Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2011

By developing their talent – their uniquely human ability to communicate – your organization will flourish in the digital age. We offer: Expert individual communication coaching for professional development or critical public events. You’ll also show you’re a clear and crisp communicator who values the boss’s time.

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Kaplan Audience Chief Executive Officer Seminar 68

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

By developing their talent – their uniquely human ability to communicate – your organization will flourish in the digital age. Additional Information This is the second of a series of articles, developed exclusively for StrategyDriven , that highlights the breadth and depth of Communispond’s LearnTO Library.

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Library Kaplan Newsletter Audience 70

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

All too often analysts study historical data to develop a model that explains that data and then apply the model to the exact same data to make a prediction about the future. Using predictive models of demand developed during growth years or for a price sensitive market segment may fail miserably when market conditions change.

Credit Scoring 9

Credit Scoring Price Market Segmentation How To 9

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

One of the things I think is most interesting is there’s a lot of old models of innovation and of strategy that I won’t say they don’t necessarily apply anymore, but they apply to very, very, almost static markets. That’s not our market position, so we don’t need to worry about it. DAVID: Yeah.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

By developing their talent – their uniquely human ability to communicate – your organization will flourish in the digital age. Analyzing your audience and then using that information to target your message is your key to making your presentation memorable. At the heart of every employee is talent.

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Planning Audience Succession Library 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

IF YOU WILL LEAD, LLC Leadership Development, Executive Coaching, Infrastructure Consulting IF YOU WILL LEAD recognizes that your personal and professional success depends, in large part, on your ability to effectively and powerfully lead. The firm focuses on leadership development, organization excellence and information technology.

Leadership 56

Leadership Newsletter Executive Coaching Follow-up 56

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

By developing their talent – their uniquely human ability to communicate – your organization will flourish in the digital age. Or to the audience’s self-interest: “Does everybody here know how to make a million dollars?” They’re the parts the audience will remember best – and each of them serves a vital purpose.

Power 56

Power Audience Kaplan Short-term 56

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2015

Our research — we’ve interviewed executives and care providers at numerous health-care organizations and written a case study on telemedicine — suggests that telemedicine promises to upend health-care markets where supply and demand are out of balance. Disruptive innovation Information & technology Health Healthcare'

Health Care 8

Health Care Disruptive Innovation Travel How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

With unemployment rates in most developed nations at the lowest levels since the Great Recession, and with new skill sets required to keep pace with head-spinning technological advances, it’s no surprise the talent acquisition environment is incredibly competitive. How to Develop Leaders Who Can Drive Strategic Change.

Content 8

Content Survey Talent Management McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. It told how American Airlines and others had introduced systems to help their customers choose their products and services. These "channel" systems helped steer business to American Airlines.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2014

They have a defined brand and a fairly clear picture of market penetration, differentiators, and existing products and services. It tells investors why you might succeed in this particular market or in creating a new one – and who could come nipping at your heels. Here’s how to size up the competition: Be skeptical of company websites.

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Market Penetration Maturity Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

P&G''s Connect and Develop ) to increase velocity and quality of their new product introductions, the IT infrastructure support for this business process change is critical. A new component of the IT function must be developed to support this category of work: the Distributed Innovation Group (DIG). Improving Operational Efficiency.

Enterprise Architecture 8

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

When I do get a name, it often differs depending on who I asked—a marketing executive points to one person, while finance identifies someone else. How can analytics become a strategic, core component of an organization if there is no clear owner and leader for analytics at the corporate level? Information & technology Leadership'

Company 8

Company COO Information Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

That's because information technology — not just the Internet, but also mobile devices, " big data " for intensive data-crunching, and other computer hardware and software — will render even some of today's most proficient business processes obsolete by the end of the decade.

Process 15

Process Strategy Offshoring Information Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2018

Imagine Alexa- or Siri-style digital health advisors that can respond to consumer questions based on users’ unique health care data and informed by artificial intelligence. Health care could start to function much more like traditional economic markets. Health data is extremely valuable on illicit markets.

Health Care 10

Health Care System Industry Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

In the 1980s, our organizations learned a great deal about how to improve productivity, quality, and costs from Japanese practices. That would never fly in marketing, operations research, or even accounting, where academics are all over new developments. A few decades ago, U.S. Let me explain. So schools need to step up.

Lean Production 8

Lean Production Operations Health Care Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Take, for example, the role of a marketing manager or executive in a consumer products company. A marketing manager is well educated and well compensated—he or she plays a critical role in driving sales by tailoring corporate strategies to specific products and markets.

