Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. Leads Tuck’s incredibly innovative coaching program. ’ Game.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies. Insight Center.

Industry 12

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 12

The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

Orientation toward innovation and creativity. A successful CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) is likely to have such MAPs as – strong motivation toward options (ie., A high Evolution score is typical of high performing leaders and indicates a motivation for planned, incremental change. Decision making style. And much more.

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Motivation Leadership McClelland Long-term 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

It’s not easy for big companies to innovate. Moreover, the skills that are cherished and rewarded for achieving current results differ from those that aid in discovery and experimentation, both of which are needed to drive innovation. First they agreed to shift funding from small, incremental acquisitions to innovation.

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Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 9

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Matt Sweetwood, branding expert, defines personal branding as: " Personal branding is the practice of people marketing themselves and their careers as brands -- the ongoing process of establishing a prescribed image or impression in the mind of others about an individual." Your personal brand is the mark you leave on the world.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

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Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

The 1990s saw the rise of the strategic CFO, and more recently many companies have created a chief strategy officer (CSO) position. Such friction is destructive — and a huge missed opportunity, because the CFO and the strategy head are far more effective when they collaborate. Tapping the most promising growth spots.

Strategy 8

Strategy CFO Finance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. We often ask executives to tell us about their biggest innovation failures. The CEO and CFO responded with, "A failure to hit ROI and NPV targets." The head of R&D remembered it as a failure to properly market the innovation. Simple answers don't count.

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NPV ROI CFO Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

My consulting firm works with many successful market leaders with amazing market shares — 30%, 50%, 70% and even 90%. One example of a company in this situation is Gillette, which has approximately a 70% share of the shaving market. For decades, the shaving market was men''s facial hair removal.

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Price Franchising Marketing CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

But today, acquiring and interpreting customer data inherently must involve both the marketing and IT departments. In fact, recent research [PDF] conducted by the CMO Council, suggests that this process should start with the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and the Chief Information Officer (CIO).

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CIO Chief Information Officer Norton Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

In the first, a corporate board persuades a high-performing and dependable CEO to stay longer than planned at the helm to keep a steady hand on the tiller, maintain progress, or weather an upcoming storm. In the second scenario, a planned CEO departure occurs during a time of uncertainty.

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CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems. ” Immelt elevated marketing and digital media when he promoted Beth Comstock to vice chair, while other positions, including that of the CFO, are at the senior vice president level. .”

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Innovation at GE was on a roll. Since then Flannery has replaced Immelt’s vice chairs responsible for innovation. So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Are lean innovation and the startup way a failure in large companies? Then it wasn’t. Comstock is out.

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Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

In addition they operate from a plan — however confidential it may be — to strengthen the team year over year. For example, Tim Sheahan, Chief Financial Officer for a large division of a multi-national corporation, aspires to become CFO of a Fortune 100 company in the future.

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Execution Team Chief Financial Officer Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

This striking gap signals an opportunity for companies: Secure a competitive advantage by building your employees' ability to succeed in the increasingly complicated labyrinths of today's — and tomorrow's — markets. At Allianz, the program was initiated and supported by the company CFO.

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Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.”

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Instead she was ramping up mobile-banking operations—which competitors were also doing—and looking to experiment with something more innovative: partnerships with supermarkets and electronics stores that would allow FDM to set up kiosks within them. ” Sena assured them that no layoffs were planned. “So what?

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Case Study CEO Banking Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2012

People often ask me why it's so hard for big companies to be innovative. But that doesn't mean innovation can't happen, even in the biggest, most entrenched firm. By establishing the Innovation Office , and empowering me with resources to run it, he sent a crucial signal to the organization that innovation is on top of his agenda.

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Innovation CFO Learning-by-Doing Brainstorming 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2017

In my experience, legacy managements too frequently misunderstand recommenders’ role in driving innovation and cultural change. They treat recommendation engines more as e-commerce sales and marketing gimmicks — another feature to add to the site — than as crucial investments in virtuous cycle platforms.

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Engineering Company White Paper Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

Bulcke communicated about gender balance regularly at management events and conferences, included it in the formal management action planning processes, and began the journey of setting 'gender balance' as a basic Nestle value for the future. Over 4,000 Nestle managers were involved in the debate and action planning on gender issues.

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Leadership Pipeline CFO Committee Globalization 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

She'd mentioned her business, Calidad de Vida, a group of day care centers for the elderly, and he'd peppered her with questions, explaining that he was interested not only as a doctor (he was the leading cardiothoracic surgeon at Madrid's best hospital) but also as a potential investor (he'd unloaded his stocks just before the market collapsed).

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Case Study Franchising Health Care Follow-up 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

We have some of our largest and most innovative companies doing this. The second source of revenue is trying to change the fact that corporations report large profits to the capital markets and relatively small profits to tax authorities. I was with the CFO of Apple the other day, and they’ve got $140 billion of cash trapped overseas.

Globalization 8

Globalization CEO System Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Many companies appointed process owners to design processes as part of a new system implementation such as enterprise resource planning (ERP). The wishes of a functional head such as CFO, CMO, or company President won out over a Process Owner of Order-to-Cash. How many times have you heard "I'm a finance person" or "I'm a marketer"?)

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Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15