Modern Servant Leader

JULY 10, 2012

William Shockley contributes to the development of the first transistor while at Bell Labs in 1947. Their work focuses on innovative developments with silicon. When the Faichild board seeks a new CEO from outside the company, the remaining two members of the original eight also leave, feeling slighted for not being placed in the role.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 2, 2015

A highly experienced nuclear power consultant, Ruth leads StrategyDriven's information technology and cyber security services. "We We are thrilled to have Ruth join our StrategyDriven team," says Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven President and CEO.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 9, 2013

First Borders, then Barnes & Noble CEOs make the wrong leadership decisions. As the business grew, it was time for the Borders brothers to hire a professional CEO. Tom Borders told me that they decided to hire a CEO whose experience was in retailing versus a strategic marketing expert. Barnes & Noble CEO Steps Down.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

I cannot even begin to count the number of times I’ve had a CEO tell me that certain immutable business principles just don’t apply to his/her business because, “this business is different.&# Moving on…Believe it or not, CEO is not always synonymous with all knowing business guru.

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HR Digest

MARCH 12, 2020

With the advancing role of technology in HR, it is a much sought after highly paid position. One can be a systems developer in HR IT architecture development. HR IT specialist facilitates a company to apply technology that helps streamline HR processes, makes it more efficient and cost-effective.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

That changed when I met retired Sensormatic CEO Bob Vanourek at the Leadership Forum at Sliver Bay. The vast majority of leaders who thrive develop calm-under-fire. the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company with $1.6 Each idea worth spreading, TED’s stated mission, presents a vision.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Tesla’s genius and education led him to develop the foundations for electric induction motors, wireless telegraphy, radios, neon lamps, and remote control. When Edison developed a commercially viable light bulb, he was able to convince Morgan to advance him $30,000 for the Edison Electric Light Company. Championing change is hard.”

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HR Digest

JANUARY 5, 2021

The members-only union is supported by the Communication Workers of America, which represents workers in telecommunications, information technology and media. They have developed artificial intelligence technology for use by the Department of Defense and profited from ads by a hate group.

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CEO Insider

MAY 25, 2022

Changes are essential for our development, and even though every start may be scary initially, it should finally be welcomed and embraced, even in the cases where you were not the one who decided on this significant change, you need to think about how you can adjust to the new standards. When it comes to […].

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It’s always been important for companies to take responsibility for the creation, application, and disruption of the technologies they create and use, but now that the rapid application of AI is affecting people’s privacy, security, and daily lives as never before, accepting that responsibility is essential.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Furthermore, by understanding your customers on a personal level and identifying their needs and desires, one can better cross-product sell, up-sell, and even develop new products or services that align with their desires. Technology’s impact on society and business is substantial as it has become a part of everyday life.

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CEO Insider

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The importance of an inclusive work environment is on the minds of many leaders today. Exclusionary behaviors are dangerous for a business, with the impacts extending from dysfunctional workplaces and difficulties with recruitment all the way to serious legal issues.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Because of the web, social media, and advances in mobile and interactive communications and information technologies, the experiences of human beings are now at the heart of value creation.

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CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Business leaders have touted a welcoming return to the office and new diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Now, they need to convert words to action with a better workplace experience – or risk losing their best employees. The reality of many of today’s workplaces is not cutting it for the modern worker: they’re finding a […].

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Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2011

By developing their talent – their uniquely human ability to communicate – your organization will flourish in the digital age. We offer: Expert individual communication coaching for professional development or critical public events. Prior to joining Communispond, Bill was CEO of Digi-Block Inc.,

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CEO Insider

AUGUST 5, 2021

Millennials have been struggling to generate wealth when compared to previous generations, with the average Baby Boomer holding up to 7x the wealth of Millennials at the same age. Add in the pandemic, and financial futures of “the unluckiest generation in U.S. history” are grim.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

Three-quarters of the world's CEOs say more emphasis should be placed on measuring the value of non-financial assets such as intellectual capital and customer relationships. But let's give our financial colleagues credit for acknowledging the fundamental imbalance that the CEOs are referring to. Unexpected, to say the least.

