Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Mellisa Patrick CMgr MCMI, CMI’s programme development manager, attended the event to engage with potential new partners, including universities, colleges, and technical and vocational education and training (TVET) providers. Thesara Jayawardane CMgr FCMI, Graeme La Brooy FCMI and Niroshan Peiris MCMI.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Live The Life You Want and Change the World ” – very apt because the book tells you how to do that using a combination of powerful personal stories, anecdotes and some solid advice on success and living a remarkable life. He is on a mission to help people live unconventional lives and he sets a powerful example for others.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Are you likely to adopt a new software application that is poorly designed? Largely due to the iPod’s strong integrated design qualities it is the dominant brand in its class, commands a pricing premium, and has developed an extremely loyal and satisfied customer base.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. In fact, ICOs have upended the conventional pattern of staged experimentation and fundraising.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2023

Finance is at the very heart of every business! Venturing in Without a Clear Plan Starting a business without a clear plan for your finances is like walking blindfolded. Hence, it is highly advisable to develop a business plan that maps out your business finances, the business model and the nitty gritty involved in its implementation.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ®. SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW ®. sascom Magazine. The translation layer.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 26, 2021

In fact, real AI is mostly applied to business development and science projects where data-driven derivatives and goals are the primary focus of a given strategy. Well, machine learning is the concept of an AI developing its own repeatable output based on the data analysis from repeated input. Dick would have us believe. MonkeyLearn.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

” In today’s tightening labor market, HR leaders must work relentlessly to develop and recruit people who advance digital transformation across their organizations. Develop data visualization skills. An old saying sums up the data skills of most HR professionals: “The shoemaker’s children go barefoot.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to consumer-facing service industries like e-commerce, media, and ride- or apartment-sharing, it’s not new to suggest that “software is eating the world,” to use the phrase of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. As a result, software-enabled manufacturing start-ups are poised to have a large economic impact.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. Fourth, some argued that GE’s advantage lay in its system of professional management, epitomized by its investments in executive education and management development.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

With these tools, every employee can get some of the powers previously available only to CEOs. These new sources are now accessible because machine intelligence software can rapidly review enormous amounts of data in a way that would have been too difficult and expensive for people to do. Rethink How You Build Software.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

With the rise of distributed forms of energy, such as rooftop solar power, and batteries , it’s become much more feasible to match individual demand for electricity with on-site production. In the case of distributed energy, various financing options let consumers save in a number of ways. And SunPower, the second largest U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

For example, I manage the finances for a team that travels very often, and I’ve been grateful for the intelligent guesswork that my expenses software extracts from receipts using machine learning: the merchant’s name, the dollar amount spent, taxes, and likely expense categorization.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

I believe the decrease in big ideas for software companies is the result of homogeneous founding teams in the Valley. The innovations that made these companies worth billions of dollars could be classified as computer hardware and software infrastructure. But I think the cause is a far subtler point. The formula worked. What gives?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

I believe the decrease in big ideas for software companies is the result of homogeneous founding teams in the Valley. The innovations that made these companies worth billions of dollars could be classified as computer hardware and software infrastructure. But I think the cause is a far subtler point. The formula worked. What gives?

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 18

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

For instance, in the HBR article “ Where the Digital Economy Is Moving the Fastest ,” the country with the fastest rate of digital development in the past, and the steepest trajectory for future digitalization, is Singapore. Marc Andreessen, the prominent venture capitalist, once said that software is eating the world.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

But digital technologies are no more strategies than electric power, telephone communications, or any other advanced technology. They are powerful tools that deserve prominent placement in the toolbox. But this is very different from learning to design and develop software programs. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Lines of business are now getting their own official technology budgets for non-standard software products.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Digital companies, however, consider scientists’ and software workers’ and product development teams’ time to be the company’s most valuable resource. This notion, that risk is a desirable feature, can seem like sacrilege to anyone who’s taken an introductory finance course.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

When Subra Suresh was tapped to lead the National Science Foundation (NSF), in 2010, he saw that many of the pathbreaking discoveries developed through the agency’s grants weren’t finding their way to the marketplace, so he sought to foster better links between government and industry. Cat Yu for HBR. This is Silicon Valley.

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Entrepreneur Venture Funding Conference Course 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Companies do need assets like computers, servers, networks, and software, but those purchases are just the start. Right behind it are media, finance, and professional services, all of which have far more sophisticated digital capabilities than the rest of the economy. Let us look at each of our three broad index categories in turn.

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HR Digest

MAY 6, 2024

An HRIS (Human Resources Information System) is a software solution that helps organizations manage and automate core HR processes like payroll, time tracking, and employee benefits administration. Training and Development HRIS systems provide training features to equip employees with the necessary information and track their progress.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

Social technologies — the software and services that make it possible to show off your vacation pictures to all your Facebook friends and follow your favorite team tweet by tweet — are not just giant time sinks that keep your employees from getting their work done. trillion annually. trillion annually.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

The customer's voice has a new champion sitting at the highest levels of power in companies. They have power and influence resources. Our operations departments were focused on our products and services, our finance teams on collecting payments, and our sales and business development teams on meeting short-term revenue goals.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Some companies and leaders have experienced the inherent value of uncertainty and surprise, and actually use it to out-innovate the competition: Intuit’s flagship product was Quicken, the leading software program for managing home finances. Cook and his team went to work and created QuickBooks.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

That includes learning from the outside and striving to adopt certain start-up practices, with a focus on three key management processes: (1) resource allocation that nurtures future businesses, (2) faster-cycle product development, and (3) partnering with start-ups. Product development: g etting closer to customers and moving faster.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Never confuse power with leadership. Bill’s passion an his sales skills were clearly evident, but his presentation came across as a wannabe self-help guru more than a CEO of one of the world’s best software companies. Leaders get too caught up in trivial things and don’t pay enough attention to leadership development.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

The importance of energy to the global economy, to geopolitics, and to corporate bottom lines — plus the pressing need to tackle carbon emissions to ensure a stable planet and global wellbeing — all combine to make a powerful case for managing energy much more strategically at all levels, from facilities to total operations to strategy.

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Energy Company Supply Chain Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Although champions are not the ultimate decision makers, and they rarely have substantial power within their organization, they have four things that make them irreplaceable in developing and closing the deal: credibility, connections, company intelligence, and motivation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

More than once you’ve probably looked at some new digital or technological development and asked yourself, “How did we miss that?” Software applications that run automated tasks are called “bots.” Glitches aren’t software bugs, which can be tested and rectified.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

They don’t need to be part of every discussion, but CEOs do need to make pricing and new product development their priority. Third, the companies with the most pricing power use technological tools to measure value and willingness to pay in a systematic way. Madhavan: The #1 success factor really for us is the C-level involvement.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

These investments are more about the development of human capital than finance. For one marketing services firm, it meant being exposed to their biggest client's development teams and sitting through technical tests and focus groups to better appreciate and understand how its products were actually designed and built.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

To test commercial opportunities in this environment, a number of entrepreneurs are creating personal analytics tools to help citizens make better decisions about health providers, disease management, and even personal finances related to healthcare. Developing personalized choice engines. Using APIs to wrest control of your data.

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Engineering Information Technology Information Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2013

If you don’t have a powerful answer as to why you are disrupting, you can easily get distracted and lose your way. Trish Costello, founder of Portfolia, knows her “why”: assist starts-up in growth and financing. Paraphrasing Proverbs, Where there is no vision, we really do perish. Her “how” has morphed over the past two decades.

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