Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 18, 2023

Have they redirected time, energy, talent, and finances away from lower priority pursuits towards taking these actions? Have they involved a group of people in shaping the vision and therefore are emotionally invested in wanting to help make it a reality? Are they taking actions that are unquestionably big “needle movers”?

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CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Source: Daily Energy Insider Published on 2018-11-20 By Chris Galford ENTERGY CORPORATIONHoltec Files Request to Acquire Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station by End of 2019 Entergy Corp. Source: Topix – Nuclear Energy News Published on 2018-11-20 Explosion kills 1 in Idaho. Operating Events. NRC Daily Event Report.

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Execution Supply Chain Energy Banking 50

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Have they redirected time, energy, talent, and finances away from lower priority pursuits towards taking these actions? Have they involved a group of people in shaping the vision and therefore are emotionally invested in wanting to help make it a reality? Are they taking actions that are unquestionably big “needle movers”?

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CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Digital event: Deep Dive into the Energy Sector In case you missed it, the CMI APAC Regional Boards recently delivered a Deep Dive into the Energy Sector Digital Event.

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Mentor Newsletter Energy Webinar 52

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

What is a business without proper technology? The answer often reopens the typical debate about technology; namely should a business invest in tech or should it instead focus on other factors of success such as hiring the right team, keeping track of the trends on the market and managing your brand reputation.

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Tips Technology Depreciation Entrepreneur 50

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim – 12th President, the World Bank. Authority on new technology and communication. a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Former Executive VP and Head of Strategy & Transformation at TMB Bank. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. CEO Magazine – CEO of the Year.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 28, 2010

And to top it off, they have no technical experience to operate their own machines. Stop hiding behind the old and antiquated belief ‘you’re above all that mundane stuff’ — you’re too important/elevated to have to know/understand your own technology. It’s your business. See this post.

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How To Licensing Ethics Creativity 332

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

If you believe the hype, technology is going to help us end global poverty. Berkeley researcher Kentaro Toyama has a blog dedicated to calling out naïve or inappropriate uses of information and communication technologies (ICT). To do that, it's vital that technology be suitable and relevant to the lives of its users.

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Technology Microfinance Banking Document 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

Across industrial sectors, from healthcare to energy, from construction to retail, engineers are creating new technologies with potentially disruptive implications for the current architectural order of the global economy. One of the technologies, an “ AI doctor ”, shows great promise for the future of healthcare in Africa.

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Health Care Technology System Library 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best? If opposing views are worth the time and energy to debate, then they are worth a legitimate effort to gain alignment on perspective and resolution on position. Thank you for sharing Mike! Your insight is fantastic.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

If you believe the hype, technology is going to help us end global poverty. Berkeley researcher Kentaro Toyama has a blog dedicated to calling out naïve or inappropriate uses of information and communication technologies (ICT). To do that, it's vital that technology be suitable and relevant to the lives of its users.

Technology 8

Technology Microfinance Banking Document 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

The client is opening new locations in new communities and asks its consultants to formulate a plan of action and oversee operating aspects. Organ donor banks and associations, in consortium with hospitals. Here are some examples of Joint-Venturing: Producers of energy create an independent drilling or marketing entity.

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Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2015

But “unconventional” also means expensive — squeezing oil out of uncooperative mud or tight rock formations is an energy, water and capital-intensive process. And consider the “energy return on investment” — that is, how much useful energy you get for every unit of energy put in.

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Energy Short-term Price Long-term 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Do you have boundless energy or mesmerizing charisma? Bold and bombastic does not, in my opinion, mean leadership – we have so many of these aggressive people in power today and all they do is yak, yak, yak and fill their bank accounts. Don’t tell me, show me…Don’t talk the talk, but walk the walk.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Many other major financial institutions — Bank of America , Citigroup, HSBC, Barclay’s, Wells Fargo, UBS, etc. But, at the end of the day, it is bank leaders and employees who must take the right business, legal and ethical actions under existing law. Manipulation of energy markets. LIBOR rate rigging.

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Banking Management Ethics Letter 8

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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Digital technology is the biggest agitator of the business world today. Mobile technology, social media, cloud computing, embedded devices, big data, and analytics have radically changed the nature of work and competition. Technology has tremendous potential to be the engine of increasing human, organizational, and economic prosperity.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reported that companies waste 30% of the energy they consume. For many businesses, this is equivalent to overspending on energy by that amount to achieve current production levels. You’d think that increasingly sophisticated technology would help reduce this waste.

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Company Management CIO Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. Director Recruitment and Skills. Again, we found differences among industries.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break. However, no one is saying “before we can do analytics we must explain the take-to-the-bank value of analytics to decision makers.”

