Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Running the business. Operations are sound, professional and productive. You employ state-of-the-art technology and are in the vanguard of your industry. Keeping the cash register ringing is not the only reason for being in business. Business Development. You provide a good place to work.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 19, 2010

Risk averse and creative? How can you help remove them and coax the creativity out? Since I work with technology execs, I constantly hear people promote the stereotype that technically brilliant people cannot lead. Can it be that when you believe that this person has an essence of vision, that you may help them to manifest it?

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Unlike a business, your personal brand doesn't have hours of operation, it simply is 24/7/365. I am adept at establishing policies, procedures, and technologies to enhance efficiency, financial health, and service to organize constituents. I enjoy building and strengthening strategic alliances.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

To compensate your side of this seesaw, creative shortcuts cultivate new directions for building business and explore the inspiring nature of change. Test business development, starting with advice from your banker, accountant, and lawyer. The most creative approaches will get the most attention.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The choice to stay in a very black and white world of facts and figures is important for keeping the trust of all team members—and is particularly relevant when you’re operating at one remove. Can you give me data about what’s been going on?” He said/she said is excruciating anytime.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

I think showing love is something that will really come back to you in the end, even in the business world. How great would it be if everyone would operate with the ultimate goal being love? Thanks 4 Women Entrepreneurs January 21st, 2011 at 8:19 pm Great post. Interesting thoughts. Thanks for posting.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

However, in recent years a parallel explosion of digital tools and services has taken place in the manufacturing realm as well, drawing in computer-assisted design and 3D printing equipment to open-source operating systems, the cloud, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Second, a number of important inputs have gotten cheaper.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Technology is making some of that effort easier. The problem is that technologies for collaboration are improving faster than people’s ability to learn to use them. For example, on the big picture or macro orientation: Explorer thinking is about generating creative ideas. We all aspire to work better together.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

If you ever ask George about the seemingly insurmountable task of building a growth business inside of a multinational conglomerate, he always responds with the same three requirements; each extremely foundational in nature. Namely, George stresses the importance of: An executive mandate; A creative structure; and. Patient capital.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Freedom to explore long-term ideas and emerging technologies is important. But most of these new teams will require help from the business units to make it out into the “real world,” and generate substantial revenues. Operators in the business units love hitting goals and finding new efficiencies.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups. Only around 20% of technologies funded by CVC&A grab enough attention of business units to start co-innovation pilot projects with portfolio startups.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Then came ill-advised decisions — like making a flip phone when market research showed that no one wanted flip phones — and an accretion of layers of management that operated by consensus. He’s not going to last,''" recalls former senior business development manager Vincent Washington. "I They said, ''This kid is a fad.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2014

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Running the business. Business development. No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. They’re indicative of the scope of your business activity.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Running the business. Business development. No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. Computer activity constitutes less than 1% of the technology picture.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

This essay uses grammar as an analogy for looking new ways at how business is conducted. Strategy development requires the mining the gold within any organization and seeking new outcomes via creative applications of ideas. Times of crisis and economic downturn get people thinking differently about the conduct of business.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Running the business. Business development. No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. Technology is but one tool of the trade. Body of Knowledge.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Satya Nadella, for instance, joined Microsoft in 1992 and worked his way up to running its cloud computing effort, building that business unit into a viable new growth platform before becoming CEO, in 2014. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Running the business. Business development. No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. Often, it withers and dies an early death. Body of Knowledge.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2011

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Running the business. Business development. No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. There is a sense that company operations are out of control.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in Running the business Financial People Business development Body of Knowledge The Big Picture No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. Honor the employees.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Technology has forced music artists to completely rethink the way they approach their businesses. The most successful artists in this new landscape have begun to look at new business models and new industries to strengthen their existing brands. Enter Harvard Business School. We’ve all had to adapt.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

It took years for Apple to gain traction despite offering what critics consider to be a superior operating system. It began as a small direct sales operation, with no plan for national distribution. Awareness, branding, and sales conversion are significant launch drivers, as is creativity. Then, there is 50 Shades of Grey.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

In doing research on multinational operations in the Middle East and Africa, we’ve learned that companies are well aware of how President Trump’s foreign and trade policies could affect their businesses there. more competitive prices, more localized products) and improve their risk management and operational efficiency.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

I work at the nexus of culture and strategy – proactive and reactive solutions – as I tie personal development and business development to brand – and brand to the DNA (or perhaps culture of an organization.) Phill Barufkin Same applies to creativity. I think not, and I’ll explain why.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Running the business. Business development. No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. I advised several technology companies during their gravy years.

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