Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

” (Sam Decker, Decker Marketing). “However, the power of this book is in how it integrates these time tested, common sense ideas into a useful whole.” ” (Gary Whitehair, High Performance Business). “Here’s what differentiates this book: it bridges concept and principles to execution.”

CTO 101

CTO Books Balanced Scorecard Norton 101

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Their power drive is much larger than their achievements drive. Develop your power play skills and use them as often as you can. Blame the market, other departments or poor IT-systems for the fact that you are not taking brave, independent action. They use expensive consultants for everything they do. Never take the blame.

Strategy 59

Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 59

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

Amid the rubble of the dot-com bust in 2001, Michael Porter weighed in on the question of how to gauge which businesses “active on the internet,” as he put it, were real and which were destined to go the way of Pets.com when their venture funding dried up. It’s still worth a look now.

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Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

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. They talk the talk, but they have turned his powerful ideas into business buzzwords. They talk the talk, but they have turned his powerful ideas into business buzzwords. But strategy is more than marketing.

Porter 15

Porter Strategy Competitive Advantage P&L 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.

Strategy 15

Strategy Porter ROIC Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

The way in which we market presidents is broken, much like the way that we traditionally market businesses is broken. I say "market" presidents rather than "select" them because the way in which an organization commits to market its products and services can substantially determine the quality of the product it produces and sells.

Marketing 8

Marketing Politics Health Care Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

Michael Porter’s 1979 HBR article on the five forces that shape strategy offered companies a framework for thinking through those positions, and his 1996 article “What Is Strategy? However, even in dynamic, technology-driven industries like social media, moats remain a powerful force.

Strategy 10

Strategy Competitive Advantage Porter Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

It was this received opinion Michael Porter was questioning when, in 1979, he mapped out four additional competitive forces in “ How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy.” In “ What Is Strategy ,” Porter argues against a bevy of alternate views, both old and then new, that were circulating in the intervening years.

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Over 20 years ago, Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter introduced the Porter hypothesis , which posits that environmental regulation can benefit companies by nudging them to explore their current production methods and eliminate costly waste that they have been blissfully unaware of.

Company 9

Company Porter Forrester Simon 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

And he has assembled a high-powered Western fan club consisting of, among others, Howard Schultz, Bill Gates, and Tony Blair. Porter is a member in good standing of the business-community Kagame fan club, and has just finished a new version of his case study (an earlier one is available here ) on Rwanda''s economic transformation.

Porter 10

Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Once the lines are laid and houses are connected to the grid, it's unlikely that power companies are going to see new entrants. Packaged food companies like Kraft and Pepsi use their scale to penetrate markets quickly and efficiently. Consider Porter's value chain. In today's world, you don't need to have scale to enjoy scale.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. A Concentration of Wealth, Value, and Power. Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce leader, manages the world’s largest money market fund, and now plays an important role in financial and payment services.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2018

Other researchers, including Enrico Moretti, Michael Porter, and my colleague Mark Muro , point to the power of clusters — especially in tech-based advanced industries — for regional job creation. Help small- and middle-market firms scale. Others provide customized services to small and mid-sized manufacturers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Porter Incentives Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Behavioral economists know well the power of instant gratification and overoptimism that too often lead to poor decisions — like reaching for an extra slice of cake or putting off the dreaded morning run. Altogether, the model is employed in 15 markets, impacting over 5.5 million people.

Insurance 9

Insurance Company Competitive Advantage Porter 9

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.

Porter 10

Porter Competitive Advantage Core Competence Crisis 10

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.

Porter 14

Porter Supply Chain Energy Competitive Advantage 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The 'iPods' of poverty alleviation and literacy have likely been invented and put to use by small organizations in some corner of the globe, but there is no market for identifying these breakthrough ideas and ensuring widespread adoption.". Consider these examples: 1.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

That's what Michael Porter says , and tough-choice-making has clearly been a big part of Apple's success. To quote Porter: "Strategy renders choices about what not to do as important as choices about what to do." That's the path to riches described by W. Now the competitive sea is getting more crowded, especially for iPhone.

Strategy 9

Strategy Porter Christensen Mauborgne 9

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. The once-dominant Nokia soon lost much of its market cap and was eventually acquired by Microsoft. Insight Center.

