LDRLB

APRIL 13, 2020

Consider a few examples: “The company’s primary objective is to maximize long-term shareholder value while adhering to the laws of the jurisdictions in which it operates and at all times observing the highest ethical standard.” Is it market share of products? Is it a plurality—just the largest market share?

Mission Statement 120

Mission Statement Motivation Long-term Customer Loyalty 120

LDRLB

APRIL 13, 2020

Consider a few examples: “The company’s primary objective is to maximize long-term shareholder value while adhering to the laws of the jurisdictions in which it operates and at all times observing the highest ethical standard.” Is it market share of products? Is it a plurality—just the largest market share?

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Motivation Long-term Customer Loyalty 78

The Empowered Buisness

APRIL 6, 2014

Consensus: Your team, industry peers, the media, etc. They buy into the same reason. “ Of course, the economy is to blame.” Consensus grows and resignation becomes contagious within your company and industry. That’s not to negate that economic downturns exist and can impact how a company operates and grows. This meme ….

Organization 164

Organization Leadership Consensus Market Segmentation 164

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

So also should diversity, branding, quality, marketing, re-engineering and other important processes. The next phase in restoring public credibility to Tylenol was the reintroduction of new product to the shelves, done in such a way as to restore consumer confidence and increase market share. There is an art to Crisis Preparedness.

Crisis 71

Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 71

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best? Never be swayed by consensus that calls you to compromise your values, rather be guided by doing the right thing. The strongest teams don’t weed out or neutralize individual tendencies, they capitalize on them.

Blog 419

Blog Gordon Follow-up Open-book 419

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

The process by which a network of nodes confirms the record of previously verified transactions, and by which it verifies new transactions, is known as a consensus protocol. The applications for private blockchains include a variety of markets in which multiple parties wish to participate simultaneously but do not fully trust one another.

Consensus 10

Consensus Decentralization System Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

And the same applies to the affected workers: The tight labor market means there are opportunities for those who go through retraining. Capital-intensive factories have a high-fixed-cost, low-variable-cost operating model. Every day GM operates such factories, it expends more resources that could be redeployed elsewhere.

Restructuring 11

Restructuring Fixed Costs Consensus Outsourcing 11

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Nissan has announced major job cuts for the year, cutting its annual operating forecast by 70%. Undoubtedly, this is in relation to the various setbacks the company has faced in the Chinese market compounded by the rise of Chinese automakers. billion, below the LSEG consensus estimate of ¥66.8

CEO 52

CEO Restructuring Team Automotive 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2015

B2C marketers have long known that the key to a customers’ hearts and minds is to make the connection between the brand and customers’ sense of self. B2B marketers, on the other hand, have shied away from the idea, instead approaching selling as a rational, numbers-driven process where the best value proposition wins.

B2B 8

B2B Consensus B2C Customer Loyalty 8

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.

GDP 8

GDP Human Capital Film Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

One of your executives comes to you with a proposal: she wants to lower the quality of service at the restaurants, reduce product safety standards, use deceptive marketing practices, lower employee pay, and adopt worse environmental practices. Why do anti-profit beliefs persist in a market society? But these effects were limited.

Company 8

Company Short-term Long-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Part of the problem is there isn't a clear consensus on what marks an innovative company. Return on equity (net income divided by equity) results from multiplying three key operating ratios: Profitability (net income over sales). Operating efficiency (sales over assets). But there are some measurements that try.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Nevertheless, the markets have discounted every announcement and have continued to operate in a state of quasi-panic, as they move at a different speed than the political activities. But the ECB's most powerful weapon — intervening in the bond market — is still locked away. It is easy to take a grim view.

Crisis 15

Crisis Consensus Banking Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2017

If you’re a marketer, you have to decide whether you’d prefer to work for a marketing agency or in the marketing department of an organization. A law firm cannot provide legal services without lawyers, for example, but a tech company could continue to operate for a long time without a general counsel.

Company 12

Company Report Positioning Consensus 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Trend lines, market sizing, and competitive benchmarks that served companies well during periods of gradual market evolution do little good in industries where new technologies create seismic shifts, demand is uncertain, and rivals emerge from left field. Yet in turbulent times this is dysfunctional. The company could merge with Dell.

Strategy 15

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

Here’s a conundrum: On the one hand, there’s a consensus among thoughtful business leaders that too many companies are sacrificing long-term growth on the altar of smooth, reliable short-term earnings. Meanwhile, I had a lot friends and colleagues saying, “The capital markets are a huge problem.” Insight Center.

Short-term 8

Short-term Henderson Long-term Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

For example, the delays associated with social conflict at large mining operations can run in the vicinity of $20 million per week. Yet the same companies that spend months and millions tweaking operational details devote only a small fraction of their resources to understanding and addressing the social risks they face.

Company 9

Company Supply Chain Real Estate Stakeholder Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

After some investigating, they discovered that their fragmented, geographically dispersed matrix structure made it very difficult for the program managers to coordinate efforts across functions, keep everyone focused on the cost and delivery goals, and get people to reach consensus. This was delaying product production.

Welch 8

Welch Supply Chain Consensus Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Alfred Rappaport's article, " Stock Market Signals to Managers ," in the November-December 1987 issue of the Harvard Business Review, provides managers with a clear method for understanding how price reflects the market's expectations about the company's future financial performance. But very few executives or investors do.

