Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

While veteran unemployment rates have come down in recent years, numbers for Gulf War Era II veterans (those who left to military after 2001) without a job continues to outpace those for the general population. Bill Sebra is Chief Operations Executive at Korn Ferry Futurestep. percent while the overall unemployment rate is 4.9

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

And the lessons from most recent events in the last 20 years like the relatively mild swine flu (H1N1) in 2009, the dot-com bubble of 2001, and the 2008-09 Great Recession, are nowhere near suitable to withstand the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Spanish flu).

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Navy One example of a leader who intentionally developed a Connection Culture using all three bridges is Admiral Vern Clark, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) from 2000 until his retirement in 2005. To Bono, U2 is “the best example of how to rely on others.” Connecting the U.S. Day in America.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

His book, Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is loaded with advice to help all leaders aspiring to operate at the highest levels. Let me give you a quick example of a leader who got it wrong. I was his chief of staff, equivalent to chief operating officer. military base.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

And the lessons from most recent events in the last 20 years like the relatively mild swine flu (H1N1) in 2009, the dot-com bubble of 2001, and the 2008-09 Great Recession, are nowhere near suitable to withstand the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Spanish flu).

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Having done so put the city in the position of responding to the unthinkable on September 11, 2001. In this section are examples of crises that were handled well, thus increasing public trust and respect for their organizations. The City of New York had conducted planning for multiple contingencies. Product Recall, Tylenol.

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Ask Atma

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Consider this statement of values from the original authors of the agile manifesto (Beedle, et al; 2001): I. For this reason, it is adaptable to almost any workflow or operational situation. An example might be, “ As a business owner I want a to-do list that follows me on all my digital devices and is easy to use.” And so on….

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Agility Project Software Short-term 71

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. The differences were dramatic. We calculate that U.S.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

This client was a prime example of a leading CEO who served his community, profession and firm well. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

Since the Expedition One launch to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2001 — the first long-duration stay on the orbital construction site — NASA’s Human Health and Performance team has been developing expertise in the planning and provision of medical support to crews staying in our world’s most remote environment.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Borrowing many of the HBR article’s key ideas and filling in specific operational practices, Sutherland created a new way of developing software; honoring the rugby imagery, he dubbed his approach “scrum.” Sutherland and other proponents of scrum were among them.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2017

Indeed, the gap between firms in the top 10% by productivity and those in the bottom 10% increased by approximately 14% from 2001 to 2012. The pay gap between the top- and bottom-paying firms in the same sector has increased by more than 12% from 2001 to 2012. This affects the link between productivity gaps and wages.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

When Agile software development was born in 2001, it articulated a set of four critical principles to elevate the craft of software development and improve engineering and product manager motivation. For example, in common practice, processes and tools have become the driver of work, not individuals and interactions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Take the example of Harvey Norman , an Australia-based household-goods retailer that operates under various brands and has stores in several countries. The report neatly summarized all this in a “Financial Highlights” table with 14 measures and covered “operating and financial review” in a page and a half.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

We believe that organizations need to explicitly develop two parallel management systems: the operational system that manages the short-term execution of work — what we call the "Surface System," and a second system that focuses externally on sensing and driving strategic change — what we call the "Deep System."

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

For instance, ever since Goldman Sachs coined the term BRIC, China and India have pulled ahead of Brazil and Russia, whose growth fell below the group average between 2001 and 2013. For example, among the BRIC nations, consumption has played a key role in Brazil, India, and Russia, but in China, fixed investment was the driver until recently.

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Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Since 2001, IBM has used jams to get 300,000 employees and others around the world to explore and solve problems. Suggestions ranged from streamlining operational processes, saving thousands of hours annually, to simplifying financial and sales processes across business units.

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

It includes full-fledged exits by corporations like Clorox , one of the first corporations to cease its operations in the market in 2014 (to later be seized by the Venezuelan government), and companies like Bridgestone and General Mills , which sold their Venezuela businesses to local industrial groups and private investors, respectively, in 2016.

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Sharpe Price Politics Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Take Anne Mulcahy, who stepped into the CEO role at Xerox in 2001, during a particularly tough time in the company’s history. Anderson provides another good example. “Defection slowed to a trickle. Hope rekindled. Energy returned.” Anderson founded Interface, an international maker of carpet tiles.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

In highly cited articles in HBR , Michael Jensen, a faculty member at HBS, and arguably the most prominent agency theorist, put forth a harsh criticism of diversification as a main example of managerial opportunism at the expense of shareholders’ wealth. Let’s look at one example from our data.

