Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

That sounds very much like the Toyota Production System and Lean management. Speaking of continuous improvement, my GM plant also had a very traditional “suggestion system,” not a Kaizen-style approach to improvement. Instead of development, we got regression, apparently. What a progressive view that was back in the 80s.

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Kaizen Deming Lean Manufacturing Handbook 28

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

That’s why Google created its Founders Awards to provide stock worth up to several million dollars as an incentive to innovation. But our research shows that high-powered rewards are no better than low-powered incentives at producing radical innovations. is far from settled, even after years of research.

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Innovation Incentives Comparison Power 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

We’re used to thinking of high-tech innovation and startups as generated and clustered predominantly in fertile U.S. For investors and corporations, the big takeaway is this: You can no longer look only in your own backyard for startups, innovation, and the talent that power them. Jakal Pan/Getty Images.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Globalization Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Chirotech specializes in biocatalysis and chemocatalysis, two important subspecialties of biotechnology and chemistry that help develop key biological and chemical intermediates needed for the efficient production of medicines. Besides Dr Reddy's, several leading Indian firms are pioneering polycentric innovation: Tata Motors.

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Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. Both Kaizen events and Agile sprints are investments in innovation and human capital productivity.

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Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Without the ability to say “no” to low-level tasks in order to say “yes” to groundbreaking ones, people stop innovating. Establish a value assessment system. I worked with a software development company in which the CEO came up with a new product feature on a weekly basis. Pay attention to warning signs.

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Team Metrics Project Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

Developing Skills that Will Matter in the Future. But at good jobs companies, these very skills are already demanded, developed, and put to use. At Costco, another good jobs retailer, store managers are empowered to display merchandise and provide input into the merchandising system. Here’s why.

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Merchandising Retail Competitive Advantage Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

But we believe that multinationals from rich countries who are already developing products for one emerging market possess unique advantages that can help them win in other emerging markets too. PureIt became a grand market success in India, winning a Golden Peacock Innovative Product/Service Award and acclaim in UNESCO's Water Digest.

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Marketing Company Six Sigma Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

That means retailers must learn to compete head-on with Amazon in two fundamental capabilities: agile innovation and expense management. Amazon’s greatest competitive advantage is not its e-commerce network; it is its innovation engine. To understand this strength, take a look at the sample of innovations in the table below.

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Retail Planning Agility Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Americans — and American companies — have also connected the dots between clean energy and economic growth, with 87% last year saying that developing clean energy should be a priority for the President and Congress. After all, the power sector is already halfway toward meeting its 2030 target of 30% below 2005 CO2 emissions levels.

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Power Planning Proposal Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Its corporate development group looked at upwards of 150 targets a year, and used a remarkably efficient screening process that rejected any potential acquisition that didn't make good sense strategically. The company did not overlook small deals if they contributed to the development of critical capabilities. IBM-Lenovo.

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Due Diligence EBITDA Health Care Gordon 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation. In 2005, they launched a U.S. billion in mining projects since 2010.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Although cross-border data flows grew 45x between 2005 and 2014, according to a McKinsey analysis , events since 2014 have pushed the pendulum to swing away from unconstrained data globalization. These solutions lie at the intersection of technology development by companies and policy formulation by governments. Data Is Deglobalizing.

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Supply Chain Globalization GAAP Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

HR has helped the organization absorb more than 125 acquisitions since 2000 , and integrate globally, saving $6 billion since 2005. HR reinvented the way it trained and developed talent. We know, for example, that developing leaders is essential. We looked to see what we could do to create a work-related development opportunity.

Globalization 15

Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2018

Since the 1980s, most global companies have developed diversity and inclusion policies led by human resources. By 2005 Sodexho was widely recognized as a diversity champion. But these groups should always be voluntary and develop at their own pace, without management interference. Let’s take a closer look at each in turn.

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Diversity Human Resources Policies Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2013

I first wrote about these contemptible "information" graphics in HBR in 2005, and since then they've only seemed to multiply. See, we invest our profits in innovation to create delightful products that customers buy — which generate profits that we invest in innovation!" I aim to change that. Who could argue with that?

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Maturity Energy Consultative Construction 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge , the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. And we received a flood of big ideas and game-changing initiatives and experiments from management innovators in all kinds of organizations around the world. Story by Michael Cuthrell.

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Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy. It's stunning today to read the NIEO demands—because they are almost exactly the same as what Supachai Panitchpakdi, head of UNCTAD and previously Director General of the WTO (2002-2005), is now calling for.

