Operational Strategy Metrics
Operational and marketing strategies alignment In today’s world, the life cycles of many products and services are measured in months. The proliferation of consumer choices in today’s world corresponds to…
The Innovation Intermediary Strategies
A new kind of innovation intermediary has emerged to help companies to transgress their own firm’s innovation network and gain access to external technological markets. These innovation intermediaries i. e.…
Building Win–Win Partnership Solutions
Each of your critical customers has unique needs and unique processes/ways of working. The better you understand them, the better you can deliver the right bundle of goods and services—and…
Big Data Business Value Creation
How does one survive in a world where competitive advantage via analytics can be so short-lived? By constantly innovating, thinking differently, and looking at new sources of data and analytic…
Measuring Intangible Assets Value
The value attached to intangible assets has increased many-fold in the internet based economy. For example, while firms like Microsoft or Coca-Cola only report traditional assets in their balance sheets,…
The InBranding Strategy
A brand strategy can be generally defined as the choice of common and distinctive brand elements a company applies across the various products and services it sells and the company…
Corporate Growth Lifecycle and the Shareholder Value
Corporate growth and success – often measured in terms of turnover or profit – are what’s seen as important, and the business develops a momentum of its own. A…
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…