Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Successful leaders in Medical Affairs, Clinical Operations and Medical Scientific Liaison positions will use their resumes to market themselves as cross-functional leaders that have made an impact across many aspects of the business—not just the scientific areas. You must appeal to all of these audiences.

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Tactics Execution Pharmaceuticals Human Capital 51

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. Address the nuts and bolts of business too.

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Execution How To Finance Competitive Advantage 62

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

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

When guilds were originally established in the Middle Ages, their primary purpose was to build and protect the economic value of skills and knowledge. Craftsmen allied themselves to essentially create firewalls around their primary competitive offering in the market. How does one put a check on this kind of unproductive jousting?

Operations 13

Operations Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Retail 13

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

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. Whenever some crisis loomed on the Voyager, she was known barking out: “Options?” ” to the crew.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

The churches I had previously worked with operated from the the philosophy this is church, and if people want it they will come. I look at incremental improvements as a necessary part of day-to-day operations, and a necessary component of keeping things current. Many a skilled leader has fallen prey to this circumstance.

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Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 379

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. Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. Operations in a Connected World.

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Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

But it will impact the way many jobs are performed, requiring new skills and making many existing skills less valuable. The World Economic Forum predicts that “by 2020, more than a third of the desired core skill sets of most occupations will be comprised of skills that are not yet considered crucial to the job today.”

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Company Insurance Engineering Software 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

This striking gap signals an opportunity for companies: Secure a competitive advantage by building your employees' ability to succeed in the increasingly complicated labyrinths of today's — and tomorrow's — markets. However, the core skills they need are different. Take Allianz, a German financial services company.

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Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He did not, from my point of view, have the skills to run the big company that we had produced. Few CEOs I know have operations-focused thinking styles or backgrounds. Whether they are analyzing the numbers, or conceiving of new directions in which to take the firm, they love to operate in the world of ideas.

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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 this sort of skill is quite different from providing advice about what stocks and bonds to buy, and will take some time to inculcate.

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Company Maturity System Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Right behind it are media, finance, and professional services, all of which have far more sophisticated digital capabilities than the rest of the economy. They are more likely to use software to manage their back-office operations and customer relationships.

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Industry Benchmarking Supply Chain Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This makes sense, because the alternative is for behavioral insights to be tried out by individuals or specific departments, and their knowledge and skill are likely to vary: Someone in marketing might use their behavioral knowledge to develop more-effective campaigns, while at the same time someone in HR uses theirs to focus on employee engagement.

Company 8

Company Committee Ethics Project 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. Improving Operational Efficiency. Generating Top-Line Growth. DIG is responsible for emerging technology, collaboration methods and technology (e.g.,

Enterprise Architecture 8

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

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.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Companies need these practical hacktivists to dream up new ways to meet the needs of consumers who require customization on demand and to outpace competitors in an era when competitive advantage is often fleeting. She found partners, attracted financing, and cultivated a community of internal supporters.

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Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

And that same transparency has radically shortened the shelf life of any new competitive advantage. “We’ll Talk about how complex marketing has become is very much in vogue, but there’s much less discussion about the operational (and diplomatic) muscle CMOs need in order to get things done.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

How does it drive revenue, profit, brand equity, competitive advantage, etc. don't be afraid to ask a question for fear of sounding like you don't know what you are talking about) are key skills for any business leader from CxO through entry level employee. Why should we make this investment?

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Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. Wall Street began charging a “conglomerate discount,” saying that diverse operations were hard to analyze with confidence. In some contexts, they add competitive advantage.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

We have algorithms for recommender systems, merchandise buying, inventory management, relationship management, logistics, operations — we even have algorithms for designing clothes! Each provides material and measurable returns, enabling us to better serve our clients, while providing a protective barrier against competition.

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Learning-by-Doing Engineering Metrics Cost 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Boardrooms at home in China must also begin to reflect a cross-section of cultures and skills. Since positioning is vital in new markets, today’s boards must include Chief Marketing Officers, not just directors with operations or finance backgrounds. Rebrand from the inside out.

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Brand Globalization Company Development 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Some companies haven’t used an agency because they believe no one knows their product and the reason for operating in their space as well as they do. Explicit with the cultural transformation is the need to develop the skills of a publisher, which most businesses sorely lacking. But yes, they do! Hire a specialist.

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

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. This is a skill set that perfectionists simply don't possess. New Flash : speed trumps perfectionism. Good is the enemy of great.

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Blog Leadership Competitive Advantage Brand 419