Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

According the Harvard strategy expert, Michael Porter: "The essence of strategy is deciding what NOT to do.". If your organization doesn't discipline itself to do this - our free market - will. And, according to management guru Peter Drucker: “Half the leaders that I have met don’t need to learn what to do.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 5, 2017

In 1980, an obscure professor at Harvard Business School named Michael Porter published Competitive Strategy, which called for managers to drive efficiency by optimizing their firm’s value chain, maximize bargaining bargaining power with buyers and suppliers, while at the same time minimizing threats from new market entrants and substitute goods.

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CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

It seems that they are adapting their work from Micheal Porters 5 forces. These are: Customer Segments – An organization serves one or several customer segments. Strategy : In this chapter they look at the business model environment: context, design drivers, and constraints.

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Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

The positioning school is most closely associated with its undisputed champion, Harvard professor Michael Porter. This school of strategy is promoted heavily by consultants and academics, who have been able to build lucrative careers creating literature on and promoting the practice of market analysis.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Here they are: Daniel Pink – In 2015, London-based Thinkers 50 named him, alongside Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen, as one of the top 10 business thinkers in the world. Would you like to meet my team? Amy Cuddy – She is known around the world for her 2012 TED Talk, which is the second-most-viewed talk in TED’s history.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 18, 2011

To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * I just finished a two-year project looking at Michael Porter’s [.].

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Porter Strategy Review Blog 75

LDRLB

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

The concept is simple, rather than define where in the market you want to be (Porter’s model), a corporation seeks a “Blue Ocean” or an uncontested market no one has pursued. There’s a lot out there written about strategy (we’re planning on upcoming series demystifying it).

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Blue Ocean Strategy Porter Fashion Objective 74

LDRLB

AUGUST 17, 2010

When reading Ruthless Focus , the parallels to two authors develop immediately: Collins and Porter. Likewise, the five strategies echo Porter’s competitive strategy model, where organizations select one of five market positions. The highlights of the book are the case studies.

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

President has thus far been at the helm during a Grand Supercycle market decline. The rampant speculation of the time spread beyond the financial class, such that porters and ladies' maids had enough money to buy their own carriages. EWI is the world's largest market forecasting firm. Prechter Jr.:

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Banking eBook Porter Leadership 90

LDRLB

MAY 4, 2012

The Strategy Book goes beyond simple planning models of picking a market position. The second half of the book offers a survey of strategy tools, starting with SWOT and including everything from Porter’s Five Forces to BCG’s growth share matrix.

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Strategy Books SWOT Porter 74

HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2022

Porter’s Five Forces. B2B Marketing. Innovation . Proposal writing . Task delegation . People management . Dealing with stress. Technological savviness. Six Sigma techniques. Data analysis. Web analytics. A/B Testing. Best Resume Tips. So you’re ready to write the resume of your dreams.

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Skills Six Sigma Porter B2B 112

Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

” (Sam Decker, Decker Marketing). ” (Gary Whitehair, High Performance Business). “Here’s what differentiates this book: it bridges concept and principles to execution.” “But the book doesn't stop there!

CTO 101

CTO Books Balanced Scorecard Norton 101

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

These two key functions — Marketing and Service — are regularly discussed as shaped by social era dynamics. While social media doesn't shift Porter's model , the social era surely does. Big had the dollars to buy the mass-market access to consumers back when mass media was the only way to reach an audience.

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Porter Mass Marketing Supply Chain Retail 21

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

Well, if you're Michael Porter it isn't quite enough: I ran into him yesterday here at Davos and the first thing he said was something along the lines of, "You need more copies of HBR here." Kramer put it in their article , that "societal needs, not just economic needs, define markets.". Says Porter when Mahindra is done: "A.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Daniel Korschun is an Associate Professor of Marketing at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business. Korschun’s academic research appears in the Journal of Marketing, MIT Sloan Management Review, Academy of Management Review, Journal of the Academy of… Read More Daniel Korschun: An interview by Bob Morris.

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Review Marketing Innovation Company 70

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 19, 2011

He also serves as chair of the firm’s Knowledge and Marketing Advisory Council. He advises organizations on the topic of strategy, growth, and capability building, with a focus on the consumer product and retail sectors. Paul has coauthored a number [.].

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Retail Marketing Strategy Company 75

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Blame the market, other departments or poor IT-systems for the fact that you are not taking brave, independent action. He has shared the stage with prominent strategists like Michael Porter and reached out to 21,000+ leaders in 30+ countries. Take lots of time to promote yourself and actively campaign for a better job.

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Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 58

First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 24, 2016

David Evans and Dick Schmalensee are among the early pioneers in the research of “multi-sided markets” and the economic principles that inform the unique design of business models, pricing and incentive structures, and product design for these platform-based businesses. David is an economist, business adviser, and entrepreneur.

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Incentives Business Model Entrepreneur Price 70

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Michael Porter, the world's leading authority on competition and strategy, is sometimes the victim of his own success. My premise in writing Understanding Michael Porter was very simply that clear strategic thinking is essential for any manager in any setting, and Porter's work lays out the basic principles and frameworks you need to master.