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CEO Insider

APRIL 30, 2021

For more than a year, the global aviation industry has faced its greatest crisis to date and in 2020, it suffered the heaviest losses in history.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

By developing their talent – their uniquely human ability to communicate – your organization will flourish in the digital age. Additional Information This is the second of a series of articles, developed exclusively for StrategyDriven , that highlights the breadth and depth of Communispond’s LearnTO Library.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

By developing their talent – their uniquely human ability to communicate – your organization will flourish in the digital age. Addressing a managers meeting, Brian Halla, CEO of National Semiconductor Corp., Prior to joining Communispond, Bill was CEO of Digi-Block Inc., At the heart of every employee is talent.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

For the past several years we have watched with increasing dismay at the increasing chasm between information technology (IT) groups and their business counterparts. Further, the pace of technological change and the demands to do more with the data grow exponentially and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

By developing their talent – their uniquely human ability to communicate – your organization will flourish in the digital age. Analyzing your audience and then using that information to target your message is your key to making your presentation memorable. Prior to joining Communispond, Bill was CEO of Digi-Block Inc.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

CEO Gary Loveman noted that he knew that Caesars (then Harrah’s) had low levels of customer loyalty across its nationwide network of casinos. Pete Skomoroch, who became Principal Data Scientist at LinkedIn a few years after PYMK was developed, believes that creativity and intuition are critical to the successful development of data products.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. Their strategic use of information technology (IT) presaged the dot.com boom of the 1990s when the Internet made this kind of online ordering commonplace. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Does your COO have the best shot at becoming the next CEO? COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

That's because information technology — not just the Internet, but also mobile devices, " big data " for intensive data-crunching, and other computer hardware and software — will render even some of today's most proficient business processes obsolete by the end of the decade.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

New predictive analytics tools promise to reduce waste and improve care by forecasting the likelihood of an event — for example, a patient being readmitted to a hospital or developing a life-threatening infection — and allowing providers to tailor treatments and services accordingly. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

P&G''s Connect and Develop ) to increase velocity and quality of their new product introductions, the IT infrastructure support for this business process change is critical. A new component of the IT function must be developed to support this category of work: the Distributed Innovation Group (DIG). IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2013

To meet these objectives within our organization at HBS, we are initiating a replacement of the myriad disparate platforms currently utilized to provide support and are pursuing a comprehensive IT Service Management (ITSM) strategy based upon the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) international framework.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

We don’t declare victory when a great model or application is developed – only when it’s being used to improve business performance and create new value. You’re in luck if your CEO, executive team, and general managers across the business are all accomplished analytical amateurs. Information & technology Talent management'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2017

When I spoke with John Hass, the CEO of Rosetta Stone, about what his company does, his focus wasn’t just on learning languages. Jim Fowler and Jeff Smith talked about peripheral vision in relation to the chief information officer role (Fowler is currently CIO at General Electric, and Smith was formerly CIO at IBM). ” .

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

A retired CEO, Jerry was a sad, aging man who reflected constantly on the emptiness of his life. The wit who said the primary task of a CEO is to find his or her likely successor and kill the bastard had a point: that “bastard” stands to destroy the outgoing CEO’s most cherished dreams.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

There are new types of insurance companies such as Oscar ; novel provider organizations such as OneMedical , IoraHealth , and ChenMed ; and new health information technology companies such as Castlight , Vital , and WellFrame that aim to use technology to improve care and value. It would be a shame if they did.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

The company’s stock price has languished for years, and CEO Jeff Immelt—a powerful advocate of the company’s digital ambitions—recently departed the company under pressure from activist investors. The new CEO, John Flannery, is focused primarily on cutting costs. Other senior executives have left as well.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

As more companies realize that information is key to their product and service offerings, and that they need an ecosystem to provide those offerings, APIs will grow further in popularity. Many of today''s ecosystem members are coders and app developers, and APIs are how they interface with a provider organization.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It is a conversation about the increasing importance of information technology and the role it must assume in every enterprise, regardless of size, industry or geography. Key findings from our research: Almost half of CEOs feel IT should be a commodity service purchased as needed. Here''s a start to that conversation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

How do you identify, blend, develop, train and coach a mix of talents into wholes measurably greater than the sum of their parts? How might “teamness” improve the time to market performance of new product development efforts? Information & technology Managing people Talent management'

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