Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

In order to survive over the long term and gain competitive advantage, companies must learn how to connect profoundly with the world around them -- not only with customers and stakeholders, but also with employees, local communities, politicians, and the environment itself." The life expectancy of a leading U.S.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 5, 2021

More than 400 engineers and other workers at Google and its parent company, Alphabet , have formed a union open to all employees. The members-only union is supported by the Communication Workers of America, which represents workers in telecommunications, information technology and media. Alphabet Workers’ Union open to all workers.

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Shaw Telecommunications Engineering Ethics 52

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.

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Outsourcing Trends Offshoring Telecommunications 66

Experience to Lead

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Alex brings over 20 years of operations experience with an unwavering focus on exceeding client expectations. Virtual programs with a major telecommunications firm in Malaysia. Soon to deliver 35 additional virtual sessions with the Asia-Pacific offices of a Fortune Global 500 Beauty Tech Company.

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Telecommunications Globalization Participative Learning-by-Doing 52

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. High-potential women often operate under the radar.

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Chief Operating Officer How To Leadership Telecommunications 50

Terry Starbucker

MAY 22, 2016

One year on since our acquisition of our Rocky Mountain cable TV systems, there was a significant operational issue that needed our attention. In 1987, I was hired by a cable pioneer, Jack Kent Cooke, to be the VP of Operations for a cable company he had just purchased with over 400,000 customers scattered in 19 states.

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Letter Leadership Call Center Long-term 171

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?”

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 10, 2018

The first step is to set up a planning team composed of employees from across the company chosen for their in-depth knowledge of specific areas of the business. With stories spreading throughout the world almost instantly through social media, any kind of delay can ultimately prove fatal to your company’s financial future.

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How To Telecommunications Brainstorming Planning 51

Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Many leaders will be operating more like the managing director of a consulting firm. At the consulting firm McKinsey and Company, a Director may often have less detailed knowledge about a client than a more junior partner. The same trend is occurring in pharmaceuticals and telecommunications. ” Outside the Organization.

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Short-term Long-term Trends Telecommunications 107

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. Here are some examples of Collaborations: Parties and consultants involved in taking a company public work together as a team. The joint-venture itself has its own identity.

Cooper 50

Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 18, 2010

I work for a telecommunications company and occasionally I’m in the field dressing fiber optic cable in cabinet. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. It comes from the work my clients do. They are amazing.

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Greenleaf Maslow Telecommunications Blog 145

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.

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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.

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Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

Though companies can easily manipulate the proportion of directors with domain expertise when building a board or appointing new directors, we know virtually nothing about its effects on corporate performance. .” That is, the percentage of directors whose primary professional experience is within a firm’s industry.

Telecommunications 10

Telecommunications Banking Uncertainty Sample 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

In a recent strategy meeting we attended with the leaders of a Fortune-500 company, the word “culture” came up 27 times in 90 minutes. How to Be a Company That Employees Love. We saw this play out in retail, banking, telecommunications, and the fast food industry as well. DAVE WHEELER FOR HBR. Insight Center.

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Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. But on the other hand, in order to safeguard the company’s future competitiveness, CEOs may have no other choice than to invest now.

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Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Does your company have a COO today? That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. Few European companies have COOs, although their numbers appear to be growing. Few European companies have COOs, although their numbers appear to be growing.

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COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 11

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

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.

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Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

For example, starting a lawn service with a mower and a truck will demand far less investment and risk than borrowing a lot of money to buy an existing landscaping company. Operating a small business is not unlike owning a really old house: things break a lot, and you need to fix them, over and over and over.

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Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 255

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. Even a company with millions of fans needs to care deeply about their opinions. In parallel, Apple has made a series of small acquisitions of online mapping companies including Placebase in the U.S.,

Software 15

Software Telecommunications Short-term Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

The art of endurance can be studied in some of the world’s oldest companies. The company has been around for over 250 years. It started life as an ironworks company, pursued vertical integration by entering coal, eventually moved into pressed steel wheels before diversifying into front wheel drive technology and beyond.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Airlines Telecommunications Long-term 8

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.

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Competitive Advantage Leadership Telecommunications Talent Management 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. Without operating in the former, they won't be able to attain economies of scale; sans the latter, they're unlikely to continue developing state-of-the-art technologies.

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Globalization Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

North American restaurant chain Panera Bread is experimenting with a nonprofit variation, where the company donates a number of existing stores to its "Panera Cares" foundation. At these locations, any money made goes first to fund operations, and additional profits go to local charities. BONUS BITS: Telecommunications Takedowns.

Apparel 8

Apparel Telecommunications Transportation Operations 8

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?

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Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 17

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?

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Process CEO Insurance Banking 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

These interviews were conducted with salespeople across a wide variety of industries including high technology, telecommunications, financial services, consulting, industrial equipment, healthcare, and electronics, to name a few. 800 Pound Gorilla. Internal Sale.

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Telecommunications CRM Price Long-term 16

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.

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Stress Telecommunications Goleman Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

The data-driven have crafted the best strategies, uncovered wholly new markets, and kept operational costs low. Important as the technology and expertise may be, we find that most companies should focus first on high-quality data, process, people, and culture. So where to begin? Improve the data. Garbage in, garbage out!"

Organization 15

Organization Telecommunications McKinsey Price 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

While B2C companies have become adept at mining the petabytes of transactional and other purchasing data that consumers generate as they interact online, B2B sales organizations have only recently begun to use big data to inform overall strategy and tailor sales pitches for specific customers in real time.

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B2B Chemicals Analysis B2C 13

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. The Sun-Netscape Alliance was formed when AOL acquired Netscape in 1998 but then sought to spin out the software operations of Netscape.

Software 15

Software Licensing Long-term Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Many large, successful companies are creating offices in California’s Silicon Valley to spot big new trends and learn how they can transform their organization in ways they couldn’t otherwise imagine. Swisscom AG is the major telecommunications provider in Switzerland. Idea Scouting. Idea Scouting. Product Research and Development.

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Innovation Telecommunications Technology Entrepreneur 8

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.

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Entrepreneur Strategy Telecommunications Software 14

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.

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Analysis Storytelling Brainstorming Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

As I described in my 2014 and 2015 reports, for two years running, BYOD existed in over half the 300 companies surveyed: 35% of organizations officially allowed it and 20% did not officially allow it but acknowledged its existence. BYOA showed a different pattern. They’re not. the UK and New Zealand.

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