Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Ann also met with Titania Woo of The Hong Kong Management Association to discuss partnership opportunities in the region. Furthermore, Ann was delighted to be able to personally present a number of Chartered Managers and Fellows with their certificates. Learn more here.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

The pandemic gave us the opportunity to really test our agility and innovation, and I am proud to say we exceeded expectations, ” she says. “ While challenging, this process brought a discipline into Neustar that has served as the foundation for a heightened focus on our employee experience – a formal and regimented change management process.

Leadership 52

Leadership Agility Diversity Competitive Advantage 52

Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

In the case of the former, they typically would want to know why and how could they innovate their current product to regain their position as number one. While it may have mitigated the clients'' losses some of the time, the innovation was inevitably reactive, unscientific, and not robust nor holistic. Fast forward to today.

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Stage-Gate Productivity Products Innovation 128

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Integrity, passion, and teamwork – these are the values that Walmart looks for in its employees and fosters through its talent management. As a team, we are focused on driving innovative programs and solutions that attract and grow our associates, and it’s fantastic when it inspires other companies to support their workforce in similar ways.

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Environment Diversity Leadership Supply Chain 98

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Authority on new technology and communication. Non-profit CEOs.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 10, 2012

I wrote that Washington suffered from a “complacency cancer,” that after 250 years as the nerve center of the most prosperous, innovative, militarily and economically advanced nation in modern history, success had gone to our political leaders’ heads. Do important meetings end with no decisions about what needs to happen immediately?

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Kotter Succession Committee Learning-by-Doing 245

Lead on Purpose

JULY 7, 2012

Despite pioneering and successfully growing Apple out of his garage, Steve Jobs was fired from the innovative company in the late eighties. He moved forward and started NeXT, a computer technology company that later created Pixar and the movie Toy Story. She welcomes your comments at katherynrivas87[at]gmail[dot]com. —.

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Leadership Follow-up Film Committee 193

Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 53

leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 28, 2013

In my case, my most powerful ideas – ideas that enabled me to lead innovative programs of worldwide scope when I was at Intel – have come from conversations with people in other organizations. Better still, speak in them, volunteer to sit in their program committees, lead sessions or participate in panels.

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Company Conference Cooper How To 137

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

Governing boards might seem like the last place for innovation. But new strategies and structures are squarely in the board’s domain, and we have seen any number of governing boards innovating with, not just monitoring, management. Some boards have taken the principle further by forming their own innovation committee.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Design thinking has been recognized as an important means to innovate in the context of developing new products and technologies. Implementing a strategic technology plan. Michael Tardif has over twenty years of experience applying information technologies to the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of buildings.

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Creativity Strategic Planning Construction Politics 59

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

On my last trip to India, I witnessed an innovation experiment, National Agro Foundation (NAF) , that addresses this wicked problem. A large part of NAF’s effort with farmers is to help break their initial emotional barriers to new technologies. Therefore addressing the problem of rural poverty assumes urgency.

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Innovation Microfinance Parcell Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g., This Emergency Department-Clinical Engineering Learning Laboratory (ED-CELL) team comprises physicians, nurses, other health professionals, systems engineers, scientists, informaticians, IT personnel, and project managers.

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Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney.

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Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

When I urge managers in a company to make open innovation part of their innovation strategy, they get it conceptually. Every year, FVA conducts an industry-wide technology search to identify new and emerging solutions, and it shares the results as a service to its member companies.

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Innovation Maturity Engineering Industry 8

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

A conversation with Peter Fasolo about the value of transformational growth and innovation – and how to help it unfold. Such a degree of corporate socialization can also stifle innovation and overall cognitive diversity. How do you keep your people open to transformational growth and innovation?

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Innovation Diversity Human Resources Committee 96

N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

Before I go any further, today’s rant should not be construed as a call for elitism, but rather a call for authenticity, innovation and professionalism. As leadership advisors and coaches we counsel our clients on the need for change and innovation, but have we become the proverbial shoe maker without shoes?

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Blog Leadership Consultative Follow-up 293

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

They behave, in other words, like innovators. All three were times of exceptional innovation and creativity, for our clients and us. In fact, I'd argue that most of the great technology and design advances of the past few decades had their roots in recessions. They urge these teams to make bold decisions, and move forward.

