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You Need a Transformational Business Coach

Lead Change Blog

Today, as cycles of technology, market conditions, and competitive environments continue to accelerate, responding in an agile and flexible fashion to that world requires clarity, more than ever before. I worked with another client planning fast growth for his telecommunications business. Expertise in their field. Connections.

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Eric Jacobson

But it also includes a real humility on the part of leaders and an openness to learning from others – whether that’s walking through agile working labs and asking people what they’re doing to visiting companies to understand how they operate to simply reading interesting books. He is based in Paris. He is based in Copenhagen.

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4 Ways to Become a Better Learner

Harvard Business Review

The CEO sitting across from me is explaining how he and the other executives of a telecommunications firm were caught off guard by a new technology that disrupted the firm’s business. ” To sustain success, you must develop learning agility. What is Learning Agility? How Do You Develop Learning Agility?

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IT on Steroids: The Benefits (and Risks) of Accelerating Technology

Harvard Business Review

To date, the trend has been associated with fairly standard products, such as customer relationship management software, web servers, or SQL databases, but the theory of the innovator''s dilemma suggests that it will most likely move up the stack in the future. Agile projects have focused on standard, non-critical systems.

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Look Beyond Your "Social Media Presence"

Harvard Business Review

It's in areas of the company such as knowledge management, innovation, communication, and better integration with the supply chain. A lot of companies congratulate themselves on having a "social media presence" — by which they mean a Twitter following and Facebook likes and a marketing plan that uses social networks.

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Scaling Your UX Strategy

Harvard Business Review

We even hear it from our clients in the international market, such as regional telecommunications companies, who see a "unified user experience strategy" like Apple's as a sign of status. Today, it is not uncommon to hear an executive talk about managing a $30 billion brand. So what is management to do?

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Telecom's Competitive Solution: Outsourcing?

Harvard Business Review

But a solution could come by following the example of the lean, agile, and India-based company Bharti AirTel Limited. Bharti is the largest telecommunications services provider in India. The vendors for telecom network management were paid only for the capacity utilized by Bharti Airtel, not for the equipment. In the U.S.,