In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 23, 2012

For most of my career, I operated within intensely competitive arenas where fractions of market share points were worth millions of dollars. The companies that employed me were generally the underdogs in battles against bigger, better-financed organizations. Competitive situations create a distinct individual and team behavior.

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Power Sports Competitive Advantage Advertising 208

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Now you have to make sure that it is possible to forecast finances and pursue funding while growing. Carry out market analysis. You must know the market that you are going into before you launch yourself or business in it. You must know the market that you are going into before you launch yourself or business in it.

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How To Analysis SWOT Audience 139

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2021

Apart from conducting detailed market research, finding out fair clientele, performing surveys, retaining target groups, exploring SEO, and researching public data, which are obviously important factors, one must also remain very adaptable to changing situations. What will be the market where you want to get into?

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Break-even Analysis Analysis Licensing Price 77

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

All business (for profit or not) provide goods, services, or intellectual property/capital to a market (or markets) for some form of consideration. All businesses have competition, serve stakeholders and other various constituencies, and must do certain things to avoid failure while on the path to creating a sustainable endeavor.

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Blog Brand Depreciation CEO 288

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

In mature markets, banks are rushing to play catch up with this kind of mobile service before smart new competitors outwit them. In the US, new online firm Betterment has made it remarkably easy for ordinary customers to set up and manage investment portfolios. Finance should by definition be a risk-averse business.

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Banking Leadership Business Model Competitive Advantage 251

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

magazine’s offering of information, products, services, and online tools for business or management. Rankings, Lists and Recognitions The Power 150 – Top Marketing Blogs This list ranks the top 150 marketing blogs based on an algorithmic approach using Google page rank, Technorati rankings, Bloglines ranking and editorial quality.

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Directory Magazine Blog Brand 167

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. Rarely do I speak with an executive who hasn’t drunk the talent messaging Kool-Aid.

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Blog Politics Mission Statement Brand 310

N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

Pricing impacts everything from strategy and tactics, to finance, to branding, to marketing and sales, to vendor selection and supply chain management, to recruiting and compensation, and to customer satisfaction and loyalty. Competition : Does your pricing place you at a competitive advantage, or disadvantage in the market?

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Price Discount Brand Supply Chain 314

N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

There are many so-called management gurus in today’s politically correct world who would take great exception to what I’m putting forth in today’s post. Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] patriciazell Wow…thanks, Mike! link] mikemyatt No thanks necessary Patricia…I hope this post helps in some way.

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Brand Depreciation Blog Politics 302

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

An idea is not synonymous with a competitive advantage, an idea is not necessarily a sign of creativity, an idea does not constitute innovation, and as much as some people wish it was so, an idea is certainly not a business. I want to start by actually defining what an idea is, and is not.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 384

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Moreover if they decide to develop the application should this be done internally with existing staff, or outsourced, and if outsourced will it be done domestically or offshore and who will manage the process. Oh, and what about development methodology?

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 295

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

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Moreover, the pursuit of perfectionism rarely results in a competitive advantage, but it will result in time delays, cost overruns, missed deadlines, and unkept commitments. New Flash : speed trumps perfectionism. Perfectionists tend to be very busy, but rarely are they productive. I completely agree with General Patton.

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Blog Leadership Competitive Advantage Brand 409

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable. It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 298

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

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. If you’re in the market for a VoIP service, let’s look at which model is best for your needs. The Wholesale Model.

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Price Competitive Advantage Industry Bottom-up 65

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. Create relationships and ask for help.

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Tips Globalization Compliance Competitive Advantage 50

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

I often observe ego centered conflicts among senior executives, which turn into a competition for turf, budget, power, influence, control, and ultimately survival. Which markets, partners, clients, or other opportunities can add significant value to our business? Does this add value to our core business?

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Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

There are many so-called management gurus in today’s politically correct world who would take great exception to what I’m putting forth in today’s post. How many of you would choose to make an uncompromising stand on your principles and values if you knew the outcome would result in certain death?

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Leadership Gordon Blog Brand 284

Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

The best Healthcare Executive Resumes outline human capital management, profitability successes, market share increases in addition to their impressive academic and association credentials that will generate the most calls for interviews. Provide examples on how you attract top talent and manage teams to achieve results.

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Tactics Execution Pharmaceuticals Human Capital 52

Strategy Driven

APRIL 5, 2012

Advocacy by John Daly provides actionable methods to effectively market ideas such that they are acted upon by the organization. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Recommended Resource – Finance Without Fear. Advocacy : Championing Ideas and Influencing Others. by John Daly.

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Resources Proposal Competitive Advantage Politics 50

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development. If your company has passive and/or timid leadership you will face serious problems in sustaining your competitive advantage. Great leaders will do anything to get off the bench and into the game.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 332

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2015

I started in the insurance business in 1993 as a fresh graduate from East Carolina with a finance degree. How to hire, fire, train, and market business. A higher level membership that attracts more of the high-level business owners and managers. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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Insurance Committee Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

The message for managers is clear: this is the way to outcompete your business rivals; these are the traits that will bring you and your company commercial victory. Good management is not like a competitive sport. Good management is not like a competitive sport. Why sports metaphors are damaging. That’s it?!”

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Sports Management Competitive Advantage Mintzberg 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2014

The borrower would then sell the discounted $970 post note on the money market, also paying a discount to the post note purchaser of say $30, receiving $940 in cash. The insurance company would repay the money market investor’s post note of $970, yielding a $30 profit for both the insurance company and the investor.

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Insurance Banking Crisis Discount 52

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.

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Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

For example, the finance department approves what to buy, facilities maintains equipment, HR tells employees how to conserve energy, and marketing manages the company’s corporate sustainability reporting. Managing utilities has also become more complex as the energy landscape has evolved.

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Company Management CIO Energy 8

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.

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Management Risk Management Finance Real Estate 9

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Sure, great leaders never lose sight of their core business, they pay attention to managing risk, etc., That is to say: they are finding competitive advantage in what were historically reckoned to be (or ignored as) externalities. What’s interesting is that the best leaders proactively focus on looking for game changers.

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Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 322

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” The first is a true “consumer is boss” mind-set, which recognizes that the only path to sustainable competitive advantage is to create customer value. And short-term numbers at that.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 12

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. In the 1980s and 1990s, Blockbuster modernized the movie rental business.

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Competitive Advantage Kaplan Innovation Industry 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

JULY 5, 2018

The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. Simplifying a bit, the chief explanations were these: First, that GE benefited from scale and dominant market positions in industrial businesses. Private equity and the new capital markets.

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Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

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.

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Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Conventional wisdom holds that improving working conditions (which typically costs money) would undermine the competitive advantage these firms enjoy. Traditional mass manufacturing is based on principles of “Scientific Management” that date back to the 19th century. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World.

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Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 10

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 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

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.

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