Lead Change Blog

JUNE 14, 2016

In the global economy, each company is constantly adjusting its strategies to enable it to stay ahead of its competition. In corner offices across America, all CEOs are facing the same challenge to lead their organizations and outperform their markets. For example, Expedia’s Dara Khrosrowshahi: he will get options worth $30.4

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 21, 2011

The cumulative effects of misalignment are a significant constraint on the ability of an organization to execute its strategy. This type of misalignment surfaces suddenly as a barrier to implementing new strategies. BOTTOMLINE: If your leadership does not learn how to align resources with goals, the free market will.

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CO2

APRIL 30, 2013

Their aggressive posture led to significant financial troubles in the market downturn of 2008; in bull markets, though, they tend to fare far better. In both of the cases I’ve outlined here, the organization’s culture usually dictates its strategy. That culture can help and it can hurt. So, what is your culture?

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Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

The cumulative effects of misalignment are a significant constraint on the ability of an organization to execute its strategy. This type of misalignment surfaces suddenly as a barrier to implementing new strategies. BOTTOMLINE: If your leadership does not learn how to align resources with goals, the free market will.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Mazzeo : We were continually surprised by the creative strategies that small businesses had developed to compete better in their markets. Panhandle developed its strategy around dealing with this uncertainty. What surprises about small business did you learn during your road trips?

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 23, 2020

Adaptation : Ensuring that IT systems can adapt and respond to changing market conditions with actions such as decoupling from legacy systems and using cloud services as a catalyst for innovation. Strategy : Actively aligning business strategy and IT strategy and weaving technology investments together to better seize opportunities.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Mazzeo : We were continually surprised by the creative strategies that small businesses had developed to compete better in their markets. Panhandle developed its strategy around dealing with this uncertainty. What surprises about small business did you learn during your road trips?

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 2, 2014

Mazzeo : We were continually surprised by the creative strategies that small businesses had developed to compete better in their markets. Panhandle developed its strategy around dealing with this uncertainty. What surprises about small business did you learn during your road trips?

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

You may also have a need for more specialised SEO and marketing services, and outsourcing those services is a must. Your IT strategy won’t always be the same, and so having the right individual there to help will be the best option for your business to be a success. With this in mind, here are four things you can outsource today.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 7, 2024

As we simplify, standardize and focus — and become a more modern organization — we’ll extend our lead as the world’s best go-to-market sales team. We have a winning strategy to propel our growth. Dell laid off around 13,000 jobs just last year, so the number of cuts we see this time may be similar. “As

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2024

If you’re leading your team through big changes, this episode is for you.

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The Empowered Buisness

JANUARY 2, 2014

So many companies fall short in their goals because they overemphasize strategy with little/no attention to the cultural aspects that drive it. The most ingenious strategy in the world will never come to fruition without creating the right culture to drive it. Strategy can be imitated by your competitors.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Everyone thinks they have a digital strategy these days. But while your company may have a business or IT strategy that incorporates digital technology, an IT strategy does not equal a digital strategy. Because most IT strategies treat technology in isolation.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 1, 2021

Different strategies are applied every day after some crucial changes only to get a higher rank than the competitor in the online marketplace. Those working on their website for a very long period are well known for the SEO and its strategies, due to which they are ranking higher consistently, but newcomers face the issue.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The study explores the Chinese market after the country’s Ministry of Justice made online legal services a key part of its strategy. In other words, they’re professionals who were struggling to find sufficient work at the lower end of the legal market. Disrupting the market.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2023

How Molson Coors formulated its strategy for entering the cannabis beverages business.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2012

In March 2012, we sold off the company to India's largest retailer, the Future Group, which was keen to own the business as part of its strategy to grow private label brands. One of the trickiest challenges in India is to get the size of the market right. At first sight, the market will always look attractive.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

We live in a day and age when the term "content marketing" stumbles out of a brand''s mouth almost as often as buzzwords like "big data" and "native advertising." They struggle with everything from its creation to its strategy to its editorial content, and even the best places to publish and share it effectively. Absolutely not.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

But the company has elected to make neither its new pricing capabilities nor its long-standing low prices part of its marketing efforts for e-commerce. Now, in some cases, it can often lower prices than Amazon because Jet.com’s operating model doesn’t rely on holding inventory.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. Why was this once-dominant player unable to execute and maintain its market position? So what happened? It appears Nokia was not able to coordinate decisions and activities across departments or levels of management.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

However, with few exceptions, empirical studies have found no connection between board independence and company performance outcomes Business leaders should reconsider the merits of inside directors, who 1) bring a deeper understanding of the company, its strategy, R&D opportunities, and market competitors; 2) have a deeper stake in the company’s long-term (..)

