Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

A classic example of a new-world organization is AT&T Wireless Services (formerly McCaw Cellular Communications); which AT&T paid twelve billion dollars to acquire. For example, imagine that AT&T Wireless needed to make major changes because of problems in a local market, but before the changes could be made: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

The rapid pace of digital change has put companies in the unenviable position of trying to decide which tech trends to invest in and when. In the online realm, Amazon’s experiment with its Echo wireless speaker technology – also known as Alexa – has the potential to turn the cumbersome online checkout process on its head.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 23, 2022

EMIE LED Bedside Lamp with Wireless Charger. Help your coworker get a good night’s sleep with the EMIE LED Bedside Lamp with Wireless Charger. Just like in “Finding Nemo,” they’ll be able to keep track of all their stuff, no matter where it goes. BEST SECRET SANTA GIFT FOR THE COWORKER WHO DOES OVERTIME.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 27, 2014

The art of developing leaders will evolve with the technology that connects people through both wired and wireless networks. This trend will continue. Leaders will learn what they need to know, when they need to know it, from the source best able to teach it. by Marshall Goldsmith. Tomorrow’s leaders will learn in new ways.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

In addition to the digital tools entering the workplace now, several technologies and trends on the horizon have the potential to further transform the way we work and interact with others. Artificial intelligence. Connectivity and the rise of the ad hoc community.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Wireless connectivity. When they get to the car, they wave their membership card over a sensor on the windshield (the card and sensor communicate wirelessly), which triggers a wireless query back to the company's database to make sure the user is OK to take the car. Wireless Connectivity. What are they? Microprocessors.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

I tend to care about prices: Will this merger affect my monthly wireless bill? Wireless telephone prices are falling, a sign of competitive markets. And because the CPI cannot easily account for increases in call quality , this index understates the true decrease in the quality-adjusted price of wireless telephony.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Tesla’s genius and education led him to develop the foundations for electric induction motors, wireless telegraphy, radios, neon lamps, and remote control. His ability to perform integral calculus in his head led his tutors to think he was cheating.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

As technology transforms our economy, one trend is getting more and more attention: the prospect that it will increasingly automate the work that we human beings do. While it’s true that technology is taking over routine tasks from many workers, it is also reshaping many supply and demand trends that drive our global markets.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

It's entirely probable that as smart phones become increasingly integrated into our daily lives, wireless advertising will link directly to the shopping data. The digitized shopping cart will undoubtedly give rise to a more flexible retail store — one which constantly adapts to the ever-changing moods and trends of the shoppers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2011

Blockbuster used to be the king of movie rentals, but then competitors Netflix, Redbox, and even TiVo quickly capitalized on the high-speed Internet, iPhone apps, and self-service trends. Wireless carriers in the U.S. Consumer tastes: Novelty inevitably wears off, regardless of the health of the economy.

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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. — [and] not much on risk, people, innovation.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

The Journal offers some numbers: The trend has been a boon for companies like Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc. wireless carriers brought in $22 billion in revenue selling services such as mobile email and Web browsing in 2007, according to analysts at UBS AG.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

The Wireless Industry's Growing Pains (Knowledge@Wharton). Companies trying to position themselves as super-green risk becoming lightning rods when blunders happen, while companies "that make less extreme claims either are disregarded by the press or have a far less likelihood of seeing their failings exposed," Oberholzer-Gee says.

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Wireless How To McKinsey Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

These findings support a larger trend of the growing importance of employee wellbeing. Over a third of employees feel that they don’t get enough natural light in their workspace. The benefits of these elements is is well recognized.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Smartphones, smart TVs and watches have become the in-thing and trend among the young and the old. This wireless transmission makes it easy for business owners to exchange information. The advent of the internet and better devices has impacted the way people interact and how businesses operate.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

To identify those four, it reviewed societal changes and trends in health, looked at what competitors were up to, and got back in touch with target customers’ tastes and preferences. On store presentation, it went from dated to modern by changing the layout and colors and by adding wireless Internet connections and plasma TVs.

