Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

The fact of the matter is that periodically, technologies or business model innovations allow start-ups to enter industries offering services that are generally cheaper and more accessible, but of far lower quality. This is the essence of what we call "disruptive innovation." The ecosystem will develop. Bundling good.

Rogers 15

Rogers Telecommunications Disruptive Innovation Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Innovations like Amazon price checks, or changes to healthcare or shipping enabled by mobile phones, are becoming commonplace. Organizations need to enhance their design and capabilities to survive and stay competitive in a world where innovation matters more. Swisscom AG is the major telecommunications provider in Switzerland.

Innovation 8

Innovation Telecommunications Technology Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it's more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and challenges of a more connected world. The world is getting smaller.

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage Leadership Telecommunications Talent Management 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Apple is certainly known for its strong preference for internal innovation. There is clear empirical evidence to back this up: in our research of about 150 firms in the telecommunications industry, we found that the more successful firms all took this active approach to managing their capability and resource portfolios. Is that fair?

Software 15

Software Telecommunications Short-term Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

As multinational corporations pursue opportunities in emerging markets, they're bound to stumble if they overlook the developed economies, and vice versa. Without operating in the former, they won't be able to attain economies of scale; sans the latter, they're unlikely to continue developing state-of-the-art technologies.

Globalization 14

Globalization Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

In my eyes, the work Steve Blank, Eric Ries, and others have done to provide a cogent, accessible frame around the academic concepts of emergent strategy is one of the most important contributions to the innovation movement over the past few years. That''s not right. Be prepared for lean''s consequences.

Ries 8

Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He started very well, but as soon as his cash flow improved, financial burdens from family systems stifled his operations. When I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology , I initially focused on helping African entrepreneurs or artisans, especially those with only primary education, develop new skills and market opportunities.

Books 14

Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Drawing on her work with business leaders, she has developed the following categorization of how people prefer to think: Conceptual : Reads signs of coming change; sees the "big picture"; recognizes new possibilities; tolerates ambiguity; integrates ideas and concepts; communicates through analogy and metaphor; inspires with visions of the future.

Process 15

Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

True collaboration always has open-ended elements — ranging from precisely how new innovations will be implemented, to how products will fare in the market, and even to what priorities partners will pursue in the face of changes in the environment. Google uses a different approach to working with multiple external parties.

Software 15

Software Licensing Long-term Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

As companies like this one grow from start-ups into larger enterprises, they're often compelled to analyze numerical data to reduce risk, maintain operations, and model predictable outcomes. The partner confidentially approached the software CEO for advice on how they developed and trained their own staff over the years.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Strategy Telecommunications Software 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

The data-driven have crafted the best strategies, uncovered wholly new markets, and kept operational costs low. Indeed, we think every organization must develop and execute an aggressive plan to put data to work. Today, advances in predictive analytics and the potential for big data portend even greater opportunity. We figure it out.

Organization 15

Organization Telecommunications McKinsey Price 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

On the management side, there is increasing evidence that co-creative processes involving consumers and other stakeholders can have a transformative effect on key processes such as new product development. We recently participated in a data-dive type process at a major telecommunications company. Innovation'

Analysis 8

Analysis Storytelling Brainstorming Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. Mnangagwa is clear that he wants to rebuild the economy and start fresh with foreign businesses.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

The phenomenon of fast-track CEO succession appears to be most prominent in the retail, technology, media, and telecommunications sectors—all of which are particularly affected by disruptive business models and new competitors. Through this effort, we have observed certain characteristics of this emerging trend. Succession planning'

CEO 13

CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Others, including technology and telecommunications companies, are major customers of — and suppliers to — those industries. In developing countries, women spend 25% of their day collecting water and 40 hours per month collecting fuel for their families. Almost everyone has some skin in this game.

Energy 8

Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

But the real power of the partnership comes from their ability to bring the best of each of their departments—as well as pricing, operations, and other groups—to bear in exploiting those micromarket opportunities. That starts with developing a deep understanding of how customers behave and make decisions.

Marketing 11

Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

In addition to lifting some travel restrictions, American financial institutions can establish accounts with their Cuban counterparts and telecommunication firms can export to and install equipment on the island. That said, the Obama administration has made a few changes.

GDP 8

GDP Telecommunications Scenario Planning Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brook Manville consults to socially-minded enterprises on matters of strategy and organizational development. Brook Manville consults to socially-minded enterprises on matters of strategy and organizational development. His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

The latest developments around PRISM and the NSA dragnet operations uncovered by Edward Snowden, in my view, severely damage the fragile fabric of the new global ecosystem, which we so sorely rely on in order to collectively tackle truly urgent global issues such as energy, pollution, food, climate change, (cyber-)terrorism and inequality.

Globalization 10

Globalization Technology Information Technology Telecommunications 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization. India’s digital infrastructure is coming to life, with a combination of policy and technological innovation having played an important role.

Banking 15

Banking Long-term Short-term System 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

These differences go to the foundation of the modern corporate IT department — the infrastructure — which includes the software, hardware, communications, facilities, data centers, operations, and other technical resources a corporation operates. Today''s CIO Needs to Be the Chief Innovation Officer.

CIO 9

CIO Technology Telecommunications Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

The emergence of a large entrepreneurial community is essential for the development and growth of any country. In Mexico, in the innovative sectors that entrepreneurs usually enter — mobile technology, branchless banking, housing for rural or semi-urban areas, basic services such as water, telecommunications, education, etc.

Industry 9

Industry Telecommunications Incentives Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

It is clear to us that the failure of different parts of the system — payers, providers, patients, professionals, policy makers, politicians, the public, and the press — to pull in the same direction is a serious drag on innovation and progress. This failure to work together across a system continually exercises me.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Distinct from marketing and sales operations, presales provides a specific set of activities that lead to qualifying, bidding on, winning, and renewing a deal. Opportunities have exponentially increased for salespeople, thanks to digital innovations, more systematic RFPs, and the pervasive use of inside sales for lead generation.

Call Center 8

Call Center Telecommunications Engineering Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

When people talk of valuable platforms, they are typically thinking of things like the operating systems for personal computers, tablet computers, and smartphones, all of which allow and indeed encourage software developers to invent “apps”; or the Amazon selling system which provides a layer of basic logistical functions for independent retailers.

Transportation 8

Transportation Price Airlines Retail 8