Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

It’s tempting to put it off until the business is more mature, but starting early will help you build a competitive advantage.

Competitive Advantage 18

Competitive Advantage Strategy Maturity Article 18

Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 11, 2013

For institutions, determining Point A is not much different; it is making an assessment and taking an inventory of its strengths and weaknesses, including its competitive advantages and intelligence, and then determining the nature of its market and its market position. Are you prepared to recruit and develop some horses and fishes?

Leadership 279

Leadership Maturity Competitive Advantage Teamwork 279

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 23, 2012

I ’m an extremely competitive person. Admonished by my mother and father for unsportsmanlike behavior, I eventually matured and forged a stiff upper lip in defeat. From my experience, these six characteristics encapsulate the competitive business culture. This is a tremendous competitive advantage for the smaller player.

Power 208

Power Sports Competitive Advantage Advertising 208

Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Well, most of the “campers” were not yet adults, and the age ranged from 11 up to 61, but the maturity level and skill level was adult-caliber. will take you farther than worrying about secrecy, competitive advantage, and politics. All of the students had at least four years of experience; most of them had much more.

Silverman 153

Silverman Competitive Advantage Maturity Class 153

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 Africa, some telecoms providers have bypassed traditional banks completely. The M-Pesa service lets anyone with a cellphone and some form of ID deposit, withdraw and transfer money easily: no strings attached.

Banking 251

Banking Leadership Business Model Competitive Advantage 251

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 7, 2015

Like most people, he has grown wiser and more mature with life experience. If I were advising LeBron about his role as a team leader, especially in this critical period, I would impress upon him the competitive advantage of connection. Now LeBron is back home. If LeBron has made that leap, the Cavs will play together as one.

Competitive Advantage 150

Competitive Advantage Maturity Agility Environment 150

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 29, 2020

“We’re really looking for entrepreneurial talent who aren’t confined by rigid mindsets, but who also have knowledge of how the mature financial markets work.” In a world of machines and algorithms, competitive advantage will come from the exchange of human capital.”

Globalization 95

Globalization Competitive Advantage Human Capital Analysis 95

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 17, 2016

Trust them as mature adults and it will be generalized to all their other assignments. Competitive advantage today requires cutting edge innovation, distinctive service, and lightning fast responsiveness. That advantage requires a work force committed to success and enthusiastic about excellence.

Hotels 150

Hotels Greenleaf Compliance Guidelines 150

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. As these technologies mature at record-speed, they will only be as powerful as the training available to help employees understand how to deploy, use and manage them.

Diversity 52

Diversity Career Globalization Learning-by-Doing 52

ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2021

Employee retention and morale go down, customer service suffers and companies struggle to maintain a competitive advantage. You can gauge an applicant’s maturity level and emotional intelligence. Studies show, when companies make good hiring decisions, employee turnover goes down and productivity and profits go up.

How To 52

How To Emotional Intelligence Objective Quality 52

Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

To effectively step into the role, it takes a great deal of emotional maturity, interpersonal skillfulness, and an understanding of an owner’s role and responsibilities. If ownership or management of a family enterprise is an expectation, the pressures only mount. Family enterprise ownership requires deep commitment and responsibility.

How To 305

How To Diversity Open-book Consultative 305

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2014

When the Visioning program matures and gets to its second generation, you’ll find that winning formulas stem from a hybrid of the original strategic options. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Tactics feed into objectives, which feed into goals, which feed into strategy, which feeds into Vision.

Mission Statement 81

Mission Statement Benchmarking Tactics Strategic Planning 81

Strategy Driven

APRIL 11, 2014

Because it is intended to evolve and mature with an enterprise, it can be used as a ‘screen’ from which to measure the merit of new ideas and notions. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. It can keep an organization on-track. It can identify trade-offs to consider.

Budgeting 87

Budgeting Strategic Planning Strategy Document 87

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

I mean it does seem to me that we have to start thinking through what the sources of competitive advantage for companies are when information is ubiquitous and even the knowledge that we need to bring to bear to solve problems is widely held. JULIAN: Yeah, let me just finish the thought then in terms of what I’m working on.

Competitive Advantage 121

Competitive Advantage Drucker Open-book Learning-by-Doing 121

Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

For those mature waterfall users, I’m sure they have faced the reality of the extra due diligence required to add much more analytics to make the next smartest decision. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. A monthly recurring subscription of $9.95

Marketing 51

Marketing B2B Due Diligence Benchmarking 51

Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2015

It has seen industries emerge and mature. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. This is where we live and work, where we are educated and entertained, where culture and community pride are stimulated and where we learn some lessons in living together with others. Houston is a growth community.

Entrepreneur 50

Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage Quality Books 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2013

’ The more mature and solid a value-based relationship has been built with the key contact AND the rest of the company, the more likely it will be that the new person will continue doing business with you. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. They represent the best possible NEW customer.

