 12

Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 12

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. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.”

Company 10

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

They are not interested in hearing about the technological, regulatory, and societal developments that will determine the long-term, strategic positioning of this company.". Pension fund trustees, many of whom are ordinary lay people with limited investment experience, are often intimidated by asset managers," a U.K.

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Long-term CEO Short-term Asset Management 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2018

The truth is that the worlds of activism and impact investing are converging much more swiftly than most people realize — and this union holds enormous promise for those who wish to see the creation of capital markets that support sustainable economic development. A main explanation is that, as always, they are following the money.

Hedge 9

Hedge Long-term Short-term Letter 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

But over and over again in our three decades of experience as talent development and retention specialists, we’ve seen that companies consistently overlook half of them. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

Recently, my colleagues at the Focus Consulting Group and I surveyed more than 100 asset management firms around the world, testing both for the strength of their cultures and for the effectiveness of their leadership teams. Over time, the team must develop trust by having clear rules of engagement and accountabilities.

Teamwork 13

Teamwork Industry Management Asset Management 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Still, most colleges are lucky if they can afford even a small team charged with developing new lines of business and new business models. Presidents and provosts will tell you: operating budgets are tight. Those administrators in the position to understand the imperative to innovate don’t actually have control over purse strings.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. Yes, financial institutions should be environmentally responsible in their own operations. Don''t get us wrong.

Banking 8

Banking Licensing Finance Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

As Fujio Ando, senior managing director at Chibagin Asset Management suggests, "Japan's consumer electronics industry is facing defeat. Sure it's important to inject discipline into product and service development, but not so much that it discourages creativity.

Six Sigma 17

Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Morgan Asset Management’s Head of Diversity Gordon Cooper told me his firm is now introducing a Legal ReEntry Program. (In The OnRamp Fellowship operates on a different model. And last week J.P. In full disclosure, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, J.P. All of the programs are paid.

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Cooper Gordon Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Successful companies between $5 million and $50 million in revenues can't get the capital they need to expand their operations and hire more people in city neighborhoods where the best social program is a job. Tim Ferguson is the Founder, Chair, and Managing Partner of Next Street , a merchant bank for the urban enterprise.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Mass Marketing Banking Asset Management 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Our suggestion: instead of passively accepting that the market is always right, investors, managers and boards of directors need to think in terms of how they can actively make it more efficient. This is the way both to achieve higher returns and make the market more efficient.

Marketing 11

Marketing Power Short-term Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

I recently employed this principle with a large asset management firm. They began grouping clients by practice and focused sales associates on developing industry trends and insights. Beside each operator was a large pile of partially assembled furniture. You must slash the price of your product or service by 50%.

Disruptive Innovation 9

Disruptive Innovation Hotels B2C Price 9

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

His experience includes within the nuclear oversight, quality assurance, engineering, licensing, performance benchmarking and improvement, training, leadership development, and change management functions. For decades, Mike has served in senior leadership roles within the Power & Utilities Industry.

Power 50

Power Licensing Engineering Benchmarking 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. That means it is possible to deploy and manage an application globally, from a single location, with relatively little hassle.

Management 12

Management Software BPM Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Increased demand for transparency and its close partners, (a) the quest to define and develop useful sustainability metrics and (b) the growing sustainability data explosion. The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. The greening of the supply chain. business continuity").

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

I was meeting with a client last week, the CEO of a global asset management firm. Robert Cialdini’s research on commitment and consistency shows that if we publicly commit to a goal we are more likely to honor it because it becomes part of our identity and we dislike operating in ways that contradict that identity.

Organization 8

Organization How To Cialdini Schein 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

The innovation alone is a herculean task, but imagine being that upstart pioneer trying to develop the technology, while at the same time going up against entrenched, powerful competitors with deep industry knowledge, assets, and channels who’ve been around for a hundred years or more.

Innovation 13

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

nonprofit organizations like the Heartland Capital Strategy Institute are bringing together institutional investors, private asset managers, and worker representatives to harness some of the $13 trillion of assets in workers’ pension funds to invest in worker-friendly businesses that offer good investment returns.

ESOP 12

ESOP Company Cooper IAM 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

And on the resource constraint front, Jeremy Grantham , co-founder of the asset management firm GMO ($100 billion invested), continued his relentless numbers-based assault on the fallacy of infinite resources. Finally, how much will we challenge the nature of capitalism, and what will that mean for how companies operate?

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10