Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

She’s taking over the seat formerly occupied by Apple’s former CFO, John Anderson, who resigned amidst a stock options backdating scandal. Andrea Jung was an executive vice president at Neiman-Marcus before she joined Avon in 1996. Avon’s stock price was up 15% in 2007.Â

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Be well and have a great day sp [link] mikemyatt Glad to hear you've got the train back on the tracks, and I hope this post was of some use. I am working on a consulting project where we have run into "Crazy", We had started down the path you outlined here, but we appreciate the clarity of your message.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. Gianpiero Petriglieri – Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD , Director of the Management Acceleration Programme at INSEAD , medical doctor and psychiatrist by training. Claire Diaz-Ortiz – Technology innovator and speaker. million times. Entrepreneurs.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Almost any enterprise you can think of, no matter the industry or sector, is trying (or being pressured by competitors) to use new technology to harness the vast new oceans of data being generated by smartphones, sensors, digital cameras, GPS devices, and myriad other sources of information originating from customers and markets.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 13, 2011

While working for a large, rapidly expanding non-profit, I was tasked with upgrading the organization’s technology. Adding to the challenge was an already understaffed technology department, supporting antiquated technology. Ultimately, I was called into the CFO’s office and asked for my resignation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Everyone in the room who is fully satisfied with their IT staff and has no concerns about finding and recruiting new technology talent raise your hand. If you can't find 'em, you better keep 'em and train 'em, say three McKinsey consultants writing in their firm's eponymous quarterly. OK, you way in the back, you can leave. What to do?

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Development McKinsey CFO Competitive Advantage 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

Modern leadership may be as much about facilitating strategy through hiring, training, technology, and focused tasks and goals, as it is about face-to-face interaction. Clear and meaningful tasks, goals, and technology tools that support the organization''s direction can supplement interpersonal leadership.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

It starts with employees who have been trained in the science of service. Provide special training for frontline employees. Make sure your employees are trained to handle the potentially stressful task of working with customers. Use technology to provide quick, efficient customer service. Make your customers feel valued.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

A lot of HR professionals think in terms of the functions activities, such as, ‘We need to change the organization structure’ or ‘We need to run a training program’; I think in terms of the business outcome I want to get to, then figure out how I’m going to get there.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

Just ask Gene Morphis, ex-CFO of clothing retailer Francesca's. without any compliance process or technology in place.". The combination of the right policy and the right technology can render even the most delicate of communications compliant. Once a policy is in place, training is critical.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

The technology company, Alentix*, was doing well and growing annually at the rate of about 15%. They''d all read innumerable books on leadership, taken leadership skills assessments, and attended multiple training programs — including executive leadership programs at top business schools. But its European division was struggling.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. ” Immelt elevated marketing and digital media when he promoted Beth Comstock to vice chair, while other positions, including that of the CFO, are at the senior vice president level.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

As game-changing technologies transform every business process, they also give us the ability to create new products and services that were impossible just a few years ago. The old way was about technology-centricity; the new way is about technology-empowered business strategies. Transformation Drivers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Little did any of us know then, but two of the world’s most powerful future CEOs – the future heads of Fortune 20 companies — were getting their engineering training at General Motors Institute — Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM, and Mary Barra. Meanwhile, GM was nurturing female talent in its classrooms.

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Engineering CFO Industry Bureaucracy 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The chief financial officer (CFO) role rose to prominence in the mid -1980’s as pressures for value management and more transparent investor relations gained traction. The scale and scope of this adoption effort—which involves formal training, coaching, and metrics—shouldn’t be downplayed. Information & technology Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

The primary objectives in creating our team were to rein in spending on external strategy firms and to attract, train, and retain top talent in the company. the CEO’s or CFO’s), but rather serve the needs of our internal project sponsors (usually at the CXO, EVP, and SVP level). But the key was knowing when to stop growing.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Perhaps your manager had your job title a few years or months back, or your new CFO recently transitioned into the role from heading the accounting department. Holding advanced degrees in social psychology and instructional technology from the University of Rochester and the Rochester Institute of Technology, Ms.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

Invest significant time in training and mentoring a junior colleague so they can run the budget meetings without you. The same kind of technologies that enable you to compete at work — the calendars, the shared work tools — should be used at home. Work differently.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Some localities had bought lights but failed to fully utilize the accompanying technology, which meant they couldn’t service them properly or achieve the hoped-for energy savings. It would position Lumiscape’s technology platform for growth as the smart-cities movement showed signs of taking off. But not here , he thought.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

“I have no education or training to do anything else. We need to invest in our personnel—hire more crew members and give them better training and higher wages. ” Ken didn’t want to shoot down Mari’s proposal immediately, but he agreed with the CFO. “Why have you stayed?” Nobuo shrugged.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

.” The study found that the factor with the highest impact on the per capita cost of a breach is employee training. Is that IT people’s training or the standard security training that everybody gets? Next, having an incident response team that is trained and ready for the scenario of a breach.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

During an intensive 8-week pilot, each team was trained and then it analyzed the cost structure of one function and recommended cost reduction tactics. Leadership created an optimization office reporting to the CFO to facilitate cost reduction projects, train new team members, and document and disseminate results across the system.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 25, 2011

It’s not rocket science, but it is surprising how many CFO’s and managers don’t stop to evaluate the effectiveness of their meetings. Assign tasks and ask if there are questions. Wrap up the meeting with a summary of accomplishments and next steps action items.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Employee security training and best practices need to be user friendly and simple to be effective. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently changed its guidelines to reflect this reality, and now recommends getting rid of rules that complicate password practices for end users, such as requiring frequent password resets.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

These fears aren’t unfounded: managers across industries have cost targets and technology enables lower-value tasks to move from people to machines. But we believe an obsession mainly on technology’s potential for cost-cutting is misguided. Closing this gap is not simply a matter of training programs for existing knowledge.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

They trained experts in improvement projects (" Black Belts ") who then drove initiatives that achieved large financial results. Six Sigma zealots say "Belts," lots of training, and performance measures are what matter. Six Sigma zealots argue that if you train enough people, you get a cultural transformation.

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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Gloria surmised that Dr. Chavez needed another round of training. She didn't doubt the franchise owner's commitment to high-quality, holistic care; he was a star pupil in the most recent training course at headquarters. His style was at odds with the Calidad de Vida methodology of care. But Jorge clearly needed further coaching.

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Case Study Franchising Health Care Follow-up 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2017

A cybercriminal might impersonate a CFO or CEO, and then send an email to accounts payable asking for a wire transfer, or to HR requesting a dump of employee tax information. Workers at technology giants Facebook and Google — filled with tech-savvy people — fell for such a scam that almost cost them $100 million.

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Supply Chain System CFO Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The very idea of leading people in jobs is changing with the democratization of work and the continued advance of digital technology. Digital technology is increasing the complexity and options associated with this plurality of work. As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged.

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