Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. If you can meet these simple goals for each project, then you will achieve total success. Staff satisfaction is critical to your project’s success. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Project Goal Management Budgeting 56

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

For the first time after China's economic reforms began, CEO succession is threatening to become a major problem, particularly for globally competitive companies such as Haier, Huawei, and Lenovo. Consider, for example, the Shenzhen-based Huawei , which has become the world's second largest telecommunications equipment-maker.

Succession 14

Succession Telecommunications Finance CEO 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

The Norwegian telecommunication firm, Telenor, has been in the news recently as it tries to sell its Indian joint venture with property developer, Unitech Ltd. In the interim, Telenor wants to auction the unit in order to establish its market value. Clearly, India is an attractive telecommunications market for international players.

Wireless 12

Wireless Licensing Telecommunications Price 12

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. Going after future opportunities at the micromarket level can seem risky, but basing strategy on old views of markets and their past performance is riskier still.

B2B 14

B2B Chemicals Analysis B2C 14

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. Emerging market competitors provide the strongest impetus for reverse innovation. Organization is the biggest barrier to success at reverse innovation.

Innovation 15

Innovation Telecommunications Globalization GDP 15

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Over the past several years a major shift in customer behavior has reshaped the nature of many markets and is leading to profound changes in how companies attempt to serve those markets. These new challenges include: Moving from a more hierarchical organization toward a more “networked” organization.

Telecommunications 111

Telecommunications Franchising Consultative Diversity 111

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

We have reviewed hundreds of corporate announcements and websites, interviewed numerous leadership experts, and conducted an analysis of CEO changes and successions over the past five years at S&P 500 and Global 100 companies. The board can also continue to ensure the success of leapfrog leaders after their ascension to the CEO role.

CEO 13

CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

You even people talking about UX as the way in which a consumer connects to a business — all the touch-points from marketing to product development to distribution channels. How can large organizations deploy this capability on an enterprise scale? The value of UX as a corporate asset is no longer in question.

Strategy 10

Strategy Six Sigma Engineering Bottom-up 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Commenting later on van Gennep’s work, anthropologist Victor Turner explained it as “a moment when those being moved in accordance with a cultural script were liberated from normative demands, when they were, indeed, betwixt and between successive lodgments in jural political systems. Procter & Gamble provides another example. Lawrence A.

Leadership 8

Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

For example, GE developed an ultra-low-cost ultrasound for rural China which is now marketed in over 100 countries. Logitech developed an affordable mouse for the China market which sells for (the Chinese equivalent of) $19.99 and which they now sell in Europe and the U.S. You need to innovate for India, not simply export to India.

Glocalization 11

Glocalization Mass Marketing P&L Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

In the 1900s, French mathematician-economist Leon Walras envisioned prices in a market economy being set by an auctioneer (since known as the “Walrasian auctioneer”) conducting continuous auctions for all kinds of commodities. Economists and market design. Many economists since have been hired by the U.S.

Strategy 13

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

In the mid-90s as CEO of Medtronic, I was concerned about whether we could sustain the remarkable success in innovation that we had enjoyed during the previous 10 years. Christensen and Bower's article offered the counterintuitive notion that great companies fail for the same reasons they initially experience success.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

According to Selling Power magazine, the largest companies in America selling products such as computer and office equipment, consumable goods, insurance, telecommunications, and financial services, each employ tens of thousands of salespeople. The sales force is perhaps the most highly empowered organization within most companies.

Short-term 8

Short-term Telecommunications Advertising Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

What role does he or she play in the organization? Only two of the 37 organizations we studied had appointed more than two COOs in their history; in 27, the current COOs had only one predecessor; and in the remaining eight corporations, the incumbents were the companies' first COOs. Does your company have a COO today?

COO 12

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Enrollment in learning programs has surged over the last few years to generate a global executive education market of over $70 billion a year. Consider, for instance, the talent development program at Ascom, a global telecommunications company. Skill development is clearly a major priority for companies and managers these days.

