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7 Key Steps to a Growth Strategy for Your Company That Works Immediately -...
If you don't have a tangible plan, you're actually losing business -- or you're increasing the chance of losing business to competitors.Foglino's insight:We are all looking for growth. The question is...
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What Is Strategy?
This article has benefited greatly from the assistance of many individuals and companies. The author gives special thanks to Jan Rivkin, the coauthor of a related paper.Foglino's insight:Operational...
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Blue Ocean Strategy
Competing in overcrowded industries is no way to sustain high performance. The real opportunity is to create blue oceans of uncontested market space.Foglino's insight:Blue Ocean Strategy is gaining...
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The EY 7 drivers of growth
EY has developed 7 drivers of growth to help you gain a broader focus to accelerate growth, create long-term customer value and establish a competitive advantage.Foglino's insight:How to create a...
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Leadership in the Moment of Decision
Leaders collect vast amounts of knowledge, but if there is one area of expertise they must develop, it is the art of making the judgment call. Decision-making doesn’t come from models, it comes from...
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The Key to Becoming a Strategy-Minded Executive - Wall Street Journal
Insead’s Herminia Ibarra on four crucial steps corporate leaders can follow to think—and act—more broadly.Foglino's insight:Defining the right strategy is more important than ever. Executives have got...
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Sir Richard Branson: The importance of digital skills for SMEs
Sir Richard Branson: The importance of digital skills for SMEs - Technology must be embraced by all small business owners and put at the heart of everything they do, regardless of the industry they...
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Big data is a competitive advantage companies can no longer ignore | ZDNet
Experts explain how falling costs, easier collection methods, and better analytic tools are making big data a true competitive for companies big and small.Foglino's insight:Big data is becoming a very...
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4 Essential Qualities Of Leadership - TalentCulture
Leadership is a personal quality and behavior, not a role or title. And it’s an increasingly important capability as enterprise diversity and distances between people increase.Foglino's...
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The Competitive Advantage of Nations: M. Porter’s Approach to Globalization
The Competitive Advantage of Nations: M. Porter’s Approach to Globalization - http://t.co/3xxpkUrvIrhttp://t.co/O0nQPDph1bFoglino's insight:This could be a tool for a new approach to competitive...
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Why Strategy Execution Unravels—and What to Do About It
Focus on coordinating across silos and adapting to change on the front lines.Foglino's insight:The most difficcult task is to translate strategy intto results.Executional excellence is becoming aa key...
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Few Companies Actually Succeed at Going Global
Research shows the odds are stacked against you.Foglino's insight:It is essential to analyze where resources should be invested for optimal growth and net profitSee it on Scoop.it, via strategy &...
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3 Small-Business Owners Reveal Their Competitive Intelligence Tactics
These successful business owners share how they glean competitive intelligence, and reveal when it's better to just forget about the other guy and pursue your own strategy.Foglino's...
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5 Steps to a Powerful Digital Marketing Strategy - Digital Marketing Institute
46% of brands don't have a digital marketing strategy, according to a study conducted by Smart Insights. But if your business doesn't have a clearly defined plan it risks staying "stuck".Foglino's...
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The Most Productive Ways to Disagree Across Cultures
Li Shen, a young Chinese manager who eagerly accepted a job as a marketing manager for L’Oreal after doing her MBA in Europe found herself working at the company’s Shanghai office.Foglino's...
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Rita Gunther McGrath on the End of Competitive Advantage
The Columbia Business School professor says the era of sustainable competitive advantage is being replaced by an age of flexibility. Are you ready?Foglino's insight:An interesting thesis ouf of...
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The 3-D Printing Revolution
It’s happening, and it will transform your operations and strategy.Foglino's insight:How such a revolution can affect the barrier to entry in many industries in the future.Porter's Five Forces are...
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The Skills That Make Entrepreneurs Extraordinary
An author finds what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur.Foglino's insight:What if these skills can be learned? Very good prospects for future entrepreneurs and new venture creators.See it on...
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Five Strategy Lessons From Bill Gates, Andy Grove And Steve Jobs
By Michael Blanding If there were a Mount Rushmore for technological innovation, Bill Gates, Andy Grove and Steve Jobs would be the faces looking outward.Foglino's insight:We can all learn from these...
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3 Reasons Why The Future Is Not What It Used To Be
3 reasons why it’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.Foglino's insight:Imagination has changed the world in an unpredicted way. Think about Steve Jobs aand Bill GatesSee it on...
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You Need an Innovation Strategy
It’s the only way to make sound trade-off decisions and choose the right practices.Foglino's insight:You need to connect innovation to strategy and develop an innovaion strategySee it on Scoop.it, via...
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A Better Way to Map Brand Strategy
Figure out where you are on the distinctiveness-centrality spectrum.Foglino's insight:This is a universal approach to helping define brand strategiesSee it on Scoop.it, via strategy & leadership...
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Rosberg wins in Monaco as strategy blunder denies Hamilton victory - ESPN
Lewis Hamilton lost out on what should have been a comfortable win at the Monaco Grand Prix as an inexplicable pit call under a late safety car handed victory to team-mate Nico Rosberg.Foglino's...
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The Competitive Advantage Cycle
The Strategy thought leaders of McKinsey have developed over time two frameworks (among a dozen or so) that help describe the evolution of companies and business lines from their Current Competitive...
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Simplification: The New, Powerful Competitive Advantage
Simplicity is one of the largest drivers of trust and engagement. If you want more of both, you need to make simplification a priority.Foglino's insight:KISS - "Keep it simple" is the rule for success...
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Why the Fed’s inflation strategy will fail
Central banks are guaranteed to fail miserably in their effort to produce viable growth through inflation, says Michael Pento.Foglino's insight:The ECB strategy hasn't worked eeither so farSee it on...
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Strategy, not Technology, Drives Digital Transformation
The 2015 Digital Business Report by MIT SMR and Deloitte identifies strategy as the key driver in the digital arena.Foglino's insight:Strategy is always the drive force behind change!See it on...
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The economic essentials of digital strategy | McKinsey & Company
A supply-and-demand guide to digital disruption.See it on Scoop.it, via strategy & leadership diversity
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Don’t Draft a Digital Strategy Just Because Everyone Else Is
Ask these five questions first.See it on Scoop.it, via strategy & leadership diversity
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Clinton Has a Team of Silicon Valley Stars. Trump Has Twitter
Hillary Clinton has amassed the most potent tech team in the history of presidential politics. But Twitter seems to work just fine for Trump.See it on Scoop.it, via strategy & leadership diversity
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