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Are CEOs Really Necessary Anymore?

Strategy Driven

CEO’s Role- Wisdom and Innovation. The second is to lead innovation. Famously, Steve Jobs had no interest in market research when imagining where Apple needed to go next. He has been instrumental in developing enterprise operating systems for EOS Worldwide, Accenture, and The Balanced Scorecard Institute.

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

It turned out that the unit was driving profits by raising prices and cutting marketing and advertising expenditures. Higher prices and reduced advertising created an opening for competitors to take away market share, which they did. So while profits were rising and ROIC was high, market share was declining.

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Big Data Doesn't Work if You Ignore the Small Things that Matter

Harvard Business Review

So why do companies spend millions on big data and big-data-based market research while continuing to ignore the simple things that make customers happy? Big data is today's panacea, the great new hope for unlocking the mysteries of marketing. We all have. Shut down their customer service on weekends?

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Making Hospital Partnerships Work

Harvard Business Review

Five main factors make our clinical partnerships work: Joint operating committees that meet regularly. Take Silver Cross’s joint operating committee with RIC, which convenes on a quarterly basis to review Balanced Scorecard metrics on quality of care, patient experience, volume, and efficiency.

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Artisans Must Balance the Books

Harvard Business Review

He started very well, but as soon as his cash flow improved, financial burdens from family systems stifled his operations. When I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology , I initially focused on helping African entrepreneurs or artisans, especially those with only primary education, develop new skills and market opportunities.

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The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

For example, marketing optimizes its activities for its own benefit and the sales and customer service functions do likewise. The end-to-end process of customer acquisition and retention — getting rid of duplicate activities and information across marketing, sales and customer service — isnt touched.

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Your Employees Are Not Mind Readers

Harvard Business Review

When I was CEO of Campbell Soup Company, we used a balanced scorecard to create an explicit understanding of each employee in terms of what they were expected to accomplish, including financial objectives, market share objectives and key project objectives. This scorecard defined the "what."