Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

As technology becomes more disruptive and we see more importance placed on big data and artificial intelligence, what will matter most are those things that make us human – the soft skills. The Ideal Team Player : How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues by Patrick M. Best Leadership Books of 2013.

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Books Leadership Cialdini Govindarajan 150

Tim Milburn

MARCH 14, 2014

In today’s fast-paced world, new technologies change industries overnight. I couldn’t figure out how to use the darn thing. Copyright © 2013 Mark Divine, author of The Way of the Seal: Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed. The founder of SEALFIT , NavySeals.com , and U.S.

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Magazine Bottom-up Self-aware Marketing 106

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Investing in technology can help lift people out of poverty, and investments that use technology for development are good for business, creating millions of new customers. Using information and communications technology (ICT) for development is fairly common, but surprisingly, most digital divide projects don’t generate revenue.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. But many of the trends are picking up speed now and should become even more pronounced in 2013. how to keep all her channels operating in concert with one another.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

In 2013, Google took a step towards understanding the intent of their users with the Hummingbird algorithm. Perhaps the least concerning implication is that there is systemic bias in our information feeds, that we operate in and are informed by tiny echo chambers. Fourth, consciously decide how much human influence you want.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Herminia Ibarra – Thinkers 50 #8 Management Thinker 2015-17, #1 Leadership Thinker 2013-15, Professor at London Business School, former professor Harvard, best-selling author of Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Mike Sursock – Head of Operations Group at Baring Private Equity Asia.

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Executive Coaching Human Resources Magazine CEO 70

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Tell us a little bit about that model and how it kind of corrects the older models. What he said was when you see them entering the market as these worse-but-cheaper alternatives, that’s when you needed to start really investigating what those technologies were and how they were going to ultimately replace yours.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today, many high-profile companies— Cisco , Google , IBM , Samsung , Siemens , Disney , Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank , to name a few—contain such roving consulting groups to help solve the most critical strategy and operations problems throughout the business. Set objectives and size. Exceed client expectations. Measure success.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For example, it took Umicore, a global materials technology group, five years (2002–2007) to lay the basis for its transformation from a commodity supplier of base metals into a premium provider of emission control catalysts, rechargeable battery materials and other value-added solutions. Allow time and persevere.

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Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The Boston Red Sox 2013 World Series championship will long be remembered as proof that you can turn around nearly anything. Others need a course correction while still profitable (Microsoft), or a momentum shift because of disruptive new technologies (newspaper companies). Turnarounds operate on several time frames.

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How To Airlines Open-book CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Companies increasingly use digital technologies to circumvent distributors and enter into direct relationships with their end-users. Writing in the Sloan Management Review, Boston College professor Gerald Kane noted that 87% of executives surveyed indicated that digital technologies will disrupt their industries to a great or moderate extent.

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Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 10

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The room had the organization’s top sixty leaders of a large technology services company. They also felt they were operating at cross-purposes every single day. Vince advises senior executives and boards on how to make leadership culture their ultimate business differentiator. Guest post from Vince Molinaro, Ph.D.:

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Human Capital Commitment Discount Conference 244

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

More than once you’ve probably looked at some new digital or technological development and asked yourself, “How did we miss that?” ” In order to chart the best way forward, you must understand emerging trends: what they are, what they aren’t, and how they operate. Blockchain.

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Trends Film Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2016

An estimated 21% of carbon emissions in the United States are attributable to companies, and yet to date there is scant research on how to make firm operations more efficient in terms of reducing pollution. However, the numbers suggest that getting employees to change their behavior could significantly impact climate change.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

This is very different from the way large businesses have operated for decades. What does it mean to operate in a digital business ecosystem? Digital business ecosystems dynamically create and operate value chains that extend their participants'' markets. But CIOs also need to not get caught up in the technology trap.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Our research and client engagement experience has shown us that generating strong returns from the digital sensors, wireless communications devices, digital cameras installed in buildings and other smart, connected devices does not come down to writing big checks or being technologically savvy. Operations in a Connected World.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

As if that weren’t tough enough, another challenge for corporate leaders is how to make sense of strategic alignment at both the team / business unit level (or division or department, however it is classified) and at the enterprise level. And yet it is possible.

