Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Stay sharp, or you might find your company on the dull side of the business blade." These technologies can streamline operations, enhance customer experiences, and provide insights that drive strategic decisions. This might mean exploring new markets, investing in research and development, or adapting to changing consumer needs.

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Strategy Succession Agility Customer Loyalty 195

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? If your company can’t be operated by mere mortals, you need to reexamine your business logic. It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

Vertical integration extended their chain of operations, bringing inside their boundaries suppliers at one end (“upstream”) and customers at the other (“downstream”). Whether vertically integrated or diversified, the boundaries of these organizations remained sharp, with the new activities reporting through the established hierarchy.

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Organization Outsourcing Mintzberg Core Competence 286

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Therefore the art you speak of sculpts with a very sharp blade – the tongue. Unfortunately, the wildcard is PEOPLE. We serve people, lead people, we relate to people, we encourage or discourage people, and we are people.

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Blog Gordon Learning-by-Doing Open-book 419

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Missing the turn or making it too late can cause a company to stagnate or implode or can spell the death of the idea; or worse, the idea becomes someone else’s to bring to market without you. And, you operate in a fishbowl. Others do not. What’s the differentiator? The winners make the shift from Founder to Leader. We know that.

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Delegation Maturity CEO Execution 249

Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 7, 2020

From an interview/podcast I just made with the great Chiara Covone on Marketing & Branding. I agree with the definition of Professor Sharp, which is very clear in this respect. Successful brands usually command a vast market share, generated by mental and physical availability. It is unfortunately only excellent Marketing.

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Brand McKinsey Supply Chain Trends 98

Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 7, 2020

From an interview/podcast I just made with the great Chiara Covone on Marketing & Branding. I agree with the definition of Professor Sharp, which is very clear in this respect. Successful brands usually command a vast market share, generated by mental and physical availability. It is unfortunately only excellent Marketing.

Brand 98

Brand McKinsey Supply Chain Trends 98

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Data is the basis of customer service, decision-making, and overall operational efficiency. They will also be extra familiar with the rules and standards that apply to your enterprise, ensuring smooth operations and compliance. As companies grow, coordinating the increasing amount of data is vital to long-term achievement.

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Process Long-term Short-term Price 100

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Now both my sons are doing the tough balancing act, but their priorities are keeping their leadership skills sharp – leading family and companies. I had to learn that lesson, and almost blew it many years ago. link] mikemyatt Thanks for stopping by Bert.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 414

Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2021

According to Market Analysts, the Global 3D displays market is expected to grow by double digits with market size of over $100 billion in the next 5 years. Several display technologies including LED, OLED, and LCD serve this particular market. There are other approaches to presenting three-dimensional images instantly.

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Technology Content Video Globalization 98

CO2

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Navigating the complexities of the corporate world requires more than just a sharp business acumen; it calls for guidance, insight, and strategic foresight. Here’s how business coaching can create a significant impact: Increased Efficiency : By identifying areas of inefficiency, business coaching helps streamline operations.

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Leadership Development Development Succession Execution 78

The Practical Leader

MARCH 25, 2020

Based on this sharp change, he predicted all of China would improve in two weeks and stop in China by the end of March. Stock markets should bounce back more quickly than the six years it took the Dow Jones Average from 2007 to 2013 to recover. At that rate, the entire world would be infected in 90 days. Only 3% of Wuhan were infected.

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Crisis Levitt Peer Review Sharpe 91

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Press Release Discount Advertising Sharpe 100

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

You have to lead transformation without sacrificing financial and operating results, or injuring your engagement scores. Pinterest today engages more than 200 million users and this fall reached a pre-IPO market value of over $12 billion. But that lofty goal can feel like attempting to change tires in the middle of rush-hour traffic.

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Competitive Advantage Banking Diversity IPO 70

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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Succession Strategic Planning Goal Budgeting 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

The best Healthcare Executive Resumes outline human capital management, profitability successes, market share increases in addition to their impressive academic and association credentials that will generate the most calls for interviews. They can recruit top scientific and operational talent to achieve the desired corporate goals.

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Tactics Execution Pharmaceuticals Human Capital 51

Strategy Driven

APRIL 28, 2018

You may be a master of your own particular industry, but understanding how other, tangentially related parts of the broader business world work, will give you a useful degree of insight into how your role is affected by wider market forces. The main thing is that you begin expanding your understanding of market forces per se.

How To 50

How To Sharpe Constraint Brainstorming 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

To find out, it may be worthwhile to make some sharp distinctions between what Big Data driving AI can do, and what it cannot. Famously, Steve Jobs had no interest in market research when imagining where Apple needed to go next. BDAI (for short) is excellent at making sense out of the current state. The second is to lead innovation.

