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.

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Competitive Intelligence Agility Workshop Definition 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.,

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Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 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 Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

As a result, big box retail must shift its strategy — from competing on access and selection to staging big experiences and providing big discounts. Mintel’s 2015 American Lifestyles report projects that vacations, dining out, and other experiential categories will drive the growth in total consumer spending.

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Retail Discount Reis Supply Chain 9

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

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

We set people up to use their area of expertise, be it strategy, accounting, operations, technology, finance, or human resources. In fact, 76% of staff on pro bono projects stated that they gained significant, job-relevant skills. At Deloitte, we treat these projects exactly the same as a paid client engagement.

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Skills Real Estate Human Capital Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

Based on surveys my colleagues at Gartner and I have conducted over the past several years, mainstream adopters of IT solutions across a widening array of market segments are rapidly gaining confidence in the use of open source software, with many now stressing its valuable features more than its risks. percent of porfolios).

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Software Tips Licensing Survey 15

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

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. HR is no longer limited to being transaction-oriented, as it once was.

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Company Human Resources Human Capital Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

The type of capital required and its source depends on the type of business, its stage of life, and its strategy for the future. A start-up might need an angel investor who believes in the project to provide initial equity. In some areas and sectors, the market provides all the capital needed.

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Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

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.

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Strategy Team Discount Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

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. Are the markets likely to over or under value the asset being sold? Finally, is the market for drone businesses over or under-valued?

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Licensing Competitive Advantage Proposal Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

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. And given the complexities involved in building up competitive IT weaponry, businesses won by out-spending and out-resourcing their opponents.

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Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Although we had been a market leader for many years, our new products had been launched several months later than the competition — in fact, our time to market had doubled over the previous three years. Behind that problem was a deeper one: We had more than 100 large projects (each worth over 500,000 euros) under way.

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Project How To Objective Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

High-performing IT organizations appoint executives to sit at the intersection of business areas and the IT function, helping business leaders to shape their IT strategies and marshaling a technology team to deliver against that demand. These disciplines are critical to every other department in the company.

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CIO Technology Storytelling Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

Procurement teams are often disconnected from the functions they serve and the markets they engage. Or does it focus on customer service and helping the business achieve its strategy? Organizational isolation. This often frustrates sales and the revenue-generating front lines, further isolating procurement.

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Budgeting Objective Cost Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. The second type, known as adaptive performance , is how effectively your organization diverges from its strategy. military says, volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity , where technology and strategy changes rapidly. Related Video.

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Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

They are designers, ethnographers, anthropologists, and other creative types who get immersed in a project or a team, contribute their unique points of view, and then move on to the next change-the-game assignment. Ten years later, after a period of massive growth, the company sold itself to TD Bank in a stock transaction worth $8.5

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Banking Retail Open-book Creativity 18

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2017

After you’ve been fired, getting back into the job market can be difficult. Doing so helps you “figure out how big a problem you’re facing” and what you’ll need to overcome in the job market, says Lees. ” Describe your last job as a project. Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images. What the Experts Say.

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How To Letter Learning-by-Doing PR 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

But because midsize companies lack the resources of big companies, which can experiment with multiple new strategies and launch pilot projects, midsize firms are at risk when they divert scarce resources from their core business. The results were remarkable.

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Strategy Wireless Company Retail 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 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 68

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

We’ve all been through it — the looming cost project. 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.

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Cost How To Budgeting Strategic Planning 10