In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

For companies without clout, competitive advantage can be realized by keeping things simple, by cutting out the complexity cancer that is crippling so many enterprises. Seemingly, continually adding features throughout the development chain is the Samsung culture. Ditto (pardon the pun) the carriers who buy the phones.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

A move toward the Advantage Strategy Paradigm begins with the adoption and commitment to a set of principles that guides all executives in the decisions and actions they take related to developing, planning, and executing strategy. How many more times do people have to hear it before it actually becomes a priority?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 12, 2020

The process is more strongly associated with the development of cost-effective approaches that can ideally be implemented for the perfect execution of various tasks involved in a business. Business Process Design for strategic management carries significant importance due to the availability of specific interpretation.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

In today’s post I share my thoughts on how to develop a sound pricing strategy… While the topic of pricing is certainly not rocket science, it has indeed been a thorn in the side of business people since the dawn of commerce. Competition : Does your pricing place you at a competitive advantage, or disadvantage in the market?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

As global companies focus their strategies on developed and emerging markets, they require substantial cadres of leaders capable of operating effectively anywhere in the world. American companies and academic institutions possess unique competitive advantages in developing these global leaders.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 19, 2015

If that sounds terrifying, it’s because most of us have been conditioned to hide our flaws for fear of punishment, reprisal or a rival seizing a competitive advantage. He simply reported on the condition of the company with an attention to detail befitting his background as an engineer. It sounds simple, and it is.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Professors of business and corporate strategy (which includes me) research and lecture about the goal of long-term “sustained” competitive advantage, driven by grand plans that mesmerize and seduce the most seasoned leaders and leadership teams. The hard truth is that companies that do not pursue corporate entrepreneurship are doomed.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2014

Some commentators felt the move to New Coke was a marketing gimmick to regenerate interest and sales in the brand after sales erosion due to the “Pepsi Challenge” taste test campaign. Bezos’ ambitions were as large as the company name, and he eventually developed a business model that would include far more than books.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 15, 2013

He similarly questions the routine use of layoffs, which he describes as “trading skills, experience, future capability, and competitive advantage for short-term cash.” He traces this dynamic back to Frederick Taylor, who was both an efficiency engineer and a fierce advocate of workplace democracy.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

. “Companies in which leaders at every level nurture a culture where employees can develop a sense of ownership in what they do are the companies that excel.” There is one universal principle that determines the degree of success of all businesses: Be the preferred provider to your markets. ” -Stan Silverman.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

A quick scan of the list indicates that all 100 organizations are located in developed countries. From this list, some readers may infer that innovation is largely the realm of engineers and scientists working in developed countries for large companies, assuming that innovators from countries such as India and China don''t matter after all.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base. When Google started they had the greatest focus, the simplest vision, and the least cluttered search engine. Here is a simple rule of thumb…the bigger the key man policy the less scalable the company is.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

and other developed economies. Technological innovations like high speed trading and digital marketing enable competitors to emerge, thrive, and disrupt companies far faster than ever before. The lessons learned from co-founding his first venture were vital in the successful development of his second. Since then, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. Maximize engineering productivity. Run more experiments.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

We are facing a new world – one that calls for new approaches to generating consistent competitive advantage. The near-universal rush to cut costs and headcount is more likely distracting us from, rather than enabling, the real work of retooling our enterprises to be competitive in this new world.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2015

A veteran of knowledge management, business intelligence, and large-scale technology implementation projects with more than fifty companies worldwide, he has been a technical consultant for the Asian Development Bank, has worked for IBM and Computer Sciences Corporation, and was a fellow at Ernst & Young’s Center for Business Innovation.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

Finely develop skills in every aspect of the organization, beyond the scope of professional training. Develop and share own philosophies. Niche consultants place emphasis in the areas where they have training, expertise and staff support for implementation.and will market their services accordingly. Let the buyer beware.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Marketing has entered its “uncanny valley” moment. Some marketing efforts give off the same vibe, like that creepy feeling when a casual online search leads to a glut of ads for the same pair of boots or getaway destination. Sales & Marketing. And that’s off-putting. It’s worth trying to get right.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The modern business world is becoming increasingly dependent on the digital market. It’s more efficient than the traditional market and allows businesses to connect to the entire world instantly. The main reason behind this is the fierce competition in the digital market. Identify and Focus on Your Target Audience.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