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Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 51

Skip Prichard

JUNE 1, 2020

Technology has connected more people in more places at more times than ever before. For example, Kyle is an EVP of large bank. If you’re operating as a know-it-all, you have an underlying belief that that any new stuff really isn’t of much value. People, companies and entire industries have had to pivot and reinvent themselves.

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Leadership Open-book Learning-by-Doing Quality 108

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

In Operation Desert Storm , more than 100,000 Iraqi troops crossed into Kuwait, fixed themselves into strategic positions — in front lines — to combat U.S. When Netscape Navigator imagined the disruption of Microsoft Windows, it forgot that its web browser was an add-on on the operating system. They secured their flanks.

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Porter Banking Globalization Information Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This frugal solution is built around affordable and easy-to-use medical devices that can be operated by nurses in rural clinics. degrees Celsius, all countries — rich and poor — need to rapidly transition to a low-carbon economy powered by renewable energy. Climate change is a clear and present danger to all of humanity.

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Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

The current mantra is “Move fast with stable infrastructure”, which speaks to the organizational design challenge of operating at scale in a fickle and volatile world. It also leads to a more positive work climate, above-average staff engagement, a strong commitment to values and few(er) energy-sapping turf wars and in-fighting.

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Banking Strategy Film Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Recent research conducted by IBM among global boardroom and C-suite executives in 28 countries found that better cybersecurity is among their top technology priorities. USAA Bank is looking to remove passwords entirely for its best customers. Online security and customer intimacy go hand in hand.

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Marketing Customer Intimacy CIO Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

financial services sector went from 13,000 of independent banks to half that number, while the top ten banks grew from 20% market share to 60%. As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths.

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Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Entrepreneur 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In research for our book, Time, Talent and Energy, my co-author Michael Mankins and I found that such investments do indeed pay off: The top-quartile companies in our study unlocked 40% more productive power in their workforce through better practices in time, talent and energy management. Yet, only one in eight employees are inspired.

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Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Facebook, KickStarter, Kiva, Twitter, and other companies thriving in the social era are operating by the rules of the Social Era. But too many major companies — Bank of America, Sony, Gap, Yahoo, Nokia — that need to get it, don't. Most organizations operating today started when companies needed more operating capital.

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Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

Today’s technology does allow global and instantaneous communication, but most of us still commute to offices for work every day. Drawing an analogy to banking, they rent long and lease short. Imagine rooms that automatically go on stand-by and save on energy when left empty — which we are exploring in our research at MIT.

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Creativity Technology Environment Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

To stay competitive, organizations need to continually find opportunities for innovation in key processes such as customer service and product development, and adoption of a new process almost always requires the implementation of new information technology. Avoiding a new technology may not be an option, but it shouldn't come first.

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Process Innovation Hammer Resistance 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

New research , funded by the Tony Elumelu Foundation and conducted by my team at the African Institution of Technology , shows that within Africa, innovation is accelerating and the continent is finding better ways of solving local problems, even as it attracts top technology global brands.

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Innovation Engineering Entrepreneur Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

While this would seem sufficient to alert the bank to his impending trip abroad, “transaction denied” flashes across the terminal screen, leaving this longtime customer stranded, fuming, and no longer so loyal. If it’s all about the operations then you lose sight of the customer. But getting it right pays off.

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COO Planning Metrics Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

CEO Ginni Rometty took the top job in 2012, and identified Africa as a locus of technological growth early in her tenure. It was co-hosted by the Minister of Technology and included ministers from the cabinet charged with meeting the Grand Challenges IBM identified. Last month, IBM launched a dialogue with the government of Nigeria.

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Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. In 2016 the company sold its China operation to Didi Chuxing because of the fierce competitiveness of the local player. A year later, Uber admitted defeat in another region, selling its operation in Russia to Yandex.

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Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

The economy still hasn’t received a boost from sanctions relief, and many big banks that left the country have not returned. Large European banks in particular are not ready to return to Iran even though they are permitted. financial system for bank transactions related to Iran. However, remaining U.S.

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Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. Instead of spending years gradually migrating decades-old IT systems, companies are investing in state-of-the-art cloud-native systems that typically only take 18 months to create and cost about 20% as much to operate, on average. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

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Planning Agility System Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

To enhance financial flexibility, companies have been retaining unprecedented amounts of cash on their balance sheets, calling it "strategic" cash to distinguish it from the "operating" cash that is needed to run the business. energy or telecom) or research-intensive industries (e.g., Allow for Greater Responsiveness to Future Events.

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