Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2015

I went to a networking meeting last week hosted by a formal networking organization called Business Network International. Beyond networking… all the way to new business. Many of you know this group. They have meetings all over the world. NOTE WELL: NYC business people, in general, take no prisoners.

Customer Loyalty 50

Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Follow-up Seminar 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2015

How to hire, fire, train, and market business. John has been involved in this for ten years and he’s still active at the monthly lunch meetings where they bring in a speaker and offer time to network. Rotary has been a great organization to participate in. It is not a sales networking organization. Leads groups.

Insurance 50

Insurance Committee Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

Therefore his mental model was not how to gain market share from other airlines, but how to create a completely new market for air travel. ” GE recognizes that a networked business model requires a networked organization. He wanted to enable people to fly who wouldn’t otherwise have been able to.

Airlines 15

Airlines Business Model Strategy Metrics 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

It's why the CEO of Saatchi and Saatchi recently declared that "Marketing is dead." Organizations: From Hierarchies to Networks. Organizations are also experiencing a shift as employees become more empowered and connected. Markets: From Products to Platforms. The shift is most notable in the technology arena.

Audience 17

Audience Brand Media Competitive Advantage 17

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In every aspect of business, we are operating with mental models that have grown outdated or obsolete, from strategy to marketing to organization to leadership.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 the field of marketing, our thinking is permeated by the mental model of mass communication. The problem isn’t learning: it’s unlearning.

Porter 8

Porter Competitive Advantage Senge Network Economy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

In the case of a retailer we studied, data and analytics were part of a difficult battle for market share. This was the opposite of what consumers had indicated in traditional market research interviews. Initially, the marketing and network organizations, rather than cooperate, blamed one another for the findings.

Strategy 9

Strategy Committee Retail Information 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration. Culturally this has led to a more outward-looking agency that recognizes the innovative capacity of the market.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Eventually, businesses became department stores, specialty stores and malls, and finally, today''s e-businesses and networked organizations that support them. Digital business ecosystems dynamically create and operate value chains that extend their participants'' markets. Any need or demand can and will be met faster than ever.

CIO 8

CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

This means different things for product development, marketing, and customer service. It’s a distributed governance model for networked organizations. Principles can “nest” inside other principles, like Russian dolls. Wikipedia has specific principles for authors that nest inside the more general five pillars.

Agility 8

Agility Delegation Objective Goal 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Whether providers like it or not, health care is evolving from a proficiency-based art to a data-driven science, from freelance physicians to hospital-employed physicians, from one-size-fits-all community hospitals to vast hospital networks organized around centers of excellence. Each step in this process leads to another.

Health Care 10

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 10