Coaching Tip

JULY 16, 2015

After I left Kodak, as a marketing specialist, to take a new leadership position in another industry in 1973, Fujifilm's technology was catching up with Kodak's and by the 1980s Fujifilm had technically surpassed Kodak in nearly all varieties of film. In 2001, the global demand for color film suddenly plunged. What happened?

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The notion of the on-demand workforce was first brought to popular attention by Dan Pink in 2001 when he published Free Agent Nation, in which he predicted a future dominated by independent workers.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Once upon a time the portfolio career was seen as pretty sexy and came to typify the “free agent nation” spoken about by Dan Pink way back in 2001.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 20, 2024

D espite most organizations striving to be as innovative as possible, there is an inherent reluctance to hire entrepreneurs. This has had the knock-on effect of placing a large number of former entrepreneurs back into the labor market. What is the profile of your recruiters?

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 10, 2024

This concept, called the “homevoter” effect, was first introduced by Dartmouth College professor William Fischel in 2001. They studied how housing market trends at the county level influenced voter behavior in presidential elections.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 4, 2023

By embracing the fluidity of subjective understanding, organizations can tap into the collective intelligence of teams and foster innovation. Actively listen to different viewpoints and facilitate constructive discussions that promote understanding and innovation. References: Bandura, A. Psychological Bulletin, 112(3), 369–376.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The first of these is when the stock market reacts badly to the appointment, while the second is if the previous CEO remains at the company as the chair of the board. Similarly, if the CEO engaged in a degree of self-promotion, they were found to mitigate the impact of a poor reaction from the stock market. No silver bullet.

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Ask Atma

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Using the concept of controlled chaos it is possible to increase efficiency and innovation. Consider this statement of values from the original authors of the agile manifesto (Beedle, et al; 2001): I. We think clearly and adapt quickly to customer/market needs (aka reality). Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

In 1998, I advised the Disney corporation and reminded them that Walt Disney’s 100th birthday in 2001 would offer great marketing and positioning opportunities. Change is innovative. Apply thinking processes to be truly innovative. I’m the person who planted the ideas and strategy. Ideas make the future happen.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Chapter One: Lead Like Bezos In 2001, Amazon faced what should have been a death sentence. Here’s the truth: real innovation is uncomfortable. Creating a Culture of Innovation Amazon’s transformation wasn’t solely Bezos’s doing. He had a team that shared his commitment, a culture that rewarded innovation and resilience.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

As Steve Jobs steps down as Apple's CEO — and Tim Cook takes over — many folks are wondering whether Apple can keep its innovation engine humming. He was first shown the door when John Scully and other marketing folks led the charge at Apple — a charge that quickly took a nosedive. Can he do it?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

With the Winter holiday shopping season, fashion apparel retailer Zara has been the focus of media attention — the New York Times recently profiled the innovative fast fashion business model pioneered by Zara, while Elizabeth Cline's book on the costs of fast fashion has climbed up the sales charts. Why wasn't it copied immediately?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

What the naysayers are overlooking or ignoring is that one could have made a list for Steve Jobs that would look remarkably similar: Missed earnings: Apple posted a $247 million quarterly loss ( in 2001 , four years after Jobs took over — and the stock went UP in after-hours trading). Bad quality control: MobileMe, antenna-gate.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

In 2001, Peter Drucker wrote in The Economist that "businesspeople stand on the threshold of the knowledge society. But why do western business leaders in a knowledge economy, with shrinking average margins in many market categories and weak macroeconomic scenarios, care so little about it? It's a compelling argument.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

In the past four years, we've witnessed the worst financial market meltdown in decades, the sharpest global slowdown since World War II, an existential crisis in Europe, and a wave of unrest across the Middle East. Any one of these events would send shockwaves through global markets. This trend is by no means a thing of the past.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

In 2001, Bill Gates stood up at Comdex and introduced Microsoft's first attempt at a Tablet PC to the world. But they just couldn't get it right — the company has rarely been able to bring innovations to market without seeing someone else do it first, and this instance was no different.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

And unfortunately, it's also one of the most in need of radical institutional innovation. My guess is that, like updating GDP for the 21st century, real-time corporate reporting could create new markets, companies, and much-needed jobs. But to the newcomers, let me explain what I mean.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2011

Yesterday HP announced that it would exit the PC and tablet computer business , focusing on higher-margin "strategic priorities of cloud, solutions and software with an emphasis on enterprise, commercial and government markets." Consider how HP and Apple faced the changes in the PC market almost exactly a decade ago. •On Why is that?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

The speech resonated with me, so while serving as his lead researcher in 2001 and 2002, I returned to his classroom to hear it again. When I first met Christensen he was certainly well known due to the 1997 publication of The Innovator's Dilemma , which won the Global Best Business Book award.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

A market segment can be characterized broadly (women 25-34) or specifically (women in an early career phase who are newly-married and starting a family). When the product was launched in 2001 , it aimed to revolutionize personal transportation , touted as a unique way for people to travel short distances. Consider personal distance.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

This practice, which is largely the evolution of database marketing, has become a critical driver of business strategy for global organizations in nearly every industry and vertical, because it supports decisions with data. In this way, CI's value extends well beyond the marketing organization. The ability to speak "IT."

