Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2020

This is despite the concerns on data security surrounding cloud technology. Businesses will incorporate these technologies to interact with their customers. Cloud-based technology increases connectivity. Furthermore, the media and information industries will continue to invest in telecommunications outsourcing.

Outsourcing 67

Outsourcing Trends Offshoring Telecommunications 67

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 20, 2021

Hjartar is global leader of McKinsey Digital in the telecommunications, media and technology sectors and in Western Europe. He is based in Paris. Dahlstrom , based in London, is the global leader for McKinsey Digital’s B2C team. He is based in Copenhagen.

McKinsey 65

McKinsey B2C Telecommunications Learning-by-Doing 65

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2021

Hjartar is global leader of McKinsey Digital in the telecommunications, media and technology sectors and in Western Europe. He is based in Paris. Dahlstrom , based in London, is the global leader for McKinsey Digital’s B2C team. He is based in Copenhagen.

McKinsey 65

McKinsey B2C Telecommunications Globalization 65

Strategy Driven

JUNE 13, 2011

As social media and personal email continue to be many individual’s primary forms of communications, it becomes harder to keep them focused at the workplace. An increase in usage of media-rich sites can place a considerable strain on limited bandwidth, which can hurt the performance of critical business tasks.

Strategy 94

Strategy Management Telecommunications CRM 94

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

A lot of companies congratulate themselves on having a "social media presence" — by which they mean a Twitter following and Facebook likes and a marketing plan that uses social networks. But some 70% of the extra profit to be made through social technologies has nothing to do with marketing. Integration. But that's a good thing.

Media 8

Media McKinsey Supply Chain Telecommunications 8

Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

Today, technology is making all business activity more transparent. People’s tools of communication and organization—from smartphones to social media—are more powerful than ever before. They unwittingly caused a fierce social media backlash when they changed their Privacy Policy.

Company 50

Company Competitive Advantage Open-book Long-term 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

These qualities are increasingly important as social media feeds popular demand for transparency and authentic interaction. An index based on an analysis of the internal culture, CEO performance, ethics, and social media presence of 160 companies on major financial indexes. Technology. Technology. Technology.

Tourism 8

Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

Artists of different media creating festivals, shows and museums. Hardware, software and component producers revolutionizing the next generation of technology. Telecommunications industry service providers. Professional societies and associations. Teams of health care professionals, as found in clinics and hospitals.

Cooper 50

Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

Management teams often assume they can leapfrog best practices for basic data analytics by going directly to adopting artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies. For example, one telecommunications company we worked with can now predict with 75 times more accuracy whether its customers are about to bolt using machine learning.

Company 9

Company Telecommunications Retail Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. apparel, automobiles, retailing, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g.,

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

The American social media giant did not celebrate that feat, though, because it never promoted itself as an e-commerce firm. 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.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Entrepreneur Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

If you want to see how mobile technology can disrupt the very basics of business models and habits established over hundreds if not thousands of years, look at what’s happening in India. A telecommunications revolution, towards fourth generation (4G) mobile services, will transform the consumer landscape over the next 5-10 years.

Strategy 8

Strategy Banking Venture Capitalist Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

In 2006, 26-year-old Frank Wang started up DJI in a dorm room at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. As part of his graduate thesis, he perfected an electronics flight controller, a critical element of drone technology. Western media has been quite critical of the Chinese miracle.

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Business Model Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

telecom carriers face daunting challenges from device makers, content providers, social networks, and an array of disruptive technologies. The telecom industry has changed, and the industry dynamics will continue to shift under the pressure from social media and the power of the consumer. Bharti looks nothing like other telecoms.

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

technology companies as much as $35 billion in potential business. At the same time, several technology platforms that do not collect or share personal data have emerged since mid-2013. Large technology companies might have to pay as much as $200 million to build a data center in Russia, compared with $43 million in the United States.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Cost-Benefit Analysis Reputation Survey 8

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 12, 2012

Are customer preferences and habits changing due to enabling technologies and/or changing social norms? For much of the 1980s and 1990s, many parts of the startup ecosystem focused on communications, technology, and health care. And companies like Google, Apple, and even telecommunications titans are eying the industry.

System 15

System Christensen Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications 15

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. The world is getting smaller.

Competitive Advantage 14

Competitive Advantage Leadership Telecommunications Talent Management 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

So the question is really whether the current, mostly hands-off regulatory regime for broadband has led to faster growth and more investment than if Powell, as chairman of the FCC, hadn’t decided in 2002 to classify cable broadband as a lightly regulated “information service” instead of a common-carrier “telecommunications service.”

