Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The discussions explored various issues, challenges and opportunities facing managers and leaders across a diverse set of areas – technology and digital, travel, business and the regional economy.

Mentor 52

Mentor Newsletter Energy Webinar 52

Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Effective leaders know how to achieve operational excellence, and they embrace continuous improvement. As CEO of PQ Corporation, I experienced a minor OSHA recordable accident while traveling on business. If you can’t trust your bank, who can you trust? These leaders never micro-manage. Live your values.

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Silverman Career Succession Ethics 108

The Practical Leader

MARCH 25, 2020

Many jurisdictions around the world are declaring states of emergency, closing their borders, and restricting travel. Global banks are much stronger and less leveraged than in 2008. Many companies have moved very quickly to work from home, closures, reduced hours, and other forms of reducing people-to-people transmission.

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Crisis Levitt Peer Review Sharpe 91

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 6, 2017

As technology advances, so do the ways that many industries operate. You know what they say – travel broadens the mind. But, it isn’t just a broader mind you can gain from travel. Travelling can do two things when it comes to your career: increase your passion for your chosen career path or change it completely.

Career 58

Career Development Travel Learning-by-Doing 58

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

There’s nothing wrong with operating out of self-interest. There’s a lot to admire, in our opinion, like the way he shook up the Vatican Bank. He can tell you what’s moving in the right direction—and where we’re getting loose and need to tighten up operations. A traveler on an important journey comes to a raging river.

Competitive Advantage 92

Competitive Advantage Leadership Analysis Tips 92

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

These silos are staffed with legions of “tenured&# COBOL and C++ programmers, as well as &# tenured&# IT managers overseeing the operation. Walking into these organizations is often like traveling back in time 20 years. often evoke feelings of hatred at the mere mention of their name.

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Loyalty Blog Brand Follow-up 419

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 11, 2016

Virgin are known for their worldwide operations in a number of industries, from travel to banking. For example, think of some of the brands you know. Levis are known for producing high-quality jeans and other casual wear. Here are some of the most important steps to building your business into a brand. Register Your Brand.

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Brand Advertising Reputation Marketing 50

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

What really occurred was a financial commodities bubble caused by a complicated set of games-playing in the commodities markets by banks operating with secret and unfair federal exemptions to bring investment money into a place it was never supposed to be.  That's just one of the scams being run.

Banking 110

Banking Price Politics Letter 110

Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 9, 2022

By 1855, however, the world’s first functional railway suspension bridge had been built spanning the Niagara River and allowing train travel between the US and Canada. He and his team repeated that operation, tying thicker ropes, pulling them across the gorge until finally they could pull a cable across and the bridge was underway.

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Letter Engineering Travel Entrepreneur 234

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

The client is opening new locations in new communities and asks its consultants to formulate a plan of action and oversee operating aspects. Organ donor banks and associations, in consortium with hospitals. Multiple companies find that doing business in a new country is easier when a consortium operates.

Cooper 50

Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

The Idolbuster

AUGUST 5, 2014

I was able to travel to some amazing places and do business in so many developing nations. I felt that the hours I was working, and the travel was preventing me from really testing myself to see if racing professionally was an option. I don’t operate that way. There were a lot of benefits and amazing parts to the job as well.

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Training Sports Learning-by-Doing Banking 70

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

that operates consensually to create and maintain our Status Quo; it resides in our unconscious and defines our Status Quo. Like a GPS they don’t need the details of travel – what you’re wearing, what function you’re attending – to dictate two left turns. How would you know if it were time to reconsider your hairstyle?

Resistance 50

Resistance System Servant Leader Banking 50

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 They also go down the road to explain free to not free enterprises like Skype. Pulse Meme Feed What Is Your Brand Against?

Business Model 141

Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

It’s harder when I travel, but I’m getting creative when I have to dine out, and I know what foods are good for me, and which ones I need to avoid. Lastly, I do not forget to take care of myself by exercising and traveling. This has been the biggest contributor to how I operate now. What is that!?” I could breathe.

Succession 316

Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Airbnb lets spare room owners make money out of their idle asset and makes the asset easily accessible for more travelers. The idea of offering your spare room on the web is not new, but with Airbnb you don’t have to create your own website and hope that Google-searching travelers find you.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

A recent Fortune article on John Reed, the former co-CEO of Citigroup, reported that a decade ago he tried to convince the newly formed Citigroup board (the result of the $70 billion merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group in 1998) to bring in a new CEO and that both he and Travelers CEO Sandy Weill should leave.

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Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

We all feel safer when our bank or email provider sends us a text message with a secure verification code when we’re logging in. Keep your operating system up-to-date, and back up your phone regularly. Do not access sensitive information (your bank account, for example) while using unsecure public Wi-Fi.

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Software Download Banking Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I recently argued that in industries such as distribution and logistics (Amazon, FedEx, UPS), process manufacturing (Exxon), insurance (Aetna), restaurants (McDonald's), and retail banking (Bank of America, Citibank, Wells Fargo), continuous process improvement is essential. This is the preferred style of proficient process improvers.

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Process CEO Operations Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

An expert in banking regulation or solar energy production — or any other niche, challenging area — will find good opportunities to apply their skills. Is it flexibility and less travel? Don’t bank on boards. The university you teach at seems to operate without urgency. Be clear on why. Andy Molinsky.

