Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

market) risk obsolescence or irrelevance. In a complex world where predictability is impossible and innovation and risk are necessary to survive and thrive, mistakes are not only acceptable, but welcome. The Forces of global change can render professional skill sets obsolete almost overnight. But how is this done?

Short-term 63

Short-term Tools Learning-by-Doing Schein 63

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2018

Jon Buchan, the director of London-based Charm Offensive, a creator of innovative cold emailing campaigns, applies Curry’s disruptive basketball strategy to business: “Find a gap,” Buchan writes. ” Embracing market risk in our careers is a high-percentage move. “A chink in the armor. If so, try it.”

Career 16

Career Market Risk Chemicals Banking 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

After the initial “quick wins” are wrung from cost-reductions, executives are turning their attention to new ways to innovate using data. The next phase will be to use data for new products and other innovations. Companies that fail to adapt do so at their own competitive and market risk.

Company 16

Company Chief Information Officer Parcell Survey 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

The opportunity may entail: 1) pioneering a truly innovative product; 2) devising a new business model; 3) creating a better or cheaper version of an existing product; or 4) targeting an existing product to new sets of customers. For example, a new venture might employ a new business model for an innovative product.

Definition 13

Definition Entrepreneur Tactics Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2014

This approach to entrepreneurship increases your market knowledge: as a potential user, you know the problem, how you’re currently trying to solve it, and what dimensions of performance matter. And you can use this knowledge to avoid much of the market risk in building a new product. Disruptive innovation Entrepreneurship'

Entrepreneur 12

Entrepreneur Advice Disruptive Innovation CRM 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2013

By inextricably linking the two, we confine the practice of real, turbo-charged capitalism to business, and we dangerously limit the capacity of non-business organizations to innovate, fund, and bring to scale the kind of breakthrough ideas that will begin to solve the huge social problems we face today. Where would all the money come from?

Learning Curve 12

Learning Curve Advertising GDP Pharmaceuticals 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

But most businesses fail because our assumptions about customer demand are wrong — because of market risk. Test market risk first. Disruptive innovation Entrepreneurship Product development' As a result, we''re more likely to think of validating experiments.

Productivity 9

Productivity Products Early Adopters Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

But most businesses fail because our assumptions about customer demand are wrong — because of market risk. Test market risk first. Disruptive innovation Entrepreneurship Product development' As a result, we’re more likely to think of validating experiments.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Early Adopters Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

Then develop a risk profile for your current strategy using the same framework you’re using to assess your new strategic options. If you have assessed the risk of your strategic options in terms of brand risk, operational risk, market risk, and so on, do the same for the current strategy.

Strategic Planning 11

Strategic Planning Due Diligence Proposal Rogers 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

The myth of Silicon Valley is that venture-funded entrepreneurship is a generalizable model that can be applied to every problem, when in actuality it is a model that was built to commercialize mature technologies for certain markets. No innovation strategy fits every problem , so we need to keep expanding the toolbox.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

The lender targeted those customers with more attractive rates—rates that reflected the total life cycle value of these customers—allowing them to grow at a faster pace than peers while keeping losses within acceptable risk levels. Use risk data as an avenue for innovation. Marketing Risk management Collaboration'

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Paul Volcker famously said the only financial innovation to improve society in recent memory was the ATM. After a reasonable accounting for the fact that the average high-turnover household tilts its common stock investments toward small value stocks with high market risk, the underperformance averages 86 basis points per month (or 10.3

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Finance Hedge Advertising 9