Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2014

I ask clients to do so without using the words: ‘technology,’ ‘sales,’ and ‘solutions.’ Technology is a tool, which feeds into tactics. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Identify strategic objectives and goals. A monthly recurring subscription of $9.95

Mission Statement 79

Mission Statement Benchmarking Tactics Strategic Planning 79

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2015

Many people used to do the same thing with the word ‘technology,’ using it far from its reasonable definitions. These expressions are trite and reflect a copy-cat way of talking and thinking: ‘Solutions’ is a tired 1990’s term, taken from technology hype. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †.

Strategy 50

Strategy Strategic Planning Budgeting Risk Management 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

Though I wrote all my books on computers, I wrote the modern technology chapters on the typewriter, to make points to myself that the readers could never have grasped. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. There were years where I kept the typewriter on the work station next to the computer.

Energy 73

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 73

The Empowered Buisness

MARCH 4, 2014

For most companies, strategic planning focuses on breaking down a goal into action steps and connecting those steps to resources, timelines and budgets. The personal computer revolution was started by putting together existing technologies in a way never done before. Leadership Performance' Future Oriented.

Strategic Planning 131

Strategic Planning Content Covey Industry 131

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

What if, instead of being fast, what matters is endurance – the ability to sustain competitive advantage longer and more dominantly than others? If we rethink corporate success as survival in the face of rapid, globally competitive change, then here’s the question: what does it take to sustain competitive advantage?

Competitive Advantage 9

Competitive Advantage Airlines Telecommunications Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

The time has come for us to rethink this concentration of leadership. Technology has compressed time, costs, and distance considerably. Once-a-year rituals like budgeting and strategic planning, which were important tasks for the senior-most leaders in the company, are a thing of the past.

Agility 8

Agility Bureaucracy Competitive Advantage Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Our research, conducted in partnership with Harvard Business Review, The Economist, CEB (formerly the Corporate Executive Board), Intel, and TNS Global, finds that corporate leadership has lost confidence in the CIO as a strategic partner and views IT as a commodity rather than a difference-maker. Victorio M.

CIO 8

CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. Accountability. But there''s a difference.

CEO 8

CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

Cisco followed this pattern: In 2001, its patent activity narrowed dramatically from a broad array of technological areas to relatively few. Visionary leadership is also about helping the company overcome inertia so that it can shift effectively from one frame of mind to another when the time comes.

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

When the CEO assigns ownership of analytics, that executive will command bigger budgets and more time on the board agenda and will oversee a powerful new pool of resources. This is about more than technology. The race for competitive advantage can still be won. Every C-suite maintains a delicate balance of power.

CEO 8

CEO Competitive Advantage ROI CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Defining those crazy zones is one of the most difficult but more important cultural decisions innovation leadership teams can make. Crazy ideas, of course, can be a source of sustainable competitive advantage. Watson Labs was that these Fellows had access to everything at IBM but budgets. But where should they come from?

Outsourcing 14

Outsourcing Management Core Competence Competitive Advantage 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

In my experience, the organizations that succeed at organization design tend to do five things: Organize around competitive advantage. If your competitive advantage is responsiveness or speed, the organization must be built for that. Organizations must answer critical questions of identity: What sets us apart?

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Bureaucracy McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. Never confuse charisma with leadership. They listen as well as they speak. The key to that is to build a sustainable culture. Directness.

Globalization 16

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 16

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Further, they need to limit their focus to, at most, six capabilities, and make those capabilities work together as a mutually reinforcing system that perpetuates competitive advantage. Assets are important, but they are, increasingly, table stakes in most competitive industries; everyone in the game has them. SD : Why now?

Resources 51

Resources Industry System Strategy 51

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

I often observe ego centered conflicts among senior executives, which turn into a competition for turf, budget, power, influence, control, and ultimately survival. And I can assure you that any CEO who views him/herself as an army of one will fail.

Team Building 284

Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

The company’s Supply Chain Leadership Team had seen the pace of change for its group began to plateau. Allocate budget for a team. ” Coty’s “Big Opportunity” focused on developing its supply chain into a competitive advantage that could better drive innovation and business growth.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Kotter Critical Success Factor Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The change to an emphasis on analytics will require strong leadership. Organizations don't simply wake up to the notion that they will succeed with analytics; they need leaders to show them why and how to seize this new source of competitive advantage. Perhaps, like Beane, you aren't highly analytical yourself.

Company 13

Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Film 13

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

We’ve got the latest technology. Our company has got the most up to date technology. Companies spend disproportionate amounts of money on technology and neglect their people, processes and policies. Technology represents less than 1% of an organization’s pie chart. Our people were hired to do their jobs.

Budgeting 74

Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 74

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies. As was discussed in Chapter 8, technology constitutes one tenth of 1% of any organization’s overall Big Picture. In 1999, the U.S.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2014

The irony is that its principal corporate contributor (Eastman Kodak) fell by the wayside, a victim of changing technologies. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Photography is presently at an all-time high in terms of societal impact. Photographs convey thoughts, ideas and experiences.

Strategy 92

Strategy Budgeting Audience Risk Management 92

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Technology is but one tool of the trade. In the 1940s, technology brought us the 45-RPM and 33-1/3-RPM records… adding up to the ‘mother speed’ of 78-RPM. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. When we see how far we have come, it gives further direction for the future.

Planning 58

Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 58

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

Though I wrote all my books on computers, I wrote the modern technology chapters on the typewriter, to make points to myself that the readers could never have grasped. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. There were years where I kept the typewriter on the work station next to the computer.

Energy 56

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 56