Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Every manager we’ve ever worked with has experienced this frustrating lack of follow-through after decisions are made. He had moved onto other work, diligently crossing items off his to-do list while the overall project sat idle. It’s also the one managers most frequently ignore. How will we know?” How will we know?”

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Wireless Commitment Follow-up Consultative 50

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I am very excited to announce the selection of the 100 Coaches in our pay-it-forward project! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn. Three iconic leaders inspired the 100 Coaches project. 100 COACHES.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

When I read Whitney’s new book, I was struck by how her model reflected my own journey of taking the leap from Verizon Wireless executive to entrepreneur. Working on writing a book and having a meaningful project. You can manage your team as a portfolio of S curves. Source of inspiration. The S Curve of Learning.

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Development Team How To Wiseman 549

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Tesla’s genius and education led him to develop the foundations for electric induction motors, wireless telegraphy, radios, neon lamps, and remote control. I think the most important thing that I look for [when funding a project] is really, who’s that champion?” ” Management Science 56.2 Moreover, it’s hard. “I

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Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

In 2006, they hired an experienced president to manage their rapidly growing business. The new president thought Cellairis should not only sell accessories, it should sell wireless phone service as well. People shopping for cell phone cases were natural customers for a wireless service provider.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Sensors, embedded devices, and wearables are steadily becoming ubiquitous in the enterprise, generating huge amounts of data that, if not managed well, can easily become noise. These project- or task-centered engagements — fueled by the gig economy — exist in the moment and, often, in the cloud. Contextual insight.

Technology 9

Technology Trends Content Agility 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

’” Under a different CEO, Econet Wireless Nigeria went on to build a nationwide network of street-side airtime sales. For example, I once helped survey US global money managers. Spending time early in your career in a frontier market has a lasting impact on all your subsequent management decisions.

Marketing 8

Marketing Career Wireless Decentralization 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Many households worldwide own a smart TV, and the number of smart TV sales is projected to hit as high as more than 266 million units globally by 2025. This wireless transmission makes it easy for business owners to exchange information. Smartphones, smart TVs and watches have become the in-thing and trend among the young and the old.

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Wireless Video How To Marketing 77

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

First, remember that innovation, like any other important organizational process, can be managed. It sends the signal that these are not the projects that people should bet their careers on. Rather, it's a throwback to an era when the importance of a business was directly correlated to the people and assets it had under management.

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Process Innovation Diversity Budgeting 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2011

I remember when we were starting a new project that we had to visit the nearby Oracle headquarters (ironically, now Sun's owner) to get our hands on a wide variety of competitive hardware, as Oracle had to test its software on all platforms and manufacturers. This attitude is not healthy.

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Software Wireless B2B Library 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

The original IT department was formed to centralize a unique expertise that could purchase, implement, and manage technology in the enterprise. Flextronics uses Workday to provide visibility into its global workforce of 200,000 employees, allowing it to move around talent and projects at a moment''s notice.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Gene sequencing, wireless physiological sensors, and digital anatomical imaging are creating more granular patient profiling and tailored treatments. There are typically five of these projects running every week. And new tools are emerging to push the frontiers of personalized medicine.

Customer Intimacy 8

Customer Intimacy Operations Supply Chain Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

Scientists share knowledge and build relationships at the Technical Council, which meets periodically to discuss progress on technology projects, and the Technical Forum, an internal professional society where 3M scientists present papers— just two of 3M''s fruitful forums. Richard Drew is just such an engineer. The result: Scotch tape.

Innovation 9

Innovation Engineering Wireless Resources 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

After using it for a few days I bought a wireless keyboard. Today the function of finding information can be performed by crowd-sourcers; mappers of local sources; filters and curators of tweets, posts, and liveblogs; algorithm designers, data scientists, and knowledge managers. The world is coming apart in many interesting ways.

Storytelling 16

Storytelling Disaggregation Supply Chain Globalization 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Foundations typically fund projects, not products. We brought together about a dozen chief academic officers from some of the highest-performing school systems and charter management organizations in the country and asked them what prevented them from dramatically improving their students' outcomes. Enter philanthropic capital.

Education 15

Education Innovation Entrepreneur Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

I became curious about what this impulse might mean for all the users hitting “refresh” on their feeds and for the crisis response managers feeding announcements and information into the stream. She is also a principle investigator on two NSF-funded projects on communicating with the public during crisis events.

Crisis 8

Crisis Information Short-term Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

The iPhone roared into the marketplace 10 years ago today, and overwhelmed the wireless world. Wireless is the same, but without the cat. ” The interference problem was the stated premise, but the object of regulators’ desire — and of the interests they loved (or feared) most — was control over wireless markets.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. At Harvard Business School’s General Management Program. A McKinsey report estimated that reducing churn could increase earnings of a typical US wireless carrier by as much as 9.9

Education 8

Education Execution Wireless Content 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

And a new survey by Cisco found that one-third of all completed IoT projects were not considered a success. They Update Their Talent Management Strategies. Try sponsoring joint projects with universities through which students can experience your company firsthand.

Succession 8

Succession ROI Technology Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

After deploying to six metro areas in six years, however, company management announced in late 2016 that it was “pausing” future deployments. New technologies — including low-orbit satellites and “fixed wireless” — were developed for remote and rural locations.

Succession 8

Succession Construction Short-term Long-term 8

Women on Business

MARCH 18, 2013

Typically, companies calculate the CLV of a customer merely by looking at their projected direct revenue. Elizabeth Dillon, Digital Marketing NOW’s Director of Client Strategy, has developed digital strategies and managed marketing campaigns for some of the largest companies in the world, including Staples, Merck, and Brooks Brothers.

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Efficiency PR ROI Loyalty 259

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

Since then, there have been other projects where Huawei experienced severe climate challenges, such as building the highest wireless communication base station in the world (6,500 meters high on Mount Everest) and building the first GSM network within the Arctic circle.

Succession 8

Succession Golden Handcuff IPO Long-term 8