Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Just take a look at laptops, tablets, mobile phones, and other handheld devices, which were all possible thanks to display technology innovation. One thing I find fascinating about this industry is that you can’t write off any display technology when something new enters the market. It did not make it to the mainstream.

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Technology Innovation Industry Sharpe 109

Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2024

This technology has revolutionized the way retailers design and display their branding and promotional materials. The smooth surface of the fabric ensures that colors appear vivid and graphics are sharp, maximizing brand visibility. Here, we explore the top benefits of using SEG fabric in retail environments.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 22, 2023

The shelf life of skills is getting shorter due to several factors, including the rapid pace of technological advancements, changes in the job market, and the increasing need for adaptability and continuous learning. Technological advancements are occurring at an unprecedented rate, with new tools and technologies emerging constantly.

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Training Education Skills Sharpe 96

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 5, 2020

In the labor market, this risk is evident, with the premium paid for the highest skills rising at the same time as a growing number of more mundane tasks are capable of being automated. “Crucial to the magnitude of such effects are technologies that expand the scale over which talent is deployed.” ” Superstar premium.

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Audience Technology Marketing Sharpe 91

Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2021

Leapfrogging advances in materials, photonics, optics, and electronics have precipitated a rising demand for 3D display technologies. The increased demand for enhanced imaging and the adoption of 3D technologies in smartphones, HMD devices, projector devices, and monitors are expected to catapult 3D displays across a new threshold of realism.

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Technology Content Video Globalization 98

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Now both my sons are doing the tough balancing act, but their priorities are keeping their leadership skills sharp – leading family and companies. I had to learn that lesson, and almost blew it many years ago. link] mikemyatt Thanks for stopping by Bert.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Data processing procedures are effective and secure because of a strong technological basis. For instance, for the duration of top shopping seasons, e-trade organizations may additionally experience a sharp upward thrust in orders and transactions.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Being sharp means being succinct. Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp). Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas.

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Press Release Discount Advertising Sharpe 100

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 20, 2021

The pandemic has obviously wrought huge disruption to the labor market, both in terms of the jobs that are available and the skills required to fulfil them. The report, which focused on the UK market, reveals that not only has the frequency of training declined, but so too has the duration and quality of training. in 2011 to 6.4

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Training Participative Skills Short-term 84

CO2

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Navigating the complexities of the corporate world requires more than just a sharp business acumen; it calls for guidance, insight, and strategic foresight. Business coaching helped them to streamline their operations, implement better project management techniques, and adopt new technologies.

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Leadership Development Development Succession Execution 78

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

By developing a leadership team that can make strategic decisions and build a strong organizational culture, organizations can achieve better financial results, improve customer satisfaction and increase market share. Technology: Executives need the curiosity to adapt and leverage technology.

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Training Execution Leadership Emotional Intelligence 52

HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

Uses technology effectively to enhance communication and collaboration. They train hard and practice relentlessly to hone their skills and stay sharp. However, Xerox failed to capitalize on these groundbreaking inventions, and it was Apple who ultimately brought them to market and revolutionized the computer industry.

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Review Performance Review Ethics Teamwork 105

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Technology, of course, has also been a powerful influence on the Re-Generation, so much so that Bill Gates proposed that we call this next wave Generation I, for Internet. This is the generation of mobile technology, wireless communication, and clouds of constant content. Mobile technology. Cloud Computing. hours a day.

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Technology Wireless Stage-Gate Content 15

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

labor market of the 2000s coincided with a sharp deceleration in computer investment — a fact that appears first-order inconsistent with the onset of a new era of capital-labor substitution. job market troubles of the past decade than new technology had. job market troubles of the past decade than new technology had.

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

"Unleashing Collective Genius" As globalization takes a sharp turn from government to business, the issue of global talent mobility rapidly moves up the agenda. They’ve helped drive the development of mobile payment solutions to promote financial inclusion in emerging markets.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Refuse to use the technology and we end up behind the curve. Use the technology and we risk wasting our time or, worse, embarrassing ourselves. Pinterest founders Ben Silbermann , and Evan Sharp are mapping American culture. So it's a double bind. I pressed on, because, as I say, you can't know unless you do.

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Marketing Bottom-up Sharpe Follow-up 15

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

​ For example, the job function I have now, digital marketing , didn’t exist when I left college, and had I focused on other areas without adapting as my career progressed, I might’ve missed my calling in digital marketing. Always keep up with emerging trends and technologies in your specific sector.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

I've reached this conclusion after years working with clients — both on the business side and in technology — carefully observing the ways data help organizations create value, as well as in discussions with other experts (I've won at least a few over). And a recent academic report concurs. Most of these moments don't occur in IT.

