Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

With their industry transforming before their very eyes, what are the lessons for leaders? But it’s the opposite of what’s needed to drive the things the financial industry needs right now – in particular, innovation. In any industry it’s hard to innovate and change from within. When was the last time you visited a bank branch?

Banking 251

Banking Leadership Business Model Competitive Advantage 251

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

That’s a shame because the aviation industry as a whole still continues to be an industry model for how to operate with extremely high reliability despite having a highly fragmented set of organizational entities. Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. In the U.S., Recall how the U.S.

Industry 267

Industry Stage-Gate Organization Company 267

Six Disciplines

MARCH 21, 2011

The purpose of using the SWOT tool is to uncover or reveal the organization's competitive advantages, and what opportunities (sales, profitability) to capitalize upon. Products and Services (price, quality, Finances (stability, profitability, debt to equity ratio). Social (lifestyle trends, communications, ethnicity).

SWOT 118

SWOT Debt to Equity Ratio Analysis Supply Chain 118

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 10, 2019

With VoIP termination taking the telecom industry by storm, and it’s continuing to grow each year, carriers are looking for ways to woo customers by offering a competitive advantage. As the VoIP industry grows, the demand for rapid change, services, and adaptation grows too. The Wholesale Model. Pay Per User Model.

Price 65

Price Competitive Advantage Industry Bottom-up 65

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2021

Sharing an informative company description with the minute detail of your organization like the business solutions, business services, consumer base, competitive advantages, store location, etc. Accurately Evaluating Your Finances and Funding Your Business.

Break-even Analysis 74

Break-even Analysis Analysis Licensing Price 74

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

"Workforce Skills Upgrade: A New Competitive Advantage" SAP is one of the few companies leading diversity & Inclusion, having implemented a comprehensive workforce skills upgrade since 2017. Companies across all industries call for IT experts – not only IT companies like SAP.

Ries 76

Ries Skills Human Resources Software 76

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Finance Without Fear : A Guide to Creating and Managing a Profitable Business by William S. Hettinger and John Dolan-Heitlinger Finance Without Fear should be read by anyone starting or managing a business. The easy-to-read style helps remove the fear of finance for the entrepreneur, the small business owner, and the manager.

Finance 50

Finance Uncertainty Case Study Competitive Advantage 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2012

Create a competitive advantage, set the right tone, make effective decisions, keep talent inside your doors, and establish credibility-all while navigating unfamiliar and turbulent waters. If you don’t understand finance and accounting, enroll in a course immediately. Read the Wall Street Journal and your local paper every day.

Execution 62

Execution How To Finance Competitive Advantage 62

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

The right software will unite your workforce whether they are in finance, distribution or manufacturing so that everyone is up-to-date on all processes. Industry Principle (Product & Business Development). He was a member of the EMEA Manufacturing Industries Business Group. A monthly recurring subscription of $9.95

Tips 50

Tips Globalization Compliance Competitive Advantage 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Breaches of data integrity, or BDIs, can damage a company’s reputation, demographic, product or service, or what’s worse, and often the outcome, finances. EnableSoft, is engaged in offering game changing software products and services to the business and financial services industry, healthcare and a dozen other markets.

Software 50

Software Insurance System Operations 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Our research included a new Industry Digitization Index, the first major attempt to measure digital progress and adoption in each sector. Right behind it are media, finance, and professional services, all of which have far more sophisticated digital capabilities than the rest of the economy.

Industry 8

Industry Benchmarking Supply Chain Health Care 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Crafting and writing a branded healthcare executive resume, that differs from the traditional medical resume, can make a significant difference in your executive job search results and improve the opportunities to land that next-level position in pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

Tactics 51

Tactics Execution Pharmaceuticals Human Capital 51

Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2014

” History was not on Mr. Maxwell’s side, nor with his attempts to reform the financial industry a few years later. In the 19th century, banking was the most profitably industry in America, and incumbent banks fought hard to protect their profits. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

Insurance 51

Insurance Banking Crisis Discount 51

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

.” Value investors like Graham and Buffett believe that the sources of sustainable returns on capital are not a company’s human assets but their so-called “economic moats,” structural, durable competitive advantages around revenues or costs. The odds aren’t favorable.

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Kaplan Competitive Advantage Intangible Assets 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

A company has an innovative idea, which for a while provides competitive advantage. The basic facts are these: Most industries in the U.S. In this view, companies in seemingly every industry are struggling to fend off digital competitors, and in traded sectors they also face competition from overseas.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Kaplan Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

But had they looked at themselves from the point of view of their customers, they would have seen that they were really in the transportation and logistics business and would have better understood the challenge, and the opportunities, represented by the growing airline industry. And short-term numbers at that.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Digitization has upended industry after industry — and now, as it begins to transform the environments that will be home to two-thirds of the world’s population by 2030, there is good reason to brace for another wave of disruption. How Might Smart Cities Shift Value in Our Industry?

