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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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Many legacy companies would like to transform themselves into agile, talent-first organizations. Developing what we call an “M&A strategy for talent” is one way to overcome this. The CHRO needs to be at the center of any acquisition of talent from the outside. “Once, you needed mechanical engineers. .

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

She works with retail, technology, and lifestyle client companies on setting up market and brand strategies, brand positioning, transitioning markets, and marketing new products lines. It might be those looking to move into a new region, new market, launching new product line. The products and services were developed from there.

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Confessions of a Consultant

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

I suppose it was only a matter of time until my musical talent was discovered. 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? It’s a win: win.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2018

Like many technology companies, DataStax competes with some of the world’s largest enterprises for top talent. We’ve come to realize that much of that talent is located outside of Silicon Valley, and even outside of the typical urban areas where a company might naturally look for new talent.

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Melissa Agnes

JULY 2, 2014

She wanted to be her best creative self, writing for a greater cause than simply selling a product. And watching her social circle express their true creative talents in theatre and music certainly wasn’t helping. Her issues with the job were completely understandable. Where did Hannah go wrong? ” she asks.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 30, 2016

There are four things I think publishers need to know to compete in the digital age: The product drives the business. In a sense, publishing is like any other business: Your success is driven by customer demand for your product. The quality of a publishing product comes down to user experience and reporting.

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Henman Performance Executive

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

I may trust your integrity and value your product, but if you can’t consistently get it here on time, I ultimately won’t trust you. When you deliver world-class products or services, clients develop loyalty to you. But if you can’t distribute them in some reliable fashion, even the most devoted of your fans won’t stick around.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

To cope with the shortfall in market supply, companies need to better leverage their existing talent. 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.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2018

Sarah Feingold was a corporate attorney who enjoyed expressing her artistic talents by making and selling jewelry on Etsy as a side gig. Innovate a product or service from within your position. In 1979 interest rates skyrocketed, rising to over 20%, causing real pain in the banking industry.

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Seth Godin Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Leanne Hilgart's ethical fashion label VAUTE is one of the first private fashion brands to raise money from their biggest fans, with a goal to set a new standard of ethics in fashion. Liz Bohannon's ethical fashion company experienced record growth this year and continues to create opportunity for women and girls in East Africa. 

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2016

This has about as much relevance to me as the “Yoga Sling 2 Flip-Flop” — pitched to me on Amazon this morning — does to my fashion portfolio. Aside from being a really cool name, an internal research institute that exploited LinkedIn data could push the company to use its data more creatively and productively.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Product innovation sits at the intersection of R&D, marketing, and business intelligence. It includes the planning and building of P&Ls and budgets, managing the portfolios of products, clients, and talent, and the long-term financial and strategy processes that plan for results. There has to be a balance.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2018

You may want to discard some connections upfront — for instance, someone who came up to you, handed you their card, and immediately started pitching you to buy their product or service. It’s not worth subjecting yourself to that in the future. But most new relationships will fall into three categories.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Invariably, each CEO we host recognizes two truths: Digital disruption will reshape their industry in one fashion or another and they must find a way to embrace these changes. Disruptive products and services were, by definition, cheaper, lower quality, and lower margin. Such was the nature of disruption.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2014

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. We can connect insights and execution at a pace never before possible.

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Confessions of a Consultant

MAY 28, 2017

Being able to run errands e.g. to pop around to the Supermarket – if you need to – decreases stress (and increases productivity). Don’t hide your talent under a bushel! Higher Productivity: A recent HBR article found that people working from home completed 13.5% Less dry-cleaning bills! Less distractions.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

They are incredibly strategic, looking 20 to 30 years ahead, to understand how society is evolving, how they can shape it, and how they can get the talent to do this. ” Talent is drawn to them, to help them achieve their purpose. But they don’t just wait for talent to turn up.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2016

If biology flows downhill, shouldn’t society as well—especially when society will contain more older people than ever before, while becoming more dependent than ever on the productivity of a relatively smaller cohort of young people? And they’re hardly feel-good indulgences.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

How to Find and Hire the Right Digital Talent for Your Organization. One group works in a bimodal fashion, with day-to-day responsibility, but also being tied into the COEs. Read More from DXC Technology: Is Your Company Adapting Fast Enough to Thrive in an Increasingly Digital World? The Business Benefits of a Hybrid Cloud Platform.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2018

At many companies, mobility defines talent: the people who feel safest are those who know they can leave, and the people organizations are often most desperate to keep are those with ample options elsewhere. Underneath their pursuits of independence and portability lies a shared aspiration to fashion a masterful self.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2016

Such communities are particularly useful in recruitment, hiring, talent development, or in defining employee retention policies. This can be top down, (the company set up a particular challenge or new product) or bottom up (the company allows employees to develop their own creative ideas, and then choose the most convenient ones).

