Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

John Shuttleworth, a member of BTFG’s Executive Management Team, is responsible for Platforms and Investments. The company, Australia’s largest wealth platform provider, is the wealth management arm of the Westpac Group (Australia’s second largest bank in terms of market capitalization). Related Video.

Commitment 13

Commitment Banking Proposal Video 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

August 2011 HBR. While it may not be intuitive to global readers, I see many similarities between Samsung's transformation from local leader in Korea to major player on the world stage and our own journey in building the United Bank for Africa into a group that operates in 20 countries and on three continents.

Venture Funding 12

Venture Funding Banking Participative Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation. Even the big banks are getting social. A few years ago, community managers did not exist. A few years ago, community managers did not exist.

Technology 14

Technology Venture Capitalist CIO ROI 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Both associations managed their brands and ran the clearing and settlement systems for banks that issued cards or helped merchants accept cards. Then the banks decided to turn the associations into for-profit companies, IPO them, and cash out. MasterCard and Visa didn’t make, or even look, for profits for decades.

IPO 8

IPO Succession Technology Software 8

Women on Business

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Guest Post By: Rania Stewart, senior product manager with Peoplefluent.com. Recent data shows the majority of companies worldwide (71 percent) don’t have a clearly defined strategy for grooming and developing women as company leaders, according to a 2011 Women’s Leadership Development Survey conducted by Mercer.

Career 247

Career Company Software Handbook 247

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

Fifty years ago, we did not have television news anchors, software engineers, web designers, or cosmetic surgeons. Imagine you are a product manager at Proctor and Gamble or Unilever and are charged with designing a new line of detergents or packaged food. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Consider leaving a comment!

Self-aware 50

Self-aware Engineering Chief Technology Officer Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

Sridhar had a small network management tools business that basically functioned as a highly profitable cash cow. He decided to go after Salesforce.com with a Software-as-a-Service Customer Relationship Management product at a price-point that was one sixth of what Salesforce.com, the market leader, charged. And play he did.

Incubator 8

Incubator Finance Entrepreneur Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

It doesn’t require any special hardware or software. The unbanked pay four times more in fees to access their money than those with bank accounts, and they pay $4 higher fees per month for cash access on average than those with formal financial services. Cash – by which I mean paper currency and coins — has many benefits.

Cost 8

Cost Transportation Banking Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Then it wasn’t.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

I will spend my last dying breath if I need to,” Jobs is quoted as saying in a series of jeremiads , “and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40bn in the bank, to right this wrong. Motorola (owned by Google since 2011) is suing and being sued by everyone. I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product.

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Software Industry Construction 9

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Do we still take band-aid approaches (such as buying enterprise software)? Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job. This book states the case for more of a macro-focused approach to management.

Ethics 58

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 58

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately. Innovative, proudly geeky Norwegian software company, Trolltech , an open-source pioneer, landed a contract with the mobile division of Sharp, the Japan-based consumer electronics global powerhouse. Manage the arduously long sales cycle.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Snapchat, an idea conceived in 2011, is now valued around $16 billion, with more than 100 million active users who send an average of over 400 million snaps per day. This laser-like focus implies a commitment from the top management team and prevents the risk of scattering managerial attention among different strategic challenges.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Yet for the small handful of companies that have managed to drive growth consistently – even through tough times – the payoff is great. In Discovery-Driven Growth , Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan challenge what you thought you knew about managing growth. I’m thinking of HDFC Bank in India, Yahoo! How do they do it?

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50