First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 22, 2011

Although this is a somewhat lengthy interview, with an extensive introduction, I think it is a “must read&# for anyone either employed by a telecommunications [.]. The interview was conducted by Art Kleiner and Pierre Péladeau.

Kleiner 89

Kleiner Telecommunications Magazine Strategy 89

Strategy Driven

JUNE 2, 2015

For nearly three decades, Ruth led the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations’ (INPO) Information Technology Division as Director, Computer Systems and Telecommunications and Director, Information Technology and Data Services.

Information Technology 50

Information Technology Telecommunications Committee Technology 50

Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 18, 2012

At the just-concluded conference of the International Telecommunications Union in Dubai, the U.S. Countries that opposed it are not bound by it, but Internet users in free countries will also suffer as global networks split into two camps—one open, one closed. It was also too good to last. and its allies got outmaneuvered.

Gordon 90

Gordon Telecommunications Decentralization Conference 90

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

One of the most important of those issues is, of course, globalization. As Egon Zehnder’s just-released 2014 Global Board Index found, 37% of the revenue generated by companies in the S&P 500 now comes from international sources, an increase of 5.5% But are the boards of these companies similarly “globalized”?

Globalization 14

Globalization Committee Telecommunications Consensus 14

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2020

Furthermore, the media and information industries will continue to invest in telecommunications outsourcing. Experts also believe that the quantum computing market will reach a value of $8 billion globally by 2027. Cloud-based technology increases connectivity. In turn, this makes offshoring more efficient.

Outsourcing 66

Outsourcing Trends Offshoring Telecommunications 66

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

"While the global population is largely gender balanced, men hold eighty-five percent of senior leadership positions in public companies," states Melissa Greenwell , author of the new book, Money on the Table: How to Increase Profits Through Gender-balanced Leadership. percent a year higher than those with no female representation.

Chief Operating Officer 50

Chief Operating Officer How To Leadership Telecommunications 50

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The CEO of a leading telecommunications company recently embarked on an innovative approach. Executives who create a dynamic, new human resource model will retain the high-knowledge talent needed to succeed in tomorrow’s globally competitive environment. Life is good. Marshall@MarshallGoldsmith.com. 1-858-759-0950.

Bureaucracy 151

Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 25, 2011

Getting China and India Right: Strategies for Leveraging the World’s Fastest Growing Economies for Global Advantage Anil K.

Govindarajan 97

Govindarajan Review Books Globalization 97

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

I don’t know much about telecommunications – it just seemed obvious. Within the next 20 years there will be millions of brilliant, highly educated knowledge workers flooding the global job market. I just returned from a trip around the world. As an American, what I observed was sobering. They will speak fluent English.

Telecommunications 98

Telecommunications Education Politics Quality 98

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Nokia's recent burning platform travails serve as an object lesson to companies trying to navigate a rapidly-changing global economy. However, Nokia ran into trouble by underestimating the speed at which technological developments in the United States, pioneered by rivals such as Apple, are transforming the mobile telecommunications business.

Globalization 14

Globalization Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology 14

Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

As companies have become larger and more global, there has been a shift from buying stand-alone products to buying integrated solutions. The same trend is occurring in pharmaceuticals and telecommunications. .” Outside the Organization. Leaders must also partner with customers, suppliers, and competitors.

Short-term 107

Short-term Long-term Trends Telecommunications 107

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

Lone rangers and sole-source providers simply cannot succeed in competitive environments and global economies. Telecommunications industry service providers. It is becoming increasingly rare to find an individual or organization that has not yet been required to team with others. Distribution centers and networks for retail products.

Cooper 50

Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Businesses are more profitable and productive when they act ethically, treat their staff well, and communicate better with their customers, according to the latest Lady Geek Global Empathy Index. The top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10 and generated 50% more earnings.

Tourism 8

Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

Given the forecasts of uncertain global economic growth, we might expect companies to hold off from hiring new employees and to limit whatever international hiring they do to emerging markets. aerospace & defense, construction & engineering, industrial conglomerates, professional services, textiles); IT & Telecommunications (e.g.,

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications Health Care Talent Management Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Nokia, today’s telecommunications networking company, has made corporate transformation into an art form. In 1992, new CEO Jorma Ollila and his team made a decision that is iconic in the world of corporate reinvention, going all-in on the emerging telecommunications markets. Of course, we know what happened next.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Crisis Committee Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Directors acknowledge cybersecurity as an urgent global issue, but are failing to make the connection between the pervasiveness of cyberthreats and their companies’ vulnerabilities. Why the disconnect between the global- and company-level views? banking & financial services, insurance, real estate); Healthcare (e.g.,

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Health Care Contingency Plans Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Leading the list are the economy; the regulatory environment; and cybersecurity, according to our global survey of over 4,000 corporate directors, conducted in partnership with WomenCorporateDirectors Foundation, led by Susan Stautberg, Spencer Stuart, led by Julie Hembrock Daum, and independent researcher Deborah Bell. With the 2016 U.S.

