Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2023

Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) implementation can be a transformative journey for organizations, enabling them to achieve operational excellence and drive sustainable growth. Securing necessary resources, such as budget, technology, and personnel, should also be included in the implementation plan.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 29, 2024

No matter how resistant we are to obstacles, learning curves or outright catastrophes, the landscape in which we work is constantly in motion. Now more than ever, businesses are dealing with the impacts of significant world events that have altered how they operate today. However, change is not all doom and gloom.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It’s about creating a pathway for new hires to understand, adapt, and align with the company’s ethos, vision, and operational methodologies. Effective onboarding sets the tone for their future at the company, impacting their engagement, productivity, and long-term retention.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? In this article I explore three barriers to entrepreneurial action: resistance from within the firm, resistance from within the supply chain, and resistance from the customer.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

If a leader’s primary obligation is for the care and well being of those under their charge, then I would suggest that you cannot be an effective leader over the long-term without love, compassion and empathy. They resist at all costs letting that dreaded public display of compassion slip out. Mike Henry Sr.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Talk about some of the ideas that kind of led you both to wanting to write this book, and then we’ll get into what this term big bang disruption means. If you’ve been waiting for them to enter the market and start to establish their customers before you do anything, you’ve now waited too long. I’ve really enjoyed that for this book.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. K-Mart, long the dominant discount chain had gotten comfortable with its leads over competitors. Computer activity constitutes less than 1% of the technology picture. In 1999, the U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Commitment - While technology is a natural accelerant helping to catalyze new opportunities and extend relationships, creating trust and influence will still take time. I would also suggest resisting the temptation to have all your communications be self-serving. So long, [link] mikemyatt Hi Justino: Thanks for your comment.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Their core is the design and the idea, the operating system, plus the network environment such as iTunes. Being questioned by people resistant to change is not out of the ordinary, and nothing to be concerned about. As an example, Look at Apple! AAPL) the iPod, iPad & iPhone are cherished as innovative and beautiful products.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

I agree that a corporate culture not built upon a foundation of solid corporate values will not thrive over the long-haul. Due to this resistance, I believe that culture CAN trump strategy, to the extend that the strategy and execution thereof are unsuccessful. I think not, and I’ll explain why. Thanks again for stopping by.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Hiring my trainer made all the difference, and pretty soon I was reaping the rewards of resistance training again. Which leads me to this conclusion; one of the healthiest habits you can operate in is healthy thinking! He could have attributed their success to more advanced technology, better marketing, or thinking differently.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2018

Resistance to disruptive, technology-driven change is not unusual. Specifically, many people resist AI because of the hype surrounding it, its lack of transparency, their fear of losing control over their work, and the way it disrupts familiar work patterns. ​He scrambled to derail consideration of the new system.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Radically innovate while optimizing operations. Operational excellence is a competitive requirement for any organization, and digital leaders have a key role in applying new technologies to achieve it. Compete in sprints while delivering long-term value. To lead this transformation, they must: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization. India’s digital infrastructure is coming to life, with a combination of policy and technological innovation having played an important role. Aadhaar: The Base of the India Stack.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

In terms of the underlying psychological driver, leaders need to understand that Self-Starters fundamentally lack patience and are always thinking – in the shower, during a run or over their Saturday morning coffee. Brown-Nosers constantly check in with their leaders and operate by seeking permission, rather than forgiveness.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

While all good leaders must keep the company’s internal operations moving forward, the very best ones must also be looking outside the company towards the customers, clients, financiers, volunteers and the organization’s entire affected constituencies. Push paper, systems, technology. Science-Technology Provider. Mid-Manager.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

billion people, the Chinese consumer market is a tempting target for Western technology companies. The recent news that Google is considering a re-entry into China further highlights a troubling balancing act faced by technology companies looking to do business there. China has long enforced a strict media and information regime.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

Perhaps the least concerning implication is that there is systemic bias in our information feeds, that we operate in and are informed by tiny echo chambers. Of course, resistance to algorithms is difficult because we’re up against a sophisticated, secret system. What can be done?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