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

The office is incredibly diverse, with some of the best talent from 35+ countries and folks that speak 29 languages. To support the office’s growing employee base, Bain moved in 2015 to a new location in the fashionable Grace Building, which is located directly across the street from historic Bryant Park.

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freshminds

MARCH 22, 2016

Well known as the 'Oscars' of retail, these awards congratulate the excellence of leading retail companies and their talented staff. There is also a 'Style Studio' where store clerks can give advice on products that would suit a customer.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

They aren’t looking for places to raise their families or to do productive work. The movement of urban high-tech startup companies and talent into urban centers is a real sea change. Cities also help new companies attract talent. Instead, they’re looking for safe places to park their money. Across the U.S.,

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Confessions of a Consultant

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Ambiguity around personal goals, leads to anxiety, misplaced effort and lost productivity. From the early concept of Quality Circles (circa 1970) to more recent experimentation with self–direction, teamworking can positively affect morale, innovation and productivity. We all have talent — in case you don’t know”!

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2016

Within this machine, people and technology must each play their particular roles in an integrated fashion. The technology giants who have developed effective strategy machines, such as Amazon and Google, have done so by continuously investing in technology and paying a premium to access the best talent.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Perhaps your direct reports tend to get promoted faster or your team is more productive. ” It could be a new assignment at work, upcoming travel, or a new product lineup. He then brainstormed a list of “creative and innovative ideas” for the company to grow and enhance its employer brand to attract talent.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2017

These include customer service (39% of companies), marketing and sales (35%), and even the managing of noncustomer external relationships (28%) where brand power is key, such as in attracting top talent into the organization’s recruiting pipeline. Indeed, Siri seems more persona than product.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2017

Over the past three years, I conducted a research project on men, masculinity, and fashion. It’s more common in the arts and fashion industries, but men also choose to dress fabulously in professional organizations. These men varied across races, ethnicities, body types, sexual orientations, occupations, and clothing styles.

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Harvard Business

JULY 28, 2017

The paid-parental-leave arms race is red-hot because employers see a unique opportunity to nab talent and headlines by one-upping their competitors. It’s the old-fashioned homemaker/breadwinner model clothed in a tissue-thin veneer of gender neutrality. Six weeks !

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2017

This collaborative approach is no longer optional: No single company, deploying only its own products or services, can capture IoT’s value by itself, and certainly not with the speed required in today’s digital market. They Update Their Talent Management Strategies. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2018

Instead, they want a relationship model – a durable, cooperative model that enables companies to partner with academia in a fashion that allows them to stay continuously connected to early stage research and to accelerate the translation of that research into new products that drive economic growth.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Springsteen’s latest production, an intimate solo show, will combine readings from his recent autobiography, Born to Run , with a selection of songs. Some companies have a few of them; others, a handful. ” It is a good reminder that purpose has a long gestation, and is borne of actions and encounters, not just ambition and doubts.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Data and analytics professionals seem to be at the center of the next big race for talent. By 2020, IBM expects broader demand for data and analytics talent to reach 2.7 In 2015, there was a surplus of people with data science skills. Now there’s a significant shortage. million positions in the U.S. The result?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It was a productive 12 months, to say the least. Others want to attract and retain diverse talent. IKEA is expanding its circular offerings like reselling used furniture and creating new products from leftover textiles. Debates about climate change melted away. Then came 2016. ” Millennials feel even stronger.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While flights of imagination from science-fiction writers, filmmakers, and techno-futurists involve things like flying cars and teleportation, in practice smart technology is making inroads in a piecemeal fashion, often in rather banal circumstances.

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