Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Ann also met with Titania Woo of The Hong Kong Management Association to discuss partnership opportunities in the region. Furthermore, Ann was delighted to be able to personally present a number of Chartered Managers and Fellows with their certificates. Learn more here.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

The following is a guest piece by Innovation Excellence co-founder Rowan Gibson. What most companies understand now is that the only way to drive profitable growth and wealth creation over the longer term is to innovate. But that’s not the way radical innovators envisage their organizations. This is quite understandable.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Agencies love them because they think it means big budgets and mass media. JD Norman is Executive VP, Strategy and Innovation, at Black Ink. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Marketing & Sales black ink branding business management JD Norman marketing and sales strategydriven' About the Author.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Yet, surviving on ramen noodles and working multiple jobs on the side, we’ve managed to outlast several local startups who received awards, funding, and investment. for yourself at our 2014 Conference. BIF9 Critical thinking Culture Innovation Leadership What If' What if the World craves your curiosity?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

Social media has come a long way. No doubt there has been incredible business uptake of social media over the last few years. But what if these social media projects were only scratching the surface of social media’s business value? the few marketers who manage corporate social media accounts) to mobilizing the many (i.e.,

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 15, 2015

Business users sent and received on average 121 emails a day in 2014, and this is expected to grow to 140 emails a day by 2018. Look at newspaper and online media outlet headlines for inspiration. The Emerging Strategy of Innovative Service. As the President of OptifiNow, John leads the company’s vision, strategy and growth.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

For businesses that want to continually innovate and grow, engaged employees who work with passion and feel a profound connection to their company are required. Try using social media to recognize standout employees on a weekly or monthly basis. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2014

Managers and employees with the most to lose are most fearful of change. Some get distributed on the internet, through social media and in direct transfer to friends. The same fate had fallen the electronics industry, whose innovator (the Thomas Edison Electric Company) fell behind others in leading the trends and usage.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

Investment bankers are giddy at the prospect of increased M&A activity in 2014. 2014 will be the year of the “business remix.” But it will be important for managers to know when to use each of these types of deals. A decline in economic uncertainty in 2014 will now support bolder strategic moves by managers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

In the traditional media industry, some outlets differentiate themselves through quality, but social media hasn’t gotten there yet — there is no “ New York Times of social media.” Could specialized social media handle these functions better than the dominant players?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 5, 2015

My good friend, Sandy Carter, is one of IBM’s General Managers, and their social selling evangelist. Sandy fed me some support data from their recently published IBM’s 2014 Business Tech Trends Report. How to make sales calls on social media. Mobile is not an option – it’s an imperative. 24-7-365 is the new 9-5. Windshield time.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 17, 2014

However, innovations in the neurosciences to developments in social media have revealed that profitability should no longer be relegated to sales figures and profit margins alone. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved. What are you thinking?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). But there’s also another type of innovation that is more gradual and smaller in scale.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 23, 2014

Michelle is also the CEO of Women Network LLC, an online digital media platform dedicated to giving women a voice and a platform to share their message. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Michelle may be reached at WomenNetwork.com. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

That you would be paid peanuts compared to your old comfortable job, and you would be harassed and bashed in the media constantly. Separate the transformation or innovation team from the traditional part of the organization. Tawfik Jelassi is IMD Professor of Strategy and Technology Management. Build bonds to strengthen trust.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