Politics 8

Politics Telecommunications Policies Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

But as global technology brands penetrate African economies, it is becoming evident that most local startups are experiencing new levels of competition, which could potentially disrupt their operations. The unbounded and unconstrained nature of the internet has made it possible for competition to become global.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Entrepreneur Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The icing on the globalization cake is that such innovations are scalable not only across other emerging markets, but more importantly, they can be scaled up for the developed world. Today, rich countries and poor countries account for roughly equal shares of the global economy. This is what we call reverse innovation.

Innovation 15

Innovation Telecommunications Globalization GDP 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

And 43% cited technology expertise, HR-talent management, international-global expertise, and succession planning as the skills missing most on their boards. The industry with the greatest skills gap was IT & telecommunications, whose boards are in serious need of international-global expertise and HR-talent management.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Between January and June 2016, we worked with Harvard Business School’s Global Research Centers to increase the response rate outside of the United States. The industry breakdowns were determined using eight major sectors (similar to those in the Global Industry Classification Standard system): Consumer Discretionary (e.g.,

Innovation 9

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

This post is part of the HBR Insight Center, The Next Generation of Global Leaders. In an increasingly global age, the capacity of organizations to build multicultural and transnational leaders will be a critical competitive advantage. The world is getting smaller. Integrate multicultural insights into business decisions and strategy.

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage Leadership Telecommunications Talent Management 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Increasingly, Western companies are developing products in countries like China and India, and then distributing them globally. To compete, global corporations must be just as nimble innovating abroad as they are at home. Therefore, they focused on winning market share by adapting global offerings to meet local needs.

Glocalization 11

Glocalization Mass Marketing P&L Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

A 2014 global survey by SafeNet found that nearly two-thirds of consumers said they would stop or avoid using a company that had experienced a data breach. Singapore passed its Personal Data Protection Act in 2014 as a strategic move “to strengthen Singapore’s position as a trusted global data hub” of the future.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Cost-Benefit Analysis Reputation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

The industry breakout was done using eight major sectors (similar to those in the Global Industry Classification Standard system): Consumer Discretionary (e.g., aerospace & defense, construction & engineering, industrial conglomerates, professional services, textiles); IT & Telecommunications (e.g., Succession planning'

Succession 8

Succession Telecommunications Biotechnology Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

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. To compete with this miraculous turnaround, Western companies, starting with Motorola, began to adopt Japanese methods.

Six Sigma 17

Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 17

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

What they don't understand is that modern-day telecommunications, the hair-trigger requirements of financial markets, and the pace of global organizations create 24 x 7 work lives for most executives. So, forget work-life balance and think personal organization and finding ways to relax.

Stress 15

Stress Telecommunications Goleman Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

The latest developments around PRISM and the NSA dragnet operations uncovered by Edward Snowden, in my view, severely damage the fragile fabric of the new global ecosystem, which we so sorely rely on in order to collectively tackle truly urgent global issues such as energy, pollution, food, climate change, (cyber-)terrorism and inequality.

Globalization 9

Globalization Technology Information Technology Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Too few businesses have sought to make a systemic approach to public policy an important dimension of their global posture. telecommunications or food safety or healthcare or aerospace or energy/environment). They can be cross-cutting issues which impact the whole corporation (e.g.,

Policies 8

Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

For instance, Raycap has developed solutions that protect telecommunications, power, and transportation networks. In an increasingly global race for the best talents, the quality of life outside the lab has turned into a crucial success factor, which should enable Greece to become a global attractor for talent.

Planning 9

Planning GDP Tourism Innovation 9

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. We concluded that in order for women to reach their full potential in the global marketplace, governments and business leaders must help them move beyond microfinance.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Flextime Globalization Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

Yet when it comes to the international nonmarket rules for business, American firms have disengaged just at the time when these emerging markets are asserting themselves in global dealmaking. business to rethink what it wants on major global talks on trade (and climate change, for that matter). It is time for U.S. Leading U.S.

Strategy 9

Strategy Globalization Politics Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

In telecommunications and information technology, experts are waking up to the need for full "chains of custody" for components because of the threat of malicious " hardware Trojan horses." Corporate social responsibility Global business Sustainability' Because the cost of not knowing product provenance is huge when things go wrong.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Ethics Telecommunications Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Their concerns fell into three broad categories: talent, operating in a global marketplace, and regulation and legislation. food processor General Mills, noting that his company was quickly expanding internationally, said, “One of our challenges was how to develop a truly globally mobile culture. We were not a global company yet.

CEO 8

CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

That helps explain why 38% of incoming CEOs in the telecommunications industry during the previous four years were recruited from outside the company. and Canada, countries whose collective gradual decrease runs counter to the global trend. ” That broader scope may extend well beyond Disney’s ranks.

CEO 8

CEO Company Telecommunications Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

In fact, our recent research on global human capital trends shows that 84% of business leaders cite the “need for improved organizational learning” as a top priority, and 44% say it’s urgent. Consider, for example, the challenges that one telecommunications company faced with high turnover in its retail stores.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Retail Human Capital Class 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2015

Given this context, it comes as little surprise that businesses — like Facebook, Google, and telecommunications companies — have the motivation to improve internet awareness and access. Meanwhile, China’s e-commerce market is 80 times as large.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Marketing Wireless McKinsey 8