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

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Organizations of all sizes must have the Think Tank.which delineates future operations, including education and training. Speakers and training budgets are therefore judged upon whimsical comments of individual audience participants.which get harsher when the training is for topics they need, rather than things they would 'prefer' to hear.

Education 50

Education Company Succession Mentor 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

Only 31% of Fortune 100 boards currently have a director who is a CIO, even though technology is at the core of every business today. As Sheila Jordan, CIO at Symantec and director at FactSet, put it, “All companies are technology companies today. Technology is a lever to run the business, but also to change and grow.”

CIO 9

CIO Committee Technology P&L 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

However, a small group of leading edge companies report they now see energy as a key business value driver, and are deploying new technologies and strategies to turn energy into competitive advantage. Even fewer have an energy procurement strategy backed by senior management. Tackling the Challenge.

Energy 8

Energy Cost Content Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. When "the core functions of IT — data storage, data processing, and data transport — have become available and affordable to all," he wrote, IT would cease to be a source of competitive advantage.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

You’d think that increasingly sophisticated technology would help reduce this waste. However, overspending is often the result of decentralized and siloed decision making over the utility budget. states with deregulated power markets) and technologies (e.g., There are all kinds of new energy providers (especially in U.S.

Company 8

Company Management CIO Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Another pervasive reason is that senior executives are trained as operators, not innovators. And there’s a fundamental conflict between innovation and optimizing an existing operation. To close the gap, we need to treat innovation differently than we do normal operations. Here are four things leaders can do.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

Over the last 30 years I have served a large range of organizations as either a director or a trustee with the specific role of helping them exploit IT for competitive advantage. I''m often struck by how many articles exclusively focus on new or emerging technology and their productivity or efficiency effects.

Enterprise Architecture 8

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

The next rung of leaders who operate from different geographies or second-tier P&Ls often have to converge on this center of gravity for reviews and the occasional reprimand. Technology has compressed time, costs, and distance considerably. The time has come for us to rethink this concentration of leadership.

Agility 8

Agility Bureaucracy Competitive Advantage Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own. Directness. When the U.S.

Globalization 16

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 16

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

JULY 15, 2013

CIOs need to understand business better, but the C-suite should understand technology''s potential better. While the CIO needs to understand the business to add value, equally true is that senior leadership and the board of directors don''t understand how to incorporate technology in their strategy, and some don''t even see the need to do so.

CIO 8

CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

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

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

fMRI studies depend on access to specialized equipment most commonly found in medical or university settings, and the scanners require significant training to operate. Forward-thinking CMOs who embrace this technology will find a competitive advantage in their enhanced ability to make more accurate predictions about customer behavior.

Marketing 8

Marketing Advertising Benchmarking Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Driving competitive advantage through stakeholder engagement. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

We’ve got the latest technology. Not engaging in planning for future operations: So what are you gonna do about it? 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. They know what they’re doing.

Budgeting 74

Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 74

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

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. Operations in a Connected World. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Insight Center.

Supply Chain 9

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

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Partly a byproduct of user-centered approaches and do-it-yourself ingenuity, this emerging wave of intrapreneurship is due to a rising generation of managers who have been empowered by accessible technology and mobilized by social media. She couldn’t get the image out of her head, so she began to research the technology requirements.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. 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. In 1999, the U.S.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

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. Do you have the necessary resources (financial, technology, talent, infrastructure, etc.) How does it drive revenue, profit, brand equity, competitive advantage, etc.

Team Building 284

Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

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

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Over the past few years, most businesses have come to recognize that the ability to collect and analyze the data they generate has become a key source of competitive advantage. The confidence that the technology executive team placed in us was crucial to our success. The team had to be motivated.

Company 10

Company Automotive Project Chief Information Officer 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

Twitter, for example, sells access to a range of real-time APIs to marketing platforms, but the price point often exceeds researchers’ budgets. In The Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy , Michael E. In today’s business environment, data can be a powerful source of competitive advantage.

Porter 10

Porter Competitive Advantage Core Competence Crisis 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Second, rising labor costs and stronger currency are reducing the appeal of high-volume Chinese manufacturing, and nudging more companies to move operations closer to their headquarters or their customers. Third, the demand for more personalized experiences, nurtured by our highly customizable digital devices, is on the rise.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Productivity Products Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Capitec gets many things right in terms of its strategy, including its market positioning, internal operations, and organizational culture. In Capitec’s case, for example, not a single one of its branches that were converted from microlending shops are still in operation today. Resisting revenue temptations.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The answer to that depends on your goals, budget, etc., Some companies haven’t used an agency because they believe no one knows their product and the reason for operating in their space as well as they do. One of the biggest myths surrounding content marketing is that you need to be a big business with a big budget to do it.

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.” ” Carr distinguished between proprietary technologies and “infrastructural” ones.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8