Rick Conlow

MAY 21, 2021

Both are about the relationship with the employee focusing on his or her job performance and personal development. They found that training alone increased productivity by 22.4%. Training plus coaching increased productivity by 88%! Formal coaching means scheduled one-on-one performance discussions.

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Markovitz Consulting

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Value stream maps (VSMs) show both the material and the information flow in any kind of end-to-end process such as order to cash, or new product introduction. Sample development The dress maker designs dresses in the US and uses contract factories in Asia for manufacturing. What is value stream mapping?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Companies are increasingly using crowdsourcing to identify promising ideas that they can translate into winning new products. In the case of the Japanese consumer goods firm Muji , we found that crowdsourced products sold better and were more profitable. We then manipulated the POP display as the product was introduced to market.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 8, 2013

THE Ansoff Matrix (referred to by some commentators as the Product/Market Expansion Grid) was developed by a Russian-American mathematician named Igor Ansoff , and first explained in his 1957 Harvard Business Review article entitled Strategies for Diversification. What is a Product-Market Growth Strategy? Background.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Social entrepreneurship combines the problem solving, product design, and strategic implementation associated with traditional entrepreneurial and consulting roles with large scale societal impact. Project Innovators provide the deliverables in a timely fashion by working with Project Managers ( PMs ). Enter Social Entrepreneurship!

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Consulting and Organizational Management

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Organizational Character and Leadership Development By Jim Smith on December 16, 2010. For the last 50 years it has not been fashionable to talk about moral development, yet the subject of moral development is all about being a grown up.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 31, 2018

This is especially important for marketers whose job is to connect consumers and products. Product recommendations have been commonplace in most online shops such as Amazon for many years. Producers of consumer goods have been especially successful in developing and marketing new products using this approach.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 30, 2019

I imagine someone interested in product/marketing management is better off going into industry. Or are clients unhappy because your products stink? Or are retail partners selling the product in such a way that is somehow incomplete? Work in product management. Work in strategy or business development for a big company.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

Like Apple, most consumer-centric companies deal with the dilemma of how to brand the next- generation of an existing product. Product upgrades make up the majority of corporate research and development activity. At Harvard Business School’s Program for Leadership Development and Owner/President Management Program.

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1 to 1

JULY 29, 2022

Detecting and understanding customer intent can give brands clarity into what a customer is trying to do beyond what they are saying or clicking on, whether it’s an upsell opportunity, a chance to deepen the customer relationship, increase customer retention, enhance a product or service, or something else.

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BCG

APRIL 13, 2016

And in the quest for focus, the conglomerate, with its seemingly cumbersome multidimensional business model, fell out of fashion—at least in developed markets. To do this, companies need to develop ways to serve different customer groups across a variety of regional markets with a multitude of products and services.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 16, 2014

If you are thinking about producing a strategic plan, developing a new product, entering a new market, engaging in a new venture, or financing a project then it probably makes sense to understand the big picture issues that could affect your success. Fashions, fads, trends, role models, and influential personalities.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

And at Greycroft, a venture capital firm, investor Teddy Citrin has laid out a veritable map for the further disruption of every consumer products category. Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

An interface communicates the algorithms’ results along with more-nuanced data, such as the personal notes, to the company’s fashion stylists, who then select five items from a variety of brands to send to the customer. The fashion industry is no stranger to fast cycles of learning. Or knowledge about a client’s age?

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Markovitz Consulting

JULY 11, 2017

In the same way, I believe that you have to develop the organizational muscles required for continuous improvement through small steps. Trying to improve productivity in a process by 25% on first try is (generally) a recipe for failure and frustration—notwithstanding Byrne’s success with that approach.

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1 to 1

JULY 7, 2021

C&A Brasil, for example, the Brazilian arm of a European chain of fast-fashion clothing, saw purchases through its WhatsApp channel grow exponentially during the pandemic. Scaling the channel with adequate support and data in a short amount of time wasn’t easy, he added. It’s a massive personalization opportunity.”

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2020

To take advantage of this opportunity place focus on building agility, aligning the organization, operating as a team of teams, and developing your people. At the core was building an agile organization – shifting mindsets, creating processes, and developing capabilities. “The Develop a Team of Teams. Build Agility.

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Confessions of a Consultant

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The currently fashionable way to do this (and management trends are a ‘fashion item’) is to secure employee engagement. But how then do we explain ‘high productivity’ in environments that are typically low engagement? Engagement is used as a proxy for productivity – as if the two terms were interchangeable.

