Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

It had earlier set an ambitious target of taking a quarter of Japan’s auto market, but to achieve that, the chief executive had said that the old way of making and selling cars would no longer suffice. A new strategy was required. Fifteen years later, Nissan under Ghosn’s strategy and leadership was indeed back on its feet.

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Chief Operating Officer Short-term Strategic Fit Restructuring 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

“We are excited about the opportunity to combine StrategyDriven’s utility industry experience with Xen Wireless’s technology expertise,” asserts Rob Reed, Xen Wireless’s Chief Operations Officer. StrategyDriven Analytics will provide blind benchmarking data across a wide range of asset programs at the fleet and plant levels.

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Wireless Benchmarking Asset Management Industry 58

Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2013

The team has expertise in marketing, development, engineering, legal and regulatory affairs, with executive staff previously holding leadership roles in major energy, legal, and construction/engineering firms. Greg Gaskey Named StrategyDriven Enterprises Chief Operations Officer. About NTE Solutions. Headquartered in St.

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Energy Chief Executive Officer Chief Operating Officer Compliance 57

Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

There is one universal principle that determines the degree of success of all businesses: Be the preferred provider to your markets. So, how does a business build competitive advantage by becoming the preferred provider to the markets it serves? It’s a source of mutual support on developing strategies to deal with toxic individuals.

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Silverman Career Succession Ethics 108

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break. In the elevator business, you can be hugely successful and highly profitable by going unnoticed.

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Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 51

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

I bet many readers have had a project shut down or seriously altered because of corporate fears of cannibalization — the idea that a lower prices product might eat away at the market of a higher priced one. As Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook noted in Apple's recent analyst call, there did appear to be some of that going on.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2010

For example, we'll ask candidates to develop an innovation strategy for the CEO of a major beverage company, synthesizing insights from the market conditions outlined in a beverage industry trend report (which we provide). Once the candidate has devised a strategy, have her present it to your team as if she is presenting to the CEO.

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Innovation Chief Operating Officer Christensen Objective 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

It has become an axiom that “strategy is about making hard choices,” as we have been advised for over 20 years by leading thinkers including Michael Porter and Roger Martin. Sephora has become a leader in the cosmetics market by transcending this tradeoff, finding ways to achieve transactions and relationships.

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Chief Operating Officer Apparel Marketing Porter 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2016

Lead validation in Internet marketing is the process of separating sales leads from other phone and form inquiries generated from a company’s website. Overall, if the marketing department judges the success of its campaigns (SEO, paid search advertising, email, etc.) About the Author. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Marketing Chief Operating Officer Advertising Entrepreneur 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2018

True incorporation requires bold decisions about reorganizing the business to make analytics a key component of strategy. This case came to light when one of us, Jose Murillo, GFNorte’s chief analytics officer, presented it to a graduating class of the Queen’s College analytics program, where the rest of us learned about it.

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Company Chief Operating Officer Incentives Project 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

understands both hiring math and competitive strategy when it comes to filling entry-level jobs in its 3,000-plus Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy stores. The strategy offers them a rare trifecta: It’s good for the company, youth, and society. Across the U.S., With low unemployment, the competition for talent remains fierce.

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Organization Chief Operating Officer Education Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

As he did so, his stress evaporated and he led the executive team to take a bold step toward expanding the business into a complex but potentially lucrative overseas market. Another client, the chief operating officer of an insurance company, was experiencing massive stress in the context of a work crisis.

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Stress Chief Operating Officer CEO Micromanagement 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2013

Coming out of that experience, Dixon led the company through a reinvention of its business model through new kinds of partnerships with building owners, new product offers such as a members'' club, " Businessworld ," and international expansion to new geographic markets. Competition Execution Strategy'

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Competitive Advantage Chief Operating Officer Entrepreneur Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

Their son-in-law (married to their eldest daughter) had recently been named chief operating officer. The family asked us to review the COO''s strategy for the business as part of its corporate governance process. The strategy was overwhelming in its completeness. The founder and his wife are now in their late 60s.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Strategic Planning Project 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve found that managers who fully embrace a superconsumer strategy learn more from their consumers through increased empathy. That’s why it’s imperative to ensure your strategy deeply resonates with your organizational culture. The key is to look beyond just the obvious places like marketing.

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Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

And a great potential source of talent with the right skills are professionals who change career lanes — people with experience and training in accounting, finance, human resources and strategy who leave corporate jobs to follow their passion to have a social impact.

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Chief Operating Officer How To Airlines Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Among the 75% of employees with disabilities who say they have market-worthy ideas, 48% say their ideas went ignored by people with the power to act on them, 57% feel stalled in their careers, and 47% feel they would never achieve a position of power at their company, no matter how high-performing or qualified they are. .”

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Compliance Chief Operating Officer Innovation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

A few years ago, the chief operating officer launched a customer quality initiative to improve six core processes and assigned executives to "own" each process. So it appointed leaders to run market segments with profit and loss responsibility, and put pressure on them to change the product mix and improve profitability.

Company 8

Company COO CFO Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Seeking alignment about business strategy. The Big Four are: The Chief Executive Officer: your inner Dreamer. The Chief Financial Officer: your inner Thinker. The Chief Operating Officer: your inner Warrior. Contract terms and conditions. Hiring, managing performance, and firing. You say yes.

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Chief Financial Officer Chief Operating Officer Chief Executive Officer Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

Anthony Marinos, who oversees Grind’s marketing, community management, and member services, shared with us, “When it comes to cultivating our community at Grind, we’re all about the human element. In fact, coworking can become part of your company’s strategy, and it can help your people and your business thrive.

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Chief Operating Officer Survey Learning-by-Doing Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Erica Jackson, chief marketing officer of the Mendoza Marathon Corporation, had risen early to watch people line up to register for next year’s event and expected an enthusiastic crowd. Alan Kurtz, MMC’s chief operating officer, was standing off to the side, and she moved to join him, but a racer intercepted her.

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Case Study Brand Proposal Chief Operating Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

Fred, Roy, and Bill never rose as high in the company as Ricky, who is now the chief operating officer. Our markets have taken a beating. But I could almost hear my father saying that standing still is no strategy. "It''s My eldest uncle''s sons have also been unable to break into leadership positions.

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Case Study CEO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

Competing more effectively in existing markets is a completely different problem. DBS, one of Singapore’s leading banks, has set up just such an innovation function under Paul Cobban, the chief operating officer of its technology and operations group.

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Innovation Chief Operating Officer Banking Operations 8