Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Whether it be a global pandemic, a company restructuring or a merger, a leadership strategy is crucial if you want to manage shifts and times of uncertainty. Organizational Goals and Objectives Let’s say you want your business to launch into a new market and make a name for itself within the next 18 months.

Strategy 52

Strategy Development Leadership 360-Degree Feedback 52

QAspire

JUNE 1, 2014

John Hunter of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog presents his post “ A Good Management System is Robust and Continually Improving ” and says, “ An organization succeeds because of the efforts of many great people. So how do you know if you’re slipping into the micro management trap?” Alan Robinson, PH.D

Leadership Development 185

Leadership Development Development Leadership McCarthy 185

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Nonetheless, the failure and resolution of Texas-based First RepublicBank, reminds us that the hand of government can harm as well as help when it wrestles the invisible hand of the market. With both banks highly concentrated in the weak Texas real estate market, the deal ended up helping neither bank. Managing the Crises , p.

Banking 50

Banking Real Estate Insurance Handbook 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 9, 2015

Nigel Dessau is a nationally award-winning marketing professional with over 25 years of experience leading corporate marketing and communications for several multi-million and billion dollar companies. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. About the Author. A monthly recurring subscription of $9.95

Competitive Advantage 50

Competitive Advantage Open-book Learning-by-Doing Content 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Michael Porter, the world's leading authority on competition and strategy, is sometimes the victim of his own success. We use his terminology every day — competitive advantage, the value chain, differentiation, value creation. But in fact, most managers don't. Managers confuse differentiation with being different.

Porter 15

Porter Strategy Competitive Advantage P&L 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

However, they have all failed in China, the world’s largest digital market. Google, for example, has succeeded in dominating many foreign markets that have radically different political systems and cultures (including Indonesia, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia). poor management of relations with Chinese regulators and the government.

Competitive Advantage 9

Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

One applications outsourcing team, for example, proposed a clever UX tweak to help optimize a global fulfillment process their company managed for its biggest client. All the originally appealing simplicity vanished into uncertainty. Would they defect to competitors? This seemingly counterintuitive finding infuriated the group.

Process 10

Process Competitive Advantage Outsourcing Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Digital-first companies, such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Twitter, are amassing market share and capitalization, but only a few brick-and-mortar corporations (think Apple, Nissan, and HCL Technologies) have been able to change fast enough to catch up with their rivals. The Leadership Trap.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Attrition Uncertainty Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Digital-first companies, such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Twitter, are amassing market share and capitalization, but only a few brick-and-mortar corporations (think Apple, Nissan, and HCL Technologies) have been able to change fast enough to catch up with their rivals. The Leadership Trap.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Attrition Uncertainty Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

From Michael Porter to Costas Markides and through the Blue Oceans of Kim and Mauborgne, strategy scholars have been urging executives to distinguish their firm’s offerings and carve out a unique market position. McKinsey’s competitive advantage apparently does not come from how it differentiates its offering.

McKinsey 11

McKinsey Mauborgne Competitive Advantage Porter 11

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.

Levitt 10

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Given these network effects – as many proclaim – markets get “winner takes all properties”: the largest network will win, crowding out the remaining competitors (like MySpace and Google+). It is a misconception to think that network effects inevitably and always lead to a winner-take-all market.

McCallum 10

McCallum Competitive Advantage Business Model Consultative 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

How does your organization manage the money it spends on digital? In essence, digital investments should be planned and managed according to their current and future contribution to business performance. Others are essential to running the existing business but don’t necessarily provide a competitive advantage.

Tools 8

Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

Organizations, processes, and cultures will be integrated for weeks and months after the organizations come together, causing disruption and uncertainty. Leaders in the M&A environment are managing an organization that hasn’t existed before. Their people are no longer part of the organization they joined.

Agility 14

Agility Shaw Learning-by-Doing Efficiency 14

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 12, 2017

We started mapping future projections to resource commitments with a framework called the Opportunity Portfolio , in which projects are evaluated with respect to their market and technical uncertainty, their resource intensity, and their upside potential. Stepping-stone options have both high technical and high marketing uncertainty.

How To 8

How To Uncertainty Project Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

New innovations will change the basis of competition in many markets and alter the sources of advantage for most companies. In years past, an important source of competitive advantage for insurers was the ability to price risk better than rivals. Take insurance, for example.

Company 10

Company Insurance Engineering Software 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

So you look at past projects, gather and analyze relevant market data, make predictions about how much revenue you’ll be able to generate, decide what resources you’ll need, and set milestones to reach your targets. In short, too many firms used conventional planning to manage their new ventures. Not so fast.

Planning 8

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2011

Yes, the market has gone down and up — markets do that. We live now in a condition of constant change brought on by more interconnected markets and rapidly advancing technologies. (In Ask how much of it is being spent on finding ways to compete more effectively in current markets. It just felt.

Innovation 12

Innovation Competitive Advantage Health Care Globalization 12

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Here’s why: “Most organizations see leaders'' as drivers of results - exceeding sales quotas, deepening market share, boosting profits, etc. John Hunter , from Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog , says “ One item I think every leader should have in their IDP is to continue to improve coaching their staff. Tacy Byham, Ph.D.

Leadership Development 283

Leadership Development Development Planning Self-aware 283

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

How will we manage them over time? Acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, alliances, partnerships, and other business combinations are no longer exceptions for most firms — they have become central to gaining competitive advantage. Second law: The combination must be designed and managed to realize the joint value.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Strategy Short-term Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Your organization’s growth opportunities fall into four different categories, and in order to develop your business in a commercially sustainable manner, you need four specific types of project manager to pursue them. The Four Types. In the following, we further explain the characteristics of each of the different types.

Project 8

Project Management Diversity Document 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

A point of market share creates five times that amount. As Rita Gunther McGrath notes , competitive advantage is increasingly a transient notion. Hastings was describing how he thought about managing big transitions, like the one Netflix was inevitably going to make from delivering DVDs through the mail to online streaming.

Incubator 10

Incubator Business Model Competitive Advantage Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

But, Africa is not an isolated island in the world, and ongoing uncertainty with some of its trading partners could imperil any sustainable progress. And new, rosy economic statistics have not managed to stop strikes, riots, and other protests, which are the result of the continued reality of economic inequality.

Globalization 15

Globalization Banking Class Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

But it is also a complex market, with a reputation for corruption, uncertainty, and bureaucracy. Ravi Venkatesan, the former Chairman of Microsoft India, offers inside advice on how your firm can overcome the unique challenges of the Indian market. The old way to market a business was storytelling. by Thomas H.

Books 8

Books Emotional Intelligence Competitive Advantage Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

And such flexibility can provide a distinct competitive advantage — as long as costs aren’t spiraling out of control. In a study of nearly 250 manufacturers over a 10-year period (2005–2015), we found that 78% of firms had improved their ability to fill their total actual market demand but had lost control over costs.

Automotive 8

Automotive Operations Efficiency Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

There’s urgency here because we believe the role of technology in the labor market will become more pronounced as artificial intelligence and machine learning affect white-collar jobs in much the same way that robotics has affected blue-collar jobs. In fact, even judged solely on the basis of profit, they would be foolish to do so.

Skills 8

Skills Engineering Telecommunications Incentives 8