Project 8

Project Parcell How To Short-term 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. When you're in this situation, avoid the six common mistakes most salespeople make: They use truisms : They believe their company's own marketing pitch, which makes claims that are not considered entirely true by the listener.

CIO 15

CIO Chief Information Officer Outsourcing Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

Stories that start with "why" — that articulate the organization''s purpose and passion — are able to get more consumers tuning in to the brand and what it stands for. These are two examples where real-time marketing empowered audiences to co-write a brand story in collaboration with the brand.

Brand 9

Brand Storytelling Audience Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

And in business life, CEOs incentivize and promote those senior executives who can get new ideas to market more quickly than competitors. But what if speed is the wrong measure for success? Or take Harris Corporation, an American telecommunications company founded in 1895. At university, we are examined under time pressure.

Competitive Advantage 9

Competitive Advantage Airlines Telecommunications Long-term 9

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.

Innovation 8

Innovation Telecommunications Technology Entrepreneur 8

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?

CEO 8

CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

Yet, the trend is not free from potential downsides as the case of a large multinational telecommunications company illustrates. After four years, systems had been tinkered with so much that new product launches became not only prohibitively expensive but also needed a very long time to market. The Building Blocks of Successful IT.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

For example, marketing optimizes its activities for its own benefit and the sales and customer service functions do likewise. The end-to-end process of customer acquisition and retention — getting rid of duplicate activities and information across marketing, sales and customer service — isnt touched. We all have.

Process 15

Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Its successes command global respect; its failures deserve serious scrutiny. The company knew digital devices were all becoming telecommunications tools. For most organizations, the question shouldn't be "What's the most innovative thing we can do?" Cisco is an easy company to admire. Smartphones were becoming smarter.

Wireless 12

Wireless Management Telecommunications Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Aquion is a modern success story for American industry. industries: 35 advanced manufacturing industries such as automotive and aerospace manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and semiconductors; three energy industries including electric power generation; and 12 service industries, from software design to telecommunications. They employ 12.3

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

In this stressful market, with no guarantees of pensions or government safety nets taking care of us in our later years, and so with a need for all of us to keep productively working as long as possible, there are a few basic things I might suggest to help you cope. But workplace age discrimination is very, very hard to prove.

COO 14

COO Chief Financial Officer Telecommunications Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2011

What we see and hear — and the conclusions we draw — influence for our lifetimes what we value, how we measure success, whom we trust, and the priorities we set for our own lives, including the role work will play within them. We also examined two European countries, the U.K.

Education 14

Education Compliance White Paper Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) and Chief Risk Officers (CROs) may seem to have little in common. That has coincided with marketing’s increased influence on strategy, driven by the unprecedented level of insights into customer behavior and trends that are now possible through analytics. Take a customer–life cycle approach.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

There's a reason why great chefs visit the farms and markets that source their restaurants: The raw ingredients are critical to success. At one global telecommunications giant, for example, a critical network software upgrade was not only slipping further behind schedule, but the bug density was slowly creeping up, as well.

Micromanagement 17

Micromanagement Document Telecommunications Software 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Assess yourself not only as a sector expert but also as an executive with special competences and map those attributes against the market’s needs. What are your special skills — digital marketing know-how you learned in fast-moving consumer goods? Finally, don’t forget about your most valuable marketing asset: your current CEO.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence CEO Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. Devices of all kinds have gone from advertising, branding, and marketing media to promotional platforms. Contestification.

Innovation 16

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

There’s urgency here because we believe the role of technology in the labor market will become more pronounced as artificial intelligence and machine learning affect white-collar jobs in much the same way that robotics has affected blue-collar jobs.

Skills 8

Skills Engineering Telecommunications Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. The goal of the Digital Single Market is an ambitious one: to deliver by the end of 2016 the equivalent of US$ 471 billion per year to the regional economy and 3.8 The EC’s pronouncements signal the beginnings of a “Digital Maastricht Treaty.”

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8