Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 25, 2024

This article delves into the rising importance of ESG metrics, how companies are integrating them into their operations, provides leading examples, and highlights the evolving regulatory landscape. As a B Corp, Danone is part of a global movement that balances purpose and profit, reinforcing its role as a socially responsible enterprise.

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Successful Independent Consulting

AUGUST 28, 2024

A marketing tagline is short phrase that helps people remember you in a certain way. Remember, clients want to hire The Expert, so be sure to market yourself as one! [1] When you are perceived as an expert, you’ll get more referrals and win more work. You get the idea. Insert your keywords, then add words that tee up the result (e.g.,

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Development Turnaround How To Financial 195

Consulting Matters

AUGUST 6, 2018

You may have found your way to consulting as a result of developing an expertise within a specific functional area like marketing, sales or operations and now are being invited to contribute towards projects that affect the entire enterprise.

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System Consulting Enterprise Recruiting 216

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 29, 2020

Much less emphasis has been placed on developing tools suitable for emerging markets and the businesses in these economies. Obstacles in Emerging Markets. Emerging markets face a unique challenge when it comes to deploying technology to fight COVID-19 due to the large role that informal markets play in these economies.

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Marketing Boston Consulting Group Government Transportation 103

Consulting Matters

APRIL 24, 2020

I’m not a strict operator. The majority of my successes in my career have been in getting those two groups to kind of talk together and to take the engineering vision, and kind of bound it with the operational limitation, and make sure everybody is on the same page. Sometimes it’s not operational capacity.

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Interviews Company Marketing Operations 156

Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

By providing more workers and employees with opportunities to buy shares, companies can help workers and communities raise their standard of living and simultaneously feel more invested — literally — in the success of the enterprise. workforce, are employed at variations of worker-owned enterprises.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2017

” Survey respondents included Presidents, Chief Information Officers, Chief Analytics Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, and Chief Data Officers representing 50 industry giants, including American Express, Capital One, Disney, Ford Motors, General Electric, JP Morgan, MetLife, Nielsen, Turner Broadcasting, United Parcel Service, and USAA.

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Harvard Business

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.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

Operations in a Connected World. But it turns out these methods don’t just have to do with technology and operations. Deere’s marketing group has found such check-ins vital to staying competitive in its industry. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies.

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Metrics Survey Software Operations 132

Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2016

It seemed as though everybody from the best-known software giants to basic industrial parts providers was marketing a “latest technological breakthrough” — even if it amounted to little more than a new sensor attached to an old piece of equipment. Operations in a Connected World. ” Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 17, 2018

Yes, data, like oil, is used day-to-day to operate your prediction machine. Instead, the data you have now, which your company accumulated over time, is the type of data used to build the prediction machine — not operate it. New data allows you to operate your prediction machine after it is trained. That’s an asset.

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Data Operations Training Training 135

Harvard Business

JUNE 10, 2016

Unfortunately, many tech startups get stuck at this stage because they can’t quite figure out a scalable way to go to market. Figuring out a go-to-market approach is no trivial exercise — it separates the companies that will be successful and sustainable from those that won’t.

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Effective Managers

JUNE 9, 2021

It can grow and mature together with other enterprises, many of which are driving the economic advances in those areas. It’s mostly driven by the financial markets and investor positioning. The future of consulting lies in a mutual-benefit approach between enterprises and their consultants. This needs to change.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2025

Read further to learn about the top winners in the market and get tips on choosing the right tool for your organization. Scalability to accommodate growing portfolios or enterprise-level requirements. Having considered the PMO softwares features, lets switch to the overview of the best tools for PMOs available on the market today.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 7, 2016

But in hierarchical, high-power-distance markets like Asia — specifically Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Thailand — this policy created unintended conflicts among leaders and sent confusing signals to the rest of the organization regarding who was more powerful and higher-ranking within the organization. -led Do a cultural inventory.

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. But corporate leaders today seem to agree that strategic alignment is high on the list.

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Consulting Matters

JULY 15, 2020

You can set it up to act as your 24/7 marketing machine. I get it - it's hard because your entire leadership team is all over the map and they're all jockeying for your approval and they don't care about the enterprise perspective, the way that you do so therefore you need a consultant like me to come alongside you. Content marketing.

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Consulting How To Resumes Strategy& 270

Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2016

To win hearts and minds (and dollars), marketers must be able to identify those intent-rich moments—when someone is looking to learn something, go somewhere, do something, or buy something … and act. Read more from Google Analytics 360 Suite: Rethinking Marketing Measurement from the Ground Up. ”

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Data Survey Tools Marketing 102

Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2016

They include new enterprises such as Orbian , Prime Revenue , C2FO , Taulia , and Ariba as well as new operations launched by traditional financial service firms such as Citi Group, HSBC, BNP Paribas, and Deutsche Bank. Operations in a Connected World. This improved working capital can be used to fund growth in new markets.

