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Transformation During Crisis | Simon Leslie

Peter Winick

So Simon’s business blew up, lost a ton of revenue, lost a lot of sleep, lost a lot of stuff, and then built it back up in a in a more digital, really amazing way. I’ve had 911, I’ve had 28, 2012, 2014 where I, I tried to pivot too much and fell over. That would probably be it. Pivot means go round in a circle.

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Is Your Company Ready for the Looming Talent Drought?

Harvard Business Review

Even if your firm has a healthy employee base and a strong balance sheet, chances are good that it’s about to face a significant shortage of qualified managers. The companies we studied in 2007 expected to increase their developing market revenues by 88% through 2012, and that trend has intensified.

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013. It sold the site to Shutterfly as part of its bankruptcy plan for less than $25 million in April 2012. People went from printing pictures to sharing them online.

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Old Management Systems Stifle New Business Models

Harvard Business Review

That fact becomes apparent when you juxtapose the balance sheet of a company like Microsoft with the balance sheet of a company like Siemens. Unlike their industrial peers, managers of asset-light businesses focus little on the balance sheet. It’s as simple as that. The challenge?

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business Review

By 2016, the rise of smart phones seemed to have made the company less relevant: Its revenues were at almost the same level they had been a full decade earlier. They had surged with the rise of digital camera only to peak in 2012, coming back down as smart phones became widely used.

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What the Companies That Predict the Future Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

No wonder, then, that executives have placed predictive analytics at the top of the executive agenda since 2012, according to a recent Accenture survey. Turning information exchange into value and revenue involves changing the nature of information relationships as well as management’s abilities to act on that information.

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Research Shows That Smaller M&A Deals Work Out Better

Harvard Business Review

Walter Thompson Company for $566 million in 1987 and Ogilvy for $864 million in 1989 — big acquisitions that stretched the company’s balance sheet. It sought to maintain a strong M&A pipeline that was about five to 10 times its annual target for increasing revenue through acquisitions. Corning spent a net $3.2