Coaching Tip

APRIL 19, 2016

The 2008 global financial crisis, a series of corporate scandals that have eroded organizational trust, including Volkswagen, BP and Enron, and an emphasis on transparency brought about by the combined impact of globalization, technology, and demographic changes have all combined to bring trust in business to what may be an all-time low.

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Leadership Film Reputation eBook 70

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 31, 2023

In a previous article , I explored how technology is generally not feeding through into productivity statistics. Data shows that despite considerable advances in technology in the last decade, productivity has largely remained flat. and France.

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Products Productivity Management Participative 113

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Indeed, since the country’s independence in 1991, it has focused almost exclusively on entrepreneurship as a means to develop what has been described as the most digital state in the world. The scheme aims to ensure that entrepreneurial competencies are developed at all school levels. ” Broad horizons. . ” Broad horizons.

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Entrepreneur Human Capital Comparison Education 124

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 10, 2020

At a firm level, this is usually translated into higher wages for employees at the most innovative firms, with new research from the London School of Economics showing that over 12 years, from 2004-2016, the typical worker in a non-innovative firm in the U.K. was paid around 20% less than their peers at one of the most innovative firms.

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Skills Emotional Intelligence Stress Storytelling 88

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Those who are self-employed just don’t have the same access to AI resources that corporate employees do, which makes it difficult for them to keep up with these technological advancements,” the researchers say. Testing the waters. This renders the likes of lawyers and doctors less at risk.

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Report Project Learning-by-Doing Skills 72

Eric Jacobson

JULY 7, 2011

iTunes debuted in 2003 and Tower Records closed in 2004 and Musicland folded in 2006. What is the digital company or the new technology that will force you to change your business model? Perhaps it won't be digital technology that will change or crush your business model. Amazon has almost single-handedly bankrupted Borders.

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Business Model Bottom-up Industry Focus Group 62

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The report says that 30% of workers received some training on the job in 2004, but this had slumped to below 25% in 2017, with what training that is provided focused heavily on those in professions with graduate level requirements. “Without adequate opportunities for lifelong learning, these workers will be ‘left behind’.”

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Uncertainty Taylorism Taylor Report 64

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Establishing a personal brand carries even more weight when you’re responsible for developing and leading others. I am adept at establishing policies, procedures, and technologies to enhance efficiency, financial health, and service to organize constituents. I enjoy building and strengthening strategic alliances.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

Writing articles quickly using the ‘cablese’ shorthand employed by the reporters to reduce wire costs,” she opines, “was instrumental in the development of Hemingway’s straightforward prose style.”. As Scotti notes, this project “is still considered one of the boldest achievements in [the history of] engineering technology.”

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Innovation Long-term Short-term Follow-up 98

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

When I logged into the site for the first time in the spring of 2004, I was prepared to hate the service. By dedicating a small amount of space on every page viewed and allowing companies to display ads, the social networking giant has developed a multi-billion dollar advertising business. display advertisements online.

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IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 18

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Building on a relationship that dates back to 2004, Zurich Insurance Group is working with DXC to move from traditional data center outsourcing to a Platform as a Service model, taking advantage of next-generation cloud management technologies to lower operating costs and accelerate development.

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Insurance Technology Outsourcing Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. In a two-part event, employees in WorldJam 2004 first brainstormed solutions to increase growth and innovation, resulting in 191 pragmatic ideas. A year later, IBM used a jam to bring its new values to life. In early 2010, Avery Dennison, a $6.5

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

In 2004, Bharti Airtel , the Indian telecomm company, had outsourced its vast network and IT operations—a move that Ranjay Gulati saw as indicating “ more progressive and forward-looking ” thinking than was evident in many Western corporations. Rather than being destroyed by digital technology, they’re strengthened by it.

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Technology Marketing Outsourcing Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Previously a straggling and struggling conglomerate, it bravely focused 100% on mobile communications, was an early adopter and driver of 2G technology, and quickly became a recognised world leader in both supply chain management and brand-building. The signs are there.

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Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 18

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

By 2004, RIM had acquired 1 million subscribers and only three years later surpassed the 10 million mark. A second accelerant of IT delivery is the iterative software development philosophy known as "agile development." IT management Information & technology Technology' In 1998, RIM launched the BlackBerry.

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Technology CIO Agility Software 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

Rather, Western firms need to make simplicity a key tenet of their innovation process by developing "good enough" offerings that deliver significant value for money to cost-conscious consumers. For example, in 2004, Renault launched Logan, a small, no-frills family car. And they did it. lakhs ($6,600).

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CEO Innovation Constraint Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

As Nike's Senior Portfolio Manager Adam Day says, "The global development sector had overlooked the enormous potential of investing in adolescent girls to reduce global poverty. Day says, "we have been able to use the best of our Nike DNA, but have the freedom to operate as an independent force for change in the development sector.

