Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

So take advantage of all the strategy tourists you know and develop opposite behavior. Develop your power play skills and use them as often as you can. He has shared the stage with prominent strategists like Michael Porter and reached out to 21,000+ leaders in 30+ countries. The Emerging Strategy of Innovative Service.

Strategy 58

Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 58

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

He works with companies to develop innovative CSR practices that generate value for both the company and society. Daniel Korschun is an Associate Professor of Marketing at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business.

Review 70

Review Marketing Innovation Company 70

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Mellisa Patrick CMgr MCMI, CMI’s programme development manager, attended the event to engage with potential new partners, including universities, colleges, and technical and vocational education and training (TVET) providers. What skills should we pursue to suit our future needs?

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Webinar Education Conference Industry 98

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

Innovators have to deal with particularly insidious lies — things that people say that they believe are true, but actually aren't. Innovators working on new ideas often show early versions to customers to assess "purchase intent." Lie #2: Product developer, "We'll be ready to ship in six months.".

Innovation 16

Innovation Market Segmentation Porter Sharpe 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Meanwhile Harvard Business Review has been focused on this issue, with our most recent cover story titled "How to fix capitalism — and unleash a wave of innovation and growth". This cover story, by Michael Porter, suggests that companies and government need to get outside an outdated approach to value creation.

Innovation 15

Innovation Succession Porter Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

In the game of innovation, there is next to no time to rest. All in all, scale has provided some immense strategic benefits to large companies around the world — protecting many from entrepreneurial innovations that would otherwise threaten. Consider Porter's value chain. Develop a vision of the future.

Porter 16

Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

Meanwhile, Michael Porter explains exactly how health care needs disrupting, professors from INSEAD and MIT debate the merits of the MOOCs that might upend higher education, and our own Sarah Green tells publishers to quit whining about disruption and start enjoying the innovation that goes along with it.

Management 22

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 22

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

Any promising new initiative — a stand-alone business venture or an innovation in an established organization — hits roadblocks and unexpected obstacles. Recently I''ve advised entrepreneurs and innovators about a different, seemingly better, dilemma: pop-up opportunities that look like short cuts to success.

Innovation 10

Innovation Porter Merchandising Entrepreneur 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Michael Porter's trilogy of Competitive Strategy , Competitive Advantage , and The Competitive Advantage of Nations sits on every serious strategist's shelf. But if you are a services company, your ability to quickly develop young talent could be your secret sauce. For a retailer, it might be logistical acumen.

Company 16

Company Competitive Advantage Prahalad Hamel 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Michael Porter's trilogy of Competitive Strategy , Competitive Advantage , and The Competitive Advantage of Nations sits on every serious strategist's shelf. But if you are a services company, your ability to quickly develop young talent could be your secret sauce. For a retailer, it might be logistical acumen.

Company 16

Company Competitive Advantage Prahalad Hamel 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

A result that is exacerbated by the simultaneous decrease in the cost of innovation and the rise of new approaches, like Y Combinator's systematic incubation factory, Kickstarter's crowd-funding platform, and super angels like Ron Conway. Much of the venture capital industry seems stuck in the feathers-and-wings stage of theory development.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

A result that is exacerbated by the simultaneous decrease in the cost of innovation and the rise of new approaches, like Y Combinator's systematic incubation factory, Kickstarter's crowd-funding platform, and super angels like Ron Conway. Much of the venture capital industry seems stuck in the feathers-and-wings stage of theory development.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

As the Internet of Things (IoT) spreads, the implications for business model innovation are huge. And when feature innovation eventually proved to be too incremental, price competition would ensue, and products would become obsolete. Design Disruptive innovation Internet' Competition was largely feature-versus-feature warfare.

Business Model 15

Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Worshipping at what Christensen calls the “church of finance” hollows out a company’s competitive advantage, as it loses the capacity to invest in innovation that drives the perpetual reinvention so necessary in today’s world of temporary competitive advantage. Innovation Leadership Strategy' And short-term numbers at that.

Levitt 15

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 15

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Jim Dewald is the dean of the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary and an associate professor in the strategy and entrepreneurship.

Strategy 70

Strategy CPA Gordon Welch 70

First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 21, 2016

Jim Dewald is the dean of the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary and an associate professor in the strategy and entrepreneurship.

Strategy 70

Strategy CPA Gordon Welch 70

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

If you are at all familiar with Michael Porter's work , think about this as an industry developing its value chain. It's been developed to satisfy your customers given the technological landscape of the day. Think about how each new technological development could make pieces of your value chain obsolete.

Technology 16

Technology Retail Supply Chain Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

Porter and Mark R. One of Adidas's latest sustainable innovations is DryDye technology, which removes the need for water in the dyeing process. We don't foresee a time in the near future when measures of social performance will be as objective as the measure of long-term financial performance we've developed.

Company 14

Company Long-term Porter CEO 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

But research into the inner workings of teams, particularly creative teams, suggests a different conclusion, one supported by experience from many of the most innovative companies: The best teams might temporary, with members forming around a given project and then going their separate ways to work on new projects.