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2023

How Uber adjusted its strategies to meet the specific challenges posed by competitors and regulators in six global markets.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

Almost every organization today is putting customer experience (CX) at the core of its strategy, aiming to provide products and services that meet customers at every touch point. Read more from Google Analytics 360 Suite: Rethinking Marketing Measurement from the Ground Up. Does Your Company Have a Data Science Strategy?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

Before long, Blockbuster was gaining nearly half of all new subscribers in the online rental market. In the Blockbuster case, a successful CEO was faced with a disruptive threat and came up with a successful market strategy. However, because the networks within his organization (e.g.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Many companies start their search for global growth in an alphabet soup of emerging-market groupings such as the BRIC , CIVETS , MINT , Next 11 , and so on. There are several flaws in using such acronyms as the basis for entering overseas markets. However, the sources of demand in each country differ, which will affect your strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

A crucial element of its strategy to win over consumers to its advanced smartphones was to persuade third-party developers to create a vast array of apps for its phones. But its strategy of customizing hardware for telcos had the unintended effect of imposing high customization costs on would-be developers (i.e.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

For years Braun tried to steal share from Norelco, the market leader, but this proved a tough sell: Norelco's customers were shopping for convenience, which wasn't what Braun was offering. For years much of Braun's marketing efforts had been aimed at 40-50+ year old men.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

My last post talked about how a little-known company , Grace Manufacturing, took a flexible and opportunistic approach to its strategy when its core business faltered. In the 1950's, the American market was quite small and dominated by entrenched players such as Harley Davidson, Indian, and imports like Triumph and Moto Guzzi.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

By that he means that all the things a business does — not just its logo and visuals, but also its strategy, call to action, customer service, communications with customers, and people — combine to determine what it stands for. Dan's smart observation is that "Brand is everything, and everything is brand."

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2011

He blamed the Japan earthquake, the anemic PC market, and a troubled services organization. While HP was once the technology leader that could do no wrong, market watchers are now concerned that the company does not have a clear strategy to overcome its problems. The technology market is the epitome of creative destruction.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

For me, IKEA’s success is mostly due to the clarity of its strategy. Most businesses try to build their market around what they offer. Many people believe that its success is rooted in its business model; others point to the service experience.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

They were internally focused, their speed-to-market was down, and they couldn't find a good balance between serving customers well while making healthy margins. The result was slow progress against the company strategy and an inability to profitably deliver on the value proposition. Build behavior based on market and customer insights.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Some tentative conclusions: There is not much of a market for stand-alone strategy studies any more. The days when you could make a living responding to companies' discovery of strategy, as in "Gosh, we gotta get ourselves one of those," are gone with the 1970s (or maybe the 1990s in the "developing world"). Monitor & Co.,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

But in the meantime, Google’s choices in marketing and distributing its new product get to the heart of the tension between new opportunities and existing strategy. In March, it announced a major partnership with Luxottica , the world’s largest eyewear company, a move clearly aimed at the mainstream market.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

At the same time, Eagle Snacks was gaining market share with innovative new products and its own distribution system. Today, Frito-Lay “owns the streets” in its markets, as well as several $1 billion brands. First, connect costs and strategy. Second, rethink costs in terms of capabilities.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

If your company puts you in charge of developing a foreign market or a new line of business, your challenges are in many ways similar to those facing a startup. It is a fight that every manager is familiar with, but nowhere is the challenge bigger than when the existing strategy is not aligned with the demands of the situation you are in.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. Strategy is how the business will achieve it. The fall can come quickly.

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