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

The GE conglomerate combined a wide range of industrial businesses under one roof. The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. After all, IBM came back from the dead in the 1990s. Silicon Valley and the rise of information technology.

Welch 8

Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

First, the finance chief is often first among equals on the board of directors and can help engage the board more productively on strategy. Working together, finance and strategy executives can forge better links between resource allocation and strategic goals. There are two reasons for this.

Strategy 8

Strategy CFO Finance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2012

The headline-grabbing factoid in the article was an estimate that 10% of people in the financial services industry are psychopaths. The odds increase further when we consider the competitive advantage that some of the characteristics of psychopathy, including willingness to take risks, can provide in the field.

Competitive Advantage 14

Competitive Advantage Industry Finance Ethics 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The investment industry is changing. These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. Hiroshi Watanabe/Getty Images. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism. This is not just case-by-case evidence.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Digital transformation, the industrial internet, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and a plethora of other innovations are fundamentally changing the nature of work. In years past, an important source of competitive advantage for insurers was the ability to price risk better than rivals.

Company 12

Company Insurance Engineering Software 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

An example was a discussion session of tired-looking European finance ministers, defensive and elusive about the speed of acting on the Euro crisis. I heard it in a session led by Professor Michael Porter and Dean Nitin Nohria of the Harvard Business School who were sharing a research project on declining American Competitiveness.

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage Porter Goleman Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Companies are venturing into other industries for growth with increasing regularity. Banks possess inherent competitive advantages in the digital world. As the lines between industry sectors blur all around, financial services will take on new meaning in the minds of consumers – and perhaps very quickly.

Banking 11

Banking Retail Finance Insurance 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

When "the core functions of IT — data storage, data processing, and data transport — have become available and affordable to all," he wrote, IT would cease to be a source of competitive advantage. How do companies differentiate in a world where access to technology is no longer a competitive advantage?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

No, the issue I have with the suggestions that adopting Flash or allowing iTunes to work on devices made by Sony is that it reflects a misunderstanding of the competitive advantage that Apple has forged by the way it has structured its industry category. But this strategy comes at a price. Sound familiar?

Competitive Advantage 14

Competitive Advantage Software Health Care Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

In order to see the future more clearly, it''s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage. IT went from being a potential source of competitive advantage to being a necessity for competitive parity.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

By some estimates, China has supported its domestic solar industry with $34 billion in loans; that cash, an ability to rapidly ape western technologies , and the competitive advantages of low-cost labor and limited regulatory restraints allowed Chinese companies to sweep away Western competitor after Western competitor in 2011.

Disruptive Innovation 10

Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. There’s still time to make AI a competitive advantage.

Survey 12

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

However, the current meager market share held by online lenders masks immense potential: Morgan Stanley estimates the total addressable market for online SME lenders is $280 billion and predicts the industry will grow at a 47% annualized rate through 2020.

Banking 12

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Companies can fill this need and gain competitive advantage by transforming their stakeholders from bystanders to owners and make sustainability, including as it pertains to social good, part of their purpose. As one executive told me, “unless you shift the whole industry, you’re only going to solve pockets of the problem.”

Incubator 10

Incubator How To Real Estate Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

As the world becomes more digitized, generating more information surrounding products and services and speeding up processes, large and small companies in every industry, even manufacturing, are starting to compete more like the software industry, with short product lifecycles and rapid decision-making.

Ries 10

Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 10

HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. We have a critical role to play to help our customers, our industry, and our world lessen the environmental impact of supply chains. Robinson add success to the global supply chain industry? It is a key competitive advantage.

Supply Chain 109

Supply Chain Human Resources Diversity Transportation 109

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

At a higher level, governments have long understood that their nations are well served by industries that win in the global marketplace—and have pursued forward-looking industrial policies to help them. He nodded: "That's our competitive advantage.". I said that I had, and that they were spotless. What did he mean?

Globalization 13

Globalization Competitive Advantage Software Consultative 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

For example, one of eHarmony’s competitive advantages in the matchmaking market is that it limits competition on both sides of the match. One: "Anyone who works in finance will sense, at least at first, the pressure to know more than he does." So when you contact someone, your chances of getting a response are higher.

Management 9

Management Risk Management Finance Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

In successful cases like these, CFOs have had to reorient their roles as the “gate-keeper” of a company’s finances. Paint a compelling future vision of your industry ecosystem grounded in emerging customer needs. Don’t just say that the future is uncertain, and that you will act when it gets here.

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term CFO Wiseman 8