Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

Innovation 10

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

In the 1980s, I appeared on a videotape that was widely distributed as part of a leadership development course for IBM managers. All I had to do was look at the path of technological innovation and make a reasonable guess. They changed the company, and IBM made a remarkable comeback. Anyone could have figured this out.

Telecommunications 98

Telecommunications Education Politics Quality 98

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 18, 2010

We so need more innovative leaders like you to inspire these top talents! I work for a telecommunications company and occasionally I’m in the field dressing fiber optic cable in cabinet. Stay blessed! Ellen Mary Jo Asmus : October 20, 2010 at 8:32 pm Ellen, thanks for your kind words. It comes from the work my clients do.

Greenleaf 145

Greenleaf Maslow Telecommunications Blog 145

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 17

Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Cisco is an easy company to admire. Cisco's clever little camcorder collapse provides picture-perfect insight into a pervasive innovation pathology: Ignoring — or disrespecting — the obvious. The company promised back in 2009 to bring out a Wi-Fi Flip in early 2010. or "How can we push the innovation envelope?"

Wireless 11

Wireless Management Telecommunications Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it's more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and challenges of a more connected world. The world is getting smaller.

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage Leadership Telecommunications Talent Management 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

In the mid-90s as CEO of Medtronic, I was concerned about whether we could sustain the remarkable success in innovation that we had enjoyed during the previous 10 years. Christensen and Bower's article offered the counterintuitive notion that great companies fail for the same reasons they initially experience success.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

The episode is clearly are a rare misstep by a company whose obsession for delivering outstanding product functionality is legendary. Apple is certainly known for its strong preference for internal innovation. Even a company with millions of fans needs to care deeply about their opinions.

Software 15

Software Telecommunications Short-term Licensing 15

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 11

Glocalization Mass Marketing P&L Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Many companies extol the value of work-life balance for their employees, but the reality for senior executives? Frequently, stressed and harried managers look up the organization hierarchy and assume that they'll have greater control of their time when they advance to the C-suite. Many managers are "sprinters" early in their careers.

Stress 15

Stress Telecommunications Goleman Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Innovations like Amazon price checks, or changes to healthcare or shipping enabled by mobile phones, are becoming commonplace. Organizations need to enhance their design and capabilities to survive and stay competitive in a world where innovation matters more. Swisscom AG is the major telecommunications provider in Switzerland.

Innovation 8

Innovation Telecommunications Technology Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

In my eyes, the work Steve Blank, Eric Ries, and others have done to provide a cogent, accessible frame around the academic concepts of emergent strategy is one of the most important contributions to the innovation movement over the past few years. That''s not right. Of course, the value of a tool depends on its application.

Ries 8

Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

For example, from telecommunication companies to fintech entrepreneurs, African banking fees and commissions are under tremendous presure. companies and bank accounts while living outside U.S., Most still put marketing managers in nice cars to look for clients. Innovate ferociously.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Data-driven managers, departments, and organizations have always enjoyed distinct advantages. Important as the technology and expertise may be, we find that most companies should focus first on high-quality data, process, people, and culture. alone faces a shortage of roughly ten analytically-competent managers for each deep analyst.

Organization 15

Organization Telecommunications McKinsey Price 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

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. It's in areas of the company such as knowledge management, innovation, communication, and better integration with the supply chain.

Media 9

Media McKinsey Supply Chain Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Its the managers responsibility to lead their employees, manage performance, and provide guidance. Yes, managers often interview job candidates or identify the most talented employees as part of a talent management program. Moreover, almost everybody in a company has certain opinions about how to do HR.

CIO 15

CIO Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

Take Susan, the CEO of a small telecommunications firm. Her team had found ingenious ways to shave costs and innovative ways to add value for the client. She had to spend endless hours reassuring them about the viability of the company. How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience. She had worked hard on it.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Hedge Video Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

When it comes to innovation in industries with strategically narrow windows of opportunities, speed is everything. RIM is just the latest company to learn this lesson. This quickening pace — what academics and journalists have called innovation on steroids — is beginning to reach IT departments.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

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. Attuned to the times, he or she has a stronger chance to uncover and release a company’s latent potential.

CEO 12

CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

He advises some of the world’s biggest companies on environmental strategy. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection."