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Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

Conventional wisdom has long held that, while technology may displace workers in the short-term, it does not reduce employment over the long-term. Some of the gap may reflect economists general optimism, but more than that, it signals the recognition that this wave of technological disruption could in fact be different.

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Technology Long-term Short-term Survey 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

So how do you sell a more expensive economy car, especially one with an unfamiliar, unproven technology? After the economy-focused first generation car proved the viability of the technology, Toyota had a core insight for the second generation car that cracked this conundrum. in a new way. Forward-looking.

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Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Brand 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Daniel Yergin's typically sunny outlook on oil in his recent Wall Street Journal piece, " There Will Be Oil ," suggested that technology and new energy discoveries would avert any of the economic disasters portended by peak oil. We found Mr. Yergin's dismissal of these risks premature and repetitive.

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Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

Their exclusive agreement had been launched in the go-go year of 2000, but by 2004 it had landed in court. Long term commitment in a world where the technology is advancing almost on a daily basis is difficult to maintain. Then we learn a lot from the proceedings. That was the case with Toys 'R Us and Amazon.com a few years ago.

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Management Airlines How To Pharmaceuticals 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

They haven't learned the lesson of Comair , whose legacy crew-scheduling software failed on Christmas Eve 2004, costing the company $20 million and stranding 200,000 passengers when 3,900 flights were delayed or canceled. Rather than try to educate the CEO about technology, focus on the portfolio of risks associated with the legacy system.

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System CEO CIO Chief Information Officer 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

I recently met a top executive at a major enterprise technology firm who runs an $8 billion dollar product line and describes himself as the "Chief Product Designer" for his division (even though his title is SVP and General Manager, and he has never before considered himself a "designer"). He was right there in the middle of it. All of it.".

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Leadership Ries CEO Products 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Four years ago, an Oxford University study predicted 47% of jobs could be automated by 2033. AI wasn’t new at Microsoft.

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 18

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

When Charles "Chuck" Schwab returned to the helm to turn around his troubled financial firm in 2004, for example, he installed such a system. Philips used this data along with profitability figures to develop the right investment strategy for each business line and each customer account. In short, it is their primary management system.

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Customer Loyalty Loyalty CEO Intellectual Capital 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

On the one hand, new technologies have enabled neuroscience to discover that men and women tend to be wired differently in ways that incline men — can it be? Men on the job must feel besieged. Two seismic shifts are underway that are irrevocably changing the ways in which we've believed work works.

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Bottom-up Metrics Finance Construction 17

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Much of Keurig's success comes from its superior brewer technology and wide variety of K-Cups. Corporate development groups may have to accept that EBITDA multiple valuations may not be appropriate when buying a category creator. Consider how category creation has helped drive revenue increases in the U.S. coffee sector. Yet total U.S.

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B2C B2B Strategy Waterman 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

The heart of differentiation therefore is your company’s ability to develop and promote distinctive products, services, and branded experiences on a consistent basis. But starting in the early 2000s, the advantages of scale were mostly eliminated, in large part because of globalization, deregulation, and the rise of digital technology.

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IAM Products Productivity Company 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.) To understand the strengths and weaknesses of different process religions, develop a network of people with experience in each one.

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

"There are many ways to define mentoring," says Jeanne Meister, a Founding Partner of Future Workplace and co-author of The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop & Keep Tomorrow's Employees Today. In January 2000, Soki Choi left Accenture Sweden to start her own company developing applications for mobile phones.

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Mentor Career Long-term Advice 19

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004.

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Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Operations IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

As Stever Robbins points in a brilliant 2004 article , email has shifted the costs of communication from the sender (who formerly had to go to the trouble of finding pen, paper and a stamp) to the recipient (who now has to spend time parsing all manner of ill-thought-out, hard-to-comprehend messages). Will you join me? How did people respond?

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Shaw Cost Review Learning-by-Doing 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The term "social media" was popularized by Chris Shipley in 2004 , as she described the impact of influencers and bloggers in shaping product adoption, more so than traditional media outlets. technologies could be used on organizations' intranet and extranets". is too technological. Enterprise 2.0"

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Media Supply Chain Tools Porter 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

In a recent MIT CISR poll, 42% of our respondents said they expected to gain competitive advantage from social, mobile, analytics, cloud, and internet of things (SMACIT) technologies. The most notable characteristic of those technologies is their accessibility — to customers, employees, partners, and competitors. But guess what?

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Strategy Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

They were talking about technology stocks, and they singled out Ciena. At that point we were a single technology company. We’d developed a technology that allowed companies to dramatically expand the capacity of existing fiber optic cable, so you could put more data through a network without digging up miles of fiber.

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Industry CEO Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Technology. Companies in China are also on the lookout for technology that will help them expand. Lenovo bought IBM’s PC business in 2004 (and its x86 server business in 2014) for access to brands and customer relationships in mature markets in developed countries. Access to mature global markets.

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