Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The session was entitled “Technology and Business Collaboration: Leadership and Management” and was moderated by Dr Alan Miller CMgr FCMI (former CMI Hong Kong Regional Board Member). The pandemic has boosted the application of technologies across both public and private sectors.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

In fact, if you examine failed leaders as a class you’ll find that a lack of love, misplaced love, or misguided love were a contributing cause of said failures, if not the root cause. The act of operating in the truest best interest of others is the issue. Thanks for the astute observations Mark. Mike Henry Sr.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. Moreover, small firms are core to Americas middle class and part of the fabric of Main Streets across our country.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

And, emotional intelligence has been linked to successful leadership (just did a paper on this for a university class). Controlling one's emotions is part and parcel of emotional intelligence. In fact, emotional intelligence is viewed by some as a better predictor of success than the old hallmark, IQ. The good news?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Over the years I have come to believe that “ having class &# is synonymous with demonstrating a penchant for humility over bravado. In today’ post I’ll share my thoughts on the value of learning to become a humble leader… It’s been said that life is a long lesson in humility.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

This weekend I had the honor of attending his graduation from EOD school where he was recognized as the Honor Graduate in his class (see above picture). As many of you know, my son is an active duty officer in the US Air Force.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Watching how she instructs and interacts with the children in her class, I am reminded of many of the important skills a leader needs to demonstrate. A community in which little girls are either abandoned or murdered because they are viewed 2nd class citizens simply because they are girls. but you’ll not find that here.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

The churches I had previously worked with operated from the the philosophy this is church, and if people want it they will come. I look at incremental improvements as a necessary part of day-to-day operations, and a necessary component of keeping things current. Class is always in session for me. coming out for the holidays.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

I believe that if you want to build and sustain a truly world-class team, everyone needs a voice – but not everyone’s voice is equal. However, what that person could potentially bring to a class is very different and top level if digital videos were allowed to express those ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. ” Beyond the skills required to perform specific jobs, technology will also determine which jobs matter most in the years to come. Most companies have been slow to react.

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Chris Brady

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe. If the middle-class benefits from improving economic conditions and better access to cash, consumer demand is likely to increase.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

This second transformation will be triggered not by regulation but by rapidly evolving technology. The banks that have nearly completed their regulatory agenda have a head start, since they can free up more financial and human resources to address evolving technology. They are technology-savvy fintech shops.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

As a practical matter, for example, these changes in the global policy regime are forcing multinational corporations to scale back and sell parts of their international operations. Meanwhile the Institute of International Finance forecasted net capital flows for emerging markets in 2015 would be negative for the first time since 1988.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One reason for the paltry performance is that while other business areas, like sales or finance, are considered to be core functions, innovation is often considered to be something that’s “nice to have” rather than essential. Another pervasive reason is that senior executives are trained as operators, not innovators.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Marshall Goldsmith Blog : Marshall Goldsmith is a class act, a competitor of mine (one of only two or three CEO coaches that I would recommend), and a deep thinker on the topic of leadership. Alexa Rank : 523,731 Google Page Rank : 5 PostRank Leadership Score : N/A Number of Posts in last 30 days : 0 TwitterGrader Score : 99.3

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. Resource allocation: i ncubating a protected class of ideas. GE is an icon of management best practices.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

We hear a lot about technology and globalization these days, especially how they are hollowing out the American middle class. But there has been an immense positive impact from the globalization of entrepreneurship, making Silicon Valley’s formula of technology-based start-ups an international instrument for economic development.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

As a member of the the class white men in business you are part of a privileged group that long ago set the criteria for success and excellence. She is well-versed on the "ignorance of education" She would welcome your attendance, input and debate in any of her classes. In fact, the report points out how “U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

For those of us not in operations, supply chain, or logistics, it's a vaguely familiar line item we learned about in finance class. Full disclosure: Terra Technology was my client for this event.). We know it's important and that we're supposed to reduce it by increasing "turns.". But inventory is not a minor issue.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Even at top-tier schools, first-year students spend fewer hours in class than in the past, as field trips, student consulting projects, international excursions, CEO visits, club events, and more crowd the calendar. For another, curriculums are evolving. Many new programs are a third shorter than the traditional two-year norm.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. Some of the first business functionaries were railroad telegraph operators who managed schedules.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. For example, by designing a new cloud-based customer service platform, within nine months a power company could go head-to-head with an internet service provider that had started to sell electricity alongside Wi-Fi services and cheaply financed cars. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

It teaches young people the dress, demeanor, and collaboration skills expected in a professional setting as well as the technical skills for careers in IT, operations, finance, sales and marketing, or customer service. They screened candidates for comfort with logic and numbers, and then brought them to class.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Technology has provided us with unprecedented advances, information, knowledge, instant access and entertainment. While there’s no denying that technology has amazing advantages to make it easier for the customer in most cases. It has changed the way we communicate, behave and think. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

It requires a new set of tools: a more open and flexible mind-set, significant process changes, as well as new technology and infrastructure. Big financial services companies are challenged when it comes to connecting with younger consumers, particularly about personal finance. Many of the classes have been sold-out.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” Through a well-structured operating process, partners expand and align their efforts and draw on comparative strengths.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

These are the dry cleaners, restaurants, car repair operations, and local retailers that are part of the fabric of our daily lives. While these businesses have high churn rates—opening and closing frequently– they are critical to America’s middle class.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

These truck drivers, misclassified as independent owner-operators, were forced by companies whom they worked to purchase new vehicles to comply with more stringent emission restrictions. Lacking capital, truckers purchased new vehicles through financing provided by these very same trucking companies.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This frugal solution is built around affordable and easy-to-use medical devices that can be operated by nurses in rural clinics. Meanwhile, even middle-class Americans are being priced out of the housing market in states like California, where average low-tier property prices went up by 10% in 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

In reality, “handoffs” and transitions prove to be significant operational problems. They frequently find the technologies are less of a hassle than the people. World-Class Challenging/Challenged Autonomous Employee. Autonomy is both the organizational and the operational center of gravity for innovation and growth.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

The country’s urbanized and large middle class has maintained a strong preference for foreign-made products despite restrictions due to U.S. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. Iran presents an important opportunity for multinational companies that operate in emerging markets. However, remaining U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

You have to consider salaries, marketing budget, office size, technology services, and on and on. They were both naïve to think that creating a high-expense, polished operation would automatically enhance their business. This would have helped them avoid a cash crunch.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 20, 2010

They were your class presidents, team captains, club leaders, and the people who held virtually all the available leadership positions you can imagine early in life. They were those unflappable individuals that seemed to just have that “it&# factor.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

We need to think big and deploy disruptive technologies and financing mechanisms to house 100 million people by the end of the decade.". Will the community have the skills and know-how and means to operate and maintain their houses and the services provided a year, 3 years, 10 years? How will they pay for it?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Talk about how complex marketing has become is very much in vogue, but there’s much less discussion about the operational (and diplomatic) muscle CMOs need in order to get things done. To hit P&L targets, for instance, the CMO at one technology company focused on shortening the sales cycle.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

Last year, Citi produced a powerful study of the costs and benefits of shifting the energy system toward low-carbon technologies. Will that asset be operational or retain its value over the normal depreciation period? Where are your financial assets invested and in what classes?

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