Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2020

A key survey revealed that 59% of companies invest in outsourcing to cut down their expenses. Apart from its cost-cutting benefits, outsourcing helps companies focus on their core business. Companies are also starting to embrace cloud services to improve their outsourcing. billion in 2018. More Flexible Contracts.

Outsourcing 66

Outsourcing Trends Offshoring Telecommunications 66

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 22, 2011

Although this is a somewhat lengthy interview, with an extensive introduction, I think it is a “must read&# for anyone either employed by a telecommunications [.]. The interview was conducted by Art Kleiner and Pierre Péladeau.

Kleiner 89

Kleiner Telecommunications Magazine Strategy 89

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Leaders are debating the changing nature of work and the perceived decline in job security (the lifelong career at a benevolent company is a fading memory) and the erosion of corporate loyalty. Employees are wondering, “If the company is willing to dump me at its convenience, why shouldn’t I dump the company at my convenience?”

Bureaucracy 151

Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

"While the global population is largely gender balanced, men hold eighty-five percent of senior leadership positions in public companies," states Melissa Greenwell , author of the new book, Money on the Table: How to Increase Profits Through Gender-balanced Leadership. percent a year higher than those with no female representation.

Chief Operating Officer 50

Chief Operating Officer How To Leadership Telecommunications 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

There’s a growing consensus that companies need strong, independent boards full of qualified directors if they are to sidestep risks and seize opportunities in our complex and dynamic international economy. One of the most important of those issues is, of course, globalization. since the index was first developed in 2008.

Globalization 15

Globalization Committee Telecommunications Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Businesses are more profitable and productive when they act ethically, treat their staff well, and communicate better with their customers, according to the latest Lady Geek Global Empathy Index. The top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10 and generated 50% more earnings.

Tourism 8

Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

They changed the company, and IBM made a remarkable comeback. I don’t know much about telecommunications – it just seemed obvious. Within the next 20 years there will be millions of brilliant, highly educated knowledge workers flooding the global job market. I just returned from a trip around the world.

Telecommunications 98

Telecommunications Education Politics Quality 98

Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

At the consulting firm McKinsey and Company, a Director may often have less detailed knowledge about a client than a more junior partner. As companies have become larger and more global, there has been a shift from buying stand-alone products to buying integrated solutions. ” Outside the Organization.

Short-term 107

Short-term Long-term Trends Telecommunications 107

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 25, 2011

Getting China and India Right: Strategies for Leveraging the World’s Fastest Growing Economies for Global Advantage Anil K.

Govindarajan 97

Govindarajan Review Books Globalization 97

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Nokia's recent burning platform travails serve as an object lesson to companies trying to navigate a rapidly-changing global economy. Another CEO of a fast-growing biotechnology venture, a Chinese-American entrepreneur, added that he wanted his company to be perceived as American rather than as Chinese.

Globalization 14

Globalization Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology 14

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

The biggest source of growth and increased opportunities in today's business climate lie in the way that individuals and companies work together. Lone rangers and sole-source providers simply cannot succeed in competitive environments and global economies. Company turnaround situation requires a multi-disciplinary approach.

Cooper 50

Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

Nonetheless, innovating with customers should work well in B2B, as it should give companies a deeper knowledge of their customers and promote a trusting relationship. A telecommunications company recently launched an initiative with a business customer. Unfortunately, it seldom turns out that way. Here’s an example.

B2B 8

B2B Innovation Company Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

It was hard to be more of an insider at The Walt Disney Company than COO Thomas Staggs. The 26-year company veteran had been widely seen as the heir apparent to CEO Bob Iger — that is, until Staggs abruptly stepped down this month. “We’ve spent a lot of time with companies that are worried,” Nielson says.

CEO 8

CEO Company Telecommunications Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

Given the forecasts of uncertain global economic growth, we might expect companies to hold off from hiring new employees and to limit whatever international hiring they do to emerging markets. The vast majority of board members told us their companies are hiring in double-digits and across the globe. So the war for talent is on.

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications Health Care Talent Management Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Nokia, today’s telecommunications networking company, has made corporate transformation into an art form. Established originally in 1865, as a paper mill, it became a public company in 1868. Over ensuing decades, the company expanded into an ever-more-bewildering array of product categories.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Crisis Committee Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

Since the late nineteenth century, we have seen five distinct movements in the way companies compete. Many companies still compete this way and there continue to be successors to Taylorism, including business process reengineering and lean production. Edwards Deming , who introduced quality as a way of life for Japanese companies.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Company Lean Production Taylorism 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. We found that concerns about innovation fall behind other issues for most directors.

Innovation 10

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Directors acknowledge cybersecurity as an urgent global issue, but are failing to make the connection between the pervasiveness of cyberthreats and their companies’ vulnerabilities. Why the disconnect between the global- and company-level views? Most responses (80%) were received between October and December 2015.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Health Care Contingency Plans Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

Last year Facebook became the second largest e-commerce company in Africa after Jumia, the industry leader. But as global technology brands penetrate African economies, it is becoming evident that most local startups are experiencing new levels of competition, which could potentially disrupt their operations.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Entrepreneur Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Leading the list are the economy; the regulatory environment; and cybersecurity, according to our global survey of over 4,000 corporate directors, conducted in partnership with WomenCorporateDirectors Foundation, led by Susan Stautberg, Spencer Stuart, led by Julie Hembrock Daum, and independent researcher Deborah Bell. With the 2016 U.S.

