Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 9, 2018

And yet, the undeniable truth is that the longevity of today’s organizations is no longer dependent on what technologies you use, where you operate, or even what you create. If so, I’m looking forward to seeing what ideas come to mind in the weeks and months to come.

Leadership 271

Leadership Mentor Long-term Audience 271

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Organizations rely on their data in order to make critical operational, tactical, and transactional business decisions that significantly affect the survival and livelihood of their company. An organization’s customers, transactions, operations, and reports can all be affected by its data integrity. SC Magazine. Retrieved from [link].

Software 50

Software Insurance System Operations 50

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Alexander Osterwalder – Thinkers 50 #1 Strategy Thinker 2015-17, million-selling author Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design , inventor Business Model Canvas. Liz Wiseman – Bestselling author of Multipliers, Thinkers 50 Top Ten Leadership Thinker 2015-17, Winner of the ATD Champion of Talent Award.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching Human Resources Magazine CEO 70

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. Look at Volkswagen in 2015. It was a hopeful moment across the region and particularly in Tunisia.

How To 50

How To Chief Information Officer Tourism Politics 50

Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Share on Twitter ] “In several cases, I noted how problems arose not simply because team members disagreed on a particular point or issue, but because they were operating from different perspectives of what they should be expected to do, and what they saw as being their team mates’ responsibility to address.

Leadership 277

Leadership Learning-by-Doing Wiseman Long-term 277

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

The Outward Mindset : Seeing Beyond Ourselves by The Arbinger Institute Unknowingly, too many of us operate from an inward mindset—a narrow-minded focus on self-centered goals and objectives. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2015. Best Leadership Books of 2013. Best Leadership Books of 2014.

Books 150

Books Leadership Cialdini Govindarajan 150

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

On January 26, 2015, President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. Boeing India’s Dennis Swanson told Business Week that he expects to sign a new strategic partnership with an Indian company in 2015. America’s largest insurer, Allstate, announced plans to invest $1 billion in its India operations.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

They had to work in sequence, meaning they had to streamline the operation first — before they could launch their new growth effort. The underlying trouble had been McDonald’s working from an inside-out perspective: what fit with its current infrastructure and operations.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Decentralization Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

For example, at the end of its 2015 fiscal year, Apple’s balance sheet stated tangible assets of $290 billion as a contribution to its annual revenues, with approximately $141 billion worth of intangible assets — a combination of intellectual capital, brand equity, and (investor and consumer) goodwill.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Intellectual Capital Corporate Accountability Activity Based Costing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system.

Strategy 8

Strategy Analysis Operations CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

By the time he left Amazon in 2013, his group had grown from 35 to more than 1,000 people who used machine learning to make Amazon more operationally efficient and effective. By 2015, AP’s AI system was writing 3,700 quarterly earnings stories – 12 times the number written by its business reporters.

Company 12

Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

They had a fuller discussion in 2013–2014 — around the time when media reports of the illicit behavior first surfaced. Although roughly 1,000 employees had been fired each year since 2011 for these practices, the board only became “very active” on the issue in 2015.

Banking 10

Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

For most of 2015, I was the director of Rhode Island’s SBM, known as HealthSource RI, which more than 32,000 Rhode Islanders use to purchase health insurance. Since 2013, an estimated 16.4 By January 1, 2015, all state-based marketplaces were expected to replace federal funding with state-level financing. Burwell, the U.S.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. You will ask yourself, as I did back in December 2013, should I accept this job?

Politics 11

Politics Chief Information Officer Tourism Environment 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

There is a lot at stake here for GE’s operations strategy. In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.” and compete successfully.

Ries 10

Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

At these locations, any money made goes first to fund operations, and additional profits go to local charities. North American restaurant chain Panera Bread is experimenting with a nonprofit variation, where the company donates a number of existing stores to its "Panera Cares" foundation. BONUS BITS: Telecommunications Takedowns.

Apparel 8

Apparel Telecommunications Transportation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

billion in revenue in 2013. Operators set their work schedules and their vacations, design and monitor their own performance indicators, do their own maintenance, and are consulted on the choice of new machinery. billion) in 2017 compared to €833 million in 2015. billion) in 2017 compared to €833 million in 2015.

Team 14

Team Scientific Management Taylorism Taylor 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

She distilled the notes about her many accomplishments into an overview of the 10 years in her current role: Keep University’s School of Design (eight graduate programs) running flawlessly for Director, other staff, faculty, and students — during routine operations and emergencies. Equally adept at managing people and operations.

COO 13

COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs. To that end, they decided to have a team study how care is delivered, identify the barriers to smooth operations, and fix the barriers. It was fully integrated into emergency room operations at St.

