Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

It often helps if the executive in charge is not from IT, but from operations or marketing, and that there are close links with customer-facing and other operational roles. As speaker Bernard Marr put it at CMI’s National Conference: “ what the hell is Big Data? One example is the capability to slash energy use.

Leadership Styles 83

Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The transformation of Silicon Valley from farmland into the center of the technological universe has been attracting envious looks from around the world for a generation or more. Digital dominance. There is also a supportive regulatory environment that has helped fintech innovators to emerge. Our mission is to bring tech ‘makers’ (i.e.

Marketing 45

Marketing McKinsey Innovation GDP 45

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. If we could permanently reduce the amount of product sitting idle, we'd save money, energy, and material. Full disclosure: Terra Technology was my client for this event.). I was wrong.

Energy 11

Energy Supply Chain Operations Benchmarking 11

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

but they expend far more energy intentionally searching for opportunity, but not just any opportunity – a game changer. The churches I had previously worked with operated from the the philosophy this is church, and if people want it they will come. I visited his church on numerous occasions.

Blog 379

Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 379

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The report’s beginnings trace back to 2009, when the annual UN global climate conference resulted in an agreement that the world should hold warming to 2.0°C The list of actions companies take is well-developed and documented, and most large companies do the following: Slash energy use and emissions in operations.

Efficiency 10

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Technology is reconfiguring traditional roles and divisions of labor. Telecom operators often provide the backbone communication networks required to run systems and applications. Now some are deepening their existing relationships with local governments and branching out into other types of smart technology implementation.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Michael Porter and Mark Kramer argue that shared value encompasses corporate policies and practices that enhance the competitiveness of a company while simultaneously advancing social and economic conditions in the communities in which it operates. If you're a car company like Audi, you are worried about access to renewable energy.

Porter 14

Porter Supply Chain Energy Competitive Advantage 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2014

Urban physicists are applying this research to reimagine a number of concepts, including the energy efficiency of city buildings, infrastructure conditions, and emergency detection. Groupon’s tiki bar “conference room” acts both as an escape from work and as a space that encourages innovation. Find your feng shui.

Conference 8

Conference CRM Creativity Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

During my daylong visit, I observed a quiet, longtime sustainability leader plugging away, creating new products that will help the world save energy, water, waste.and lots of money. It's the only company that has won the EPA's Energy Star Award every year the honor has been bestowed. our new vision" of growth and innovation.

Innovation 12

Innovation Early Adopters Energy Efficiency 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

For example, at Red Hat, where I serve as president and CEO, we have at least three associates who are so passionate about our company’s role in changing the world through open source technology that they have gotten a tattoo of “Shadowman,” the icon wearing a red fedora in our company logo. Insight Center. “Nothing.”

Company 8

Company How To CIO Chief Operating Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Drone operators will be regularly required, for example, to pass a written test, but won’t, as rumored, need to obtain a pilot’s license. In Washington, business as usual.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

He argues more broadly that all the “low-hanging fruit” produced by some non-repeatable breakthroughs (including fundamental technological triumphs) has been plucked. An impassioned counterargument comes from Erik Brynolfsson and Andy McAfee of MIT, who reject the premise that technology’s big leaps are all behind us.

Management 9

Management Drucker Short-term Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Inside the newsroom, we had families living in the cafeteria, conference rooms, training centers etc.; We’re looking at affordable housing with a group that can build quickly with new technology that is hurricane proof and can prove self-sufficient after an emergency with integrated solar panels and battery packs. and Caribbean.

Media 9

Media Company Call Center Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Falling trade barriers, inexpensive energy and low transport charges further strengthened the case for making products overseas. Most have barely tapped the surface of what they could achieve by operating overseas. Cost arbitrage isn't a strategy; it can't confer a competitive edge over the long haul.

Offshoring 15

Offshoring Supply Chain Outsourcing Cost 15

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The room had the organization’s top sixty leaders of a large technology services company. They also felt they were operating at cross-purposes every single day. He has worked with organizations in the energy, financial services, technology, professional services, and public sectors. Guest post from Vince Molinaro, Ph.D.:

Human Capital 244

Human Capital Commitment Discount Conference 244

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. Building a new Social Nation isn’t just about a paradigm shift in technology. Far from it, actually. Of course not. We are on the cusp of a new business era.

