Asamby Consulting

JULY 25, 2022

What does a good strategy execution require If you have the right strategy and execute it well, your business will thrive. But given your strategy is smart, what's required to execute well on your strategy? This article outlines a simple framework to execute your strategy. It's that simple.

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Harvard Business

JULY 10, 2023

The pace of change and rise of global winner-take-all competition means that conventional product-market-structure approaches to strategy, as well as core competencies thinking, are difficult to implement in practice and may yield misleading answers.

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Chad Barr

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

For those ready to lead the charge, this article reveals the essential truths about AI, how to implement it strategically, and ways to harness it for lasting business success. Whether you’re developing marketing strategies, creating content, or solving complex business challenges, AI can help you break through creative blocks.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Executives say that they lose 40% of their strategy’s potential value to breakdowns in execution. In our experience at Bain & Company, however, this strategy-to-performance gap is rarely the result of shortcomings in implementation; it is because the plans are flawed from the start. Take Dell Technologies, for example.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 7, 2023

This article will explore some of the most notable examples of AI in consulting, including its use in market research, strategy development, and operational optimisation. This can help consultants to identify key market trends, develop more accurate market research reports, and craft more effective marketing strategies.

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The Fearless Marketer

AUGUST 20, 2018

When you find the time, you send an article to those on your relatively small email list. Pillar Five: Focused Marketing Strategy. A Random marketing strategy is much like the collection of marketing activities I outlined at the top of the article. That’s the power of a focused marketing strategy.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2017

The CEO of a large Australian company called me to relay a particular strategy development problem his firm was facing, and ask for my advice. My Australian friend explained that each of his five business unit presidents was using the Strategy Choice Cascade, and that all of them had gotten stuck in the same place.

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Kates Kesler

AUGUST 29, 2012

People & Strategy, 2010. We long have been fascinated by the overlap between leadership and organization development. They grapple with the question of how to align the components of the organization to execute strategy and remove barriers so that members of the organization can make the right decisions and do their best work.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Strategy Consulting. Bridgespan brings a passion for making the world a better place into strategy consulting. Many that serve clients with strategy come from organizations (like Bain or McKinsey) that offer excellent toolkit and skills training pre-Bridgespan; the training at Bridgespan is there, but not as thorough.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 2, 2018

STP is a powerful structure to construct insightful marketing strategies. Silver Bullet #2 : Strategy Tool: Play to Win. Strategy related cases are not very usual during interviews. The framework comes from “ A Playbook for Winning Strategy ” developed by A.G What is the strategy that Kogan.com should choose?

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 10, 2023

This article will provide a basic introduction to AI as it relates to the consulting industry and explore some key concepts and applications that every consultant should be familiar with. This allows consultants to focus on higher-value activities such as problem-solving, strategy development, and client communication.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2018

Craft a Behavior-Change Strategy. Work those into your behavior change strategy. Develop Content That’s Worthy of Attention. Instead, employees should be inspired to act securely as part of their daily routine. If your first instinct with a security campaign is to create posters with dos and don’ts, stop!

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2024

Entering a foreign market comes with inherent challenges. Many global companies tend to overcome those challenges by minimizing their foreignness and assimilating into the local environments. However, maintaining and embracing foreignness can yield unforeseen advantages.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

VP, Marketing, Communication, and Strategy 2011 – present. As the 8 th person to join this now 178-person manufacturer of recycled plastic building materials, created—from scratch—brand strategy and fully-functioning commercial infrastructure. Overall Strategy and Success. in revenue and 70 customers.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2016

As United Rentals, the largest equipment rentals company, shifted its strategy to focus more on national customer accounts, it faced a huge forgetting challenge; branch managers needed to forget the fiefdom mentality. After the Great Recession, the company’s strategy shifted to protect it against cyclicality.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Managers we surveyed have a sense of a shift in this direction and identify the judgment-oriented skills of creative thinking and experimentation, data analysis and interpretation, and strategy development as three of the four top new skills that will be required to succeed in the future. Insight Center. The Automation Age.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Any great ideas we have for anything else will be recorded and taken up in the appropriate staff/strategy/development meetings.” It can be as simple as, “Today we’re going to cover the Blue, Green, and Red initiatives. Stay in close touch with your leaders.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 16, 2017

To support a change in strategy from efficiency-driven to innovation-driven growth, the company acquired another company to be its innovation engine. Design the processes by which the board does its regular work — strategy development and approval, capital approvals, performance reviews, etc.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Nigro recommends challenging metrics at least annually, perhaps during a company’s annual budget cycle or strategy development process. To manage the risks of measurement biases, companies must check and recheck their core metrics. Changing the ways we measure success means changing how we define success.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

” When leaders “execute a strategy,” they usually mean the former — putting an idea into action. Execution is often where strategies go to die. So what determines whether execution brings life or death to your strategy? .” On the other, it means, “the carrying out of a death sentence.”

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2016

When it comes to setting strategy, which is more effective: one great thinker or a wise crowd? To find out, I turned to my ongoing Top Pricer Tournament , in which 884 people — managers, consultants, professors, students — make pricing strategy decisions for a generic business competing against other generic businesses.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

But how did it hit on this winning strategy? IKEA’s success did not result from the kind of planful strategy development that is still taught in some business schools. The company also has a unique manufacturing strategy and business model. Quite the contrary.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 6, 2014

PwC moved on to acquire Ant’s Eye View, in August 2012, a social media strategy development and consulting firm. This is the area where consulting lives, and the primary focus of this article. MC Articles: Management Consulting vs. Investment Banking. and in August 2011, purchased PRTM. The good news? PWC LINKS.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2016

For the 2008 presidential race, Barack Obama hired one of Facebook’s early employees, Chris Hughes, to drive the campaign’s technology strategy. In this article, I review three critical aspects to watch: marketing, operations, and profiling. How will technology impact the outcome of the 2016 presidential election?

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