Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Proper & timely use of quality tools – Teams must all have knowledge and accessibility to utilize and comprehend the quality tools that teams’ need for project success. Referenced: Six Sigma Team Dynamics; The Elusive Key to Project Success ; Eckes, George; Wiley: 2003. Share let us know. michael cardus is create-learning.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 13, 2011

The Toyota Way Jeffrey Liker McGraw-Hill (2003) To understand Toyota’s success, first understand its DNA I read this book when it was first published in 2004 and recently re-read it, curious to know how well Jeffrey Liker’s explanation of Toyota’s management principles and lean production values have held up. My conclusion?

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Work-Life Balance Meaning According to Nancy Lockwood ’s 2003 Research Quarterly for SHRM , a work-life balance can be defined as “A state of equilibrium in which the demands of both a person’s job and personal life are equal.” How often do I spend quality time with them?

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Tips Learning-by-Doing Stress Long-term 119

Deming Institute

APRIL 4, 2016

One of the first tools they used in 2003 to determine what they should focus on to make their students successful in elementary science was the cause and effect diagram (fishbone diagram). She also discussed their use of other quality tools: force field analysis, multi-voting, interrelationship diagraph.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 6, 2014

We had acquired the properties in 2003, and had spent the first 5 years setting the stage for a drive to sustained growth and profitability. The answer, as this leadership short story shows, is to think green. Lead well! I’m the SVP of Operations of a Cable TV Company that operates in 4 states and has 22 operating divisions.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Proper & timely use of quality tools – Teams must all have knowledge and accessibility to utilize and comprehend the quality tools that teams’ need for project success. This is not just a way to ensure courtesy to one another, but also that the team’s time together ends up being used effectively and efficiently.

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Rapid BI

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Supplied in both PowerPoint 2003 and 2007 formats for maximum compatibility. Unlike other providers of powerpoint slides these are high quality graphical based slides, and fully editable & brandable. To brand them as your own just change the master slide.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2010

It's a common assumption that offering more features or developing high-quality products and services is expensive, and that the products of these labors can command premiums. The higher the premium, the more consumers are likely to associate quality with the offering.

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Rapid BI

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Supplied in both PowerPoint 2003 and 2007 formats for maximum compatibility. Unlike other providers of powerpoint slides these are high quality graphical based slides, and fully editable & brandable. To brand them as your own just change the master slide.

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Rapid BI

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Supplied in both PowerPoint 2003 and 2007 formats for maximum compatibility. Unlike other providers of powerpoint slides these are high quality graphical based slides, and fully editable & brandable. To brand them as your own just change the master slide.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

This aims to support employers to embed EDI into decision-making on occupational standards, apprenticeships and technical qualifications and build a skills system that allows everyone, regardless of their background, to access high-quality training. Many people are very sensitive, so this needs careful handling.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

Startup activity can signal a city’s economic potential, but it’s actually the quality of the startups, not the quantity, that matters. Guzman and Stern’s quality measure seeks to separate the former from the latter. “A doubling of entrepreneurial quality predicts an increase of 6.8% Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

In fact, eliminating racial disparities in health care is vital to pushing the entire health care system toward improving quality while containing costs — so-called value-based care. Set measurable goals for improving quality of care, and ensure that goals are achieved equitably for all racial and ethnic groups.

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Health Care Cost Quality Report 8

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 26, 2021

What’s more, designing care facilities to be smaller and more homelike would also help to reduce the spread of viruses while also promoting a better quality of life for residents. The authors cite the example of Hong Kong, who after the SARS outbreak in 2003 introduced several such policies, which significantly helped them during Covid.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

In 2003 this collaborative learning model grew out of Dr. Arora’s frustration that he could serve only a fraction of patients in New Mexico with hepatitis C. Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality. Leadership begins with sharing a vision with many people in numerous communities from diverse walks of life.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Almost nothing excites Wall Street like the intrigue of M&A, and merger proponents are promising lower costs, better quality, and higher stock prices. Achieving higher-quality care requires more collaboration across the many practitioners and facilities that deliver it. Aim 2: Raise Quality. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Converting these non-consumers into consumers will require breakthrough innovations — quality products at affordable prices. at quality levels that match those in the best cardiac hospitals in the West. In January 2003, it was named the Car of the Year ahead of entries from Mercedes, Toyota, and Ford.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Maybe it was Nick Carr’s famous May 2003 HBR article “ IT Doesn’t Matter ” that did it. The Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of Economic Analysis try to adjust for such quality changes in calculating inflation and real GDP. That seems reasonable enough.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2015

But mine determines the cooking time based on the quality of the rice, the weather and any other factor that might affect the outcome. So too is the work that is done when we determine assignments and time based on the quality of the work we need done and the individual characteristics of the people who are going to do that work.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

This library of tools helps employees get their projects off the ground, and ensures the quality of services that the organizations will receive. To expand its breadth of support for volunteerism, IBM made these free resources available to the public in 2011.)

