corporate strategy
Newell started as Curtain rod manufacturer in 1902
1917 – Supplier to Woolworth stores
1921 – Leonard Ferguson at Newell, Owner in 1937
1950 – Dan Ferguson (son of Leonard and Stanford MBA) as CEO. Revenue 10 mln
1967 – First Strategy for Newell – Focus as market for hardware and do-it-yourself products to volume merchandisers
1969 – First non-drapery hardware acquisition
1972 - Public Company – Funding for new products by acquisition
Two-Pronged Strategy
Manufacture low-technology, nonseasonal, noncyclical, nonfaschionable products for volume retailers by acquisition and then streamlining, focussing and making the division profitable, increasing operating margins > 15%
Strategy for consolidation and centralization to achieve effectivess
Changed strategy for individual divisions responsible for manufacturing and marketing but was centrally controlled by admin, legal and treasury systems
1997 – Revenues of 3.23 billion. Clients like Walmart which gave 15% of business, top 10 clients accounting for 40% business
Through 1997, 10 year average return to investors 31% (Vs S&P 500 only 18%)
The Walt Disney: The Entertainment KingAnuj Poddar
This case is comprised of the company's history, from 1923 to 2001. The Walt years are described, as is the company's decline after his death and its resurgence under Eisner, some topics are devoted to Eisner's strategic challenges in 2001: managing synergy, managing the brand, and managing creativity. The case was written by Michael G. Rukstad and David Collis
The case was uploaded with a Walt Disney font, but Slideshare was not able to detect that
MediSys Corp.: The IntensCare Product Development TeamOlivier Serrat
This presentation provides an up-close examination of MediSys Corp. and its contextual conditions and tables recommendations to resolve the problems affecting the IntensCare project and safeguard MediSys Corp.'s future.
corporate strategy
Newell started as Curtain rod manufacturer in 1902
1917 – Supplier to Woolworth stores
1921 – Leonard Ferguson at Newell, Owner in 1937
1950 – Dan Ferguson (son of Leonard and Stanford MBA) as CEO. Revenue 10 mln
1967 – First Strategy for Newell – Focus as market for hardware and do-it-yourself products to volume merchandisers
1969 – First non-drapery hardware acquisition
1972 - Public Company – Funding for new products by acquisition
Two-Pronged Strategy
Manufacture low-technology, nonseasonal, noncyclical, nonfaschionable products for volume retailers by acquisition and then streamlining, focussing and making the division profitable, increasing operating margins > 15%
Strategy for consolidation and centralization to achieve effectivess
Changed strategy for individual divisions responsible for manufacturing and marketing but was centrally controlled by admin, legal and treasury systems
1997 – Revenues of 3.23 billion. Clients like Walmart which gave 15% of business, top 10 clients accounting for 40% business
Through 1997, 10 year average return to investors 31% (Vs S&P 500 only 18%)
The Walt Disney: The Entertainment KingAnuj Poddar
This case is comprised of the company's history, from 1923 to 2001. The Walt years are described, as is the company's decline after his death and its resurgence under Eisner, some topics are devoted to Eisner's strategic challenges in 2001: managing synergy, managing the brand, and managing creativity. The case was written by Michael G. Rukstad and David Collis
The case was uploaded with a Walt Disney font, but Slideshare was not able to detect that
MediSys Corp.: The IntensCare Product Development TeamOlivier Serrat
This presentation provides an up-close examination of MediSys Corp. and its contextual conditions and tables recommendations to resolve the problems affecting the IntensCare project and safeguard MediSys Corp.'s future.
The goal of this case analysis was to determine how to position a product to the appropriate customer segment, to offer value to their direct and indirect customers using quantitative data.
The goal of this case analysis was to determine how to position a product to the appropriate customer segment, to offer value to their direct and indirect customers using quantitative data.
EPRG Characteristics -international-businessDinker Vaid
Ethocentric, Geocentric, Polycentric, regiocentric Approach.
(EPRG)
International Business. How to see these parameters to diversify the companies and products and policies.
The Characteristics, HRM practices, culture, Policies etc.
Michael Porter's 5 Forces in Online retail Store/Retailer FlipkartPreeti Acharya
Michael Porter's 5 Forces, Diagram, Diagram Explanation, About Michael Porter, Supplier Power, Buyer Power, Competitive Rivalry,Threat of Substitutes, Threat of New Entry, Porter's Five Forces For Online Retailer, Recommendations for Flipkart, Conclusions
Getting Started in Big Data-Fueled E-Commercejradisson
Presentation to Outdoor Industry at the European Outdoor Summit, 17 October 2013 in Stockholm.
Abstract from the event program:
"Everywhere you turn these days there is a story on the promise of Big Data. Fact is, there is a wave of innovation in Big Data technologies under way that will affect our business. But are we really having a clear idea on how to use it to create new business?