Technology 8

Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

A 2015 systematic review of physician leadership development programs found that few reported negative outcomes or system level effects (i.e. Assessment systems should also be developed to mitigate biases that downplay or disregard women’s and minorities’ leadership capabilities.

Training 13

Training Leadership Health Care Education 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. ” Improving risk management. billion from reduced energy and wastewater consumption in manufacturing.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

The current mantra is “Move fast with stable infrastructure”, which speaks to the organizational design challenge of operating at scale in a fickle and volatile world. ” It further revealed a complex and siloed organization, with competing operating assumptions, values, and practices across the group.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

As I described in my 2014 and 2015 reports, for two years running, BYOD existed in over half the 300 companies surveyed: 35% of organizations officially allowed it and 20% did not officially allow it but acknowledged its existence. It’s also more common among the high performers in that category. BYOA showed a different pattern.

Trends 8

Trends Telecommunications Survey Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The ManpowerGroup Contingent Workforce Index of 2013 showed 40% of all ManpowerGroup consulting engagements blended permanent and contingent workers. The disconnect between HR and Procurement often means either choice is suboptimal on its own, so operating managers circumvent both HR and Procurement.

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S. South African restaurant chain Ocean Basket also opened in Harare in 2015 to serve the wealthy urban elite. Lower-income consumers also present a lucrative opportunity.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

of their Medicare reimbursements in Fiscal Year 2015 if they don’t show simultaneous improvements in both process of care measures and patient experience. In 2013, about 96% of eligible heart attack Medicare patients received this basic medication, which means 5,761 patients admitted for heart attack did not.

Survey 8

Survey Health Care Process Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2018

And likening activists to those “playing fantasy football” as opposed to “actually playing the field,” Irene Rosenfeld, former CEO of snack-food giant Mondelez, noted in 2015 that “ advising others to act in a certain way doesn’t seem hard for people who don’t have to do it themselves.”

CEO 8

CEO Sample Influence Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2015

billion in 2013 revenues is more than five times larger than LinkedIn’s $1.52 What’s more, professional networking is a natural extension of Facebook’s original operating model, sussing out and serving the needs of the relatively homogeneous community of college students. After all, Facebook’s $7.87

Business Model 8

Business Model Advertising Human Resources Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

To determine the best approach to using ICT for development (or ICT4D, as it’s sometimes called), Huawei recently interviewed 150 telecom operators, government bodies, regulators, NGOs, and social enterprises in 11 countries. This approach consigns many ICT4D projects and tech startups alike to failure.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Project System 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Indeed, employees at every turn faced personal and professional risks in defying the law; two European executives were indicted and arrested for operating without required permits. ” (After I first flagged his posting, in 2015, Uber removed the document from its site. ” Respect for the law barely merits a footnote.

Licensing 8

Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), late 2015 was the most difficult hiring period in four years. Part of its success is that the company supports a collaborative work environment and boasts transparent operations from the top down. ” message and think, Hey, maybe it’s time for a change.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

In this new operating environment, I find more and more multinationals looking to new frontier markets for growth while demanding profitability from their emerging-market operations. Quantifying the impressive rise of the middle class, FSG calculates private consumption in Peru is set to grow 54% between 2010 and 2015.

Marketing 8

Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

For example, in 2014 IDC estimated that more than one-quarter of enterprise applications would be offered with the SaaS model by 2018, up from one-sixth in 2013. Only four years later, in 2015, Zynga backtracked on the decision and started hosting its games on Amazon Web Services again.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

However, oil prices have dropped more than 60% since the interim nuclear deal in November 2013. And alongside the country’s bad debt (some estimates say it is $40 billion ), sanctions were commonly evaded through money laundering , which discouraged foreign banks from operating locally.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

” In order to chart the best way forward, you must understand emerging trends: what they are, what they aren’t, and how they operate. In 2013, technical glitches caused a three-hour stop at the Nasdaq. Last year, a glitch caused 5,000 United flights to be grounded for two hours. Drone lanes. Quantum computing.

Trends 8

Trends Film Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

And our own survey of 795 large companies (average revenue of $22 billion) in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America found average per-company spending on IoT initiatives — $86 million in 2015 — was projected to grow to $103 million by 2018. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Wireless Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

On September 29, 2015, Techdirt posted “ You Can Now Turn Off Ads On Techdirt ,” explaining all the reasons why they were granting readers the power to not see ads. According to PageFair and Adobe’s 2015 Global Adblocking Report , “there are now 198 million active adblock users around the world.”

Advertising 8

Advertising CRM Long-term Short-term 8