Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Each fourth quarter as the New Year approaches, it’s prudent to prepare a profitability plan for the coming year, especially with respect to your sales and marketing endeavors. But, whether developed before or after the start of the New Year, the importance of creating a tactical plan for sales and marketing success cannot be overstated.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2015

How did you do in the area of marketing? How did you do in the area of web marketing? Use this list of questions to develop questions specific to your own industry, business, and product and service lines. He founded and serves as CEO for Eric Lofholm International, Inc. — How did you do in the area of follow-up?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

During most of the 20th century Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film, and in 1976, had an 89% market share of photographic film sales in the United States. I can’t help but wonder: If Kodak had paid attention to its aging workforce trend, would the company have maintained market share and avoided bankruptcy?

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Leading Blog

APRIL 11, 2018

I work with senior leaders of organizations of all sizes and industries to help them create purposeful, positive, productive work cultures. Simply defining these valued behaviors - and marketing them like crazy with, for example, posters throughout your workspace - does nothing more than increase awareness. All is not lost.

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HR Digest

JULY 1, 2021

As a matter of fact, the labor market is so competitive that you often need to point prospects with the right skill sets before you even have open applications. A referral is the easiest, fastest and cheapest way to hire good talent – and that’s critical in today’s market. Get on each recruiting channel.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2016

in 2015, according to the Kauffman Index. Arvind Parthiban is the CEO & co-founder of Zarget , where in addition to conceptualising the company vision and piloting the course of action to meet their objectives, he currently heads product marketing, presales and sales operations. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2015

It is a competitive market in today’s economy. After 26 years since the creation of the businesses now have a number of methods and channels to distribute marketing and information about their products and services and are able to reach a varied and broad audience. Richard Milam is the president and CEO of EnableSoft.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Everything you know, feel, and do will be Uber’d — you will experience massive disruptions that seem to come out of nowhere – disruptions that can uproot your entire businesses or industry before you’ve finished your morning cup of coffee. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Only you can answer that question.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Given the pace at which digital innovation is disrupting industries globally, it’s not surprising that most CEOs feel pressure to find and deploy the right technology as fast as their budgets will allow. Only the CEO has the power to provide this kind of direction across the entire enterprise.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Richard Milam is the Founder and CEO of EnableSoft Incorporated ( www.enablesoft.com ). EnableSoft, is engaged in offering game changing software products and services to the business and financial services industry, healthcare and a dozen other markets. Takeaways From the 2015 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

As the founder of Today’s Growth Consultant and Income Store, two companies that collectively own over 200 income-generating websites, I regularly partner with industry thought leaders, CEOs, authors, and athletes to create a generous amount of blog content. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Whether your focus is on customer service, profits, investing, marketing, or company growth a constant awareness of your current position in relation to where you want to be is essential. Utilization of industry consultants or technical specialists. Marketing plan is annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

marketers spent nearly $60 billion in 2015 on digital ads, but the industry doesn’t do a great job connecting people with products they want. According to Christophe Primault , CEO of GetApp, just 10% of consumers find what they’re looking for when interacting with online content. Get (more) social.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

In 2015 U.S. CEOs earned 335 times the pay of the average worker. they earn 129 times more ; the High Pay Centre marked “Fat Cat Wednesday” (January 4, 2017) as the day by when a CEO has already earned more than an average worker earns in the entire year. CEOs Get Paid Too Much. The numbers are striking.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

The year 2015 was a pivotal time when humanity turned more decisively toward building a thriving and sustainable world. From the Pope to global CEOs to almost all the world’s political leaders, the most powerful people got on board. Multi-trillion-dollar markets are in play and there will be many more winners than losers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2018

Mary Barra, Meg Whitman, Indra Nooyi: These are just three of the women who have successfully broken through the notorious “glass ceiling” to become CEOs of large public firms. We found that female CEOs face a greater threat of shareholder activism than male CEOs.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2015

It is the hub of the world’s energy industry, headquarters of medical innovation and entrepreneurial phenomena. I chose representative industries and community service niches as snapshots of a wider photo album. It has seen industries emerge and mature. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

For example, if I found that satisfaction in 2015 was associated with high profits in 2016, it could be that high profits in 2015 led to both high satisfaction in 2015 and also high profits in 2016. Looking at future profits doesn’t solve the issue, because profits are persistent. After doing so, I end up with my 2.3%

