Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

’ What they’re really selling: Electric power plants. What is their commitment toward literacy, social services, health care, the environment, multicultural diversity and other key issues that really create a better life? ’ What they’re really selling: Banking. Investor Owned Light and Power Companies.

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

The Idolbuster

AUGUST 5, 2014

I had to the opportunity to work with some of the largest and most powerful companies in the world. It may sound crazy, but I just feel like I have matured and the person I am becoming is actually someone I am much more proud of. I remember when I was working in banking and had just become serious about triathlon. That was it.

Training 70

Training Sports Learning-by-Doing Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

As the cryptocurrency has matured, it’s often been criticized for its inability to match the performance of existing payment networks and meet the requirements of financial systems and governments. As cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and distributed ledgers continue to mature, where might they be applied next? Insight Center.

Finance 8

Finance Supply Chain Decentralization Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

They speak the local languages so they can deal with any bank. After all, it's a smart move for a bank or any other business to ensure that the external customer or client is as comfortable as possible with the firm, and that certainly includes the sales people and relationship managers. How can a bank grow with so few Lims?

Banking 13

Banking Constraint Maturity Marketing 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Almost every major financial institution in the world is doing blockchain research at the moment, and 15% of banks are expected to be using blockchain in 2017. ” Current generation blockchains are secured by “proof of work,” in which the group with the largest total computing power makes the decisions.

Disaggregation 8

Disaggregation Supply Chain Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

With the combination of cloud storage and computing, mobile technologies, and powerful analytical and predictive tools, we can start mining 'big data' and reaping huge rewards.". You've heard the pitch: "You now have a huge volume, variety, and velocity of customer data, sales transaction data, competitive data, and sales activity data.

CRM 13

CRM Micromanagement Technology Maturity 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

But putting it into practice required an entire ecosystem to move in unison — merchants, consumers, credit card companies, and banks. What Apple demonstrated yesterday was its power as an “impatient convener.”. Yesterday, Tim Cook demonstrated the benefits to driving innovation as a massive, mature company.

Industry 8

Industry CTO Game Theory Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

executives surveyed said they will continue to invest heavily in their home market, which is a largely mature and slow-growing economy. If emerging markets are attractive, why is so much investment capital flowing to mature markets? These executives said they are pinning their hopes for growth in the U.S.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Maturity Strategic Planning Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

In the durability state, we found efficient, mature industries — think alcoholic beverages or tires and rubber. Previously strong barriers to entry have perished; fixed assets such as car fleets, hotels, bank branches, and landline infrastructure have become weaknesses. Another is by taking underused assets and monetizing them.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. Back east, established firms worked with big banks to launch new enterprises. Jurgen Ziewe/Getty Images.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

From banking to computing to beer , mergers and acquisitions are accumulating at a breathtaking pace, raising antitrust concerns in the middle of a contentious presidential election cycle. For many large companies, growing even larger provides seeming defense against the power of craft and the do-it-yourself attitude.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Pharmaceuticals Industry Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

And, as with any standards war, demystifying a new, powerful technology is partly in the hands of industry bodies, such as the Global Blockchain Business Council , but mostly in the hands of bold leaders who see this tool not as a threat but as a source of competitive advantage, efficiency, and security.

Insurance 10

Insurance Industry Market Penetration Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

The solution is called CareAi: an AI-powered computing system anchored on blockchain that can diagnose infectious diseases, such as malaria, typhoid fever, and tuberculosis, within seconds. Banks have proven that technologies like ATM and mobile money could help reduce staff headcounts, even while improving service quality and profitability.

Health Care 9

Health Care Technology System Library 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

India has been increasing its spending on infrastructure such as airports, new cities, hotels, ports, roads, bridges, hospitals, and power plants. The startup ecosystem, now the world’s third largest , is maturing rapidly and is no longer dominated by copycat eCommerce companies. India has seen growth in infrastructure spending.

Globalization 8

Globalization CAGR Class Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Like it or not, the reality (in supply chains, as elsewhere) is that power is asymmetrical – large customers typically have more clout than you do, and they know it. In fact, advanced payments may be just the kind of proof that banks or equity investors need to open their pocket books.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

For example, a yield curve, which compares bonds with the same risk profile but different maturity dates, can be considered a model. Hence, leading investment banks use ensembles of models to assess risks. And boosting improves the power of these algorithms by using data to search for new trees in a novel way.

Construction 11

Construction Venture Capitalist Price Guidelines 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The new commercial mindset helped unite the previously fractured colonies into a national economy, with open state borders and a growing network of banks. Just look at how long it has taken elite-dominated countries to industrialize even with mature technology and ready funding.

Class 8

Class Hedge Technology Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

But, all else is not equal – if shareholders knew they had to wait several years to have full voting power or avoid excessive taxes, many might not be there to begin with – the current shareholder base would be different in the first place. Moreover, engaged investors are in short supply.

Short-term 8

Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

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. East African markets perform well because their dependence on commodities is low and, as oil importers, they benefit from the low price of fuel.

GDP 8

GDP Politics Marketing Bottom-up 8

LDRLB

MAY 13, 2014

What I’ve noticed is high-power teams develop visionary synergists, operator synergists, processor synergists. If we could just get a mature-er approach of what happened. I had to turn up one day and tell him, I had absolutely screwed up a bank negotiation on the part of our biggest client, and I thought he was going to kill me.

Brainstorming 60

Brainstorming Learning-by-Doing Operations Leadership Styles 60

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

The power, road, and water networks had their boom times, too — and while they are now older, with limited growth prospects, this would also be true if they were unregulated and entirely private. has instead banked on head-to-head competition between the cable companies and the telcos, each with their own last-mile wires.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Industry GDP Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

In recent years, much has been written about how the Blockchain is poised to transform traditional industries such as banking, real estate, and healthcare. In the early stages of a venture, centralization can be very powerful as it allows for speed, focus and collaborative effort towards one direction. Renee Comet/Getty Images.

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

For example, in one bank, a challenge was, “how can we help customers be better prepared for possible financial shocks?” Then, instead of someone writing requirements while another person executes, these teams develop and mature an idea collaboratively, from rough draft to testable hypothesis.

Agility 8

Agility Engineering Software How To 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. That’s the power of shrinking to grow.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8