Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

CMI bolsters its presence in Australia Last month, CMI participated in The PIE Live event in Gold Coast, Australia, alongside leaders in international education. The event was a success, as the participants had a great time learning from each other and building networks professionally. Learn more here.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 14, 2021

As a junior researcher, I had the unenviable task of collecting saliva samples from dozens of participants. This is our tendency to see the world through the distorting lens of our professional experience – as engineers, as accountants, lawyers, teachers or whatever. This can trip us up throughout the innovation process.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2016

Pro-diversity messages are everywhere, whether you’re searching for a job, playing soccer , or watching the Oscars. Their point is simple: Diversity is good and we need more of it. The thinking, presumably, is that such statements will increase the diversity of their applicant pool and ultimately of their workforce.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Leaders have long recognized that a diverse workforce of women, people of color, and LGBT individuals confers a competitive edge in terms of selling products or services to diverse end users. In the context of the workplace, diversity equals representation. In fact, without inclusion there’s often a diversity backlash.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

In fact, for women, the technology gender gap seems to be getting bigger, not smaller. These participation gaps are part of an impending crisis for businesses and the entire U.S. million engineering and computer science jobs in the U.S., Nor is there a surplus of black or Hispanic workers. They comprise 30% of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Despite recent efforts to increase diversity in tech, the hiring and retention rates of underrepresented groups in the industry remain abysmal. When I took a look at my workforce two years ago, I saw that I hadn’t created a diverse team. In order for our team to match the diversity of America , we’d need 13.4%

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

” Moreover, it poses a challenge to the government’s aim of meeting recruitment targets in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), particularly subjects such as physics and mathematics, which heavily rely on the expertise of male teachers. Of course, necessity often prompts change.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

When employees actively participate in the formulation and implementation of change programs, they are more likely to support them and less likely to resist them. It reflects how someone judges the extent to which they “have a place in” conversations about an issue, or whether it is “their business” to participate.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

And yet he told me his top priority is getting his employees engaged in the mission of their new company and helping them see how their industrial products are really becoming technology products and playing an important role in the lives of their customers. He’s not alone. Eighty-seven percent. How did this happen?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

It's also how we should think about the way the Internet is developing, and about the way our choices in how we use technology are shaping this global brain. How can we mindfully connect people who want to participate in this global network of knowledge and ideas? But its success has generated a worrying backlash.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

When women start companies they quite naturally create more permeable and diverse management teams, having worked on gender diverse teams, or, conversely, having seen the pitfalls of being the token woman in a homogenous grouping. drop, from 2004 to 2009, in female engineers. There has also been a 5.2%

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Right now, the FCC is working on the biggest transformation in over a century of profound technological progress in communications: shutting down the analog telephone network. Until the Internet, both technologies boasted nearly 100% penetration. It’s an end-game everyone needs to keep a close eye on.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Despite the East Coast roots of technology entrepreneurship and venture capital (VC), by the 1990s Silicon Valley had gained a major advantage over the Cambridge-Boston area. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum. The same underlying technologies (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

Unless people understand why innovation is necessary, it always loses to core business or the performance engine in the battle for resources. The performance engine is bigger, is the center of power, and can justify resources based on short term financial results. A compelling case for innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Strength in Diverse, Collaborative Teams. These firms lacked diverse, highly collaborative leadership teams. At Nokia, the senior leadership team was for a long time extraordinarily homogenous (mostly men, mostly from Finland, mostly software engineers, mostly educated in Helsinki).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

The results of Union Market’s efforts to curate and encourage a diverse group of entrepreneurs have been promising. At Union Market, the boundaries between visitor and vendor spaces are intentionally blurred, fostering a feeling of community between all participants.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

With guidance from Paul English, chief technology officer of Kayak, we borrowed a common tool from business — professional virtual communities (PVCs) — and adapted it to leverage the wisdom of the crowds. In health care, we thought, they could be a rapid, practical means for diverse professionals to share insights and tactics.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2011

