Six Disciplines

JULY 14, 2011

In this discipline, we help you to systematically review and renew your mission, values, market segments, competitive position, strategic position, vision, and agreeing what to stop doing. Discipline II - Set Goals That Lead. Discipline V - Innovate Purposefully. You can view* videos about each of the Six Disciplines here.

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SWOT Market Segmentation Benchmarking ROI 103

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 18, 2025

If they can use that data correctly, AI should allow them to do a better job of market segmentation and then targeting those segments with much more personalized advertising and offers, and possibly, depending on the business, with more personalized products.

Tacit Knowledge 73

Tacit Knowledge Competitive Advantage Pharmaceuticals Magazine 73

Management Excellence

DECEMBER 31, 2011

I was truly gifted in 2011 to gain access to and work with and support some remarkable professionals across a number of different market segments…from high tech to professional services to manufacturing, and I learned something with every engagement and encounter. Here are Six Lessons Learned that Can Help Us All in the New Year:

Market Segmentation 67

Market Segmentation Succession Marketing Education 67

Eric Jacobson

JULY 29, 2012

Ric Dragon on developing a brand voice and market segmentation strategy: When a mistake is made, sincerely apologize. When appropriate, use humor. Have a policy in place. Have a top-responses document prepared to be used.

Media 72

Media Market Segmentation How To Document 72

Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2016

The theme that really defies reason is when a whole organization or market segment falls into the trap of formal rigidity, as in “it’s just the way it is.” If you can pinpoint the era when the growth engine was put to rest inside an organization, there is a good chance you can revive it. Continue reading →

Market Segmentation 67

Market Segmentation Engineering Marketing Organization 67

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2024

Nuala Walsh , a seasoned professional with over thirty years in investment management, serves as an independent non-executive director, board chair, and adjunct professor of behavioral science at Trinity College Dublin. Decision-making is not taught, yet excellence is assumed in leadership echelons and corridors of power.

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Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Environment Market Segmentation 89

Eric Jacobson

JULY 8, 2024

If they can use that data correctly, AI should allow them to do a better job of market segmentation and then targeting those segments with much more personalized advertising and offers, and possibly, depending on the business, with more personalized products.

Tacit Knowledge 81

Tacit Knowledge Competitive Advantage Pharmaceuticals Magazine 81

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

My work with leaders from Finance, HR, and the C-Suite suggests instead that HR and talent decisions are optimized by  retooling HR   adapting financial and other management frameworks to HR and talent decisions. Human resources Leadership Talent management'

Charan 17

Charan Finance Human Resources Ulrich 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

When he was running a small division years ago, a manager we know, Christien (not his real name), promoted Laura to head a small group of designers. The division had just introduced a line of products aimed at an important new market segment. In our experience, a surprising number of managers share this reluctance.

Influence 17

Influence Market Segmentation Direct Marketing Focus Group 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

For example, to spend more (or less) time prospecting, to improve customer engagement quality, or to manage the pipeline more effectively. Performance management : set expectations and manage against them. focus more effort on specific market segments), tweaks to sales force size or structure (e.g.

Market Segmentation 16

Market Segmentation Incentives Short-term Tools 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Save yourself some trouble and manage India from India. Managers first hired in India can go and run marketing for western companies, from Mastercard to Reebok. After all, it's a lot easier to manage a single distributor. American companies have a tendency to send expat Indians in the US to manage their India operations.

Marketing 17

Marketing Market Segmentation Retail Travel 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Every large financial services company has instituted risk management, but that hasn't prevented risky behavior in the form of office politics and personality conflict — as the JP Morgan trading debacle has demonstrated. Risk management isn't exclusive to banking. But all too often, those safeguards are ignored.

Merchandising 13

Merchandising Risk Management Supply Chain Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Managers want to understand how their teams contribute to the organization, and they want to identify high performers and potential leaders along the way. Many know and use the nine-box model , for example, to map past performance against future leadership potential. These numbers were similar to those of low performers. .

Influence 15

Influence Market Segmentation Software Comparison 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

To start off the project, I asked senior managers to see some data and to speak to the employees getting the work done. Templates needed to be completed, customer and competitor profiling refreshed, current performance figures confirmed, markets segmented, etc. No response. This all-out sprint lasted for weeks.

Innovation 14

Innovation Budgeting Market Segmentation Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

More than a century after Thoreau, a prominent leadership researcher echoed this insight with empirical evidence , noting that ".an Marketers segment you, target you, and analyze you. You'll create a lot of personal data along the way. This is a fundamentally new question that those leading a life are beginning to ask.

Self-aware 15

Self-aware Market Segmentation Technology Comparison 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

While we often measure and manage the latest "what" in business — the leaf — the thing that creates high performance growth is the underlying "how" — the river. Google's founders knew before they launched that they were entering a highly competitive market segment. It's what a 20th century manager would do.

Micromanagement 15

Micromanagement Open-book Parcell Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

This gives marketing an opportunity to measure and manage itself in new ways. In the past, marketing measured success by sticking to budgets and winning creative awards. Today, the ability to measure data and adjust strategies in real-time enables marketing to prove its value to the business in entirely new ways.

Creativity 15

Creativity Marketing Agility Budgeting 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

Effective executives understand the productivity and customer loyalty future depends as much on motivating and managing their machines as inspiring their people. Empowering smart machines to — pun intended — live up to their potential may well become the essential new 21st-century leadership skill.

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Review Kaplan Performance Review Kaizen 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Every manager, male or female, saw the difference very fast, without any preaching on my part. Most companies and managers think they speak in gender-neutral, “meritocratic” terms equally comprehensible and motivating to everyone. They were carefully chosen, of course. So far, so good. Or is it unconscious?

Company 8

Company Advertising Market Segmentation Mass Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

As one sales manager noted, “In this job, if you don’t survive the short term, you don’t need to worry about the long term.” ” The biggest problem with a short-term approach is that managers develop blind spots around crucial processes such as recruiting, hiring, and training and development.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Team Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

As one sales manager noted, “In this job, if you don’t survive the short term, you don’t need to worry about the long term.” ” The biggest problem with a short-term approach is that managers develop blind spots around crucial processes such as recruiting, hiring, and training and development.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Team Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Managers and other business leaders face a dilemma: with increasingly diverse environments to manage and rising stakes to get it right, how do they identify the most effective approach to business strategy and marshal the right thinking and behaviors to conceive and execute it, supported by the appropriate frameworks and tools?

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

The good news: By engaging this market segment and rebuilding trust, health care companies can have a first-mover advantage. Next, health care companies can see an instant benefit from both putting women in positions of leadership and encouraging them to use their personal experiences and perspectives to shape their approach.

Health Care 8

Health Care Industry First-mover Advantage Market Segmentation 8

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Leadership Beliefs: Are Yours Helping You Lead? I in Leadership by Nigel Nicholson via @LBS. The Need for Entrepreneurial Leadership by Randel Carlock via @INSEADKnowledge. You always want to be the market leader. If you can’t say that, shrink the market segment until you can. Emotional Awareness by @RCKahn.

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Senge Market Segmentation Film Self-aware 150