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Porter Strategy Competitive Advantage P&L 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's article in January's HBR tries to advance our world's shared values by arguing that doing right is the best long-term business strategy. But first, let's praise Porter and Kramer. Their article puts Porter's reputational weight behind an idea that in itself has, well, shared value.

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Porter Morale Supply Chain Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I just finished a two-year project looking at Michael Porter's most important insights for managers. Understanding Porter's strategy fundamentals will help you to avoid them. Confusing marketing with strategy. But as important as it is to have insight into customers' needs, don't confuse marketing with strategy.

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Strategy Porter ROIC Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2020

Political innovation activists Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter outline reforms that could increase competition and accountability in American politics.

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Politics Porter System Marketing 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

So when Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter invited HBR last month to attend a class where Kagame was the guest speaker, and talk to him and Kagame afterwards, I was curious but also a little worried about being enlisted as a Kagame salesman. To Porter] How did you hook up with this guy? How did this partnership evolve?

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Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Packaged food companies like Kraft and Pepsi use their scale to penetrate markets quickly and efficiently. Consider Porter's value chain. If you frequent the HBR Blogs, you may have noticed that a couple of weeks ago I was fairly vocal about Nilofer Merchant 's dismissal of Porter's value chain.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 15

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Rebuilding Your Business Model Various Authors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to use innovative thinking to create or revise a business model that drives growth and profits This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review. Having read all [.].

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Business Model Review Books Innovation 85

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

running according to free-market efficiencies! In fact, as Kaplan and Michael Porter describe in a recent HBR article, "To put it bluntly, there is an almost complete lack of understanding of how much it costs to deliver patient care, much less how those costs compare with the outcomes achieved." Adam Smith 4eva!

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Kaplan Health Care Insurance Porter 22

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

An approach that turns societal challenges into new markets. Creating shared value , a paradigm for how companies engage with society pioneered by Michael Porter and FSG, captures this trampoline mentality very well. Which of these are impeding growth (or representing untapped markets)? But trampolines propel things forward.

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Porter Supply Chain Energy Competitive Advantage 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Eventually Microsoft developed Internet Explorer and outflanked it by eliminating the market for a paid browser. Firms must thoroughly understand themselves and their competitors through appropriate environment scanning and market intelligence. Had Netscape had an OS, it might have survived the Microsoft onslaught.

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Porter Banking Globalization Information Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Michael Porter's trilogy of Competitive Strategy , Competitive Advantage , and The Competitive Advantage of Nations sits on every serious strategist's shelf. While it's next to impossible to innovate faster than the market, it is possible to innovate better that the market. For a retailer, it might be logistical acumen.

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Company Competitive Advantage Prahalad Hamel 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Michael Porter's trilogy of Competitive Strategy , Competitive Advantage , and The Competitive Advantage of Nations sits on every serious strategist's shelf. While it's next to impossible to innovate faster than the market, it is possible to innovate better that the market. For a retailer, it might be logistical acumen.

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Company Competitive Advantage Prahalad Hamel 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Michael Porter, the godfather of business strategy, has gotten a lot of attention lately for trying to apply his model of competitive dynamics to the current plight of the United States — high unemployment, crushing healthcare costs, crumbling infrastructure, and widespread indebtedness.

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Porter Globalization Supply Chain Politics 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

In most companies, marketers are in charge of assessing the competition. Because of this, close to 60 percent of all competitive intelligence professionals report to marketing. Yet the majority of marketers fail to use their competition analysts strategically, instead using them to gather more “recon” data.

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Marketing Competitive Intelligence Porter How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

The term was coined by Michael Porter and Mark Kramer , and reflects the view that business and community interests can be in sync. In particular, Porter and Kramer argue that businesses should search for those opportunities where value can be created for business by improving community well-being.

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Development Porter Banking Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

Twitter, for example, sells access to a range of real-time APIs to marketing platforms, but the price point often exceeds researchers’ budgets. Porter and Mark R. Further, the greater the awareness of your type of technology in the community, the larger the market is likely to actually be.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Core Competence Information 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2012

Unilever, the consumer-goods giant, is adapting techniques it pioneered in India to sell in Europe's most beleaguered markets. Michael Porter and Co. Unilever's Bottom-of-the-Pyramid Strategy for Europe (Telegraph). — by Amy Bernstein. BONUS BITS:: Expert Advice. on American Competiveness (Harvard Magazine).

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Stress Porter Agility Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

We aren't the first to see that the world has changed and free market competition no longer produces benefits as if by an invisible hand. Before 1850 there was the market economy, in which many players, engaged in something plausibly resembling perfect competition , collectively met demand without any grand plan to do so.

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Competitive Advantage Porter Politics Marketing 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Time 's Michael Elliott, who was moderating the session, then cited Chrystia Freeland's Atlantic cover story on "The Rise of the New Global Elite" and Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's HBR cover story on "Creating Shared Value" as evidence of a new mood. "I "We cannot let the income disparities increase further.". as Jacob S.

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