Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

It’s less than two weeks to go until the highly anticipated CMI Women Conference on Tuesday 16 May. Plus, don’t forget you can still reserve your online place at the CMI Women conference , which will take place on 16 May. Reserved your spot? We’ve got an exclusive interview with Simon here !

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Here’s the scene: A problem has come up with one of your supply chain vendors, threatening to delay timely shipment of your product. At the same time, a potential opportunity appears that, with some exploration and investment, could lead to a new generation of products down the road. Sustaining Innovation.

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Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 12

Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2013

Your budget may have limitations, but your imagination doesn’t, so just because you own a small business doesn’t mean you’re off the hook for big thinking. It’s not by lowering your pricing or throwing in extra products or services. If you want to get noticed in a noisy world, your message needs to be better, not louder.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

Private conversations are accommodated by small conference rooms or a walk about the parking lot. The UC Berkley budget gap has grown to $150 million, & still the Chancellor is spending money that isn't there on $3,000,000 consultants. Everyone sits in open cubicles which are all roughly the same size. I Think Not.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 27, 2022

This can help to foster a sense of teamwork and collaboration, which can translate into better communication and productivity back in the office. It can be a chance for employees to step outside of their usual routines and think creatively, which can lead to new innovations and opportunities for the company. Consider your budget.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Think of how the Empire State Building went from a sketch to the jewel of New York’s skyline in twenty-one months, or how Apple’s iPod went from a project with a single employee to a product launch in eleven months. In fact, no less than 92% of megaprojects come in over budget or over schedule, or both. These are wonderful stories.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

No one wants to sit on a boring conference call, especially when they have other work to do. But that’s the reality for a lot of people, at least according to recent InterCall research on the rise of mobile conference calls and employee conferencing behavior. But don’t abandon the physical conference room just yet.

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Technological innovations have led to round-the-clock work schedules and mounting expectations. Our assignments have grown more collaborative, requiring more coordination, conference calls, and meetings. Now, more than ever, we need strategies for being productive. In recent years, work has become infinitely more complex.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Call 2014 the year of innovation. Google Trends reveals that interest in disruptive innovation crept up to peak levels this year. It seems that every time you hop on a quarterly earnings call, the CEO mentions innovation. If innovation is the foundation to building the future, this focus should be reassuring.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

He has recently aquired ownership of The Whiteboard Sessions (a conference designed for leaders & strategy). After confering with the elders and leaders in the town, she was told that it cost money to go to school. but you’ll not find that here. but you’ll not find that here. These are the leaders who go unnamed and unrecognized.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The short conference brought together public and private sector managers working on environmental and social issues. What really struck me is that both Xerox and Waste Management are doing something mostly unheard of: they're working with customers to help them use less of their traditional product or service.

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Productivity Products Christensen Document 15

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Most people are more products of pop culture than they are of training. I have spoken at conferences, strategic planning retreats, symposia, workshops and board meetings for hundreds. Innovating programs, strategies and methodologies. Being productive and fulfilled. This series will have three more to come.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 51

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

PL and CM: Coherent companies – those that possess a capabilities system that aligns their strategy with their product/service portfolio – generate superior performance over time, which is what we call the coherence premium. We believe coherence confers a substantial premium, and we’ve measured it. SD : Why now?

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

Despite how much has been written about corporate innovation, it still presents a big challenge. On one hand, senior executives encourage employees to develop new products and services. So how can internal innovators create confidence in the viability of their ideas as they’re still evolving?

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Attending a conference in your field might be a goal for someone who is passionate about sharing their expertise with others. If you would prefer to be a leader in terms of starting and supporting projects, then your leadership goals could focus on bringing in innovation, organizing resources, and finding funding for your company projects.

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Examples Goal Career Short-term 52

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Then come down—whether it is getting published or getting a new product into stores. Proceed with extreme caution.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Without the ability to say “no” to low-level tasks in order to say “yes” to groundbreaking ones, people stop innovating. I worked with a software development company in which the CEO came up with a new product feature on a weekly basis. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo have proven adept at channeling funding – millions of dollars in cases like the Pebble watch – to innovative new products and projects, often by previously unknown inventors and designers. Can larger companies employ the same type of system to find and fund internal innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Buyers increasingly expect to check with their peers before they'll purchase from a company — using social media, peer communities, old fashioned live events and conferences, personal and professional networks, and other connective tools. Let's say you're preparing for a major product or service launch.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

