In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 11, 2011

The means to that end is quickly slashing sku’s and product lines to reduce inventories. Familiar examples are spending more on advertising, introducing new products or line extensions, expanding distribution. In the case of struggling Nabob Foods, two significant innovations facilitated the turnaround. And guess what?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

After your area is optimized, you can display your products. Not everyone is willing to work with large businesses and franchises, so a cozy coffee shop is a good choice. One of the most innovative business ideas you can develop is a mobile health clinic that goes beyond a business model and solves a genuine crisis.

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HR Digest

MAY 6, 2021

We’re focused on building a culture of innovation that enables good ideas to thrive at any level of the organization, not just at the top. As one of the world’s largest employers with workforce all across the globe, what’s Inspire Brands’ best practices during crisis to ensure productivity and transparency?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

One simple and often overlooked way for larger companies to experiment is to randomize the introduction of new products across a set of markets. But the experiment also accounted for the effect that Express Pool had on existing Uber products and made clear that launching it would make good business sense.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Clorox effectively trashed P&G's new product initiative. I don't want to say "dirty tricks," (whoops, I just said it) but Clorox certainly took an innovative approach to squelching P&G's innovative threat. What vital lesson did Lafley take away from this new product debacle? "We Calling Professor Schelling !

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2012

Whether you are trying to create a new product, solve problems more effectively, become the most successful company in your industry, or find creative ways to meet your customers' needs, innovation is likely one of your most critical objectives at work. We asked managers and employees at 130 franchises of a U.S.

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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. But as execution capabilities become commodities, and the life cycles of new offerings get increasingly shorter, it’s precisely these innovation skills that need to be learned.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

. “We focus on organics and cool new macronutrients, and our consumers are into quinoa and kale and bean sprouts,” Alex Blair, who owns four franchises of Freshii, a Toronto-based chain of healthy fast-food outlets, told the New York Times. Those kinds of use cases can even frustrate sophisticated data-mining techniques.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Hosting parties in December is just one example of how the ownership team has found innovative ways to increase the revenues it derives from Fenway. The ownership has introduced other business model innovations. Major league owners are famously reluctant to release franchise-specific financial information.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

He just sold Lucasfilm, and the rights to the Star Wars franchise, to Disney for $4 billion. Because only if the movies are successful will the strategy of leveraging that brand value across all of Disney’s arms — international, consumer products, and theme parks — also work.”. Lucas lucked out. Can Disney do that?"

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Like Apple, most consumer-centric companies deal with the dilemma of how to brand the next- generation of an existing product. Product upgrades make up the majority of corporate research and development activity. In this experiment, the researchers varied the list of features for the new product. Join the conversation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2018

Jon Buchan, the director of London-based Charm Offensive, a creator of innovative cold emailing campaigns, applies Curry’s disruptive basketball strategy to business: “Find a gap,” Buchan writes. Innovate a product or service from within your position. “A chink in the armor. What is nobody else doing? .”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Instead of focusing on innovation, as he did during his first tour as CEO of the world’s largest consumer packaged goods firm, Lafley is now innovating on focus. represent an innovation repudiation of Lafley 1.0? .” represent an innovation repudiation of Lafley 1.0? innovation. Just ask Walmart.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2010

We don't think it matters much whether this was true or just spin-control; what matters is that Microsoft has now publicly embraced the hackers — and that's an instance of a broad and profound change in corporate innovation. For example, Texas Instruments' 1990 revenues from patents exceeded its manufacturing revenues.)

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Scharpf found that absorbent wood pulp was the biggest raw material manufacturing expense for pads, and wondered if cheaper indigenous materials could be used for local production, and if also coupled with a more efficient distribution network, there might be a real business opportunity given the huge underserved populations.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Innovation : When defining innovation as "offering products that are new to some or all customers" in some regions — including the U.S. and developed Europe — women entrepreneurs have higher levels of innovation than their male counterparts. And in the U.S., more than half of the 9.72

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models?