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Influence Education Pharmaceuticals Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

The declines in manufacturing jobs during the downturns of 2001 and 2007, which totaled over 5.8 The Future of Operations. Consequently, information-intensive service jobs overtook physical service jobs in both numbers and wages after 2001. million, were the largest in U.S. manufacturing output. Insight Center.

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Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

They operate as lean organizations, using cloud and internet-based infrastructure, and launch and distribute products more quickly than did firms that competed with factories, warehouses, inventories, and suppliers. For example, Uber and AirBnB remain private despite having achieved valuations of double-digit billion dollars.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

In this new operating environment, I find more and more multinationals looking to new frontier markets for growth while demanding profitability from their emerging-market operations. Asia offers a good example of this push to frontier markets. Let’s see how this story is playing out in the different emerging market regions.

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Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

One luxury leader, LVMH, provides a great example of how to build a robust sustainability program. Since 2001 LVMH has studied its life cycle carbon footprint, focusing on both the obvious energy hogs — its stores and distribution — and brand-specific issues, such as packaging in spirits and personal care. ”

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Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

It was 2001, and online advertising was at its nascent stage. After digesting all of this data, Albert identified and bought more than 6,400 keywords to improve performance across RedBalloon campaigns in the first 24 hours of operation. Not Albert. In fact, she’s challenging the notion of a “budget” altogether.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Recent research suggests that Chinese imports, over the 12 years after the country’s WTO entry in 2001, took in excess of an estimated two million jobs out of U.S. He has two levels to operate on: first, directly influencing corporate investment and buying decisions, and second, diplomatic engagement with trading partners.

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Supply Chain Offshoring Retail Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Ikea, for example, has figured out how to get customers to pay more than you might expect for furniture that they have to assemble themselves…thus keeping IKEA’s costs low. LEGO is a great example. His most brilliant insight was that companies compete on a bundle of connected, mutually reinforcing activities and resources.

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Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

In 2007 AOL and Time Warner finally pulled the plug on the $350 billion 2001 merger that Time Warner chiefs Jeff Bewkes and Gerald Levin later called “ the biggest mistake in corporate history.”. One example is the corporate reorganization. But sometimes the big decision will go horribly wrong. Most business problems are complex.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Clarke painted a picture of how computers would change our way of life by the year 2001. More than 80% of our work is done by teams of consultants and staff who operate out of their home offices. In his 1974 interview with ABC News , science fiction author Arthur C. The advisory firm we work for is one such company.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Early in the 2000s it made a bold bet: buying photo sharing site Ofoto in May 2001. As the decade wore on and its core business continued to deteriorate, Kodak brought in a new leadership team, downsized its core operations, and began placing bets on even more radical ideas , such as a line of printers with low-cost ink.

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Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

In the 2001 recession, total sales for the S&P 500 declined by 9% from its pre-recession peak to its trough 18 months later—almost a year after the recession officially ended. Commercial operations groups tend to be early targets for cuts in a recession. Recessions catch many companies by surprise, with predictable results.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

For example, in 2014 IDC estimated that more than one-quarter of enterprise applications would be offered with the SaaS model by 2018, up from one-sixth in 2013. For example, Adobe’s finance team estimated that the cost of running both models side by side would cost them twice as much as simply offering one of the models.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

I’ll give a few examples, starting with his first HBR article but mostly concerning later work. (A For my money, “What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions” (2001), which Garvin wrote with Michael Roberto, is the best piece on organizational decision making in HBR’s archive.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

One high profile example is Walmart’s commitment to source an additional $250 billion in products made, assembled, or grown in the United States. Such a policy alone could have a major impact on companies operating in the United States. In 2016, that gap was down to about 1 percentage point. Advances in manufacturing technology.

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Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

It’s achieved impressive results since being founded in 2001, and is run by a committee of about ten people. But all of these examples have had flat structures from the day they were founded – you couldn’t do something like this in a firm that has been operating for a while with the normal hierarchical structure, could you?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

Let's take the example of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. One way to tell the story of mothers2mothers' growth is as follows: since 2001, the organization has expanded its operations to nine countries with an approximately $20 million operating budget. It All Begins with Evidence.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

” For example, productivity has grown dramatically in the retail sector since 1990; inflation-adjusted sales per employee have grown by roughly 50%. IT would temporarily create proprietary advantages, he predicted, citing Walmart as an example. ” Vox is one example of the full-stack model.

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