Here in Europe, we're selling against Amazon, Google and other algorithmic commpetitors using spreadsheets and other manual methods. Nobody is talking about concrete use-cases or generating any new business value from Big Data. Until now.... Listen to Jason Radisson, in charge of a complex and forward looking initiative from Sport Scheck to grasp the huge untapped potential of tomorrow's e-commerce consumers."
Data strategy - The Business Game ChangerAmit Pishe
This blog highlights the basics of Data Strategy and its application in real-time business scenarios. Components of Data strategy, Data Analytics have been explained crisply. How Insights and Data Stories can be used to create powerful impact on the Business decisions.
ISACA IT GRC Conference 2008 Creating Business Value by means of Stakeholder ...Arno Kapteyn
In marketing a saying goes: “The Customer does not exist” this recognizes that each customer is unique in its desires and requirements and there is no such thing as a one size fits all. In analogy this session sets out with the statement that “The business does not exist”. An enterprise is a unique combination of central or de-central, task, geography, goal and/ or skills oriented divisions and departments. All these stakeholders have individual needs and requirements that might be met or supported by the services offered by the Enterprise IT Domain. To offer a one size fits all solution (per service) in response to this multitude of desires is to reuse the line of though from Henry Ford: “They can have any color they like as long as it is black”. This approach was very useful to help build the company into the global enterprise it is today. Yet at some point in the growth of the organization it was abandoned in favor of more variation of choice as a trip to the ford dealer will tell you. Even a standard product like a McDonalds hamburger varies to suite the (taste) requirements in different parts of the world.
How can the IT Domain of an enterprise growing in complexity, size, geographical presence etc. strategically prepare to deal with this complexity and ensure it will (keep) deliver(ing) maximum value in the eyes of the individual stakeholder (groups)?
Data Strategy - Executive MBA Class, IE Business SchoolGam Dias
For today's enterprise Data is now very much a corporate asset, vital to delivering products and services efficiently and cost effectively. There are few organizations that can survive without harnessing data in some way.
Viewed as a strategic asset, data can be a source of new internal efficiencies, improved competitive advantage or a source of entirely new products that can be targeted at your existing or new customers.
This slide deck contains the highlights of a one day course on Data Strategy taught as part of the Executive MBA Program at IE Business School in Madrid.
Presentation by Eura Nova on disruptive trends & business models due to cloud computing solutions - presented at sales summit 2 by Minds&More (oct 9, 2013); presented by Eric Delacroix of Eura Nova ...
Project 3 – Hollywood and IT· Find 10 incidents of Hollywood p.docxstilliegeorgiana
Project 3 – Hollywood and IT
· Find 10 incidents of Hollywood portraying IT security incorrectly
· You can use movies or TV episodes
· Write 2-5 paragraphs for each incident. Use supporting citations for each part.
· What has Hollywood portrayed wrong? Describe the scene and what is being shown. Make sure to state whether it is partially wrong or totally fictitious.
· How would you protect/secure against what they show (answers might include install firewall, load Antivirus etc.)
· Use APA formatting for your sources on everything.
· Make sure to put your name on assignment.
Big Data and Social Media
Colgate Palmolive
Agenda Of socail media use
Buisness intellegence and Social media concenpts
Intellegent organization
Data Anaylysis and Data trustworthiness
Conclusion
Buisness intellegence and Social media concenpts
No-Hassle Documentation
Gain Trusted Followers
Spy on Competition
Learn Customer Demographics
Research and Analyze Events
Advertise More Accurately
Intellegent organization
They consistently use (big) data proactively
They know exactly where they want to go: all-round vision
They continuously discuss business matters: alignment
They talk to each other regarding positive and negative performance
They know their customers through and through
They think and work in an agile way
Data Anaylysis and Data trustworthiness
Data completeness and accuracy
Data credibility
Data consistency
Data processing and algorithms
Data Validity
Conclusion
How Colgate benefit from Big Data and Social Media
Social media increases sales and customers
Big data shows popular trends and popular companies
All around they are both beneficial
Big Data can find trends that can benefit you greatly
Criteria
Title Page:
Name, Contact info, title of Presentation
Slide 1
Adenda : Topic you going to cover in order
Slide 2
Discuss how big data, social media concepts and knowledge to successfully create business intellegence (Support your bullets points with data, analysis, charts)
Slide 3
Describe how big data can be used to build an intelligent organization
Slide 4
Discuss the importance of data source trustworthiness and data analysis
Slide 5
Conclusion
Slide 6
Big Data And Business Intelligence
Business Value With Big Data
For business to survive in a competitive environment, organizational change requires improved governance, sponsorship, processes, and controls, in addition to new skill sets and technology all work in harmony to deliver the benefits of big data. See Fig. 13.2
Data science has taken the business world by storm. Every field of study and area of business has been affected as companies realize the value of the incredible quantities of data being generated. But to extract value from those data, one needs to be trained in the proper data science skills. The R programming language has become the de fac to programming language for data science. Its flexibility, power, sophistication, and expressiveness have ma ...