It’s so unusual that customers will set the meeting, and then talk about how innovative it was. Talk social media. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. But Jeffrey,” you whine, “What do I talk about during the meeting?”. ANYTHING BUT BUSINESS AT THE START OF THE MEETING. Talk family. Talk hobbies. Talk sports.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Partly a byproduct of user-centered approaches and do-it-yourself ingenuity, this emerging wave of intrapreneurship is due to a rising generation of managers who have been empowered by accessible technology and mobilized by social media. Today Atis manages L’Oréal’s Women of Color Lab, in Clark, New Jersey.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Mobile technology, social media, cloud computing, embedded devices, big data, and analytics have radically changed the nature of work and competition. And digital innovations will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. They innovate the practice of management for a digital world. The second is too often forgotten.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Entrepreneurship aids economic vitality by getting rid of complacent incumbents, accelerating innovation, and creating jobs. For example, one celebrated software company had managed to accumulate 600 vice presidents by the time it reached $4 billion in revenues. Despite the media buzz around unicorns, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Here at Machine Shop , the wholly owned innovation company of the alternative rock band Linkin Park, we identified the need to think differently years ago. For more than a decade, Linkin Park and Machine Shop enjoyed success and continued to innovate. of course). Photo by Lorenzo Errico. Enter Harvard Business School.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter-to-quarter or even year-to year-revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile, and cloud. Yet in five years the only new thing Apple managed to get out the door is the Watch.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

On my first day, I confessed to the entire home office and field management team that I was the least qualified person to run the business. Things probably only got worse when I concluded my first town hall meeting with a statement that kindness, as the bedrock of innovation and consumer engagement, was a go-forward core strategic pillar.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

to 3 percent in 2014 (U.S. Economic Outlook for 2014 and Beyond, January 13, 2014, About.com), and our own research , “CEO Briefing 2014 –The Global Agenda: Competing in a Digital World,” found widespread optimism in the C-Suite about companies’ growth prospects. Innovation Strategic planning Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

In the wake of digital disruption, new media companies are seeking scale and legitimacy, while old media companies explore new business models. The “platform” is a new media company model that has been perfected by the tech industry. For an example, look at Medium , a platisher that raised $25 million in 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

The next evolution in digital advertising must be driven by innovative platforms that more effectively help marketers move their businesses forward. Projections put about 22% of all digital media being automated next year – up from just 4% in 2010. 2014 will be the year that marketers demand device agnostic advertising.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2012

To keep everyone up-to-date, particularly across departments and functions, employees use electronic tools (e-mail, voice mail, conference calls, instant messaging, and social media). Constellation has developed an Innovation Center , an unconventional permanent facility within its headquarters. It sends a message.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Beyond the media splash it caused, though, the event was viewed as a breakthrough on many fronts. They knew the answer was not by relying on traditional internal processes and practices for R&D and innovation. Remember when IBM’s “Watson” computer competed on the TV game show “Jeopardy” and won ?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

business ended 2014 with 39.1 Americans’ demand for media is very high. As Steve Hasker, Nielsen Global President, says , American consumers now have a second 40 hour per week job: consuming media, much of which now streams over phones and computers. This allows you to better manage operating and capital expenses.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

Nike halved the size of its digital unit in 2014 by discontinuing its Nike+ Fuelband activity tracker and some other investments. Therefore, no managers should view digital — or any other major technological innovation — as their sure salvation. Lego recently defunded its Digital Designer virtual building program.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), late 2015 was the most difficult hiring period in four years. Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. Don’t keep relying on the same old social media platforms. Well, not necessarily. So venture out.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2016

While they may have gotten attention in the media, they didn’t help the company do one important thing: hire women. In 2014, women constituted only 14% of GoDaddy’s engineering interns and new graduate hires. Its efforts caught the attention of the media, resulting in several favorable stories. Get executive buy-in.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

In the fall of 2014, the HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation launched the inaugural Health Acceleration Challenge — a “scale up” competition that focuses on compelling solutions to problems in health care delivery that have already been implemented at a small scale and have the potential for wider dissemination.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Apple fanboys and Samsung’s “Next Big Thing”ers would hoot with derisive laughter if The Wall Street Journal or Financial Times reported that GM or Ford planned to rewrite the rules of smartphone innovation. They should. Could Sir Jonny Ive be the next Battista Pininfarina , Harley Earl, or Akihiro Nagaya ?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

At the end of each year, I apply a framework to surface the most important emerging trends in digital media and emerging technology for the year ahead. It analyzes consumer behavior, microeconomic trends, government policies, market forces, and emerging research within the context of our continually-evolving tech and digital media ecosystem.

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