Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

Even though it's what keeps companies operationally in shape, front-line process improvement is hard to sustain. They described how each Technicolor employee had a target of suggesting two process improvements per month. That sounded like a great way to keep a process improvement program going. Consider the story of Technicolor.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

In team development, research has shown that individual learning works best when accompanied by team learning. [1]. So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

Over the last decade, HR at IBM took a number of steps to help drive operational improvement: Delivered the new skills IBM needed at the front lines. HR reinvented the way it trained and developed talent. We know, for example, that developing leaders is essential. In developed countries, such as France and the U.K.,

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

They had to work in sequence, meaning they had to streamline the operation first — before they could launch their new growth effort. The underlying trouble had been McDonald’s working from an inside-out perspective: what fit with its current infrastructure and operations. The firm’s leaders, convinced the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

In the process, more than 600 million people have escaped poverty. Foreign investors have flocked to the country’s shores as many of the world’s largest manufacturers have established operations there. percent average annual increase in GDP in 1990 to 2002, and 7.2 percentage points in 1990-2002, and 0.3 It contributed 1.4

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Data is now the critical tool for managing many corporate functions, including marketing, pricing, supply chain, operations, and more. In a typical big data project, a manager engages an internal or external team to collect and process data, hoping to extract insights related to a particular business problem.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

It has been our responsibility to lead the consortium of IT partners involved in designing, building, and operating the massive, mission critical IT infrastructure and solutions that support the Games. Together they develop a complete understanding of what the organizers, competitors, and audience expect.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

But the truth is that, for the most part, they redefine minimum requirements for operating in a given industry — not advantages. These investments included Nordstrom.com and a perpetual inventory system that allowed Nordstrom to offer a consistent multi-channel experience by 2002. That doesn’t mean you can ignore them.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

From there, they set an order of battle, an operations plan, and timetable with responsibilities delineated. With less than six months of operating cash, we could not hire for those positions immediately. When I arrived at the PHC in 2002, it was in financial distress.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2014

Sara Rynes, Amy Colbert, & Kenneth Brown conducted a study in 2002 to determine whether the beliefs of HR professionals were consistent with established research findings on the effectiveness of various HR practices. And yet that’s how many companies operate.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. Notably tech firms acquired an average 250 tech companies annually between 2002 and 2011 and 350 in the years since. Julian Watt/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For example, it took Umicore, a global materials technology group, five years (2002–2007) to lay the basis for its transformation from a commodity supplier of base metals into a premium provider of emission control catalysts, rechargeable battery materials and other value-added solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

The logic sounds compelling: A customer-centric structure , as the approach is known, can help a company understand its customers better, develop deeper relationships with them, and improve customer satisfaction. Its 2002 restructuring offered little incremental benefit while adding cost and complexity. Low industry profitability.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Developing Servant-Leadership Skills Developing 6:52 27:28. But, you can’t get to that point I think realistically, without having invested some time in your own personal growth and development. In both of those areas, I’ve seen tremendous growth and development. Bad Boss to Servant-Leader Bad Boss 6:12 24:18.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Developing Servant-Leadership Skills Developing 6:52 27:28. But, you can’t get to that point I think realistically, without having invested some time in your own personal growth and development. In both of those areas, I’ve seen tremendous growth and development. Bad Boss to Servant-Leader Bad Boss 6:12 24:18.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Upon his retirement in 2002, Bill invented a new life and purpose (by making little bets, I might add shamelessly) to write and to teach. They gave me the encouragement to go back to Medtronic, where I had turned down three times the opportunity to become president and chief operating officer. billion to $60 billion during his tenure.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Second, the organization backs up its mission with a system of interrelated capabilities: a combination of processes, tools, knowledge, skills, and organization, all focused on reliably and consistently delivering what is needed to create value according to that way to play.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business development. Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in Running the business Financial People Business development Body of Knowledge The Big Picture No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. Operational Statistics. Every day in the U.S.,

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 58

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

In my work studying and consulting with innovative companies, I’ve found that this balance is best achieved through dedicated time and space for research and experimentation, as well as a thorough process for both iterating on and standardizing new inventions. Let’s consider an example.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Building and maintaining trust in the traditional, physical workplace is difficult enough, but the process is even tougher in a virtual environment, where people often have to work with people they haven't met in person. So people initially operate in a positive atmosphere of " swift trust." area during the sniper attacks in 2002.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

There is a real elitist attitude that pervades the industry which tends to be process oriented rather than client oriented. It’s not about the process, it’s about results. Coaching isn’t about esoteric definitions, scripted questions or canned processes. In my opinion this is a huge mistake.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. To meet these challenges, we see three priorities for developing the next generation of leaders in the “work-disrupted” age: Mastery of Digital. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Even outside of the tech sector, the employment of more software developers is associated with a greater increase in industry concentration, and this relationship appears to be causal. By now, the core functions of IT—data storage, data processing, and data transport—have become available and affordable to all.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Business development. So were professional development programs, rewards for random acts of kindness and other empowerment initiatives. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. No executive development program was held at Enron. Running the business. Executives.

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