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. Check out our learnings from last year’s inaugural conference here.) Reserved your spot?

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Manage Your Finances. It costs money to stay updated about your industry, to keep up with the trends, and to acquire new skills. There will be congresses, conferences, and seminars to go, and they aren’t cheap. You will also possibly want new productivity-enhancing gadgets and apps. It isn’t cheap to be a leader.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

If your small business plan can move the nation forward, you’re a step closer to winning Uncle Sam’s financing and support. With the highest per capita spending across all industries, Washington, D.C. A content writing service, for example, plays a valuable support role in product development.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. Do people in your organization laugh at new ideas?

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 5, 2009

Jim’s passion is product management and product marketing. With over 20 years of technology industry experience, he has a fresh and current perspective in leading product management teams and has a gift for taking conceptual ideas and turning them into strategic reality using methods based on market sensing best practices.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Your upcoming leaders will need to understand how to do business internationally – international laws and regulations for doing business in various countries, cultural differences, the ability to gauge the market overseas including identifying market for product or services and the competition, developing overseas offices, leading virtually, etc.

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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. What promotional vehicles are most successful in your industry? Practice pitches and product or service descriptions.

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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. Am I open to exploring new industries and roles, or do I want to stick to this specific job description? Continuous Learning Stagnancy, no matter what the industry, is never an option.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

When Subra Suresh was tapped to lead the National Science Foundation (NSF), in 2010, he saw that many of the pathbreaking discoveries developed through the agency’s grants weren’t finding their way to the marketplace, so he sought to foster better links between government and industry. Now there was a plan in place.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Digitization has upended industry after industry — and now, as it begins to transform the environments that will be home to two-thirds of the world’s population by 2030, there is good reason to brace for another wave of disruption. How Might Smart Cities Shift Value in Our Industry?

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Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 9

Strategy Driven

MARCH 10, 2023

Apart from coming up with new products and dealing with finances, you also have to market your product efficiently to catch customers’ attention. You can use surveys and analytical tools to fully understand the target audience for your product or service. Starting a new business can be challenging on its own.

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Marketing Tips Audience Marketing Strategy 105

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Ever thought air mattresses in living rooms would grow into a billion dollar company that would take on the vacation rental market and the hotel industry? Design Conferences. The Internet has the necessary infrastructure and achieved the global ubiquity to be able to reimagine and disrupt nearly every industry in the world.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Ever thought air mattresses in living rooms would grow into a billion dollar company that would take on the vacation rental market and the hotel industry? Design Conferences. The Internet has the necessary infrastructure and achieved the global ubiquity to be able to reimagine and disrupt nearly every industry in the world.

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2017

’ One could imagine an Apple car that is a Tesla-like product—one with comparable speed, self-driving technology, aesthetics, and features–but is so seamlessly integrated with the Apple ecosystem and requires a new sized iPhone, or some kind of blend of iPhone, iPad or MacBook. How about a man cave on wheels? Or a kitchen?

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Transportation Sports Pharmaceuticals Health Care 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

Their reliance on alliances and licenses has increased in both product development and marketing and they have become aggressive acquirers. They'll become themselves less attractive as partners and licensees and over time they'll gradually become less able to finance acquisitions.

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Licensing Depreciation Pharmaceuticals Budgeting 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

If, by contrast, Tesla’s target was merely a $100 billion market capitalization — frankly, a great target for most companies, as it projects a 7% return annually for the next 10 years — then investors might quickly lose their appetite to continue financing the company. They signed up for transformation, not steady returns.

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Planning Marketing Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The challenge is that you’re competing against every individual in your industry who wants to be a high performer. If you want to be a chief financial officer (CFO), identify five CFOs who you admire or who are well regarded in your industry. If your goal is to be great at early-stage pharma R&D, it’s the same process.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In many industries, drones are poised to generate what Paul Nunes and I call Big Bang Disruptions, with the FAA itself estimating $100 billion in new business growth. The causes vary for this epidemic of counter-productive interference, which is threatening a long and successful policy, at least in the U.S., commercial drone industry.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

Below is a sample of the research about what happens when algorithms are given control of tasks traditionally carried out by humans (all emphasis mine): In 2002 a team of economists studied the impact of automated underwriting algorithms in the mortgage lending industry.

