CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

While leaders benefit from many technological advances, too, their work doesn’t seem to get easier. He is a Minnesota hedge fund manager and an off-road racer who won the 2013 Dakar Challenge by posting the fastest adjusted time combined from two major desert races—the Tecate SCORE Baja 500 and the Eldorado HDRA Reno 500.

Hedge 60

Hedge Leadership Sharpe Strategic Planning 60

CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

While leaders benefit from many technological advances, too, their work doesn’t seem to get easier. He is a Minnesota hedge fund manager and an off-road racer who won the 2013 Dakar Challenge by posting the fastest adjusted time combined from two major desert races—the Tecate SCORE Baja 500 and the Eldorado HDRA Reno 500.

Hedge 60

Hedge Leadership Sharpe Strategic Planning 60

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2018

Because so many of the modern approaches to the any industry is hedging its bets on automation, and with the advent of driverless trucks on the horizon, the average truck driver is, naturally, very concerned about their earning potential. Are Drivers Being Put Out Of Jobs?

Industry 59

Industry Hedge Entrepreneur Bond 59

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Are you a master of strategy? It was Andy Grove the former Chairman and CEO of Intel and Time Magazine’s 1997 Man of the Year who said “You have to take action; you can’t hesitate or hedge your bets. My question is: “What strategy might help to encourage leaders to run daily with what you say here?”

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 324

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

AlphaGo’s success is emblematic of a broader trend: An explosion of data and advances in algorithms have made technology smarter than ever before. In addition to executing well-defined tasks, technology is starting to address broader, more ambiguous problems. It must be embedded in what we call the integrated strategy machine.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Before deciding on a strategy, you’ll want to identify your goals, risk profile, and potential returns. For example, investors can use physical precious metals as a hedge against currency devaluation or inflation. These assets can also be used as a store of value and a potential hedge against geopolitical risks.

Hedge 118

Hedge Price Short-term Reputation 118

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

To what extent is that down to a successful talent management strategy? I’d say we’re very focused on creating a skilled workforce and leadership pipeline that can execute our strategy. I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.”

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Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

You have to consider salaries, marketing budget, office size, technology services, and on and on. These spending choices require tradeoffs, so entrepreneurs must first develop a strategy for allocating limited resources across a wide range of available options. The first is Colin.

Strategy 8

Strategy Budgeting Cost Price 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Decisioning by consensus usually results in no decision being made, or an intellectually dishonest, watered-down decision that is so full of compromises, hedges and caveats that a non-decision might have been preferable. That may or may not be the case for all teams, but that is the implication. link] Principal (le?) consensus kills teams [.]

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 325

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Corporate strategy is complex, and the advice is expensive. This makes corporate strategy an enormous and untapped prize for “robos” and “AI-enabled” expert advice across the entire enterprise; this market is ripe for disruption much the way the financial investing industry was in 2008.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2014

While this is great advice for a cash-constrained startup with little reputation, brand image, or a large group of premium-paying loyal customers to loose, this is not a smart strategy for Apple. The iBeacon technology sets them for some big stuff in revolutionizing the retail experience (as does the hiring of Musa Tariq from Burberry).

Creativity 15

Creativity Supply Chain Hedge Brand 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

Unlike a pure holding company or a modern hedge fund, the GE model intended to create value by actively sharing capabilities among its disparate businesses, which, with one important exception, were all rooted in manufacturing. Here are my top suspects: China and other countries following the Chinese strategy.

Welch 8

Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

banks are going to survive the coming wave in financial technology (fintech), they’ll need to finally take digital transformation seriously. And our analysis suggests there are strategies that they can use to compete successfully online. Lending to small and medium-sized businesses is ready to move online.

Banking 11

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

” On the other side, noted economist and hedge fund adviser Larry Summers cautions that reforming “quarterly capitalism” would risk driving us toward “Japan’s keiretsu system, which insulated corporate management from share price pressure by tying large companies together.” Either explanation is plausible.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

In fact, new research shows that a substantial part of the growth in this wage gap can be attributed to computer technology. Instead, new computer technologies require major new skills. Strategies for growth in a connected world. Some people argue that this replacement is causing technological unemployment.

Policies 8

Policies Technology Hedge Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

What impact will terahertz frequencies have on communication technologies? Chief information officers are expected to see deeply into the future and generate IT predictions that companies can build their strategies around. An Asian view of technology, for example, may reveal ideas and trends that haven't migrated across the seas yet.

CIO 14

CIO Venture Capitalist Chief Information Officer Conference 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The ingenuity is compelling: instead of using data to solve problems, AH technologies generate portfolios of provocative problems to solve. Information & technology Innovation Technology' They’re investing accordingly. Or, more accurately, hypotheses worth testing. But that’s just a business hypothesis.

