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.

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Price Competitive Advantage Industry Bottom-up 67

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. The HR Digest: What challenges and obstacles do you see Human Resources Management facing in the future?

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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. Finance does not need to be mysterious and intimidating. The goal of any business is to make money.

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

JULY 31, 2015

Managing one location has it's own challenges like keeping up with all of your departments including Human Resources, sales, marketing and the like. With the development of modern business management solutions, it is easier than ever to stay connected with your teams all over the world. Can it be improved? About the Author.

Tips 50

Tips Globalization Compliance Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Benjamin Graham , the father of value investing, seldom met the managers of the companies he invested in because he felt they would tell him only what they wished him to hear and because he didn’t want to be influenced by impressions of personality. So is there something different about the managers who do succeed?

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Kaplan Competitive Advantage Intangible Assets 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. About the Author.

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Tactics Execution Pharmaceuticals Human Capital 55

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

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

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 57

Insurance Banking Crisis Discount 57

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

By Focusing on Resilient Risk Management Ebola Battlers Can Learn from Venice's Response to Black Death NPR Every now and then, a story comes along that makes us editors say, "Why didn''t we think of that?" This all comes down to what the article’s authors call resilient risk management.

Management 8

Management Risk Management Finance Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

It offered far more movies than its smaller rivals, used computers to better manage that inventory, and designed its stores to be bright and family friendly. A company has an innovative idea, which for a while provides competitive advantage. The basic facts are these: Most industries in the U.S.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Kaplan Innovation Industry 8

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

For chief executives, developing a good strategy is a management challenge that, at its best, involves maximizing the unique contributions of very different executives and, at its worst, requires managing counterproductive tension and turf wars between CFOs, CSOs and, quite often, business-unit heads.

Strategy 8

Strategy CFO Finance Short-term 8

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. It is tough to beat the market and over long periods of time indexing has been shown to outperform most active managers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 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 10

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. Other telecoms are offering solutions such as smart parking and waste management systems.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 8

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.

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Competitive Advantage Porter Goleman Emotional Intelligence 14

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. To stay competitive, businesses rapidly embraced PCs, and the subsequent transition to the client/server era.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 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 11

Company Insurance Engineering Software 11

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 13

Competitive Advantage Industry Finance Ethics 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

I have interviewed over 100 CEOs, C-suite executives, middle managers, and shop floor workers in more than 25 companies across the world to understand why most companies fail to embed sustainability in their business models and, also, what drives success among the handful that do. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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Incubator How To Real Estate Business Model 9

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

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 9

Banking Retail Finance Insurance 9

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. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space.

Survey 10

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

Investors are increasingly seeking firms with long-term growth strategies, rather than ones focused on managing short-term earnings to boost the stock price. As head of the world’s largest asset manager, with $4.6 Paint a compelling future vision of your industry ecosystem grounded in emerging customer needs.

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Short-term Long-term CFO Wiseman 8

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 9

Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 9

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

They all speak of the quality of their talent as a key success metric…in fact, many of them will emphatically state that talent is their single biggest competitive advantage. If I only had a nickel for each time a CEO has told me “We have the best talent in the industry.&#

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Blog Politics Mission Statement Brand 366

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

MAY 1, 2018

If, by contrast, Tesla’s target was merely a $100 billion market capitalization — frankly, a great target for most companies, as it projects a 7% return annually for the next 10 years — then investors might quickly lose their appetite to continue financing the company. They signed up for transformation, not steady returns.

Planning 8

Planning Marketing Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Almost every industry is already being affected, from agriculture to transportation. The next frontier in capturing machine intelligence’s value is building a lasting competitive advantage based on this new kind of software. The startups in these sections give a sense of how different industries may be altered.

Software 8

Software Transportation Tools Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

Over the last 30 years I have served a large range of organizations as either a director or a trustee with the specific role of helping them exploit IT for competitive advantage. EIG is responsible for enterprise architecture, the center of expertise for simplification and integration methods, process and program management.

Enterprise Architecture 8

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One reason for the paltry performance is that while other business areas, like sales or finance, are considered to be core functions, innovation is often considered to be something that’s “nice to have” rather than essential. Yet every enterprise is essentially a square-peg business waiting for a round-hole world.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He wasnt a process manager. In companies where process excellence is a competitive advantage, hes the kind of candidate CEO that more boards should be looking for. He wasnt a process manager. He did not, from my point of view, have the skills to run the big company that we had produced. The company was too big for that."

Process 15

Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Even if your organization is skilled at moving pilots and prototypes into production, you will also have to re-engineer the business processes to have full impact on your business and industry. But you may lose your distinctive competence or competitive advantage if you do not tweak it to fit your context and build everything around it.

Company 8

Company Maturity System Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

However, most companies require considerable planning and need both a competitive advantage and a solid business plan in order to succeed. Your projections for the business should not be wildly optimistic so you can manage your expectations and those of any partners. Consider the type of business and industry.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Hotels Travel Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Boards should require that CEO candidates demonstrate not just knowledge of finance and marketing but also a technology aptitude. Technology updates should be provided to the senior management team with the same frequency and rigor as financial statements and signed off on by the leadership team as part of the pay-for-performance framework.

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CEO CIO Technology CFO 8