Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2020

Furthermore, the media and information industries will continue to invest in telecommunications outsourcing. Examples of these wearables include smart eyewear, wearable patches, trackers, and heart bands. These companies will increase their spending on software development from 6% last year to 9% this year.

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Outsourcing Trends Offshoring Telecommunications 66

Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

” Their ideal leader is a person who develops “win-win” relationships and is sensitive to their needs for personal growth and development. Leaders will need to develop skills in negotiation and “win-win” relationships. The same trend is occurring in pharmaceuticals and telecommunications.

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Short-term Long-term Trends Telecommunications 107

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

Here are some examples of Collaborations: Parties and consultants involved in taking a company public work together as a team. Here are some examples of Partnering: Non-competing disciplines create a new mousetrap, based upon their unique talents, and collectively pursue new marketplace opportunities. Each retains individual identity.

Cooper 50

Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 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. Learn from the past success and failures.

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Short-term Innovation Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 187

Leading Blog

JANUARY 15, 2020

But how do we turn those feelings into real action to develop great, future-ready leaders? Hans Vestberg is the CEO of Verizon Communications, an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate with over 152,000 employees around the world. Developing Great Leaders. What Makes a Great Leader? What Makes a Bad Leader?

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Definition Telecommunications CEO Motivation 381

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. Are You Using Dialects To Develop Your Employees’ Skills? You’ll be glad you did.

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Bureaucracy Compliance Learning-by-Doing Engineering 232

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Because business is fraught with many risks and challenges, and because this journey isn’t right for everyone, I’ve developed some questions that will help you get more clarity so you can make better decisions for yourself when it comes to starting a business. We were actually slowly growing rich, but we felt pretty poor.

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Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 262

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

We also tested several mechanisms that might explain how this type of leadership would improve job performance — for example, were these effects caused by increased feelings of empowerment, or by increased trust in one’s leader? Some employees respond to empowering leadership more than others.

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Delegation Analysis Creativity Uncertainty 15

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 18

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. Sure it's important to inject discipline into product and service development, but not so much that it discourages creativity.

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Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 22

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

Examples of enterprise social-technology use are cropping up all the time: TD bank relies on a social network for employee communication, and at Unisys, social communities provide specialized expertise to resolve technical problems. In other cases, companies worry that social media will threaten the core. But that's a good thing.

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Media McKinsey Supply Chain Telecommunications 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Many wonder why an academy company like P&G, historically known for developing talent, did not, or was not able to, promote a successor from within its ranks. aerospace & defense, construction & engineering, industrial conglomerates, professional services, textiles); IT & Telecommunications (e.g., Where was its leadership bench?

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Succession Telecommunications Biotechnology Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Consider the case of an Asian telecommunications company that found 20 percent of its marketing budget was being squandered in markets with the lowest lifetime customer value. That starts with developing a deep understanding of how customers behave and make decisions. Collaborate around the customer decision journey.

Marketing 15

Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Telecommunications company Telefonica is currently developing a “ Data Locker ” scheme that allows users to see their own data, including the social networks of those they talk to and text with. In any market — and particularly those in the early stages of development — uncertainty is commonplace.

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Telecommunications Cost-Benefit Analysis Reputation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

As multinational corporations pursue opportunities in emerging markets, they're bound to stumble if they overlook the developed economies, and vice versa. 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 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

In the trucking industry alone, for example, it's estimated that there will be a shortage of over 100,000 drivers in just a few years. Not long ago I worked with a software firm that supported hundreds of legacy applications for the telecommunications industry. This may sound hard to believe at a time when U.S.

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Telecommunications Chemicals Health Care Planning 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

They’re getting in the way of employee development instead of supporting it. Consider, for example, the challenges that one telecommunications company faced with high turnover in its retail stores. But corporate learning management systems remain slow, hard to use, and difficult to maintain.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Retail Human Capital Class 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

Though it didn't deal explicitly with the concept of disruption, it did bring up a concept very important to the disruption of the television industry: ecosystem development. While Rogers' examples all centered around innovation in agricultural production, his ideas are just as relevant in media and telecommunications.

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Rogers Telecommunications Disruptive Innovation Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

On this very site, for example, several authors have published research-based blog posts on how managers can create the conditions that support meaningful work. This is a very positive development, because work is a huge part of life, and meaning in life is not just a "nice-to-have". We need it in the way we need oxygen.

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Call Center Telecommunications Stress Film 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Here a few notable examples. Consider first the increasing use of auctions, which have a distinguished history in the development of economics. and other governments to help them design these often complicated auctions and by telecommunications companies trying to figure out the best strategies for bidding.