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Industry GDP Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

This infrastructure sits on top of a publicly available substructure of assets and resources — telecommunications and the Internet, for example. It embodies the long tail realities of major business and technology decisions, resulting in an IT department struggling to manage multiple costly and incompatible infrastructures.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Telecommunications Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Whether Google Demo Slam or Sprint's App Competition , digital media has become an innovation battleground for customers, clients, prospective partners, and young talent. Devices of all kinds have gone from advertising, branding, and marketing media to promotional platforms. Contestification. Who's running it? Who's judging it?

Innovation 15

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. consumer durables & apparel, retailing, education, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., aerospace & defense, construction & engineering, industrial conglomerates, professional services, textiles); IT & Telecommunications (e.g.,

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

The fact of the matter is that periodically, technologies or business model innovations allow start-ups to enter industries offering services that are generally cheaper and more accessible, but of far lower quality. People are primed to embrace disruption in telecommunications. It's disruption in its most basic form.

Rogers 14

Rogers Telecommunications Disruptive Innovation Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Multi-billion dollar media companies, broadcasters, and cable oligopolies are having to compete for both eyeballs and revenues with a plethora of multinational technology and telecommunications giants who know more about viewer behavior. Megamergers won’t solve for this disruption.

Video 8

Video Telecommunications Early Adopters Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

There are many explanations for growing inequality and stagnant wages, but studies have found that so-called “skills premiums” — higher wages for more-skilled workers — have been a significant factor in growing income inequality, and technology is the reason why that premium has risen.

Skills 8

Skills Engineering Telecommunications Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

The phenomenon of fast-track CEO succession appears to be most prominent in the retail, technology, media, and telecommunications sectors—all of which are particularly affected by disruptive business models and new competitors. Through this effort, we have observed certain characteristics of this emerging trend.

CEO 9

CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Meanwhile, Democrats place greater importance on technology expertise and risk management. apparel, automobiles, retailing, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., aerospace & defense, industrial conglomerates, textiles); IT & Telecommunications (e.g.,

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

They operate in different sectors including banking, construction/engineering, consumer/retail, government, professional services, scientific and technical equipment and TMT (telecommunications, media and technology). 40%) encourage employees to be active in public social media platforms.

Trends 8

Trends Telecommunications Survey Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection." He advises some of the world’s biggest companies on environmental strategy.

NGO 14

NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2017

companies spend over $900 billion on their sales forces, which is three times more than they spend on all ad media. Companies fail to get the most out of the $12 billion a year they spend on sales enablement tools and the billions more on CRM technology. Sales is, by far, the most expensive part of strategy execution for most firms.

Execution 8

Execution Cost Telecommunications CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. This is the virtual network operator (VNO) model used by the telecommunications sector. Guidelines for selecting an appropriate model.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

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. Ndubuisi Ekekwe is a founder of the non-profit African Institution of Technology.

Books 13

Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Digital technology, one of the world's fastest-growing and most lucrative sectors, is popular with consumers of all ages. One of the headhunter-experts I talked to for that project was Ann Carlsen , a recruiter in telecommunications and technology based in Boulder, Colorado. Consider the industry. She was bracingly blunt.

COO 12

COO Chief Financial Officer Telecommunications Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

The marketing and sales team of one major technology vendor, for instance, partnered with risk to assemble a range of financing packages to help its mid-market clients fund upgrades, manage invoice payments, and smooth cash flows. Gauge and influence a customer’s “next best action.” Cross-pollinate your talent.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

based telecoms, technology companies and internet platforms such as Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Yahoo and even Dropbox. based technology companies is at stake here, as is the future of U.S./EU Global business Government Information & technology' The utter disrespect with which U.S. government, or U.S.-based

Globalization 8

Globalization Technology Information Technology Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Some recent studies also suggest that growing up with so much media and technology is creating a generation of people with shorter attention spans and less willingness to dig deeply into subjects. Not long ago I worked with a software firm that supported hundreds of legacy applications for the telecommunications industry.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Chemicals Health Care Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Through satellite technologies, communications monitoring, and active tracking devices, he proceeds to do just that. Social media members who seek long-lost friends sometimes leave traces of their searches on the sites, including email addresses of nonmembers and the contents of messages to those individuals. Although the U.S.

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications Wireless Follow-up Information 9