Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises LLC and Xen Wireless form StrategyDriven Analytics to provide utility industry executives and managers with asset management program benchmarking data supporting operational and investment decisions and fleet and individual plant performance assessments. Plant Maintenance and Operations. About StrategyDriven.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 9, 2016

Our world is too complex, markets too volatile, and technology too fast-paced for us to relax into complacency about organizational safety and normalcy. Just as you prepare your organization for disaster response, crisis communications, and continuity of operations, you can also prepare yourself. What’s a leader to do?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

As multinational corporations pursue opportunities in emerging markets, they're bound to stumble if they overlook the developed economies, and vice versa. Without operating in the former, they won't be able to attain economies of scale; sans the latter, they're unlikely to continue developing state-of-the-art technologies.

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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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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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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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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The revolution of cloud computing actually preserves the basic structure of how businesses have used information technology resources for the last few decades. Each cloud server is located in a central data center, which is typically operated by a third party company and built on virtualized hardware. Cloud Architecture.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2016

Even though these systems are updated regularly, we can no longer rely on standards and measures that were developed in a different age to reflect today’s realities — especially when we’re evaluating tech firms. They have expanded far beyond the “Information Technology” tag attached to them by GICS.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

In order to see the future more clearly, it''s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage. Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

But if accounting once led to widespread computerization, marketing is leading today’s digital revolution. And it’s the marketing department that’s become the central repository. Marketing finds itself in the vanguard because it stands to gain the most from digitization. Starving IT of budget takes a heavy toll on innovation.

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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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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 18, 2021

In addition, companies that operate on a global level, especially multinationals and transnationals, have turned to better, more effective ways of hiring. Another common practice of organizations in today’s world is contracting a third party to run and look after a handful of business operations.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

No company ever dazzled the world by lackadaisically going after a market. Xerox's failure to conquer the personal computing market — this despite developing revolutionary technology — demonstrates the importance of aligning all segments of your organization in the pursuit of innovation. In 1984, Apple Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

companies were making progress on the operations front, but now they seem to have lost their way—and business schools are in a position to help set them right again. Clearly, well-run operations and careful talent management went hand-in-glove. A few decades ago, U.S. Let me explain. So schools need to step up.

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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. It requires new modes of operation. New, more agile , software development tools and testing methods are utilized.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. The definition of a market, customer, partner, or even competitor is now a moving target.

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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.

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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. Lowe's also tries to assess the "people change" needs that will be required in future operational improvement initiatives — as much as three years out.

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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.

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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. Get operational expertise, and fast.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

When it comes to operational improvement, organizations today are light years ahead of where they were two decades ago, but there's no time to celebrate yesterday's wins. But organizations continue to use information technology to r edesign work across organizational and global boundaries.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

By developing their talent – their uniquely human ability to communicate – your organization will flourish in the digital age. Bill is responsible all aspects of the business including sales, marketing, content development, and the delivery of Communispond courses by certified faculty. At the heart of every employee is talent.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

In Operation Desert Storm , more than 100,000 Iraqi troops crossed into Kuwait, fixed themselves into strategic positions — in front lines — to combat U.S. When Netscape Navigator imagined the disruption of Microsoft Windows, it forgot that its web browser was an add-on on the operating system.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

The EU’s human rights-centered views have been influencing global standards and privacy practices in the Middle East for decades, and businesses have adapted to more restrictive markets, like China and North Korea , and thrived. markets, but we know we are exposing ourselves at home.” And Europe’s concerns are global concerns.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

In the early 1990s, executives and managers welcomed information technology — databases, PC workstations, and automated systems — into their offices. Managers noted historical trends and revised processes, and engineers developed code that was then baked into computing systems. times more likely to convert.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare. What do you think?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

As new conditions and capabilities relentlessly change how business is done, marketing – that is, the internal function responsible for shaping demand for a company’s offerings—is being challenged to reexamine its own workings. We conclude that CEOs appoint CMOs when they recognize the centrality of these to strategy formulation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Drone operators will be regularly required, for example, to pass a written test, but won’t, as rumored, need to obtain a pilot’s license. Both the U.K. entrepreneurs twiddle their thumbs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

But they also have changed how they work with each part of the company, allowing them to learn and adapt faster as new opportunities arise and markets change. In the past, IT just provided direct services to the operating groups, according to Chief Information Officer Hector Calva.

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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. A few facts might hint at the scale of this challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

But when the change involves a new information technology, it's harder to make incremental updates. Consider the approach to front line engagement taken at Martin Health System , a community healthcare system in Stuart, Florida, which implemented a new enterprise-wide system for managing patient records and core operations.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. Shewhart taught this iterative and incremental-development methodology to his mentee, W. Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. They keep customers happier.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Technology-enabled services are the backbone of this industry, and the fastest growing sectors have demand for high-end skills, such as mobile app development and data analytics, as well as middle-level skills, such as video production, copywriting, and financial analysis. Working for a venture-backed start-up is the new status symbol.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Marshall McLuhan wrote famously about the “global village,” created by new information technologies. In the traditional village, you chatted with your neighbor at the local market, face-to-face: this was the heart of community. Especially for operating around the globe, electronic communication has become essential.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

No company ever dazzled the world by lackadaisically going after a market. Xerox's failure to conquer the personal computing market — this despite developing revolutionary technology — demonstrates the importance of innovation among all sectors of your company. In 1984, Apple Inc.

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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.

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