Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Ad fraud poses a risk to the ad tech industry compromising the technology industry as a whole. This causes nearly 60% of digital display ad budgets to be lost due to fraud cases annually, according to the ANA and White Ops, 2016. This may provide a competitive advantage against other, less-diligent advertisers.

Supply Chain 51

Supply Chain Advertising Metrics Competitive Advantage 51

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2015

No longer does the competitive advantage lie with those having the deepest pockets. StrategyDriven’s Personal Business Advisor Program makes top tier consulting services available to business leaders at all companies regardless of budget.

Consultative 50

Consultative Chief Executive Officer Library Company 50

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 81

Mission Statement Benchmarking Tactics Strategic Planning 81

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 79

Energy Strategic Planning Succession EVA 79

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. Future Oriented.

Strategic Planning 131

Strategic Planning Content Planning Industry 131

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

For 150 years, corporations, governments and militaries were built for up-and-down leadership, with incentives and rewards that discouraged cross-organization thinking and, in many cases, actually created or encouraged internal competition. This involves two elements. Unfortunately, people don't always do what they promise.

Incentives 258

Incentives Resources Agility Follow-up 258

Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2014

Young companies located in these hubs—particularly technology firms—are able to attract technical talent and maintain close proximity to their investors and mentors. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. A Budget Does Not A Strategy Make! FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †.

Company 52

Company Real Estate Strategic Planning Venture Capitalist 52

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 Long-term Telecommunications 9

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

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. They embrace technology, rather than ideas and concepts. Workplace literacy. Understand and celebrate diversity.

Education 50

Education Company Succession Mentor 50

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 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 Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Amazon’s greatest competitive advantage is not its e-commerce network; it is its innovation engine. Three out of four consumers say that they want more technology in stores and are more likely to visit stores that use technology effectively. of sales) on “technology and content.” of sales on IT.

Retail 8

Retail Planning Agility Innovation 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

AUGUST 9, 2018

After years of working in tech startups, which strive to transform underdog status into competitive advantage, I dove into the nonprofit world. The contrast was striking: Too few nonprofits use the advantages of their nonprofit status. William Andrew/Getty Images. In doing so, they miss out on a huge opportunity.

Strategy 11

Strategy Market Segmentation Crisis Entrepreneur 11

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. Over time, many of the best tech companies cycle between exploration and exploitation. Sometimes exploration means creating inventions; sometimes it means acquiring small, inventive companies.

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 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 Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

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. Given these shifts, organizations have to be agile, simple, and responsive.

Agility 8

Agility Bureaucracy Competitive Advantage Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

Good reporting takes time and relationships, so it can’t be effectively automated — though it can be empowered by digital technology. ” The truth is that content optimization techniques are fairly standardized these days, which makes them unlikely ever to lead to a competitive advantage. Insight Center.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Audience Content Brand 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

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

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Crazy ideas, of course, can be a source of sustainable competitive advantage. IBM, for example, had its "Fellows," who were tasked with assuring the computer giant would never be blindsided by technological surprise. Watson Labs was that these Fellows had access to everything at IBM but budgets.

Outsourcing 14

Outsourcing Management Core Competence Competitive Advantage 14

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.

CEO 8

CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

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

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

If you knew that the brain patterns of only 30 people could predict the spending decisions of hundreds of thousands or even millions, than even an expensive study could well pay for itself many times over, especially in situations where large budgets are at stake.

Marketing 8

Marketing Advertising Benchmarking Price 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 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Palmisano believes the technology industry requires "a high-performance, in-your-face, speak-your-mind culture." Known for walking out of long meetings to make sales calls, he shortened IBM's two-month annual budget process to six days. Directness. He's personable, but blunt. When the U.S. Microsoft's enterprise services stagnated.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

It is through continuously making incremental progress in lowering costs and increasing revenues that firms achieve competitive advantage in their industry. Unexpected changes in technology, customer preferences, and regulation can disrupt even the best-run operation. Build for the Few, Not the Many.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

in their deployed software portfolios, which is a 3 percentage point increase from the current budget year. For the first time in a Gartner open source survey, we saw the number of respondents claiming to use open source software primarily to gain competitive advantage reach 11 percent.

Software 15

Software Tips Survey Licensing 15

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

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 78

Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 78

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

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. That's not required. But the A's didn't win the World Series in 2002, or any year since.

Company 13

Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Film 13

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

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. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Appoint a trusted team leader. Insight Center.

Supply Chain 9

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

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

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 59

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 59