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 12

Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

In fall 2021, HPU ’ s freshman class was larger than the entire student body was in 2005 and will have access to 62 majors and 64 minors. . Qubein, an alumnus of High Point University, became the seventh president of this 94-year-old institution in 2005. Even more astonishing? As Roger Clodfelter, Senior V.P.

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Case Study Education Learning-by-Doing Brand 90

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Yet the determinants of its successful development are far from established or well understood. In 2005, the OECD estimated that annual TFP growth averaged 3.7% What about spillover gains tied to foreign direct investment, joint ventures, and other ties to developed countries? per annum during 1978-2003, but slowed to 2.8%

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GDP Human Capital Fixed Assets Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Climate change, natural resource shortages, the growing gap between haves and have nots, and the fragility of financial systems are but a few of the critical problems it has spawned, and these are conspiring to become a perfect storm. What Can CEOs Do?

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CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Even as recently as 2005, European players were able to hold the ball for three seconds, on average, before passing; today, they can keep the ball for less than a second before being challenged. Indeed, these teams seem to use swarm intelligence, making decisions collectively and coming up with innovative moves on the fly.

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Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 16

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Effective followership plays such an important role in the development of future leadership skills that freshman at all the United States service academies (the Air Force Academy, West Point, Annapolis, and the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies) spend their first year in formal follower roles.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

In Jakarta, from 2005-2009, the number of cars rose by 22% annually, while the distance of usable roads actually declined (PDF). of GDP (PDF) is necessary to raise infrastructure in the region to the standard of developed East Asian countries. an estimated $100 billion per year. There are three routes to getting there: 1.

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Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

In 2005, having witnessed the advent of social media, my colleagues and I saw a new way to support the connections and self-management skills that course cultivates. Any system has the potential to serve people better if you are willing to measure, follow up, adapt, and innovate. The Social Solution to Innovation Challenges.

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Media Mentor Incentives Education 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. Sure, it must always consider whether to adjust that strategy in the face of new competition, changing customer demand, technological innovation or all three. Tinkering can kill midsize companies. The results were remarkable. But they must learn it.

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Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

While you would expect online giants like Amazon and companies like Netflix to be early innovators in the use of data to recommend products or movies, you only care about the answer to one question: what does big data mean for the everyday employee and how can regular businesses extract real value from it?

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Company Human Resources Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

What do you think causes millions of people to miss work and school in developing economies? While interning in Mozambique in 2005 for the one-person (!) While interning in Mozambique in 2005 for the one-person (!) Lack of childcare? Minimal professional training? Insufficient infrastructure? Emotion Attracts Good People.

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Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Cable systems offer WiFi for mobile access; mobile networks rely on cable, fiber, and even copper for backhaul. This is a true golden age for consumers, who are demanding innovation in both the packaging and pricing of content. Since 2005, cable companies have lost ten million subscribers.

Technology 8

Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Even as recently as 2005, European players were able to hold the ball for three seconds, on average, before passing; today, they can keep the ball for less than a second before being challenged. Indeed, these teams seem to use swarm intelligence, making decisions collectively and coming up with innovative moves on the fly.

Cooper 9

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 9

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. ” A good example of customer-centricity is Tumi , the innovative U.S.-based In his 2006 survey of U.S.

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Restructuring Company Henderson Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. Specifically, what is the role of the leader in creating and sustaining an innovative organization? Or, as Hill puts it, “Conventional leadership won’t get you to innovation.”

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Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

has committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 26% (to 28% below its 2005 level) by 2025, the EU will cut emissions 40% by 2030 compared to 1990, and China will hit peak emissions by 2030 (or earlier), lower its emissions per unit of GDP by 65%, and increase use of renewables to 20% of energy consumption. For example, the U.S.

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Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

But, my friends, one of the best things I’ve done, in summer of 2005, was start painting the wall. In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system. You’re witnessing creative destruction and disruptive innovation at work. ” I said, No.

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Career Planning CEO Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. Specifically, what is the role of the leader in creating and sustaining an innovative organization? Or, as Hill puts it, “Conventional leadership won’t get you to innovation.”

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

They foster an environment that encourages the sharing of ideas through brainstorming while realizing that innovation need not be preceded by the existence of committees. Informal power results from their core belief system. True leaders place a great deal of emphasis on culture and shared values. Great leaders have a natural ?air.

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Leadership Ethics Course Learning-by-Doing 418

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2011

In this age of consumer analytics and customer-centricity, most companies don't develop products and services before talking to customers, identifying latent needs and wants, and studying behaviors. If you think about it, several enterprises still routinely develop products and services without talking or listening to consumers.

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Innovation Power Fashion Travel 14