Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Establish roles & responsibilities + discuss what each person ‘brings to the table’ – Understanding the various roles and responsibilities of the team is critical to success. One is the strategic leader and the other is the team leader. Oct 2010 Another great post I would add 2 others items.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

What is more important to company success, a strong external focus on customer experiences or an internal focus on effective and efficient operations? But while such customized services used to be enough to compete effectively, these retailers are now finding they need to improve their operational reliability too.

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Customer Intimacy Operations Supply Chain Retail 8

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2010

In the summer of 2003, the ninety-two year-old Wooden traveled to the White House, where he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor. The Secret of His Success What was it about Wooden that produced such extraordinary success as a student-athlete and then as a coach? .&#

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Follow-up Open-book Learning-by-Doing Hotels 360

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

The reason for that paradox, as the OECD has warned , is that the productivity gap between firms at the global frontier and those lagging behind has widened. Frontier firms are able to employ the most advanced technologies, which in turn allow them to win market share at the expense of their less productive competitors. billion euro.

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Innovation Company Globalization Proposal 9

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. The more people develop leadership and followership skills, the more successful they will be. Followers Get Things Done Better followership often begets better leadership.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Most VCs and entrepreneurs believe start-ups are inherently iterative, that a string of mistakes doesn't prevent success, but may even be the path to it. Product and business models are evolutionary by nature, but we see four things a young company must get right: The founding team. Crystal Pepsi; MySpace 2003-2007).

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Company Short-term Engineering PR 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. The real story behind IBM's success is the course Palmisano set for 21st century global enterprises. They listen as well as they speak.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To make big improvements in productivity and customer service, people in an organization must collaborate across corporate hierarchies, functions, companies, and geographies. ValuesJam in 2003 gave IBM's workforce the opportunity to redefine the firm's core values for the first time in nearly 100 years.

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The success of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in placing the Mangalyaan satellite into orbit around Mars last week has three important lessons for companies about winning in emerging markets: big ambitions are critical, constraints can be liberating, and India can be an R&D powerhouse. Indian engineers cost less, for sure.

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Innovation Constraint Engineering Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

And then we found Alibaba — and it found us — and that connection led to the partnership that ultimately proved to be remarkably successful. This success was built on what we learned from our prior efforts, as well as a resolve to take new risks to do what was necessary to succeed. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

If an employee comes up with a great new product or a technical discovery during R&D, aren’t they likely to leave the company, either to found a startup or to join a competitor? times more R&D than small companies, but their R&D is 13% more productive — meaning large firms are the real engine of economic growth.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

Leaders need to be productively paranoid. The successful CEOs in our study displayed an odd behavior that we labeled " productive paranoia." Prior to the Oslo terrorist attack, we saw the exact opposite of productive paranoia — a leisurely attitude. As Bill Gates said, "Fear should guide you."

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Management Licensing Crisis Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

in 2003, an all-time high. (Of Of course, age isn’t everything; nor is having a digitally-savvy non-executive director a guarantee of success for your digital transformation.). Second, our research at Capgemini Consulting with MIT has shown that successful digital transformation is a top-down leadership exercise.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

But there wasn't much activity until six months later when Mike Karol, vice president of operations, told his managers to make it their responsibility. In 2003, the first year of the program, 5,000 ideas were volunteered. And the Michigan operations received awards from their parent company for this program.

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Process How To Attrition Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Companies that operate as a collection of silos commit the cardinal sin of underperforming relative to the resources they have invested. At the oil giant BP a few years back, efforts to promote collaboration across the many operating business were so successful that employees over-collaborated. Under-collaboration.

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CIO Consensus Bottom-up Organizational Behavior 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

This approach worked relatively well for companies selling standard products in developed markets, but as multinationals transition into truly global organizations relying on emerging markets for growth, it's far from adequate. The characteristics of successful global leaders today are quite different than traditional hierarchical managers.

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Globalization Leadership Development Development Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

In both C suites and boardrooms, discussions about business performance usually center on topics like market momentum, M&A opportunities, capital management, and productivity enhancements. To align and motivate employees to work together, we eliminated all four centers and created one new streamlined operation in New Jersey.

