Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2023

A well-trained team not only ensures a smooth operation but also creates a pleasant dining experience that encourages customers to return. This article delves into the different aspects of staff training that can lead to a successful and profitable dining business. Mentoring goes a step further.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 29, 2013

In their book From Smart to Wise , Prasad Kaipa and Navi Radjou state that wise leadership succeeds where smart leadership cannot. Wise leadership isn’t about how smart you are. Here, the authors share how to develop that perspective: How we see the world—our leadership perspective—shapes our thoughts, decisions, and actions.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

With one of the largest and most diversified software companies such as Adobe, you must have a unique perspective on what is essential with core competencies for leaders navigating key challenges in the future of work? As a global software company, we have decades of experience with software teams who are geographically distributed.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 20, 2020

And, in these times, there is a fourth: The government shuts down all businesses with the exception of essential services. That cash must equal at least three to six months operating expenses. When you manage your company’s operations by net profit per hour rather than percentages, you determine true cost and true profit.

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HR Digest

MAY 26, 2023

The profound implications of generative AI on business operations and the workforce is growing tremendously. 76 percent recognized that software-related jobs such as IT is probable to witness a positive impact and wide-scale adoption of generative AI in their businesses. Image Courtesy – Freepik.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Questions such as these: How might software provide a substitute for your company’s product or service? Do the leaders in your company embrace the transition to mobile software? Who is in charge of reinventing your company’s business model and operations?

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

Even though I had studied the statistical and management principles that are core to experimentation, I had not closely examined their role in customer experience and business model design. I had no idea how their use would fuel the rise of today’s online businesses. They must embrace a new leadership model.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Are you likely to adopt a new software application that is poorly designed? When you are handed a business card that was printed at Kinko’s are you impressed? Design will impact your messaging, positioning, business modeling, team building, resourcing, branding, and virtually every functional aspect of what you do.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 11, 2016

computer software engineer and computer programmer positions. Definitely, the new economy is helping women gain a more equal footing, as the digital revolution has created new business models and shattered the traditional roles of women and men. Women have a few powerful tools to find their way to success and leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

If we're to actually get better at innovation, we need to understand the operating conditions that lead to it and move past the bigotry and biases. To do so, let's look at two distinguished firms side by side to see how innovation is entirely independent of size and more a function of different operating rules.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

It also puts a fundamental question back on the agendas of CEOs in other industries: Will software eat the world, as Marc Andreessen famously quipped? Their business models benefit from internet connectivity and they enjoy tremendous network effects. A “pure” digital company can write commodity software applications.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Microsoft entered the 20 th century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. The reason is failed leadership, and Apple – currently the dominant tech firm for the mobile era – is at risk of making the same mistakes. And services have a very different business model.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Such a high failure rate isn’t surprising, as leaders are trying to create entirely new competencies and wedge them into an organization with strong legacy cultures and operating models. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. Are you really bought in, and is your team? Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

Different industries and different business models have always maintained different percentages of these asset types. Digital transformation requires that companies reallocate their asset portfolio to support new, digitally enabled business models. Organizational transformation must begin with a leadership transformation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

But I suggest that the problem at Uber goes beyond a culture created by toxic leadership. The company’s cultural dysfunction, it seems to me, stems from the very nature of the company’s competitive advantage: Uber’s business model is predicated on lawbreaking. More on that later on.). A Race to the Bottom.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

The Future of Operations. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. At a time when the customer end of the business model seems to be getting all the attention, executives must not neglect the equally important operations back end. This will inevitably have a significant impact on operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Our research shows that companies with platform- and network-based business models are exponentially better at creating value. Building a successful platform business is hard enough when you have an original idea, ample capital, no core business to cannibalize, and a team of top talent. Companies are right to be worried.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Yet wanting to be closer with customers, and knowing what actual, operational pathways to take in order to achieve this are two very different things. Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. The Future of Operations. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

