Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 1, 2023

Structural challenges Proposed Improvements Read the full report We have an opportunity to improve the apprenticeship levy system for its second decade, and focus on what really matters: not only up front costs and qualifications, but outputs and impacts. So, it gives me a lot more opportunity in the projects I can get involved in.

Productivity 52

Productivity Products Short-term Proposal 52

HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

According to a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics , women in high paying jobs now earn 81 cents for every dollar earned by men—19 cents more than in 1979, the first year for which figures were available. They mostly operate out of grocery and drugstore pharmacies, others are employed in hospitals or in clinical settings.

Human Resources 52

Human Resources Chemicals Software Engineering 52

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

CMI's The Everyone Economy report covered by the Asian Times In case you didn’t see already, CMI’s Everyone Economy report was covered by the Asian Times – have a read here ! You can find out more about Professor Ajantha here – and read his latest contribution to the CMI Knowledge and Insights hub here !

Crisis Management 52

Crisis Management Committee Hotels Webinar 52

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2020

If you can capture all that information and move it into your core business systems, it becomes easier to shorten cycle times and lower your operating costs. Sales orders can be distributed to the manager for approval, while the finance manager can promptly receive credit applications to review and approve.

Software 67

Software Compliance Learning Curve Cost 67

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

A recent report from the Congressional Budget Office is a good case in point, with the blame placed on access to finance and regulatory hurdles. of physicians operating as independent owners in 2019, versus 48.5% Opportunity costs. This underlines the decline in entrepreneurship in medicine, for instance, with just 31.4%

Entrepreneur 82

Entrepreneur Long-term Cost of Capital Engineering 82

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Other key events we hosted included an in-person networking event with the HKU SPACE GMBA students and alumni, and four webinars on different topics: “Future Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “Deep Dives into STEM and Finance” as well as “Skills for New Employment Landscape” with the UNESCO HK Glocal Peace Centre.

Webinar 98

Webinar Education Conference Industry 98

Strategy Driven

JULY 4, 2017

It is the fuel that keeps the engine running. How can you demand efficiency if you are not operating efficiently yourself? Working with a cash flow finance company is highly recommended. If you get an indication that a client is not going to pay on time, a finance firm will pay on their behalf.

Efficiency 51

Efficiency Finance Definition Engineering 51

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 1, 2020

The value of data in improving healthcare was perhaps best underlined by a report published a few years ago by the Richmond Group of medical charities. ” This dire conclusion was shared by a second report , from The GovLab, which bemoaned the way data literacy was holding back projects such as AI and preventative medicine.

Skills 87

Skills Report Technology Long-term 87

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. It is important to develop these apps, and the techniques associated with applying them, but what about the operating system that runs them? Where are we? A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x

Leadership Development 265

Leadership Development Development Leadership Self-aware 265

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

and (ii) how can digital firms improve their financial reports to communicate sources of value creation in their businesses? This notion, that risk is a desirable feature, can seem like sacrilege to anyone who’s taken an introductory finance course. Financial reporting requirements won’t change any time soon.

Report 8

Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Suddenly it hit Bob: he hadn’t checked to make sure engineering had included the new wiring diagram in the customer’s shipment that was due to go out first thing in the morning. Getting a 50,000-foot picture of our operations illustrates outdated, cumbersome, inefficient processes. Without the diagram the equipment would be useless.

Hammer 50

Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

In particular, we are interested in how many of their responses correlate with what academic finance knows and what it teaches. ” PE firms typically take three types of value increasing actions — financial engineering, governance engineering, and operational engineering.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discounted Cash Flow Company Rate of Return 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We remained steadfastly committed to having all our staff from custodians, plumbers, and bus drivers to engineers, architects, and finance directors, trained in the culture we wanted to create and the culture we expected each of our people to honor. We were a mediocre, at best, institutional operation with a sense of entitlement.

Leadership 64

Leadership Training Peer Review Budgeting 64

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

This leaves operating managers, the ultimate “consumers” of talent, to choose between two talent acquisitions methods (or “sourcing channels”): Either engage HR to acquire employees or engage Procurement to acquire contingent workers. Educate leaders on how and why to optimize a blended workforce.

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Four years ago, an Oxford University study predicted 47% of jobs could be automated by 2033. Sponsored by Accenture.

Company 12

Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

That year, as management tried to coordinate all the operating details across all the divisions, the company almost went bankrupt when poor planning led to excess inventory, with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash. He had each of the divisions start systematic strategic planning.

Transportation 8

Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Don’t let your engineers hack together workarounds that will need to be maintained down the road; provide real engineering solutions to the types of problems new software has. Your customer feedback is coming in through a variety of channels: phone calls to founders, emails to engineers, even the occasional text message.