Engineering 8

Engineering Core Competence Information Technology Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

The Postal Service, even with the constraints of its government mandate, has known for years that its traditional model was coming apart; Kodak realized that film was being replaced by digital media long before it changed its investment strategy; AOL knew that dial-up subscriptions were fading years before it took action.

Business Model 16

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

We propose a four-pronged strategy to help retailers reduce food waste as it occurs in food farming and food production, in the stores themselves, and during consumption. Upgrade inventory systems with the latest technology. Technology is an important enabler here too. Companies like Whole Foods and Target in the U.S.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

In the course of research for their recent book , Harvard scholars Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey (and three other researchers including myself) studied three highly successful companies – Bridgewater (hedge funds), Decurion (movie theaters, real estate, and senior living), and Next Jump (e-commerce). In this sense, culture is strategy.

Development 8

Development Company Hedge Real Estate 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. Sometimes this strategy even works.

Company 62

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

To consider another example, say a hedge fund is looking to acquire a tech company that claims to have a leading-edge technology. If the pipeline received a 5 for Criticality and Recoverability, for example, it seems likely that it would be a good candidate to receive more of the CSO’s budget.

Tools 11

Tools Risk Management Budgeting SWOT 11

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. Sometimes this strategy even works.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

I recently participated in a spirited panel discussion with Bruce Brown, Procter & Gamble's Chief Technology Officer, and Erich Joachimsthaler, Vivaldi Partners' managing director and CEO. Brown said P&G's size and stated strategy to expand its market to encompass 5 billion consumers worldwide means it has to look at all tiers of the market.

Marketing 12

Marketing Hedge Chief Technology Officer Supply Chain 12

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. The transformation in education technology and markets is happening with the business leaders and money-men of higher education barely present.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

No strategy is static. However, this may have been a hedging strategy as Starbucks built up its own digital capability, including a popular app and payment system. For most established players, the technology and skill gaps are intimidating, and it take years of effort to close them. Insight Center. Build it yourself.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

While big data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and the internet of things garner the lion’s share of media attention, using data to its full potential is much more about management than it is about technology. Hedge funds and used car dealers use such data to create and leverage asymmetries. Exploit asymmetries.

Company 10

Company Insurance Content Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

As a hedge fund manager who applied data-driven trading strategies once said, “You can spend endless time and resources only to find eventually a bug in your data.”. Decision making Information & technology' You can get problems even with the best data.

Credit Scoring 10

Credit Scoring Price Market Segmentation How To 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

The Postal Service, even with the constraints of its government mandate, has known for years that its traditional model was coming apart; Kodak realized that film was being replaced by digital media long before it changed its investment strategy; AOL knew that dial-up subscriptions were fading years before it took action.

Business Model 8

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

In an age where so much technology feels magical, the map should be no exception. Get Started With Big Data: Tie Strategy to Performance. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? It's about access to real-time information about everything around you, from deals to popular places to where your friends are. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER.

Directory 15

Directory Hedge Content Hotels 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Companies would do better at satisfying and retaining customers if they spent less time worrying about big data and more time making good use of "small data" — already-available information from simple technology solutions — to become more flexible, informative, and helpful. Get Started With Big Data: Tie Strategy to Performance.

CAPEX 15

CAPEX Balanced Scorecard Hedge Software 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

The normal culprits for short-termism are short-term-minded hedge-fund managers and activist shareholders, as well as CEOs worried about big bet investments with uncertain paybacks. For example, one large technology company embraced a strategy to win through new digital businesses.

Long-term 8

Long-term Incentives Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

firm — founded in 1983 by several folks with Harvard Business School ties (among them famed professor Michael Porter ) — is known for strategy consulting, not PR work. Maybe it's that strategy consulting has hit something of a dead-end, as Walter Kiechel wrote last week. hedge funds? The Cambridge, Mass.,

PR 9

PR Public Relations Porter Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. Sustaining innovation inhabits the world of incremental change, deliberate strategy , and most financial and management theory. The idea was to transform his theory of disruptive innovation into an investment thesis.

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Discounted Cash Flow 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Executives who wouldn’t hesitate to automate a factory now flinch at the prospect of deep-learning algorithms dictating their sales strategies and capex. They frequently find the technologies are less of a hassle than the people. The implications of success scare them more than the risk of failure. All-In Autonomy.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Get Started With Big Data: Tie Strategy to Performance. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? It enables an organization to prove there's value in major investment before making it and to understand better how to make a big data program pay off for the long term. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER. Can You Live Without a Data Scientist? More >>.

CIO 15

CIO Hedge Fashion Follow-up 15