Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The session was entitled “Technology and Business Collaboration: Leadership and Management” and was moderated by Dr Alan Miller CMgr FCMI (former CMI Hong Kong Regional Board Member). Find more information about the event and survey results here. The meeting opened with a welcome message from Dr Ann Francke OBE, chief executive of CMI.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2020

Either way, the technology offers several benefits, such as competitive advantage, increased efficiency in day-to-day operation, and enhanced customer experience. The turnaround time for documents, such as minutes of the meeting, seminar, discussion groups, forum, conference or lectures is quicker. It also reduces paperwork.

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Competitive Advantage Seminar Webinar Conference 66

Coaching Tip

MAY 14, 2014

Preliminary results from a Rapid Learning Institute (RLI) survey at the 2014 ASTD Conference and Expo point to a big gap between what e-learners want and what they’re getting. Finding #3: Investments in technology and mobile learning are expected to rise . Finding #1: Shorter is better , but still in short supply .

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Competitive Advantage Survey Sample Reference 115

HR Digest

JANUARY 16, 2022

Understanding how technology affects employment trends. According to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report, there were more than 758,000 unfilled jobs across all industries in 2021. Instead, take advantage of conferences and workshops tailored specifically toward your industry. Reskilling and upskilling.

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Human Resources Performance Review Resources Trends 124

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 17, 2024

“We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator,” said United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at an international climate negotiations conference. “A recent global survey asked 100,000 16- to 20-year-olds about their attitudes to climate change. Really — MIT Technology Review.

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Crisis Media Review Survey 52

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Understanding how technology affects employment trends. According to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report, there will be 758,000 unfilled jobs across all industries by 2021. Instead, take advantage of conferences and workshops tailored specifically toward your industry. Reskilling and upskilling.

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Human Resources How To Resources Performance Review 105

HR Digest

JANUARY 31, 2021

Come to work some days a week; rest operate from home as far as possible. Speaking at a Reuters’ conference, Jope said he did not expect office workers across western Europe and North America to return to work until at least April. We can rely on people’s use of technology to stick around.

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Real Estate Social Capital Fashion Teamwork 59

Chart Your Course

AUGUST 22, 2014

Small business owners surveyed by eVoice similarly reported being habitually distracted from their primary function by tasks such as accounting, receptionist work and office management, marketing, and sales. The most essential time management technology for increasing your productivity is calendar scheduling software.

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Tools Productivity Products Company 133

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Same firm handles radioactive waste at Hanford In this file photo, container management operators at US Ecology Idaho near Mountain Home catalog closed drums filled with various types of hazardous waste in. Operating Events. NRC Daily Event Report. Source: Topix – Nuclear Energy News Published on 2018-11-20.

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Execution Supply Chain Energy Banking 50

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. So the real question is this…how does a CEO get to the point of being so disconnected from operations that he or she just doesn’t have a clue?

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Blog Gordon CEO Consultative 401

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

It often helps if the executive in charge is not from IT, but from operations or marketing, and that there are close links with customer-facing and other operational roles. As speaker Bernard Marr put it at CMI’s National Conference: “ what the hell is Big Data? Ultimately, technology has to serve us, not the other way around.

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Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 20, 2010

WikiLeaks, the swashbuckling new-media organization whose motto is “We open governments,” relies on a technology of extreme reticence called Tor Hidden Services — a part of the Tor Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated not to light and clarity but to shadows and opacity, to the increasingly difficult art of keeping secrets online.

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Document Project Politics Download 95

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Read more from DXC Technology: Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus. Digital transformation transcends technology. Digital transformation is often viewed through a narrow technology lens, as just another mobile project or e-commerce initiative. How to Become a Digital Enterprise. No industry is immune.

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Technology Industry GDP Content 8

Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration (ESA) - U.S.  In just over 15 minutes you will learn a lot of important information about the upcoming flu season - I know I certainly did. .  In just over 15 minutes you will learn a lot of important information about the upcoming flu season - I know I certainly did. .

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System Human Resources Presenteeism Blog 167

Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 21, 2010

Larger companies are often owned by shareholders who are removed from day-to-day operations of the company and therefore more likely to demand performance accountability from the management. Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration (ESA) - U.S. One might say this is a good thing. I do not believe so. I do not believe so.

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Company Human Resources Emotional Intelligence Welch 140

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

  I really like the carnival's focus on lean management techniques, which I feel is especially relevant in today's tenuous business environment as all of us can afford to seek out additional operational efficiencies via lean management processes. Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration (ESA) - U.S.

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Management Six Sigma Human Resources Kaizen 133

Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

 He is struggling to understand why it is that HR is not considered a core function of a an organization like sales, marketing, or operations when it is afforded the opportunity to "direct, deliver, and develop" the employee talent necessary for the company to achieve its goals.  Why?  Why?