Media 50

Media Follow-up Software Newsletter 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency. This role is common in technology, engineering, and life sciences companies, where domain expertise in narrow and arcane areas can be crucial to market success. Essential Experts.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Earlier this year I wrote about the 5th edition of the Technology at Work report from Oxford University and Citi, which found that over half of the U.S. operating at around 30-40% of normal levels. operating at around 30-40% of normal levels. Indeed Pinterest has gone as far as paying an $89.5

Reis 78

Reis Transportation Real Estate Tourism 78

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

General Services Administration after a scandal involving an extravagant employee conference that involved lots of federal contract violations. Though she wasn''t involved in the conference, she took the fall. As the technology becomes more integrated into everyday life, it will, paradoxically, become more invisible.

Rogers 8

Rogers Conference Health Care Bond 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

The good news coming out of competition, is that there's a great deal of energy and ingenuity around experimenting with radical management practices in organizations of every stripe. You have to be a relentless contrarian to peel away the operating assumptions and built-in beliefs that surround us like wallpaper. Explore the fringe.

Hamel 15

Hamel Company McKinsey Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

The advent of the modern organization and the practice of management constitutes a “social technology” that has been equally transformative. The forces of technology and management will continue to hold equal sway as the 21st century unfolds. This is a situation that cannot endure.

Management 8

Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

Over the last few years, Dirk began to realize that the business model for wholesale distribution was dramatically changing as manufacturers increasingly sell direct to consumers, and large firms like Amazon and Grainger use their technology and scale to squeeze out the traditional middlemen. As he says, "It's the right thing to do.".

Storytelling 8

Storytelling Kaplan Taylorism Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2016

After years of research and coaching people on career transitions, here’s what I recommend: Follow your energy and interest. Energy and interest are to your career path what the North Star is to celestial navigators. ” On the advice of the friend who’d piqued his interest, he also paid his own way to a conference.

Career 8

Career Learning-by-Doing Creativity Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

It’s one thing to note a person working solo in an otherwise empty seminar room, or a group of people huddling around someone’s desk because a conference room wasn’t available. Adobe’s New York office had been growing due to its acquisitions of smaller technology companies.

Maturity 9

Maturity Real Estate Survey Project 9

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Day one of the conference was headlined by a highly esteemed group of speakers who didn’t give me nearly what I had hoped for – While there were a few shining stars, and some great sound bites, I wasn’t challenged nearly as much as I hoped to be. Social Media is not about technology – it’s about communication.

Blog 360

Blog Brand Media Influence 360

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

The American climate activists who have flocked to the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris this week tend to have one thing in common: many own the “it” car for their tribe, the VW Jetta Wagon TDI. At 49 MPG, the Jetta does better than many hybrids, and drives German, too. But it just hasn’t happened.

PPM 8

PPM Policies Engineering Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Conrad was juggling too many other pursuits to take an executive position at the time, but he agreed to help her and serve on the board, and his ideas, energy, and fearlessness contributed to the organization’s success in attracting dedicated people and money. operations. It didn’t have U.S. ” Guillermo had a point.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Each issue is packed with thought-provoking content and insight into the business issues that affect all companies competing in today’s technology-driven marketplace with recent contributions by best-selling author and researcher Tom Davenport; social media guru Chris Brogan; and Myron Scholes, world renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner.

Resources 50

Resources Process Constraint Objective 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Oil and Gas subsea operators across the world are adopting a GE Industrial Internet technology developed in Norway. A 210 meter mean sea level (MSL) deep water facility at the Bergen site also provides deep water testing for the technology. Sponsor Content Insight from GE.

Industry 8

Industry Offshoring Engineering Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2017

Instead, they take steps to address the underlying causes: Simplify the operating model. A company’s operating model encompasses its structure, governance, accountabilities, and ways of working. And it established new ways of working in which all senior executives at AB InBev work around a common conference table.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Operations Organization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Technology and new concepts of living, as well as progressive notions of urbanization, industrial capitalism, consumerism, ecotourism, and renewable systems, could meld to fashion a new shared-growth paradigm. The technology systems that undergird this effort are far-flung.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Globalization Politics Franchising 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

But as the energy and excitement from that first event fades, you’re left wondering: Now what? As one of my clients, a VP in a technology firm, told me recently, “Getting the parents’ group launched was easy. You’ve done everything needed to get this thing up and running. 2) There’s no template for it.

Organization 9

Organization How To Seminar Follow-up 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Why are some brands able to be at once both global and local — to successfully seize the energy of grassroots movements and at the same time leverage corporate assets on a massive scale — while others only come off as artificial and pandering? Pepsi Refresh failed because it had no relevance to the brand’s operations or heritage.

Media 8

Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Of course, government aid is helping accelerate the transition, but given the economic boost that clean energy provides to many states, support for wind and solar looks relatively safe in Congress. But even without those technological shifts, the five megatrends here create an overwhelming case to continue the sustainability journey.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Bottom-up Short-term Globalization 8