Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2021

Unless that activity is advancing a carefully crafted strategy, the company is apt to sprint off in the wrong direction. Arora has held various operational and leadership positions with Apple, Sun Microsystems, 3M Groupon, and Staples. But to be fast, you have to be smart. That last part is critical. He is based in Paris.

McKinsey 65

McKinsey B2C Telecommunications Globalization 65

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 10, 2011

by John • April 11, 2011 • Human Resources , Strategy • 0 Comments. Sixty-five innovative operations - four in the state of California alone. So why don’t they reduce the number of operations? Social media, telecommunications, high tech are today’s rising stars. In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home.

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CEO Advice Company Competitive Advantage 170

Strategy Driven

JUNE 2, 2015

For nearly three decades, Ruth led the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations’ (INPO) Information Technology Division as Director, Computer Systems and Telecommunications and Director, Information Technology and Data Services. nuclear power industry which reduced costs with economies of scale, shared content, and secure student data.

Information Technology 50

Information Technology Telecommunications Committee Technology 50

Experience to Lead

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Alex brings over 20 years of operations experience with an unwavering focus on exceeding client expectations. Virtual programs with a major telecommunications firm in Malaysia. We strive to fit our clients’ needs in all aspects from business strategy to safety. However, one that particularly stands out was with Maxis.

Telecommunications 52

Telecommunications Globalization Participative Learning-by-Doing 52

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 10, 2018

Every small business that succeeds does so at least in part as a result of the strategies employed by its owner in a bid to fulfil their personal vision of the future, but few such owners spend any time working on plans to help them deal with unexpected emergencies.

How To 52

How To Telecommunications Brainstorming Planning 52

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Operating a small business is not unlike owning a really old house: things break a lot, and you need to fix them, over and over and over. I don’t try to mislead others or deliberately cause injury to someone for my gain, so I simply assumed everyone else would operate that way in business. Ours did; over 700 did not.)

Learning-by-Doing 255

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

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2020

Furthermore, the media and information industries will continue to invest in telecommunications outsourcing. Instead of building in-house teams to cover non-key operations and other excess workloads, they will opt to outsource since it’s the more cost-effective way to go. Cloud-based technology increases connectivity.

Outsourcing 66

Outsourcing Trends Offshoring Telecommunications 66

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

The client is opening new locations in new communities and asks its consultants to formulate a plan of action and oversee operating aspects. Multiple companies find that doing business in a new country is easier when a consortium operates. Telecommunications industry service providers. Professional societies and associations.

Cooper 50

Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 18, 2010

I work for a telecommunications company and occasionally I’m in the field dressing fiber optic cable in cabinet. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. It comes from the work my clients do. They are amazing.

Greenleaf 145

Greenleaf Maslow Telecommunications Blog 145

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Nokia, today’s telecommunications networking company, has made corporate transformation into an art form. In 1992, new CEO Jorma Ollila and his team made a decision that is iconic in the world of corporate reinvention, going all-in on the emerging telecommunications markets. Strategy Mergers & acquisitions Consumer Electronics'

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Crisis Committee Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. Instead, boards typically looked for expertise in their firms’ industry (51%), strategy (34%), and financials (30%). Again, we found differences among industries.

Innovation 10

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

As companies like this one grow from start-ups into larger enterprises, they're often compelled to analyze numerical data to reduce risk, maintain operations, and model predictable outcomes. Here are three strategies larger companies use to bring scrappy, entrepreneurial know-how into their established businesses.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Strategy Telecommunications Software 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

It is rare to find an American company that is not developing a market strategy to benefit from the rapid growth of emerging markets such as Brazil, India, and China. corporate groups have shed their "my way or the highway" lobbying strategies. corporate strategies towards global rule-making need to be revised sharply.

Strategy 9

Strategy Globalization Politics Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Through the first half of the last decade, a foundation of Nokia's competitive advantage was its unmatched ability to customize a wide variety of phones for operators. A crucial element of its strategy to win over consumers to its advanced smartphones was to persuade third-party developers to create a vast array of apps for its phones.

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. It still doesn't seem necessary to be a COO in order to take over as CEO, though.

COO 12

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Directors named industry knowledge, strategy, and financial-audit expertise as their strongest skill sets. The industry with the greatest skills gap was IT & telecommunications, whose boards are in serious need of international-global expertise and HR-talent management. In our survey, we also asked about specific skills. Methodology.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

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. The world is getting smaller.

