Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Apple is certainly known for its strong preference for internal innovation. There is clear empirical evidence to back this up: in our research of about 150 firms in the telecommunications industry, we found that the more successful firms all took this active approach to managing their capability and resource portfolios.

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Software Telecommunications Short-term Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

When I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology , I initially focused on helping African entrepreneurs or artisans, especially those with only primary education, develop new skills and market opportunities. Across Africa, many unemployed men have managed small businesses, at least once in their lives.

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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. The new challenges faced by leaders create a need for different priorities and skills. Making complex, multi-business deals.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

In an era where business keeps moving faster, it is no small wonder that resilience has become the new must-have executive skill. Take Susan, the CEO of a small telecommunications firm. Her team had found ingenious ways to shave costs and innovative ways to add value for the client. She had worked hard on it. David Kopans.

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Telecommunications Hedge Video Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

In my eyes, the work Steve Blank, Eric Ries, and others have done to provide a cogent, accessible frame around the academic concepts of emergent strategy is one of the most important contributions to the innovation movement over the past few years. Innovation' That''s not right.

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Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

For example, from telecommunication companies to fintech entrepreneurs, African banking fees and commissions are under tremendous presure. Most still put marketing managers in nice cars to look for clients. In most banks, inexperienced young managers are asked to handle digital products. Innovate ferociously.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

As managers and mentors, we frequently encounter situations like these, when we come up against the limiting voices of self-doubt in the people we support. As a manager or mentor, one of the most powerful ways you can unlock your people’s potential is to give them a toolkit for managing self-doubt.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Its the managers responsibility to lead their employees, manage performance, and provide guidance. Yes, managers often interview job candidates or identify the most talented employees as part of a talent management program. I would guess 90% of all managers believe in their ability to undertake professional interviews.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Skill development is clearly a major priority for companies and managers these days. Consider, for instance, the talent development program at Ascom, a global telecommunications company. Managers learn how to articulate a business opportunity in ways that energize team members. Make it a stretch.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He did not, from my point of view, have the skills to run the big company that we had produced. He wasnt a process manager. He did not, from my point of view, have the skills to run the big company that we had produced. He wasnt a process manager. He ran the place by people and personalities.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

In my own work , I found that this might be particularly prevalent for utilities (gas, electricity and telecommunications). In my own work , I found that this might be particularly prevalent for utilities (gas, electricity and telecommunications). Ran Spiegler (with co-authors) has studied such strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

and other governments to help them design these often complicated auctions and by telecommunications companies trying to figure out the best strategies for bidding. Walker’s innovation was to bind travelers to pay the prices they bid if the airlines and hoteliers on Priceline accepted the offers. Economists and finance.

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Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

Big data managed this way may well improve your retention numbers but not transform your company. On the management side, there is increasing evidence that co-creative processes involving consumers and other stakeholders can have a transformative effect on key processes such as new product development. Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

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Guidelines 14

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In a downbeat tone the manager of a fast-growing healthcare provider rattled off a list of reasons that her company was turning into a numbers-driven organization: Industry regulations required it, Medicare reimbursement policies required it, and delivering specialized services required yet another form of quantitative analysis.

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Entrepreneur Strategy Telecommunications Software 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

If we hope for better management of large-scale endeavors, our models will have to look beyond what it takes to inform individual, or even organizational, moves. If we hope for better management of large-scale endeavors, our models will have to look beyond what it takes to inform individual, or even organizational, moves.

Guidelines 14

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Consider the case of an Asian telecommunications company that found 20 percent of its marketing budget was being squandered in markets with the lowest lifetime customer value. One important way to focus the effort is by managing the sales pipeline together. “It

Marketing 11

Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

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Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Zimbabwe’s largest telecommunication company Econet Wireless has found success with its online payment platform that helps Zimbabweans manage the challenges of its multi-currency system. However, in recent years many high-skilled Zimbabweans have emigrated to neighboring South Africa.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

DDI’s High-Resolution Leadership study reviewed true assessment data from 10,000 global leaders and found no difference in the battle of the sexes for leadership skills. Men and women equally qualified in business drivers around hard- and soft-business skills—with neither gender scoring high. Wellins, Ph.D., Goldman Sachs.

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Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

But DJI is testament to China’s transformation from copycat to high tech innovation. As the example of DJI demonstrates, Chinese companies are busy innovating based on three valuable and difficult-to-imitate advantages that will allow them to compete effectively with, and, in some areas, even overtake their Western rivals.

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Business Model Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

In turn, reflection becomes the rocket fuel for experimentation, the lifeblood of high-level innovation, the spark of deeper meaning, and the wellspring of enduring purpose. If youre here to "innovate" sugar water, then thinking in terms of orthodox buyers and suppliers might do the trick. So throw Frederick W.

Short-term 15

Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Many senior managers desire — and are qualified — to join a board. This is understandable but not good: The syndrome can lead to board timidity, herd mentality, and an aversion to innovation, which can hurt or even kill an enterprise. Or perhaps expertise in managing clinical trials you learned in biopharma? Earning trust.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence CEO Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

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Guidelines 15

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

VC fund managers in Mexico are still learning how to achieve trust with our investors, the limited partners (LPs). In Mexico, in the innovative sectors that entrepreneurs usually enter — mobile technology, branchless banking, housing for rural or semi-urban areas, basic services such as water, telecommunications, education, etc.

Industry 9

Industry Telecommunications Incentives Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

It is clear to us that the failure of different parts of the system — payers, providers, patients, professionals, policy makers, politicians, the public, and the press — to pull in the same direction is a serious drag on innovation and progress. Making these changes required skill, will, and time underpinned by rigorous process.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

and China take the lead in tech innovation. Telecommunications, marketplace platforms, payment services, and postal and logistics systems are balkanized. There are a staggering 250 collective management organizations overseeing digital content, according to a 2014 EC press release. Investing in innovation capacity.

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