Tom Spencer

MARCH 3, 2018

Originally based in Shoreditch and the Silicon Roundabout, London’s tech start-up revolution has since spread across the whole city. Tech start-ups have fostered a dynamic, entrepreneurial ecosystem, in which creativity and innovation are at the centre. It’s an exciting time to be living and working in London.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a High Tech Project Post Mortem for a leading high tech company creating a new product line.

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Kraft Kennedy

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Is it acceptable to use your family computer to access your firm’s work product? The answers to these and hundreds of other questions should be documented and considered integra l to the operations of all organizations, especially in industries where work product and client data are highly sensitive, and highly valuable.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Creativity and innovation go hand in hand, but innovation also comes with exposure to risks and even potential failures. For example, when a business introduces a new product to the marketplace, they may be venturing into uncharted territory that may result in a hit or a flop. Innovation transcends product development.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 28, 2016

Today we’re going to be looking at Booz Allen Hamilton, a firm with a great name and a confusing history. Headquartered in the Greater Washington, DC area, Booz Allen Hamilton is well known for its governmental work. From this noble seed came a company that birthed management consulting as we know it. Booz Surveys; Edwin G.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 24, 2018

I could write about so many aspects of China, but what really struck me was the level of innovation and entrepreneurship exhibited in so many Chinese endeavours. Traditional Chinese food consists of little dairy, so this will be a massive change for a country whose culture of food appreciation dates back centuries. or Meituan Waimai.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 23, 2013

Scale improves productivity but also increases bureaucracy. However, production at scale also leads to unhelpful bureaucracy. As production rises, more employees are needed and executives implement more rules to keep things under control. If this reminds you of a certain tech company ( Microsoft ) then you would be right.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

The way in which an organization is structured sets the tone, the environment, and ultimately the culture of a workplace. This breaks a company up into semi-autonomous business units, each responsible for its performance in producing certain products, or serving certain geographies or customer segments. Unity of Command.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 24, 2023

For years, we've used several metaphors to describe software product development: People-based metaphors, such as: Man-weeks for all the humans working on a project or a product. See Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization.) Pregnancy to explain the indivisibleness of some work. But these metaphors no longer serve us.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 10, 2023

Some of the many ways different business functions could begin utilizing generative AI in the workplace now are: Marketing and sales functions - writing sales copy and creating product user guides. Operations - improving customer service and identifying production errors and defects. There are many reasons for excitement and concern.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 3, 2016

If anything, despite the recent backlash against globalisation , international business people who have an understanding of different business cultures are far better prepared for the world that lies ahead. And as a result, the US tech firms end up destroying the very innovation that they created in the first place. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

A large high-technology company had established an innovation center in one of their U.S. offices where employees were entrepreneurial, engaged, excited to come to work, and as a result were quickly developing new ideas for customer-facing products. Managing Across Cultures. What Leadership Looks Like in Different Cultures.

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QEmploy

JUNE 10, 2019

However, keeping up with the latest tech news or even beginning to learn about IT can be tricky. He continued by describing podcasts as “ a chance to listen to discourse uninterrupted, uncensored, un-directed and this is something that I think is sorely missing from the rest of our culture ”. So how can you learn about IT?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Aron Vellekoop Len/Getty Images. Core Competencies.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

You accept your first job as a manager in a fast growth tech company, thinking: “How much different could this be from my former company—a financial services firm? A series of jarring experiences have taught you that: Your management authority is meaningless in a culture that worships engineers. The former are technologies.

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 18, 2019

The Products Operating Group concentrates on Air Freight & Travel Service, Automotive, Consumer Goods & Services, Industrial Equipment, Infrastructure & Transportation Services, Life Sciences, and Retail. Process and Innovation Performance. The Health and Public Service operating group focuses on those industries.

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Walker and Walker/Getty Images. Insight Center.

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Management Consulted

MAY 7, 2017

Here at MC, we’ve been absolutely thrilled to launch our new series and bring you some juicy insights into the Top 10 Consulting firms in every major consulting city and region around the world. This week, we continue with sunny – and windy – San Francisco. The region has 3 major cities: San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland.

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freshminds

JANUARY 20, 2016

Computer failures can cause catastrophe with so much business being conducted online and the look and feel of websites can totally affect the way in which consumers experience a company and its products. What do you need to take into consideration when business meets tech? How much do you need to know?