Politics 8

Politics Telecommunications Policies Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

We know this approach can work because we''ve seen it: We studied a large corporation that was being split into two public companies for which two new boards had to be created. The chairman wanted to create two balanced boards, with the mix of skills, knowledge, and experience each company needed.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

This post is part of the HBR Insight Center, The Next Generation of Global Leaders. Other consumer-focused companies such as IKEA and Starbucks are following in KFC's footsteps, but the learning curve is both steep and long. Focus recruiting efforts to bring diverse, multicultural candidates into the company.

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage Leadership Telecommunications Talent Management 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The icing on the globalization cake is that such innovations are scalable not only across other emerging markets, but more importantly, they can be scaled up for the developed world. Today, rich countries and poor countries account for roughly equal shares of the global economy. This is what we call reverse innovation.

Innovation 15

Innovation Telecommunications Globalization GDP 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Starting in the 1970s, the country's ability to create low-cost, quality products helped them dominate key industries, such as automobiles, telecommunications, and consumer electronics. To compete with this miraculous turnaround, Western companies, starting with Motorola, began to adopt Japanese methods. But what's happened in Japan?

Six Sigma 18

Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 18

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Increasingly, Western companies are developing products in countries like China and India, and then distributing them globally. Deere & Company developed a small tractor, the 35-horsepower Krish, built and priced specifically for the India market, competing head on with the Indian market leader, Mahindra & Mahindra.

Glocalization 12

Glocalization Mass Marketing P&L Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Important questions, such as who “owns” personal data and what responsibilities companies have as custodians of it, are hot topics of debate. A 2014 global survey by SafeNet found that nearly two-thirds of consumers said they would stop or avoid using a company that had experienced a data breach.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Cost-Benefit Analysis Reputation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

All companies that operate internationally face a striking dual challenge in dealing with public policy: Nations across the globe enact an ever-changing, ever-expanding array of detailed legislation and regulation to protect workers, consumers, investors, and the public welfare, and these diverse rules shape what companies can and cannot do.

Policies 8

Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Many wonder why an academy company like P&G, historically known for developing talent, did not, or was not able to, promote a successor from within its ranks. Using data from the 2012 survey, we also found that boards gave their companies'' very poor grades on talent management. Is P&G no longer an academy company?

Succession 8

Succession Telecommunications Biotechnology Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Many companies extol the value of work-life balance for their employees, but the reality for senior executives? What they don't understand is that modern-day telecommunications, the hair-trigger requirements of financial markets, and the pace of global organizations create 24 x 7 work lives for most executives. There isn't any.

Stress 15

Stress Telecommunications Goleman Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Ellen Kullman (DuPont), Maria das Graças Silva Foster (Petrobras), and Chua Sock Koong (Singapore Telecommunications) lead three of the most powerful companies in the world. For many women in the developing world, a better approach may be to gain employment in existing companies. This is far from a perfect solution, of course.

Microfinance 9

Microfinance Flextime Globalization Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

The latest developments around PRISM and the NSA dragnet operations uncovered by Edward Snowden, in my view, severely damage the fragile fabric of the new global ecosystem, which we so sorely rely on in order to collectively tackle truly urgent global issues such as energy, pollution, food, climate change, (cyber-)terrorism and inequality.

Globalization 10

Globalization Technology Information Technology Telecommunications 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

We have reviewed hundreds of corporate announcements and websites, interviewed numerous leadership experts, and conducted an analysis of CEO changes and successions over the past five years at S&P 500 and Global 100 companies. Through this effort, we have observed certain characteristics of this emerging trend.

CEO 13

CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Their concerns fell into three broad categories: talent, operating in a global marketplace, and regulation and legislation. This was especially daunting during periods of change or growth in which companies needed to hire in large numbers. ” The challenge then was to foster global mindsets and cultural competencies.

CEO 8

CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

At the same time, the demand for learning is greater than ever: Bersin by Deloitte’s latest research with Glassdoor shows that learning and career opportunities are the biggest drivers of employees’ willingness to recommend their company as a great place to work for people under age 40.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Retail Human Capital Class 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Not long ago, the chief executive of a global telecommunications firm shared with me his frustration that "even in a meeting with the CEO, most institutional investors seek only granular data points to plug into their models. Berkshire Hathaway is renowned for its low portfolio turnover, in some cases owning a company for decades.

Long-term 13

Long-term CEO Short-term Asset Management 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

Some companies, such as MobileFX, Velti, Globo, InternetQ, and Lykos, remain based in Greece but have chosen to develop their innovations abroad. The third asset is the considerable number of small but innovative companies all over Greece that have developed new ideas. Global business Innovation'

Planning 9

Planning GDP Tourism Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Most companies’ value chains are heavily dependent on water and energy resources. Others, including technology and telecommunications companies, are major customers of — and suppliers to — those industries. Similarly, companies and cities can make better use of otherwise wasted water and energy.

Energy 8

Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8