Strategy Driven

JUNE 2, 2015

For nearly three decades, Ruth led the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations’ (INPO) Information Technology Division as Director, Computer Systems and Telecommunications and Director, Information Technology and Data Services.

Information Technology 50

Information Technology Telecommunications Committee Technology 50

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 16, 2013

Having lived in and with off-the-grid communities in Latin America, in Nicaragua and Colombia, I had seen and felt the impact of low Internet and basic telecommunications access, especially when it comes to communicating with potential employers. Then, of course, there are just some bad ideas and stale social enterprise models.

Short-term 187

Short-term Innovation Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 187

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. I don’t know much about telecommunications – it just seemed obvious.

Telecommunications 98

Telecommunications Education Politics Quality 98

You're Not the Boss of Me

AUGUST 3, 2014

But of course, it’s not. In telling his story, Mr. Greenberg’s primary observations were not about executing business disaster recovery plans or repositioning Data Centres and telecommunications systems but about the people in his organization; their courage, resilience and determination to pick up the pieces and move on.

Contingency Plans 69

Contingency Plans Telecommunications Uncertainty Planning 69

Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

The evidence shows that an uncompromising commitment to be inclusive of all relevant parts of society, from employees, to customers, to NGOs, leads to the sort of engagement that generates 20 per cent outperformance in profits over average competitors in the course of a decade.

Company 50

Company Competitive Advantage Open-book Long-term 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 21, 2013

Of course art extends way beyond just painting. Degree in Project Management, combined with over 20 years of hands-on PM experience in the high technology, telecommunications, and clean energy sectors. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” (This saying first appeared in the 3rd century BC in Greece). Films, books, etc.

Project 58

Project Management Film Telecommunications 58

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas.

Bureaucracy 203

Bureaucracy Compliance Learning-by-Doing Engineering 203

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Nokia, today’s telecommunications networking company, has made corporate transformation into an art form. In 1992, new CEO Jorma Ollila and his team made a decision that is iconic in the world of corporate reinvention, going all-in on the emerging telecommunications markets. Of course, we know what happened next.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Crisis Committee Marketing 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2011

Written in a clear, professional and straightforward manner, it is relevant to the management of all types of projects, including IT, construction, engineering, telecommunications and government, as well as many others. Of course, you should always work smart to achieve these goals more easily. And there you have it.

Project 56

Project Goal Management Budgeting 56

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

The Norwegian telecommunication firm, Telenor, has been in the news recently as it tries to sell its Indian joint venture with property developer, Unitech Ltd. Clearly, India is an attractive telecommunications market for international players. This level of engagement placed too many stresses on the Uninor partners.

Wireless 12

Wireless Licensing Telecommunications Price 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

Consider, for example, the challenges that one telecommunications company faced with high turnover in its retail stores. But then the classes wouldn’t start fast enough, and you’d find out how expensive it is to fly people around for the courses and teach them.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Retail Human Capital Class 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2017

Of course, not everything is different. The last decade, of course, was the era of big data. With internet of things data becoming popular in many industries, analyzing data near the source will become increasingly important, particularly in remote geographies where telecommunications constraints might limit centralization of data.

Open-book 8

Open-book Software Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

There is clear empirical evidence to back this up: in our research of about 150 firms in the telecommunications industry, we found that the more successful firms all took this active approach to managing their capability and resource portfolios. That, we believe, is the benefit behind Apple's decision.

Software 15

Software Telecommunications Short-term Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

One of the most important of those issues is, of course, globalization. Neither Utilities nor Telecommunications are represented in the chart below because all but a few companies in those sectors have no non-domestic revenue. since the index was first developed in 2008.

Globalization 14

Globalization Committee Telecommunications Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

Take Susan, the CEO of a small telecommunications firm. She was enrolled in my MBA course when she received some bad news. One way, of course, is to fake it. A major contract, one that her firm had spent months preparing for, had gone to a competitor. She had worked hard on it. You act confident and put on a bold front.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Hedge Video Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

That is the paralysis we are seeing in telecommunications, in e-commerce, and across the broad ICT sector. Of course, this trajectory would reshape local economies as they lose the entrepreneurs and the businesses to foreign lands. The elite global technology firms typically offer better solutions at zero cost.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Entrepreneur Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

Disruption has been swirling around the telecommunications industry for years. Sometimes the funding and the planning processes big companies impose on their internal ventures inhibit making these kinds of course corrections. Remote file sharing. Have we brought in sufficient outside talent?

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications Innovation Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

A telecommunications company recently launched an initiative with a business customer. That involves, of course, a lot of work, but the payoffs will more than justify the effort. Collaborative innovation is a hot topic in the B2C space, where it overlaps with crowdsourcing, but we see B2B players taking an interest as well.

B2B 8

B2B Innovation Company Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

telecommunications carriers now compete fiercely on price as they try to win new customers. The right combination of tactics, of course, depends on a company’s sector, strategy, and proposition to customers. Financial asset managers have been out-price-cutting one another in exchange-traded funds in a bid to gain market share.

