Andrew Chen

JULY 19, 2017

As we’ve said, growth is getting harder , and as a result, companies building new products are evolving their strategies away from counting on traditional channels like virality, SEO, and organic, and more towards paid acquisition to scale. Think high LTVs, lack of ad competition, being good at fundraising.).

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AIHR

OCTOBER 6, 2021

They did this by rating themselves on 32 behavioral scales, such as “I leverage data analysis to make better day-to-day decisions” and “I don’t speak the language of the business.”. Participants self-assessed their competency levels on future-proof skills: data literacy, technological skills, business acumen, and people advocacy.

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AIHR

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

A 2016 study from the SHRM Foundation and The Economist Intelligence Unit foresees HR becoming the provider of human capital analytics to create competitive advantage. Here are a few key priorities that will be critical to the success of any such large-scale transformation effort.

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15Five

MARCH 21, 2017

No wonder this post on 2016 engagement trends was so popular. . Note: If you don’t have the time to unpack Gallup’s full 2016 report, 34Strong has created this series of blog posts to help you digest the key learnings. According to Gallup, engaged employees comprise only around 30% of the workforce.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 8, 2018

Niantic launched Pokémon GO in the summer of 2016. The actual launch requests per second (RPS) rate was nearly 50x that estimate—enough to present a scaling challenge for nearly any software stack. Scaling the game to 50x more users required a truly impressive effort from the Niantic engineering team.

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AIHR

APRIL 8, 2020

Examples are: Knowledge hiding questionnaire: a 12-item scale developed by Connelly et al. Interpersonal trust among employees: a six-item scale by Cheng & Li (2001). A 20-item scale on HR attributions by Nishii et al. An example item is: “‘I think my colleagues are worthy of trust”. Conclusion.

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Andrew Chen

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In both the eBay and Uber examples, we see that you can start with a niche – whether that’s a geography or product line – and then quickly scale into a huge network of buyers and sellers. create a marketing strategy to scale the client base and increase visibility. Starting small, and what to do next.

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AIHR

APRIL 29, 2019

While in 2016 the UK Olympics team had 18 sports psychologists working on mental skills, it will nearly double this support to 30 sports psychologists at the 2020 Olympics. [3]. Help for HR to select the right people in large-scale change situations. The competencies needed for each role must be updated regularly, as new skills emerge.

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UVA Darden

AUGUST 13, 2024

Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health The Idea and the Action The Challenge Initiative (TCI) offers a unique approach to financing, scaling and sustaining family planning programs that are designed to address the rapid urbanization taking place in Africa and Asia.

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Chief Executive

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Coupa came out of recession in 2009 with new venture capital and momentum, catalyzing our journey toward our IPO in 2016. CFOs that prepare thoughtfully for what’s coming will be positioned to capitalize on opportunities for growth and scale, even as they brace themselves for potential challenges.

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UVA Darden

AUGUST 21, 2024

Without meaningful action, plastic waste flows into aquatic ecosystems are expected to nearly triple from around 11 million tonnes in 2016 to around 29 million tonnes in 2040. The underlying cost dynamics dictate that a recycling process is only viable when large economies of scale exist.

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Vantage Circle

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

" In a wide-ranging interview in 2016 , Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke candidly about the challenges of running one of the world's most iconic companies. "It's All eyes will be on you as you have to take large-scale initiatives. "It's sort of a lonely job," he admitted.

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Chief Executive

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Profitable, fully autonomous vehicles at scale are a long way off.”. Contrast Farley’s hard-bitten coffin-closer on autonomous-vehicle utopia with the vision that was expressed by one of his predecessors, Mark Fields, in 2016, when the then-CEO said, “Ford is going to be mass-producing vehicles with full autonomy in five years.”

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Wendy Hirsch

JULY 20, 2020

For large-scale changes to transformation efforts that take multiple years to implement and potentially longer to produce outcomes, I find it useful to differentiate achievement a bit further. Consider evaluating each of these dimensions using a graduated scale or range of success (e.g, They are not the same thing.

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Wendy Hirsch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Changes of any kind of scale, such as those that impact multiple functions or locations, if not an entire enterprise, require some degree of co-leadership. scale change: Employee evaluations of process and outcome in seven facility relocations. In our minds-eye, we may see a single person leading a change. P., & Geyer, P.

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Wendy Hirsch

JULY 29, 2020

If you stop to think about it, you can surely see, given the scale and diversity of organizational changes that take place globally, it would be impossible to accurately gauge that rate. References Barends, Eric, Janssen, Barbara, & Velghe, Cedric (2016). London: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

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Vantage Circle

AUGUST 17, 2022

Pets can now be identified as a proactive method of staying healthy and avoiding health issues, thus saving money on a personal, professional, governmental, and medical scale. A 2016 study by Banfield Pet Hospital found that 67% of employees who took pets to work agreed that their pets made them more productive.

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Wendy Hirsch

AUGUST 12, 2021

In this way, staff were regularly primed to be adaptive and therefore may have been more adept at navigating larger-scale changes when they arose. Revised March 2016.) **Toyota case study: Adler, P. References *Starbucks case study: Koehn, Nancy F. Starbucks Coffee Company: Transformation and Renewal." Goldoftas, B., & Levine, D.