Price 8

Price Analysis Cost of Capital Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

Because they have been trained and incented to care about the real game, the one happening on the field, and not about the associated betting market. But in the business world, their precise equivalents are standard operating procedure. We've never seen an apology from a QB for winning a game, but by less than the point spread.

CEO 15

CEO Consensus Conference Rogers 15

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 5, 2017

I also believe that when simplification is an operating principle, it can guide leaders both in big, risky decisions and in daily priorities. Teams collaborated to create an e-mail-based, fast-response system by which representatives could provide marketing with customer feedback and other observations.

Short-term 260

Short-term Efficiency Brand System 260

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

There’s a lot of debate over the magnitude of the decline, but there is broad consensus that it has happened and that it’s a big deal. Firms with a cost or quality advantage have always enjoyed higher market shares. In the U.S. the share of income that workers take home each year now hovers around 60%.

GDP 8

GDP Video Sharpe Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Many of us are familiar with the hazards of Groupthink - when teams or organizations operate on autopilot and feel a general false sense of invulnerability. In some rare cases, individuals are able to push back against team consensus and help organizations recognize and proactively respond to changes in the competitive landscape.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2018

The ABU was set up as a centralized profit center with ambitious targets and with direct reporting to the chief operations officer; most often, similar units are organized as cost centers with no specific targets. The value generated by risk- and operational cost-abating analytics initiatives is measured by their impact on the bottom line.

Company 8

Company Chief Operating Officer Incentives Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Success begets not only further success but also harder-to-meet market expectations. In terms of sales volume, product line diversity, operating system flexibility, R&D spending, and even customer loyalty , Samsung has emerged as a fierce competitor that has bested former industry champions like Nokia and Apple. Brand confidently.

Brand 8

Brand Customer Loyalty Hedge Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Part of the problem is there isn't a clear consensus on what marks an innovative company. Return on equity (net income divided by equity) results from multiplying three key operating ratios: Profitability (net income over sales). Operating efficiency (sales over assets). But there are some measurements that try.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

Because the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. The mantra of “ first-mover advantage ,” the idea that winners are the ones who are the first entrants in their markets, became the conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley.

IPO 8

IPO First-mover Advantage Business Model Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

Time is viewed as limited in supply, so Western people structure their lives, especially business operations, by milestones and deadlines. Time often literally equals money, in terms of costs, profit margins, and beating the competition for market share. Well, Japan’s business culture prizes group consensus.

Delegation 12

Delegation Efficiency Learning-by-Doing Consensus 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2011

While the joint CEO structure was one of the key factors that helped us navigate the economic crisis," explained Chairman Azim Premji , "with the market exploding now, there is a need for a simpler, leaner organization. Collaboration, despite widespread confusion on this point, is not consensus.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Politics Leadership CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

On November 10, 2010, Cisco's stock price dropped 16%, erasing roughly $20 billion of market value in a matter of hours. In fact, this stock market bellwether had just beat earnings estimates by 6%. for the quarter, just barely clearing the consensus estimates of $0.40. Had something catastrophic happened? The problem?

Proposal 15

Proposal Benchmarking Consensus Morale 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

The executives' role is to define the attributes of the customer experience in partnership with their operational colleagues, organize the customer-satisfaction-measurement process against those attributes, and encourage remedial action wherever warranted. Many companies now have senior officers in charge of customer experience.

B2B 14

B2B Consensus Productivity Products 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

Active listening and probing (with humility, not aggression) energizes groups, encourages them to reach consensus, and helps them arrive at new and better solutions. But his division's operations department was adamant it could not be done given the tremendous complexity of its processes. Prime the Pump.

360-Degree Feedback 18

360-Degree Feedback Welch Active Listening CEO 18

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2012

Can we get to the market without any technological miracles? After exploration, there are lots of ways to plan, but at the very least a good plan details the target customer, crucial stakeholders, the essence of the idea, key economics, the commercialization path, proposed operations, the team, financial requirements, and the action plan.

Company 15

Company Net Present Value How To Proposal 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Studies comparing the problem-solving abilities of groups in which dissenting views are voiced with groups in which they are not find that dissent tends to be a better precondition for reaching the right solution than consensus. military operations in Vietnam. All too few. You remember how huge Nokia was.

Consensus 9

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

There is a growing sense that so-called lean start-up techniques — developing a minimal viable product, learning in the marketplace, and pivoting based on market feedback — can help to unleash this potential. Studying the book market then led Bezos to locate his company near some of the major book distributors.

Ries 8

Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Studies comparing the problem-solving abilities of groups in which dissenting views are voiced with groups in which they are not find that dissent tends to be a better precondition for reaching the right solution than consensus. military operations in Vietnam. All too few. You remember how huge Nokia was.

Consensus 9

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 9

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 9, 2014

At the same time, the advent of new ground breaking technologies such as electricity and motorization – today we would call them disruptive – allowed the estates to operate with significantly less staff. And they’re the only way to keep ahead of the changes that are affecting your markets and your success around the world. 2 above).

Competitive Advantage 267

Competitive Advantage Resistance Business Model Consensus 267