Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Changing jobs is an often used and effective way to develop new leadership capabilities. While job changes can be a powerful catalyst for development, they can also lead to the derailment of a promising high potential leader. There are inherent risks and pitfalls that can be avoided or need to be managed.

Development 120

Development Advice Learning Curve Execution 120

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Maybe a brand manager is moved to a different department, but little else changes – the same consultants are hired, the same “best practices” are pursued – and organization itself rarely actually learns. We must start to think differently about how business, management, and strategic intelligence works.

Planning 8

Planning Competitive Intelligence Pharmaceuticals Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Technology to do this exists, and it has implications for what managers can do before, during, and after the events they sponsor or attend. No technology can help managers who are unable or unwilling to set goals. Yet, after sales force costs, events are the biggest line item in many marketing budgets, especially for B2B firms.

CRM 8

CRM ROI Budgeting Public Relations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2016

For more than 30 years, most large corporations worldwide have adopted competitive intelligence (CI) as a way to expedite good decisions. We recently conducted a survey of CI managers and analysts who’ve been through our training program to see how much their findings influenced major company decisions, and why.

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Company CAPEX Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2016

” No manager wants to hear that someone on their team has another job offer in hand. “Whether or not the employee ends up taking the other offer, this is a rich opportunity,” says Dick Grote performance management consultant and author of the HBR Tools on Goal Setting and Performance Reviews. Should you counteroffer?

Case Study 8

Case Study Consultative Learning-by-Doing Performance Review 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

In most companies, marketers are in charge of assessing the competition. Because of this, close to 60 percent of all competitive intelligence professionals report to marketing. Yet the majority of marketers fail to use their competition analysts strategically, instead using them to gather more “recon” data.

Marketing 8

Marketing Competitive Intelligence Porter How To 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Second, think creatively by developing new mental models; audit — and then question — your organization’s fundamental beliefs and assumptions. What is your organization’s competitive space, and are there ways it might be redefined? Managing uncertainty Strategic planning' What would be missing?

Creativity 8

Creativity Trends Uncertainty Strategic Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

The idea for the business came to Nadav Sharon, a former Israeli Navy cook living in San Francisco and managing a small family pizzeria, when he realized how much time he was wasting taking endless phone orders. But Eat24 managed to bootstrap their app anyway. Back then, GrubHub was already the leading online ordering app.

Marketing 8

Marketing Franchising Competitive Intelligence Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

The IoT will demand another round of risk management strategy review, new network security evaluation tools, and business model revisions. They tended to use the terms telematics and mobile resource management. Some of this work has been released to the public in a white paper [pdf] developed for The Department of Homeland Security.

White Paper 8

White Paper Policies Risk Management Competitive Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The perspectives and intuitive customer insights that come from having diverse employees — particularly employees who share cultural connections with customers — is real competitive intelligence. But without improved immigration regulations, some of these students would be headed home after graduation. Consider the following example.

Diversity 8

Diversity Globalization Competitive Intelligence Competitive Advantage 8