NGO 14

NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

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. However, Nokia ran into trouble by underestimating the speed at which technological developments in the United States, pioneered by rivals such as Apple, are transforming the mobile telecommunications business.

Globalization 13

Globalization Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

They must manage to both craft the new world with smart strategy, often in the wake of disruption, and cause the organization to embrace the required change. Parachuted in to salvage a beleaguered organization, he pushed the company toward a new way of thinking, ultimately growing IBM’s value and revenues by more than 40 percent.

Leadership 8

Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 8

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Over the past several years a major shift in customer behavior has reshaped the nature of many markets and is leading to profound changes in how companies attempt to serve those markets. Companies in these industries are responding in surprising ways. Several factors have helped accelerate the move to integrated solutions.

Telecommunications 111

Telecommunications Franchising Consultative Diversity 111

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

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

In our experience working with hundreds of companies, this is a very common approach but it is essentially a tactical one. Big data managed this way may well improve your retention numbers but not transform your company. We recently participated in a data-dive type process at a major telecommunications company.

Analysis 8

Analysis Storytelling Brainstorming Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

and other governments to help them design these often complicated auctions and by telecommunications companies trying to figure out the best strategies for bidding. Two well-known companies have also made auctions famous, and economists have played central roles in the success of each. This has all changed.

Strategy 12

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In a downbeat tone the manager of a fast-growing healthcare provider rattled off a list of reasons that her company was turning into a numbers-driven organization: Industry regulations required it, Medicare reimbursement policies required it, and delivering specialized services required yet another form of quantitative analysis.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Strategy Telecommunications Software 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I also argued in my last post that the CEO has a critical and unique role to play in process improvement, enabling a companys activities to be redesigned across functions and divisions. But if board members conclude that their companys vitality depends on process improvement, what kind of CEO should they choose?

Process 15

Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Multi-billion dollar media companies, broadcasters, and cable oligopolies are having to compete for both eyeballs and revenues with a plethora of multinational technology and telecommunications giants who know more about viewer behavior. Only 40% of cable companies’ profits come from video.

Video 8

Video Telecommunications Early Adopters Advertising 8

Chart Your Course

JANUARY 9, 2014

With the forecasts of doom and gloom in so many places around the world, we would expect companies to delay hiring new employees and that the skills shortages might be lessening. The most active hiring will be in the materials and IT & telecommunications sectors. © Copyright 1998-2013 by The Herman Group of Companies, Inc.,

Skills 159

Skills White Paper Case Study Telecommunications 159

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

The difference between a partner and a vendor is now well understood by leading practitioners and scholars , yet many companies still proceed into external collaboration with McNealy's blinders. Their challenge then is to learn how to manage these partnerships differently than the vendor relationships they had before.

Software 15

Software Licensing Long-term Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

Just as government and industry coordinated the telecommunications response after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the order enlists both public and private entities in assuring that critical infrastructure is continuously monitored and protected from attack. media companies. Cyber threats are growing in intensity and scale.

Cooper 8

Cooper CIO Risk Management Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Now consider the joint judgment involved in a process of co-creation , whereby companies collaborate with customers or other partners to bring new offerings to market. If we hope for better management of large-scale endeavors, our models will have to look beyond what it takes to inform individual, or even organizational, moves.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

As managers and mentors, we frequently encounter situations like these, when we come up against the limiting voices of self-doubt in the people we support. As a manager or mentor, one of the most powerful ways you can unlock your people’s potential is to give them a toolkit for managing self-doubt.

Mentor 8

Mentor Telecommunications Tools Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Skill development is clearly a major priority for companies and managers these days. Consider, for instance, the talent development program at Ascom, a global telecommunications company. Managers learn how to articulate a business opportunity in ways that energize team members.

Project 8

Project Parcell How To Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

McKinsey research shows that companies with advanced marketing and sales capabilities tend to grow their revenue two to three times more than the average company within their sector. The company shifted resources to its most lucrative markets, where two-thirds of the opportunity lay. But that wasn’t the real win.

Marketing 11

Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

One was an “ indigenization ” program requiring companies such as Nestle, British American Tobacco, Anglo American Platininum, and Barclays, to hand majority stakes to black Zimbabweans. Amid worsening food and foreign exchange shortages, Mugabe ramped up populist policies to please his supporters.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8