Lead Change Blog

JUNE 14, 2016

In the global economy, each company is constantly adjusting its strategies to enable it to stay ahead of its competition. In corner offices across America, all CEOs are facing the same challenge to lead their organizations and outperform their markets. For example, Expedia’s Dara Khrosrowshahi: he will get options worth $30.4

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Incentives Bottom-up Performance Review CEO 150

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 24, 2017

The seemingly more attractive (and logical) option is to do more and more – the theory being the more markets, products, and businesses a company engages in, the better the results. Strategy tells you what not to do. The glue that binds leadership, strategy, and execution is people—at every level of the organization.

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Company Competitive Advantage Apparel Long-term 177

Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

The cumulative effects of misalignment are a significant constraint on the ability of an organization to execute its strategy. This type of misalignment surfaces suddenly as a barrier to implementing new strategies. BOTTOMLINE: If your leadership does not learn how to align resources with goals, the free market will.

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Constraint Leadership Objective Resources 70

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 23, 2020

Adaptation : Ensuring that IT systems can adapt and respond to changing market conditions with actions such as decoupling from legacy systems and using cloud services as a catalyst for innovation. Strategy : Actively aligning business strategy and IT strategy and weaving technology investments together to better seize opportunities.

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How To Leadership Styles Innovation Leadership 85

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Everyone thinks they have a digital strategy these days. But while your company may have a business or IT strategy that incorporates digital technology, an IT strategy does not equal a digital strategy. Because most IT strategies treat technology in isolation.

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IT Strategy Strategy Class Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

But the company has elected to make neither its new pricing capabilities nor its long-standing low prices part of its marketing efforts for e-commerce. Now, in some cases, it can often lower prices than Amazon because Jet.com’s operating model doesn’t rely on holding inventory.

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IT Strategy Strategy Core Competence Price 11

Six Disciplines

MARCH 21, 2011

The cumulative effects of misalignment are a significant constraint on the ability of an organization to execute its strategy. This type of misalignment surfaces suddenly as a barrier to implementing new strategies. BOTTOMLINE: If your leadership does not learn how to align resources with goals, the free market will.

Constraint 101

Constraint Leadership Objective Resources 101

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Global firms have employed blue ocean strategies to cater their services and offerings to the BoP (Bottom of Pyramid). The BoP markets are a hotbed for innovation and companies that are able to mold their business models to fit within this paradigm can truly alter traditional business models. Prahalad , the brilliant management guru.

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Competitive Advantage Prahalad Blue Ocean Strategy Glocalization 154

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The study explores the Chinese market after the country’s Ministry of Justice made online legal services a key part of its strategy. In other words, they’re professionals who were struggling to find sufficient work at the lower end of the legal market. Disrupting the market.

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Participative Budgeting Motivation Ethics 40

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.

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Advertising Blog Engineering Strategy 65

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 1, 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?

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Learning-by-Doing Open-book Leadership Travel 76

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

Before long, Blockbuster was gaining nearly half of all new subscribers in the online rental market. In the Blockbuster case, a successful CEO was faced with a disruptive threat and came up with a successful market strategy. However, because the networks within his organization (e.g.

IT Strategy 8

IT Strategy Strategy Resistance Operations 8

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 13, 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?

Learning-by-Doing 82

Learning-by-Doing Open-book Leadership Travel 82

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 Learning-by-Doing Open-book Travel 78

CO2

APRIL 30, 2013

Their aggressive posture led to significant financial troubles in the market downturn of 2008; in bull markets, though, they tend to fare far better. In both of the cases I’ve outlined here, the organization’s culture usually dictates its strategy. That culture can help and it can hurt. So, what is your culture?

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Executive Coaching Organization Strategy Stress 134

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2012

In March 2012, we sold off the company to India's largest retailer, the Future Group, which was keen to own the business as part of its strategy to grow private label brands. 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.

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Marketing Film GDP Entrepreneur 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

Almost every organization today is putting customer experience (CX) at the core of its strategy, aiming to provide products and services that meet customers at every touch point. Read more from Google Analytics 360 Suite: Rethinking Marketing Measurement from the Ground Up. Does Your Company Have a Data Science Strategy?

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Marketing Content Insurance Brand 8

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.

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Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

We live in a day and age when the term "content marketing" stumbles out of a brand''s mouth almost as often as buzzwords like "big data" and "native advertising." They struggle with everything from its creation to its strategy to its editorial content, and even the best places to publish and share it effectively. Absolutely not.

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Content Marketing Media Brand 10

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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Organization Company Leadership Self-aware 135

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

That digital focus helped Adidas reshape its strategy for today’s mobile, more empowered consumer. The brand embraces data and technology as a way to be faster and smarter in a world where marketers are competing for consumer attention in the moment. How Leading Marketers Get Time on Their Side. ” Read More.

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Content Brand Storytelling Long-term 9

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.,

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Innovation Core Competence Supply Chain Telecommunications 15

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 Bottom-up Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Capitec gets many things right in terms of its strategy, including its market positioning, internal operations, and organizational culture. Moreover, in advance, you can never be entirely sure that your original market choices will play out and will generate sufficient income by themselves. Resisting revenue temptations.

Banking 8

Banking Bottom-up Resistance Strategy 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.

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Competitive Intelligence Agility Workshop Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

The market exit will stop Target’s continued losses in Canada and help the company focus on its strategic initiatives in the U.S. However, in the end, the market entry seemed rushed and oversized, with 124 stores opening within ten months. As a result of its careful market entry and execution, J. Consider J.

Retail 8

Retail Discount Merchandising Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2015

Marketers tend to like big, bold actions that grab attention and spew off metrics. To market a product or an idea, you have to change minds, and that takes time and a lot of careful work. The arc of history is long—the length of a career, rather than a marketing campaign. Great brands operate the same way.

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Brand Learning-by-Doing Sharpe Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

At the same time, Eagle Snacks was gaining market share with innovative new products and its own distribution system. Today, Frito-Lay “owns the streets” in its markets, as well as several $1 billion brands. First, connect costs and strategy. Second, rethink costs in terms of capabilities.

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Cost How To Budgeting Strategic Planning 10

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.

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Execution Strategy Mission Statement Delegation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

It outlined Tesla’s automotive strategy and it has been pretty much followed to the letter. The second installment moves Tesla beyond the traditional car market, with a plan to reconfigure our cities, energy systems, and our impact on the environment. The first installment had been written in 2006.

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Strategy Business Model Energy Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Its approach was the first to align the key actors in the ecosystem in a way that addressed the critical shortcomings — range, resale value, grid capacity — that undermine the electric car as a mass-market proposition. Note to Tesla owners: you are not the mass market). A small number, but these are also small markets.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Transportation Innovation Depreciation 8

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

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. Why was this once-dominant player unable to execute and maintain its market position? So what happened? It appears Nokia was not able to coordinate decisions and activities across departments or levels of management.

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Execution Company Learning-by-Doing 360-Degree Feedback 67

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 12

Banking Strategy Organization Film 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

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. For years much of Braun's marketing efforts had been aimed at 40-50+ year old men.

Management 15

Management Retail Strategy Merchandising 15

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.

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Strategy Automotive Short-term Open-book 15

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.

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Strategy Company How To Long-term 13