Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

It is becoming increasingly rare to find an individual or organization that has not yet been required to team with others. Here are some examples of Collaborations: Parties and consultants involved in taking a company public work together as a team. Non-profit organizations banning resources for programs or fund-raising.

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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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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 21, 2013

It can be a new creation or based off of a different from of art, book to movie or vice versa for example. Creating a Director’s cut is much easier than creating the original film from scratch for example. As an example, I worked for three different companies that all wanted the same exact end result for their projects.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Data-driven managers, departments, and organizations have always enjoyed distinct advantages. Indeed, we think every organization must develop and execute an aggressive plan to put data to work. It requires concerted effort across the organization. Customer profitability is a terrific example.

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Organization Telecommunications McKinsey Price 15

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2010

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 15, 2020

Hans Vestberg is the CEO of Verizon Communications, an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate with over 152,000 employees around the world. Hans believes leadership is: “Ensuring that people have everything they need to achieve the missions of an organization. All else is footnotes.”.

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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. You can learn more about Russell and his book on his website at RussellBishop.com.

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Bureaucracy Compliance Learning-by-Doing Engineering 203

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

It is the skillful combination of emotion and logic, people and process, free-thinking and organization. While the study results provided detailed insights about sales organization trends , it also yielded a wide range of statistics that reflect the strategies sales leaders are employing to overcome their top challenges.

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Metrics Telecommunications Telemarketing Software 11

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2011

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

Research has regularly demonstrated that when employees feel empowered at work, it is associated with stronger job performance, job satisfaction, and commitment to the organization. In the latter example, employees may become frustrated and uncertain about their role, leading to worse performance on routine tasks.

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Delegation Analysis Creativity Uncertainty 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Six Sigma , Kaizen , Lean , and other variations on continuous improvement can be hazardous to your organization's health. 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.

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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. Is your organization prepared?

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Competitive Advantage Leadership Telecommunications Talent Management 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2017

Cloud-based analytics made it possible for organizations to acquire massive amounts of computing power for short periods at low cost. Today many organizations are employing Hadoop-based data lakes to store different types of data in their original formats until they need to be structured and analyzed.

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Open-book Software Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The proliferation of customer data and the greater computing power to organize and analyze that data make it feasible to create much more dynamic and insightful profiles of customers. For example, Bain & Company’s recent analysis of the U.S. Take a balance-sheet view. ” Defining customer missions takes work.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Frequently, stressed and harried managers look up the organization hierarchy and assume that they'll have greater control of their time when they advance to the C-suite. So, forget work-life balance and think personal organization and finding ways to relax. That's history in most organizations.

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Stress Telecommunications Goleman Emotional Intelligence 15

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

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. Here are a few thoughts about what you can do: Conduct a demographic risk-analysis of your team or organization. And for our organizations to continue to thrive, all of us need to get ready.

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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. Lawrence A.

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Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 8

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. And a higher share (82%) find it hard to control the use of personal data by organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

Historically, organizations have swung between these two ends of the external-internal spectrum depending on the economy, the labor pool, and the strategic imperative — do we need new talent and capabilities right now or do we have the time to grow them? 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

DECEMBER 11, 2012

One problem that constantly recurs in changing organizations is what we might call the last mile dilemma. 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.

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Telecommunications Short-term Banking Magazine 8

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 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

As we argue in a forthcoming article, in the April issue of Harvard Business Manager (the German edition of HBR), our experience of studying and documenting these failures suggests that nearly all can be traced back to a small set of traps organizations tend to step into. Here’s an example. Trap 1: Acting as an event manager.

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B2B Innovation Company Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

You have never met him before nor have you been able to generate any interest from his organization. Here's an example of a poor elevator pitch. Luke Skywalker, a salesperson for XYZ Technologies, is attending a trade show and happens to be in the elevator with Norman Bates, chief information officer at Wonderful Telecommunications.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Outsourcing Telecommunications 15

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 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

The Federal Trade Commission and National Telecommunications and Information Administration have also expressed concerns about consumer privacy, as have PwC and the Wall Street Journal. The search market is a perfect example of data as an unfair barrier-to-entry. However, big data holds many other risks.

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Telecommunications Engineering McKinsey Library 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

For example, early cell phones were woefully unreliable, and their voice quality paled in comparison with land lines. Then rapid improvement in cell phone technology combined with sharp reductions in cost opened up massive new markets that existing terrestrial business telecommunications companies had missed.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Consider, for instance, the talent development program at Ascom, a global telecommunications company. The goal is hollow — it can be accomplished without generating any gains for the organization or insights for team members. Let’s look at an example that shows all these principles in action.

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Project Parcell How To Short-term 8

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. I saw this firsthand when I was a PhD student, in the call center of a large telecommunications company.

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Call Center Telecommunications Stress Film 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

We interviewed 24 CEOs and asked them to name the biggest challenges facing their organizations. Given that CEOs set the tone and priorities for their organizations, it is important to understand what they interpret as the major challenges and opportunities. CEOs have a lot to worry about, but what are their greatest concerns?

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CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

But as the tech wave has continued to sweep the globe, the environment for all organizations, including non-tech ones, has shifted from stability and predictability to rapid, unpredictable change. Organizations need to enhance their design and capabilities to survive and stay competitive in a world where innovation matters more.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

Yet, here we are in 2013 with organizational leadership models that continue to deny the social nature of organizations and wallow in inertia. According to the 2013 Edelman Trust Barometer , fewer than 20% of respondents believe leaders are actually telling the truth when confronted with a difficult issue in their organizations.

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CIO Leadership Drucker Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

Consider, for example, the Shenzhen-based Huawei , which has become the world's second largest telecommunications equipment-maker. Their founders — China's first generation of entrepreneurs — are nearing retirement, so these companies' futures hinges on how effectively the incumbents manage leadership transitions.

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Succession Telecommunications Finance CEO 14

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.

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Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

For example, from telecommunication companies to fintech entrepreneurs, African banking fees and commissions are under tremendous presure. Africa has to innovate — for example by building new credit models — to expand their businesses and make them more appealing. Innovate ferociously.

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Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

3) What processes in an organization affect culture? For example, a teacher driven by purpose values or identifies with the goal of educating and empowering children. For example, a teacher with potential may be doing his job because he eventually wants to become a principal. Take for example the airline industry.

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Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Here a few notable examples. and other governments to help them design these often complicated auctions and by telecommunications companies trying to figure out the best strategies for bidding. Examples include index funds, and their more recent variation, index-based exchange traded funds (EFTs).

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Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12