Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Finance for the Now Normal: financial stability in the hotel industry CMI Sri Lanka recently hosted a webinar titled 'Finance for the NOW NORMAL' with Mr Nirmalan Nagendra FCMI FIH, who is a senior Hospitality Finance Professional and Consultant for KPMG. He is a past president of CMI and also CMI Chartered Manager Companion.

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Crisis Management Committee Hotels Webinar 52

HR Digest

MAY 6, 2021

Pat Teague, who leads USAA’s human resources team, talks to The HR Digest about the company’s leadership development programs that has helped attract the industry’s most driven workers and how tough times can have a motivational impact on the workforce. We have a member-first mindset that informs everything we do. How are you coping?

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Finance Diversity Leadership Development Maturity 59

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

To be recognized on the 2020 Top CHRO List, the words leadership, team, succession, purpose, culture, governance, and diversity are not just buzzwords – they represent who a CHRO is, what they believe, and where they work every day. Prior to AMB, Chang held senior HR leadership roles with Equifax and Turner Broadcasting.

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Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 469

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2019

Take a new competitive threat for example… (SENSE) Sales people might hear and observe their customers’ reactions to that threat – as might your market researchers, call center folks, external market experts, and even your finance team as they watch the erosion of market share and revenue. Recognizing this, what’s a great leader to do?

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 16, 2020

Maya Hu-Chan is a management consultant, executive coach, author, and speaker, and founder of Global Leadership Associates. As an executive coach and leadership consultant, I’ve worked with leaders around the world. It is so essential to their leadership, but it is also counterintuitive sometimes. It is the concept of FACE.

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COO Self-aware How To Long-term 112

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Coronation marks a new era of leadership, vision and progress under the British monarchy. Find more information about the event and survey results here. We are delighted by this joyous occasion and wish them every success. CMI Hong Kong members were also invited to take part in this survey.

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Webinar Education Conference Industry 98

HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Buzzwords such as “agile,” “resilience,” and “flexibility” have become almost banal to describe the grim reality of our daily lives and the decisions we must take, as the full effects of the coronavirus pandemic now unfold. Providing guidance on social distancing practices, and employee information updates.

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Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 59

HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Buzzwords such as “agile,” “resilience,” and “flexibility” have become almost banal to describe the grim reality of our daily lives and the decisions we must take, as the full effects of the coronavirus pandemic now unfold. Providing guidance on social distancing practices, and employee information updates.

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Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 52

Chris Brady

JULY 11, 2010

Leadership is a lot like taking a trip. The best leaders are the most agile, the most able to adjust and course-correct, the most rock-solid on commitment to a vision but the most flexible on the route. Here are some areas to consider when seeking to increase your leadership ability by traveling light: 1.

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Travel Hotels Commitment Blog 118

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Changing jobs is an often used and effective way to develop new leadership capabilities. Introduction Execution of Great Moves is one of the key strategies to support our Leadership Excellence Strategy. The information in this guide is based on the lessons of experience of real executives.

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Development Advice Learning Curve Execution 120

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

It’s about creating an agile organization that can detect what type of change is essential and respond quickly with the most competitive solution. It is also essential to develop key capabilities in data analytics to make better decisions using the flood of new information flowing through the organization.

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CEO Agility Technology Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

For example, it can take five years or more to develop today’s high potentials into leadership roles. In finance, the “fox” strategy is similar to using real options , and it can help you make talent decisions just as it helps in your decisions about R&D, manufacturing and finance. Increasingly, you cannot.

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Human Resources Information Technology Uncertainty Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? How did this happen and what can be gleaned from it to inform the transformation of the CHRO? A recent survey of CEOs reveals that HR is overwhelmingly viewed as the least agile function. That needs to change.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 9

HR Digest

JULY 29, 2020

If you analyze functions like finance, IT, and marketing you will find common drivers of success. Most organizations need innovation that can be utilized seamlessly and is easily available using the cloud so it’s consistent no matter how you look at it, is sufficiently accurate, and agile enough to refocus. Adaptability.