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

This library of tools helps employees get their projects off the ground, and ensures the quality of services that the organizations will receive. To expand its breadth of support for volunteerism, IBM made these free resources available to the public in 2011.)

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Intellectual Capital Library Project Competitive Advantage 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Between 2003, when the Iraq war began and the conflict in Afghanistan was two years old, the Army’s volume of mental health care visits tripled, from 1.1 Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality. Prior to the introduction of BHDP, it was challenging to examine quality of PTSD care in the Army.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

ValuesJam in 2003 gave IBM's workforce the opportunity to redefine the firm's core values for the first time in nearly 100 years. Its tool and engineering cycle time dropped 50% from 2004 to 2009, costs went down and it produces higher-quality products. Power ranks Ford the highest in initial quality among non-luxury automotive brands.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

If you have an innovative job-training program, for example, it must be clear why participants stay in the program, how it helps them acquire jobs upon graduating, and what promise it holds for improving the quality of their lives. The pathway to the desired benefit is not always straightforward.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Crystal Pepsi; MySpace 2003-2007). Even fifty miles can make a difference: the start-up culture around Stanford is vastly more developed than around UC Berkeley, much more disparate than the quality differential of their engineering departments would suggest. most of Nicolai Tesla's inventions; Web 1.0;

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Specifically, we examined the personnel records of nearly 16,000 employees hired from 2003 to 2013 in a large U.S.-based graduate business school students suggests that this effect for black employees might have come from a referral’s positive signal of quality that persisted after they were hired. based sales organization.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

This was nothing short of an innovation blackout — it reminded me of the 2003 blackout that shut down business throughout the Northeast for a couple days and then had everyone scrambling to make up for lost time. The numbers need to be checked (and rechecked). Circular discussions with management on how to increase forecasts ensued.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Many hospitals began pursuing the "triple aim": better patient experiences, consistent quality, and lower costs. Hospitals such as Virginia Mason and ThedaCare adopted process improvement systems from manufacturing ("Lean" and the "Toyota Production System") to deliver increased consistency, reliability, and quality.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

percentage points in 2003-2012. As the impact of the labor bonanza and capital-led phases begins to fade, productivity growth in China must increasingly come from the quality of innovation and management expertise at the organizational level. Meanwhile, the contribution of labor to GDP growth is decreasing. It contributed 1.4

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GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Thus, today we have a number of process "religions": Statistical Process Control was followed by Total Quality Management, Business Reengineering, Six Sigma, Lean, and Business Process Management (BPM, which emphasizes process management software). Under the guidance of external coaches, the $7.2

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

In 2003 he reorganized the company into an " integrated global enterprise " based on leading by values and collaboration, and uses special bonuses to empower leaders to extend IBM's culture globally. To be effective in global roles, leaders require experience working and living in multiple countries.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Such ploys exploit enduring human qualities, such as the tendency to empathize with and believe other human beings, so can’t ever be completely eradicated. Successful computer hacks now more often than not involve “social engineering,” the modern equivalent of an old-fashioned con.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Most research about relationships in organizations have focused on either positive, high-quality relationships or on the other end of the spectrum — enemies or negative relationships. And the findings are what you’d expect: Positive relationships have positive outcomes and negative relationships, negative ones. Further Reading.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

In 2003 he launched an online, interactive "values jam" involving all employees for 72 hours to determine what IBM's values should be. These are the qualities I believe made him the best CEO, so far, of the 21st century: Humility and openness. Palmisano has an engaging manner and keen sense of humor.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

per annum during 1978-2003, but slowed to 2.8% It’s the quality of those workers that also matter — other experts have argued , for instance, that economic growth driven by improvements in education and skills has the potential to be more sustainable. There was also a slowdown in TFP after the mid 1990s.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

One clever example of this was masterminded by a liberal linguistic programmer in 2003 whom hijacked the term " miserable failure." The problem is that some of the content is low-quality yet has great Google rankings. When the term was entered in Google, the first result was to George W. Bush's biography.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

In another case, despite knowing there had been a $135,000 settlement with a woman who had reported sexual harassment and retaliation by Dr. Rohit Varma in 2003, USC leadership installed the ophthalmologist as dean of the School of Medicine.

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