Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Leading companies such as IBM, Ford, and Avery Dennison are making major improvements in key processes by creating online communities to share deep knowledge. To overcome these problems, many companies are now using or experimenting with "idea management" software applications. Collaborating globally to improve effectiveness.

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

Rational managers for the past thirty years have tightly focused on efficiency, cost cutting, and day-to-day execution — perhaps to a fault. For example, in 2001, IBM set up a permanent transformation organization designed to anticipate and respond to the increasingly unpredictable changes in its markets.

Agility 8

Agility Process Long-term Short-term 8

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Leaders consciously or unconsciously lump employees into three categories: the “stars” consisting of those in management as well high potential employees, the much larger “core” made up of solid contributors, and the rest, employees whose contributions and fit with the organization are questionable. Connecting the U.S.

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Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Ask Atma

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

It is at heart a new philosophical approach to project management. Consider this statement of values from the original authors of the agile manifesto (Beedle, et al; 2001): I. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. For this reason, it is adaptable to almost any workflow or operational situation.

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Agility Project Software Short-term 71

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. From this process, one of two conclusions are drawn: either the leader cares and more trust is earned, or the leader doesn’t care and trust is lost.

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Leadership Crisis Learning-by-Doing Team 134

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter-to-quarter or even year-to year-revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently (1999). By Patrick M.

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. A more reasonable starting point might be the 1930s, when the physicist and statistician Walter Shewhart of Bell Labs began applying Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles to the improvement of products and processes. They keep customers happier.

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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. Those behaviors can serve as the basis of training, reinforced daily by front-line managers. Automate account management. billion vs. $1.2

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

While on the surface revenues remained strong, its rapport with customers and physicians was rapidly eroding, and its reputation was being bludgeoned by lawsuits and a national backlash against health maintenance organizations and managed care (which Aetna had championed). Its operating income recovered from a $300 million loss to a $1.7

Health Care 14

Health Care Restructuring Resistance Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

In his research, he reports that these individuals typically have extensive sales, marketing and operational backgrounds. They manage preference centers, they use propensity models to define and meet customer needs, and they leverage tools to recognize customers across channels and devices. Get operational expertise, and fast.

Company 14

Company Business Intelligence CRM Marketing 14

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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Intangible Assets Operations Health Care Conference 10

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

The insightful companies examine their own backyards… applying the discussions, uncoverings and applicabilities to how they will better manage in the future. The follow-through and crisis preparedness planning process helps to divert other crises from transpiring. by Hank Moore. Any company or organization is like a tree.

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Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 60

Mike Cardus

JULY 4, 2023

The term “mindset” conjures the image of a single setting, like a TV channel or a prearranged machine operation. As managers, embracing this fluidity within groups and moving within our teams is crucial. Some data-driven insights will understand customer preferences, identify market trends, and optimize internal processes.

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Open-book Shaw Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 78

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. Finally, operating conditions differ significantly within the country groups. Moreover, the differences between the countries have grown over time.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

It was 2001, and online advertising was at its nascent stage. In 2017, Simson and her marketing team put Albert to work immediately, processing the company’s large database of customer interactions and transaction history. He also relieved the marketing team of many of the manual and process-driven tasks they’d been doing.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2016

In a PWC survey of more than 2,000 global executives, managers, and employees, only 54% of respondents said their change initiatives succeeded — and the most frequently cited problem (by 65% of those surveyed) was change fatigue. The more your change effort disrupts those things, the more people will resist or even rage against it.

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Resistance How To Survey Travel 8

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. Basic financial services and content management could follow soon. Insight Center.

Technology 8

Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

Interestingly, the company's founding vision was not a lean idea, but rather a big idea: to accelerate and manage Internet traffic on a global, highly scalable, highly distributed scale. Despite the Internet bubble bursting, the company was able to generate over $160 million in revenue in 2001. How did Akamai do it? Founding Akamai.

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P&L Lewin EBITDA Ries 13

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.”. Good decisions, like Southwest’s, nearly always result from robust decision processes. But sometimes the big decision will go horribly wrong.

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Hedge Restructuring Execution Download 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Beth Comstock, GE vice chair responsible for creating new businesses, embraced the lean process. Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth.

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Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

To understand how traditional software vendors can move to the SaaS model while managing the transformation’s challenges, we studied how the stock market reacted to publicly listed firms announcing they wanted to introduce a new SaaS offering from 2001 until the end of 2015. increase in stock price on the announcement day.

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Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

In a 2001 interview with HBR, UPS’s then CEO Jim Kelly described the growth of the company: “For decades, we’ve been able to grow tremendously simply by expanding our core business geographically. Change management Entrepreneurship Execution' We just took our core delivery business and applied for rights in different states.”

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Pharmaceuticals Seminar Learning-by-Doing Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

When your manager is also your parent, sibling, or another relative, how do you keep things professional? He suggests participating in the standard review process but always supplementing it with outside evaluations to ensure that you learn and grow on the job. Working in the family business can be fraught. It always ends badly.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing Career 8

Deming Institute

OCTOBER 23, 2017

The bigger be the coverage, the bigger be the possible benefits, plus the more difficult to manage. In the fall of 2001, shortly after 9/11, I was invited to deliver a presentation on an integration of ideas from W. Even if I had one, in all likelihood it would be a video of a simulated assembly operation of a rocket engine.

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Deming Teamwork System Reference 28

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

It must be included as part of a formal Strategic Planning and Visioning process. So also should diversity, branding, quality, marketing, re-engineering and other important processes. The same planning process that nurtures Crisis Preparedness can and must also accommodate for Crisis Management. by Hank Moore.

Crisis 72

Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 72

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. A Sloan Management Review article (which I had the pleasure of working on) provides valuable context for Garvin’s most-read HBR articles.

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Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. At Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. It’s worth noting that the companies and business units in my study were tracked between 2001 and 2007. How do they do it?

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Education Execution Content Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Following the company’s go-private transaction in October 2013 , Dell put in place new models for strategy development, resource allocation, and performance management. Strategy development at Dell is no longer a batch process tied to some planning calendar; it is a continuous process. Take Dell Technologies, for example.

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Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

They’ve missed almost every technological breakthrough of the past decade — and yet they earned $237 billion in operating income from 2001 to 2013 working off a strategy that was in place in the mid-1990s. Microsoft is in the supposedly volatile technology sector. It’s easy to get caught up in the hype.

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Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

According to another , “GM has said the issue was discovered as early as 2001, and in 2004, a company engineer ran into the problem during the testing phase of the soon-to-be-released Chevrolet Cobalt.”. Auto industry Change management Crisis management Failure Leadership Manufacturing Operations'

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Report Learning-by-Doing Crisis Management CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

By now, the core functions of IT—data storage, data processing, and data transport—have become available and affordable to all. Walmart is the country’s largest employer and largest company by revenue and it reached that position through an operating model made possible by proprietary logistics software.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. It was very ‘old school’ (a management style that was 40 years obsolete), though it pretended to be ‘new school.’ It charged too much money and got away with it (because mid-managers but brand names of firms).

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

These companies have become agile in name only, as the process they’ve put in place often ends up hurting engineering motivation and productivity. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. For example, in common practice, processes and tools have become the driver of work, not individuals and interactions.

Agility 8

Agility Engineering Software How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The infamous East German secret police, the Stasi , managed to infiltrate every pay of German life, from factories, to schools, to apartment blocks — the Stasi had eyes and ears everywhere. There has been a dramatic shift in mentality, and it doesn''t take much to work out the date on which this happened: September 11, 2001.

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