Strategy 15

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

telecommunications carriers now compete fiercely on price as they try to win new customers. Examples of tactics within these categories include price-point policies (such as ending a price with the digit 9), in-store or website signage, coupons, and a good/better/best assortment mix. and Europe.

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Price Retail Discount Tactics 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Most of them, for example, consider unemployment and national budget deficits to be outside their purview. aerospace & defense, industrial conglomerates, textiles); IT & Telecommunications (e.g., internet software & services, semiconductors, wireless telecommunication services); and Materials (e.g.,

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Politics Telecommunications Policies Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Increasingly, Western companies are developing products in countries like China and India, and then distributing them globally. For example, GE developed an ultra-low-cost ultrasound for rural China which is now marketed in over 100 countries. and which they now sell in Europe and the U.S. They take a "market-back" perspective.

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Glocalization Mass Marketing P&L Globalization 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

The term comes from the telecommunications industry, which struggled for many years with how to efficiently extend their networks the "last mile," or into individual homes. To overcome the last-mile problem, Matta turned the paradigm of development on its head.

Telecommunications 10

Telecommunications Short-term Banking Magazine 10

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 14, 2013

This trend means that leaders of successful organizations will need to develop different organizational structures, systems, and skills in order to meet these new customer requirements. A growing percentage of IBM’s business, for example, now involves customized solutions incorporating non-IBM products and services.

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Telecommunications Franchising Consultative Diversity 111

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

You either go out and buy it, or you develop the talent you already have. Such loans have advantages for the lender: they accelerate player development and/or reduce costs by removing the salary of the loaned player from the lending club’s books. How do you get the talent you need? Both clubs realize a unique win-win.

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CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

This process leaves companies vulnerable to competitors who develop new forms of technology that initially fail to serve the "best" customers well, but quickly improve. For example, early cell phones were woefully unreliable, and their voice quality paled in comparison with land lines.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Skill development is clearly a major priority for companies and managers these days. Consider, for instance, the talent development program at Ascom, a global telecommunications company. If a goal is too easy to achieve, it will not prompt sufficient ingenuity and skills development. (If Make it a stretch.

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Project Parcell How To Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The gap between Hyperloop and the state of infrastructure in the vast majority of developing countries is a demonstration of what economist William Janeway calls the Two Innovation Economies. As a result, many top-tier students in developing markets graduating from the best Western institutions are motivated to stay abroad.

Marketing 8

Marketing Transportation Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

Sophisticated sales organizations now have the ability to combine, sift, and sort vast troves of data to develop highly efficient strategies for selling into micromarkets. For example, one peer group might be high-growth micromarkets with limited competitive intensity.

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B2B Chemicals Analysis B2C 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

Across African markets, information and communication technology (ICT) is facilitating the process of socioeconomic developments. That is the paralysis we are seeing in telecommunications, in e-commerce, and across the broad ICT sector. ICT has offered new ways of exchanging information and transacting business efficiently and cheaply.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Entrepreneur Technology 8

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. Leaders invested to develop better measures of customer potential. times the estimated $169.5

Short-term 10

Short-term Telecommunications Advertising Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Automobile manufacturers, for example, create products that rely on metals, chemicals, oil, and gas, which are among the most energy- and water-intensive industries. 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

APRIL 6, 2016

This is the virtual network operator (VNO) model used by the telecommunications sector. For example, Lycamobile, a big mobile VNO, focuses on expatriate communities looking for low-cost international pay-as-you-go calls in 19 countries. The integrated carrier gets incremental revenues from its excess capacity.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

The term comes from Arnold van Gennep, the Belgian anthropologist who first outlined the common patterns in how cultures mark transitions from one human state to another (for example, from adolescence to adulthood). Lou Gerstner’s arrival at IBM in 1993 is a classic example of leadership through a liminal period. billion to $11.7

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Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Or take Harris Corporation, an American telecommunications company founded in 1895. A firm can buy competencies, but capabilities are harder to develop and are the key to sustaining competitive advantage. Take Southwest Airlines as an example. If they aren’t, they act in blind faith: a dangerous place to be.

Competitive Advantage 13

Competitive Advantage Airlines Telecommunications Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2015

India is a prime example. Given this context, it comes as little surprise that businesses — like Facebook, Google, and telecommunications companies — have the motivation to improve internet awareness and access. Only 19.2% Meanwhile, China’s e-commerce market is 80 times as large.

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Telecommunications Marketing Wireless McKinsey 8