Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2019

Presently, the global tech market is estimated around $5 trillion. But by 2021, it’s estimated that the black-hat “cybercrime” market will be worth $6 trillion. Some of the biggest threats to your company are going to develop internally. Working with MSPs or internal security groups to develop best-practices can be key here.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

In my former position as Managing Director of Philip Morris Ukraine where I was based from January 2012 until February 2015, I was forced to see it as a business crisis that threatened our people, operations, and bottom line. Indeed, Ukraine’s troubles offered an opportunity to build the leadership capacity of my management team.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

It’s 2015, and by now even latecomers among multinational corporations have decided to include African countries in their emerging market portfolios. Sub-Saharan Africa is already a competitive market place. The popular perception is that many African markets are all about energy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

How can leaders develop a specific view of the industry- and firm-level implications? ” From the map, combine various values to develop multiple scenarios. Emphasize that little is likely to change in the short term in legal and trading arrangements, although markets may be jittery until negotiation outcomes are clear.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

These pieces of advice have helped “move the numbers” as part of broad-scale corporate retention programs I’ve developed. Make friends in the business development team so that you know about the big local client projects coming up and can volunteer for them early (no business travel!). Manage the village.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

Given that senior leaders often share the same worldview as the departing CEO and could prove to be out of touch with the changes sweeping through the industry, the board looks to the third level of management. The company should anticipate some departures and make contingency plans to appoint replacements and reach out to stakeholders.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

While developing an understanding of great communication skills is easier than one might think, being able to appropriately draw upon said skills when the chips are down is not always as easy as one might hope for. Communicate more effectively. Classic business theory tells leaders to stay at arms length.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 29, 2020

While you can’t completely insulate yourself from every single eventuality, there are steps you can take to ensure that you have the right insight and contingency plans in place should the worst happen. Get Protected Against Cyber Attacks. One of the biggest threats to small businesses is cyber-security.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2016

As Joan Lewis, former P&G Global Officer and SVP of Consumer and Market Knowledge says, “Hundreds or thousands of projects are good ideas but if we don’t prune the list, they will strangle each other like weeds in a garden.”. Piloting, prototyping, and contingency planning before a change can save weeks or even years of rework.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

On a personal level, “you have genuinely lost some friends” from the organization, says Kevin Coyne, the co-founder and managing director of strategy consulting firm Coyne Partners and a professor at Emory’s Goizueta Business School. Manage your stress. If you’re a manager, this is even more critical.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Too many companies still follow a “Plan-then-Do” approach to strategy: The organization works tirelessly to create its best forecasts about the future market and competitive landscape. Leadership then specifies a plan that it believes will position the company to win in this predicted future. Value flexibility.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

unilaterally pulls out of the Iran nuclear deal), building contingency plans, and diversifying their portfolio of markets. more competitive prices, more localized products) and improve their risk management and operational efficiency. Many companies are assessing their exposure to specific policy decisions (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

The possibility of a contentious renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has led to delayed or canceled investments in what has been one of Latin America’s most economically stable markets. Renegotiating NAFTA. So, if a company manufactures products in Mexico to export to Canada and the U.S.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 4, 2017

You can see the way the stock market reacts whenever an announcement or decision is made; sometimes it gets a boost, which is its way of saying ‘we approve!’, You can’t stop that from happening, but you can make sure you have the contingency plans in place so that you’re able to handle any temporary setbacks relating to stock and so forth.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Top leaders tend to focus more on status updates than on contingency planning. This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. They did not spend as much time thinking about local events that have implications for their emerging market operations. miragec/Getty Images.

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