Strategy Driven

APRIL 12, 2011

Many of these options are provided by an eager and engaged workforce; individuals who diligently examine the proposed opportunity, associated costs, and make the strong case for pursuing these cost saving and/or profitable efforts. That's only a small sample of this article.

Strategic Planning 50

Strategic Planning Proposal Sample Newsletter 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 14, 2011

Beginning with the end in mind, it is important for those developing business cases for the organization’s various ongoing operations and proposed initiative alternatives to do so in such a way that leaders can compare the cost and benefits of the proposed activities. That's only a small sample of this article.

Cost 50

Cost Development Proposal Comparison 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2011

Leaders face the difficult challenge of selecting those few operational activities their organization will pursue from the multitude that are proposed every planning cycle. That's only a small sample of this article. Collectively, these activities define the company; its culture, its direction, and ultimately its success or failure.

Content 50

Content Sample Proposal Document 50

Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Then, based on the insights drawn from this sample, the company would decide the reason for the recent losses and propose changing a feature to address that specific "pain." Big Data Innovation Leadership Pattern Recognition Produce Development Product Intelligence Signals Strategy Weak Signals' Follow Amir at @golan_amir.

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Stage-Gate Productivity Products Innovation 128

Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2011

Business planning documents not only seek to communicate the organizational value of a particular ongoing operation, in-progress project, or proposed initiative, they also provide a comparative basis which decision-makers use to determine those activities the organization will pursue. That's only a small sample of this article.

Comparison 50

Comparison Development Sample Proposal 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

For example, when Daniel Zhang, the new chief executive of Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba, talked about his proposed new “Let’s Go Global” strategy one week after his appointment, the company’s stock price rose immediately by 1%, the equivalent of $2.2 billion, with further rises in the following days.

CEO 8

CEO Strategy Price Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Here are three strategies larger companies use to bring scrappy, entrepreneurial know-how into their established businesses. He then successfully proposed that the client hire his firm instead, on a test-basis. This might seem like just good old-fashioned salesmanship.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Strategy Telecommunications Software 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

To gain further insights into the sustainability and financial outcomes associated with shareholder advocacy efforts, Jody Grewal, Aaron Yoon, and I analyzed 2,665 shareholder proposals submitted between 1997 and 2012 in a new paper. ” We found that 58% of the shareholder proposals in our sample were filed on immaterial issues.

Proposal 8

Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The sample vignettes below, however, show how individuals apply design thinking to a very broad range of problems at varying scales. There are many cases revealing the value and power of design thinking in the corporate world that have been widely published but are primarily focused on teams—especially managers collaborating with designers.

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Creativity Strategic Planning Construction Politics 73

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

I encourage leaders to follow a four-step process: List in one column the resources (people, money, highly constrained elements like a sample bus for demonstrating products) available for all proposed projects. The same is true with a change of strategy.

Objective 9

Objective Sample Constraint Project 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

a sampling of these findings can be found here , here , here , and here ). ” According to Arizona State’s Blake Ashforth and colleagues , these types of micro role transitions in the workplace can produce exactly the type of role conflict that we propose middle managers are disproportionately likely to experience. .”

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Middle Management Management Power Micromanagement 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In such a system, employers protect workers from many of the vagaries of market forces; they take a longer-term perspective on firm performance, and favor corporate strategies that necessitate a stable, well-trained, and loyal workforce. three to five years).

Marketing 8

Marketing Short-term Incentives Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

To garner a sample of truth tellers, liars, and deceivers by omission, the researchers recruited 104 participants to play the ultimatum game, a popular tool among experimental economists. In the traditional version of the game, one player (the allocator) receives a sum of money and proposes how to divvy it up with a partner (the receiver).

Education 8

Education Content Execution How To 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

But I’m about to propose something that might sound crazy: You don’t need to get rid of stress to live a happy, fulfilling life. Here are some of my favorite strategies. In the study sample, people who construed their symptoms of stress in positive or benign ways exhibited better health and longevity than anyone else.

Stress 8

Stress How To Agility Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

.” Having spent their careers looking through a patient-focused lens, physicians moving into executive positions might be expected to bring a patient-focused strategy. In a recent study that matched random samples of U.S. 61% of the proposed innovation projects have had a positive institutional impact.