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage Leadership Telecommunications Talent Management 15

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 13

B2B Chemicals Analysis B2C 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. The common idea behind these models is that the company does not have to be the (full) owner of the asset to be its (sole) operator.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Operations : Approaches problems practically; stands firm on issues, perseveres; maintains a standard of consistency and quality; provides stable leadership and supervision; develops detailed plans and procedures; implements projects in a timely manner; keeps financial records straight. Because it isnt their sport.

Process 15

Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

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. That is the paralysis we are seeing in telecommunications, in e-commerce, and across the broad ICT sector.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Entrepreneur Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He started very well, but as soon as his cash flow improved, financial burdens from family systems stifled his operations. When artisans have no understanding of their cash flows, they fail prey to spending a big percentage of their working capital, without meaning to, on non-business issues that usually cripple their operations.

Books 13

Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

It was given a big boost during the 1970s when the Experience Curve was lifted from the manufacturing floor and adopted as a strategy tool in the corporate board room. Strategies for staying ahead. To make sense of it all, business leaders must use their corporate and business strategies as a true north. Insight Center.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Company Lean Production Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

health care go vastly farther in streamlining operations, standardizing protocols, and rationalizing facilities to create focused hospitals for heart surgery, hernia repairs, cataract surgery, hip and knee replacements, organ transplants, or even cancer treatment — anything that’s not an emergency procedure and can be scheduled in advance?

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Lean Production Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

These approaches show how companies are going beyond simply establishing an outpost in Silicon Valley to creating, instituting and sustaining different “operating models.”. Swisscom AG is the major telecommunications provider in Switzerland. Innovation Operations Strategy' Idea Scouting.

Innovation 8

Innovation Telecommunications Technology Entrepreneur 8

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. The same logic applies to preparing to operate as an executive. Say goodbye to the two-week vacation with the family.

Stress 15

Stress Telecommunications Goleman Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

The data-driven have crafted the best strategies, uncovered wholly new markets, and kept operational costs low. Take this example: One night Tom attended a celebration for a team in a telecommunications company that had drastically improved performance after implementing a new data quality measurement and control system.

Organization 15

Organization Telecommunications McKinsey Price 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

The Sun-Netscape Alliance was formed when AOL acquired Netscape in 1998 but then sought to spin out the software operations of Netscape. At the end of the three years, all operations reverted to Sun and the "collaboration" ended, leaving but a trace of itself in Sun's product line.

Software 15

Software Licensing Long-term Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

There is clear empirical evidence to back this up: in our research of about 150 firms in the telecommunications industry, we found that the more successful firms all took this active approach to managing their capability and resource portfolios.

Software 15

Software Telecommunications Short-term Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

In my eyes, the work Steve Blank, Eric Ries, and others have done to provide a cogent, accessible frame around the academic concepts of emergent strategy is one of the most important contributions to the innovation movement over the past few years. I love Lean. That''s not right. Be prepared for lean''s consequences.

Ries 8

Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8

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. Only companies that can leverage multiple advantages by keeping their eyes on all the world's regions and operate globally are likely to win.

Globalization 13

Globalization Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Their concerns fell into three broad categories: talent, operating in a global marketplace, and regulation and legislation. Operating in a Global Marketplace. Eight of the CEOs pointed to the challenges of operating in a fast-paced global marketplace. Talent pipelines were also a concern.

CEO 8

CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Perhaps equally significant for managers is that the new workers — no matter how many of them there are — will operate differently than their predecessors. Not long ago I worked with a software firm that supported hundreds of legacy applications for the telecommunications industry.

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications Chemicals Health Care Planning 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2011

s stock fell over 7% on news out of China that the company's JV partner had transferred some of the joint business to its wholly-owned operation. Second, ask tough questions , not only about a company's own operations, but also about its relationships. Small wonder that Yahoo!'s Initial reports suggested that Yahoo!

Management 12

Management Airlines Telecommunications Marketing 12

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. The first is organizational myopia. First is staying power.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Zimbabwe’s largest telecommunication company Econet Wireless has found success with its online payment platform that helps Zimbabweans manage the challenges of its multi-currency system. They have to monitor changes in the market on an ongoing basis and adjust their strategies when developments in the market demand change.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Build a joint local strategy. 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. Here are three important elements of the CMO-CSO partnership to get right: 1.

Marketing 11

Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 11