However, they have all failed in China, the world’s largest digital market. Google, for example, has succeeded in dominating many foreign markets that have radically different political systems and cultures (including Indonesia, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia). failure to cope with the extremely fierce competition in China.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

New innovations will change the basis of competition in many markets and alter the sources of advantage for most companies. In years past, an important source of competitive advantage for insurers was the ability to price risk better than rivals. The company had very few software engineers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

As Feng Zhu and Nathan Furr observe in their article “ Products to Platforms: Making the Leap “: “In a product business model, firms create value by developing differentiated products for specific customer needs, and they capture value by charging money for those items.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

True, we can point to the fact that airplanes are massively engineered for reliability, but let’s look beyond the machinery. Candidates for newly created organization processes include those that are common across business units/markets, that are transactional in nature, and that can be “operationalized.” finance, I.T.,

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

In the pre-digital era, product and service development was usually conducted by experts working inside firms or through expert vendors hired by those firms. Each mode is characterized by its own set of stakeholders and interaction dynamics, along with specific ways that companies can achieve a competitive advantage.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Digital natives (Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, IBM) have gained competitive advantage in the first two, and the jury is still out on the third: Type 1: These are “pure” information goods, where digital natives rule. An aircraft engine is unlikely to become a purely digital product any time soon!

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Focusing on innovating — as a worthy goal unto itself — tends to be born from self-centered motives: We need to protect ourselves from competitive forces. We need to ensure we have a growth engine. Sherwin-Williams tested the hypothesis in four markets and it worked. We need to keep up with other companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

But to compete long term, insurgent companies also need to develop scale and scope, which very often dulls their insurgent’s zeal. In our experience, embracing the future as you scale requires solving what we call the Engine 1 vs. Engine 2 problem. Engine 1 is your core business, the engine that got you here.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

It’s true that some technologies need further development, but some (like traditional machine learning) are quite mature and have been available in some form for decades. System Development Time. First, there is the time required to develop AI systems. We think this is a bad idea. Integration Time.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2014

Well-crafted strategies are road maps to places that yield competitive advantage and generate value for the firm. That’s a problem for companies under continual pressure from investors to find new sources of competitive advantage. Each firm is entrenched in a market position quite distant from the others.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2018

So whether you’re drafting website copy, a marketing brochure, an online article, or a press release, consider hiring professional storytellers to make the world-changing things you do mean something to regular people. The main reason: complex stories require different marketing approaches. This is a huge missed opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

Simplifying a bit, the chief explanations were these: First, that GE benefited from scale and dominant market positions in industrial businesses. Second, that GE had a technology advantage in complex industries, and that its technologies could be shared across its businesses. Private equity and the new capital markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

In a recent MIT CISR poll, 42% of our respondents said they expected to gain competitive advantage from social, mobile, analytics, cloud, and internet of things (SMACIT) technologies. Because they are so accessible, it is very difficult to generate competitive advantage from any of them. But guess what?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

Facebook, at that time, allowed app developers to collect this personal data. ” By that I mean companies that control a key platform which, like a coral reef, attracts to its ecosystem users, sellers, advertisers, software developers, apps, and accessory makers. But this was not the first time its policies were violated.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

For one thing, in an era when trust in traditional sources has eroded — in government, media, and in companies and the marketing they employ — word-of-mouth from trusted peers wields greater clout than ever. Around 2005, marketing became a bigger force driving growth. For another, the funnel fails to capture momentum.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

When Amazon announced last week that it will acquire Whole Foods Market, a grocery chain with over 450 retail stores and deep industry talent, for $13.7 on the news, increasing its market capitalization by $11 billion. Amazon’s greatest competitive advantage is not its e-commerce network; it is its innovation engine.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Once one of the most powerful companies in the world, today the company has a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Why did this happen?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

It’s not implausible to imagine that one day a “strategist in a box” could autonomously develop and execute a business strategy. No matter how advanced technology is, it needs human partners to enhance competitive advantage. It must be embedded in what we call the integrated strategy machine.

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