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CMI Hong Kong: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

Mellisa Patrick CMgr MCMI, CMI’s programme development manager, attended the event to engage with potential new partners, including universities, colleges, and technical and vocational education and training (TVET) providers. What skills should we pursue to suit our future needs?

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Social Progress = Economic Success: Social Innovation at Work

Harvard Business Review

Meanwhile Harvard Business Review has been focused on this issue, with our most recent cover story titled "How to fix capitalism — and unleash a wave of innovation and growth". This cover story, by Michael Porter, suggests that companies and government need to get outside an outdated approach to value creation.

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Avoid the Deadly Temptations that Derail Innovators

Harvard Business Review

Any promising new initiative — a stand-alone business venture or an innovation in an established organization — hits roadblocks and unexpected obstacles. Recently I''ve advised entrepreneurs and innovators about a different, seemingly better, dilemma: pop-up opportunities that look like short cuts to success.

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The Commoditization of Scale

Harvard Business Review

In the game of innovation, there is next to no time to rest. All in all, scale has provided some immense strategic benefits to large companies around the world — protecting many from entrepreneurial innovations that would otherwise threaten. Consider Porter's value chain. Develop a vision of the future.

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Meet Your New R&D Team: Social Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

The smartest minds in social innovation are increasingly committed to engaging with the private sector to make significant changes in areas like health, education, and poverty. This framework has the potential to reverse the typical role of CSR, currently viewed as a way to "give back" to communities that a business operates in.

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The Best Companies Know How to Balance Strategy and Purpose

Harvard Business Review

Seeking to extend its technological edge (particularly in miniaturization), it acquired more than 100 startup companies while pursuing a vast portfolio of research and product development projects. That purpose is bigger than the company itself, providing natural cohesion, and it demands expansive thinking, driving innovation and progress.

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In 2014, Resolve to Make Your Business Human Again

Harvard Business Review

Worshipping at what Christensen calls the “church of finance” hollows out a company’s competitive advantage, as it loses the capacity to invest in innovation that drives the perpetual reinvention so necessary in today’s world of temporary competitive advantage. Innovation Leadership Strategy' And short-term numbers at that.

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