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Even companies with high performing organizational cultures have to recognize that corporate subcultures are not necessarily uncommon or bad. It can be difficult for leaders to accept that there is not an absolutely uniform workplace culture within their organization. Bad Corporate Subcultures are Unaligned. Us Versus Them.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2017

Especially in the tech industry. The tech sector, which has become as famous for toxic company cultures as for innovation, and as well-known for human resource headaches as for hoodie-wearing CEOs, could use a little of the mellowness and wisdom that comes with age. Sounded good. I was a little intimidated.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 20, 2016

The rise of nomadic entrepreneurs has bolstered the need for a much more flexible corporate culture. Innovative new businesses no longer want to be tied to one city or even a traditional work schedule. They also provide access to the finest IT, secretarial, administrative, and tech support. Prestigious Address.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 21, 2016

Until the IPO, Square had been one of more than 130 unicorns: privately owned tech companies valued at $1 billion or more. But there is another, equally compelling reason why unicorns are dying: failure to innovate when competitors catch up. Some analysts blame unrealistic valuation while others cite excessive spending.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

And this is precisely the problem that many companies are having in their efforts to collaborate with partners, share resources and knowledge, and create new products and services. For many business leaders — 85%, according to a recent Accenture survey — such open innovation is critical to their strategic plans.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Refugees pouring into Europe from Africa and the Middle East have arguably created the greatest crisis for the “European Experiment” since it began after World War II. People are wringing their hands or shaking their fists: What to do about the millions of migrants and refugees crossing seas and borders into the West?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Dozens of companies, ranging from telcos ( Sprint , AT&T ), to tech giants (SAP, IBM), to automakers and insurance companies (MINI, State Farm ) have launched similar experiments. It’s not alone in trying to jump on the trend of shared workspaces, of which there are now around 19,000 worldwide.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

Large cities like New York and Los Angeles, as well as leading tech and knowledge hubs like Seattle and San Francisco, have experienced gentrification, economic segregation, and a disappearing middle class. Located on the east side of the NoMa train tracks, Union Market began as a working food production and distribution center in the 1930s.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 28, 2015

So there has been an amazing lack of innovation. The poster child for success is Atlassian , the tech company, which sold its product in 10 or 15 countries to dozens of large companies before an Australian company would buy any of its products. Do you think that Australia is perhaps falling behind in that area?

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2017

But they also score higher on culture. What is it about their cultures that makes them such good places to work? For Craig Boyan, HEB’s president and COO , creating a culture of “restless dissatisfaction” drives customer service, employee engagement, and innovation.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

There are three types of products today. Type 2: These are once-analog products that have now been converted into digital products, such as photography, books, and music. These products are typically sold as a service via digital distribution platforms (Audible.com for books, Spotify for music, Netflix for movies).

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2017

Many large companies yearn to rekindle the innovative magic of entrepreneurship, but very few actually succeed. The reasons have been well documented and include: Large, established companies answer to investors who value predictable, consistent financial results, and so are intolerant of the risks inherent in bold innovation.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 11, 2016

Ethnic and gender diversity are important to business, we are assured, because they promote the kinds of product and process innovation that boost the bottom line. According to data obtained from the Labor Department and reported by Mother Jones, the top Silicon Valley tech firms lag well behind the general population in diversity.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2017

In our sample, the average firm that managed to improve from the bottom 10% to the top 10% in management skill would see a $15 million increase in profits, 25% faster annual growth, and 75% higher productivity. Steven Moore for HBR. Google has opened its trove of management processes to one and all, for free. I see three reasons.

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Martinka Consulting

JULY 15, 2017

On May 25, 2017, the Wall Street Journal’s tech column was about how almost all of us have personal information exposed online, much more than we realize. Job search – wouldn’t it be nice if prospective employees knew about the company’s culture before accepting the job? The June 1 column had more on how to reduce information exposure.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

They aren’t looking for places to raise their families or to do productive work. ” nodding towards a modern glass tower next to the Mandarin Oriental hotel. “Some of the apartments cost £50 million or more. And no one lives there—it’s always dark.”

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 18, 2017

Innovation could come to the rescue by boosting the productivity of the remaining labor force. If the more productive few can produce as much output as the less productive many, GDP will not fall. If the more productive few can produce as much output as the less productive many, GDP will not fall.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 16, 2018

Help to increase tech literacy in Washington. This lack of knowledge — despite the millions of dollars that the tech industry spent on lobbying Washington in 2017 — shows that technology literacy among lawmakers still needs to be improved. Digital Service , and the Presidential Innovation Fellows.

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