CEO Insider

MAY 10, 2021

When I walked into the position of CEO of Snap printing and design, a 120-year-old Australian business with over 130 franchise outlets, my thoughts were how to innovate and drive the business in what many would see as a declining industry. Little could I expect that a few months into my term as CEO that […].

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Leading Blog

MAY 18, 2018

Another reason success as an entrepreneur favors age is that “creating a new product or service is an organic process, one that is shaped by background, experience, and acuity of the innovator.” “The Innovators are curious and have a voracious appetite for learning. The average age of an inventor awarded a patent is forty-seven.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Small businesses play a large role in the world’s vibrant economies, as they employ many people and drive innovation and competitiveness. Then, you must develop and test a product concept that meets this urgent need. Consider franchising. Research reveals that 80% of McDonald’s locations are franchises.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Growth is a significant indicator that your business is on the right track and involves taking more risks, developing innovative ideas, and identifying the right audience. You can choose to open a physical store at another site, and you can either run it or operate it as a franchise.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 14, 2013

This trend means that leaders of successful organizations will need to develop different organizational structures, systems, and skills in order to meet these new customer requirements. Skills in developing partnerships that cross boundaries are critical. Skills in developing partnerships that cross boundaries are critical.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 22, 2018

We tend to think that outstanding creative works or amazing disruptive innovations sprang forth into the world wholly original and unique to that industry. If you think about the creative world, what’s the most innovative, amazing, successful movie franchise in history? At least not in the way that you think.

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Rapid BI

APRIL 16, 2012

What hope for UK business when #mentoring education fails The UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), after the closure of the Business Link franchise, is pinning it's hopes on volunteer mentoring for developing entrepreneurship and U.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Not everyone is willing to work with large businesses and franchises, so a cozy coffee shop is a good choice. One of the most innovative business ideas you can develop is a mobile health clinic that goes beyond a business model and solves a genuine crisis. They’re a working space and even a place to relax.

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The Empowered Buisness

APRIL 14, 2015

To meet Anita Roddick, founder and “then” CEO of multi-billion dollar franchise, Photo by David Niblack. The BIG question is … How can YOU develop your own leadership presence? To use mental rehearsal to develop your commanding leadership presence, you need to: Step 1: Describe how you want to perform. Even Before You Speak.

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HR Digest

MAY 6, 2021

Melissa Strait: When we founded Inspire in February 2018, our leadership team spent time developing a clear purpose and set of behaviors that could align our organization and our brands.? We’re focused on building a culture of innovation that enables good ideas to thrive at any level of the organization, not just at the top.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

I don't want to say "dirty tricks," (whoops, I just said it) but Clorox certainly took an innovative approach to squelching P&G's innovative threat. An excellent business case could be made that Clorox's "Portland Massacre" was — dollar-for-dollar — its most strategically important (anti)marketing innovation that year.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

What do you think causes millions of people to miss work and school in developing economies? Beyond the humiliating difficulties for millions of impoverished individual women trying to improve themselves and support their families, this is a global issue with significant consequences for the economies of developing countries.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2012

For a social entrepreneur with an innovative solution, the holy grail is scaling it —that is, taking it to a level where the new approach operates efficiently and effectively to achieve significant mitigation of a social problem. They are: Staffing. Replicating. Stimulating Market Forces.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

That sort of money should allow you to open 10 new centers next year, not through franchising as you'd planned, but under your direct ownership and control. The director wasn't expecting her, but Gloria liked popping into the franchises unannounced to get an unvarnished view. Three million euros.". Hours were flexible.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2010

We don't think it matters much whether this was true or just spin-control; what matters is that Microsoft has now publicly embraced the hackers — and that's an instance of a broad and profound change in corporate innovation. To see how inventive Kinect hackers can be, see their joint showcase here.)

