Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

What kind of signal did this choice send to P&G''s top managers? Is the problem that P&G produces outstanding specialists in marketing but not general managers who can run the business? Using data from the 2012 survey, we also found that boards gave their companies'' very poor grades on talent management.

Succession 8

Succession Telecommunications Biotechnology Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

The toughest test of a manager is not how they deal with poor performance — it’s how they address mediocrity. You have no moral authority to ask other managers to hold people accountable if you’re not doing so yourself. What Great Managers Do. Are you sure you’re doing enough to push for high performance?

Team 15

Team Bureaucracy Video Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

If businesses are to continue using personal data to create value for themselves and for their customers, they will need to manage it as carefully as they would money, in four key ways. Manage brand reputation by engaging with data rating agencies. As with their money, the key with personal data is for businesses to manage it wisely.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Cost-Benefit Analysis Reputation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. In several industries, such as consumer goods, financial services, industrial products, and logistics, COOs usually had backgrounds in either managing operations or information technology departments.

COO 12

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

While this graying of the Boomer generation certainly has implications for health care and social policy (and for me personally, as one of those eventual retirees), it may have even more significance for the nature of the workforce and the job of the manager. First, there will be a shortage of workers for key jobs.

Telecommunications 13

Telecommunications Chemicals Health Care Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

Take Susan, the CEO of a small telecommunications firm. One of her engineers, a key employee and the only one who understood how a critical software component worked, left the firm. How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience. She was enrolled in my MBA course when she received some bad news. David Kopans.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Hedge Video Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

These interviews were conducted with salespeople across a wide variety of industries including high technology, telecommunications, financial services, consulting, industrial equipment, healthcare, and electronics, to name a few. Pre-sales Resources.

Telecommunications 19

Telecommunications CRM Price Long-term 19

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

We even hear it from our clients in the international market, such as regional telecommunications companies, who see a "unified user experience strategy" like Apple's as a sign of status. Today, it is not uncommon to hear an executive talk about managing a $30 billion brand. So what is management to do?

Strategy 13

Strategy Six Sigma Engineering Bottom-up 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Then rapid improvement in cell phone technology combined with sharp reductions in cost opened up massive new markets that existing terrestrial business telecommunications companies had missed. HBR's 90th Anniversary: Why Management Matters. The Radical Beauty of Three Simple Management Practices. How HBR Changed the Way I Work.

Disruptive Innovation 9

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

The productivity gain from ICT in Africa is unprecedented, and unlike other transformative technologies, like the steam engine and aircrafts, ICT remains a low-hanging application that the locals could participate in on the creative side. The elite global technology firms typically offer better solutions at zero cost.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Entrepreneur Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

As we argue in a forthcoming article, in the April issue of Harvard Business Manager (the German edition of HBR), our experience of studying and documenting these failures suggests that nearly all can be traced back to a small set of traps organizations tend to step into. Trap 1: Acting as an event manager. Here’s an example.

B2B 8

B2B Innovation Company Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Consider the case of an Asian telecommunications company that found 20 percent of its marketing budget was being squandered in markets with the lowest lifetime customer value. One important way to focus the effort is by managing the sales pipeline together. “It Create a technology engine that powers the front lines.

Marketing 14

Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 14

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

To this day, I get excited about seeing Subaru’s new products and learning about the engineering that went into making them. But the majority of the business owners I know prefer to manage risks by minimizing them or bypassing them entirely. If you want to open a bakery, it helps if you have a passion for baking.

Learning-by-Doing 255

Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 255

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

These interviews were conducted with salespeople across a wide variety of industries including high technology, telecommunications, financial services, consulting, industrial equipment, healthcare, and electronics, to name a few. Pre-sales Resources.

Telecommunications 12

Telecommunications CRM Price Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

There''s no doubt that people inside large companies over-engineer business plans, but don''t let the pendulum swing too far the other way. Telecommunications companies can create a small secondary network where they can test ideas without running the risk of interrupting service to millions of customers.

Ries 8

Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Talent Management. ” Other talent management concerns that were mentioned once include: motivating people through hard times, retention and development, and managing diversity and cultural differences. Talent-related issues were the top concern, mentioned by 16 of the CEOs. Operating in a Global Marketplace.

CEO 8

CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

So most executives manage it according to their intuition. In this article, we address each of these to show how leaders can engineer high-performing organizational cultures — and measure their impact on the bottom line. It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture. 2) What is culture worth? Insight Center.

Motivation 8

Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

and other governments to help them design these often complicated auctions and by telecommunications companies trying to figure out the best strategies for bidding. Only the one I assert in my book Trillion Dollar Economists , that business managers may want to pay a bit more attention to the scribbling of academic economists.

Strategy 15

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

This is the virtual network operator (VNO) model used by the telecommunications sector. Two companies transfer selected similar assets into a joint venture in order to support the orderly management of capacity in their industry and reduce the risk of prices spiraling downward. Model 3: Joint venture of similar assets.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

Men highly self-rate their own leadership skills and their ability to tackle management and business challenges. The research shows that men are 16 percent more inquisitive than women, possibly due to their tendency to gravitate towards STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) careers that reinforce inquiry.

Diversity 120

Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

Management teams often assume they can leapfrog best practices for basic data analytics by going directly to adopting artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies. For example, one telecommunications company we worked with can now predict with 75 times more accuracy whether its customers are about to bolt using machine learning.

Company 15

Company Telecommunications Retail Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Corporate directors identified talent management as their single greatest strategic challenge. We know that organizations commit enormous resources and effort to talent management, so why aren''t they doing a better job? Not competitive threats.

Talent Management 10

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

In 2016, DJI had 1,500 people in R&D , or 40% of a workforce of 4,000 – a luxury only available to a company that can tap into low-cost engineering talent. Engineers build new features and functionalities while management graduates can sell products at low cost and even create new business models and commercial innovations.

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Business Model Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

At one global telecommunications giant, for example, a critical network software upgrade was not only slipping further behind schedule, but the bug density was slowly creeping up, as well. The executive responsible for the deliverable (but not the software engineering itself) felt something amiss.

Micromanagement 20

Micromanagement Document Telecommunications Software 20

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Theyve been finely engineered, instead, to do. Theyve been finely engineered, instead, to do. Reflection items are what Mycroft was to Sherlock: the smarter — but largely invisible — big brother. The catch is that most companies dont know how to reflect. So heres how to craft your own reflection items.

Short-term 17

Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 17

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Digital coupons aren't just "smart," they can be "brilliant" — linked to recommendation engines, GPS, supply chains, etc. 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.

Innovation 18

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 18

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. million ounces of gold. Automation in Maritime Industry.

Industry 87

Industry Operations Transportation Technology 87

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

For example, we foresee professional service firms, such as accounting, law, and consulting, using increasingly complex artificial intelligence models to perform audits, analyze legal parameters, and provide management consulting services. This is why Volkswagen recently announced that it would retrain 7,000 engineers in electric technology.

Skills 8

Skills Engineering Telecommunications Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Presales requires a dedicated team of experts split into roughly two-thirds for technical activities (crafting solutions to customers’ problems) and one-third for commercial activities (managing deal qualification and bid). And that requires companies to improve the quality of their presales engine. Sales Customers'

Call Center 8

Call Center Telecommunications Engineering Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

The EU’s antitrust regulator charged Google for abuse of its position as the dominant search engine to promote its own businesses, while the European Parliament even voted in favor of breaking up Google. Telecommunications, marketplace platforms, payment services, and postal and logistics systems are balkanized. tech companies.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8