Strategy Driven

JANUARY 29, 2021

There are numerous ways that technology has adeptly adapted to this, with apps and services across multiple platforms able to aid in employee communications no matter their location. The consensus seems to be that it is alright. However, this doesn’t mean that the foundational aspects of a positive work environment need to lessen.

Positioning 112

Positioning Long-term Short-term Video 112

First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 20, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Lessons from the Sandbox: Rediscovering the Keys to Business Success Alan Gregerman Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus Michael A.

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Blog Christensen Rogers McKinsey 75

leaderCommunicator

JUNE 3, 2014

Flip charts and sticky notes flow, ideas get jotted down, and ultimately you arrive at a consensus -- the path forward. While I’m not in the product promotion business, I was so impressed by a new crowd-sourcing technology I recently encountered that I can’t resist sharing my experience. operations out of Denver.

Brainstorming 126

Brainstorming Conference Consensus eBook 126

The Empowered Buisness

APRIL 6, 2014

We need more knowledge or technology to beat our competition. Consensus: Your team, industry peers, the media, etc. They buy into the same reason. “ Of course, the economy is to blame.” Consensus grows and resignation becomes contagious within your company and industry. Our company did not grow because of the economy.

Organization 164

Organization Leadership Consensus Market Segmentation 164

Strategy Driven

APRIL 16, 2014

There is a way to find out what audiences are thinking in real time: Audience response technology. Polling technology can allow presenters to embed questions directly into a PowerPoint presentation and enable audiences to respond using keypads or smartphones. About the Author. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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Audience Technology Competitive Advantage Survey 58

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 30, 2019

Macro Demand Forecasting: The “big picture” demand forecasting technique that looks ahead at broader market conditions to help plan a business’s overarching strategies. Businesses use all kinds of tools and technologies to implement these methods, from relatively simple research surveys to complex data modeling tools.

Efficiency 59

Efficiency Disaggregation B2B Uncertainty 59

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

Across industrial sectors, from healthcare to energy, from construction to retail, engineers are creating new technologies with potentially disruptive implications for the current architectural order of the global economy. One of the technologies, an “ AI doctor ”, shows great promise for the future of healthcare in Africa.

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Health Care Technology System Library 10

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Trust, leads to a willingness to be open to: new opportunities; new collaborations; new strategies; new ideas, and; new attitudes. Never be swayed by consensus that calls you to compromise your values, rather be guided by doing the right thing. Accepting a person where they are, creates an bond of trust.

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Blog Gordon Follow-up Open-book 412

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

This dialogue reached a consensus among political parties stipulating that the incumbent Islamists hand over power to a technocratic transitional government. I was asked to be Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Information & Communication Technologies. How could I refuse? About the Author.

How To 50

How To Chief Information Officer Tourism Politics 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 31, 2015

These terms define a specific set of sequenced actions buyers take to enable internal consensus and change – change management issues, if you will – rather than define steps that address needs or vendor/solution choice which come later and are the focus of sales. Long meeting to get consensus. She opposes hiring external vendors.

CFO 50

CFO Consensus Budgeting Brand 50

Strategy Driven

MAY 28, 2014

let’s begin listening for, and designing, tools to facilitate the movement along the decision path that change decisions goes through; let’s ensure the right people are all involved (some not so obvious) and address consensus-building. Relate Articles: A Technology Case Study: Implementing What the Customer Wants.

Marketing 81

Marketing Consensus Content Follow-up 81

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 15, 2012

When managers talk about social media the debate still seems to revolve around external uses of social technologies. Collective – As collaboration will involve taken relatively narrow perspectives and making them broad, you will need to help the group reach a consensus and then take action collectively on the decisions they make.

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CIO Media Participative Consensus 76

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

In the last couple of years, every auto giant has launched alternative vehicles, which they've been touting aggressively at the current Detroit Auto Show (see my newsletter on the different strategies the big companies are pursuing). The 2011 Ford Explorer, for example, is using EcoBoost engine technology to improve fuel efficiency by 25%.

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Strategy PPM Long-term Short-term 15

Strategy Driven

MARCH 5, 2014

What issues would need to be agreed upon for a solution to get group consensus and buy-in? Relate Articles: A Technology Case Study: Implementing What the Customer Wants. How will their level of involvement bias the outcome/need or where/if/when a move is necessary? What does the housing market look like for the sale of your house?

Creativity 90

Creativity Resistance Consensus Case Study 90

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

In addition, Corporate Executive Board research shows that 40 percent of engaged employees are not aligning their behavior with organizational goals, The bottom line is that only one out of ten employees are both engaged and aligned with strategy. Admiral Clark’s description of who sailors are as members of the U.S.

Long-term 207

Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Mistake #1: The content focuses on “thought leadership” Most marketers would describe their current content strategy as an effort to demonstrate “thought leadership” in their industry. Consider Xerox Technology Business, a division that provides enterprise printing capabilities to various industries, including schools.

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B2B Content Marketing Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Today, I am convinced that videoconferencing and other virtual technologies give us a much better way to conduct strategic off-sites. The overall goal is to figure out the best strategy for a business, a process that can be broken into five major steps, each of which can be performed better in a virtual environment: 1.

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Consensus Participative Strategy Brainstorming 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

While basic technologies such as Google and Pubmed exist that can help automate the search for specific information, they are not sufficient and will prove even less tenable in the future as the advancement in medical science continues to accelerate. We need a similar “para-medical” function in medicine. The path forward is clear.

