Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 26, 2017

Facebook, Apple, or PayPal, all enjoy global success. Most innovative and technologically superior products have the potential to become global if they are needed, are better than what exists, and will improve people’s lives. Anna Schlegel is the author of Truly Global , and named the first globalization innovator by SDL/Fortune.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

New financial innovations enabled both historic global economic growth and cascading global financial failures. These new capabilities connect to the work we’ve done over the past several decades inside our enterprises to automate processes with tools — such as accounting systems, supply chain, call center, and such.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

At Guardian, as new technology has streamlined some aspects of customer service, we launched a program to retrain call-center workers as programmers. It is going to take a true public/private partnership to make the re-skilling of our workforce a success. Mulligan : The first step is to invest the time and money in workers.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Boston , MA Innovative entrepreneurs will find fertile ground for their ideas in Boston. Your federal small business loan can fund a call center and answering service , linking local talent to employers nationwide. New York , NY With the financial sector reeling, New York is counting on technological innovation to save the day.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

At Guardian, as new technology has streamlined some aspects of customer service, we launched a program to retrain call-center workers as programmers. It is going to take a true public/private partnership to make the re-skilling of our workforce a success. Mulligan : The first step is to invest the time and money in workers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2015

This distortion is due to a concept called cumulative error. Organizations fall victim to the same phenomenon in innovation. The game here is called “silos,” and it too results in cumulative error. However, they held the line when it came to assigning customers randomly to call center employees.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. The millions of customers in its database represent the gamut of buying histories, buying propensities, profitability, demographics and cost to serve.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

But there are two types that are important for success. Adaptive performance manifests as creativity, problem solving, grit, innovation, and citizenship. In an experiment, we approached the call center of a bank’s consumer loans business. (We’ve We made a number of operational changes to the call center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. This painful decision cost tens of thousands of jobs but proved strategically, organizationally, and culturally essential to the company’s future success. But the past is merely a prologue.

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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. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The kinds of shifts we’re talking about have come more naturally to greatly successful startups of the last two decades — Google, Amazon, Uber, and Facebook among them — and their venture capital investors. Some investments lead to dead ends; others have to be combined to increase the probability of success.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Ctrip decided to run a nine-month experiment with its airfare and hotel divisions in the firm’s Shanghai headquarters call center. Leadership & Managing People Book. All employees with at least six months’ worth of experience with the firm were offered the option to work from home for four days each week.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Witnessing the downward-spiral of Carla Sanders' career was painful — yet her experience offers an important commentary on the requirements of executive leadership in today's organizations. Carla was literally bred for success as a business manager. Are joint ventures or strategic alliances critical to the company's success?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

But when you look more deeply into whether those organizations are truly redefining what they are and what they do, stories of successful change efforts are exceptionally rare. Before describing those, let’s look at how we identified the exceptional firms that rose to the top of our ranking, a group we call the Transformation 10.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Beyond traditional hierarchies and contracts, networks and social and external collaborations will make leadership more horizontal, shared, and collective. This quadrant might include call centers operated with traditional employees but in remote locations or working from home, like JetBlue’s.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

One success story occurred when a front-line associate in a call center posted online she didn't like a new process. And innovation is built into jobs through "20% time" projects — engineers are expected to spend 20% of their time on projects that are creating and testing new ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2013

By doing so, an elite group of companies has enabled their employees to more rapidly address customer problems, anticipate unarticulated needs and drive customer-facing innovation. Innovations such as shopping cart recommendations have been the direct result of entry-level employees taking initiative. Brands to the Mayo Clinic and U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

The linked system allowed for more insight into customers, and managers could use the information to coach employees, to assess whether they had the right tools and resources, and to identify people with innovative ideas and leadership potential. Encourage honest feedback and protect employees who answer candidly.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

One of the great innovations in business, which has held sway since 1976, is the idea that professional managers should have an owner’s mindset—that is, they should treat their company’s money as if it were their own.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. We are always on the agenda of the executive team and are a significant part of the leadership meetings,” says Bert van Meurs, CMO of Philips Healthcare Imaging Systems. Leadership Marketing'

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