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Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
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This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
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Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
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Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
3. Case Summary
Founded by John Sortino in 1981.
Offers 3 brands: Teddy Bears, PajamaGrams and Calyx Flowers.
Highly seasonal sales, peak volumes at Christmas, Valentines
Day and Mother’s Day.
Bob Stetzel Joined as CIO in November 2009.
Information system -a mix of homegrown and packaged
applications from many vendors knit together with middleware.
4. Summary..
Currently 7 IT experts working under Stetzel. They are domain
experts and are assets for company.
Incomplete IT architecture document existing in VTB.
Shadow applications developed by experts during urgent need.
Very Strong Core transactional infrastructure.
Three brands and four different channels
(retail, mail, phone, web) each supported by different software.
Decoding the Business Logic of Middleware was the biggest
challenge since most of it was undocumented.
2 extra employees were hired to keep the process operational.
5. Summary..
John Gilbert went to Toy Fair and found that people take
comfort in simple pleasures and family focus.
Improper marketing strategy.
Ultra simple toy Bilibo and Zhu Zhu pets gaining extreme
popularity.
Stetzel noted that marketing, forecasting and bundling of
products can be coordinated easily with better data integration
and analytical tools.
CRM can’t be helpful because most customers are buying
products as gifts for different market segments (mother and
girlfriends).
6.
Question 2
What is the overarching question faced by CIO Stetzel? By CEO Gilbert?
And, what are the sub-questions?
7. Umbrella problem faced by CIO Stetzel
To make a choice towards best use of funds towards
approaching to an efficient IT architecture before next peak
sales period.
Stetzel also wanted to make this shift towards efficient IT
platform gradual by having a better control at this shift.
8. Sub problems faced by Stetzel
Gathering hidden information about various IT applications
from silo members so that next employee lay out do not
hamper the IT shift.
Till the time VTB shift to entire new ERP package or if not make
that shift, there was a issue of managing the very cumbersome
middleware that linked VTB’s different IT platforms.
Rectifying problems in applications developed by former
employees of VTB.
9. Umbrella problem faced by CEO Gilbert
Raising spikes to counter two fold problem:
a) protecting market share by launching competitive
toys, increasing market penetration of Calyx flowers unit.
b) to speed up the deploy of new IT architecture for
optimizing VTB’s hybrid business model of three brands, four
channels.
10. Sub problems faced by Gilbert
Smoothing the peaks for pajama brand line as it has high lead
time.
Whether to make a shift from VTB’s trademark teddy toys to
electronic toys.
Improving marketing campaign as Stetzel pointed out the flaw
of mismatch between advertising message and target customer
segment.
12. Immediate Solutions
Outsource server load handling for spring peak to another
company.
Hire season professionals to iron out the software bugs.
Forecasting for the peak periods and maintain sufficient safety
stock for it.
Installation of RAID for parallel processing to increase
throughput as well as maintain stability.
13. ShortTerm Solutions
Retain employees with high knowledge company’s functions
through employee engagement.
Middleware reduction through customized system which
integrates all the various discrete modules into one single
system which is constantly maintained instead of “best breed
approach”.
How will this help?
It will use one single framework/language which will make it
easier for the user hence reducing complexity.
Initiate KMS(Knowledge Management System)- to retain
domain specific employee knowledge.
14. LongTerm Solutions
Improve the supply chain management system through
supply chain optimization.
Improve marketing functions, by conducting appropriate
market research and identification of target segment and
positioning for the product mix taking their individual target
segments and demands into consideration.
CRM, different for the respective segments, and also try to
maximize customer touch-points.
15. LongTerm Solutions
Data collection, and data mining through the deployment of a
data warehouse and comprehensive analysis of the data
through which we can identify the buying trends for the
various customers and prioritize high value customers. Also
“peak period demand” can be handled better, as by analyzing
the data in tandem with statistics we can get an idea of the
times when demand increases, and we initiate adequate
capacity planning measures as a form of contingency
planning.
Employees engagement through training to retain employees.
17. Look for alternatives for handling peak traffic during the
festivities, for the short-term.
Also try to setup a comprehensive in-house IT infrastructure
such that it acts as a base for future, more ambitious goals such
as collecting, mining and leveraging data.
Look for new product development, a whole new segment,
rather than tweaking the same old product over and over again
18. This would reduce their seasonal revenue fluctuations, if they
could come up with a product that would appeal to the target
segment throughout the year rather than just during specific
periods.
Now that the bull has been tamed, its time now to ride it and
data analytics is the way forward. Examples galore.