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freshminds

MARCH 5, 2018

There are four steps which will greatly increase your chances of success by helping you to structure your answer in an intelligent and commercially aware fashion. Note that they are not looking for a “right answer”; they are looking for a “right method” Types of case studies.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. Customers today are not just consumers; they are also creators, developing content and ideas — and encountering challenges — right along with you. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 26, 2016

All of these things can dramatically influence your need for products and services. Consider a few examples: Trends in religious growth are one of the best predictors of fashion-related categories. Specifically, from 2000 until 2012 its development index rose from 59 to 72, putting it into the “high” development standard.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The most common ways of doing this are to send executives to build personal relationships with international business partners and to hire local distribution partners — or independent, third-party intermediaries — to represent their products or services overseas.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Despite the fact that Niantic, the American software development company that developed Pokémon Go, has failed to maintain high levels of engagement on the game (its current user base is now 30 million users), the phenomenon demonstrated AR’s potential to be adopted by mainstream culture. Phase 2: Trying on products at home.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

You can see the final product, but you can’t see all of the steps required to get there. However, becoming a published author requires thinking about getting an agent and a publisher, writing a proposal, working with an editor, and developing a plan for promoting the book after it’s published. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

But, for most companies, outsize returns are likely to come from three other sources: Investing in productivity-enhancing capital. In a world of tight labor markets, where recruiting and retention are at a premium, investing to make frontline employees more productive should be a priority.

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Harvard Business

JULY 4, 2016

” Makers, also known as individual contributors, are the software developers, engineers, architects, writers, and researchers who produce knowledge. For them, having a meeting at 9 AM and another at 1 PM could destroy the productivity of the entire day. Please do not disturb.” Instead they look for ways to support them.

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freshminds

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

As consumers increasingly use their mobiles to become more knowledgeable about products - and even use their phones as an in-aisle companion whilst shopping in-store - the influence of mobile phones on shopping is something a consultant cannot ignore in their financial and business model advice. Comparison websites. Payment Apps.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 17, 2016

In short, growth comes from the entire company, not from any particular product or service. Its goals are extremely ambitious; it is not just a pioneer in developing new fabrics for active wear, but in developing wearable electronics. Consider the sports apparel company Under Armour.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 30, 2016

But corporate development and M&A groups within companies need to apply the same rigor and imagination whether they’re evaluating the shiny objects outside of their companies or the seemingly dusty objects they already own. She relaunched an existing product (Kazoozles) into SweeTart ropes (a tart, gummy licorice-like product).

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Seth Godin Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Calvin Liu continues to grow and develop Outpour, an award-winning app for honoring the special people in our lives.   Gil Hildebrand is leading a team of designers, developers, and marketers that supercharge some of the world's greatest brands. Bonnie Diczhazy is working on fun projects for Pack with fellow alumni Megan Casey.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

As pressure intensifies to reduce prices, either by cutting the list price or offering a discount, managers may act hastily, without the same rigor they apply to investments elsewhere, such as capital deployment or product enhancements. All too often they don’t.

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LSA Global

APRIL 18, 2017

Yes, the “old fashioned” bookstores all struggle to compete with online book sales but Borders had additional challenges they failed to meet. This outsized, rugged, status-symbol of a GM product failed to see the writing on the wall. The company failed on multiple fronts. Autopsy #2 – Hummer. Autopsy #4 – Kodak.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 1, 2014

With profits from opium cultivation nearing $1 billion, or 4 percent of gross domestic product, insurgency groups like the Taliban will only benefit from the cash crop. See, in the mid-1930’s, there were two industries that had just made breakthrough machines that would make paper productions much more cost-effective.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2016

In light of that, how do self-managed organizations make learning productive? But in areas where adaptability is critical — say, in new product development or marketing — responsive structuring and learning can help you meet the needs of your customers, your employees, and the business. Liane Davey. Monique Valcour.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Currently located on 430 Park Avenue, the latest buzz on the street is the new office being built for BCG New York – they are moving from midtown Manhattan to the colossal state-of-the-art Hudson Yards development. The main industries served out of New York include Public Services, Products, and not surprisingly, the Financial Industry.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

For example, highly complex product and service environments will require domain experts or subject matter experts. Simpler product environments will require experts in operations, logistics, and supply chain. Help your employees be more data-savvy. Find the supporting players.

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