Metrics 13

Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

Under this financing structure, the company contracts to buy kilowatts, not the turbines and panels. They had framing conversations with the CEO and CFO early on to discuss any financial or operational challenges. Well over half the respondents reported that three or more corporate functions were “key decision makers.”

Energy 8

Energy Industry Finance CFO 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. I was driving to my office when I heard a sketchy report of a “small plane&# hitting the WTC. What was most striking was the attitude of everyone. We’ll never take their commitment lightly.

Blog 362

Blog Hotels Follow-up Brand 362

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A recent McKinsey report found that while 84% of corporate executives think innovation is key to achieving growth objectives, only 6% are satisfied with the innovation performance of their firm. Another pervasive reason is that senior executives are trained as operators, not innovators. That’s quite a mismatch.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

The capacity to operate a 747 is incompatible with social media smarts. The promotion was arguably in poor taste given the global economic downturn, but was also inargueably and acutely insensitive given the airline's current labor relations standoff with the unions representing its pilots, engineers, baggage handlers and caterers.

Airlines 15

Airlines Media Travel Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

There are just two ways to increase ROIC: improve operating profit (by increasing revenues or cutting costs) or invest capital more wisely. As the chart below shows, only half of the CEOs of companies in the Dow Jones Index have previous experience in corporate finance or strategy.

CEO 8

CEO ROIC Cost of Capital Merton 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

AUGUST 2, 2011

In reality, each country needs the other to succeed in order to thrive — to finance growth, secure export markets, train talent, transfer technology, and more. Organizations can't operate effectively unless people share information, work together to solve problems, and help each other get the job done.

Apparel 15

Apparel Pharmaceuticals Finance Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

Their operating environment changes in a way they don’t recognize, or they take on a project that they believe is within their capability but isn’t. But as the organization grew, its operations became more complex. Consequently, the finance group, the risk organization, and the nonexecutive directors do most of this work.

Company 8

Company CEO Finance System 8

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 20, 2020

Many businesses have shut down, with many more having to drastically alter their operations to support social distancing or new patterns of consumer behavior. A new report from EIT Health aims to uncover the state of the market across Europe, and especially the challenges startups still face in selling into the sector.

Innovation 96

Innovation Govindarajan Short-term Banking 96

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. Some of the first business functionaries were railroad telegraph operators who managed schedules.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

That founder himself booted from the CEO role later on by VCs, only to watch the company’s initial CEO return to the day-to-day operations alongside yet another chief executive, who joined well after the founding. His work suggests that Twitter didn’t just succeed in spite of all the drama Bilton reports, but to some extent because of it.

Succession 8

Succession Leadership CEO COO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

While there's no minimizing this complex dynamic, a new research report to be released next week from the Center for Talent Innovation reveals surprising news: India's women professionals are realizing their career ambitions remarkably well. You know what's changed, and you already understand what's going on.".

Career 9

Career Maturity Survey Education 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

I stumbled through a few consumer report roundups online, asked the advice of friends and coworkers, and eventually found myself at a local hardware store, where the owner enlightened me to the complex world of BTUs, replaceable filters, and square footage calculations. I am the cofounder and CEO of BioLite.

Marketing 8

Marketing Microfinance Retail Development 8

HR Digest

MARCH 27, 2019

Finance Analyst, Blockchain. Data Engineer, Blockchain. Business Operations Manager, Blockchain. Software Engineer, Blockchain. Software Engineer, Blockchain (University). Director, Technical Account and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Reporting, Blockchain. Lead Commercial Counsel, Blockchain.

Engineering 40

Engineering Software Brand Report 40

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

He annually reports on his own mistakes. Gain accounting advantage : Buffett reports on the performance of his operating businesses by grouping them according to similar balance sheet and income statement characteristics. His fluency in the language of accounting gives him clear sight to judge underlying business value.

Letter 14

Letter P&L Net Present Value Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Value: “ Across all of our businesses, our success is based on a simple formula,” Icahn (or someone in his employ) wrote in the most recent annual report of Icahn Enterprises. “[W]e Apple Finance Skill vs. luck' But Icahn’s campaign to get eBay to spin off PayPal succeeded last month. Then Andreessen quit the board. In 2012 it was $1.9

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

The commission ratios vary from development to marketing to finance, administration, sales and customer support, and in the various areas are based on the metrics the individuals are most able to directly control. Everyone knows what the monthly operational "nut" is. This can make for a complicated structure at times.

Motivation 8

Motivation Planning Company Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Unfavorable demographics, with the aging of the baby boomers and low birth rates, also represents an economic time bomb for countries whose public retirement systems rely on current contributions to finance current pension obligations. “My brother was an engineer in geophysics. Recognizing qualifications. ’ ‘No.’

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing NGO Marketing Skills 8