Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Transformation processes demand risk taking, the development of new staff capabilities and a strong focus on innovation. Grundfos, the Danish water pump manufacturer, is among the legacy organizations that have intentionally restructured their rewards systems to boost innovation. Assessing your organizational immune system.

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System Innovation Restructuring Short-term 161

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

While it can feel like a localized issue, such market changes are just as possible in U.S. Establish Effective Recruitment Strategies and Onboarding A big reason for high attrition rates is the hiring of candidates who are not suited for the organization. industries and it emphasizes the importance of the retention process in HR.

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Process Attrition Trends Training 59

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. On with the interview. I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career.

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Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Yes, the shifting markets, large-scale layoffs, and rise of AI tech are enough to bring fear into the bravest of hearts, but the role of the HR team can never be understated. There are various types of HR management tech available on the market so far and a uniting aspect to all of them is the automation of many basic tasks.

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Trends Efficiency Learning-by-Doing Tools 109

In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

The strategy I’ve grown to love and count on over a 45-year career is do less, better. A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. Strategic sacrifice begins at 30,000 feet with corporate strategy. This journey isn’t an easy one.

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Human Resources Restructuring Competitive Advantage Marketing Strategy 183

HR Digest

MARCH 23, 2023

You want to inform the employee that they are being laid off due to reasons such as company restructuring or budget cuts. Layoff due to restructuring. Sincerely, Grace OPTION 2: LAYOFF DUE TO RESTRUCTING A sample layoff email to communicate a restructuring layoff with empathy and clarity. Layoff due to economic downturn.

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Letter Politics Restructuring Sample 98

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Global firms have employed blue ocean strategies to cater their services and offerings to the BoP (Bottom of Pyramid). The BoP markets are a hotbed for innovation and companies that are able to mold their business models to fit within this paradigm can truly alter traditional business models. Prahalad , the brilliant management guru.

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Competitive Advantage Prahalad Blue Ocean Strategy Glocalization 154

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 7, 2011

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. But when theories are marketed as fact, I begin to lose patience rather quickly. Just because an opinion is expressed boldly, and even when data can be developed to support the opinion, opinion doesn’t become fact – it’s still an opinion.

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Collins Leadership Styles Books Restructuring 371

Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

In an effort to better understand when and how corporate cultures change, CCL and corporate leaders surveyed a group of global VPs and directors in HR, Learning & Development, Leadership, and Talent Management. Maintaining a market position under intense pressure. The results were telling. Technology trends.

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Altman Decentralization COO Restructuring 76

HR Digest

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Agile HR can be defined by its principles of responsiveness that encourage restructuring of work to facilitate immediate feedback, planning, and action. Originally designed for software development, Agile has gained traction in various business functions, including HR, due to its adaptive and iterative approach to work.

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Agility Short-term Reference Examples 59

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

It had earlier set an ambitious target of taking a quarter of Japan’s auto market, but to achieve that, the chief executive had said that the old way of making and selling cars would no longer suffice. A new strategy was required. Fifteen years later, Nissan under Ghosn’s strategy and leadership was indeed back on its feet.

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Chief Operating Officer Short-term Strategic Fit Restructuring 50

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

While we were restructuring our services business, we made significant investments in training to help our employees make this skills transition and to introduce a learning culture, as learning is a lifelong journey. At SAP, we develop, sell and run people software solutions that help us do so. We need to revolutionize.

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Ries Skills Human Resources Software 76

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Restructuring. When you overhaul your website, be sure to restructure it in such a way as to smooth all click-throughs and open up pathways for your traffic to pass easily through. If you’re about to go through an overhaul, it’s certainly worth considering whether you ought to change hosting providers at the same time. Redesigning.

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Company Restructuring Trends Outsourcing 51

Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

Washingtonians are not the only ones in transition; companies are reorganizing, restructuring, and adjusting their plans for 2009. Training and Professional Development If there are new systems in place, or even old systems that could be more efficient, take the time to train the staff.

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Press Release Motivation Discount PR 100

The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Last week I ran a highly customized Peak Performance Leadership workshop and facilitated a strategy session in beautiful Colorado Springs. In their case, the biggest internal changes they identified were: Leadership/Culture Development. Sales Training/New Business Development. Organizational Restructuring/Building.

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Video Restructuring Brainstorming Morale 56

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy. The conventional wisdom about strategy may be leading your company astray. This book helps you identify your firm’s distinctive blend of strategic direction and differentiated capabilities that give you the ‘right to win’ in your chosen markets.

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2023

In this in-depth exploration, we will delve into tips and strategies to manage your small business finances during a crisis and emerge more resilient than ever. Re-evaluating Business Model and Strategies Sometimes, a crisis is a wake-up call to revisit your business model and strategies.

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Finance Crisis Management Crisis Management 100

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

In this excerpt from their new book, Strategy That Works , Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi explain why distinctive capabilities are vital to success, and address a fundamental question that many companies overlook: How to bring these capabilities to scale, so that every part of the enterprise can call on them.

