Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2020

The idea that leaders are trustworthy, honest, and can be relied on to operate in the best interest of the public, the employee, the student, the parishioner, or even the shareholder has been shattered. Often leaders are described by action words such as “results-oriented, innovative, driven and visionary”.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

That mindset is “about the application of creative thinking and prudent risk-taking to build innovative, long-lasting organizations in any sector of the economy.” Entrepreneurial leaders must have the ability to learn fast in environments of ambiguity and change, while providing clarity and coherence for those around them.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 13, 2022

It’s pretty well established that immigrants make excellent entrepreneurs, as the fresh perspective they bring to their new home affords them the opportunity to innovate, while a lack of familiarity with local systems and networks makes starting a business an attractive option for many. Making improvements.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 23, 2020

The MIT team, in collaboration with the Greater Boston Food Bank and Ava Robotics, developed a robotic system to disinfect surfaces using a UVC light that’s built into the base of a mobile robot. During testing, the team measured the amount of UVC light being emitted with a UVC dosimeter to ensure safe levels were used.

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Chart Your Course

DECEMBER 18, 2015

If done right, employee empowerment can be the greatest factor to business growth and operational efficiency. Corporate credit seminars or quality assurance education gives your employees a global look at the business, allowing them to strategize new operational procedures that will flow throughout the organization.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

In many ways, it seems like something of a no brainer for the sector to target emissions, as making their operations more efficient has productivity benefits as well as environmental ones. Nowhere is this more evident than in the manufacturing sector, which is one of the primary producers of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

They’re starting totally virtual companies, using the cloud for solutions and developing innovative ways to manage staff, time, family and work. My third example is a woman who is running a very successful business in the Midwest providing medical attire (scrubs) in fun retail environments all over the country.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

The answer lies within those factors that do not require fat bank accounts. There might be elements that are worth emulating, but certainly not the ethic of dominance, because by their very nature, small and medium sized operations have no clout. This is a culture of entrepreneurial and innovative thinking. Be fact-selective.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. So the real question is this…how does a CEO get to the point of being so disconnected from operations that he or she just doesn’t have a clue? " Great article.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. Doing otherwise biases the business against innovation because what you are projecting may look unattractive relative to your business today. I’m thinking of HDFC Bank in India, Yahoo!

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Ultimately, buying the previous tech generation at a low cost is often a preferable solution to breaking the bank for the latest generation of gadgets. Failure to stay on top of your maintenance schedule or to follow the operational instructions for the machine can affect both your production and the safety of your employees.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Across Africa, banking is being redesigned. Technology has emerged as a competitive weapon in driving operational excellence and superior service quality. While the banks compete among themselves, they face existential threats from amalgam of entities, not necessarily possessing bank licenses.

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Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

According to the caption, Mark was “Discussing the challenges of providing a safer environment and better role models for Chicago school children with the Mayor” I love it! He walked the man desiring to open a business over to the bank and told the community banker to “give this young man a chance” He got the loan.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Winning in this environment requires more than new technology ; here are ten ways to become truly social in a world that is not just connected, but interconnected and interdependent: 1) Do away with one-way conversations. By Guest Author Dov Seidman. 4) Seek to inspire, not just motivate.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

The brand can’t just be the campaign, it has to exist in reality and, depending on the business, transcend strategy, operations, manufacturing, distribution, customer service, and, yes, marketing. JD Norman is Executive VP, Strategy and Innovation, at Black Ink. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

It’s time to rethink what we mean when talk about “operations.” ” Operations is not only about manufacturing. Operations is and has always been what gives an organization the power to act : to create value for its customers; to capture value for its shareholders; and to share value with its ecosystem.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world.

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

It can help them innovate. Michael Fraccaro: Understanding the trends that are driving change for our business and making sure we innovate our people practices to address those changes is essential to how we compete, succeed and set ourselves apart as a company. It can drive healthy, yet provocative debate. Photo: Mastercard.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

This online tool allows any individual to create a mobile application for uploading to any operating system including Android, Apple, BlackBerry, and Windows. Some templates include accounting firm, bank, bar, cooking, educational, family, fashion, general business, salon, and vehicle services. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Not only that, you need to stay ahead of innovative ways of working. As technology advances, so do the ways that many industries operate. A client isn’t going to want to bank on someone who fumbles through a presentation and isn’t sure on how to answer questions. You need to be the best at what you do to get the job you want.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

At Audible, we’ve built an environment that embraces different perspectives and encourages our employees to be heard and bring their authentic selves to work each day. My career started in finance, where I first worked in investment banking, then on the trading floor and later became Lehman Brothers’ first Chief Diversity Officer.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

At Audible, we’ve built an environment that embraces different perspectives and encourages our employees to be heard and bring their authentic selves to work each day. My career started in finance, where I first worked in investment banking, then on the trading floor and later became Lehman Brothers’ first Chief Diversity Officer.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

New research , funded by the Tony Elumelu Foundation and conducted by my team at the African Institution of Technology , shows that within Africa, innovation is accelerating and the continent is finding better ways of solving local problems, even as it attracts top technology global brands.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

They control $20 trillion in global consumer spending, own or operate between 25-33% of all private businesses, and earn an estimated $13 trillion. In 2007, Rajashree Nambiar, head of branch banking for Standard Chartered India, acted on a hunch. The bank supported her idea.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Here’s the bottom line: How can you possibly justify not communicating with your key constituents, stakeholders, and influencers in an environment of their choosing, where they are actively having conversations in real time? In the post-recession, post-mass media environment, it's all in play. News Flash: you can’t.

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CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

Strategy : In this chapter they look at the business model environment: context, design drivers, and constraints. Then delving into questions like, how should your business model evolve in light of a changing environment? They also go down the road to explain free to not free enterprises like Skype. John Sullivan FORA.tv

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 1, 2020

For example, Kyle is an EVP of large bank. It’s in the new that insights, ideas, and innovation comes from. If you’re operating as a know-it-all, you have an underlying belief that that any new stuff really isn’t of much value. What they can do is to design an environment where motivation is most likely to happen.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

A wide range of companies including Apple , Unilever , and Bank of America have issued green bonds in recent years, and the trend is likely to continue. Certification is rigorous and costly, so certified green bonds likely represent a more credible commitment toward the environment, which could explain the stronger stock market response.

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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. If innovation is a key strategic priority, does your organizational structure enable creative collaboration, risk-taking, and knowledge sharing?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. Resulting from inflexible conditions, obsolete policies-procedures, procrastination, attitude, resistance to innovation, failure to change. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

IBM has transformed itself many times since its inception in the late 19th century and is on a continuous journey of innovation and transformation to help clients win in their ever-changing markets. Because large enterprises’ business operations live in software. Download this podcast. Angelia Herrin, host. Max De Ycaza, IBM.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

I got this question from a process leader at a UK bank. He had read my post, “ Where Have All the Process Owners Gone? , ” and contacted me because his bank has had success in managing departmental processes, but is struggling to crack the cross-functional, end-to-end management of processes. (An Not fine tune, but innovate.).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

While aggregated data is often challenging to find, the recent Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) found 126 million women starting or running businesses, and 98 million operating established (over three and a half years) businesses. Foundational to this environment are access to healthcare, education, land rights and affordable childcare.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. As companies grapple with long odds on innovation like these, they are also looking for ways to improve the likelihood of their intrapreneurial success.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

In this environment, multinationals that are willing to accept some risk and invest in the country could benefit from first-mover advantages – but only if the new administration follows through with much-needed economic reforms. Having lost out on Africa’s recent growth boom, the economy nearly halved in size from U.S.

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