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Attrition Talent Management Agility Innovation 98

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Supported by TAPFIN, a division of ManpowerGroup, they gathered data from HR and Finance systems including the HRIS, VMS, ATS, GL/Finance and A/P. The company’s finance organization was developing a new three-year Operating Expense (OPEX) plan, at the same time that HR rolled out their new plan.

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Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. Their strategic use of information technology (IT) presaged the dot.com boom of the 1990s when the Internet made this kind of online ordering commonplace. Now, instead, at ING they say, "Here''s your team.

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Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2018

In the following months, the CMO began to look for opportunities where her team could proactively step “into the gap” — to take a leadership role on an opportunity that none of the other functions picked up. As an example, the CEO had been discussing the importance of driving more agile decision making.

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CFO CEO Agility Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The CIO has to know what's going on in finance and marketing, for instance, and P&L experience is important even for support functions like human resources. So, for instance, if you want a top finance job it's not enough to be the best CFO in the U.S.; C-level jobs have become less circumscribed. You have to be constantly learning.

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Execution P&L CFO Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

” It might be hard for people in HR to hear, but only 20% of those who responded said that their HR function was enabling them to transform, ranking them even lower than finance — an area not exactly known for its agility. First, low barriers to entry into these sectors lead to more agile competition.

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Industry B2C Agility Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

As the world becomes more digitized, generating more information surrounding products and services and speeding up processes, large and small companies in every industry, even manufacturing, are starting to compete more like the software industry, with short product lifecycles and rapid decision-making. Leadership roles and responsibilities.

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Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

I made a career switch seven years ago, when I went from working as a reporter at the Financial Times , where I covered health care in the United States, to consulting — advising CEOs in the pharmaceutical industry on thought leadership and articulating their corporate strategies. Consider the legal field. Think creatively.

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Career Skills Health Care Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Once given permission to “think the unthinkable” via cross-functional teams, retailers can often realize material impacts on agility and costs. By taking this approach, Amazon can improve its processes swiftly and the company’s senior leadership stays in touch with what’s happening on the front line.

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Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

When freelancing is your primary source of income, you have to be meticulous and organized about keeping your books, according to Jon Younger, the founder of the Agile Talent Collaborative , a non-profit research organization and the coauthor of Agile Talent. This information helps you better manage your monthly cash flow.

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Long-term Follow-up Project Due Diligence 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Our research, conducted in partnership with Harvard Business Review, The Economist, CEB (formerly the Corporate Executive Board), Intel, and TNS Global, finds that corporate leadership has lost confidence in the CIO as a strategic partner and views IT as a commodity rather than a difference-maker. Victorio M.

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CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

In response to the rapid advance of cloud computing, IBM’s software engineering groups embraced the Agile development method – with teams focused on incremental delivery of new capabilities every few weeks or months. But as Intuit grew, informality and entrepreneurship began to morph into procedure and bureaucracy.

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Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Often, local country teams are informed about the prices they must use, instead of being consulted about what the prices should be. One of our clients learned this as its business in Ukraine was facing rapid currency depreciation, and its finance department, whose ultimate priority was revenue collection, switched to USD pricing.

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Price Globalization Depreciation Marketing 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2019

It’s the essence of agility. Why Agility is Important for Your Business. Agility is defined by McKinsey & Company as “… the ability of an organization to renew itself, adapt, change quickly, and thrive in an environment characterized by rapid change, ambiguity, and turbulence.”

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Agility Process Management McKinsey 50

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Leadership requires attention to detail and a commitment to quality, but rarely does it require perfection. Leadership requires attention to detail and a commitment to quality, but rarely does it require perfection. While leadership doesn’t require being perfect, it does require doing what is needed and necessary.

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Blog Leadership Competitive Advantage Brand 419

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

For example, it can take five years or more to develop today’s high potentials into leadership roles. In finance, the “fox” strategy is similar to using real options , and it can help you make talent decisions just as it helps in your decisions about R&D, manufacturing and finance. Increasingly, you cannot.

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Uncertainty Finance Agility Strategy 8