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Management 360-Degree Feedback Mayo Training 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

You likely studied the proposed change in detail, discussed it at length with relevant colleagues, came up with a strategy for implementing it, and then introduced it. Articulate what exactly your proposed change will involve. Any differences in outcomes between the two groups can then be attributed to the change.

Flextime 9

Flextime Call Center Human Resources CRM 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

While many customers will either not opt in or will choose not to share data due in part to privacy concerns, even a relatively small sample can provide striking insights if it covers enough foot traffic over a given time period. The digital tools we describe here deliver this elixir.

Retail 8

Retail Customer Intimacy Loyalty Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Failure to speak up when proposals and procedures are riddled with inaccuracies or faulty thinking. The average person estimated the cost of silence at $7,500, and 20% of our sample estimated the cost of avoiding a difficult conversation to be more than $50,000. Strategic missteps. The hit to the bottom line is even more remarkable.

Company 8

Company Bottom-up Cost CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2017

I recently collaborated with Shashank Nigam, the CEO of SimpliFlying , a global aviation strategy firm of about 10 people, to ask a simple question: “What if we force people to take a scheduled week off every seven weeks?” It’s a small sample, sure, but there’s a meaningful story here. And what did we find out?

Company 8

Company Absenteeism Policies Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2014

Frame it as a ‘Making Your Company a Better Place to Work Strategy.’ But because of the costs associated with maintaining a presence in the brick-and-mortar department store — including commission for salespeople, samples, and advertising in catalogs and mailers — the company was losing money there. Principles to Remember.

Team 8

Team Brainstorming Creativity Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Following the global economic crisis of 2008, large bonuses and stock options have been held responsible for overly risky behavior and short-term strategies. We propose that, instead, most firms should pay their top executives a fixed salary. We argue in favor of abolishing pay-for-performance for top managers altogether.

Execution 8

Execution Incentives Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2018

Sampling bias may produce models trained on data that is not fully representative of future cases. Borrowing from the concept of “privacy by design” popularized by the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we employed a “fairness by design” strategy encompassing a few key facets.

Sample 8

Sample Project Self-aware Training 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2016

“If the plane leaves at 7 AM, you either get there or somebody doesn’t get what they need in time — brain scans for someone’s surgery, tissue samples for the lab. Spending to maintain the transportation system we have would seem to be an essential part of any strategy to keep traffic from getting worse.

Parcell 8

Parcell Transportation Incentives Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

For proposed projects to gain traction, various stakeholders must be aligned; chief among these are the companies that rely on transportation systems to connect them to customers and suppliers, and the government planners responsible for building these trade arteries. The same is true in many other parts of the world.

Planning 8

Planning Scenario Planning Transportation Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2016

We brought him the ingredients for those samosas he made for last quarter’s company party, and he grumbled at first but finally agreed to make a batch to hand out as samples to the lunch crowd. Two dreams in one night about the same thing: Vikram’s proposal. People loved them—couldn’t get enough.

Case Study 8

Case Study Survey Course Class 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

After the failed negotiations over the repeal of Obamacare earlier in March, the Trump administration appears to be on the brink of proposing a new health care bill. While the details are still sketchy, it seems likely that the new bill will leave many lower-income Americans without access to health insurance.

Insurance 8

Insurance Long-term Stress Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

Another way pharmaceutical firms are thwarting generics is by restricting access to samples for testing. Generic drug makers need to be able to purchase a sample of a brand-name product to conduct bioequivalence testing. Generic companies must also be allowed to purchase samples of these medications to conduct bioequivalence studies.

System 10

System Pharmaceuticals Company Sample 10

Miles Anthony Smith

MARCH 3, 2018

Why Both are Vital to SEO Don’t Do This if You Aren’t Committed to This Strategy For Many Years! You should pursue this strategy, but only if you are going to stick with it for 18-36 months. See another client example here: An Exhaustive Guide: How To Write A Mind-Blowing Grant Proposal (Sample Grant Proposal Included) 7.

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Content Video Short-term Case Study 56