Lead Change Blog

MAY 11, 2020

With my interest in leadership and resilience, I watched with admiration as Jerri called out every employee who was there and the volunteers she knew, acknowledging their services. Build on your strength and core competencies. She opened her own marketing and advertising business and more. Empathetic. Turn the page.

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Core Competence Strategic Planning Short-term Human Resources 278

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2010

’ As I began to read marketing materials, it was clear I needed to create a multitude of product and service which seemed close to impossible. As a job seeker, my advice is to not focus on one core area of expertise but think of complementary avenues you may pursue to increase your chances of finding interesting work.

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Audience Newsletter Core Competence Tips 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

As an aspiring PM, there are three primary considerations when evaluating the role: Core Competencies , Emotional Intelligence (EQ), and Company Fit. The best PMs I have worked with have mastered the core competencies, have a high EQ, and work for the right company for them. Core Competencies. Company Fit.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Operational goals like productivity, predictability and alignment are woven deeply into management systems and processes. Until we solve this DNA-level problem, rule-bending innovation, when it happens at all, will occur in spite of the system rather than because of it. Innovation, experimentation and risk-taking — not so much.

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Innovation Process Competitive Advantage McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Western multinationals — especially the most successful ones — consistently struggle to achieve their growth targets in emerging markets. Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. It is impossible to earn healthy profits in emerging markets.

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Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

With almost 4,000 employees, CSAA IG has embarked on a systemic approach to create a pervasive culture of innovation. To ensure a truly transformative culture change effort, the team outlined a new corporate-wide organizational strategy to sit alongside its other market-focused strategies: “Foster a culture of insight and innovation.”

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Insurance Innovation Core Competence Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Instead, it should try to persuade them that competition in the mobile space is radically different from that in traditional markets and consequently, the European Union — and the United States, for that matter — should revamp their antitrust laws. Instead, it has just focused on the mobile-operating-system market.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Incentives Operations Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

HBR: Companies have two options to meet talent shortages—they can look to an external labor market, or they can focus on developing their internal labor market. Benko: The educational system plays an important role here. An edited version of our conversation follows. Which is proving more popular at the moment?

Skills 8

Skills Company Core Competence Career 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

It helped to establish the Symbian operating system in 1998 and spent a fortune trying to attract developers to the platform. In sharp contrast to Nokia's approach, Apple offered developers a uniform development environment and a direct path to market. Are You Targeting a Phantom Market? Apple learned from Nokia's mistake.

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Telecommunications Core Competence 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

The company’s market value has more than halved to an 11-year low as it acknowledged overstating profits by hundreds of millions of dollars. The company still declines to say whether its systemic supplier-related accounting misstatements better reflect malpractice or malfeasance. Tesco’s chairman has resigned in disgrace.

Retail 8

Retail Loyalty Supply Chain Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Rather, it points to a system set up to fail — by the pernicious combination of a fixed strategy and executives who appeared unwilling to hear bad news. We call this approach “strategy as learning,” which contrasts sharply with the view of strategy as a stable, analytically rigorous plan for execution in the market.

Strategy 8

Strategy Agility Execution Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Climate change, natural resource shortages, the growing gap between haves and have nots, and the fragility of financial systems are but a few of the critical problems it has spawned, and these are conspiring to become a perfect storm. What Can CEOs Do?

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CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

I have worked my entire career in great health systems with fabulous people. In December, 2012, the University of Utah health care system started posting on its “ Find-a-Doctor” sites all patient comments received after office visits. The result has been so much more than a marketing ploy – it has changed the care being delivered.

Health Care 9

Health Care Examples Mayo Management 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

I have worked my entire career in great health systems with fabulous people. In December, 2012, the University of Utah health care system started posting on its “ Find-a-Doctor” sites all patient comments received after office visits. The result has been so much more than a marketing ploy – it has changed the care being delivered.

Health Care 9

Health Care Examples Mayo Management 9

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 22, 2015

New Coke lasted 79 days before the original formula returned to the market. At Zappos, CEO Tony Hsieh has set his cultural sights on a holacracy management system a radical change from conventional structures. By nature, marketing people are dynamic and impatient. So yes, with change comes good choices and bad choices.

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Brand Core Competence Retail Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Our belief was that the national scale of our operation provided Panera the opportunity to turn that core competency against a societal ill and uniquely make a difference in addressing the food insecurity in this country. Think about that.

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Long-term Core Competence Short-term Competitive Advantage 13

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 23, 2015

Guest post from Rowan Gibson : Not since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution has there been a greater need to learn the art of innovation leadership. Leveraging Resources: Thinking of a company as a portfolio of skills and assets rather than as a provider of products or services for specific markets.

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Innovation Business Model Trends Franchising 120

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Also, most billion-dollar ideas don’t start that way; they can benefit from the established operations, go-to-market or service capabilities, and other corporate assets that help to scale rapidly. ” Usually, companies often want to utilize “core competencies” in order to expand into “adjacencies.”

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

Build off its core competence, or play from weakness? The company lost its leadership of the very industry that it had invented back in 1973. And it wasn’t alone – another audio leader, Sony, similarly lost market share in electronics because of its analog bias. Internal debate raged.

Organization 8

Organization Engineering Technology Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Today, guests interact with this platform by wearing an RFID-enabled MagicBand, which serves as a ticket for entry, a store of FastPass ride and dining reservations, a hotel room key, a payment system and more. They can integrate rather than overhaul previously disparate systems. Software platforms have incredibly attractive economics.

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Software Company Airlines Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Likewise, no matter how slick your company’s online idea market, it won’t yield many high-value ideas if your associates haven’t been taught to think like innovators. In our experience, most leadership development programs give scant attention to these innovation-enabling attitudes and behaviors.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

CO2

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Internally, examine culture, leadership, process, and people, as well as the value proposition you offer to customers. Our value systems and individual beliefs are learned. It provides the organization a way to stay focused on your core competencies and prevents you from being distracted by opportunities that do not fit your purpose.

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Strategic Planning Planning Balanced Scorecard Mission Statement 78

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

For instance, in October 2010, Biocon struck a $350-million marketing alliance with Pfizer, the world's largest drug maker, to commercialize four of Biocon's insulin biosimilar products in non-overlapping markets globally. Inventors are engineers, scientists, or entrepreneurs who come up with an original idea. Transformers. Financiers.

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Shaw Globalization Innovation Entrepreneur 13

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

’ It fostered a false sense of security for employees, paying higher salaries than the marketplace, thus keeping employees dependent upon the system via golden handcuffs. Core Business. Enron (like many other companies) got into areas beyond their core competencies. The Auditing Firm Employed by Enron.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57