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Company Compliance Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

launched a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription version of its key product line, Creative Suite, causing its net income to plummet by almost 35% percent the following year. Investors preferred new SaaS products over product conversions and valued having a product fallback option. On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc.

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Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Successful computer hacks now more often than not involve “social engineering,” the modern equivalent of an old-fashioned con. Partly this is an operational capability — how do you quickly shut down avenues through which information is escaping? Leadership is changing — fast.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The timeline showed five improvement initiatives matching the eras of five presidents: Quality Action Teams (1992-1995), Total Cycle Time (1995-2000), Perfect Order (2000-2003), Grainger Performance System (Balanced Scorecard and Six Sigma) (2004-2007), and Lean (2008). Here's this new approach. No one has looked at things quite this way.

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

Data promises a lot of new value, from insights that lead to better-targeted advertising, to ideas for new products, to "this changes everything" discoveries — the "expensive" half of Brand's observations. I use the term "proprietary data" after the 2003 HBR classic, "IT Doesn't Matter," by Nicholas Carr.

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Competitive Advantage Customer Intimacy Supply Chain Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

After all, it grew from $7 billion in 2003 to $171 billion in 2013 by entering established (albeit still-emerging) markets with superior products — something the model suggests is a losing strategy. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation. for three years.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

If I were successful in my genetic engineering exercise I would no doubt have created a leader who would be driven crazy by emotional and intellectual conflicts. It contains what I believe to be the necessary qualities a leader must possess to be successful. No single leader can possess every needed attribute.

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Definition Blog Leadership Covey 370

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

The NASA community and the entire world were saddened by the disaster of the Space Shuttle Columbia on February 1, 2003. Losses reported by the airline industry for 2001 compare to an operating profit of $7 billion and a net profit of almost $3 billion in 2000. by Hank Moore. About the Author.

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Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 58

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

For existing health care companies, the operative words in that mandate have been “health care”; for Amazon, the operative words likely are “service that needs to be delivered to a customer.” At its root, health care is a service that needs to be delivered to a customer.

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Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Indeed, a 2003 Lancet study reported that 63% of child deaths in the 42 countries that account for 90% of global child mortality could be prevented each year through more effective primary care. While scaling these services is challenging, our research shows that having the right business skills is critical to success. Insight Center.

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Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

We set out to understand why once successful companies enter these deadly tailspins, and found that the root causes are usually internal. After studying and working with hundreds of companies in free fall, we’ve identified concrete steps that leadership teams can take to engineer successful turnarounds and transformations.

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Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

At the peak of the North Texas housing market in 2003, my company Grand Homes sold more than a thousand homes. Thirty-seven of our competitors — successful homebuilders — went out of business in two years, an attrition rate of about 50 percent. We redesigned our product and, more importantly, we redesigned our company.

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Airlines Chief Executive Officer Attrition Incentives 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

A significant part of telecom equipment maker Huawei’s leap from regional player to global leader, for example, was due to its partnerships with Motorola in 2000, 3Com in 2003, and Symantec in 2008. Only a small minority thought low-cost operations would be an advantage in three years’ time. Redesign the organization.

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Brand Globalization Company Development 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

To be successful at strategy through experimentation, adaptive firms master three essential thinking steps: they continuously vary their approach, generating a range of strategic options to test. They carefully select the most successful ones to scale up and exploit. . • Adaptive: Be fast. • Visionary: Be first.

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Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. ” For example, productivity has grown dramatically in the retail sector since 1990; inflation-adjusted sales per employee have grown by roughly 50%. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images. Throughout the global economy, big companies are getting bigger.

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Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Air Products, Nokia, and Shell, among others, followed this advice and created top-level process owners. They also built a process governance structure that was an organizational overlay on their functional and product structures. But I also tell them they must address the issues I mention above to have a chance at being successful.

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Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Within a few years, the company built a community of over a million members, commercialized over 100 products, and raised over $180 million in venture capital funding. We have interviewed Quirky executives and studied each of the company’s product offerings, publicly available product reviews, and their development process.

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Case Study Innovation Core Competence Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

A former campaign manager, Strasma started his company in 2003 to find a better way to predict who the true persuadables are in a campaign, and to find smart ways to target messaging towards them. How do you measure success when you work on political campaigns? This is an edited interview of our conversation.

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