Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Additional Information This is the first of a series of articles, developed exclusively for StrategyDriven , that highlights the breadth and depth of Communispond’s LearnTO Library. LearnTO Library materials come in a wide range of formats and are available for organization-wide access on an annual subscription basis.

Planning 50

Planning Audience Succession Library 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

This expectation that consumers were welded to the Windows operating system meant that developers and computer manufacturers all felt they had incentives to focus on contributing to the Microsoft ecosystem. Having five different desktops with different operating systems, on the other hand, is clunky.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Library Travel Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

One type of data scientist creates output for humans to consume, in the form of product and strategy recommendations. Data science for humans: the consumers of the output are decision makers like executives, product managers, designers, or clinicians. They are decision scientists. They are modeling scientists. What are some examples?

Engineering 13

Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

ROGER HARRIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. Technology is reconfiguring traditional roles and divisions of labor. Telecom operators often provide the backbone communication networks required to run systems and applications. The movement to make cities smarter is transforming municipal governments worldwide.

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 9

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Then come down—whether it is getting published or getting a new product into stores. Proceed with extreme caution.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

If you want to win their hearts and minds, you have to master the latest technology, assimilate vast quantities of data, engage and delight your customers, and deliver products and services that surpass expectations. And yet today’s top marketers are combining technology and teamwork to generate extraordinary results.

Marketing 13

Marketing Teamwork Technology Information Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

By 2017 it was operating in over 190 countries, and today close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. It has been developing relationships with device makers, mobile and TV operators, and internet service providers as well. Fernando Trabanco Fotografía/Getty Images.

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It operates in over 190 countries, and close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. Since this phase involved expanding into more-distant markets, it was supported by investments in content geared toward the preferences of those geographies, as well as technological investments in big data and analytics.

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

From The New York Public Library. Exponential technology change. The CHREATE teams developed a topography based on the degree of the democratization of work (the impact of the first three trends above on an organization) and the degree of technological empowerment (the impact of the latter three trends), shown in the figure below.

Human Resources 8

Human Resources Technology Globalization Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

The EU’s case asserts, among other things, that Google unfairly exploits its dominance in search engines and smartphone operating systems to restrict competition in shopping services, ad placement services, and smartphone app store markets. Google has appealed and is now preparing its defense.

Company 9

Company Engineering Operations Construction 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

Up until the late 1950’s, anyone interested in sending bulk product across the globe placed that product in 60-pound burlap sacks, sent those to the docks, and entrusted longshoremen to tuck them efficiently into nooks and crannies in the hulls of merchant vessels. Courtesy of Boston Public Library.

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Brand Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

Technology service providers like Accenture work on multiple software projects. We used Featuretools , a DARPA-sponsored open-source library created by Feature Labs , where three of us work. If companies are going to get real value from machine learning, they need to focus not just on technology, but on process.

Software 8

Software Project Engineering Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The announcement late last week of Comcast’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable set off a predictable frenzy of hyperventilating by much of the technology media and self-appointed consumer advocacy groups. Cable is just a technology, increasingly one of many, for transmitting information, whether video, voice or data.

Technology 8

Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2013

The more we use technology in our education and health systems, the more data we collect about how people learn and what keeps us healthy or makes us sick. I knew we could help a lot of people if we focused on finding a sustainable — instead of a highly profitable — way to develop technology for the social good.

Open-book 8

Open-book Analysis Download Information 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

MEHAU KULYK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. For this industry especially, security policies that reduce productivity are at irreconcilable odds with the organization and its patients. Over the past year, the healthcare industry found itself under constant attack.

Health Care 9

Health Care Forrester Policies Tactics 9

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Thomas Jefferson had one of the most exhaustive personal libraries of his time prior to donating it to the Library of Congress (which many joked Roosevelt had read). This medium has been my preferred reading choice for a number of years now because it is extremely productive and time effective.

Blog 419

Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

There’s a wonderful scene (one of many) in Michael Lewis’s new book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt , in which John Schwall, then the head of product management at RBC Capital Markets in New York, decides one day in 2011 to figure out how stock trading had evolved into a high-speed, unfair race he thought it had become.

Long-term 8

Long-term Open-book Marketing Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Spacesaver Corporation, the leader in commercial storage and shelving for libraries and museums, displays giant posters of their customers’ installations throughout its manufacturing facility. Doing so helps spread the value of innovation into areas responsible for the broader operating model.

Innovation 8

Innovation Business Model Incubator Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

After all, it grew from $7 billion in 2003 to $171 billion in 2013 by entering established (albeit still-emerging) markets with superior products — something the model suggests is a losing strategy.

Industry 9

Industry Wireless Advertising Content 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

The decision says little about the much bigger fight brewing over ownership of digital products — e-books, digital music files, and electronic copies of movies and software. What role will first sale play in a future where all information products, like software, are increasingly produced and distributed entirely through the cloud?

Marketing 8

Marketing Licensing Short-term Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Strategy Driven

JUNE 16, 2023

The business world is about to witness a new era where transformative technologies like artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and 5G come together, opening up a world of possibilities. Businesses primed to leverage these technologies to streamline everything from supply chains to sales and marketing will be riding the wave’s crest.

Supply Chain 106

Supply Chain Loyalty Content Efficiency 106