As a result of a deeply engrained deference to authority, Asians in the CWLP survey are also significantly less likely than other ethnic groups to challenge a consensus, let alone participate in the "in your face" leadership model rewarded in much of corporate America. "In In Asia, there's a saying that the loudest duck gets shot.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Both paths are problematic — neither is particularly transparent or relies on objective measures and given that many boards are stubborn bastions of white masculinity, pursuing the "right" network can be fraught, especially for women and other diverse candidates. We also looked at results by industry and region.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, Prahalad tells the CEO, is simply too complex and diverse. Who doubts Microsoft’s technical core competencies in software, networking and gaming technologies? The customer is intrinsically woven into the core competence and the core competence is strengthened and enhanced by increased customer participation.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

New DDI research explores leadership differences between men and women and makes the case for gender diversity in the workplace. The research also provides a snapshot view and analysis of gender diversity across countries and industries. The disparity in gender diversity has little to do with competence levels.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

They asked how we do knowledge management at frog design, since we have studios spread all over the world and work in a diverse range of industries. Conferences: frog staffers participate in over 200 conferences and workshops each year. This again allows sharing of methods and ideas, and gaining insights from diverse cultures.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. Interacting with two or more cultural contexts can help immigrants combine diverse ideas, solutions, and customer problems in order to create something entirely new. In the U.S., Immigrants represent 27.5%

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

After 12 years, 50% of technical women, predominately in engineering and computer science, had switched to other fields; 20% of other women professionals had done the same. Earlier this year we led a thought exercise for 240 senior leaders of a Silicon Valley technology company. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The universities believe that participating in these challenges give students a host of skills that are invaluable in the workplace today, not least of which are the softer skills such as collaboration and team work that have been cited as vital by researchers. Finding heroes. ” Broad experience. Coding for success.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Baseline financial skills are still essential, but international experience, industry knowledge, investor relations acumen, technology expertise, and strategic prowess are now just as much part of the package. Success demands a far more diverse set of experiences and skills.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

According to Joseph Lorenzo Hall, chief technologist at the Center for Democracy and Technology, disclosures of government hacking by former security contractor Edward Snowden greatly accelerated the push to encrypt everything. Over half of all web traffic is now secured, as invisible to ISPs as it is to the NSA.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

Janitor | custodian | sanitation engineer. Housewife | homemaker | domestic engineer. Diversity is a concept that encompasses ideas, cultures, philosophies and behaviors. Sadly, some people see diversity as a punishment, when associated with training. Technology is a tool of the trade, not an ideology or a mantra.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

By reinventing jobs to optimize work between humans and automation, organizations can attract a larger and more qualified applicant pool and achieve better retention, greater safety, and increased diversity. However, rapid advances in technology now make it possible to create a completely autonomous rig. The Diversity Dividend.

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Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

Specific objectives for each member, Participative decision making, Explicit time period, and. It involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize business processes—principally sales activities, but also those for marketing, customer service, and technical support. Performance evaluation and provide feedback.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

From Khan Academy to Coursera to edX to the O'Reilly School of Technology, badges increasingly enjoy consideration as human capital's coin of the the realm for online education. Course content, quality and participation won't ultimately determine the triumph of the online educational revolution. Individual empowerment.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Wall Street began charging a “conglomerate discount,” saying that diverse operations were hard to analyze with confidence. True synergies across the diverse operations were often hard to see. As I described in an article in the May issue of HBR , a single 3D printer can produce engine pumps one day and crankshafts the next.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

More recently, however, companies have widened their aperture, recognizing that success with AI and analytics requires not just data scientists but entire cross-functional, agile teams that include data engineers, data architects, data-visualization experts, and—perhaps most important—translators. Why are translators so important?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

But somewhere along the way, we recognized that they were based on definable pipelines and applied technology to manage those pipelines. With the right technology, could you manage this pipeline the way you manage a sales pipeline? Scale – more participants. To succeed, an innovation program needs lots of participants.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. This approach lets organizations aggregate best-of-breed technologies to develop cost-effective solutions that advance their goals. IoT solutions tend to span information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), and core business functions. How the best companies get up to speed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Or what if — as is the case today — current chip technology is nearing its theoretical limits , and a completely new architecture needs to be dreamed up? Open innovation strategies can be highly effective in this regard, because they help to expose the problem to diverse skill domains.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2015

You may have to learn some intensive juggling, but evidence we’ve gathered from a study of fascinating people from many walks of life suggests that sometimes more — a lot more — is better, especially when “more” entails a diversity of tasks.

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