Eric Jacobson

JULY 2, 2014

Mazzeo : We were continually surprised by the creative strategies that small businesses had developed to compete better in their markets. Panhandle developed its strategy around dealing with this uncertainty. What surprises about small business did you learn during your road trips?

Succession 78

Succession Travel PR Learning-by-Doing 78

Strategy Driven

MARCH 1, 2021

Different strategies are applied every day after some crucial changes only to get a higher rank than the competitor in the online marketplace. Those working on their website for a very long period are well known for the SEO and its strategies, due to which they are ranking higher consistently, but newcomers face the issue.

Advertising 65

Advertising Engineering Blog Strategy 65

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

Managers, he argued, take a rational approach and seek order and control. Managers provide the continuity needed to execute efficiently and leaders drive the kinetic energy needed to respond dynamically to the needs of the marketplace. Lafley, are both great managers and great leaders. Every organization needs both.

IT Strategy 8

IT Strategy Strategy Operations Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2012

We rebuilt its top management and creative teams from scratch, and launched TV shows, animated films, a social networking site for children, an online shop for parents, and several mobile games. One of the trickiest challenges in India is to get the size of the market right. At first sight, the market will always look attractive.

Marketing 13

Marketing Film GDP Media 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Many companies start their search for global growth in an alphabet soup of emerging-market groupings such as the BRIC , CIVETS , MINT , Next 11 , and so on. There are several flaws in using such acronyms as the basis for entering overseas markets. However, the sources of demand in each country differ, which will affect your strategy.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Leading Blog

JANUARY 3, 2022

Reconfigure for evolving markets. From Estée Lauder’s William Lauder and Fabrizio Freda, we learned to partner for change to open new channels for marketing products before traditional avenues close off. Accelerate your flywheel for growth. Mobilize and engage holistically. Take a learning sabbatical. Partner to lead change.

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CEO Skills Crisis Marketing 310

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

For years, companies have been pouring money into people, processes, and technology that can help them manage risk. But what about the more strategic risk areas, such as those related to emerging market entry or acquisition growth strategies? They may have streamlined or automated their internal controls.

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Risk Management Maturity EBITDA Management 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

Unfortunately, many managers misunderstand their competitive set, and that leads to strategic mistakes. For years Braun tried to steal share from Norelco, the market leader, but this proved a tough sell: Norelco's customers were shopping for convenience, which wasn't what Braun was offering.

Management 15

Management Retail Brand Merchandising 15

The Empowered Buisness

JANUARY 2, 2014

So many companies fall short in their goals because they overemphasize strategy with little/no attention to the cultural aspects that drive it. The most ingenious strategy in the world will never come to fruition without creating the right culture to drive it. Strategy can be imitated by your competitors.

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Company Organization Cost Self-aware 135

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

ERP systems, RFID , knowledge management, business intelligence) have washed over organizations. This trend toward ever more critical reliance on IT is not only transforming the idea and practice of corporate IT, but has disruptive operational implications for every manager. Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g.,

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

The past year has been difficult for many markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, although some of our clients have been facing difficulties resulting from the current environment, primarily because of currency pressures, many others are continuing to see strong growth, even in troubled markets such as South Africa and Angola.

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GDP Politics Marketing Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

For the next year, Jessica Eliasi, then the director of Competitive Intelligence at Mars Chocolate, travelled the world running “competitive simulation” games with local market teams from Russia to Mexico to Turkey to England. She then fed the results as market intelligence input into a senior leadership competitive game.

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Agility Workshop Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

Using new software to analyze the digital exhaust of calendar and email metadata provides a practical way to build an accurate profile of how frontline sales representatives and managers spend their time, who they interact with externally and internally, and what effect this has on sales performance. Refining Sales Team Structure and Roles.

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Software Metrics CRM B2B 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

A crucial element of its strategy to win over consumers to its advanced smartphones was to persuade third-party developers to create a vast array of apps for its phones. But its strategy of customizing hardware for telcos had the unintended effect of imposing high customization costs on would-be developers (i.e.,

Innovation 13

Innovation Supply Chain Telecommunications Core Competence 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

One typical reason is that top executives haven’t managed to clarify something even more fundamental: how much priority they place on increasing profit margins. Growth: A TV cable company offers special subscription plans for new customers, aiming to achieve a strong market position within 24 months. Why is it that?

Balanced Scorecard 8

Balanced Scorecard Company Price KPI 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. Strategy is how the business will achieve it. The fall can come quickly.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

If you're among the many multinational CEOs planning to appoint a local executive as your next country head in an emerging market such as Brazil, China, or India, you may want to think again. Knowing the market and possessing networks are important, but that's not all your company needs for success today.

Globalization 8

Globalization CEO Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Precision made it easy for managers to oversee their employees. Every spot on every line was visible to managers. But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. These stats were reviewed by managers every week.

