HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2022

Technological savviness. Porter’s Five Forces. Attention to detail . Negotiation . Innovation . Proposal writing . Task delegation . People management . Dealing with stress. Six Sigma techniques. Data analysis. Web analytics. A/B Testing. B2B Marketing. Best Resume Tips.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 1, 2017

Michael Porter is another great coach in this domain. They said, “He’s not updated on recent medical technology.” There are a few– and I would like to underline, very few– strategic coaches. For instance, Vijay Govindarajan, who does an excellent job of helping at the corporate strategy domain. I replied, “Interesting possibility.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

While social media doesn't shift Porter's model , the social era surely does. Most existing big organizations — the 800-pound gorillas — subscribe to Michael Porter's value chain framework. There is no question that Porter's work has helped shape (some would say, "invent") modern-day strategy. Big Isn't Enough.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 1, 2012

Here are a few insights provided during an interview of John Donovan, the chief technology officer at AT&T since 2008, who learned a lot about the subtleties of team-building earlier [.].

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The session was entitled “Technology and Business Collaboration: Leadership and Management” and was moderated by Dr Alan Miller CMgr FCMI (former CMI Hong Kong Regional Board Member). The pandemic has boosted the application of technologies across both public and private sectors.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

One way to do this is to look for "break technologies.". If you are at all familiar with Michael Porter's work , think about this as an industry developing its value chain. In the 1990's, cellular technology eliminated the usefulness of physical phone lines in the telephone value chain.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

She handed the bag to a porter at the Gare de Lyon, fully expecting him to carry it to her compartment. As Scotti notes, this project “is still considered one of the boldest achievements in [the history of] engineering technology.” Somehow the bag was lost and she never saw it again. Gone was years of work, with no copies or backups.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Who has the best technology? But if you want to win, says Michael Porter , this is absolutely the wrong way to think about competition. Instead, Porter urges a different kind of competition: compete to be unique. With Cyber Monday, the tablet wars kicked into full swing. Which one is the best? Is it the iPad? The Kindle?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

Michael Porter would approve. ” In Porter’s view, sustainable competitive advantage depends on trade-offs, including the fact that it’s difficult for one company to serve all customers across a wide range of needs. Hastings is betting that Porter’s rules haven’t been repealed.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Consider Porter's value chain. But the technologies that drove these coordination-related scale advantages are becoming increasingly cheaper and more pervasive. However, with the availability of cheaper more accessible information technologies, that's all changing. In today's world, you don't need to have scale to enjoy scale.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Michael Porter and Jim Heppelman explain how augmented reality will change how we work.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Creating shared value , a paradigm for how companies engage with society pioneered by Michael Porter and FSG, captures this trampoline mentality very well. Audi helped spearhead a technology solution to this problem, which will enable excess renewable energy to be captured, stored, and used in its production processes.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

A brief sampling: Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's " Creating Shared Value ;" Christoper Meyer and Julia Kirby's " Runaway Capitalism ;" Dominic Barton's " Capitalism for the Long Term ;" the collected works of Umair Haque. And in that he sounds a lot like Michael Porter, Dominic Barton, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

In early 1990s, most new African banks used information technology as a SWATS tool to break the monopolies established during the colonial era. Eventually, some incumbents adapted and invested in technology as well. Ndubuisi Ekekwe is a founder of the non-profit African Institution of Technology. They secured their flanks.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

This cover story, by Michael Porter, suggests that companies and government need to get outside an outdated approach to value creation. Today, Porter says, companies must reconnect company success with social progress, not as philanthropy, but as a way to achieve economic success. trillion by 2020.

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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. How Netflix Reinvented HR.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

They demanded nothing less than the latest technological wizardry, married to state of the art design, coupled with bleeding edge service. Once, American consumers were among the world's most sophisticated. But that's no longer enough.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Michael Porter, the strategy expert, believes that the HBS approach is the right one. Second, factoring in cost makes online technology much more competitive.And And finally, focusing on current relative positions discounts the importance of technological changewhich, over time, will make online models more competitive.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

Porter and Mark R. Porter and Kramer give a classic example of ecosystem-supporting philanthropy: a company contributes to help improve area schools, which would eventually improve the labor pool from which they hire staff. In The Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy , Michael E.

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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.

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

It's an approach we call creating shared value ( my coauthor Mark Kramer and FSG cofounder Michael Porter wrote about this in Harvard Business Review ). The authors are senior leaders at FSG, a global social impact strategy firm co-founded by Mr. Kramer and Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

That same year, in an article entitled “Computer Graphics for Decision Making,” IBM engineer Irvin Miller introduced HBR’s readers to a potent new computing technology that was part of the 360 — the interactive graphical display terminal. Technology' Intuition-support is, in fact, the point for Miller.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The moment I loved most was during the Q&A when an older gentleman asked Jobs a challenging question about the mouse as user interface technology: did it really compare favorably to the traditional keystroke approach? I remember helping Mike Porter with his terrific 1996 HBR article What Is Strategy?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Start with Michael Porter. Microsoft is in the supposedly volatile technology sector. They’ve missed almost every technological breakthrough of the past decade — and yet they earned $237 billion in operating income from 2001 to 2013 working off a strategy that was in place in the mid-1990s.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

co-founded by Michael Porter back in the early 1980s, has seen better days. Typically such purchasers are emerging from some sort of major corporate unpleasantness — a near bankruptcy, say, or having missed out, Nokia-like, on a ground-shaking technological shift. Monitor & Co.,

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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." Of course, modern technology businesses have some other unique strategic characteristics.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

Porter and Mark R. One of Adidas's latest sustainable innovations is DryDye technology, which removes the need for water in the dyeing process. See, for example, " Creating Shared Value ," by Michael E. That's the good news. The bad news is that stellar performance on both dimensions is no common or easy feat.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Zeitgeist, German for "spirit of the time," is the complex interplay of economic, technological, political, and social forces that can determine which ideas will flop and which will fly in a particular moment. Hamel and Prahalad combined the old resource view with an emphasis on differentiation, made popular in the 1980s by Michael Porter.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

For $200 a month and in less than a year, students can receive online training that prepares them for immediate entry into technology jobs. Like Mr. Porter, I believe that education needs to be tied to real-life work experiences — especially if it is going to give low-income students a leg up.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Insurance is therefore a natural shared value industry — one that can employ the idea proposed by Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter and Mark Kramer of FSG in 2011. This new research report highlights how insurers are applying the model. What makes prevention today different from past efforts (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

That wasn’t as magical as it might seem, he argued in the 1979 piece, since the required technologies already existed in some form or other. Then last year Michael Porter returned to apply the five forces framework to the next phase of the digital economy – the internet of things. It’s still worth a look now.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Many organizations still operate by Porter's Value Chain model , where Z follows Y, which follows X. From technology, to banking, to education to health care, from automobile makers to the media, many organizations that once dominated now struggle to meet the rapidly changing demands of a volatile, global marketplace.

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