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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. Find more information about the event and survey results here. What skills should we pursue to suit our future needs?

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The Skills Doctors and Nurses Need to Be Effective Executives

Harvard Business Review

There are new types of insurance companies such as Oscar ; novel provider organizations such as OneMedical , IoraHealth , and ChenMed ; and new health information technology companies such as Castlight , Vital , and WellFrame that aim to use technology to improve care and value.

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The Commoditization of Scale

Harvard Business Review

To understand my point, let's think about how big companies have developed scale advantages through information systems. Consider Porter's value chain. But the technologies that drove these coordination-related scale advantages are becoming increasingly cheaper and more pervasive. Develop a vision of the future.

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Secure Your Flanks, Protect Your Business

Harvard Business Review

In Operation Desert Storm , more than 100,000 Iraqi troops crossed into Kuwait, fixed themselves into strategic positions — in front lines — to combat U.S. When Netscape Navigator imagined the disruption of Microsoft Windows, it forgot that its web browser was an add-on on the operating system. They secured their flanks.

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What Business Schools Don???t Get About MOOCs

Harvard Business Review

Michael Porter, the strategy expert, believes that the HBS approach is the right one. The company simply straddled the two channels, without creating any operating linkages across them. Second, factoring in cost makes online technology much more competitive.And They say yes; I say no.. What are their arguments?

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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. ” Develop corporate plasticity. In 2006 alone, Nokia introduced 39 new mobile-device models. ” Aim for the golden mean.

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Three Unexpected Ways to Help with Disaster Recovery

Harvard Business Review

By 1997 it had established AlertNet , originally fashioned as a private channel for aid workers and which later developed into the first global humanitarian news and information portal. They can examine the company's core operations to discover ways to help make a difference while continuing to make a profit. Take Cisco.

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