Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

While my work is usually associated with the term “Lean” and the lessons from the Toyota Production System, some of my earliest learning and inspiration for improvement came from the work of W. One long-standing issue had been relatively poor attendance at weekly chapter meetings. Guest post by Mark Graban. Edwards Deming.

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Deming TQM Kaizen Crisis 46

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Development economists over the ages have puzzled about why some emerging economies perform much better than others over the long term. More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15.

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Depreciation Long-term Short-term GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2018

In much the same way, IBM’s Watson project , which is helping the venerable company overcome the disruption of its traditional business, began in 2005. In the next few decades, I predict, much of innovation’s value will shift away from applications and back to fundamental problems. Defining a Grand Challenge.

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Agility Innovation Long-term Project 11

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. 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.

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Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

Here’s a conundrum: On the one hand, there’s a consensus among thoughtful business leaders that too many companies are sacrificing long-term growth on the altar of smooth, reliable short-term earnings. HBR: What got you interested in what impact short-term earnings management has on long-term performance?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

It measures the impact of these drivers across three horizons: the near-term financial impact, the long-term financial impact, and the impact on reputation. This means engaging on someone else’s terms rather than your own. Apply world-class management. Engage radically.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. He had no formal authority as a leader, operating without any title or mandate. Companies like Google and 3M have benefited from embracing innovation that comes from all parts of the organization.

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Strategy Power Idea Generation Project 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

In terms of the underlying psychological driver, leaders need to understand that Self-Starters fundamentally lack patience and are always thinking – in the shower, during a run or over their Saturday morning coffee. Brown-Nosers constantly check in with their leaders and operate by seeking permission, rather than forgiveness.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

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 Bjarte Bogsnes.

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Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

In their piece, they observe the following: In the short term, however, the current team might actually outperform in the absence of its mercurial and stubborn mentor. And perhaps they haven't for a long time. Advantage instead went to the horizontal layers of chips and operating systems (cue Wintel). Not that they're alone.

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Competitive Advantage Software Health Care Long-term 13

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

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

It would create a “bully in the schoolyard” who could “cement the kind of monolithic monopolies that have plagued cable subscribers all along” and lead to a long-feared “media dystopia.”. Looking at the merger in terms of continued consolidation within the cable industry, however, misses the bigger picture. There is no cable industry.

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Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

While interning in Mozambique in 2005 for the one-person (!) A study fielded by the Council on Foreign Relations, " Addressing the Special Needs of Girls ," underscores why missing school matters in a big, long-term way. I've found," says Scharpf, "that the common language is the one of emotion.". Emotion Attracts Good People.

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Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They go by names like corporate social responsibility, sustainability, shareholder advocacy, social assessment and auditing, consumer action, government regulation, leadership development, ethics, realignment of incentives , attracting long-term investors , creating shared value , and more. treating suppliers as partners).

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CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 11

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 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

The latest developments around PRISM and the NSA dragnet operations uncovered by Edward Snowden, in my view, severely damage the fragile fabric of the new global ecosystem, which we so sorely rely on in order to collectively tackle truly urgent global issues such as energy, pollution, food, climate change, (cyber-)terrorism and inequality.

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Globalization Technology Information Technology Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. One trend that has contributed to short-termism and lower innovativeness is the increased prevalence of outside CEOs.

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Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. The iPhone’s victorious attack followed — and required — a long arc of liberalization in airwaves, itself a stunning regulatory and marketplace triumph. The Radio Act of 1927.

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Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

In 2005, I visited Wired magazine’s founding editor Kevin Kelly at his home in California. Therefore long-term thinking entails the confluence of the linear and the exponential. In terms of the potential upsides, here is an example from Israel, which I visited in April. In linear time, the future is a loss.

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Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Also, while China’s outward-bound foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown from an annual average of below $3 billion before 2005 to more than $60 billion in 2010 and 2011, only one third of Chinese companies have seen international revenue meet expectations, according to Accenture. Rebrand from the inside out.

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Brand Globalization Company Development 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

It seems that every week, one or another announces a new “Center for Health Care Value” or “Center for Health Care Innovation.” In 2005, when Prof. Comparison of outcomes is essential to disseminate innovations from one individual or team to another. The final result? For more, see this HBS case.).

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Health Care Fraser Price Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. But the article aimed higher, arguing that when corporate leaders invest with short-term results in mind, they put long-term performance at risk. That quality made him (arguably) the quintessential HBR author. Sound familiar?

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Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

The two major players didn’t share priorities: CMS prioritized the October 1 st deadline above operability. percent vs. the long-term historical average growth rate of 4.5 Celebrate intelligent failures as a source of innovation. Playing the blame game. Emphasize what’s at stake.

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Company Telecommunications CIO Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

For decades, the production of corn has been led by family-based businesses who operate their farms with a time-tested mix of traditional agriculture tools. Farmers who used to trudge down long rows of cornstalk are now using FarmLogs’ satellite imagery and algorithms to turn raw agricultural data into powerful insights.

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Policies Content Long-term Operations 8