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. Let’s innovate, disrupt, and challenge the status quo. The HR Digest: How are you going to shake things up next?

Ries 76

Ries Skills Human Resources Software 76

In the CEO Afterlife

JULY 2, 2012

As for sport, the game of market share was an easy way to track success. With only 100% available to the players of the market share game, you knew whether your play(s) made you a winner or a loser. The delusion is that market share is the “be all and end all” of business success. Their horizon is markets that do not exist.

Sports 228

Sports Tactics Competitive Advantage Short-term 228

HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

The pandemic gave us the opportunity to really test our agility and innovation, and I am proud to say we exceeded expectations, ” she says. “ It’s essential for high-tech companies to maintain their competitive advantage, but how we’ve handled that change has been one of the pillars of our success over the past four years.

Leadership 52

Leadership Agility Diversity Competitive Advantage 52

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.

Blog 288

Blog Brand Depreciation CEO 288

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 19, 2012

History has shown us that the best performers were those who made the right strategic moves to create a future in which their company would enjoy significant competitive advantage. I know from my marketing background that the human brain can absorb only so much. Business will be more complex. CEOs will be time-starved.

CEO 204

CEO Competitive Advantage Teamwork Marketing 204

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 1, 2016

Thirty-five years ago at a ceremony in Vancouver, BC, I accepted AMA’s Marketer-of-the-Year Award on behalf of Nabob Foods. This company earned that honor by re-staging a tired coffee brand with innovative packing technology and breakthrough advertising. As marketers well know, unfilled needs create opportunities to meet the need.

Brand 100

Brand Competitive Advantage Marketing Strategy CEO 100

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 28, 2012

Imagine Apple without innovators or Zappos neglecting service or Whole Foods selling a slew of processed foods loaded with saturated fat. With the exception of mega-company “clout” in the marketplace, sustainable competitive advantage cannot survive in toxic cultures. That is sustainable competitive advantage.

Competitive Advantage 131

Competitive Advantage Long-term CEO Ethics 131

Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

There is no doubt that strong culture translates into a powerful competitive advantage. In fact, there is a huge risk in undervaluing the advantage the right culture plays. Companies with a healthy culture gain a positive reputation, not only among employees, but also with customers and the market. Jason Richmond.

How To 107

How To Middle Management Reputation Short-term 107

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent. The “intellectual capital” brought in by high-knowledge employees will be a major, if not the primary, competitive advantage. The rise in the influence of the knowledge worker. . Life is good.

Bureaucracy 151

Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

To thwart the impact of low-cost foreign competition and to meet the accelerating demands of customers and shareholders, they embark on doing more, and adding more. Although Coca-Cola sales lag those of their food and beverage arch rival, Coke’s profit and market cap significantly outpaces Pepsi.

Apparel 100

Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

One of the best sources of understanding is experience, such as in-market know-how, familiarity with competitors and customers, or expertise in leading during turbulent times. Rather, it is using judgment at the right time and in the right place to seize the competitive edge. Competitive advantage, not information, is power.

Power 100

Power Competitive Advantage Airlines Information 100

Rapid BI

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

They need to innovate , they need to meet the changing expectations of customers. To do this front line employees need to be trusted with the resources required. Managers and leaders need to realise that the data they can get from front line staff and customers can be a real competitive advantage.

B2B 49

B2B Competitive Advantage Trends Learning-by-Doing 49

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Life-threatening experiences (loss of business or market share, economic recession) signal the urgency for the team to collaborate. Success via competitiveness has many dimensions: Production efficiency became America’s focus by the 1950′s. Marketing’s importance was fully embraced in the 1960′s.

Quality 50

Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. And it’s one that stems from a very human problem in most big organizations. It seems we’re all racing to get more entrepreneurial. A Different Approach.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Craftsmen allied themselves to essentially create firewalls around their primary competitive offering in the market. Today, the guild mentality persists within companies, where functions such as marketing, sales, finance, IT, human resources and R&D all have their own area of special expertise.

Operations 13

Operations Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

Improving the in-store experience, promoting omnichannel shopping and fulfillment options, and developing in-person service innovations are avenues that leverage its brand equity and core competencies — and they’re approaches that would put Amazon at a disadvantage.

IT Strategy 11

IT Strategy Strategy Core Competence Price 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

But he needed a business model that would turn what others saw as a deficit into a source of competitive advantage. Find Your Market. Friedman recommends looking for markets where work has been off-shored or automated, and that have low capital requirements. Entrepreneurship Human resources Social enterprise'

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage 8

HR Digest

JUNE 24, 2023

HR analytics, also known as people analytics or workforce analytics, is a data-driven approach that empowers Human Resources Management (HRM) by collecting, analyzing, and interpreting HR data. The term Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) emerged as organizations recognized the critical role HR plays in driving business success.

Metrics 98

Metrics Trends Compliance Analysis 98

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

As gerajohm commented, "The best executives I have met have had a great understanding of how to use technology to gain competitive advantage and improve operations. They worked together to identify the technologies that could improve the company''s competitive advantage versus technologies that were needed to support the business.

CIO 8

CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 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. As many companies move from exclusively internal focused R&D to distributed-innovation systems (e.g., Generating Top-Line Growth.

Enterprise Architecture 8

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Those with the best data have enjoyed distinct advantages — in commerce, for example, better understanding the market leads to better products offered at better prices, and so forth. These businesses include Bloomberg and Morningstar, which provide data about financial markets. That’s changing.

Business Model 8

Business Model Price Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention. The bad news: Petabytes of new data and algorithmic innovation assure that “autonomy creep” will relentlessly challenge human oversight from within. That was the challenge.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

P&L 11

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Organizations don't simply wake up to the notion that they will succeed with analytics; they need leaders to show them why and how to seize this new source of competitive advantage. Later, when other teams adopted their analytical innovations, they had more money to act on what they discovered. That's not required.

Company 12

Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Film 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Each of these companies has aligned and integrated its culture and brand to create a powerful engine of competitive advantage and growth. Your human resources aren’t trying to decipher what skills and behaviors will be needed in the future, or maintaining performance evaluation systems that are out of sync with your values.

Brand 8

Brand Company Operations Merchandising 8