HR Digest

JANUARY 5, 2021

The members-only union is supported by the Communication Workers of America, which represents workers in telecommunications, information technology and media. The union is open to all employees, including temps, vendors and contractors (also known as TVCs), with the goal to “build a structure to create worker power.”

Shaw 52

Shaw Telecommunications Engineering Ethics 52

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 16, 2013

A powerful way to do this, called mobile recruitment uses text messaging (SMS: Short Message Service) to allow workers to find jobs. I knew little about developing mobile interface software or, when I admitted it to myself, how to build a business from the ground up. Learn from the past success and failures.

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. On the tape, I suggested that small computers – more powerful than existing mainframes – would soon be on desktops everywhere and that they would cost less than $5,000. He’s right.

Telecommunications 98

Telecommunications Education Politics Quality 98

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

Those who don't help to develop the business on the front end are just vendors and subcontractors. Telecommunications industry service providers. Group marketing programs, such as auto dealer clusters, municipalities for economic development, travel and tourism destinations, trade association and product image upgrades.

Cooper 50

Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

The Practical Leader

JULY 18, 2011

And there’s the power and simplicity of The Three Rings model. Do that, and you’ve just taken a giant step toward developing a consistent definition of service/quality in your organization. Their opinions and weighting of customer expectations have constantly been shown to be more valid than those of management.

Quality 49

Quality Telecommunications Definition Blog 49

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.

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. Often entering new categories through acquisition, at one point it made rubber boots and tires; telephone and power cables; even household products like toilet paper (I’ve seen them myself).

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Crisis Committee Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The conventional wisdom is that innovations originate in rich countries and the resulting products are sold horizontally in other developed countries and then sent downhill to developing countries. After all, aren't developed nations such as the U.S. They will develop into formidable rivals. Not really.

Innovation 15

Innovation Telecommunications Globalization GDP 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Executives in market leaders in those sectors need to watch these developments carefully, because the seeds of transformation are being sown as we speak. Jack Dorsey's Square is processing millions of dollars in payments a day with its simple but powerful solution. Executives that dismiss these developments do so at their own peril.

System 15

System Christensen Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Admittedly, continuous improvement once powered Japan's economy. 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. Question whether processes should be improved, eliminated, or disrupted.

Six Sigma 21

Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 21

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.

Globalization 14

Globalization Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology 14

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

MARCH 2, 2018

Empowered employees are more likely to be powerful, confident individuals, who are committed to meaningful goals and demonstrate initiative and creativity to achieve them. But we found that when empowering leadership is also about mentoring and supporting employee development, this can create a trusting relationship.

Delegation 15

Delegation Analysis Creativity Uncertainty 15

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

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. Skills in developing partnerships that cross boundaries are critical. Several factors have helped accelerate the move to integrated solutions.

Telecommunications 111

Telecommunications Franchising Consultative Diversity 111

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

telecommunications carriers now compete fiercely on price as they try to win new customers. The experience of a European discount apparel retailer illustrates the power of a disciplined price-perception program. As this retailer discovered, there is a lot more to pricing power than just adjusting prices. and Europe.

Price 15

Price Retail Discount Tactics 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

But the real power of the partnership comes from their ability to bring the best of each of their departments—as well as pricing, operations, and other groups—to bear in exploiting those micromarket opportunities. That starts with developing a deep understanding of how customers behave and make decisions. Build a joint local strategy.

Marketing 14

Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

The key to such a change is developing an innovation-oriented industrial structure and a well-functioning innovation system. Currently, the annual expenditures for research and development (R&D) amount to 0.67% of Greece’s GDP. Or it can aim higher – by laying the groundwork for higher value-added goods production.

Planning 12

Planning GDP Tourism Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The CEO sitting across from me is explaining how he and the other executives of a telecommunications firm were caught off guard by a new technology that disrupted the firm’s business. He wants to increase his capacity to learn, to spot and understand developments inside and outside of the firm. What is Learning Agility?

Agility 8

Agility Learning-by-Doing Executive Coaching Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

When I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology , I initially focused on helping African entrepreneurs or artisans, especially those with only primary education, develop new skills and market opportunities. But as soon as they began, the communal power of African extended family system weighed on them.