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

But, as the story of Samsung demonstrates, recruitment is very much on the minds of emerging-market companies. In 2001, Turkey experienced a financial crisis in its banking sector. Our experience at Garanti Bank shows how even in seemingly the worst of circumstances, companies can become the most attractive of employers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

There are some notable examples of CEOs with courage: In the days following September 11, 2001, Southwest Airlines did not follow its many competitors and lay off tens of thousands of people, thereby keeping intact its record of never having a layoff, or furlough, and building its market share. As former Procter & Gamble CEO A.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Unlike most rankings, it was based on a systematic analysis of stock-market performance among nearly 2,000 CEOs of the world's largest companies. Market Capitalization increase during tenure: $341.5 It was a period of instilling discipline and launching innovations that started small and gradually were built out to big things (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

The innovation research identifies the tyranny of large numbers as a common (and vexing) problem for leaders as companies grow, well documented by Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen in The Innovators Solution , Jim Collins in How the Mighty Fall , and by Scott Anthony on this blog.

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Ries Market Segmentation Agility Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Many companies start their search for global growth in an alphabet soup of emerging-market groupings such as the BRIC , CIVETS , MINT , Next 11 , and so on. There are several flaws in using such acronyms as the basis for entering overseas markets. Is that smart? Not really, suggests our analysis.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

For many companies, a shrinking middle class means a shrinking top line, as their traditional consumer base migrates to the lower end of the market. In 2001, Smucker's acquired Jif and Crisco from P&G, which no longer saw them as a strategic fit. A focus on innovating consumer experiences, not company products. Smucker Company.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

With increasing industry disruption, efficiency is fast becoming of secondary importance to innovation and agility. For example, in 2001, IBM set up a permanent transformation organization designed to anticipate and respond to the increasingly unpredictable changes in its markets. It's not just standardizing and streamlining.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

But HP is no longer a values-driven, family-like, innovation-oriented company that inspires commitment. A technology company without strong internal innovation capabilities is a company on the verge of disappearing. I studied IBM and HP (and your former company, eBay) for my 2001 book, Evolve. HP Invent is an empty slogan.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Of course, Sutherland and Schwaber weren’t alone in their search for innovative methods. In 2001, 17 developers who called themselves “organizational anarchists” met in Snowbird, Utah, to share their ideas. They keep customers happier.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

One way to tell the story of mothers2mothers' growth is as follows: since 2001, the organization has expanded its operations to nine countries with an approximately $20 million operating budget. This innovation has impact. Helping decision-makers and their organizations co-implement the proven innovations. Conclusion?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

What’s more critical to producing a breakthrough innovation – finding creative people or finding creative ideas? Bernard Arnault, for instance, the executive chairman of luxury goods maker LVMH, was clearly in the same frame of mind when we caught up with him in a 2001 HBR interview. This astonished Catmull.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

The chart may appear to show merely that Cisco’s patent filings lagged its R&D spending by three years, but in fact the decline in spending and the rise in patents were part and parcel of a deliberate strategic shift by the company in 2001. So what was going on?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. So, to achieve higher performance, should company boards and investors choose CEOs with the expertise that would better qualify them to lead innovation? For the rest, we found that other factors besides innovation drove strong shareholder returns.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

By the fourth quarter of 2001 — that is, within about 21 months — it was turning a profit. That opportunistic approach to financial markets has defined Amazon since it went public in 1997. billion bond issue just before the debt-market meltdown of autumn 2008. billion in bonds the year before). Nice timing, huh?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Someday, Apple's now 11-year-long run of nearly unbroken triumph (I'm dating it to the launch of the iPod in November 2001) is going to end. Or actually, maybe strategy is really about finding blue oceans — markets that come into existence as a company defines them. That is just the way of the business world.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

The declines in manufacturing jobs during the downturns of 2001 and 2007, which totaled over 5.8 That happened to manufacturing up to the 1930s; then, with maturing markets and slower demand growth, continuing productivity increases led to the long and continuing decline in manufacturing employment. million, were the largest in U.S.

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