First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 18, 2011

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Porter 75

Porter Strategy Review Blog 75

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

It seems that they are adapting their work from Micheal Porters 5 forces. Process : This business model design has 5 phases; Mobilize, Understand, Design, Implement and Manage. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). This final chapter puts it all together.

Business Model 141

Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 8, 2011

Not just if we are a business owner, Brand, Marketing or Sales Manager, or someone else traditionally responsible for price, but for all of us as leaders, thinking about how people invest of themselves, their time, energy and more. Do You Really Need a Meeting to Make a Decision?

Price 185

Price Porter Workshop Learning-by-Doing 185

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

Well, if you're Michael Porter it isn't quite enough: I ran into him yesterday here at Davos and the first thing he said was something along the lines of, "You need more copies of HBR here." Kramer put it in their article , that "societal needs, not just economic needs, define markets.". Says Porter when Mahindra is done: "A.

Porter 15

Porter Licensing Article Finance 15

Joseph Lalonde

JULY 27, 2015

Would it be classic, humorous Adam Sandler a la Happy Gilmore, The Waterboy, or Anger Management? Admiral Porter – Try not to cause a total panic. He told Admiral Porter to let the nerds take over. Whether that’s market share, souls, or some other metric. Having watched the previews, Pixels looked hilarious.

Cooper 120

Cooper Leadership Porter Video 120

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Daniel Korschun is an Associate Professor of Marketing at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business. Korschun’s academic research appears in the Journal of Marketing, MIT Sloan Management Review, Academy of Management Review, Journal of the Academy of… Read More Daniel Korschun: An interview by Bob Morris.

Review 70

Review Marketing Innovation Company 70

Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

” (Sam Decker, Decker Marketing). “Harpst's book is the first book I’ve read that takes the best education from (Good To Great, E-Myth Manager, others) and combines them into one book. ” (Gary Whitehair, High Performance Business). “But the book doesn't stop there!

CTO 101

CTO Books Balanced Scorecard Norton 101

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

In most companies, marketers are in charge of assessing the competition. Because of this, close to 60 percent of all competitive intelligence professionals report to marketing. Yet the majority of marketers fail to use their competition analysts strategically, instead using them to gather more “recon” data.

Marketing 8

Marketing Competitive Intelligence Porter How To 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Blame the market, other departments or poor IT-systems for the fact that you are not taking brave, independent action. Try to join as many steering committees as possible, but avoid taking on responsibility as a sponsor or project manager. Take lots of time to promote yourself and actively campaign for a better job.

Strategy 58

Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 58

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters. government, excellent project management is extremely rare.

Management 21

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 21

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Michael Porter, the world's leading authority on competition and strategy, is sometimes the victim of his own success. But in fact, most managers don't. Managers confuse differentiation with being different. Competition is about profits, not market share. But strategy is more than marketing.

Porter 15

Porter Strategy Competitive Advantage P&L 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

But as Michael Porter and I write in our recent Perspective article in The New England Journal of Medicine , “ Why Strategy Matters Now ,” providers are unlikely to succeed if they cannot focus on this goal. Engaging in improvement-focused – rather than marketing-focused – transparency is hard work.

Health Care 8

Health Care Marketing Strategy Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

The new ideology would not see markets as an end in themselves; instead, it would value global trade and investment to the extent that they contributed to a flourishing middle class, not just to greater aggregate national wealth. They're in well-appointed offices at business schools and management consulting firms.

Consultative 15

Consultative Porter Management Press Release 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I just finished a two-year project looking at Michael Porter's most important insights for managers. Here are five more traps I've seen managers fall into over and over again. Understanding Porter's strategy fundamentals will help you to avoid them. Confusing marketing with strategy. Mistake #1. Mistake #4.

Strategy 15

Strategy Porter ROIC Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Harvard Business Review was launched precisely 90 years ago this month with an ambitious agenda — to produce a "business theory," based on rigorous research, to help managers run their companies more effectively. HBR's 90th Anniversary: Why Management Matters. We are also, of course, a business. What Makes a Leader? More >>.

Levitt 9

Levitt Porter Management Metrics 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. Businesses and management experts, in contrast, tend take the opposite position.

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. Businesses and management experts, in contrast, tend take the opposite position.

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 24, 2016

David Evans and Dick Schmalensee are among the early pioneers in the research of “multi-sided markets” and the economic principles that inform the unique design of business models, pricing and incentive structures, and product design for these platform-based businesses. David is an economist, business adviser, and entrepreneur.

Incentives 70

Incentives Business Model Entrepreneur Price 70

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 19, 2011

He also serves as chair of the firm’s Knowledge and Marketing Advisory Council. He advises organizations on the topic of strategy, growth, and capability building, with a focus on the consumer product and retail sectors. Paul has coauthored a number [.].