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Transportation Finance Financial Banking 130

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Cleaning up data downstream is expensive and not scalable, because data is a byproduct of business processes and operations like marketing, sales, plant operations, and so on. This requires close collaboration with the operating units and IT. High-quality data can reduce the cost and risk of IT projects.

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Data Company Operations Enterprise 104

Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

Oliver Wyman’s CEO, John Drzik, states that the long-term aspiration is to be recognized widely in the market as the gold standard in consulting. The firm offers consulting services including strategy, operations, risk management, organizational transformation, and leadership development. Oliver Wyman became own firm again.

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Oliver Wyman Interviews Mercer NERA Economic Consulting 201

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The challenge of strategy is to develop an integrated view of the workings of your business and how it creates and captures value within its operating environment. In plotting your position in the market, defining how you’ll create value and for whom, you also need to define your operating model.

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Strategy Strategy Strategy& Operations 136

Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2017

Only the CEO has the power to provide this kind of direction across the entire enterprise. Consider how General Electric arrived at the decision to develop and launch its Predix cloud-based industrial operation system. Consider the challenge companies face in the rapidly changing market for power train compressors.

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Agile Data Development Industry 136

Epicflow

DECEMBER 29, 2023

And now let’s dwell on the features that help our clients reach their business goals and make Epicflow stay ahead of the competition in the market of project and resource management software solutions. This means that for any operation in Epicflow, your business data remains secure on your servers. Stay tuned!

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Company Resources Software Enterprise 130

Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

Frontier firms are able to employ the most advanced technologies, which in turn allow them to win market share at the expense of their less productive competitors. And the globalized markets that frontier firms operate in disproportionately reward their knowledge advantage, setting them even further apart from the rest.

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Company Research Enterprise Productivity 127

Tom Spencer

MAY 31, 2012

Bain operates in 47 offices across 30 countries. In Ausralia, Bain operates out of Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. Founded in 1963 by Bruce Henderson, BCG operates in more than 75 offices worldwide. In Australia, BCG operates out of Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Perth. McKinsey operates in 98 locations worldwide.

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Oliver Wyman Strategy Strategy Strategy& 122

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Barbara Kellerman from Harvard, Jeffrey Pfeffer from Stanford, and numerous other experts have pointed out that the development market is filled with fads — slick behavioral models and fun, engaging tools — that don’t really move the needle. Leaders’ growth in these areas leads to enduring growth for the enterprise.

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Leadership Deloitte Culture Pharmaceuticals 136

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2018

At the industry level they include (a) the extent of AI diffusion in economies; (b) the build-up of corporate profit; and (c) labor market dynamics. It took several decades for steam to drive the rollout of railways services and create a large market of exchanges in the United States. Why do laggards not jump into AI?

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Cash Flow McKinsey Retail Survey 127

Harvard Business

JULY 8, 2016

The difference between displacement (outperforming existing market incumbents at their own game) and disruption (changing the game) is strategically important, no matter how similar the pain they cause is. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. Displacement generally is easier to combat than disruption.

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Company Apparel Pharmaceuticals Industry 125

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

The pressure on large companies in today’s equity markets is enormous, with expectations they will continue to produce outsized returns as PE ratios climb daily. PepsiCo is a $65B food and beverage giant, with a dozen global brands, operating in 190 countries. Country and Market Units (P&L, and some infrastructure).

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Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2016

Within an enterprise, this means balancing the demands of current operations while laying the groundwork for future opportunities, as well as reviewing past activities and policies that may be holding back your organization. Even unknowns, such as new competitors entering the market, are not totally unknowable.

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Company Engineering Operations Development 120

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

IT has long played a critical role in helping organizations deliver better products and services, improve operations, better manage risks, and develop new business models to stay relevant. How to Become a Digital Enterprise. That’s still true. Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus.

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Enterprise Insurance Insurance Data 76

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). “The feedback is much more rapid.”

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Change Management Management Software Productivity 136

Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

Banking for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been astonishingly unaffected by the rise of the Internet. The marketing, underwriting, and servicing of SME loans have largely taken a backseat. They estimate that online lenders will constitute nearly a fifth of the total SME lending market by then.

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Banking Small Business Oliver Wyman Retail 135

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Most executives today know their enterprises should be aligned. They know their strategies, organizational capabilities, resources, and management systems should all be arranged to support the enterprise’s purpose. McDonald’s has been the market leader in its sector for decades. What’s missing?

Enterprise 70

Enterprise System Resources Strategy 70

Tom Spencer

JULY 22, 2013

BCG partners with clients from the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors in all regions to identify their highest-value opportunities, address their most critical challenges, and transform their enterprises. Kearney’s services include strategy, innovation, sales & marketing, operations, strategic IT, and procurement.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Established in 1989, Accenture operates in more than 120 countries worldwide. Founded in 1983, A&M operates in 38 cities worldwide. Applied Value offers strategy, finance, and operations management services. Kearney operates across 55 locations world wide. Bain operates in 47 offices across 30 countries.

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