Strategy 13

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

As Michael Porter argued a long time ago , the simplest measure of competition is profitability. Despite the internet and cheap, super-powerful computers, people aren’t seeing a lot of opportunity to challenge incumbents. There’s been growing attention to the power of intermediaries.

Sull 8

Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Industry 8

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.

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage Porter Politics Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” Posing that question continues to be a powerful way to catalyze important strategic conversations. Peter Drucker famously said that the point of a business was to create a customer.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2011

This problem is as real for consumer-centric organizations as for corporations looking for opportunities to share value beyond their shareholders (as Michael Porter and Mark Kramer recently discussed in the pages of HBR ). You use the auction precisely when your consumers have power — so enable them to exercise that power.

Price 14

Price Porter Early Adopters Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Because it includes the word media , and the genesis is marketing, most people think of this as the stuff the CMO and their team worry about. This second generation of Social Business terminology was coined by the Dachis Group, a marketing organization, and specifically by Peter Kim , who consults on it. Enterprise 2.0" Individual.

Media 9

Media Supply Chain Tools Porter 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

Porter and Mark R. The diversified power management company develops innovative products and processes, such as hybrid electric and hydraulic power trains and electric power control systems, that help customers and consumers conserve resources and reduce their carbon footprint. That's the good news.

Company 10

Company Long-term Porter CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. Neither school of thought, though, has it quite right.

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. Neither school of thought, though, has it quite right.

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The academic study of strategy took a big leap forward in the 1970s when Michael Porter of HBS looked at earlier economic research on industry structure and noticed that market power — which economists wanted to minimize — was the same thing as sustained profitability, which corporate executives wanted to maximize.

Strategy 8

Strategy Rivkin Game Theory Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

We’ve plotted changes in the auto industry in the US, Germany, and Japan over the last 100 years; while strategies have certainly changed over time, the differences between eras essentially boil down to varying degrees of vertical integration and the ever-shifting balance of power between automakers and suppliers.

Automotive 9

Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2016

I first started working for Apple on the PR agency side at Porter Novelli in Sydney, Australia in 1997. Over this period, Apple would prove the cynics wrong and dazzle the world with its groundbreaking innovations, masterful marketing and against-the-grain approach. Wesson Wang. PR played a huge role in this success. Stay focused.

PR 8

PR Press Release Report Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

They went to the market with a strategy that was just about working and found jobs that were just about right. The only person available to help is the night porter, who has no idea where the keys are kept. When a storm comes and the power lines are down, the hotel is packed with people it can't help.

Hotels 9

Hotels Mass Marketing Porter Advertising 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

If earnings are low, “the market sells first and asks questions later” as the adage goes. An investor can outperform the market by simply waiting to collect the dividend. An influential 1992 HBR article by Michael Porter advocated the Japanese model of long-term illiquid stakes. The company still has its capital.

Short-term 8

Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Some tentative conclusions: There is not much of a market for stand-alone strategy studies any more. co-founded by Michael Porter back in the early 1980s, has seen better days. For us, our strategy informs every big decision we make — what markets to enter or exit, what acquisitions to make, what products to introduce." (The

Consultative 15

Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Our most-watched video was " Rethinking Capitalism " with Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter. Boost Power Through Body Language. Harvard Business School's Amy Cuddy explains how to increase your charisma with power poses. Social Media's Untapped Power. The Hidden Demons of High Achievers. Audio podcast.

Video 14

Video Porter Charisma Customer Loyalty 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

Meanwhile, Michael Porter explains exactly how health care needs disrupting, professors from INSEAD and MIT debate the merits of the MOOCs that might upend higher education, and our own Sarah Green tells publishers to quit whining about disruption and start enjoying the innovation that goes along with it.

Management 19

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2013

The market has a way of taking care of that. Almost exactly two years ago, Michael Porter and Mark Kramer called for a new definition of capitalism — " shared value " — to unify this false choice. In fact, we agreed that for-profit social businesses are a powerful way to increase impact.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Business Model B2C Entrepreneur 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2012

Powered by local, mobile, and social media, online retail is becoming something that no long-time, card-carrying NRF member might reasonably have anticipated. Consider a few emerging models: Private Sales: "Old Europe" can still surprise us. Maybe 'tis better to borrow than to buy, especially at 90 percent below retail.

Retail 15

Retail Fashion Merchandising Apparel 15