CRM 58

CRM Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Books 58

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

As one matures, survives, life becomes a giant reflection. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. One becomes fully actualized and is able to approach their life's Body of Work. That moment comes after years of trial and error, experiences, insights, successes and failures.

Article 50

Article Strategy Long-term Mentor 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Instead they are waiting for the technology to mature and for expertise in AI to become more widely available. It’s true that some technologies need further development, but some (like traditional machine learning) are quite mature and have been available in some form for decades. We think this is a bad idea.

Company 8

Company Maturity System Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Those that successfully harvest vast troves of data can improve productivity; make faster and more accurate decisions; reduce costs; increase competitive advantage; discover new business models and innovations; and better engage customers, employees, and partners.

Technology 8

Technology Content Market Segmentation Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Increasingly, competitive advantage stems from how firms combine and recombine resources — their own and those of their merger and alliance partners. IBM divested its mature hardware businesses to focus on the new growth areas; for example, its PC business was sold to Lenovo. What is Dell’s strategy for EMC?

Maturity 8

Maturity Software Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

Smart executives prepare the organization with processes that promote creative freedom while defining repeatable approaches to work — that way, maturity increases as size does. When advertising firms Draft and FCB merged, the new company, DraftFCB, wanted a new model to give it a competitive advantage in a crowded market.

Company 8

Company Maturity Bureaucracy Energy 8

ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2021

Employee retention and morale go down, customer service suffers and companies struggle to maintain a competitive advantage. You can gauge an applicant’s maturity level and emotional intelligence. Studies show, when companies make good hiring decisions, employee turnover goes down and productivity and profits go up.

How To 59

How To Emotional Intelligence Objective Quality 59

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 9, 2021

In their new book, TALENT MAKERS , Greenhouse co-founders Daniel Chait and Jon Stross present their step-by-step guide for implementing a structured hiring process that attracts great talent and turns hiring into a competitive advantage. What is the hiring maturity curve, and how can it help leaders? The war for talent is over.

How To 132

How To Diversity Maturity Process 132

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Embracing data as a competitive advantage is a necessity for today’s business, so why is it so hard to get access to the data we need? In today’s digitized economy, the ability to use data represents a real and essential competitive advantage. There is a cost to using data.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Software CIO Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

I believe that industry consolidation may be the death throes of mature industries as they struggle to compete with America’s return to a more entrepreneurial, craft economy. For a long time, technology gave big players a competitive advantage because no one else could afford to be big.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Pharmaceuticals Industry Trends 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

What is their maturity level? EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. What is their longevity? Were they consultants 10-20 years ago? Consultants must have at least a 10-year track record to be at all viable as a judgment resource. Could they appear before a board of directors?

Education 50

Education Company Succession Mentor 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

It has disrupted mature industries, such as hotels and automotives, by providing consumers with convenient and cost efficient access to resources without the financial, emotional, or social burdens of ownership. Companies that understand this will have a competitive advantage.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Hotels Short-term Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

As the market has matured, AI is beginning to move into enterprises that will use it but not develop it on their own. For them, AI is a competitive advantage, but not part of their core product. They see intelligent systems as solutions for sales, logistics, manufacturing, and business intelligence challenges.

Technology 8

Technology Hammer Analysis Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

Is there a new "gap" we can start to name the Mature Market Gender Gap, where western companies will increasingly gender balance in growth markets while remaining unbalanced at home? If this is true, it will certainly make for some interesting future analyses of the competitive advantages of gender balanced workplaces.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Globalization Long-term Maturity 8

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

JANUARY 8, 2015

Although it expanded into new markets, these moves were based on the company’s existing knowledge: Cisco’s storage-area network products were modified versions of its routers, and even its move into consumer wireless internet relied on mature Cisco technologies. Where will this period of discovery take the company?

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

HR Digest

JUNE 24, 2023

Competitive Advantage: Organizations that embrace HR analytics gain a competitive edge by leveraging data to drive innovation, improve efficiency, and make better decisions. Prescriptive Analytics Prescriptive analytics represents the highest level of HR analytics maturity.

Metrics 98

Metrics Trends Compliance Analysis 98

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Each intensive program delivers what companies need most: outstanding leaders who can improve corporate performance and drive competitive advantage. There’s a certain level of executive leadership maturity involved in having the respect and capacity to pull the best out of each area of the corporation.”

Education 8

Education Globalization Execution Development 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

AI technologies like neural-based machine learning and natural language processing are beginning to mature and prove their value, quickly becoming centerpieces of AI technology suites among adopters. There’s still time to make AI a competitive advantage. However, we are likely at a key inflection point of AI adoption.

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

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. From my experience, I believe that there are four highly interdependent categories of contributions the CIO and IT function should make.

Enterprise Architecture 8

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

What’s more, less than 25% of organizations feel that their data and analytics maturity has reached a level where it has actually optimized business outcomes, according to International Data Corporation.

Organization 8

Organization How To Supply Chain Technology 8