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BetterUp

MARCH 14, 2018

Research published in the American Journal of Sociology in November, 2016 (relying on data gathered between 2006-2008 and 2007-2008) showed that in some countries, parents are actually happier than non-parents , whereas parents are less happy in the U.S. Job Satisfaction: according to psychologist Lilly M.

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Diversity Scaling Media Manager 51

Andrew Chen

JULY 20, 2020

When I joined Instagram in 2016, the product had over 400 million users, but the growth rate had slowed. Solving for the Adjacent User through growth and scaling work helps your product realize its true product-market fit potential. We were growing linearly, not exponentially. Those are your Adjacent Users.

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Wendy Hirsch

MARCH 24, 2022

The Research : That’s the question posed by Mariano Heyden and colleagues in their 2016 study, which included data from over 450 organizations. Identify lower-stakes, small-scale changes to enable middle managers and executives to try out working together in uncommon ways to achieve shared goals.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

of GDP in 2015 and 2016. But that pressure has returned; by January 2016, several GCC countries announced far-reaching economic reforms that used to be unthinkable merely a few years ago. After a period of sustained real GDP growth, which averaged around 5.8% during 2000–2011, the IMF projects growth rates to slowdown to 3.4%

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. Believe the hype that AI can potentially boost your top and bottom line. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5 There’s no one-size-fits-all AI solution.

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Scaling Implementation Digital Transformation ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

For instance, Snapchat’s recent IPO filing revealed that the company grew revenues by 600% (to $404 million) in 2016. The explosive growth of ride sharing is a big reason why Hertz reported dismal quarterly results in November 2016, leading to a 23% drop in its market value. Many of them have been growing at a ferocious pace.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2018

To answer it, we tested for generational changes in college students’ responses to the Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale from 1989 to 2016. Between 1989 and 2016, college students’ levels of self-oriented, socially prescribed, and other-oriented perfectionism all increased by statistically significant amounts.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Relying on the cloud, KenSci has been able to quickly scale up and offer its services worldwide, without building a sizeable IT-infrastructure beforehand. of firms had adopted it in 2010, whereas 7% had by 2016, which is an annualized growth rate of almost 50%. in 2010 to 7% in 2016, which is a more than doubling every other year.

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Scaling Fixed Costs Software Education 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

As the scale and complexity of the cyber threat landscape is revealed, so too is the general lack of cybersecurity readiness in organizations, even those that spend hundreds of millions of dollars on state-of-the-art technology. And yet organizational leadership all too often demonstrates outright technology torpitude.

Risk Management 14

Risk Management Banking Software Scaling 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2016

One of my predictions for 2016 was that we should expect further Chinese market volatility after last summer’s market crash. Now, in the first week of trading in 2016, it is again falling and will likely remain volatile over the next few months. In other words, reforming an economy of such scale as China’s is a tough task.

Marketing 14

Marketing Administration Scaling Manager 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

Gartner predicts 41 percent of enterprise revenue will come from digital business by 2020—almost double what the percentage was in 2015 (Gartner, 2016). They decide quickly what to invest in, and then draw on their strengths to make these investments efficiently, effectively, repeatedly, and at scale. November 2016).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

But can these experiments scale into an alternative business, or will the need to keep factories engaged across Michigan and Bavaria make it impossible for these automakers to morph into a new kind of business? BMW turns 100 years old in 2016; it is a firm with a deep, proud history of making gasoline engines.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Sadly, however, given the daunting business survival statistics, most businesses never get an opportunity to scale up. Of those few that do begin to scale, the effort to scale up often fails to last, and the all-too-familiar roller-coaster of life in business heads, or threatens to head, downhill.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When the policy change was announced, people were given until December 30, 2016, to return 500- and 1,000-rupee notes to banks, or else risk losing the value of them. Arguably, the surge in business for mobile wallets was natural, at least for the 17% of the population that owned a smartphone in early 2016. instead of 7%.

Banking 14

Banking Government Sales Sales 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

By early 2016 there were 20 HR business partners, covering almost 6,000 employees. But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. In contrast, New England has increasingly become a hub for ventures in life sciences; the first three-quarters of 2016 saw almost 60% of VC investments in New England go to ventures in biotechnology and medical devices. The same underlying technologies (e.g.,

Software 12

Software Scaling Digital Transformation Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

While there is little prospect for political reform on a wider scale — Saudi Arabia is and remains a traditional monarchy with limited public participation in policymaking — the current reform process is an important one, and one indicative of the sort of the socio-economic challenges the Gulf oil producers increasingly face.

Revenue 11

Revenue Government Energy Scaling 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

In this transformation, we are witnessing the decarbonization of power consumption, thanks to the large-scale deployment of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. In 2016, renewable, intermittent energy sources contributed more than 30% to gross electricity generation. GW of new installations in 2016.

Energy 14

Energy Rollout Government Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

In this next chapter, the Philippines — the world’s second-fastest growing economy — will play a crucial role in helping tech companies access the talent to scale efficiently and sustainably. It employs over a million workers and is expected to hit $25 billion in revenues in 2016.

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