Organization 12

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

If your company puts you in charge of developing a foreign market or a new line of business, your challenges are in many ways similar to those facing a startup. It is a fight that every manager is familiar with, but nowhere is the challenge bigger than when the existing strategy is not aligned with the demands of the situation you are in.

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Innovation Conflict of Interest Strategy System 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

It used to be “What’s your IT strategy?” ” Then it was “What’s your internet strategy?” ” Now it’s “What’s your digital strategy?” For example, could an eBay-like platform enable you to bring the discipline of competitive markets to your corporate services?

Strategy 8

Strategy Technology Strategic Planning Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

New innovations will change the basis of competition in many markets and alter the sources of advantage for most companies. Business-critical roles — that is, the jobs that are central to differentiating a company from its competitors and successfully executing its strategy — will also change.

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Company Insurance Engineering Software 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

But in the meantime, Google’s choices in marketing and distributing its new product get to the heart of the tension between new opportunities and existing strategy. In March, it announced a major partnership with Luxottica , the world’s largest eyewear company, a move clearly aimed at the mainstream market.

Strategy 10

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

When formulating a strategy, markets and segments are important categories to consider. But a market never buys anything. To borrow a telecom industry metaphor, a deal with a customer is the “last mile” in connecting any strategy with business development efforts and marketplace results. Only customers buy.

Strategy 8

Strategy Team Discount Price 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

My last post talked about how a little-known company , Grace Manufacturing, took a flexible and opportunistic approach to its strategy when its core business faltered. In the 1950's, the American market was quite small and dominated by entrenched players such as Harley Davidson, Indian, and imports like Triumph and Moto Guzzi.

Strategy 15

Strategy Automotive Short-term Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Among the 75% of employees with disabilities who say they have market-worthy ideas, 48% say their ideas went ignored by people with the power to act on them, 57% feel stalled in their careers, and 47% feel they would never achieve a position of power at their company, no matter how high-performing or qualified they are.

Compliance 8

Compliance Chief Operating Officer Innovation Survey 8

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. Nokia was so immersed in executing its strategy that it lost sight of its purpose. Insight Center.

Strategy 13

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

One of your better managers comes to you with the idea of setting up an internet bank. After more than 30 years working on corporate-level strategy issues as an academic, and advising companies as a consultant, I have learned to avoid coming down firmly on one side or the other.

Licensing 8

Licensing Competitive Advantage Proposal Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

For over 50 years, Wal-Mart has pursued essentially the same strategy of “offering the lowest price so its customer can live better.” Wells Fargo has become the most valuable bank in the world by sticking to its strategy of building a value proposition around selling more products per customer than anyone else. Strategy'

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Airlines Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Caught up in administrative activities such as managing employee records and planning company picnics, human resources departments can too easily lose sight of their primary function: Making sure the organization has the needed human capital to implement its strategy.

Company 8

Company Human Resources Human Capital Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

For an organization to endeavor to change its culture, it needs to take its cue from what changes in its strategy. Other times, shifts may be driven by disruptions and disrupters like the one happening in the transportation and hotel markets right now thanks to the likes of Uber and Airbnb. In fact, we defined growth as a process.

Welch 8

Welch Six Sigma Agility Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

These are the fundamental choices that a corporate strategy comprises and they should frame and guide all the decisions that a company’s corporate executives, functions, and staff make every day, including how they run the place, what they buy, what markets they enter, how they measure success, and so on.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Mission Statement Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

The 15-word constraint is a test that often reveals a profound lack of alignment among managers. In a 100-page strategy document you can state everything you want, which makes everyone in the organization feel comfortable. For me, IKEA’s success is mostly due to the clarity of its strategy. But it’s more difficult than it seems.

Strategy 13

Strategy Document Comparison Rogers 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

In managing the fallout from BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster in 2010, company Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg had to take over from CEO Tony Hayward, whose gaffes and public blaming of partners had only exacerbated the crisis. Take the case of BP. born BP veteran Bob Dudley as CEO.

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CFO Crisis Mass Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

The original IT department was formed to centralize a unique expertise that could purchase, implement, and manage technology in the enterprise. Only the largest of enterprises could afford the best technologies, and even for those with the largest bank accounts, IT strategies were limited to basics like CRM , ERP , or email.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Since its bankruptcy in 2012, Kodak has been a poster child for innovation incompetence: After inventing the world’s first digital camera in 1975, the conventional story goes, myopic managers allowed a bloated company to let inertia drive it off a cliff. By 2010, Kodak had clawed its way to No. Diversify.

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Some tentative conclusions: There is not much of a market for stand-alone strategy studies any more. The days when you could make a living responding to companies' discovery of strategy, as in "Gosh, we gotta get ourselves one of those," are gone with the 1970s (or maybe the 1990s in the "developing world"). Monitor & Co.,

Consultative 15

Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. During Immelt’s tenure, GE’s stock market value fell by about half. Then it wasn’t.

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Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8