In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Information doesn’t necessarily mean understanding. One of the best sources of understanding is experience, such as in-market know-how, familiarity with competitors and customers, or expertise in leading during turbulent times. Excessive information gets in the way of understanding. Understanding comes in many shapes and forms.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

What are the media and industry analysts paying attention to? Professional services have become a commodity in most industries and this has resulted in competitive pricing. Very large companies in the information technology industry, like IBM, are successfully moving from product-driven to services-driven businesses.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 8, 2016

Can nuclear plants be operated competitively in today’s market? An evolving energy market, led by cheap natural gas and subsidized renewable generation, threatens the long-term financial viability of America’s remaining nuclear power plants. For over 30 years, U.S. nuclear plants provided clean, safe and reliable electricity.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2015

It is a competitive market in today’s economy. After 26 years since the creation of the businesses now have a number of methods and channels to distribute marketing and information about their products and services and are able to reach a varied and broad audience. Engage Customers. To be victorious, you must be a game-changer!

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2016

For more than 60 years, investors, analysts, business leaders, and even governments, have classified companies based on industries. Industry walls are disintegrating at a rapid pace. Over the past five years, Apple and Google have made significant moves in the automotive, healthcare, media, and smart home markets, among many others.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

In the recent past, businesses had only external, third party vendors to rely on for major projects, operational emergencies, and other labor-intensive initiatives that required resources they did not have. One rising area that is having a critical mass impact in every industry is the robotics space. Consider leaving a comment!

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

One of the things I think is most interesting is there’s a lot of old models of innovation and of strategy that I won’t say they don’t necessarily apply anymore, but they apply to very, very, almost static markets. Really, we couldn’t find any industry where this phenomenon wasn’t happening. DAVID: Yeah.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 9, 2016

Our world is too complex, markets too volatile, and technology too fast-paced for us to relax into complacency about organizational safety and normalcy. Just as you prepare your organization for disaster response, crisis communications, and continuity of operations, you can also prepare yourself. What’s a leader to do?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Dealing with today’s digital disruption begins by understanding how it differs from past industry changes. After all, stories of the end of our industry as we know it have been a trade press staple for decades. No industry is immune. A few key elements distinguish this era of change from the past.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

Transportation is one of the world’s largest industries. The names in the industry are global brands – BMW, Ford, Daimler. Yet despite its size and stature, it’s also an industry in the midst of transformation. Information technology, however, is one of those industries.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

So just when electric systems need to operate flawlessly — whether to power air conditioners, pump water, or heat homes — long-term challenges to power grids are multiplying. New workers are not entering the market as fast as veterans — particularly engineers — are retiring. In the U.S.,

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Most people understand the general concept of cloud computing, but fail to grasp the specific impacts it has on their industry. The revolution of cloud computing actually preserves the basic structure of how businesses have used information technology resources for the last few decades. Cloud Architecture. Software as a Service.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break. The case instructs students in the value of deconstructing an industry into its component parts.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

From those early, mainframe-led revolts, the revolution spread to engulf every industry in every part of the globe. But if accounting once led to widespread computerization, marketing is leading today’s digital revolution. And it’s the marketing department that’s become the central repository.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 18, 2021

In addition, companies that operate on a global level, especially multinationals and transnationals, have turned to better, more effective ways of hiring. Another common practice of organizations in today’s world is contracting a third party to run and look after a handful of business operations.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare. What do you think?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

What role will first sale play in a future where all information products, like software, are increasingly produced and distributed entirely through the cloud? In brief, resale markets are dangerous, especially for information goods. In effect, ReDigi operates a market for license transfers among iTunes users.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. The definition of a market, customer, partner, or even competitor is now a moving target.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

companies were making progress on the operations front, but now they seem to have lost their way—and business schools are in a position to help set them right again. Clearly, well-run operations and careful talent management went hand-in-glove. A few decades ago, U.S. Let me explain. So schools need to step up.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

I don''t care what industry you''re talking about.". IT is already being asked both to industrialize traditional infrastructures and systems fast to save costs, and to innovate customer experiences and operations with new digital technologies. It requires new modes of operation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

In order to see the future more clearly, it''s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage. Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. In many industries, drones are poised to generate what Paul Nunes and I call Big Bang Disruptions, with the FAA itself estimating $100 billion in new business growth.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

The company’s market value has more than halved to an 11-year low as it acknowledged overstating profits by hundreds of millions of dollars. Regardless, Tesco’s collective failures feel operational, organizational and cultural. Tesco’s chairman has resigned in disgrace. This isn’t simply bad luck.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

This practice, which is largely the evolution of database marketing, has become a critical driver of business strategy for global organizations in nearly every industry and vertical, because it supports decisions with data. In this way, CI's value extends well beyond the marketing organization. The ability to speak "IT."

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

Recent, well-documented examples include Progressive Insurance''s use of predictive modeling in the property and casualty insurance space and the many industrial manufacturing companies that are generating almost all their margin and profit from after-sale, value-added services based on information generated by embedded sensors.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

The EU’s human rights-centered views have been influencing global standards and privacy practices in the Middle East for decades, and businesses have adapted to more restrictive markets, like China and North Korea , and thrived. markets, but we know we are exposing ourselves at home.” And Europe’s concerns are global concerns.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The company quickly adjusted its operational definition of “loyalty” to explicitly embrace and reward its “digital evangelicals” — customers who had enough of a virtual presence to be influencers. Customers Decision making Information & technology' To Avoid the Customer Recency Trap, Listen to the Data.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Increasingly, the largest retailers in markets across the country are employing sophisticated personalized marketing and thereby becoming the primary shopping destination for a growing number of consumers. This decrease is driven by a corresponding increase in shopper marketing expenditures.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies. While it can offer valuable lessons for other industries and other problems, the model is not universally applicable. This is a dangerous mindset.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Unfortunately, Zuckerberg’s “platform” reference has elicited many comparisons of Oculus to Google’s purchase of Android , the company that would provide Google with its own smartphone operating system. When Legalzoom decided to attack the overpriced industry of law, they used software systems to automate the provisioning of legal documents.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

The Philippines has a huge business process outsourcing industry. Technology-enabled services are the backbone of this industry, and the fastest growing sectors have demand for high-end skills, such as mobile app development and data analytics, as well as middle-level skills, such as video production, copywriting, and financial analysis.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

The acceleration of digital technology has enabled the disruption of many disparate industries. Generate high-quality imaging, laboratory, and operational data. Consumer demand in all markets, aided by technology, will drive disruption in the health care industry. Four Steps for Digitalizing Healthcare.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

No company ever dazzled the world by lackadaisically going after a market. Executives never reach the pinnacle of their industry by consistently taking timid action. However, despite the fact that Apple brought it to the general public, the company didn't pioneer the technology. In 1984, Apple Inc. Today, the GUI is ubiquitous.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

The same study found that identifying people with the right skills in a rapidly changing market is the top issue impacting recruiting. But it’s not just technology and markets that are changing—workers are changing too. Read more from Korn Ferry: How Organizations Can Thrive in the Digital Economy.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In contrast, industrial giant GE’s stock price has declined by 44 % over the last year, as news emerged about its first losses in last 50 years. Why do investors react negatively to financial statement losses for an industrial firm but disregard such losses for a digital firm?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

Armed with an array of sensors, commercial drones are about to become a new source for digital information. Drone-mounted sensors can be used to capture an impressive array of data, paving the way for increased digitalization of industrial processes. Airlines Easyjet and Lufthansa have adopted drones as a tool for aircraft inspections.

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