Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 8, 2011

Not just if we are a business owner, Brand, Marketing or Sales Manager, or someone else traditionally responsible for price, but for all of us as leaders, thinking about how people invest of themselves, their time, energy and more.

Price 185

Price Porter Workshop Learning-by-Doing 185

Joseph Lalonde

JULY 27, 2015

Admiral Porter – Try not to cause a total panic. They had no clue how to fight. He told Admiral Porter to let the nerds take over. Whether that’s market share, souls, or some other metric. There will be many times when you will lack any knowledge in an important subject matter. There is something to lose.

Cooper 120

Cooper Leadership Porter Video 120

Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

” (Sam Decker, Decker Marketing). “In reading the book, I’m struck that the author spends time focusing on HOW to achieve maximum benefit from each of the six interdependent Disciplines, and not just providing a laundry list without explanation. “Instead, this is meant to read more as a how-to manual.

CTO 101

CTO Books Balanced Scorecard Norton 101

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Blame the market, other departments or poor IT-systems for the fact that you are not taking brave, independent action. He has shared the stage with prominent strategists like Michael Porter and reached out to 21,000+ leaders in 30+ countries. How to Stress-Test Your Strategy. Always take credit for the work your team did.

Strategy 59

Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 59

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. The once-dominant Nokia soon lost much of its market cap and was eventually acquired by Microsoft. Insight Center.

Strategy 13

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

In every aspect of business, we are operating with mental models that have grown outdated or obsolete, from strategy to marketing to organization to leadership. I also had to learn how to drive on the left side of the road. The hard part was unlearning how to drive on the right. How to Create an Exponential Mindset.

Porter 8

Porter Competitive Advantage Senge Network Economy 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Rebuilding Your Business Model Various Authors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to use innovative thinking to create or revise a business model that drives growth and profits This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review.

Business Model 85

Business Model Review Books Innovation 85

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

The painful truth is: attention itself isn’t worth as much as today’s marketers, boardrooms, and beancounters think. Institutions and leaders, obedient students of modern marketing, obsessively ask, “How do we get people to be loyal to us?” And modern marketing makes zombies. It’s not.

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Marketing Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Michael Porter is credited with (or more often accused of) creating TPS in 1980 —positing that a firm should think about positioning itself in its industry in a way that enables it to achieve competitive advantage. You need a where-to-play and a how-to-win. It is unarguable that you need both. They have to be a matched pair.

RBV 8

RBV Resources Positioning Strategy 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Rebuilding Your Business Model Various Authors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to use innovative thinking to create or revise a business model that drives growth and profits This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review.

Business Model 70

Business Model Review Books Innovation 70

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Packaged food companies like Kraft and Pepsi use their scale to penetrate markets quickly and efficiently. To understand my point, let's think about how big companies have developed scale advantages through information systems. Consider Porter's value chain. In today's world, you don't need to have scale to enjoy scale.

Porter 12

Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The 'iPods' of poverty alleviation and literacy have likely been invented and put to use by small organizations in some corner of the globe, but there is no market for identifying these breakthrough ideas and ensuring widespread adoption.". Consider these examples: 1.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Meanwhile Harvard Business Review has been focused on this issue, with our most recent cover story titled "How to fix capitalism — and unleash a wave of innovation and growth". This cover story, by Michael Porter, suggests that companies and government need to get outside an outdated approach to value creation. trillion by 2020.

Innovation 15

Innovation Succession Porter Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Michael Porter has defined value as “health outcomes achieved per dollar spent.” Porter and colleagues adapt microeconomics to health care through their definition of output: patient-centered health outcomes. In most markets consumers define value by purchasing and using things. Why Health Care Is Stuck — And How to Fix It.

Health Care 8

Health Care Porter Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

It has become an axiom that “strategy is about making hard choices,” as we have been advised for over 20 years by leading thinkers including Michael Porter and Roger Martin. Sephora has become a leader in the cosmetics market by transcending this tradeoff, finding ways to achieve transactions and relationships.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer Apparel Marketing Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

EIS provided critical information on how to contact search-and-rescue teams, where to receive food and water, and how to register missing loved ones. It's an approach we call creating shared value ( my coauthor Mark Kramer and FSG cofounder Michael Porter wrote about this in Harvard Business Review ).

Porter 12

Porter Core Competence Globalization Business Model 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

At any given point in time, the market will find equilibrium. If you are at all familiar with Michael Porter's work , think about this as an industry developing its value chain. In urban areas, the retail grocery market was dominated by corner store grocers who delivered food to within walking distance of customer homes.

Technology 14

Technology Retail Supply Chain Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

They are adept at selling cars through dealership networks, and know how to drive down costs with suppliers. Not exactly – despite the product it markets and sells to consumers. Michael Porter has written about “ activity-based strategy ” to mean the set of internal firm-wide activities that make up the value chain of a company.

Automotive 9

Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Because it has shown up in bits and pieces, via freemium models, crowdsourcing, online communities, virtual workforces, social networks, and so on, it is easy to miss how much the overall context has changed for the way value is created. How does this work? Mass markets were a convenient fiction created by mass media.

