Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

Company 62

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

And when feature innovation eventually proved to be too incremental, price competition would ensue, and products would become obsolete. At most product companies, value capture has been as simple as setting the right price to maximize profits from discrete product sales. Competition was largely feature-versus-feature warfare.

Business Model 14

Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 14

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models? Yet in retrospect it was far better to exit early rather than struggle ( as Dell and HP have ) with pricing pressures, commoditization, and supply chain issues.

Business Model 16

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

For years, the media has been leading all of us to think that there’s only one real path to entrepreneurial glory: Come up with a great idea for an internet product, raise $50 million from venture capital firms, and sell to Facebook or Google for a huge price based on clicks, views, likes, or something other than revenue or profits.

Film 8

Film Audience Brand Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models? Yet in retrospect it was far better to exit early rather than struggle ( as Dell and HP have ) with pricing pressures, commoditization, and supply chain issues.

Business Model 9

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Just as the A's used analytics to find undervalued players who got on base at a disproportionate rate, your company can crunch data to find the offers your customers will respond to best, the price points that will move the most products, or the supply chain configurations that will wring out most cost.

Company 12

Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Film 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

” But when the new site appeared, I asked and answered a different question: “Should I learn to navigate the new CBSSports.com, or take the opportunity to learn to navigate market leader ESPN.com?” ” I chose the latter. ” They answered that question with a definitive: “No, I don’t trust you.”

Proposal 9

Proposal Sports Learning-by-Doing Definition 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Many have to measure their success in terms of stock price and market share, and when those slip, everyone sees it happening, reads about it in the business pages, watches it on CNBC. We weathered that storm, and John’s leadership set the bar for me on how to effectively engage employees to overcome a crisis. Out of here.”

Abell 8

Abell Armstrong Uncertainty CEO 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

price verification, inventory control). Concepts which have changed names over the years… Peep show | film arcade | silent films | talkies | movies | cinema | video. Marketing can be either inward or outward. Companies undergo marketing campaigns to promote products and services to potential customers.

Transportation 70

Transportation Consultative Film Strategic Planning 70

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Zanuck, film producer (1949). It may experience unprofitable pricing, poor payables-receivables policies, lack of accountability and excess overhead. Management remains isolated or unrealistic, possessing limited leadership development and people skills. Marketing is more for ego reasons, rather than a careful strategy.

Strategy 62

Strategy P&L Strategic Planning Tactics 62

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

This is not written to take swipes at responsible branding, marketing and advertising. Branding is a sub-set of marketing, which is a sub-sub-set of corporate strategy. Cause-related marketing materials. My analysis: The stock market looks primarily at profits…one small part (1%) of the business picture.

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

The latter has triumphantly referred to the result as Britain’s “ independence day ,” possibly an allusion to a rousing speech in the Hollywood Sci-Fi film of the same name that featured very scary aliens. Market volatility aside, the true economic impact in the short term is unlikely to be very great.

Short-term 12

Short-term Hedge Uncertainty Politics 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Other companies can do the same. Build a Re-Founding Team.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Spurred by government reforms and market expectations, healthcare leaders are being forced to reinvent their organizations. This and posts to follow will explore each of these disciplines. Importing New Knowledge.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Six Sigma Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

They got useful input on menu items and prices. The team went to a park in nearby Hayes Valley, played opera music, and tested ideas about including drinks in ticket prices (an idea that was not well received), various menu options for the new venue, and whether people would want to take food and/or drinks into the performance.

Audience 8

Audience Brainstorming Project Class 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Ed Catmull is a co-founder and the longtime head of Pixar Animation Studios, which struggled for 10 years from its founding in 1986 until the runaway success in 1995 of its first feature film, Toy Story. There was some unhappy news about one of your films in production. We have had a substantial difficulty with every film that we made.

Creativity 10

Creativity Film Management Short-term 10