Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

Domain experts know the ins and outs of an industry and are highly skilled at assessing risks and opportunities. Though companies can easily manipulate the proportion of directors with domain expertise when building a board or appointing new directors, we know virtually nothing about its effects on corporate performance.

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications Banking Uncertainty Sample 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

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. Poly9 in Canada, and C3 Technologies in Sweden that are bringing in new skills.

Software 15

Software Telecommunications Short-term Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He started very well, but as soon as his cash flow improved, financial burdens from family systems stifled his operations. 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.

Books 13

Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 13

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

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Making autos was a craft, and very few people were skilled enough to put one together. Doctors focus their time on diagnosis and the most intricate aspects of surgery, while less-skilled paramedics take care of everything else. Health India Operations Productivity' Every customer was assumed to be unique and so was every car.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Lean Production Offshoring 8

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. Few CEOs I know have operations-focused thinking styles or backgrounds. Whether they are analyzing the numbers, or conceiving of new directions in which to take the firm, they love to operate in the world of ideas.

Process 15

Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2018

But it’s poised to transform all sectors, from retail, telecommunications, and agriculture to health, trucking, and the penal system. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. The skills data scientists need are evolving (and experience with deep learning isn’t the most important one).

Ethics 8

Ethics Learning-by-Doing Industry Telecommunications 8

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Operating a small business is not unlike owning a really old house: things break a lot, and you need to fix them, over and over and over. Are you good at resolving conflicts with people, or are you willing to work really hard to learn this skill? Ours did; over 700 did not.) Do you like solving problems, and are you good at it?

Learning-by-Doing 255

Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 255

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

Telecommunications companies can create a small secondary network where they can test ideas without running the risk of interrupting service to millions of customers. My colleague Mark Johnson notes how a company''s business model eventually leads to a set of implicit rules, norms, and metrics that govern its operation.

Ries 8

Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Technology has emerged as a competitive weapon in driving operational excellence and superior service quality. For example, from telecommunication companies to fintech entrepreneurs, African banking fees and commissions are under tremendous presure. Across Africa, banking is being redesigned.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

You put together ad-hoc teams that involve not only analysts with relevant domain expertise but also represent skills from other domains, which brings new ways of thinking to old analytical problems. We recently participated in a data-dive type process at a major telecommunications company. Here''s how it works in data analysis.

Analysis 8

Analysis Storytelling Brainstorming Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Their concerns fell into three broad categories: talent, operating in a global marketplace, and regulation and legislation. AT&T, for example, had to switch its focus from traditional telecom services to wireless services, and this shift required employees with different skill sets. Operating in a Global Marketplace.

CEO 8

CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

Swansea City was a club looking for a midfield player with flair and skill. For example, the power company Tenaga Nasional could send a leader with strong operating capabilities to work for several years at Malaysia Airlines, acquiring skills in turning around a troubled business. Why leave such valuable opportunities to chance?

CFO 8

CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

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

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

As companies like this one grow from start-ups into larger enterprises, they're often compelled to analyze numerical data to reduce risk, maintain operations, and model predictable outcomes. As a result they developed and successfully pitched the idea of alliance partnerships to telecommunications firms.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Strategy Telecommunications Software 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Perhaps equally significant for managers is that the new workers — no matter how many of them there are — will operate differently than their predecessors. Not long ago I worked with a software firm that supported hundreds of legacy applications for the telecommunications industry.

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications Chemicals Health Care Planning 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

A lower-growth market where the company has significant share would require "defensive farming" — that is, fewer reps, but with strong skills in account management. Another might be made up of markets with similar operating cost structures. Because they are structurally similar, peer groups represent similar sales opportunities.

B2B 13

B2B Chemicals Analysis B2C 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

But the real power of the partnership comes from their ability to bring the best of each of their departments—as well as pricing, operations, and other groups—to bear in exploiting those micromarket opportunities. Leaders need to focus on how to create meaningful targets that use the best of each approach.

Marketing 10

Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

We operate in a business landscape driven by an obsession with youth. One of the headhunter-experts I talked to for that project was Ann Carlsen , a recruiter in telecommunications and technology based in Boulder, Colorado. If your skills are rusty, enroll in a course to supplement your gaps. I should know. Spend time with them.

COO 13

COO Chief Financial Officer Telecommunications Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

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Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

These include, among others, access to foreign markets for investments, protecting intellectual property, or visas for skilled, temporary staff. In the 1990s, the Clinton Administration pursued "open sectoral" multilateral agreements in information technology, telecommunications, and financial services. 50, February 2001).

Strategy 9

Strategy Globalization Politics Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

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. — there is either a lack of "roads" or lack of access to them.

Industry 8

Industry Telecommunications Incentives Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

I have often been struck by the way companies operating in industries as diverse as telecommunications and transport manage to collaborate in a competitive environment, yet health organizations find collaboration difficult even when they are not competing. The first is organizational myopia.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Boards of companies operating in the consumer discretionary industry have a disproportionately high representation of Democrats, while boards operating in the industrials and energy and utilities industries skew more Republican. aerospace & defense, industrial conglomerates, textiles); IT & Telecommunications (e.g.,

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8