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Blog Maslow Talent Management Human Resources 124

Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

 In the latest installment to his Little Big Things video series Tom Peters declares war on these systems and encourages managers to make it easy for all members of an organization to identify problems with an organization's systems and provide bottom-up feedback for improving the way the company operates.

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Blog Human Resources Human Capital Talent Management 124

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 18, 2010

Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration (ESA) - U.S.   After illustrating the clear benefits of using checklists to prevent simple errors, Gawande goes on to describe how to implement them into your professional life.   I highly recommend that you put this book on your reading list.

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Human Resources Blog Emotional Intelligence Welch 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued an important new report about how dire the consequences of climate change are becoming , and how fast we need to move to avoid the worst. This week, the report came back, and it’s not pretty. Set science-based carbon reduction targets for operations. Getting to 1.5

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Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 13, 2010

In a nice post to read in conjunction with Sharlyn's post above, Tim points out that we aren't operating in Q1 of 2009 anymore and that fewer and fewer employees are willing to stick around in a job working for a boss they can't stand. Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration (ESA) - U.S.

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Blog Talent Management Human Resources Emotional Intelligence 100

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs. Among women who have achieved success in STEM, 39% report such confidence. Claim credit for your ideas.

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Succession Reputation Focus Group Leadership Styles 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2017

If you’re a programmer, you have to decide between jobs in the technology field and technological jobs in nontechnical organizations — law firms, publishing companies, universities, and so on. However, one might ask whether a self-reported measure of lynchpin status is valid.

Company 12

Company Report Positioning Consensus 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

The blizzard of conferences, initiatives, articles, and reports on how to prepare for the changes technology will bring to our economy is important. Ability to Implement New Technologies. It’s easy to forget that technology rollouts require an engaged frontline. We call this approach the Good Jobs Strategy.

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Merchandising Retail Competitive Advantage Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Inside the newsroom, we had families living in the cafeteria, conference rooms, training centers etc.; We had to put in a daycare center, a catering center, provide cash because there was no way for people to take money out of the bank, provide cars for people, especially reporters, to get around. and Caribbean.

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Media Company Call Center Real Estate 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

For those of us not in operations, supply chain, or logistics, it's a vaguely familiar line item we learned about in finance class. alone, according to a report by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (note: the full report requires membership, but this number is mentioned about 9 minutes into the video at the CSCMP site).

Energy 11

Energy Supply Chain Operations Benchmarking 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Our brick institutions have in no way caught up with what today’s technologies make possible in terms of virtual learning and individualized, customized instruction. Technology is fast eliminating the need for students to spend the majority of their educational lives on campuses in huge halls, listening to dull, cardboard lectures.

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Education Drucker Globalization Trends 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

With the combination of cloud storage and computing, mobile technologies, and powerful analytical and predictive tools, we can start mining 'big data' and reaping huge rewards.". We commonly see new technologies overhyped; their capabilities are promoted beyond their potential. It's not that simple, especially for sales forces.

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CRM Micromanagement Technology Maturity 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Drone operators will be regularly required, for example, to pass a written test, but won’t, as rumored, need to obtain a pilot’s license. In Washington, business as usual.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Anytime a function becomes a “profession,” with an association, conferences, certification, and the like, it starts formalizing its own language, which only insiders really understand. A good example is Cognizant, a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services.

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Talent Management Delegation Management Document 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Initially, we got the impression that gurus might have little in common other than a desire to get the HBR stamp of legitimacy conferred upon their latest notion. Read widely and systematically scan sources, from new consulting reports to business headlines, to discern the zeitgeist. Tune Your Idea to the Zeitgeist.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

National Infrastructure Week, May 11-15, should mark the acceleration of giving entrepreneurs and innovators a prominent seat at the table, adding technology opportunities to solve America’s infrastructure problems. In the case of the FAA and mobile technology, the slow-moving agency is trying its best to be nimbler.

Transportation 8

Transportation Entrepreneur Wireless Airlines 8

Terry Starbucker

APRIL 3, 2016

In 2007, while SVP of Operations for Bresnan Communications, a cable TV company with 300,000 customers in 4 Rocky Mountain states, I was searching for a solution to a problem that had been eluding me for many years – a simple way to connect the 1,100 employees I was responsible for around a higher cause that went beyond profit.

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Leadership Operations Policies Hotels 150

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

That the CHRO role, although at first it may look career limiting, can have more impact than any other position reporting to the CEO? He had to ask her four more times, including once on a conference call with the whole executive team, before she finally relented. That’s precisely what we found.

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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 13

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Earlier this year I wrote about the 5th edition of the Technology at Work report from Oxford University and Citi, which found that over half of the U.S. operating at around 30-40% of normal levels. operating at around 30-40% of normal levels. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that remote work is possible.

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Reis Transportation Real Estate Tourism 69

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. But there is a pattern among these critics, which is that they rarely ask how well the systems they analyze would operate without algorithms.

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Learning-by-Doing Policies Finance Follow-up 8