Career 9

Career Succession How To Travel 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2016

At that time, the Nigerian central bank was running a currency control regime which stifled the importation of goods for small businesses. As one travels from Nairobi to Lagos and from Dakar to Kigali, a feeling of optimistic exuberance emerges because African-inspired institutions are forming. I was impressed.

Banking 8

Banking Entrepreneur Business Model Software 8

Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

I moderated a panel last week at a Social Media Club of Portland event that featured local startup Simple , a digital bank that is taking on a trillion dollar industry without a single brick and mortar branch. Photo by Mary Nichols. The conversation was lively, because of the “disruptive” way they have chosen to do business.

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Banking Travel CEO Media 322

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2011

In 1974, hundreds of thousands of Australians with a bank account in good standing received a piece of plastic in the mail: a credit card, known as a Bankcard , launched and operated by a consortium of Australian banks. But someone who reads a lot stands to make their money bank on the relatively cheaper ebooks.

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Banking eBook Price Retail 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

This week, Microsoft is announcing an unusual initiative that it hopes will change how the company operates: an internal fee on carbon. As Microsoft takes on more of its customers' operations through cloud-based services, reliance on the utility grid creates real operational and price risk (from outages and volatile prices).

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Price P&L White Paper Energy 13

Strategy Driven

JULY 18, 2019

There are over 32 million small businesses operating in the US. With insufficient capital to hand, it won’t be operational for long. For that reason, it’s vital that small businesses squeeze as much money as possible from operations. Travel Expenses. Business travel isn’t cheap. It’s a competitive world.

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Outsourcing Travel Software Insurance 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Factors ranging from weak demand to bank consolidation have combined to hobble many small businesses  and if these factors arent addressed, they could continue to impede U.S. And as we describe in a recent HBS Working Paper , gaps remain in traditional bank credit supply. job growth and economic security. small businesses.

Technology 9

Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. In 2016 the company sold its China operation to Didi Chuxing because of the fierce competitiveness of the local player. A year later, Uber admitted defeat in another region, selling its operation in Russia to Yandex.

Transportation 10

Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

A traveler arrives in a foreign country and attempts to use his credit card to make a purchase. While this would seem sufficient to alert the bank to his impending trip abroad, “transaction denied” flashes across the terminal screen, leaving this longtime customer stranded, fuming, and no longer so loyal.

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COO Planning Metrics Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

In the same way that banks must constantly balance assets and liabilities, data-laden firms need to move from cyber-defense and fire-fighting toward more proactive management of what could prove to be their most important asset. This means determining not only what EvD means today, but what it will mean for the firm in the future.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Intellectual Capital Corporate Accountability Activity Based Costing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

The most popular view, supported by the likes of The New York Times , the African Development Bank, and the World Bank — all powerful influencers of how the world thinks about Africa — puts the number of AMACs at more than 300 million.

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Class Globalization Banking Education 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Senior executives tend to be shielded from organizational problems and data; they are given limited and filtered information about their operations, employees, and customers. This dramatically changed his assessment of how much of the bank’s aid was getting through the local government, to the people who really needed it.

Execution 8

Execution How To Banking CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Earlier this year, they raised $325 million in the public markets and this month acquired BancABC , a bank with operations in Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Governments want banks who will lend to businesses and homeowners,” Bob explains, “That’s what we intend to do.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Some are convenient (such as the nearly ubiquitous Starbucks) while others are not (prepare to travel to an American Girl Place — a trip well worth it). It is for this exact reason that no industry has more commoditized itself than banking: Banks came to view spending time with customers as costing them money.

Banking 15

Banking Short-term Sports Travel 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

On the other hand, were it not already invented, plane travel would be classed as a new form of transport, compared to driving along the highway. With online ordering, the factor could be location for food retailing, store presentation for banking, or hours of operation for flight bookings.

Business Model 8

Business Model Airlines Retail Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

It can even involve immersing yourself in the stakeholder experience by going through it, e.g. the senior executives of an airline might travel at the back of the plane to get a feel for what economy passengers experience. I’ve assisted a rural bank which decided that its target customer was “commercial family farms.”

Strategic Planning 15

Strategic Planning Planning Document Airlines 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

At one travel services giant, 100X more data in less than two years utterly transformed the enterprise conversation around “loyalty.” The company quickly adjusted its operational definition of “loyalty” to explicitly embrace and reward its “digital evangelicals” — customers who had enough of a virtual presence to be influencers.

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Due Diligence KPI Loyalty Information Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

In a 2014 Bank of America Merrill Lynch survey , 72% of employees over age 50 reported that they’d like to continue working in retirement. Perhaps you could choose a job that only operates for a portion of the year and allows flexibility the rest of the time (such as being a teacher or university instructor).

Planning 8

Planning Career Banking Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

Recent problems in Kenya’s banking sector have rekindled the necessity for regulators to push for tougher auditing reforms as well. From Nigeria to South Africa , retail investors are still below pre-Great Recession levels. They have defied assurances by market regulators that they offer fair products and services in the exchanges.

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Insurance Incentives Quality Marketing 8