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

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.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Crisis Committee Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Lou Gerstner’s arrival at IBM in 1993 is a classic example of leadership through a liminal period. It was the summer of 2000 and the company had quickly lost $85 billion in market capitalization. They must “make team members feel like they have equity in what they are doing.” Business education Informal leadership Leadership'

Leadership 8

Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2017

But good planning and proper leadership support can help. Consider a large home energy provider in a mature, commoditized market where deregulation is driving down revenue and profit. Here is what the leadership team did: They linked strategy to behaviors.

Execution 8

Execution Cost Telecommunications CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

Going after future opportunities at the micromarket level can seem risky, but basing strategy on old views of markets and their past performance is riskier still. Once management is on board, the sales team needs to understand the rationale behind the micromarket strategy and have simple tools that make it easy to implement.

B2B 14

B2B Chemicals Analysis B2C 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

Depending on your corporate analytics culture and the experience of your analytical team, your analysts will probably approach this problem by asking one of the following questions: How do we create the best model to predict which customers are most likely to churn? How can I help marketing retain more customers? Innovation'

Analysis 8

Analysis Storytelling Brainstorming Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Enrollment in learning programs has surged over the last few years to generate a global executive education market of over $70 billion a year. Consider, for instance, the talent development program at Ascom, a global telecommunications company. Managers learn how to articulate a business opportunity in ways that energize team members.

Project 8

Project Parcell How To Short-term 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. The COO's role, we find, is driven by three factors: the company's strategy, the composition of the executive team, and the relationships between the members of the top team.

COO 12

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

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. So, forget work-life balance and think personal organization and finding ways to relax.

Stress 15

Stress Telecommunications Goleman Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

Their founders — China's first generation of entrepreneurs — are nearing retirement, so these companies' futures hinges on how effectively the incumbents manage leadership transitions. Consider, for example, the Shenzhen-based Huawei , which has become the world's second largest telecommunications equipment-maker.

Succession 14

Succession Telecommunications Finance CEO 14

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. Lean UX : In many cases, the best way to embed UX thinking in your product development teams is not to focus on design as a specific competency.

Strategy 9

Strategy Six Sigma Engineering Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

While it’s easy to think of the female market as homogenous, our research shows that cultural, geographical, and generational differences, as well as disparate sources of wealth, all affect how women view and allocate their wealth. The gender gap disappears though when you look at the sub-segments of the market in the U.S.

Survey 8

Survey Telecommunications Diversity Focus Group 8

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

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.

Innovation 8

Innovation Telecommunications Technology Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

And in business life, CEOs incentivize and promote those senior executives who can get new ideas to market more quickly than competitors. Or take Harris Corporation, an American telecommunications company founded in 1895. As kids, we are rewarded for being the athlete with the greatest speed.

Competitive Advantage 9

Competitive Advantage Airlines Telecommunications Long-term 9

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. Heres a simple but compelling example.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 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? If these are your challenges, why is this Level 2 person on your team?”

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence CEO Health Care 8

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 10, 2011

Leadership. Social media, telecommunications, high tech are today’s rising stars. Teams composed of individuals with different backgrounds generally find faster, better ways to solve problems. Check their market cap and reputation for innovation. Less than two years and I was in marketing. Leadership.

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. Later, Roach said, in disappointment, “He was rejecting a team with $3 trillion.” As we’ve seen, they have much more freedom and less pressure from the market to consider their next steps to take.

Succession 8

Succession Golden Handcuff IPO Long-term 8