Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Skill development is clearly a major priority for companies and managers these days. That is why live business projects can be powerful vehicles for learning, especially when they aim for dramatic outcomes on a tight timeframe. Consider, for instance, the talent development program at Ascom, a global telecommunications company.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Starting in the 1970s, the country's ability to create low-cost, quality products helped them dominate key industries, such as automobiles, telecommunications, and consumer electronics. As Fujio Ando, senior managing director at Chibagin Asset Management suggests, "Japan's consumer electronics industry is facing defeat.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Because business is fraught with many risks and challenges, and because this journey isn’t right for everyone, I’ve developed some questions that will help you get more clarity so you can make better decisions for yourself when it comes to starting a business. We tend to project onto others our way of seeing the world.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

To date, the trend has been associated with fairly standard products, such as customer relationship management software, web servers, or SQL databases, but the theory of the innovator''s dilemma suggests that it will most likely move up the stack in the future. Agile projects have focused on standard, non-critical systems.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In a downbeat tone the manager of a fast-growing healthcare provider rattled off a list of reasons that her company was turning into a numbers-driven organization: Industry regulations required it, Medicare reimbursement policies required it, and delivering specialized services required yet another form of quantitative analysis.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Others, including technology and telecommunications companies, are major customers of — and suppliers to — those industries. Similar wastewater projects in Chinese cities are showing that sludge can be converted into valuable products such as vehicle fuels and organic composts. Almost everyone has some skin in this game.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

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. Across Africa, many unemployed men have managed small businesses, at least once in their lives.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 14, 2013

This trend means that leaders of successful organizations will need to develop different organizational structures, systems, and skills in order to meet these new customer requirements. People throughout the organization will be expected to routinely make decisions once reserved for managers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Data-driven managers, departments, and organizations have always enjoyed distinct advantages. Indeed, we think every organization must develop and execute an aggressive plan to put data to work. To be clear, this is not — repeat not — an esoteric tech project. Start by gathering a critical mass of these managers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Or take Harris Corporation, an American telecommunications company founded in 1895. Land deeply believed in Polaroid as a technology-led company committed to expensive, long-term technology projects. Good product managers are in continuous conversation with their customers. That makes him sound like Google.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He wasnt a process manager. Operations : Approaches problems practically; stands firm on issues, perseveres; maintains a standard of consistency and quality; provides stable leadership and supervision; develops detailed plans and procedures; implements projects in a timely manner; keeps financial records straight.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

As managers and mentors, we frequently encounter situations like these, when we come up against the limiting voices of self-doubt in the people we support. As a manager or mentor, one of the most powerful ways you can unlock your people’s potential is to give them a toolkit for managing self-doubt.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

It's in areas of the company such as knowledge management, innovation, communication, and better integration with the supply chain. Consider Microsoft's Channel 9 software-community platform, where developers can watch videos and comment on them.

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Media McKinsey Supply Chain Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

In 1973, Peter Drucker stated in his book Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, "Management is not culture-free, that is, part of the world of nature. What if our approach to leadership was to evolve into Drucker''s vision of "socially accountable and culturally embedded" management? It is a social function.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

But most true collaborations cannot be controlled with fixed terms that are defined in advance — they must be managed through relational contracts that allow you to respond flexibly to new information. Their challenge then is to learn how to manage these partnerships differently than the vendor relationships they had before.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

If we hope for better management of large-scale endeavors, our models will have to look beyond what it takes to inform individual, or even organizational, moves. Brook Manville consults to socially-minded enterprises on matters of strategy and organizational development. Well need to enable cross-boundary judgment.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Can we harness the information age to develop some sort of calamine lotion to soothe our hysteria in the face of uncertainty? Can we harness the information age to develop some sort of calamine lotion to soothe our hysteria in the face of uncertainty?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

So most executives manage it according to their intuition. It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture. We saw this play out in retail, banking, telecommunications, and the fast food industry as well. In one hedge fund, the highest performing portfolio managers had higher total motivation. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

According to Techies.com, the average age of a software developer in Silicon Valley is 24. And according to a survey by Network World magazine, only about one in eight tech managers 30 years old or younger had hired anyone over 40 during the previous year. If you're aiming at a youth-dominated sector, know the odds.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

37signals has developed a dozen different products and services since its founding in 1999. They will now be a “one product company” focused on Basecamp, its popular project management software. Refocusing” might be an understatement. To emphasize the point, the company is also changing its name to Basecamp.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Both practices have long developed insights into their customers based on data and analytics. But in the aftermath of the financial crisis, risk managers have become increasingly involved in business strategy and decisions. Protect and manage reputations. The risk function can do the same.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Thus, the whole mechanism depends on the development of a norm of cooperation among publishers, just as similar norms have developed in academia. Thus, the whole mechanism depends on the development of a norm of cooperation among publishers, just as similar norms have developed in academia.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

That is, the importance of "research & development" to business innovation. Advertising will take a backseat to promotional offers as retailers and brand managers alike collectively decide that branding a promotion matters just as much as promoting a brand. It's easy to marry a WWWabsite with a contest, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Previously dominated by the likes of newspapers, magazines, gyms, utilities, and telecommunications firms, more products and services are being offered to more people through subscriptions than ever before. Then we project those granular patterns forward as if we had such data in the first place. Philippe Marion/Getty Images.

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HR Digest

JULY 22, 2019

Automation in Maritime industry is turning crew members into system managers. More people are becoming skeptical about choosing certain careers, while employers in some sectors are getting more assurance of not having to push so hard on talent management in the future. Automation in Maritime Industry.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

According to a report put out by Greenpeace in April , the electricity demand of data centers and the telecommunications network is rivaling that of most nations. But there was a problem: Utah law didn't allow non-utility companies to buy and transmit power directly from renewable energy developers. China, Russia, and Japan.

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Energy Efficiency Industry Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

In 2012, Huawei surpassed Ericsson – at that time the world leader in telecommunications and networks – in terms of sales revenue and net profit, and this trend continued in the fiscal year of 2014 when Huawei reached an all-time high sales revenue of $46.5 billion and net profits of $4.49 billion (both in U.S. dollars).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Of these, only three, Switzerland, Ireland, and Estonia, made it to a commendable “Stand Out” category – which means that their high levels of digital development are attractive to global businesses and investors and that their digital ecosystems are positioned to nurture start ups and internet businesses that can compete globally.

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