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Team Porter Diversity Project 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2011

Michael Porter and Mark Kramer, writing in HBR ( December, 2006 and January-February, 2011 ), advance the idea of creating shared value by developing strategies and policies that enhance the competitiveness of the company while advancing social and economic conditions of the community.

Brand 15

Brand Porter Objective Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The smartest minds in social innovation are increasingly committed to engaging with the private sector to make significant changes in areas like health, education, and poverty. What happens when you reverse that model and place these investments at the front-end of your corporate innovation strategy? The Innovation Continuum.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Andy Wales' company, SABMiller, recently invited businesses, NGOs and other organizations to join a global water initiative, the Water Futures Partnership , in conjunction with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the German development agency (GIZ).

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Long-term Short-term Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2017

From the thirteenth century on, the Arsenal nurtured creativity and spurred innovation and entrepreneurship in the construction of its galleys. This location, consisting of a series of islands in a marshy lagoon, also pushed it to develop a (then unusual) trading and moneylending economy, since there was little land to support agriculture.

Innovation 8

Innovation Strategic Fit Competitive Advantage Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Michael Porter, the strategy expert, believes that the HBS approach is the right one. Clay Christensen, the innovation expert, advocates instead the approach taken by Wharton, which has made MOOCs out of all its core courses. The question should be, Can we do better?

Christensen 19

Christensen Education Discount Class 19

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

firm — founded in 1983 by several folks with Harvard Business School ties (among them famed professor Michael Porter ) — is known for strategy consulting, not PR work. In times of change, businesses have to adapt and innovate. (And not just because, at Monitor, they appear to prefer the spelling "Qhadafi.")

PR 13

PR Public Relations Porter Hedge 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Seeking to extend its technological edge (particularly in miniaturization), it acquired more than 100 startup companies while pursuing a vast portfolio of research and product development projects. That purpose is bigger than the company itself, providing natural cohesion, and it demands expansive thinking, driving innovation and progress.

Strategy 16

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

Suri proposed potential solutions, including innovative materials, new ways of thinking of the construction process, and building up. We do support other applications for low-cost housing — bringing these dwellings back to the industrialized world for hurricane relief, for example, would be a reverse innovation success story.

Suri 15

Suri Godin Real Estate Construction 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

That’s why I was quite interested to hear about the innovative new educational credential called the “nanodegree,” announced last month with great heraldry by AT&T and Udacity, an online education company founded by a Stanford professor and former Google executive. But for students in poverty, it is not good enough.

Skills 10

Skills Porter Education Human Capital 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Witness Chris Lazslo's work on sustainable value , and Michael Porter's theorizing about shared value. Thus we now hear about Andrew Witty's GSK transforming business models to grow by broadening access to medicines in developing countries, and Sam Palmisano's IBM seeking to grow through its Smarter Planet initiative.

Globalization 15

Globalization NGO Leadership Development Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

A long-term view towards driving down costs from electric vehicle parts suppliers, spurring the development of more widespread EV infrastructure, and thereby making EVs more appealing and affordable – all of which would ultimately benefit Tesla. Designers innovate new ways to bring together existing components in a unique fashion.

Automotive 12

Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Sometimes, it seems they've always loomed large: for decades, Michael Porter has been synonymous with strategy, and John Kotter with change management. magazine, speaking at major conferences, and advising the White House on innovation. Skills development comes first. Build your platform. Embrace luck — and make your own.

Reputation 11

Reputation Ries Case Study Kotter 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Social Media, Social Business, Social Innovation, Social Era — are they all the same, or are they quite different? Some experts use the Social Business term as the evolution of Social Media as the same tools used for marketing efficiencies can be applied to product development, customer care, or supply chain work. Enterprise 2.0,

Media 11

Media Supply Chain Tools Porter 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

The evidence indicates that the United States is losing its ability to attract and expand the operations of multinationals and their significant contributions to productivity growth, innovation, and high-wage employment. private-sector research and development. private sector rose in the 1990s, but then fell in the 2000s. of all U.S.

Globalization 13

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

In November 1996, Michael Porter published What Is Strategy? A Brief History of Inventing Innovation. Throughout my professional life, I have kept a file in my computer containing articles that have either shaped my worldview or provided a powerful argument and data for a point of view I already held. More >>.

Goleman 11

Goleman Emotional Intelligence Porter Covey 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Typically, resources that satisfy these conditions are capabilities or know-how that have been developed over time and are hard to transfer or document. The main alternative is the Positioning School , whose ideas were most clearly expounded by Michael Porter. But they can also include property or patents or brands or contracts.

RBV 13

RBV Competitive Advantage Resources Media 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

As the dot-com bubble heated up in the early 1990s, a number of thinkers turned their attention to developing frameworks to help executives answer those questions in HBR, and their work forms a solid foundation for navigating the digital transformation that’s still playing out. It’s still worth a look now.

Porter 8

Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Michael Porter has defined value as “health outcomes achieved per dollar spent.” Porter and colleagues adapt microeconomics to health care through their definition of output: patient-centered health outcomes. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. Leading Health Care Innovation.

Health Care 9

Health Care Porter Long-term Short-term 9