Osborne 8

Osborne Technology McKinsey Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2013

More than ever, customer experiences are based on a foundation of technology and delivered to a digitally-savvy population. Digital experiences come in many guises: mobile apps, web sites, how-to videos on YouTube, LCD screens on products (think of exercise machines that track calories burned). Legacy systems often prevent it.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Media Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies. We’re now entering a new era of innovation , one that the model doesn’t quite fit, and we will have to develop new approaches to build the future.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

IT is already being asked both to industrialize traditional infrastructures and systems fast to save costs, and to innovate customer experiences and operations with new digital technologies. Requirements and specifications are more flexible and developed within cross functional teams with constantly evolving business needs.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

These companies spent millions to develop digital products, infrastructures, and brand accompaniments, and got tremendous media and investor attention, only to encounter significant performance challenges, and often shareholder dissent. We think there’s something more here than executive over-exuberance or slowing markets.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

This practice, which is largely the evolution of database marketing, has become a critical driver of business strategy for global organizations in nearly every industry and vertical, because it supports decisions with data. In this way, CI's value extends well beyond the marketing organization. The ability to speak "IT."

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Company Business Intelligence CRM Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

These concepts allowed BCG to develop a prism through which any potential action can be evaluated. There is also no clear causal explanation for how PSA is related to the development of cancer. Among the potential responses to the finding: Targeting insurance marketing to loyalty card holders in the low-risk group, OR.

Insurance 14

Insurance Information Technology Loyalty Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

Around the world, P&G managers are conferring in such rooms, with embedded analysts from P&G''s Information and Decision Solutions group aiding their deliberations with Spotfire-enabled visuals. Consumer goods Decision making Information & technology' Income Data in Less Than a Minute.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain CIO Information Technology Information 8

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. They are planning to be “fast followers” — a strategy that has worked with most information technologies. System Development Time. First, there is the time required to develop AI systems.

Company 8

Company Maturity System Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

How do you identify, blend, develop, train and coach a mix of talents into wholes measurably greater than the sum of their parts? “The next step in analytics will be how to build chemistry,” asserted Phil Jackson, the former Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles coach who’s won the most NBA championships in history.

Team 8

Team Sports Franchising Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Adding a chief marketing officer (CMO) became crucial as new channels and media raised the complexity of brand building, while Chief strategy officers (CSOs) joined top teams to help grapple with complex and fast-changing global markets. The hunt for such talent is taking place in the world’s hottest market for advanced skills.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Information Technology Metrics CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

But today, acquiring and interpreting customer data inherently must involve both the marketing and IT departments. In fact, recent research [PDF] conducted by the CMO Council, suggests that this process should start with the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and the Chief Information Officer (CIO).

CIO 8

CIO Chief Information Officer Norton Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. Those who manage money for higher education, I propose, need to get much more interested in the market they are in.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

My team would have people with deep functional knowledge and skills (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, and information technology) to align surrounding processes. We bring everybody together in a work group and create an integrated strategy on how they'll work together.".

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

A new business model will only emerge through continuous discovery and experimentation and will be defined by market demands, start-ups, a Silicon Valley mindset, and young technology experts. Driven by market forces, such new business models could emerge faster than we expect. Education Information & technology'

Education 9

Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2014

Me, too: Kahneman made gigantic contributions, and his book should be required reading for anyone seeking to understand how to make themselves and their organizations work better. What’s really interesting, though, is that the two of them ended up in complete agreement about the conditions required for good intuition to develop.

Kahneman 8

Kahneman Information Technology Environment Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

The immense promise of big data to reveal new opportunities and deliver practical business results has so far been focused on technologies and models, and less on the human challenges of staffing roles and processes to take advantage of big data’s promise. Information & technology'

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Technology McKinsey Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Almost by definition, they don’t have first-hand experience with a disruptive shift in their market when they encounter it. Gledhill is Group Executive and Head of Group Technology & Operations at DBS Bank, a leading Asian bank with more than $300 billion of assets and a market capitalization of about $35.

Banking 8

Banking Technology Learning-by-Doing Download 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

With the focus properly on the amazing athletics, I doubt that many viewers paused to wonder how that feat of information technology was possible. The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time.

Committee 14

Committee Project Audience Information Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

Traditionally, cyber security research has focused on technical solutions to specific threats: for example, how to filter spam or protect PCs and mobile devices against the latest malware. This approach has greatly enhanced our ability to defend information systems against attack. This task is more challenging than it sounds.

Game Theory 8

Game Theory Incentives Diversity System 8