Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

IT systems are evolving from static processing engines to agents of change. Today, the authors answered these questions: How has the coronavirus pandemic challenged businesses’ operating principles? What differentiates the Live Enterprise from other operating models? And even change management is changing as well.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 20, 2020

The MFH (meeting from home) trend had to follow WFH. Further, in the past, organizations have used conference calls, teleconferencing, and telecommuting as ways to partly support their operations and offer flexibility to employees. How do you think they operate? Wasn’t it obvious? So, in-person meetings are out for the moment.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Coronation marks a new era of leadership, vision and progress under the British monarchy. 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).

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Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Overall the big trend is this: almost everything we’ve done traditionally in HR has to be adjusted (or re-engineered). Their enterprise goals platform, based on “Goal Science” thinking, is designed to engage, empower, and cross-functionally align workers.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

What we can see now is that what began as an emergency response has led to a more profound change in operating models, with remote working and flexible structures becoming more finessed. Watch the full webinar here: New President elected At the recent CMI Sri Lanka AGM, a new President was elected – Professor Ajantha Dharmasiri CMgr FCMI.

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Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 19, 2023

They discussed the strategic impact that leadership assessment and profiling can have on successful executive succession planning. CMI Malaysia at IET Gala On 18 February, representatives from CMI Malaysia attended the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Malaysia prestige lecture and award dinner.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

A recent trend which demonstrates that corporations have recognized the need for specific domain expertise in pricing is the emergence of a bevy of C-level positions charged with direct leadership over strategic pricing. Where possible all pricing should be subject to nuanced considerations.

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HR Digest

APRIL 11, 2019

An inevitable trend underway in most companies is a cost-conscious culture, also known as “Ownership Culture.”. It’s very important for every organization involving more than two people to develop ways of operation, systems, and policies that would dictate its culture. No one should expect this to be easy.

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HR Digest

JULY 15, 2019

The incursion of AI and automation into the workplace is engineering a disruption that employers and employees are handling differently. Among everything else, this will require the HR to focus importantly on employee experience and also embrace agile methods of operation.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Futurism is a continuum of thinking and reasoning skills, judicious activities, shared leadership and an accent upon ethics and quality. One must understand events, cycles, trends and subtle nuances because they will recur. It is an ongoing process of evaluation, planning, tactical actions and benchmarking accomplishments.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings. Blogging is much more than the latest trend and is here to stay.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

To achieve " connected leadership " you must: Map your world -- Analyze stakeholders as precisely as your customers, understand trends and discontinuitites, and quantify the value at stake from external relationships. Apply world-class management to traditionally "soft" societal topics.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

In this article, I’d like to share the insights we’ve gleaned from the model’s first full year of operation, which hopefully organizations in health care and many other industries will find useful. The reporting lets executive leadership know precisely what is happening and unlocks frontline wisdom.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations. Identify and Analyze Your Win/Loss Trends Step 7. An increasingly important element of marketing is search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM).

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Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2011

[As a leader], you—not the IT department, nor the VP of IT, nor the chief information officer (CIO)—must understand, drive and be accountable for how technology is structured in order to reach the strategic goals of the operation….Technology Younger generations will not operate like the current generation of leaders ….If

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 3, 2023

You should encourage feedback on your leadership, as well as the business as a whole. The key to solid leadership is properly communicating, so take the time to see why some employees mightn’t be performing the way they should be. Don’t forget to use social media marketing and search engine optimization to boost your online efforts.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2018

The supply chain is the heart of a company’s operations. Rio Tinto, the global mining-and-metals company, is exploring how digital technologies can automate mine-to-port operations. For a small number of leading retail companies’ control towers have become the nerve center of their operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

The best CEOs call on their management toolkit to transform sales into a growth engine by focusing on three actions in particular: Crank up the analytics. Actively track performance and shift budgets to monitor promising trends while killing off tracking projects that aren't going anywhere. higher quality, faster cycle time).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. A great salesperson will operate much more efficiently with a defined process for reaching out to prospects. We made a number of operational changes to the call center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

We base this claim about HR’s digital skills gap on the results of our latest global leadership survey. Co-produced by our three organizations, the survey gauged nearly 28,000 business leaders across industries about the state and trajectory of leadership. Implement leadership planning models.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

has been trumpeted as a major reversal of the trend of sending jobs abroad to lower cost locations, and has been characterized in the press as a kind of " onshoring " story. In the early 2000s, as part of a huge offshoring trend in the business economy, GE shifted manufacturing to suppliers such as Samsung and LG.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

If there was one trend in the last decade of the twentieth century that anyone would recognize as important, it would be continuous improvement. Fighter Pilots and Special Operations teams have discovered and used a secret to continuous improvement – a tool every enterprise can benefit from. Duke and James D.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

As a backlash against increasingly international trends, relationships matter more. Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. When all attributes are equal in a competition, the company who gets the contract has a personal connection. Google your name periodically. Be willing to be scattered.

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ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 16, 2021

Search engines rank new job postings higher. Words such as serving, operating machinery, or entering data will all help the search engines pick up the job posting. A new job posting looks more appealing than one that’s been languishing on online job boards. Job seekers show more interest in recent job postings.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 7, 2018

With One Ford, he put the purpose and values of the Ford brand at the center of the organization and unified the company’s people, plans, operations, and products to restore the brand to automotive leadership. In 2010, Motor Trend named one of Ford’s newest cars, the Ford Fusion, “Car of the Year.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

Nevertheless, companies that live and die on operational excellence — such as Amazon.com, FedEx, Southwest Airlines, and Wal-Mart — must continually improve their key processes. Select process owners with strong leadership skills and develop those skills even further. Also, process owners control IT budgets.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

The first major trend I see is the shift to global, virtual, cross-organizational teams of specialized entities that are knitted together to serve customers. To speed operations and improvement, Process Strategy 2.0 To speed operations and improvement, Process Strategy 2.0 will depend heavily on social collaboration tools.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

A look at global trends such as energy demand should remind leaders of businesses small and large that what we do every day matters. Last year during Climate Week, my company took the opportunity to publicly announce a commitment to increase the energy efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of our operations and product portfolio.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

Engineers at the company came down squarely on the side of analog. What those engineers couldn’t see was that, for most listeners, digital technology’s advantages far outweighed the often undetectable losses from digitization. The company lost its leadership of the very industry that it had invented back in 1973.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

However, as every trend comes to lose sight of its need for renewal, we are now stuck with an academic system in which business schools are run as if they are deaf, blind, and dumb to a completely new emerging world. Business education Education Leadership development' The subsequent recasting of business schools 2.0 STEM-driven.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Yet wanting to be closer with customers, and knowing what actual, operational pathways to take in order to achieve this are two very different things. The Future of Operations. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate. They faced a culture clash, however.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Google Trends reveals that interest in disruptive innovation crept up to peak levels this year. Had Microsoft owned Google’s search engine at the time, it would have been an tiny piece of the revenue pie. Call 2014 the year of innovation. It seems that every time you hop on a quarterly earnings call, the CEO mentions innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Improving access to care, increasing workforce productivity, optimizing clinical operations, and managing population health are important—and interrelated steps. Sensitivity to operations. Front-line workers are in a better position to recognize problems than executive leadership, and HROs welcome their input on how to improve.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The world's biggest and fastest search engine can't help but generate terabytes and petabytes of actionable investment intelligence. In fact, Google chief economist Hal Varian (and other economists and forecasters) already use the search engine's data and analytics to predict economic futures.

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