Technology is meant to serve us. More and more, we're turning over this precious resource to our digital technology, allowing it to define the depth and span of our attention, and to seduce us into operating at such high speeds that we don't notice the insidious toll that's taking. Too much information literally dumbs us down.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Proponents liberally term it “disruptive,” seeing a natural diversification opportunity for the company that has aspired to be “earth’s most customer-centric company.” This latest move has engendered robust debate. At its root, health care is a service that needs to be delivered to a customer.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

Over the last decade, HR at IBM took a number of steps to help drive operational improvement: Delivered the new skills IBM needed at the front lines. There was lots of resistance. This is about using the technology of "business analytics" within the workforce, bringing vital statistics to the art of performance reviews.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. Rather, the solution is to ensure that companies whose growth derives from R&D hire CEOs with technological domain expertise.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Another benefit is that much of the content produced in this medium is not from the typical industry pundits, but rather true “in the trenches” thought leaders that see things coming long before journalists report it in the news, or the so-called gurus publish it in their latest book. Have you found that to be true also?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Most startup founders are deeply committed to the companies they have launched and heavily invested in the dream of leading the company to long-term business success. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. Resistance to change must be overcome. Insight Center. Sponsored by Northern Trust.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

They might focus on how incumbents cope with the rapid obsolescence of their old capabilities, say, or with internal resistance to inevitable change. In the traditional model of electricity generation, large power plants produce power at a centralized location, which operates at a considerable distance from the points of consumption.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

Rivals were developing digital technology to replace the existing analog standard. Could both technologies exist side by side? What those engineers couldn’t see was that, for most listeners, digital technology’s advantages far outweighed the often undetectable losses from digitization. The Future of Operations.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

Currently, according to FAA rules , noncommercial uses of drones are permitted only so long as they stay below 400 feet (the official designation of U.S. In February, as part of an FAA spending bill, Congress ordered the agency to develop rules by 2015 that would allow military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Exponential technology change. Organizations and workers balance long-term bets and flexibility under uncertainty by engaging automation to adapt to frequent changes and rapid skills obsolescence. Organizations and workers conceive and design their work to optimize rather than resist this interface. Today, turbo-charged.

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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. Resisting revenue temptations. ” Indeed, Capitec is more focused, in terms of what it does and does not do, than most companies and certainly most banks. Evolving purposefully.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Simply improving short-term performance by cutting costs across the board isn’t the answer – activists can do that themselves, simply by taking out 10% from your company’s cost baseline. Take the time to reassess your company’s path to value creation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

Instead, it operates more like GE. Conglomerates resist this approach, combining more diverse businesses and allowing them separate decision-making structures. Like conglomerates, Alibaba’s businesses have separate boards, and even separate technology teams and platforms. last week, could be the largest tech IPO in history.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

This globality phenomenon is itself surprisingly global: the Berlin and Beijing startup scenes, for example, appear almost as technologically transnational as Boston’s and the Bay Area’s. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. from 2012 to 2014. Insight Center. Sponsored by Northern Trust.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

The sheer magnitude of Apple’s new headquarters sets it apart from any other technology workspace on the West Coast. Software, like information technology in general, is optimized for speed and upgrades — constant, sometimes radical change. million square feet) called the Ring, designed to house 12,000 employees. (To

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

How should companies rethink the value of a job, in terms of increased performance through machine intelligence? Conventional wisdom has long suggested that, as job performance increases, so does the value or return to the company. How long will it take the flying public to get comfortable putting their lives in the hands of a robot?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

banks are going to survive the coming wave in financial technology (fintech), they’ll need to finally take digital transformation seriously. Small businesses are starting to demand banking services that have engaging web and mobile user experiences, on par with the technologies they use in their personal lives.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

Protected from short term demands, these teams can focus on opportunities beyond the core. This "special operations" frame reflects the belief that growth is a battle that can be won or lost. These are teams of artisans who craft new ventures, concepts, and technologies. Change is often met with resistance.

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