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Technology Sharpe Middle Management Energy 18

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

Innovation teams tasked with creating new products or technologies or iterating existing ones need tension to produce breakthroughs, and tension comes from diverse points of view. Everyone is just like us — say, marketers or engineers. Finally, integrating divergent views to boost creativity is a natural job for marketers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Wield a sharp hatchet: Once you've gathered lots of material, start cutting mercilessly on your audience's behalf. Then brainstorm new content using stickies (they're easy to move and arrange), whiteboards, mind maps, and other tools. But you probably don't need to get into trends such as agility and serendipity.

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Audience Brainstorming Sharpe Software 19

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

We discovered some of these pushes and pulls in our research for our upcoming book, Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets: Why Women Are the Solution. Not surprisingly, the most stress is felt among women between 25 and 55 years of age, who are trying to balance demanding careers with obligations at home.

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Stress Human Resources Pharmaceuticals Finance 19

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

More of the same — a perma-crisis whose human toll on you and I seems to be a kind of crisis-malaise, a habituation to human heartache, the dulling of the once-razor-sharp edge of what could have been? It's a very sharp question. I'm 100% for science and technology, and especially for basic research. So what happens now?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

At last," the chairman had said, "we have a foothold in the electric vehicle market. While Blue Sky is an SOE, I think they really want to differentiate themselves, and they're willing to use a lot of our technology.". It was among the fastest-growing Chinese automakers, and it was racing to get into the hybrid market.

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Case Study Technology Tacit Knowledge Engineering 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2013

In my experience, even very sharp business leaders tend to misunderstand three facts when thinking about climate change. Given our current rate of emissions, we''ll need a sharp slope towards a "carbon zero" world in order to stay within that budget. The first is how much action we need to take. and internationally.

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Sharpe Technology System Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2018

I don’t think I’ve learned more about strategy, technology, and culture from any other company I’ve studied. The company, which is barely 20 years old, has a stock-market value of nearly $165 billion , more than Disney. The core takeaway: Technology matters most when it is in the service of a compelling strategy.

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Technology Sharpe Strategy Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR. This process leaves companies vulnerable to competitors who develop new forms of technology that initially fail to serve the "best" customers well, but quickly improve.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Labor markets reflect this churning: some jobs are created while others are destroyed, and some workers move into new roles as others seek to replace them. A particularly important component of this dynamic process is the entrepreneur, who starts a venture to create a new market or to replace incumbents in an existing one.

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Sharpe Analysis Entrepreneur Maturity 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Wield a sharp hatchet: Once you've gathered lots of material, start cutting mercilessly on your audience's behalf. Then brainstorm new content using stickies (they're easy to move and arrange), whiteboards, mind maps, and other tools. But you probably don't need to get into trends such as agility and serendipity.

Audience 12

Audience Brainstorming Sharpe Software 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

—Andrea Ovans Getting the Vapors Kodak Moment The Economist With the European Parliament set to vote next week on whether electronic cigarettes should be regulated as medical products, this is a good time to reflect on the inroads this disruptive technology is making in the slow-moving, not-very-innovative tobacco industry.

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Management Health Care Insurance Media 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

labor market over the past 30 years. Previous research has suggested that a primary driver of this job polarization is something called routine-biased technological change (RBTC), an unfortunate mouthful whereby new technologies substitute for repetitive, middle-skill jobs and complement analytical, high-skill jobs.

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Skills Sample Technology Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

Both teams should include operational business leaders as well as risk-focused technology, policy and legal experts. In particular, the necessity of the sharp focus provided by the Red Team/Blue Team structure is vividly illustrated by the recent official report of "The Fukishima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission."

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Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis Report 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

There has been a truly dramatic retrenchment from foreign markets, making banking a rare case of an industry becoming less, rather than more, global. For instance, before the crisis, the three largest German banks had two-thirds of their total assets in foreign markets; today it is only one-third.

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Banking McKinsey Finance Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. For multinational firms, Russia’s attractiveness lies primarily in the size and sophistication of its market.

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Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

Experimentation has a rich and storied history in product development and market research. And not just design — industrial experimentation has contributed to improvements in the technologies and processes needed to grow corn, assemble cars, find oil, and so forth. Information & technology Tech industry'

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Sample Information Technology Industry Sharpe 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.

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