Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

StrategyDriven Analytics combines StrategyDriven’s industry leading asset management and data analytics experience with Xen Wireless’s information technology and delivery expertise. StrategyDriven refers to the family of organizations comprising StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. For more information, please visit www.StrategyDriven.com.

Wireless 59

Wireless Benchmarking Asset Management Industry 59

Thin Difference

AUGUST 8, 2019

An International Coach Federation study found that organizations with a strong coaching culture: Score significantly higher on employee engagement scores. Are far more likely to be classified as high-performing organizations. Coaching leaders constantly look ahead to understand and support the vision of the organization.

Short-term 64

Short-term Long-term Telecommunications Webinar 64

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

It is becoming increasingly rare to find an individual or organization that has not yet been required to team with others. Those who benefit from collaborations, rather than become the victim of them, will log the biggest successes in business years ahead. Non-profit organizations banning resources for programs or fund-raising.

Cooper 50

Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

"Organizations will pay significant consequences if they don't work openly, honestly and proactively with government and society. The authors want to put these at the center of business -- both because it's right and because success in business is inextricably linked to sustainability. The life expectancy of a leading U.S.

Company 50

Company Competitive Advantage Open-book Long-term 50

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. You can learn more about Russell and his book on his website at RussellBishop.com.

Bureaucracy 203

Bureaucracy Compliance Learning-by-Doing Engineering 203

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. The case shows that a successful strategy requires a CIO to know when the IT organization can and ought to go fast to reduce risks and when the organization needs to go slow, even if that implies higher risks.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2017

One major reason for the update is that analytical technology has changed dramatically over the last decade; the sections we wrote on those topics have become woefully out of date. Some technologies from a decade ago are still in broad use, and I’ll describe them here too. But we’re here to talk about technology.

Open-book 8

Open-book Software Supply Chain Technology 8

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

AUGUST 22, 2012

You have never met him before nor have you been able to generate any interest from his organization. Luke Skywalker, a salesperson for XYZ Technologies, is attending a trade show and happens to be in the elevator with Norman Bates, chief information officer at Wonderful Telecommunications. Hello, Norman.

CIO 15

CIO Chief Information Officer Outsourcing Telecommunications 15

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. The only sure thing, especially when it comes to technology, is continuous discontinuity. And a lot is happening in Silicon Valley.

Innovation 8

Innovation Telecommunications Technology Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

and Germany the richest and most technologically advanced nations in the world? and Germany, for instance, have well over 300 Nobel Prize winners in science and technology whereas India and China have a combined total of less than 10. Organization is the biggest barrier to success at reverse innovation.

Innovation 15

Innovation Telecommunications Globalization GDP 15

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. Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 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

APRIL 2, 2014

But what if speed is the wrong measure for success? It started life as an ironworks company, pursued vertical integration by entering coal, eventually moved into pressed steel wheels before diversifying into front wheel drive technology and beyond. Or take Harris Corporation, an American telecommunications company founded in 1895.

Competitive Advantage 9

Competitive Advantage Airlines Telecommunications Long-term 9

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. Here are a few thoughts about what you can do: Conduct a demographic risk-analysis of your team or organization.

Telecommunications 10

Telecommunications Chemicals Health Care Planning 10

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. Many technologies, such as computers, copiers, fax machines, and other office equipment are rapidly converging.

Telecommunications 111

Telecommunications Franchising Consultative Diversity 111

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Its successes command global respect; its failures deserve serious scrutiny. The sad but simple truth was that Cisco — arguably the world's premier internet network technology company — didn't deliver a Wi-Fi-enabled device. The company knew digital devices were all becoming telecommunications tools.

Wireless 12

Wireless Management Telecommunications Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

Technology-oriented firms face further obstacles, which have inhibited the country’s potential innovators since long before the current crisis, often forcing researchers to retract into fundamental research or academia instead of becoming entrepreneurs. And Tropical SA is focused on hydrogen and fuel cell technologies.

Planning 10

Planning GDP Tourism Innovation 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. Lawrence A. billion, and its revenues increased from $6.4

Leadership 8

Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 8

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.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Strategy Telecommunications Software 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

1 billion price tag paid by Facebook for Instagram, whose primary asset is not technology, but the best photo sharing UX in the business (and some of the best UX talent as well). How can large organizations deploy this capability on an enterprise scale? The value of UX as a corporate asset is no longer in question. Just look at the. $1

Strategy 10

Strategy Six Sigma Engineering Bottom-up 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

New technologies, industry standards, and approaches to tagging and labeling are enhancing the ability of consumers to trace the origin of goods. 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."

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Ethics Telecommunications Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. Aquion is a modern success story for American industry. competitiveness and growth in the 21 st century. We call this super-sector “advanced industries.” They employ 12.3

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

As we argue in a forthcoming article, in the April issue of Harvard Business Manager (the German edition of HBR), our experience of studying and documenting these failures suggests that nearly all can be traced back to a small set of traps organizations tend to step into. Trap 1: Acting as an event manager. Here’s an example.

B2B 8

B2B Innovation Company Workshop 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

MARCH 12, 2012

Poor countries will become R&D labs for breakthrough innovations in such diverse fields as housing, transportation, energy, health care, entertainment, telecommunications, financial services, clean water, and many others. Now, more than ever, success in developing countries is a prerequisite for continued vitality in developed ones.

Glocalization 11

Glocalization Mass Marketing P&L Globalization 11

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.

Education 14

Education Compliance White Paper Politics 14

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 14

COO Chief Financial Officer Telecommunications Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The CEO sitting across from me is explaining how he and the other executives of a telecommunications firm were caught off guard by a new technology that disrupted the firm’s business. He believes this is vital not only for better performance now, but also for the continued success of his career. What is Learning Agility?

Agility 8

Agility Learning-by-Doing Executive Coaching Telecommunications 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

The research shows that men are 16 percent more inquisitive than women, possibly due to their tendency to gravitate towards STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) careers that reinforce inquiry. Fact 4: Organizations with a greater percentage of women in leadership roles perform better financially.

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Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

In one of the most comprehensive global surveys of corporate directors to date, we found that they were very worried about developing and enacting strategic plans that will enable their organizations to succeed. Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Not competitive threats. Not rising costs.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 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. In other words, a charismatically innovative lobbyist may have a bigger impact on marketplace success in 2011 than the country's most savvy technologist or marketer.

Innovation 16

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

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

One of us (Fred) was invited to join one important board seat (Time Warner) in large part because his expertise in the highly regulated realm of health care could be applied to the increasingly regulated world of global telecommunications. So inventory those moments when your leadership success has been proven by your questions.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence CEO Health Care 8

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.” Adopt a test-and-learn approach.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 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 28, 2015

Organizations have a strong sense of their own value and an unswerving commitment to high quality care but little appreciation of others’ worth in their local, regional, or national systems. The answer is the organizations in which they work and the pressures, incentives, and regulations under which they operate.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8