Retail 75

Retail Marketing Strategy Company 75

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Where most managers are forced to spend their days figuring out the next best iteration on their products or services, a handful of companies have been able to exploit scale instead of vision in their pursuit of profit. Packaged food companies like Kraft and Pepsi use their scale to penetrate markets quickly and efficiently.

Porter 14

Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

In every aspect of business, we are operating with mental models that have grown outdated or obsolete, from strategy to marketing to organization to leadership. In strategy, an entire generation grew up with Michael Porter’s five forces. The Porter model of strategy isn’t obsolete. Unlearning is not about forgetting.

Porter 8

Porter Competitive Advantage Senge Network Economy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2014

By now, the idea that organizations must adapt in order to maintain both relevance and market share in a rapidly changing world is so ingrained that it’s been reduced to pithy sayings. The recent failures of mass market retailers Sears and J.C. Change management Disruptive innovation Strategy' If it ain’t broke, break it.

Disruptive Innovation 10

Disruptive Innovation Mass Marketing Fashion Porter 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

The dashboard aggregates an ever-growing variety of public datasets to allow for more intelligent urban management. Twitter, for example, sells access to a range of real-time APIs to marketing platforms, but the price point often exceeds researchers’ budgets. Porter and Mark R.

Porter 10

Porter Competitive Advantage Core Competence Crisis 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

The term was coined by Michael Porter and Mark Kramer , and reflects the view that business and community interests can be in sync. In particular, Porter and Kramer argue that businesses should search for those opportunities where value can be created for business by improving community well-being.

Development 14

Development Porter Banking Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm.

Levitt 12

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

politics is not merely the inevitable result of our free-market system; it is also a consequence of the choices our business leaders make. We wrote: All profit is not equal, an idea that has been lost in the narrow, short-term focus of financial markets and in much management thinking. Nor are they entirely innocent.

Politics 8

Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

From Michael Porter to Costas Markides and through the Blue Oceans of Kim and Mauborgne, strategy scholars have been urging executives to distinguish their firm’s offerings and carve out a unique market position. For decades, strategy gurus have been telling firms to differentiate. Underestimate them at your peril.

McKinsey 14

McKinsey Mauborgne Competitive Advantage Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. The once-dominant Nokia soon lost much of its market cap and was eventually acquired by Microsoft. Insight Center.

Strategy 14

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

And I needed the kind of advice that only a manager can give. running according to free-market efficiencies! Not in the boardroom — but in the bedroom. Suffice it to say that my sexual partner and I weren't exactly holding hands across twin bathtubs. Actually, none of that has ever happened. Thank heavens.) Adam Smith 4eva!

Kaplan 22

Kaplan Health Care Insurance Porter 22

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The 'iPods' of poverty alleviation and literacy have likely been invented and put to use by small organizations in some corner of the globe, but there is no market for identifying these breakthrough ideas and ensuring widespread adoption.". Consider these examples: 1.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

We aren't the first to see that the world has changed and free market competition no longer produces benefits as if by an invisible hand. Before 1850 there was the market economy, in which many players, engaged in something plausibly resembling perfect competition , collectively met demand without any grand plan to do so.

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage Porter Politics Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

It seems evident that the split does not create a new resource, and it is not obvious why splitting would enable the management team to exploit existing resources better. The main alternative is the Positioning School , whose ideas were most clearly expounded by Michael Porter. So it is hard to explain this decision using the RBV.

RBV 10

RBV Competitive Advantage Resources Media 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. and China that were able to take advantage of large domestic markets to achieve scale and to surround themselves with rich ecosystems of startups, suppliers, complements, and customers.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

“These ideas are more than 30 years old,” managers complain. Porter had it figured out in the mid-1980s. To do that, you need to come up with some clever offer that entices customers to pay higher prices or some operational innovation that lowers costs, or find a new market where there aren’t many competitors.

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Price Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Where other mantras – such as quality or managed care – have failed to galvanize the system’s diverse stakeholders, value may have a chance. Michael Porter has defined value as “health outcomes achieved per dollar spent.” In most markets consumers define value by purchasing and using things.

Health Care 8

Health Care Porter Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

As Michael Porter argued a long time ago , the simplest measure of competition is profitability. As Luigi Zingales has observed , politicians are increasingly “pro-business” rather than “pro-market.” But is business really so competitive – not in a few prominent industries, but in the economy as a whole?

Sull 8

Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

Increasingly, I see people looking starry-eyed to business and markets to solve social problems. My view is that pretending companies and markets hold all the answers actually puts at risk our ability to deal with our most pressing societal problems — and to help our most vulnerable citizens. I have an M.B.A.

Porter 10

Porter Welch Health Care Marketing 10