This comes at a significant financial and productivity cost to all organizations, as demonstrated by research in corporate settings : Onboarding an external hire can cost up to twice the departing executive’s salary, and the time it takes for an external hire to become productive is twice as long as for someone hired from within.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Nowadays many people regard open-plan offices with skepticism — remnants of a once-cool work space fad that led to more distraction than innovation. The open layout has increased productivity, energy and connectedness. glass-walled conference rooms so most meetings are seen by everyone, even if they aren’t heard.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

If they don’t like a company’s product, or an experience they had, the whole world will know about it. Making this connection can be more challenging for big established companies, whose primary success is built on products and value propositions from an earlier time. They already account for a third of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Buyers increasingly expect to check with their peers before they'll purchase from a company — using social media, peer communities, old fashioned live events and conferences, personal and professional networks, and other connective tools. Let's say you're preparing for a major product or service launch.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

Breaking down each task into basic components and standardizing workers’ behaviors to eliminate choice and flexibility could help managers turn employees into productive machines, albeit with alienated spirits. So how can managers do a better job of fostering learnability in the workplace?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

Marketers constantly tell me that they''re the stewards of the brand and while that sounds good at marketing conferences, it won''t matter at all in a world where customers can have a real relationship with a company through the expanded experience of using its actual products and services. Branding Disruptive innovation Marketing'

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Insurance Brand Disruptive Innovation Download 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Susan Catalano, Citi’s Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of HR, was reading the Divergent series — about a future society broken up into five social factions cultivating different virtues — around the same time she was asked to assist with an open floor plan for the HR group’s new workspace and the book influenced the end product. “We

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Chief Operating Officer Open-book Travel Diversity 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Susan Catalano, Citi’s Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of HR, was reading the Divergent series — about a future society broken up into five social factions cultivating different virtues — around the same time she was asked to assist with an open floor plan for the HR group’s new workspace and the book influenced the end product. “We

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Chief Operating Officer Open-book Travel Diversity 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

More importantly, business education needs to evolve once again, revising its goals to educate leaders of the future who have a new set of skills: sustainable global thinking, entrepreneurial and innovative talents, and decision-making based on practical wisdom. Many government-supported universities are already cutting budgets.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

For agri-food and beverage businesses, fresh water is an essential ingredient in their production process. The Coca-Cola Company has a deep interest in creating sustainable sources of fresh water, as it takes over two liters of water to make one liter of product. We've noticed there are no shortage of major conferences (e.g.,

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Globalization Career McKinsey Strategic Planning 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

I recently chatted with Tim Hayden, the SVP of Mobile Strategy at Edelman Digital , a conference where we were both speakers. When they read about a big company launching a cutting-edge initiative, they want in — but the economics usually only make sense for large companies that have experimental budgets.

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Marketing Telemarketing Hotels Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Initially, we got the impression that gurus might have little in common other than a desire to get the HBR stamp of legitimacy conferred upon their latest notion. In transition periods, during big technological shifts or the ends of recessions, companies often turn their aspirations to growth through innovation. As the U.S.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 23, 2019

You may feel that your team just aren’t as productive as they might be when you’re not there to ensure that they are working hard, for example. If that is the case, what can you do? Something you don’t want to do is to constantly have to check in on them. In the worst cases, your staff might even want to look elsewhere for work.

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How To Travel Conference Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Even my hometown can’t get our products right , Cameron thought as he chased Graham over to the playground. The innovative system promised to reduce local governments’ energy consumption and maintenance costs and improve their constituent relationships. “Higher!” ” Graham shouted. “Good idea.

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Case Study Business Model CFO Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

No One Actually Wants You to Be Creative :( Inside the Box Slate Americans love to give lip service to creativity, celebrating imaginative artists and innovators and calling for "out of the box" ideas. One example: The Jefferson North Assembly Plant had to cut its landscaping budget, resulting in a visual eyesore that matched morale.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

People are also being asked by their bosses or HR to attend conferences, read case studies, watch videos, and try their hand at simulations, all with the goal of picking up new ideas and techniques. better goal would be something like “Sell $100,000 worth of the new product.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

But now, instead of doing the hands-on work that you loved, you find yourself buried in managerial tasks like budgeting and supervising people that leave you feeling numb at best. To remain globally competitive, organizations need to devise innovative ways to encourage and reward creativity. And plenty of other people feel the same.

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