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CMI Hong Kong: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

The session was entitled “Technology and Business Collaboration: Leadership and Management” and was moderated by Dr Alan Miller CMgr FCMI (former CMI Hong Kong Regional Board Member). The pandemic has boosted the application of technologies across both public and private sectors.

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The Commoditization of Scale

Harvard Business Review

Consider Porter's value chain. It was no small task for a corporation to get information from the point of sale to internal procurement teams to a diverse manufacturing network. But the technologies that drove these coordination-related scale advantages are becoming increasingly cheaper and more pervasive.

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The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Meet the New Face of Diversity: The “Slacker” Millennial Guy. Technology offers real hope for Africa’s economic future. Gender Innovation Managing people Technology' Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? Why Men Work So Many Hours. It’s Not Women Who Should Lean In; It’s Men Who Should Step Back.

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Meet Your New R&D Team: Social Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Gurus Michael Porter and Mark Kramer have tried to reframe the role of CSR by putting forth the concept of Creating Shared Value (CSV) as an alternate model, with "innovation and growth" as one of three primary value propositions. We worked with a diverse network of partners as part of PopTech's Innovation Accelerator program.

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

The breadth of article topics was large and the sample of rhetorical styles diverse. Zeitgeist, German for "spirit of the time," is the complex interplay of economic, technological, political, and social forces that can determine which ideas will flop and which will fly in a particular moment. Tune Your Idea to the Zeitgeist.

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Getting Real About Health Care Value

Harvard Business Review

Where other mantras – such as quality or managed care – have failed to galvanize the system’s diverse stakeholders, value may have a chance. Michael Porter has defined value as “health outcomes achieved per dollar spent.” An efficient business gets the most output possible, given current technology, from every dollar spent.

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How Companies Can Help Rebuild America’s Common Resources

Harvard Business Review

Every company needs infrastructure – roads, bridges, ports – and every company benefits from the new technologies made possible by basic scientific research. Starting around 1980, however, shifts in technology, geopolitics, and governance changed the game. Every company benefits from an educated populace.