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Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

In 2013, the company released a service called Virtual Technician to help existing drivers while also enabling new business models and revenue streams. The service gives drivers confidence, and that’s important for a driver who operates alone, often hundreds of miles from home. Disruptive innovation Information & technology Internet'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

In 2013, the company released a service called Virtual Technician to help existing drivers while also enabling new business models and revenue streams. The service gives drivers confidence, and that’s important for a driver who operates alone, often hundreds of miles from home. Disruptive innovation Information & technology Internet'

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Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. Presidents and provosts will tell you: operating budgets are tight. See comments by Clayton Christensen and Mark Cuban ).

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

The redder the location, the more frequently it was trafficked: For chief technology officer Joe Lezon, the results were both helpful and surprising. ” Lezon, along with Alex and Ani’s head of merchandising and head of sales operations, used the data to inform product placement. . How do we best equip our associates?”

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Retail Chief Technology Officer Technology Merchandising 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

As a member of a start-up advisory program, I regularly hear pitches from aspiring technology entrepreneurs. Instead of – or in addition to — differentiating on the what of your brand, use the why, who, and how. billion IPO valuation in 2013) can be attributed to its continued focus on that target. How – personality.

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Brand IPO Marketing Strategy Airlines 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Over the past year I've had the opportunity to interview several hundred business-to-business salespeople about how they win over prospective clients and the circumstances when they lose. They didn't understand how to sell their project internally and were unable to garner senior executive sponsorship. Price versus Value.

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CRM Telecommunications Price Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

In the 1960s and 1970s, he was already anticipating some of the implications of the Big Shift just beginning to emerge: the transition to an information economy, the centrality of knowledge work, and the transformative impact of digital technology on all types of work. It is up to us to pick up where he left off.

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Drucker Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

The Conversation is also a 1974 film by Francis Ford Coppola whose themes include the role of technology in society and being so focused on what you are doing that you forget why you are doing it and become oblivious to what is happening around you. made me break out in cold sweats. CIOs today must adapt or risk being marginalized.

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CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

In 2013, only 8% of the companies in this annual benchmarking survey received a top grade from their customers — and that''s a pathetically low number in comparison to the amount of professed innovation in the industry. Other companies pray that technology can save them. But technology for technology''s sake can end in disaster.

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Innovation Forrester Business Model Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Please note that titles used here reflect the positions the individuals held in 2013, when we conducted the interviews for a separate article ). Their concerns fell into three broad categories: talent, operating in a global marketplace, and regulation and legislation. Operating in a Global Marketplace. Ken Powell of U.S.

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CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Drawing on lessons from the auto industry, banking and beyond, he offered provocative prescriptions for coping in a world in which “the real challenge is to decide what you are doing” in the face of tremendous “technological change or market change.”. How do you organize your entrepreneurial within the managerial?” “How

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Drucker Bottom-up Rogers Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The challenge is obvious: the quickening pace of technological change has shrunk the shelf life of skills acquired by today’s university graduates to just a few years. In a 2013 Deloitte survey of executives at large companies, 39% said they were either “barely able” or “unable” to meet their needs for talent.

Skills 8

Skills Company Core Competence Career 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. How to Plan for Doing Business in Iran.

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Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In this excerpt from their book, Agile Talent , Younger and Smallwood explain how to align your organization with the needs and expectations of a workforce that is increasingly external, project-based, and flexible. As one logistics company executive told us when we interviewed him: “We know how to manage people in our company.

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Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

One of the biggest challenges facing any company in global expansion mode is how to maintain swift and sure communication. operates in 13 countries, spanning a dozen languages. The most talented individuals in industries such as technology and finance spoke English, either as a first or second language. What do you do?

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Over the past year I've had the opportunity to interview several hundred business-to-business salespeople about how they win over prospective clients and the circumstances when they lose. They didn't understand how to sell their project internally and were unable to garner senior executive sponsorship. Price versus Value.

CRM 9

CRM Telecommunications Price Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In other words, what produces complexity is not so much the presence of many direct cause-effect links which operate with subtlety versus precision, but rather the presence of indirect, non-linear relationships between the variables, parts, and dimensions of the whole. We have come to rely much – too much? –

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Senge Education Rogers Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Hospital consolidation is on the rise , a trend that shows no signs of abating as providers try to streamline back-end operations and deploy big data analytics in hopes of improving outcomes and lowering costs. However these can usually be overcome through planning, technology, and tenaciousness. The attempts to “fix” the U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Gordon Travel Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Here, the shareholder value philosophy, which determines so much of how our corporations operate these days, is the perfect example. Technology was not yet powerful enough to capture much complexity. For more on the theme of the event, Managing Complexity, and information on how to attend, see the Forum''s website.

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