Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

While they may be good at dreaming up new financial products, they are not so hot when it comes to taking a completely fresh look at their business. Finance should by definition be a risk-averse business. But it’s the opposite of what’s needed to drive the things the financial industry needs right now – in particular, innovation.

Banking 251

Banking Leadership Business Model Competitive Advantage 251

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). Having trouble starting out your SWOT analysis?

SWOT 118

SWOT Debt to Equity Ratio Analysis Supply Chain 118

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.

Power 208

Power Sports Competitive Advantage Advertising 208

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2021

What are the products and services you want to provide to your customers? Once these are completed, evaluate the following gradually; The Market Demand for your products and services. The price fixation of your products. Accurately Evaluating Your Finances and Funding Your Business. Preparing a Proper Idea.

Break-even Analysis 76

Break-even Analysis Analysis Licensing Price 76

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

What about competing against the innovation of others that could cause the obsolescence of your product or service? Great businesses are in constant search of improvement, innovation, change, disruption, knowledge and other strategic leverage points that lead to a competitive advantage or operational enhancement.

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Blog Brand Depreciation CEO 288

N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

If you’re passionate about something it means you care so much that it hurts…Refusing to surrender, and having the ability to make the tough decision or the needed sacrifice, will allow your company to continue taking ground and will keep the competitive advantage on the side of your enterprise.

Brand 302

Brand Depreciation Blog Politics 302

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

magazine’s offering of information, products, services, and online tools for business or management. Linked-In Linked-In is larger than ecademy, and perhaps a bit more polished, and while still valuable it is not nearly as productive a community as ecademy. Inc.com Inc. N2 is a proud member of Linked-In.

Directory 167

Directory Magazine Blog Brand 167

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

HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

it’s also critical to attracting and retaining premier talent to gain a competitive advantage in today’s competitive talent environment. When you cultivate trust with employees, they’re likelier to be happy and more productive at work. Our DE&I approach is multifaceted. It’s often the catalyst for exceptional results.

Diversity 52

Diversity Career Globalization Learning-by-Doing 52

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

It has been my experience that whenever methodologies become productized objectivity is removed from the equation. Whenever you are being pitched a product as a solution I suggest you exercise extreme caution. As always, I welcome your comments below… Share and Enjoy: View Comments myersk Agree.

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 295

HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

Last year, Tesla’s Elon Musk admitted that the company’s over-reliance on automation was partly to blame for missed production targets and months of ‘manufacturing hell.’ “Yes, Increasingly upskilling is seen as a strategic move to grow the competitiveness of your workforce and derive benefits from it. To be precise, my mistake.

Diversity 111

Diversity Education Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 111

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

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. VoIP integrates well into the consumer and enterprise world and is no longer a niche product but a necessity. The Wholesale Model.

Price 65

Price Competitive Advantage Industry Bottom-up 65

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

It was exactly the simplicity of their business model and their product that made them into the company that they are today. When Google started they had the greatest focus, the simplest vision, and the least cluttered search engine. Even their advertising model is simplistically brilliant.

Business Model 298

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.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2012

We believe workplace hostility is a leading contributor of diminished moral, reduced productivity, and elevated attrition; all of which poison an organization’s culture and hurt its bottom line. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Recommended Resource – Finance Without Fear.

Resources 52

Resources Attrition Competitive Advantage Bottom-up 52

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 22, 2015

Invest in new business ideas: With financial strength in their pocketbooks and in their bank accounts, women can now even think about investing in other business ideas conceived by others women who are having trouble getting financed the conventional way. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

Diversity 50

Diversity Conference Competitive Advantage Participative 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

If you're looking to expand in a location where the native language is not in your skillset, have a contact or service in place in order to spread awareness about your products and services. 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.

Tips 50

Tips Globalization Compliance Competitive Advantage 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 22, 2012

These include: offering products and services employees or technologies can deliver in the owner’s absence. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Recommended Resource – Finance Without Fear. specializing in doing one thing better than anyone else.

Resources 50

Resources Competitive Advantage Reference Operations 50

N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

Refusing to surrender, having the ability to make the tough decision, the needed sacrifice, and the focus to place fiduciary obligations above your self interest will allow your company to continue taking ground and will keep the competitive advantage on the side of your enterprise.

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Leadership Gordon Blog Brand 284

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.

Execution 62

Execution How To Finance Competitive Advantage 62

Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Top pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies hire healthcare executives who can successfully and consistently create or identify products that will be the next revenue generator for the firm. Describe the scope of your therapeutic expertise and research, AND your corporate results. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

Tactics 51

Tactics Execution Pharmaceuticals Human Capital 51

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

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Employers must be concerned about the stress levels of their work force as it can have a damaging impact on employee productivity. Personal problems can hinder the job performance of employees who are traditionally productive causing them to under-perform. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

Efficiency 50

Efficiency Short-term Long-term Stress 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2015

None of these elements will productively move you forward as a person, and all of these elements will keep your mind closed to what your new potential or opportunity might be. Think: health and finances. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. My mother died. I’m getting married.

Open-book 50

Open-book Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Seminar 50

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.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 332

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We remained steadfastly committed to having all our staff from custodians, plumbers, and bus drivers to engineers, architects, and finance directors, trained in the culture we wanted to create and the culture we expected each of our people to honor. Our productivity grew each year and our facility bids were winning over 70% of the time.

Leadership 64

Leadership Training Peer Review Budgeting 64

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Job satisfaction and productivity is directly related to relationships with superiors. Even if an employee likes the company, a negative relationship with a manager will impact the quality of the employee’s work life ultimately leading to a loss in productivity or complete loss of the employee. This will affect morale and productivity.

Motivation 59

Motivation Environment Servant Leader Competitive Advantage 59

Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2014

In so doing, they created a new financial product called a post note. Needless to say, these products were very profitable as long as default rates were low. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Both crises proved it’s not. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †.

Insurance 52

Insurance Banking Crisis Discount 52

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Leaders focused on products, profits, processes, and procedures are aiming too LOW. That is to say: they are finding competitive advantage in what were historically reckoned to be (or ignored as) externalities. Thanks for laying out key success factors. In addition, you mention game changes are “relational.&#

Blog 322

Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 322

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Levitt agreed, noting that the trouble starts when over time companies come to define themselves not by what they do for customers but by the products they sell or the categories in which they compete. Peter Drucker famously said that the point of a business was to create a customer. No, it’s to maximize shareholder value.

Levitt 11

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

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

JULY 25, 2017

A company has an innovative idea, which for a while provides competitive advantage. As I concluded in a piece last year on the debate over too much versus too little competition: There’s a pessimistic synthesis between the competition and concentration stories. Instead, he argues, the U.S.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Kaplan Innovation Industry 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 told how American Airlines and others had introduced systems to help their customers choose their products and services.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 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. 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

MAY 26, 2016

Conventional wisdom holds that improving working conditions (which typically costs money) would undermine the competitive advantage these firms enjoy. In addition to improved product quality and delivery times, the lean approach has been linked to improved terms of employment.

Lean Manufacturing 9

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 9

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 13

Competitive Advantage Software Health Care Long-term 13