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CEO Balanced Scorecard Supply Chain Sharpe 65

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 7, 2020

Also, business owners have to carter seasonal demands when they have to hold extra merchandise so that they can meet the market demand. Such incidents are common in the businesses that deal with mechanical tools that include, drill machines, hammers, wedges, saws, glass, and other sharp objects.

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Merchandising Document Industry Cost 65

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Resources Industry System Strategy 51

Strategy Driven

APRIL 30, 2019

More often than not, enthusiastic entrepreneurs need to research the market and evaluate their options before being in a position to offer services that meet the audience expectations. In reality, building and maintaining your market presence is the most critical operation. Escape rooms are not only popular in the U.S.

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Audience Open-book Entrepreneur Proposal 58

HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

But it’s not just about the immediate impact on day-to-day operations. They train hard and practice relentlessly to hone their skills and stay sharp. However, Xerox failed to capitalize on these groundbreaking inventions, and it was Apple who ultimately brought them to market and revolutionized the computer industry.

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Review Performance Review Ethics Teamwork 105

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

"Unleashing Collective Genius" As globalization takes a sharp turn from government to business, the issue of global talent mobility rapidly moves up the agenda. They’ve helped drive the development of mobile payment solutions to promote financial inclusion in emerging markets.

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Resources Human Resources Learning-by-Doing Leadership Pipeline 40

Rajesh Setty

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

He is one not only very sharp but also one of the kindest people I have met. There are, in fact, myriad operational, marketing and financial strategies that can and do lead to growth. I have had the pleasure of meeting Jack Hayhow last year and I have known him for years now.

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Span of Control Sharpe Books Operations 31

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Here, for example, are the company’s net income and cash flow over the past decade: The difference between the top and bottom lines here is mostly about investments in buildings, machines, and other things, which are written down over time in the income statement but ignored in calculating operating cash flow.

Retail 22

Retail Finance Parcell Depreciation 22

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Through the first half of the last decade, a foundation of Nokia's competitive advantage was its unmatched ability to customize a wide variety of phones for operators. It helped to establish the Symbian operating system in 1998 and spent a fortune trying to attract developers to the platform. Are You Targeting a Phantom Market?

Innovation 16

Innovation Supply Chain Telecommunications Core Competence 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

The capitals of Europe empty out in August, traditionally because of the weather, but financial markets don't take a holiday, air-conditioning has eliminated the August rationale, and growth countries south of the equator, notably Brazil, keep on with their productive winter pace. Over-communication is better than simply disappearing.

Contingency Plans 20

Contingency Plans Sharpe Bond Planning 20

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

Yet Russia remains an important part of most Western multinationals’ emerging markets portfolios. For example, in 2014, at the onset of the sharp deterioration in U.S. .” This environment is altering how multinational firms operate in the country and market their products.

Policies 11

Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

Special Forces operators such as the Navy SEALs are expected to "Embrace the Suck." The former is like a runner struggling to perfect their stride after the tenth kilometer of practice; the latter is a sharp pain suggesting a torn tendon. That shouldn't surprise. Confronting pain is integral to most other elite endeavors.

Innovation 16

Innovation Self-aware Resistance Sharpe 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. Your company has (mostly) solved product/market fit. What to do. What to do. What not to do.

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Metrics Engineering Learning-by-Doing Efficiency 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Some health care businesses use duplicate dyad management structures—one to oversee the clinical enterprise and another to oversee the business and operations that support the clinical enterprise. The dyad model can help break down silos, improve the way clinical and operations leaders work together, and coordinate care.

Training 15

Training Health Care Management Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

In 2005, HP split off the printer business from the personal computer business, dissolved the Customer Solutions Group (CSG) which was a sales and marketing organization that cut across product categories, and pushed selling responsibilities down to the product business units. The merging of the two businesses is a reversal for HP.

Productivity 9

Productivity Products Organization Sharpe 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2018

The truth is that the worlds of activism and impact investing are converging much more swiftly than most people realize — and this union holds enormous promise for those who wish to see the creation of capital markets that support sustainable economic development. Daly, OP ; Sting ; Trudie Styler ; and myself.

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Hedge Long-term Short-term Letter 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Setting up small, high-performing virtual teams has enormous potential for companies to increase sales, penetrate new markets, improve business processes and come up with the next generation of disruptive innovations. There is no Plan B,” says Micah Sharp, GM of Red Giant, “It’s us.”. But putting together a great team is tricky.

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Team Sharpe Disruptive Innovation Bottom-up 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

For example, this study examining the rivalry between sales and marketing showed that conflicts between managers from these historically warring functions were not driven by interpersonal issues. Neither alone controlled speed to market, but together they could significantly influence it.

How To 8

How To Sharpe Operations Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

Both teams should include operational business leaders as well as risk-focused technology, policy and legal experts. In particular, the necessity of the sharp focus provided by the Red Team/Blue Team structure is vividly illustrated by the recent official report of "The Fukishima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission."

Risk Management 13

Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis Report 13