In our work at Change Logic, we’re finding again and again that established leadership practices, corporate cultures and identities, and organizational structures are far bigger obstacles to successful innovation than whether or not you can train a small and talented group to identify and prove market traction of a minimum viable offering.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

But these co-creation models produce only one-off physical goods, and none represents a fundamental shift in how these companies create value; they’re peripheral to the core business. expertise and relationships) assets, firms can gain these advantages of the Network Orchestration business model.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

The company uses direct sales from its web site; social media; fan engagement; and weekly updates to its Android-based operating system to get ahead of rivals. It sells smartphones comparable to Samsung’s high-end models at prices that are 30-50% lower. India provides Xiaomi with a learning opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

One of us (Paul) is a strategy scholar and economist; the other (Amy) studies organizational behavior and operations management. Volkswagen’s software that allowed diesel engines in its vehicles to cheat on emissions tests is another case of a top-down fixed strategy that suffered in implementation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Instead of having a committee vet ideas, they need a process that operates with speed and urgency , and that helps innovators and other stakeholders to curate and prioritize problems, ideas, and technologies. One of the quickest ways to sort innovation ideas is to use the McKinsey Three Horizons Model.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Don’t let your engineers hack together workarounds that will need to be maintained down the road; provide real engineering solutions to the types of problems new software has. Your business model is still in flux, and flexibility is more valuable than efficiency and cost savings. Absolutely no DIY software fixes.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

How Digital Business Models Are Changing. For most organizations, this is the least risky option, and a good middle road, despite the fact that many traditional organizations often see digital network operators as threats rather than allies. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. No strategy is static.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

IT may understand the underlying software, algorithms and digital media. In other words, opportunistically managing collective intelligence is not enough; smart leaderships need to rethink how to collectively manage collective intelligence. Monetizing network effects demonstrably makes for a helluva business model.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The new game is to think about the business model and strategy for not just the company but the entire ecosystem. For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. Radically cut costs in the old business to fund the new game.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

It was the first computer to bring a graphical user interface (GUI) to market, meaning that people with no knowledge of text based-operating commands could finally navigate the world of personal computing. Throughout the '70s, Xerox leadership empowered a group of scientists and engineers to develop products for the coming information era.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

MedStar operated nine hospitals, but realized that its long-held objective of increasing revenue and profits at those venues was unsustainable, given the outcries over runaway medical costs. Doing that required developing a new business model in which MedStar would get paid to keep patients well. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 23, 2015

Guest post from Rowan Gibson : Not since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution has there been a greater need to learn the art of innovation leadership. He asked himself what kind of business model would make sense in the context of such exponential growth, and his answer was Amazon’s original online bookstore.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Innovation, in operations, products, business models and ecosystems, isn't merely a competitive advantage, it's the competitive advantage. That's why it's usually the newcomers, rather than the incumbents, who upend industry rules (think of Apple in music, Amazon in web services, or Salesforce in enterprise software).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

With its Emerging Businesses (EB) group (where one of us serves as President), Merck started a journey about three years ago with a core investment thesis: there are areas of growing unmet need in health care that intersect with its established competencies. Experimentation is vital.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2016

But just when we’ve sorted out preferred management routines, there is an entirely new landscape emerging with technology options central to the work and possibly your business model: work automation. How, when, and where should leaders be thinking about applying the various automation technologies to their businesses?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

However, their high volume–low margin business model also makes them vulnerable to threats such as competition, increasing wholesale prices, and changing consumer demands. Advancements in automation and software capabilities have made inventory management scalable across more SKUs and product types.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

But 20th-century, capital "H" Hierarchy (a sort of hardware) and the managerial processes that run on it (a sort of software) do not handle transformation well. It strives to eliminate anomaly, standardize processes, solve short-term problems, and achieve stopwatch efficiency within its current mode of operating.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

The good news, from a competitive standpoint, is that most people have turned their brain over to bad software, resulting in the all-too-familiar “death by PowerPoint.” For example, the original Google car found it hard to compute the context within which it was operating.

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