Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The session was entitled “Technology and Business Collaboration: Leadership and Management” and was moderated by Dr Alan Miller CMgr FCMI (former CMI Hong Kong Regional Board Member). The pandemic has boosted the application of technologies across both public and private sectors.

Webinar 98

Webinar Education Conference Industry 98

HR Digest

JULY 15, 2019

While 73 % of executives are carefully paying attention to a significant workforce shift from AI invasion, WEF expects the technology to create over 58 million new jobs by 2022. For instance, leaders can connect with the millennial, which constitutes the largest and most diverse generation in the US employee population, according to a 2014 U.S

Brand 66

Brand Agility Technology Long-term 66

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

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. Authority on new technology and communication. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. Tom Kolditz – Brigadier General.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. An alternative emerging at healthcare institutions worldwide is human-centered design and co-creation, a set of approaches that can accelerate and humanize healthcare innovation.

Health Care 9

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 9

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2014

In 2014 I will intensify the program and the process until there are 500 certified advisors globally. LESSON: Don’t stay attached to old technology or products even though they have brought success and profit in the past. TIME – My most precious resource – and yours! Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Succession 50

Succession Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Content 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Continuously reinventing your organization doesn’t mean you have to start from scratch with each new innovation. These changes, often unclear and barely perceptible, foreshadow new trends in human behavior, technology, and demographics. By 2006, GMCR owned 100% of Keurig and officially renamed Keurig Green Mountain (KGM) in 2014.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

Governing boards might seem like the last place for innovation. But new strategies and structures are squarely in the board’s domain, and we have seen any number of governing boards innovating with, not just monitoring, management. Some boards have taken the principle further by forming their own innovation committee.

Innovation 8

Innovation Committee Charan Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This kind of innovation is almost a textbook example of frugal innovation. The digital revolution, therefore, is helping to create a more frugal economy, one that generates greater value in a highly efficient, socially inclusive, and eco-sustainable manner — using fewer resources. GDP by 2020.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Devoid of resources for data collection, they tagged along on L’Oréal roadshows, collecting skin tone measurements from thousands of women of color across the country. She couldn’t get the image out of her head, so she began to research the technology requirements. They proceed on the cheap.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

The decisions, which were both unanimous, significantly scaled back the ability of patent holders to slow innovation by competitors, tipping scales that many legal scholars believe have become badly imbalanced. Taken together, the two cases will improve the innovation environment for companies in fast-changing industries.

Innovation 8

Innovation Supply Chain Software Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

In late 2014, he joined forces with two other leaders in the space, Bryan Mazlish and Jeffrey Brewer, to form a technology startup called Bigfoot Biomedical. Citizen hackers are enabled by technology but they are motivated by passion. Yet, when Lane took promising ideas to management at his company, they were uninterested.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Business Model System 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

They knew the answer was not by relying on traditional internal processes and practices for R&D and innovation. IBM, a company with a long and successful tradition of internally-focused R&D activities, is adapting to this new world of creating platforms and enabling open innovation. Innovation Strategy Technology'

Venture Funding 12

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 12

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. However, while their companies had plenty of resources, the big digital bets did not pay off quickly enough, or richly enough, to counter the drain they represented on the rest of the business.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

I never would have experienced any of that — I never would have discovered that technology could be creative, I never would have started my career in tech, joined Google, led Youtube — if I had tried to stick to a specific plan that I had made when I was your age. Its worldwide market share of Smartphones has dwindled to 5%.

Career 8

Career Planning CEO Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Drones could revolutionize everything from natural resource protection, agriculture, emergency services, aerial photography, filmmaking, and delivery. In stark contrast, the last four years have seen continued improvement in drone technology, much of which cannot be put to use. In Washington, business as usual.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Further, algorithms cannot (yet, anyway) tap intuition — the soft factors that are not data inputs, the tacit knowledge that experienced managers deploy every day, nor the creative genius of innovators. This plot suggests that the first quarter is pretty mundane; except for 2014, performance is tightly contained in a 91 to 93 band.

Tacit Knowledge 9

Tacit Knowledge Information Technology Crisis Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

To create the conditions that support innovation, leaders need to build connections across companies, industries, and sectors. Developing and deploying new technology requires building a supportive ecosystem surrounding it. It’s only by joining forces across sectors that projects will get the necessary resources and expertise.