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Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

There is no mechanism that reliably signals which skills employers need so that individuals and schools can develop those skills. The job market simply doesn't function the way a market should. Still, while I cannot overstate the importance of training, it alone will not solve the labor market's structural dysfunction.

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Marketing Restructuring McKinsey Education 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

Mark’s boss was leading meetings to discuss restructuring the research business, and hadn’t been including Mark on the invites. In an effort to not step on toes, he had been deferring to his boss on the restructuring — but his passive approach was undermining him. Use the Right Strategy for the Situation.

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Restructuring How To Compliance Biotechnology 12

LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

Actually, reading the book reminded me of this old anecdote that I heard one time, a conversation between a sort of unnamed CEO and an unnamed CFO and essentially, the CFO was asking, “What happens if we invest all this money to develop our people and they leave?” and the CEO’s response is, “Well, what happens if we don’t and they stay?”.

Human Capital 60

Human Capital Open-book CFO Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

The logic sounds compelling: A customer-centric structure , as the approach is known, can help a company understand its customers better, develop deeper relationships with them, and improve customer satisfaction. Its adoption of customer-centricity yielded a 36% increase in return on assets over the four-year period after the restructuring.

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Restructuring Company Henderson Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Rather, they are boldly restructuring every function in their organizations to boost their firms' long-term ability to deliver affordable and sustainable solutions to increasingly cost-conscious and eco-aware consumers. Emerging markets like Africa, India and China offer Western engineers a great training ground to practice frugal simplicity.

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CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. Simplifying a bit, the chief explanations were these: First, that GE benefited from scale and dominant market positions in industrial businesses. Private equity and the new capital markets.

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Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

He asked one former major investor for a reaction to the company’s prediction (accompanying poor quarterly results): “that the [current] market contraction will bottom out soon and our profits will improve.” Not until the restructuring was completed would Nikon pursue a growth agenda. What he heard was uncomfortable.

Company 8

Company ROIC CFO Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Rather, they are boldly restructuring every function in their organizations to boost their firms' long-term ability to deliver affordable and sustainable solutions to increasingly cost-conscious and eco-aware consumers. Emerging markets like Africa, India and China offer Western engineers a great training ground to practice frugal simplicity.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

In our book Repeatability , Chris Zook and I show how top-performing companies typically develop repeatable models that incorporate their strategy in front-line activities. The question forced the team to deconstruct the business and reconstruct it based on technological developments and competitive moves.

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Merchandising Metrics Restructuring Library 13

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Rebel Brown : I’ve been a consultant for over 20 years now, focused on helping international clients in areas of business and market strategy, positioning and market launches. On with the interview… Mike Myatt: For our readers not familiar with your background, could you give us a brief Bio?

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Open-book Greenleaf Blog Marketing 272

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Its corporate development group looked at upwards of 150 targets a year, and used a remarkably efficient screening process that rejected any potential acquisition that didn't make good sense strategically. The company did not overlook small deals if they contributed to the development of critical capabilities. GE-NBC/Universal.

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Due Diligence EBITDA Health Care Gordon 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

We expect the drone market to surge to nearly $7 billion by 2020 globally, driven by regulatory clarification, continuously decreasing component costs, and – most important– ongoing innovation that connects drone capabilities to big-data analytics. No strategy is static. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Competitive Advantage Company Outsourcing Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

The primary focus was on fixing the acquired firm through financial restructuring, dramatic cost cutting, and strategic slashing. These “buy, fix, manage, and then sell” PE firms were essentially umbrella holding companies while the acquired firms would become better managed before returning to the public market.

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LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

Let’s look at how to do this by analyzing the resume and LinkedIn profile of a startup marketing executive. Here’s one of his bullet points: “Multi-year brand awareness-building and marketing campaigns contributed to 23X customer acquisition and >90% YOY customer retention.” ” Résumé Story.

Brand 8

Brand Press Release Marketing B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

To help business leaders better understand industry disruption, we developed an index that measures an industry’s current level of disruption as well as its susceptibility to future disruption. Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods is forcing many incumbents in the grocery segment to rethink their go-to-market strategies.

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Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy. Writing in 1979, Roger Hansen (in Beyond the North-South Stalemate ) succinctly characterized the choices faced by developed and developing countries in the face of these demands.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

A constant theme during meetings over the last three years has been how globalisation and the economic crisis have forced organizations to rethink their strategies and change they way they operate. When organizational strategy changes, structures, roles, and functions should be realigned with the new objectives.

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Restructuring Operations Consultative Retail 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

There is no way to simultaneously align the organization's structure with products, functions, geographies, market segments, customers, capabilities, personalities, and technologies (to name a few). So what do you do if your organization has been shuffled, turned, twisted, and restructured?

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Market Segmentation Restructuring Marketing Finance 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change. It must be marketing. And she put marketing in charge of an organization-wide growth program. Who should lead our transformation?

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8