Price 14

Price Retail Discount Tactics 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

There are exceptions, of course, like mobile technology. Korea''s Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute), cross-border corporate activity (e.g. The problem is that these paths are often "low-leverage". They make a small dent in the problems of many follower economies, and often do not build the country''s capabilities.

Marketing 8

Marketing Transportation Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Although many business executives sat through one, or perhaps several, courses in economics while in school, most probably took away little more than the supply and demand graphs to which they were introduced early in their first course. Many economists since have been hired by the U.S.

Strategy 12

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

According to Selling Power magazine, the largest companies in America selling products such as computer and office equipment, consumable goods, insurance, telecommunications, and financial services, each employ tens of thousands of salespeople. By our estimates, the amount invested in U.S. sales forces exceeds $800 billion a year.

Short-term 8

Short-term Telecommunications Advertising Long-term 8

Chart Your Course

JANUARY 9, 2014

The most active hiring will be in the materials and IT & telecommunications sectors. The post Skills Shortages Worsening appeared first on Leadership Speaker and Motivational Speaker for Businesses | Employee Engagement | Gregory Smith - Chart Your Course International.

Skills 159

Skills White Paper Case Study Telecommunications 159

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Of course, the United States is not India, so its costs will always be higher. Onco-pathologists and medical physicists, who are scarce in India, sit in Bangalore and provide services remotely, using telecommunication links to patients at spoke hospitals. Sound undoable? But even with all the constraints, cutting U.S. Changing U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Lean Production Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2012

Two studies of firms in the telecommunications and financial services industries showed that only about 10% of declared promoters actually do refer profitable new customers. That's not bad, of course, but what about the other 90%? That may not be the case at all: they need to be asked.

Reference 12

Reference Telecommunications Survey Customer Loyalty 12

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Can you comfortably make course corrections when your decisions don’t work out? Starting from scratch and using the principles and techniques shared in this book, Morrill co-founded businesses in automotive retail, real estate, telecommunications, and insurance that generate over $100,000,000 in annual revenue.

Learning-by-Doing 255

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

You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 20, 2009

But of course, it’s not. We anticipate it; study it; plan for it; and, if we are smart (or lucky), we make it happen or respond to it with strength, a sense of purpose and a clear head. Sounds pretty simple. Sometimes change hits us “upside the head” and cares not whether we have had time to think about it or prepare for it.

Performance Review 43

Performance Review Blog Learning-by-Doing Contingency Plans 43

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

The phenomenon of fast-track CEO succession appears to be most prominent in the retail, technology, media, and telecommunications sectors—all of which are particularly affected by disruptive business models and new competitors. Through this effort, we have observed certain characteristics of this emerging trend.

CEO 13

CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Powering one 60-watt bulb for 12 hours a day over the course of a year can require 3,000 to 6,000 gallons of water — enough to fill a large tanker truck. Others, including technology and telecommunications companies, are major customers of — and suppliers to — those industries.

Energy 8

Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2011

Partnerships are always to some extent open-ended contracts , of course, and complete control is by definition absent. These two high-stakes partnerships have one thing in common that should serve as a warning for others: They involve emerging market deals in which governments play a big role and contracts may be hard to enforce in courts.

Management 12

Management Airlines Telecommunications Marketing 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

As a result they developed and successfully pitched the idea of alliance partnerships to telecommunications firms. Project-based work gives outside consultants and contractors a fresh view not only of the explicit problems they've been hired to solve, but also of the tacit problems they notice in the course of their work.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Strategy Telecommunications Software 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

Of course, the value of a tool depends on its application. Telecommunications companies can create a small secondary network where they can test ideas without running the risk of interrupting service to millions of customers. Corporate leaders can take steps to encourage this kind of market-based learning.

Ries 8

Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

One of the headhunter-experts I talked to for that project was Ann Carlsen , a recruiter in telecommunications and technology based in Boulder, Colorado. Clients won't tell her straight out, of course, that one of her potential hires didn't get a particular job because they were too old. She was bracingly blunt. Spend time with them.

COO 13

COO Chief Financial Officer Telecommunications Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Judgment of course is what is required when all the facts that can be assembled dont make a decision obvious. Judgment of course is what is required when all the facts that can be assembled dont make a decision obvious. His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Ellen Kullman (DuPont), Maria das Graças Silva Foster (Petrobras), and Chua Sock Koong (Singapore Telecommunications) lead three of the most powerful companies in the world. This is far from a perfect solution, of course. Given the pace of globalization, the private sector can and should take on these issues as well.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Flextime Globalization Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

One woman in my course, a manager at a telecommunications company, brought a small group of her colleagues together for this conversation. One colleague told her afterward, “I knew I had a little, mean, nagging voice inside my head, but until now I hadn’t really appreciated how much impact it had on the choices I make.”

Mentor 8

Mentor Telecommunications Tools Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

SingTel, Singapore''s oldest telecommunications company, decided to take this idea one step further. Over the course of nine hours, the best suggestions were turned into improvised comedy skits, published on YouTube, and tweeted as a reply to the respective Twitter follower.

Brand 9

Brand Storytelling Audience Telecommunications 9