Books 14

Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 14

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.

CFO 8

CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 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. I believe it will power the future — not just in poor countries, but everywhere.

Glocalization 12

Glocalization Mass Marketing P&L Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Earlier this week, China's National Energy Administration announced its intention to add 10 gigawatts of solar power capacity in 2013 , more than twice its current level. Even larger investments are pouring into housing, waterworks, mass transit systems, power plants, natural gas distribution networks, and electric grids.

Industry 11

Industry Real Estate Telecommunications Energy 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Skill development is clearly a major priority for companies and managers these days. That is why live business projects can be powerful vehicles for learning, especially when they aim for dramatic outcomes on a tight timeframe. Consider, for instance, the talent development program at Ascom, a global telecommunications company.

Project 8

Project Parcell How To Short-term 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.

Short-term 9

Short-term Telecommunications Advertising Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Indeed, we think every organization must develop and execute an aggressive plan to put data to work. Obviously, the high-powered analytics types are in short supply. Today, advances in predictive analytics and the potential for big data portend even greater opportunity. Invest in people. This last point is driven home over and over.

Organization 15

Organization Telecommunications McKinsey Price 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

I have repeatedly stated that the next wave of innovation will come from companies that harness the transformational power that too often lies latent inside their organizations. Telecommunications companies can create a small secondary network where they can test ideas without running the risk of interrupting service to millions of customers.

Ries 8

Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8

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. For many women in the developing world, a better approach may be to gain employment in existing companies.

Microfinance 11

Microfinance Flextime Globalization Telecommunications 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2018

But it’s poised to transform all sectors, from retail, telecommunications, and agriculture to health, trucking, and the penal system. Sure, machine learning and deep learning are powerful techniques with important applications, but, as with all buzz terms, a healthy skepticism is in order. Will you worship it?”),

Ethics 8

Ethics Learning-by-Doing Industry Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

As a manager or mentor, one of the most powerful ways you can unlock your people’s potential is to give them a toolkit for managing self-doubt. Ask your team members to start developing the skill of managing their inner critics. The Manager’s Common Mistake. Typically, managers and mentors make a mistake.

Mentor 8

Mentor Telecommunications Tools Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

TELUS, a national telecommunications company in Canada, with $11 billion of annual revenue and more than 40,000 employees worldwide (and where I am head of learning and collaboration), has worked incredibly hard over the past five years to raise employee engagement from 53% to 80%. Leadership Leadership development Organizational culture'

CIO 12

CIO Leadership Drucker Telecommunications 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

This is the virtual network operator (VNO) model used by the telecommunications sector. For example, the global energy player ENGIE and its local partners apply it in the independent power production business in the Middle East. Distributed power generation is a well-known example. Model 6: Cofunding of a third-party asset.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

You even people talking about UX as the way in which a consumer connects to a business — all the touch-points from marketing to product development to distribution channels. Lean UX : In many cases, the best way to embed UX thinking in your product development teams is not to focus on design as a specific competency.

Strategy 13

Strategy Six Sigma Engineering Bottom-up 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support. PG&E responded by developing the PowerPathway program , a partnership with local community college systems in selected U.S. They employ 12.3

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Fourteen years ago, Darren Entwistle arrived as a young CEO (he is now Executive Chair) and immediately began transforming the regional telecommunications player into a global entity. But Darren never saw the change required as only a matter of capitalizing on new technologies and developing new products. billion to $11.7

Leadership 10

Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

But for many years it took a hands-off approach to new product development — dictating needs, but letting vendors bid for a slot on the Sun server and sink or swim after that. They tend to play vendors off against each other and shy away from partnerships that require some sharing of power.

Software 18

Software Licensing Long-term Telecommunications 18

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

A second accelerant of IT delivery is the iterative software development philosophy known as "agile development." The preliminary results of a survey of nearly 4,300 IT projects revealed that long project schedules increase risks across all project types, not only in software development projects.

Technology 9

Technology CIO Agility Software 9