Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

The past year has been difficult for many markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Nestlé announced plans to cut its staff in some central African countries, while Barclays’s new CEO is considering selling off the bank’s Africa assets. Businesses will have to adapt to withstand slower and more variable growth across SSA.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

When I first joined BNP Paribas Fortis, for example, two younger and more dynamic banks had just overtaken us. Although we had been a market leader for many years, our new products had been launched several months later than the competition — in fact, our time to market had doubled over the previous three years.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Venture capitalists have significant pattern recognition skills related to both startup companies and specific markets. Decision-makers assessing a market about which they know nothing not surprisingly demand significant proof before making a decision. Nothing focuses the mind like a dwindling bank account. A scarcity mentality.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

The type of capital required and its source depends on the type of business, its stage of life, and its strategy for the future. A Main Street small business might require a term loan from a bank to buy a piece of equipment. In some areas and sectors, the market provides all the capital needed.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

They are listed below, each with an example: Profit maximization (long-term): A bank offers accounts to students at a special interest rate to attract a segment of customers whose incomes will later increase. The most prevalent tension to resolve is between market share (or sales revenue) and margin.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

When the CEO of GE announces that it will become a digital industrial enterprise and the CEO of Citigroup says it will become the world’s leading digital bank , you know that a new strategic priority is sweeping the corporate world. It used to be “What’s your IT strategy?”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

For over 50 years, Wal-Mart has pursued essentially the same strategy of “offering the lowest price so its customer can live better.” Wells Fargo has become the most valuable bank in the world by sticking to its strategy of building a value proposition around selling more products per customer than anyone else. Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Verizon would not have been able to so quickly and successfully change its strategy without being willing to question and overhaul traditional organizational structures. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. Big strategies need local options. Insight Center. Sponsored by the Brightline Initiative.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Meanwhile, Dr. Piech was obsessed with achieving dominant global market share, which included a larger presence in the U.S. Volkswagen will have to abandon its strategy of world domination and the hubristic “Das Auto” branding approach we see in the ads.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Only the largest of enterprises could afford the best technologies, and even for those with the largest bank accounts, IT strategies were limited to basics like CRM , ERP , or email. And given the complexities involved in building up competitive IT weaponry, businesses won by out-spending and out-resourcing their opponents.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

inch disk drives; LCD vs. CRT television; online vs. brick-and-mortar banks). It dominated the ultra-profitable, digital-photo-kiosk market, even pushing archrival Fuji out of Walgreens’s retail-pharmacy juggernaut. 4 in the inkjet-printer market, where it joined the likes of HP, Lexmark, and Canon. inch vs. 3.5-inch

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. The second type, known as adaptive performance , is how effectively your organization diverges from its strategy. military says, volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity , where technology and strategy changes rapidly. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

During Immelt’s tenure, GE’s stock market value fell by about half. And in the 21st century, the majority of public company shareholders are institutional investors (banks, insurance companies, pensions, hedge funds, REITs, investment advisers, endowments, and mutual funds), not individuals. (In So what happened?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

In a previous post , I described the shift in roles as ING, the Netherlands bank, moves from a traditional method of developing new systems in major steps — with design documents and functional specifications thrown over the wall — to making quick, small changes to systems (using "Agile Scrum").

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