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Innovation Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Both these trends support the notion that the costs of successful business model innovation are rising over time. But when it does come, it will not demand costly breakthrough innovation either in wireless technology or digital marketing. At the same time, startup failure rates continue to accelerate.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

While my client was impressed by the schools with extensive libraries and physical facilities, her son was focused on the extent to which the institutions were enabled with wireless capability, video streaming, readily available collaboration tools, and more.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

Social media is in effect a massive focus group that can provide intelligence about brand perception, services, competitors, and potentially disruptive trends. And one wireless carrier looked at customers’ social media complaints about poor service to predict churn. Gather and track the right information.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Econet Wireless is another mobile operator laying the foundation for an entire suite of such services and paving the way for a cashless future for their customers in Zimbabwe. These trends are not limited to customers. Numerous solutions are popping up to help small traders and merchants convert to this emerging cashless future.

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Banking Retail Wireless Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Here is Nike using wireless sensors and Web technology to create a performance-tracking system that allows it to create new services to monitor, and to improve and create new training routines for athletes. Organizations that capitalize on this trend will ensure that as information eats the enterprise, they''ll be the ones satiated.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

After using it for a few days I bought a wireless keyboard. Consider journalism, the profession most obviously shattered by this trend. The world is coming apart in many interesting ways. I recently bought an iPad. A week later I bought a case that puts the iPad in one half and the keyboard in the other.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

It's an emerging trend. Trackers include smartphone apps or wireless sensors to collect and monitor yourself over time. It grows out of insights in fields like high-performance sports science, cognitive science, and health care. We may be more aerobically fit or better at computer programming than we think.

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Health Care Participative Wireless Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

A new CMS code may seem like a tiny matter, but this one emblemizes a larger shift toward delivering health services independently of time and place, enabled by technologies such as smartphones, sensors, and wireless health-monitoring devices — what we in the field call telemedicine. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Health Care Insurance Technology Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

Think of it this way: Based on the technology-enabled hard trends that are already in place, over the next five short years we will transform how we sell, market, communicate, collaborate, innovate, train, and educate. Doing all of this from an iPad was impossible just a few months ago. And if you don''t do it, someone else will.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

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. This was especially daunting during periods of change or growth in which companies needed to hire in large numbers.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. Some leaders will ignore the trend, as happened at Nokia, or remain on the defensive, as reflected in Walmart’s delayed response to Amazon. This is not guesswork.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The move scared away foreign investors, starving Zimbabwe of much-needed capital – a trend that was exacerbated by U.S. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

However, this approach piled more responsibility on an already-taxed primary care system and was inefficient because it didn’t reflect the do-it-yourself trends observed in retail, travel, and finance. But while an app to manage one’s care may initially seem like fun, the novelty (and effectiveness) wears off quickly.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Insurance Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

For example, AT&T had to spend almost $18 billion in a single year to upgrade its wireless networks to handle the onslaught of new traffic. The trend is spreading. European wireless carriers are negotiating deals in growing numbers.

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Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

And yet recent trends are proving that their best just isn't good enough. Given this complexity , it's a minor miracle that hospitals function as well as they do, and a tribute to the dedication of administrative and professional staff. While it is too early to define this paradigm completely, some of its key elements are starting to emerge.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

Project Loon is such a moonshot project, providing internet access to remote regions by equipping balloons with wireless capabilities. Google’s move is part of a broader trend towards the “fission” of bloated business structures, as evidenced by the increasing incidence of corporate splits and spins.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

There are three trends are behind this shift: The ease of innovation and its decreasing cost mean that start-ups now face the same short-term pressures that have constrained innovation at large companies. Heart disease is prevalent in India but diagnosis is not, so Medtronic created diagnostic camps to identify potential patients.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

We saw a similar trend in the software industry, where Microsoft’s strong position in operating systems helped it dominate the web browser market. For example, SIGFOX, a French company founded in 2009, has established a niche for itself as a wireless network provider that connects low-energy IoT devices.

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Women on Business

MARCH 18, 2013

Increasingly, marketers flail around, chasing the latest trends, hoping to stumble upon the magical solution that will drive better marketing results. Prior to her work in digital media, Elizabeth worked on traditional media campaigns for Toyota, AT&T Wireless, and AstraZeneca.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

An unscientific survey of Innosight leaders and other friends of the firm highlighted four trends worth watching: 1. Market leaders also should ensure that they monitor a set of metrics that help them identify the acceleration or deceleration of a particular trend, because response windows can close quickly. ?. 3-D printing.

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