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Leading Blog

JULY 18, 2012

How do you transform a losing climate into one that fosters collaboration, innovation, and productivity? At stage VI an organization “needs to concentrate on continual learning and innovation. A turnaround is really a change in culture—changing the culture of the team or organization.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

While this simple phrase has been used time and time again to discuss the many obstacles people and companies face, an animal metaphor does describe required innovation actions rather effectively. Speed is the speed of innovation of a company relative to the industry. As a tortoise, breakthrough innovation is critical.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Coca-Cola FEMSA, the largest franchise bottler of Coca-Cola beverages in the world, set the stage for this learning two years ago when it created centers of excellence (COEs) to drive transformation in each of its functional or process areas, including supply chain, distribution, commercial, finance, HR and IT.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

For businesses looking to keep pace with innovation and leverage AI, there are steps they can take today. Take Sephora’s Kik bot , which quizzes customers about their makeup preferences and then follows up with specific product information. But first, what are some examples of how AI can help make marketing more effective?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

Everyone is familiar with the primary methods Gillette used to grow: It innovated via technology (with the Sensor, Mach 3, and Fusion razors), and in 2001 it formally expanded into the women''s leg shaving market with a new brand called Venus. The Gillette story clearly illustrates the simple math of Category Growth.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

That’s the “franchise of the future” challenge haunting sports’ brightest minds and biggest wallets. have become early adopters and innovators in multidimensional measurements for individuals and teams alike. How might “teamness” improve the time to market performance of new product development efforts?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

In a perfect world you would build relationships with the largest possible universe of targeted constituents where you can productively engage and contribute. Like most things, building and maintaining your social media footprint should be engineered by design, but the truth is that most people allow it to be constructed by default.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

At the same time, grant support enables us to innovate, grow faster, and stay focused on the bottom of the pyramid. Only through many small operational innovations have we been able to get to 85 percent. The Social Franchise Model Works in Times of Uncertainty. Both are critical. Why do we care so deeply about the bottom line?

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 14, 2013

More and more business customers have quit buying stand-alone products and have started buying integrated solutions. A growing percentage of IBM’s business, for example, now involves customized solutions incorporating non-IBM products and services.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. With 60% of annual sales coming from innovative new products, it is clear that LEGO has not been idle.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

In the 1980s, I was part of the team that sold Sesame Street around the world — either licensed and broadcast in English or in locally adapted indigenous-language co-productions. I was curious to see how Sesame Workshop had continued to grow its operations over the years while remaining true to its mission to improve the lives of kids.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

For one thing, thanks to a long history of exclusive municipal franchising regulations that didn’t end until 1992, the two companies don’t overlap in any market—TWC customers will become Comcast customers (and get arguably better technology and service in the process), but no local market will see a decline in the number of competitors.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

But franchises would have to entirely rethink their profitable business model — and people would have to pay more for those terribly unhealthy and oh so delicious French fries. In Quartz''s sister publication, Jordan Weissmann explores how and why McDonald''s pays its employees $14.50 an hour or more. Part of the reason? make this work?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Almost every discussion of innovation today inevitably turns to the topic of “disruption.” Academics write about the power of disruptive innovation to transform one industry after another. Consultants have set up practices to focus specifically on helping companies become disruptive innovators. How has this strategy worked?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

But as anyone who has ever tried to lead innovation knows, the challenge goes beyond being ambidextrous enough to manage today’s business while creating tomorrow’s. Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book. To get to the future, you must build it day by day. Excerpted from. The Three-Box Solution. Vijay Govindarajan.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

That sort of money should allow you to open 10 new centers next year, not through franchising as you'd planned, but under your direct ownership and control. The director wasn't expecting her, but Gloria liked popping into the franchises unannounced to get an unvarnished view. Three million euros.". Hours were flexible.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2012

For a social entrepreneur with an innovative solution, the holy grail is scaling it —that is, taking it to a level where the new approach operates efficiently and effectively to achieve significant mitigation of a social problem. They are: Staffing. Perhaps more than anything else, this has been the key to PlayWorks' successful scaling.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Business System: Organizational models, software investment, proprietary process, franchise rights. So creating value today is not only about the quality of the product or service we deliver. Here, trust is a function of the brand messaging lining up with the consumer's actual interaction with the product or service.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Steve Jobs' revival of the company began with a decision to narrow product lines down to a handful, and its big product successes of recent years have all been defined to a large extent by what Jobs and Apple's designers decided to leave off. Now the competitive sea is getting more crowded, especially for iPhone.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In the age before the digital revolution, marketers used to tell customers about a product and then work through a traditional step-by-step purchase funnel. Real Madrid is one of the most recognized soccer franchises in the world. Real Madrid: winning the hearts and minds of 500 million dedicated fans. ” Read More from Microsoft.

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