Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

Apply world-class management to traditionally "soft" societal topics. Today, technology is making all business activity more transparent. People’s tools of communication and organization—from smartphones to social media—are more powerful than ever before. More recently we’re seeing this across a range of broader industries.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

Widget manufacturing companies team with retail management experts to open a string of widget stores. Managing mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Hardware, software and component producers revolutionizing the next generation of technology. Telecommunications industry service providers. About the Author.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. The following is a guest post by Russell Bishop.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

To date, the trend has been associated with fairly standard products, such as customer relationship management software, web servers, or SQL databases, but the theory of the innovator''s dilemma suggests that it will most likely move up the stack in the future. IT management Information & technology Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

But as global technology brands penetrate African economies, it is becoming evident that most local startups are experiencing new levels of competition, which could potentially disrupt their operations. Across African markets, information and communication technology (ICT) is facilitating the process of socioeconomic developments.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2017

One major reason for the update is that analytical technology has changed dramatically over the last decade; the sections we wrote on those topics have become woefully out of date. Some technologies from a decade ago are still in broad use, and I’ll describe them here too. But we’re here to talk about technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Without operating in the former, they won't be able to attain economies of scale; sans the latter, they're unlikely to continue developing state-of-the-art technologies. Moreover, it forgot that it will continue to do well in China and India not just by keeping costs low but also by developing new technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Powering one 60-watt bulb for 12 hours a day over the course of a year can require 3,000 to 6,000 gallons of water — enough to fill a large tanker truck. Others, including technology and telecommunications companies, are major customers of — and suppliers to — those industries.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. This is the virtual network operator (VNO) model used by the telecommunications sector. Dual asymmetrical joint venture.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Technology has emerged as a competitive weapon in driving operational excellence and superior service quality. For example, from telecommunication companies to fintech entrepreneurs, African banking fees and commissions are under tremendous presure. Most still put marketing managers in nice cars to look for clients.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Data-driven managers, departments, and organizations have always enjoyed distinct advantages. Important as the technology and expertise may be, we find that most companies should focus first on high-quality data, process, people, and culture. Obviously, the high-powered analytics types are in short supply. So where to begin?

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Organization Telecommunications McKinsey Price 15

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. Across Africa, many unemployed men have managed small businesses, at least once in their lives.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The proliferation of customer data and the greater computing power to organize and analyze that data make it feasible to create much more dynamic and insightful profiles of customers. Several trends have converged in recent years to break through the barriers to higher response rates. Create dynamic, high-resolution customer profiles.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection." This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention. In the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

But the real power of the partnership comes from their ability to bring the best of each of their departments—as well as pricing, operations, and other groups—to bear in exploiting those micromarket opportunities. One important way to focus the effort is by managing the sales pipeline together. “It Build a joint local strategy.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Many technologies, such as computers, copiers, fax machines, and other office equipment are rapidly converging. Likewise, leading telecommunications and other equipment providers now have to compete by offering “network solutions” involving many products formerly sold separately. It is, in short, a watershed event.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

But most true collaborations cannot be controlled with fixed terms that are defined in advance — they must be managed through relational contracts that allow you to respond flexibly to new information. They tend to play vendors off against each other and shy away from partnerships that require some sharing of power.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

Our new book, Harness the Power of the Purse: Winning Women Investors , based on recent research from the Center for Talent Innovation, indicates that there is a rising tide of female wealth worldwide. “Even in rural India, women manage the households and pay the bills,” she says. ” While women in the U.S.

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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. Today, managers add value by brokering with people, not by presiding over empires.”. In this gap between ordered worlds almost anything may happen.”. Lawrence A. billion to $11.7

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The CEO sitting across from me is explaining how he and the other executives of a telecommunications firm were caught off guard by a new technology that disrupted the firm’s business. Two senior management professors I’ve encountered at academic conferences over the years exemplify opposite ends of the spectrum.

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Agility Learning-by-Doing Executive Coaching Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The situation stabilized somewhat after the government abandoned the Zimbabwean dollar in favor of a multi-currency system in 2009 and entered a power-sharing deal with the opposition party. Technology solutions that help accelerate improvements of Zimbabwe’s decaying infrastructure will also be in high demand.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

CenturyLink is one of the largest telecommunications providers in the United States, serving both small and large businesses nationwide. In the small pilot CenturyLink ran, Angie could understand 99% of the emails she received; the 1% that she couldn’t understand were sent to her manager. Putting Data to Work.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

1 billion price tag paid by Facebook for Instagram, whose primary asset is not technology, but the best photo sharing UX in the business (and some of the best UX talent as well). Today, it is not uncommon to hear an executive talk about managing a $30 billion brand. So what is management to do? Just look at the. $1

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Poor countries will become R&D labs for breakthrough innovations in such diverse fields as housing, transportation, energy, health care, entertainment, telecommunications, financial services, clean water, and many others. I believe it will power the future — not just in poor countries, but everywhere.

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Glocalization Mass Marketing P&L Globalization 11

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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2011

Understanding these events is critical because many of our most powerful and lasting beliefs are formed when we are teenagers. Better understanding leads to greater empathy for the "other guy's" point of view and, ultimately, provides the foundation for more effective and efficient talent management practices.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

In 2006, 26-year-old Frank Wang started up DJI in a dorm room at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. As part of his graduate thesis, he perfected an electronics flight controller, a critical element of drone technology. Such is the power of China’s valuable and difficult-to-replicate competitive advantages.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

telecom carriers face daunting challenges from device makers, content providers, social networks, and an array of disruptive technologies. The telecom industry has changed, and the industry dynamics will continue to shift under the pressure from social media and the power of the consumer. Bharti looks nothing like other telecoms.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Management has its finger on the pulse of the company, aware of every crisis-induced quickening. The reality is that the landscape is littered with failed technology deployments. How tools are changing the way we manage, learn, and get things done. So he used it to ask, “What processes and technologies should we eliminate?”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

They will now be a “one product company” focused on Basecamp, its popular project management software. But regardless of your company’s size, there’s a lot to be said for the power of pruning and the importance of maintaining focus. For many companies, in fact, the strategy of “less is more” has been a powerful driver of success.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

But in the aftermath of the financial crisis, risk managers have become increasingly involved in business strategy and decisions. After the recession, for instance, one large lender made a practice of looking for “rehab” customers whose credit suffered in the downturn but who had since managed to achieve more stable incomes.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

This infrastructure sits on top of a publicly available substructure of assets and resources — telecommunications and the Internet, for example. It embodies the long tail realities of major business and technology decisions, resulting in an IT department struggling to manage multiple costly and incompatible infrastructures.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. 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. That's right.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

The cloud containing most of this data is vast and abstract; the technology that keeps it running takes up real space — a lot of it. According to a report put out by Greenpeace in April , the electricity demand of data centers and the telecommunications network is rivaling that of most nations. The problem.

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Energy Efficiency Industry Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

I have often been struck by the way companies operating in industries as diverse as telecommunications and transport manage to collaborate in a competitive environment, yet health organizations find collaboration difficult even when they are not competing. First is staying power.

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