Project 8

Project Transportation Construction Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Anyone who has worked inside a large organization can rattle off a lengthy list of the things that regularly kill promising ideas: conflict with existing businesses, naysayers, management turmoil, insufficient resources. But those are two separate functions that require different staffing, relationships, and resources.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

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. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2015

We couldn’t agree more about the need for innovation. The response to Ebola has largely relied on public health strategies established over a century ago and technology that has been around for decades. In September 2014, the U.S. Indeed, fresh thinking and new technologies could potentially address many challenges.

Transportation 8

Transportation Innovation Sample Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Innovative products like fitness trackers and Google’s Nest thermostats are demonstrating the potential for both consumers and enterprises. Early adopters in these verticals are using the IoT to pioneer new product areas and to find efficiencies that save money or reduce demand for resources. Information & technology Internet'

Early Adopters 10

Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Think about it: If our military can create a highly complex surgical theater anywhere in the world within hours, it’s not a stretch to think the knowledge and technology exists to take care of elderly, sick people in their own homes. This will incent delivery systems to redirect resources from hospitals to outpatient and home settings.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Projects not directly related to those activities never got serious resource or management attention. In 2014, Microsoft finally announced that Ballmer would retire, and in early 2014, Satya Nadella took charge. Microsoft executed its 20 th -century business model extremely well, but it missed the new and more important ones.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Nike is a leading example of how both anti-sweatshop campaigns and labor standards in trade agreements can be good for innovation and growth in developing countries. Figuring that their earnings would decline, the cutters were trying to block adoption, in part by misinforming owners about the benefits of the technology.

Policies 8

Policies Technology Bottom-up Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

Time, not technology, accounts for the majority of associated meeting expenses. In 2014, for the first time ever, 50% of employees used live video and web cameras in more than a quarter of their conference calls, according to recent Wainhouse Research (WebMetrics: Meeting Characteristics and Feature Preferences, 2014).

Conference 8

Conference Video Technology Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

The transition to a global digital economy in 2014 was sporadic – brisk in some countries, choppy in others. But even where cash is still king, digital marketplaces are innovating at a remarkable pace. Some may be able to overcome limitations with clever innovations and stopgap measures, while others seem to be stuck.

Constraint 8

Constraint Marketing Innovation Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2015

The “them” the leader was referring to were zombie projects: the nefarious enemies of well-intentioned innovation efforts around the globe. We had suggested that at least one reason why the company was struggling to successfully commercialize innovative ideas was that zombies were draining its resources and clogging its pipeline.

Project 8

Project How To Innovation Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

To this end we eliminated silos between functions including marketing, sales, IT, consumer insight, and innovation and established “consumer experience teams” in each business and region. Individual regions build and execute integrated customer experiences and launch innovations based on the way consumers shop in their markets.

Marketing 8

Marketing Brand Globalization Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

The topic of industry disruption — “a process whereby a smaller company with fewer resources is able to successfully challenge established incumbent businesses” — is rife with misconceptions. For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Roughly 80% of individuals and families who bought their health insurance through an SBM or FFM in 2014 received a tax credit to defray the cost of premiums and out-of-pocket expenses. Technological challenges. By the second open enrollment period, in late 2014, the FFM had vastly improved website functionality, as had most states.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. It’s not just products.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

Consider the more than $44 billion projected by Gartner to be spent on big data in 2014. In his seminal essay, “ Why Software is Eating the World ,” Marc Andreessen pointed out that for each new technology wave, the money eventually shifts to software. Information & technology IT management Technology'

Maturity 8

Maturity Software Information Technology Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

billion in 2014 to help it make the leap from a traditional advertising company to a digital one. Sponsored by DXC Technology. That means investigating where each company can benefit from the other in technologies, customer proximity, go-to-market access and other capabilities. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Company Learning Curve Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Books, online courses, MOOCs, professional development programs, podcasts, and other resources have never been more abundant or accessible, making it easier than ever to make a habit of lifelong learning. Outside of universities, ongoing learning and skill development is essential to surviving economic and technological disruption.

Education 8

Education Press Release Offshoring Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress. The same goes for technology.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Companies are also experiencing risks in their manufacturing due to resource depletion – particularly water. Fostering innovation. billion in mining projects since 2010.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8