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. When executed well, the results are astonishing.

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage Leadership Telecommunications Talent Management 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

You even people talking about UX as the way in which a consumer connects to a business — all the touch-points from marketing to product development to distribution channels. To close this gap, leading businesses like Google are exploring scalable strategies that make UX relevant to engineers and MBAs across their organizations.

Strategy 10

Strategy Six Sigma Engineering Bottom-up 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Nokia, today’s telecommunications networking company, has made corporate transformation into an art form. As the company explored new markets, it began to make additional investments in pre-cellular mobile radios and other componentry in the emerging market for mobile communications. The playbook sounds familiar.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Crisis Committee Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

They must manage to both craft the new world with smart strategy, often in the wake of disruption, and cause the organization to embrace the required change. Lou Gerstner’s arrival at IBM in 1993 is a classic example of leadership through a liminal period. Business education Informal leadership Leadership' billion to $11.7

Leadership 8

Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2017

Sales is, by far, the most expensive part of strategy execution for most firms. Yet, on average, companies deliver only 50% to 60% of the financial performance that their strategies and sales forecasts have promised. But good planning and proper leadership support can help. That’s a lot of wasted money and effort.

Execution 8

Execution Cost Telecommunications CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

Sophisticated sales organizations now have the ability to combine, sift, and sort vast troves of data to develop highly efficient strategies for selling into micromarkets. In fact, we've found that micromarket strategy is perhaps the most potent new application of big-data analytics in B2B sales. Yet the payoff is huge.

B2B 14

B2B Chemicals Analysis B2C 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Mixing and matching features, components, and sizes enabled the Finnish telecommunications giant to offer a vast array of choices to win over operators and, through them, consumers. But its strategy of customizing hardware for telcos had the unintended effect of imposing high customization costs on would-be developers (i.e.,

Innovation 13

Innovation Supply Chain Telecommunications Core Competence 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare. What do you think?

COO 12

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

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. Rather, they were abandoning their businesses because of bad bookkeeping.

Books 14

Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

What they don't understand is that modern-day telecommunications, the hair-trigger requirements of financial markets, and the pace of global organizations create 24 x 7 work lives for most executives. And most of us revert to tried and true solutions — the enemy of breakthrough strategies and new innovations.

Stress 15

Stress Telecommunications Goleman Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Retail pricing evolves into what Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) has termed a " confusopoly :" rather than compete on price, outlets start to engage in strategies to make price comparisons more difficult. In my own work , I found that this might be particularly prevalent for utilities (gas, electricity and telecommunications).

Retail 14

Retail Price Comparison Nalebuff 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe. Years of economic mismanagement.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

For example, marketing optimizes its activities for its own benefit and the sales and customer service functions do likewise. The end-to-end process of customer acquisition and retention — getting rid of duplicate activities and information across marketing, sales and customer service — isnt touched. We all have.

Process 15

Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

We have reviewed hundreds of corporate announcements and websites, interviewed numerous leadership experts, and conducted an analysis of CEO changes and successions over the past five years at S&P 500 and Global 100 companies. A fast-track CEO succession should be the product of a deliberate strategy, not of desperation.

CEO 13

CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

He advises some of the world’s biggest companies on environmental strategy. Tens of thousands of people are gathering to explore green building materials, designs, and strategies. I wrote a couple of months ago about Chinas leadership in the clean tech race , but at the macro level. Follow him on Twitter at @GreenAdvantage.

NGO 15

NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Myriad potential public policy-related risks and opportunities for companies arise across a broad spectrum of political and economic systems — from the state capitalism of former Communist states to the “ mixed economies ” in traditional “liberal” democracies, from developed to developing markets.

Policies 8

Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

As Tom Davenport, Larry Prusak, and I talk to people about our current research, we hear broad support for its central thesis: that good judgment is not only something required of individuals in leadership positions; it is something that must be embedded in organizations as a whole.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Take over responsibility and leadership. Take over responsibility and leadership. But it must be HR that decides how things are done, based on the professional knowledge and insights only HR people will have. To all HR people: be proud about the responsibility you have — or should have. Most companies need a strong HR.

CIO 15

CIO Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

” Staton identified the challenge of managing a global brand: “We had the McDonald’s brand, and in each country our market share and the product life cycle were in different stages. So the challenge was to have the broad marketing strategies with local adaptations.” Leadership Competition'

CEO 8

CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Swisscom AG is the major telecommunications provider in Switzerland. With a big market share in a small country, Swisscom has decided to grow by providing new services to Swiss citizens. Their strategy is to get out in front of ways that mobile phones will change healthcare, education, and shopping. Idea Scouting.

Innovation 8

Innovation Telecommunications Technology Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

industries: 35 advanced manufacturing industries such as automotive and aerospace manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and semiconductors; three energy industries including electric power generation; and 12 service industries, from software design to telecommunications. Applying this standard, we identified 50 U.S. They employ 12.3

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

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Guidelines 14

Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

Yet, the trend is not free from potential downsides as the case of a large multinational telecommunications company illustrates. After four years, systems had been tinkered with so much that new product launches became not only prohibitively expensive but also needed a very long time to market. The Building Blocks of Successful IT.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

He also founded Bubblegeneration, an agenda-setting advisory boutique that shaped strategies across media and consumer industries.

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

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Airlines 14

Airlines Report Guidelines Discount 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Assess yourself not only as a sector expert but also as an executive with special competences and map those attributes against the market’s needs. What are your special skills — digital marketing know-how you learned in fast-moving consumer goods? Is she translating strategy into excellent execution? Raising questions.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence CEO Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

He also founded Bubblegeneration, an agenda-setting advisory boutique that shaped strategies across media and consumer industries. Cross-functionalizing the marketing mix to drive incremental revenue generation opportunities" isnt reflection (and heaven knows few breakthroughs ever lie down that path ).

Short-term 15

Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

A prominent security research firm says 37% of businesses have implemented enterprise-wide encryption strategies to improve their security postures, a result of the largest increase in more than a decade. The technology sector — software, hardware, telecommunications and related services — is a commercial powerhouse.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

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Guidelines 15

Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence Balanced Scorecard 15

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 10, 2011

Leadership. by John • April 11, 2011 • Human Resources , Strategy • 0 Comments. Social media, telecommunications, high tech are today’s rising stars. Check their market cap and reputation for innovation. Less than two years and I was in marketing. Leadership. In the CEO Afterlife. Bottom line?

CEO 170

CEO Advice Company Competitive Advantage 170

HR Digest

JULY 22, 2019

Developments in telecommunications, computing technologies, and electronic sensors are inspiring less of human intervention in controlling some sensitive equipment including vehicles, planes, helicopters, trains, etc. Mining automation market will reach $3.29 billion by 2023. MarketsandMarkets Inc. billion by 2023.

Industry 87

Industry Operations Transportation Technology 87

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

Huawei’s revenue from overseas markets exceeded that from the Chinese market for the first time in 2005. For example, when Huawei expanded their 3G market in Europe, they noticed that European carriers expected base stations to be more compact, easier to install, greener, and more energy efficient, while offering wider coverage.

Succession 8

Succession Golden Handcuff IPO Long-term 8