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CMI Hong Kong: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

It was undoubtedly a productive and fruitful year for CMI Hong Kong, as membership has grown continuously. Exchanging ideas in the flagship Women In Engineering (WIE) International Leadership Conference 2021 The Women In Engineering (WIE) International Leadership Conference 2021 was sponsored by CMI – and was a huge success.

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Create Shared Value with a Trampoline Approach

Harvard Business Review

Creating shared value , a paradigm for how companies engage with society pioneered by Michael Porter and FSG, captures this trampoline mentality very well. Audi helped spearhead a technology solution to this problem, which will enable excess renewable energy to be captured, stored, and used in its production processes.

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Google Glass Failed Because It Just Wasn’t Cool

Harvard Business Review

It was hailed as the greatest product since the iPod … the wheel … the car. Google Glass’s failure was a story of a visionary product utterly failing to be cool. As Apple, Warby Parker, Net a Porter, and Shinola all know: Cool is perhaps the crucial factor in the success of new products.

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HBR's Best Videos, Infographics, Podcasts, and Slideshows of 2011

Harvard Business Review

First off, our most popular podcast this year was Justin Fox's interview with Bob Pozen, " Productivity Secrets of a Very Busy Man." Our most-watched video was " Rethinking Capitalism " with Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter. Wish You Worked Here: Beautiful, Productive Office Spaces. Audio podcast.

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

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. Hamel and Prahalad combined the old resource view with an emphasis on differentiation, made popular in the 1980s by Michael Porter. Understand the "P-Cycle."

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Avoid the Deadly Temptations that Derail Innovators

Harvard Business Review

Joe''s first wildly successful conference, accompanied by highly creative marketing, drew offers to him from investors who wanted to back him to go national, people who wanted to hire him to popularize their work, and companies that wanted him to be a distributor for merchandise sales. Prove the concept you want to prove.

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The One Thing CEOs Need to Learn from Apple

Harvard Business Review

Jobs could have tried to maximize profits by squeezing every cent out of each of the existing product lines. But instead, he led the charge to remove scores of products. (At Jobs cut out profitable business lines at a time when the company appeared it could least afford to do so, culling the business down to four clear product lines.

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