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Innovation Committee Real Estate Creativity 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

In my view, however, the structure and processes of the GE board were poorly designed for effectively overseeing Immelt and his management team. The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee. The Board’s Audit Committee Wasn’t Paying Attention.

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Committee Welch Finance Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2015

When he managed to beat a reform-minded opponent by just 243 votes (four of which cast by ghost-voters purporting to live at the address of Bauler`s own tavern) he made a declaration that still lives today: “Chicago ain’t ready for reform.” Legal standards are also deteriorating, encouraging abusive lawsuits.

Innovation 8

Innovation Technology System Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

These stock buybacks have come under criticism as a bad investment – the argument being that companies sitting on record amounts of cash ought to invest in innovation, salaries, or at least dividends, rather than pumping up their own stock price through buybacks. Not so fast. However, not all investments are equal.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

Three Approaches to Managing Total Digitization. How are enterprises managing the spread and scope of total digitization? We at MIT CISR have found that enterprises are using one or more of three approaches to managing total digitization: convergence, coordination, or a separate digital innovation stacks approach.

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CIO Organization Committee CTO 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

In an industry where so many products get remaindered, how do they manage to sell 10 million new iPhones the first weekend they’re available? What is innovation? The geeks contend, as they always and always probably will, that innovation is technology. Innovation is what people actually find useful.

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Company Committee Price Objective 13

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 68

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

Only six percent of the directors overseeing the world’s biggest banks have any technology experience. Technology is transforming the rules of businesses and reshaping industries in just about every sector. So, what role should a board play in deciding on technology investments and shaping businesses in the digital age?

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Delegation Technology Committee Banking 8

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

A conversation with Peter Fasolo about the value of transformational growth and innovation – and how to help it unfold. Such a degree of corporate socialization can also stifle innovation and overall cognitive diversity. How do you keep your people open to transformational growth and innovation?

Innovation 40

Innovation Diversity Human Resources Committee 40

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

It’s achieved impressive results since being founded in 2001, and is run by a committee of about ten people. In the early days, a management consultant used the familiar chiefs/Indians line to predict they’d fail. If the structure of the management committee was a problem, they would have failed by now.

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Case Study Committee Software Hamel 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word. Elite MBAs (Management by Algorithm) are the new normal. Top management would have to trust its computationally brilliant bidding software.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. But still sitting on the sidelines?

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Inventory management at the grocery store. For stores like these, managing inventory precisely is mission-critical: Getting it wrong has a direct impact on profits. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age. Sponsored by SAS. Real-time financial analysis.

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Call Center Supply Chain Committee Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Anyone who has worked inside a large organization can rattle off a lengthy list of the things that regularly kill promising ideas: conflict with existing businesses, naysayers, management turmoil, insufficient resources. Here are six ways to change that. Start with a survey. But the most common cause of death they reported?

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Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Large downturns (such as this recession), technology disruptions, or regulatory shifts create discontinuities that simply accelerate the industry’s evolution toward this equilibrium state. Cesare Mainardi is managing director of Booz & Company’s North American business and a member of the firm’s executive committee.

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Resources Industry System Strategy 53

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Meanwhile, new technologies are making it easier for sustainability investments to pay off in the middle to long term. Most plans have fewer than six: one or two financial metrics, such as sales growth or earnings per share, and two or three nonfinancial metrics, in areas such as quality or innovation.

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Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Every company needs infrastructure – roads, bridges, ports – and every company benefits from the new technologies made possible by basic scientific research. Starting around 1980, however, shifts in technology, geopolitics, and governance changed the game. Every company benefits from an educated populace.

Resources 8

Resources Company Rivkin Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Right now, the FCC is working on the biggest transformation in over a century of profound technological progress in communications: shutting down the analog telephone network. Until the Internet, both technologies boasted nearly 100% penetration. Information & technology Innovation Internet'

Technology 8

Technology Information Technology Wireless Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

The senior commercial and scientific directors formed a “circle of leaders” comprised of 23 senior managers who had no meaningful history of collaboration on strategic initiatives. Thus, the circle is more a “community of engagement” rather than a standing committee.

Leadership 11

Leadership Diversity Committee Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2018

Caty, a manager at a technology company who requested I not share her last name, says, “As a visibly black woman in the workplace, I am often caught in a double-bind where if I don’t accept the office housework, I’m considered an ‘Angry Black’ woman.” Check with your manager.

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Mentor Committee Career Performance Review 15