Sustaining Alignment of Operations Strategy
Most new business ventures fail to make it past their first year. The obvious explanation is that firms fail to reconcile market requirements and operations resources because it is all…
Profitable Growth Complexity Challenges
Corporate R&D departments, Product Development, Marketing, Sales work to innovate and create new products, sell to new customers, and open new channels of distribution, all in hopes of achieving elusive…
Corporate Acquisition Strategies Impact on Vision and Values
Why corporate acquisitions take place and why most fail. How acquisition success can be enhanced by following best practice in managing corporate vision and values. Company A has spent decades…
Value Investment Strategy Roadmap
In recent years, it’s become more popular to classify investors’ approaches as being either “value” or “growth.” These have become accepted as being polar opposites, almost like taking sides in…
Product/Service Differentiation Audit
The products/services delivered by corporations can be aligned with the corporate strategy and customers or not. They can be targeted broadly (dolls, aimed at every child) or narrowly (symphony concerts,…
Strategies for Measuring Customer Value Segments
A content analysis of a broad spectrum of public domain materials produced by the top 150 companies in the chemical industry found that 65 percent announced that they are customer…
Leveraging Cloud OutSourcing
Technology is driving several changes, which could influence how outsourcing is positioned in future. Improved information processing capabilities will enable organizations to integrate processes to get the ability to see,…
Measuring Financial Operational Risks
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision defines Operational Risk (OR): “The risk that deficiencies in information systems or internal controls will result in unexpected loss. The risk is associated with…
Multichannel Strategy Integration
Channels have always had the power to transform markets. They are the fundamental drivers of consumer access to business, and their composition has a profound impact across both the revenue…
Measuring Corporate Innovation Capabilities
Innovation emerges when people are allowed to give free rein to their creative talents within a set of simple rules. In the case of the music, the “rules” were the…
Major Transformation Factors in Financial Services Industry
Technology is changing, businesses are expanding, industry is consolidating. Today all of the change forces that we are considering are occurring amid an unprecedented wave of deregulation—financial services companies have…
Market Positioning Options for Large vs. Small Corporations
In mass markets, a firm with limited knowledge management capabilities and/or financial resources would in most cases be wise to avoid a confrontation with a larger firm. Firstly, the large…
Managing Key Risk Indicators (KRIs)
The position of Chief Risk Officer (CRO) was first established in the early 1990s by GE Capital to manage credit, market and liquidity risks. The role has proven most successful…
Multinational Firm Organizational Strategies for Headquarters and Subsidiaries
A foreign multinational company facing local competition needs to overcome its liability of foreignness and gain competitive advantage by makinguse of the big company network. At the same time, the…
Financial Services Transformational Management Stages
The enormous changes in the financial environment demand new strategies from the financial institutions that intend to survive into the next decade. Given the speed with which change occurs in…
Financial Services Globalization Capabilities
Defining International Financial Services Financial services may be defined as the provision of instruments and mechanisms to hold and manage savings, obtain funding, transfer funds between locations and forms,…
Value Creation Strategies from International Presence
The degree of corporate internationalization has increased, making companies more dependent on their foreign markets. Size has apparently become an important weapon to win against competition and satisfy demanding shareholders,…
IT Service Delivery Risk Analysis
The IT service delivery value chain relies on a wide range of external service providers and vendors. The value chain is as vulnerable as its weakest link. Doing IT all…
Stakeholder Networks Value Positioning
According to traditional economic and strategy theories, the firm is mostly seen as a purely economic institution and its actors as driven by self-interest, with society a constraining factor. A…
Incremental Intergration between Business Analytics and Strategy
The level of integration between Business Analytics and Strategy depends on the organization’s strategy, internal competencies, technological options, and competitive situation. We present four scenarios that illustrate different degrees of…