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Technology Peer Review Information 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Groupthink happens because of basic social and interpersonal dynamics that include a wish for group harmony, pressures for conformity, increased commitment to ill-advised or outdated strategies, and punishment of dissenters. Here’s what will replace it, and here’s what we need to do now to survive and thrive.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Great investments are both non-consensus and correct, and examining the valuation process shows that consensus tends to coalesce differently around each type of innovation. Sustaining innovation inhabits the world of incremental change, deliberate strategy , and most financial and management theory. Four types of disruption.

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Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Discounted Cash Flow 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

Maybe your company tells people to be consensus-builders, but promotes people who are solely authoritative decision makers (behavior-practices gap). Every process that is created, every system installed, every technology that is used, every structure that is designed, every job title that is given will reinforce or dilute the culture.

Teamwork 15

Teamwork Consensus Attrition System 15

Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Collaboration does not = consensus.” “The Strategy is not a powerpoint. When technology, access, information and how consumers buy changes, so must management.” “Management is not a science, it is an art.” Nilofer Merchant @Nilofer / Consultant and champion of collaboration / In a nutshell: Leaders need to involve their people.

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Management Simon COO Blog 48

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

They''re a keystone of what we call a "future-back" approach to strategy, which unlike the "present forward" nature of most strategic-planning processes, doesn''t operate under the assumption that tomorrow will be pretty much like today, and the day after pretty much more of the same. Innovation Strategy' First, it inspires.

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Scenario Planning Consensus Strategic Planning Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

"Everyone" includes primary care doctors, medical specialists, nurses, hospital administrators, health insurance providers, nutritionists, pharmaceutical companies, medical technology manufacturers, fitness gurus, paraprofessionals, public health commissioners, and charities dedicated to a disease. In the U.S.,

Health Care 15

Health Care Innovation Pharmaceuticals Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Adding legitimacy to this skepticism are new technologies that enable automation of routine transactions, offshoring and shared service organizations that specialize in managing many tactical elements of HR. It comes from an intimate knowledge of a business's strategy and the existing capabilities of the organization.

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Offshoring Fixed Costs Outsourcing Construction 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

The disturbing pattern here wasn't that the failure had occurred, but that there was no consensus at all, no common understanding from which to learn. What part of the strategy, or the tactical execution, failed? The Chief Marketing Officer recalled that sales and distribution did not achieve planned market presence.

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NPV ROI CFO Consensus 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2016

Paul, a diverse set of stakeholders from economic development, philanthropy, business, government, and community development came together to reach consensus on more than 50 indicators of economic, social, and environmental progress that will guide their regional strategy. Strategies for growth in a connected world.

Industry 8

Industry Policies Consensus Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2014

The Surowiecki / Salmon consensus is basically, as summarized by my colleague Walt Frick, It’s irrational for the market to value a company that produced a fluke hit so high, but it’s totally rational for the CEO to selfishly want to go public, since the market is valuing them so much higher than they’re actually worth.

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IPO Consensus Quality Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

There will always be new technologies and processes you can adopt — an app promising better communication, a service promising smarter collaboration. Of course these things can be useful if the timing is right and the strategy is solid, but they also come at a cost. Don’t expect consensus. Environment.

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Examples Environment Library Consensus 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

On the other hand, the consensus was strong among market observers that Apple should not be concerned at all and that it should keep on doing exactly what it's doing — making more powerful tablets. It is exactly this brand of thinking that is dead wrong when it comes to new product development and competitive strategy.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Price Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

Incremental innovation can be pushed down into the organization where the strategy is clear, decision metrics are understood, and management models like Stage-Gate create a level playing field. Organizational change is driven by marketplace factors: customers, competition, government regulation, and science and technology.

Critical Success Factor 15

Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Such seismic moves would be unsettling in any company, but the real problem is that HP is not trusted to execute on its new strategy well. One company might be patient enough to allow a new strategy to evolve while another panics when returns don't start coming quickly or positively enough. DNA sounds like a soft thing and it is.

Software 13

Software Intellectual Capital Maturity Customer Loyalty 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

For example, one large technology company embraced a strategy to win through new digital businesses. Another company, in the agricultural technology sector, chose free cash flow as the primary long-term incentive measure. One technology company is focusing on consumer adoption of new platforms.

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Long-term Incentives Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

There is a growing consensus among students, parents and employers that today’s young liberal arts graduates lack the skills needed to succeed in the post-Recession job market. But any strategy to counter the public’s negative perceptions with long-term data and rational arguments is doomed to fail.

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Skills Education Long-term Career 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Healthcare has become extraordinarily complex — the balance of quality against cost, and of technology against humanity, are placing ever-increasing demands on clinicians. There seems to be a widening consensus that training physicians for leadership matters. These challenges require extraordinary leaders.

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Management 360-Degree Feedback Mayo Training 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

We recently surveyed (PDF) senior Fortune 500 and federal agency business and technology leaders to discover the level of serious interest surrounding Big Data. When asked how challenging it is to source analytical skills, there was unanimous consensus that finding this talent represents a challenge.

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Survey Consensus Report Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

The rapid pace and impact of these changes did not allow the luxury of time and resources to endlessly research or build consensus around an idea or course of action. All segments of Indian society have shown a remarkable capacity for change — from adopting new technology to fostering innovation.

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Globalization Bottom-up Class Consensus 14