Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

While “Standards are everything at Airbus: from cleaning up the table in the canteen after eating to operating a machine, they influence every part of the employees’ working day.” The same could be said for a quality goal of 6.3 I also continue to refine my thinking about continuous improvement, including how Toyota operates.

Six Sigma 37

Six Sigma Deming System Quality 37

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Matt Sweetwood, branding expert, defines personal branding as: " Personal branding is the practice of people marketing themselves and their careers as brands -- the ongoing process of establishing a prescribed image or impression in the mind of others about an individual." Your personal brand is the mark you leave on the world.

Brand 68

Brand Examples Career Godin 68

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.

Leadership 132

Leadership Crisis Learning-by-Doing Team 132

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

His stated goal is enabling small investors to get access to alternative high-quality investments, such as in private tech companies like Uber and AirBnB. They therefore seek investors who understand their initial losses and can facilitate secondary rounds of funding when their operations grow.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Company Kleiner 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2011

But more than two-thirds of 1990 industry leaders no longer existed by 2004. Clearly, this mental architecture was responsible for the execution ability of the most effective executives operating under pressure. What is more, they must be pursuing a professional goal in order to feel a purpose for living. Finding order in chaos.

CEO 16

CEO Self-aware Bottom-up Industry 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

After five years, in 2004, Tickle was profitable with more than $20 million in revenue; it received an acquisition offer for $100 million, as well as IPO entreaties. The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management.

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Following the Challenger explosion, NASA did take concrete steps to correct flawed organizational processes. For example, it increased both the number and status of safety personnel, and it strengthened safety operating procedures. ” Over time, though, several processes promote gradual forgetting.

Organization 8

Organization McCombs Pharmaceuticals Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

America’s largest insurer, Allstate, announced plans to invest $1 billion in its India operations. Choose the right India country manager: The role of country manager for India can mean many things depending on the scope of operations and the structure of an organization. But they need to be alert to the following four signposts.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

And as anyone who has ever given or received a traditional performance review knows, this process can be highly subjective — even in the most metrics-obsessed organizations. We expect people to track what’s important and to set individual goals that contribute to our company’s mission and strategy.

Management 8

Management Performance Review Review Mission Statement 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Believe me, this skill comes in handy in the chief information officer's line of work: CIOs often have to tell CEOs that the large portfolios of legacy applications driving corporate operations are bound to fail sooner or later and need to be replaced. What were the areas of focus — technical, process, human capital, risk?

System 15

System CEO CIO Chief Information Officer 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

It''s a lawyerly, exhaustive, exhausting rundown of all the things that could possibly weigh on the earnings of a giant global bank, from regulatory changes to loans going bad to a liquidity crisis to the possibility that "one or more of its employees causes a significant operational breakdown or failure."

Banking 8

Banking Crisis CEO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Even more tricky, they had to learn to articulate something that had been tacit: a shared understanding of goals, culture, and what it takes to succeed at Citrus Lane. We studied how Wyeth, the large Pharmaceutical firm (now part of Pfizer) made dramatic improvements in cost and quality across its manufacturing operation.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Seminar Learning-by-Doing Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

On a scale of one to five, how important is having a good network to your ability to accomplish your goals? Burt asked the managers to write down their best ideas about how to improve business operations, and then he asked two ex­ecutives at the company to rate the quality of these ideas. 2 (2004): 349–399.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating. Adapting to change.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

For example, at The Fat Duck in the UK (which has had three Michelin stars since 2004, except in 2016 when it closed for refurbishment, and where I worked on the innovation side), cooking temperatures are systematically controlled to 0.1°C, This means achieving precise standardization and strong quality control.

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Creativity Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

It's a process that hinges on a two-way exchange of information: Voters tell the candidate what they care about, and the candidate tells voters what he or she stands for. There's more to a successful presidential campaign than building a great communication operation. It's an effort to talk about issues in a way that engages people.

Operations 15

Operations Media Long-term Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

But while field organizing is essential in this closely contested race, the groundwork has been laid over many months by the campaigns' digital operations. Today, that process-based coverage is largely gone. As we approach the final days of the U.S. million Twitter followers to Romney's 1.6 million, as of the beginning of November.

Media 8

Media Marketing Politics Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

The goal is to figure out which persuadable voters to spend energy — and dollars — on, in the hope of moving the dial just slightly in their favor. In 2004, microtargeting was a fairly new concept. It's a world where hundredths of a percentage point matter. Definitely the scale.

Survey 8

Survey Politics Information Discount 8