Designing for Digital—Lessons from Spotify

Source: MIT CISR

Abstract: To remain competitive, established companies are increasingly recognizing the need to develop digital offerings. Digital offerings, however, are dependent on software. Unlike traditional products and services, software-based offerings constantly evolve in response to both customer demands and new opportunities to address customer needs. To support digital offerings, companies must adopt new organizing principles—specifically, em

Competition and Business Strategy in
Historical Perspective -Harvard Business
School Note

I taught this course at IFAG, Lyon, France, back in 2009 as part of a Fourth Generation Management course (the Deming Philosophy of Management) to national (French) and international students from all over the world.

This course presented a nice summary of competition and business strategy in historical perspective so that the students can understand the evolution of business and management ideas that shaped

Challenges to the Not-for-Profit Organizations: Lessons from the Delta Model.

Singapore's Case-study

Click on the link below to see the entire PP presentations:

Part 1: The Delta Model as Applied to Not-for-Profit Organizations

DeltaModel_NonProfit_1.pdf

Part 2: Singapore Fundamentals and the Role of the Economic Development Board (EDB) in Making Singapore one of the most Advanced Economies in the world

Singapore_EDB_64.pdf

Upon request, I will send you the complete training program (electronic and non

Northwestern Mutual’s Digital Transformation: Redesigning IT

Source:

MIT-CISR

Author(s): Sebastian, Ina, Beath, Cynthia M., Ross, Jeanne W.

Type: Working Paper

Topics: Design/Management of the IT Unit, IT-based Business Transformation

Date: 2017-10-26

Abstract: While in 2017 Northwestern Mutual had been in business for 160 years, management believed that success in the digital economy would require delivering digital products and services to extend the value that customers were receiving from the compa

Digitized ≠ Digital

By:

Ross, Jeanne W.
Beath, Cynthia M.
Sebastian, Ina

MIT CIRS

Another Successful Example on How to Compete: Putting Customers before Products (From Selling Hospital Beds to Protecting Patients)

Source:

MIT - CISR

Authors:

Moloney, Kate
Ross, Jeanne W.
Beath, Cynthia M.

Is predictive analytics failing the C-suite?

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If you want to know more about the SIMMETHOD, please check out the online course below:

https://globalriskacademy.com/p/simmethod

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marcus evans will host the 2^nd Post Merger & Acquisition Integration Conference, November 29-30, 2017 in San Francisco, CA. The two day conference will provide M&A professionals the chance to speak about trends in the industry, developing and achieving synergies, mitigating legal and financial risks, and how to effectively implement cultural integration. This event will allow you to create actionable strategies and processes that will examine a merger lifecycle, encourage employee productivity a

Networking can be intimidating even to the most seasoned business people. It’s especially daunting when you don’t know anyone at the beginning of your career, or you’re starting out in a new industry (or country!) completely from scratch. But in today’s competitive business environment, the best opportunities often come to us from the people who already know and trust us. Without a solid professional network in place, you could miss out on these opportunities.

But how do you start building that p

https://www.newbusiness.network/effectiveness-of-a-business-plan-when-raising-capital/

Be sure to REGISTER on New Business Network to see how you can qualify for funding from Commonwealth Capital's Income Fund I & II.

Money, Marketing, and Management 24/7 Courses

By

Enrique R. Suarez

International Business Strategy and Management Consultant/Professor

Master of Education & International Development

Harvard University

http://www.wix.com/suarezenrique/delta

suarezenrique@yahoo.com - suarezenrique@post.harvard.edu

813-850-1676

USA

A Message from Enrique R. Suarez to SMEs and to the Students of Entrepreneurship

The Technician, the Entrepreneur, and the Manager

In order to start and grow a business, a venture’s founder is req

Business Model Innovation Presentation: The New Trigger for Great Startups

Source: SlideShare featuring David Skok, General Partner at Matrix Partners

Unlike the past where technology innovation was the primary driver of startup creation, in the last ten years, it has frequently been innovation in new business models that has caused the disruption to create the opening for new companies. This presentation by David Skok of Matrix Partners looks in depth at the key business model changes that are ca

The Real Purpose of Business: Four Presentations

By:

Enrique Suarez

"The key problem in the American business world today is that we've lost sight of what business is all about. We think it's about accumulating financial wealth and shareholder value, but the fundamental purpose of business, going back thousands of years in human experience, is to meet human economic needs by cultivating creative human talent."

Portland State University professor Tom Johnson

“The way society is organized is due to the

This white paper is intended for readers who are familiar with Business Continuity Management (BCM) and Disaster Recovery (DR) and the processes to develop and manage related policies, standards and procedures.  The purpose is to provide guidance to the effective implementation and maintenance of resilience and disaster recovery capability of IT systems, and is applicable, by scaling, to all sizes of business organisation. A full copy of the paper is at http://www.austinriskconsultants.com/downl

It is crazy to think that insurers are now the ones that need to manage their risk in the face of disruption. They must reinvent their business processes and strategies from the inside out to keep up with the rate of change. So, what are insurers doing to take action?

Insurance Nexus conducted exclusive interviews with the largest life insurer – Manulife and a mid-tier insurer IAT and created an exclusive white paper on analytics, business transformation and customer-centricity.

Take a look at th

So, you have a robust product roadmap. It's got all the product features you need, from the most basic to the most innovative. Now, how did you prioritize these features?

And, are you sure you prioritized things correctly?

With limited resources, all organizations strive to prioritize those activities that drive the most value. This is particularly true in product development. Focusing on the right or wrong set of features can make or break your product (or even company).

The Kano Customer Satisfac

I recently authored a whitepaper for the Society of Actuaries 2016 Risk Symposium, exploring the strategic value of risk management.

Here is the Abstract:  

Many top-performing businesses aren’t just risk aware, but rather risk intelligent. Such a posture helps prepare companies for a major event and can demonstrate to a regulator or auditor that an appropriately strong control framework is in place.

Better still, companies gain real strategic value from a “risk adjusted” understanding not only of

A couple of weeks ago, a colleague of mine came to tell me about a new finding that she knew I'd love: BCM helps reduce data breach costs.

All I could think was, 'FINALLY.'

This is something that I've been telling clients for years: BCM is more valuable to your business than you can possibly imagine.

The new research from Ponemon Institute found that data breaches now cost as much as $4m - to say nothing of reputational hits. And, you could face a double whammy with higher insurance premiums, too.

B

Evidence is mounting that it is no longer an option to ignore investments in this important organizational capability. Companies need a rigorous enterprise risk management framework to effectively compete in today's uncertain environment. To help companies understand why they need ERM, here's an excerpt from my take on how enterprise risk management enables the business to move faster and overcome disruption:

The wider adoption of strategic risk management cannot come fast enough to save everyone