Banking 16

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

Increasingly, I see people looking starry-eyed to business and markets to solve social problems. My view is that pretending companies and markets hold all the answers actually puts at risk our ability to deal with our most pressing societal problems — and to help our most vulnerable citizens. I have an M.B.A.

Porter 9

Porter Welch Health Care Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

In its first year, the venture landed two almost-committed pilot sites and a prospect pipeline for a multi-billion-dollar market. Soon the goal became how to raise money, not how to support and improve the innovation. Strategy is what you don''t do, not just what you do , as my HBS colleague Michael Porter has said.

Innovation 8

Innovation Porter Merchandising Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

Meanwhile, Michael Porter explains exactly how health care needs disrupting, professors from INSEAD and MIT debate the merits of the MOOCs that might upend higher education, and our own Sarah Green tells publishers to quit whining about disruption and start enjoying the innovation that goes along with it. The Price of Incivility.

Management 19

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Our most-watched video was " Rethinking Capitalism " with Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter. Fred Reichheld explained how to increase customer loyalty the way that Apple does. Harvard Business School's Amy Cuddy explains how to increase your charisma with power poses. How Retailers Are Reinventing Shopping.

Video 14

Video Porter Charisma Customer Loyalty 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

It's often hard to deduce how someone becomes known as a leader in their field. Sometimes, it seems they've always loomed large: for decades, Michael Porter has been synonymous with strategy, and John Kotter with change management. Other times, the explosion onto the scene is fast and furious. Skills development comes first.

Reputation 8

Reputation Case Study Ries Kotter 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Drucker’s theory of the business was a set of assumptions about what a business will and won’t do, closer to Michael Porter’s definition of strategy. In addition to what a company is paid for, “these assumptions are about markets. They are about identifying customers and competitors, their values and behavior.

Business Model 8

Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

In most companies, marketers are in charge of assessing the competition. Because of this, close to 60 percent of all competitive intelligence professionals report to marketing. Yet the majority of marketers fail to use their competition analysts strategically, instead using them to gather more “recon” data.

Marketing 8

Marketing Competitive Intelligence Porter How To 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Strategy is about asking “what” we should be doing—figuring out what problems the company should be tackling, sensing what is happening in the world and learning how to apply it to your business. Find and follow the opinion leaders in your domain, read up on the classics , brush up on your Michael Porter.

Porter 10

Porter Delegation Learning-by-Doing Project 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

These ratings are then used by company marketing departments to impress customers, thereby driving volume and revenue. One industry standard promoted by a ratings agency, for example, is that a porter or bellman must “explain features and functions” of a room when delivering your luggage. How to Have It All.

Hotels 8

Hotels Travel Porter CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Learning how to speed up growth to increase prosperity of this massive middle would have immeasurable societal value. Independently, Michael Porter’s Social Progress Index in 2016 specifically highlighted opportunity in Manizales as significantly higher than both Medellin and Bogota.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

Six years ago, Harvard’s Michael Porter and FSG’s Mark Kramer made the bold statement that shared value — the idea that the purpose of a company is to achieve both shareholder profit and social purpose — would “reinvent capitalism.” Andy Roberts/Getty Images.

Marketing 12

Marketing Porter Metrics Brand 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

He was hardly alone — that was evidently how most economists thought about competition, too. It was this received opinion Michael Porter was questioning when, in 1979, he mapped out four additional competitive forces in “ How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy.” ” But that wasn’t exactly so.

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

Michael Porter’s 1979 HBR article on the five forces that shape strategy offered companies a framework for thinking through those positions, and his 1996 article “What Is Strategy? . “The best competitors, the most successful ones, know how to keep moving and always stay on the cutting edge.”

Strategy 10

Strategy Competitive Advantage Porter Automotive 10

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2011

It occurred to me that this was a talent to watch, as I was already familiar with established composers such as George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and others. Every way in which a company markets must be commensurate and fit under definable business strategies. Learn how to identify and nurture your stakeholders.

Learning-by-Doing 63

Learning-by-Doing Leadership Strategic Planning Open-book 63

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The academic study of strategy took a big leap forward in the 1970s when Michael Porter of HBS looked at earlier economic research on industry structure and noticed that market power — which economists wanted to minimize — was the same thing as sustained profitability, which corporate executives wanted to maximize.

Strategy 8

Strategy Rivkin Game Theory Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

To work out how vulnerable your company’s competitive advantage is, Evans and Worster offered a still-useful list of diagnostic questions, which begins by identifying the information that holds your value chain together and where you are currently making trade-offs between richness and reach. It’s still worth a look now.

Porter 8

Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Start with Michael Porter. Ikea, for example, has figured out how to get customers to pay more than you might expect for furniture that they have to assemble themselves…thus keeping IKEA’s costs low. Okay – what’s the thesis? . That bundle allows the company to create value in a way that can’t be imitated. The bottom line, then?

Sull 10

Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The HBS team has been using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC), an approach initially proposed by one of us (Bob Kaplan) and Michael Porter, to help providers pursue the value-based delivery of care. One of the team’s central findings is that TDABC cannot be delegated to the finance function.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8