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Innovation : When defining innovation as "offering products that are new to some or all customers" in some regions — including the U.S. and developed Europe — women entrepreneurs have higher levels of innovation than their male counterparts. And in the U.S., more than half of the 9.72

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Founders Forum is a franchise started by two successful UK-based entrepreneurs, Brent Hoberman and Jonnie Goodwin, to stimulate US-style entrepreneurship in the European region, and now around the world. Consumer demand for innovative digital services, when executed ably, seems unquenchable; and that demand is stimulating capital flows.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

But as anyone who has ever tried to lead innovation knows, the challenge goes beyond being ambidextrous enough to manage today’s business while creating tomorrow’s. Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book. Simply put, the future is shaped by what you do, and don’t do, today. Excerpted from. The Three-Box Solution.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

These concerns get polite nods here and there but, mostly, serious Africans ignore them and firmly redirect the conversation back to private equity, or franchise deals, or something along those lines. What matters is how entrepreneurs and innovators, especially social innovators, employ this set of tools within prevailing constraints.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

Fostering entrepreneurship has become a core component of economic development in cities and countries around the world. The predominant metaphor for fostering entrepreneurship as an economic development strategy is the “entrepreneurship ecosystem.” Economy Entrepreneurship Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Declaring he’d cull up to 100 brands — many of which he’d acquired and developed — P&G CEO A.G. Instead of focusing on innovation, as he did during his first tour as CEO of the world’s largest consumer packaged goods firm, Lafley is now innovating on focus. represent an innovation repudiation of Lafley 1.0?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

How do you identify, blend, develop, train and coach a mix of talents into wholes measurably greater than the sum of their parts? That’s the “franchise of the future” challenge haunting sports’ brightest minds and biggest wallets. What combinatorial characteristics of high-performers empower everyone else to over-perform?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

in November, which has in part been attributed to staying open for Thanksgiving, McDonald’s is urging its franchises to open on Christmas Day. And they've now narrowed the possibilities of the web for an entire generation of users who don't realize how much more innovative and meaningful their experience could be." — Justin Fox.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The question is how to equip employees with the skills to handle complexities such as creating innovative solutions to emergent problems, understanding new markets, and pushing back on the "status quo." They too have struggled to operate in complex environments, and have developed the skills and expertise to overcome these challenges.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Any number of franchised coaching offerings can be purchased at affordable prices, numerous affliliations with the hot coaching brand de-jure are available for the asking, or if all else fails coaches can just go it alone as a solo practitioner – the more the merrier right? I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT @janemyatt Their sacrifice.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

McDonald’s should apply to franchisees a model similar to the one it uses for its suppliers: The company engages in long-term relationships with suppliers to make it clear that they’ll work together on tough issues, not just issue fines; brings suppliers together periodically to learn from each other; and rewards innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

If you believe this is a problem confined to the developing world, consider this: The rate of maternal mortality in the United States has doubled in the past 20+ years. This is essential to developing services she will use and, longer term, putting into place solutions that will have a lasting impact. Pursue scientific innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The for-profit arm, Embrace Innovations, would raise money from venture capitalists — though our first screening criteria would be investors who were aligned with our social mission. Thus far, through this approach, Embrace and Embrace Innovations have helped over 3,000 babies with our product.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Long before "think global, act local" was the conventional wisdom for how corporations should operate in the international interconnected marketplace, we at Children's Television Workshop (CTW), as it was known then, pioneered the development of a flexible global brand. Taking The Long View.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Coca-Cola FEMSA, the largest franchise bottler of Coca-Cola beverages in the world, set the stage for this learning two years ago when it created centers of excellence (COEs) to drive transformation in each of its functional or process areas, including supply chain, distribution, commercial, finance, HR and IT.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

And Uber is not alone among these companies in turning to market-level experiments to test new products and innovations. It’s not just tech companies who can use large-scale experiments to test new products and innovations. regions, cities, or franchises) in which to launch the product.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

Industrial age measures can''t evaluate Serendipity Economy results, leaving its outcomes like invention and innovation, process improvements, and new businesses relegated to the evidence of anecdote. Value realization is displaced in time from the act that initiated the value. Technology investments work the same way.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

The negotiation of a long-term media rights contract with Comcast SportsNet provides the franchise with long-term financial stability and gives us the luxury of running our business strategically for the long-term, without having to make shortsighted decisions. In sports, the big cost driver is really players’ salaries.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

For one thing, thanks to a long history of exclusive municipal franchising regulations that didn’t end until 1992, the two companies don’t overlap in any market—TWC customers will become Comcast customers (and get arguably better technology and service in the process), but no local market will see a decline in the number of competitors.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Product upgrades make up the majority of corporate research and development activity. At Harvard Business School’s Program for Leadership Development and Owner/President Management Program. Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

For businesses looking to keep pace with innovation and leverage AI, there are steps they can take today. Smart marketers are developing, partnering to build, or integrating AI into their tech stacks to get better at what they do. The good news is that, as an industry, we are starting to see meaningful progress on both fronts.

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