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

We earned a 13% return — not bad by industry standards — but we failed to change the company much. By contrast, World Bank data suggests that the average holding period in 2015 for public company shares globally was just over seven months. For example, we know disclosure and securities markets.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Yet even with all that knowledge and effort, many private equity companies still don’t do a good job when it comes to deciding whether to keep the CEO in place or select a new CEO. Too many CEOs fall short of these skills. Here are the most common CEO selection mistakes we see.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Through Paypal, Nigerians spent $610 million via their mobile phones on international shopping in 2015, depriving local banks forex fees. Nothing has changed in most African banks in terms of structure, despite the avalanche of transformations in the market. Most still put marketing managers in nice cars to look for clients.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

The impact of “social entrepreneurs” — individuals who deploy innovation and market forces to fill social needs — is growing. Almost half (48%) said raising funds was “very” or “extremely” challenging, even as the impact investing industry continues to grow. Vincent Tsui for HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

We explore this question by looking at CEOs’ decisions about corporate diversification over the last three decades. Think about it: It took 20 to 30 years for those MBA students who absorbed a skeptical view on diversification in the 1970s and the ‘80s to climb up corporate hierarchies, replace CEOs at major U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

And it’s a telling tale about whether the consumer products industry can get a digital business model right. million Series D in November 2015 — Dollar Shave Club had been valued at $630 million, according to Pitchbook. And according to a market study by Technavio, the global wet shave market is expected to reach $31.41

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

That sort of nosebleed growth has panicked a lot of big-company CEOs who live in fear of being “Uberized.” The explosive growth of ride sharing is a big reason why Hertz reported dismal quarterly results in November 2016, leading to a 23% drop in its market value. ” Those fears are not entirely unfounded.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

But when some CEOs in this position look at the people they employ, they discover a problem: a swath of their existing team doesn’t have the necessary skills or metabolism for change to meet the new challenges. CEO Stefan Jacoby and CHRO Björn Sällström rigorously examined Volvo’s existing workforce.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Email is by far one of the best digital marketing solutions to have in your toolbox. However, with this approach there is plenty of room for error amid an industry rife with regulations; delivery, filtering and other technology concerns and a glut of ever-evolving best practices. Savvy marketers understand this.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

Why is the airline industry so terrible? Instead of getting into a price war or squabbling over a shrinking market, both disruptors and incumbents find new ways to create value. In computers, Dell and Gateway were both disruptive to the PC industry by targeting the low end. Which brings us back to the airline industry.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Activist investors who expect to raise returns by influencing strategic decisions are having a meaningful impact on many industries from consumer-packaged goods to aerospace and defense. And the odds that your company, or industry, may find itself targeted by an activist are going up. What is our promise to the market and to customers?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Unilever, for example, has found that its sustainable living brands are growing 30% faster than the rest of its business and in 2015 delivered nearly half the company’s total growth. Like Unilever, there are companies in other industries forming a vanguard of early movers, merging their business goals with sustainable development.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

The past year has been difficult for many markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). While SSA was predicted to grow above 5% year-over-year in 2015 at the beginning of the year, actual GDP growth is more likely to come in at around 3–4% year-over-year. Growth in 2016 is unlikely to be much higher.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Examples include Gillette, which launched the very first product for assisted shaving based on feedback inferred from social media, and Tesla, which improved the company’s app based in part on CEO Elon Musk’s reading a customer’s complaints on Twitter. Twenty-one percent have a Facebook page.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

There is a general consensus among economic analysts and commentators that the changes are merely cosmetic — they certainly do not affect the daily lives of most average Nigerians, and their timing might be politically motivated given the upcoming 2015 elections which are expected to be highly contested. Global business'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Memo to CEOs who don’t consider themselves in the electricity business: You may not be in the power business today, but you’re more than likely to be in it tomorrow. east and north of Chicago already have “bulk” power markets that trade early versions of these new products and services. electric demand.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses. GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment through the internet of things and analytical software with a suite of products called Predix Cloud. YASUYOSHI CHIBA/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

One response to today’s climate crisis has been a belief that markets and corporate innovation will provide the solution. As business tycoon Richard Branson has proclaimed in 2012, “our only option to stop climate change is for industry to make money from it.” Wallace Garrison/Getty Images. We get back to core stuff.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Since every industry changes in time, the key to success is adapting to those changes – hence, strategy is innovation. When Robert Iger, Disney chair and CEO, purchased Pixar for $7.4 billion ten years ago, some in the industry thought he was crazy. So he struck a deal with then CEO Steve Jobs to buy Pixar.

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