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Learning-by-Doing Policies Finance Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2016

Many founders fall into the same trap: they focus all their energy and resources on building a product and finding customers, and when they come up for air, they realize that they need to raise outside capital. The average outside equity financing round, from the beginning of the roadshow to when the money is wired, takes six months.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

In any industry, selling to a C-level executive buyer is often a cause for celebration. On the other hand, if you're larger and better established, you can help me reward my team by having them showcase their work at conferences and present papers. But closing the sale is no time to relax. It's great career development for them.".

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Fortunately for would-be entrepreneurs everywhere else, the Valley doesn’t hold that claim in every industry (yet). Finance has homes in New York, Hong Kong, and London. Finding talent and financing isn’t the only hurdle to overcome on the road to startup success; it’s the first of many. The fear that your products are inferior.

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Entrepreneur Venture Funding Finance Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

His windmill made him famous, and he has since traveled all over the world speaking at leadership conferences. Though there were empires and kingdoms, the gross world product (GWP) was largely flat. Human productivity was low and few technologies, at large scale, were created. By the late 19th century, the U.S.

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GDP Travel Innovation Globalization 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? The most talented individuals in industries such as technology and finance spoke English, either as a first or second language. That''s not a cost-effective strategy. Translation software?

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Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

Sales Wolf Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time. .

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Directory Human Resources Resources Blog 113

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

When the well-known hedge fund manager and short-seller Jeremiah Hughes first put Terranola in the spotlight, issuing ominous warnings about unsold products, a looming patent expiration, and flawed growth projections, the considered judgment of the executive team was to do nothing. “I That decision turned out to have serious consequences.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 18, 2019

That’s a lot of people working hard to sell their products/services and, hopefully, turn a profit! Business travel is commonly a vital aspect of creating leads, meeting with investors, attending conferences, generating interest, and so on. Industry-specific equipment and software is often a necessary expense. Travel Expenses.

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Outsourcing Travel Software Insurance 50

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

By invitation of the GM with whom I was to mainly to work, I visited the competitor’s premises to learn several things about their industry. When in practice as a management consultant, I once started a client in a region on a day when they, and a major competitor, were having a board meeting that afternoon.

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Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

But both experts caution that counter offers are often counter-productive. It doesn’t have to be a big party; “it could be coffee and donuts in the conference room.” Julie* told René she was leaving the company for her dream job in the fashion industry. “Say: ‘We’ve missed you.

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Case Study Learning-by-Doing Team Company 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Technology and new concepts of living, as well as progressive notions of urbanization, industrial capitalism, consumerism, ecotourism, and renewable systems, could meld to fashion a new shared-growth paradigm. State-run lotteries are among the most moribund industries in Africa. Sadly, it isn't that simple. Let me give you an example.

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Supply Chain Globalization Politics Franchising 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

It was just the industry and firm norm. It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. But so did my peers, whether or not they had children, partners, or aging parents.

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Team Conference Restructuring McKinsey 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2014

Worse still, not one of the company’s assorted products could begin to compete with Ford’s Model T on price or quality. Yet in little more than a decade, each GM product line was turning a profit, and the corporation as a whole had established itself as the world’s premier automaker and the nation’s largest single employer.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

“Once they are formed they persist, possibly for centuries, and since different structures and types display different degrees of this ability to survive, we almost always find that actual group and national behavior more or less departs from what we should expect it to be if we tried to infer it from the dominant forms of the productive process.”.

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Succession Entrepreneur Globalization Innovation 82

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

MBA students are dutifully taught finance, strategy and operations as if revenue appeared by magic and salespeople were at best a necessary evil. Sullivan has read numerous sales books and attended conferences, but says most provide no more than a brief sugar high. They don't have what it takes.

Succession 15

Succession Conference Outsourcing Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

I met Jeff Bezos at one of the first e-commerce conferences ever organized, sat by him at lunch, and within minutes knew I had to hit the “record” button on my cassette recorder. (I He was erratic, like when he got caught talking up the stock in finance-oriented chat rooms. I told you this was a while ago.)

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Long-term Price Finance Business Model 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Electricity generation and transportation each constitute around 30% of total emissions, with industrial sources making up 20% of total emissions. Investors in the green economy would face less risk because of the federal government’s subsidies for basic energy research and its encouragement of cleaner products. Blue States.

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Energy Transportation Policies Politics 8