Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2019

Is your business struggling to come up with a new idea or innovation to solve the latest industry challenge? The concept of crowdsourcing dates back to 2005, when Wired magazine journalists, Mark Robinson and Jeff Howe, coined the phrase. Crowdsourced innovation shouldn’t be viewed as a one-way street though.

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

They manage their businesses (they use tools) In the web 1.0 world, the “real estate&# needed to do these things was the operating system. The power is slowly being taken away from the operating system. Posted in the Business Models , Innovation category. They communicate 3. They share 4. In the web 2.0

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Real Estate Competitive Advantage Slywotzky Licensing 28

Deming Institute

JUNE 9, 2015

Deming’s 14 points for management have been put into various specific contexts by people over the years. Provide operational definitions of all jobs. Supervision belongs to the system and is the responsibility of the management. Dr. Deming included their work in Out of Crisis, pages 201-202: 6. Restructure training.

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Deming Health Care Restructuring Crisis 28

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Leaders consciously or unconsciously lump employees into three categories: the “stars” consisting of those in management as well high potential employees, the much larger “core” made up of solid contributors, and the rest, employees whose contributions and fit with the organization are questionable. Connecting the U.S.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

Thankfully, I also had some very good managers who still fell victim to conventional wisdom management ideas, such as a store manager creating special sales incentives and contests that seemed silly and unnecessary. I had experience a bullying boss who didn’t listen to their employees.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

Sadly, it didn’t take very long to realize that the plant had a very traditional management style, very traditionally combative labor/management relations, and a typical blame-and-shame, command-and-control environment that made people miserable and didn’t deliver quality to the customer or any of the right business results.

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Kaizen Deming Lean Manufacturing Handbook 28

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In prior blog posts, we have described how Western multinationals such as Xerox and GE are embracing polycentric innovation by sourcing more R&D capabilities from emerging markets such as India and China and integrating them into a synergistic global innovation network. Integrate with local innovation ecosystems. and the U.K.

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Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

In 2005, McKesson invested in a David called RelayHealth that was in the connectivity business before connectivity was hot. A year later, we did acquire them — but rather than swallow RelayHealth whole, we wanted to preserve its innovative DNA and disseminate it across our company. What makes it work for our company?

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Health Care Innovation Airlines Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? Consider the story of the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense, which was founded in 2005 under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and "disestablished" in 2011 by Defense Secretary Gates.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

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. Managed by Q, a cleaning and office services company in New York City, decided to pay employees higher wages than the prevailing market rate. And wages are stagnant.

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Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

One response to today’s climate crisis has been a belief that markets and corporate innovation will provide the solution. ” So while businesses are major contributors to escalating greenhouse gas emissions, they are also presented as offering innovative ways to decarbonize our economies.

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Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

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. While our research found that firm-level innovation is high, we also note that policy plays an important role.

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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. .

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Agility Innovation Long-term Project 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management. ” Improving risk management. On the contrary, academic research and business experience point to quite the opposite.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

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

JUNE 12, 2017

Companies that offer good jobs today — with decent wages, predictable schedules, and opportunities for success and growth — do so by combining investment in people with operational choices that increase their employees’ productivity and contributions. We call this approach the Good Jobs Strategy.

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Merchandising Retail Competitive Advantage Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

.” Policies such as the new EPA proposal, which would establish firm limits on carbon pollution from power plants, will only help accelerate these much-needed market innovations. After all, the power sector is already halfway toward meeting its 2030 target of 30% below 2005 CO2 emissions levels. The program delivered $1.6

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

For example, it increased both the number and status of safety personnel, and it strengthened safety operating procedures. BP had experienced a similar major accident only a few years earlier – the 2005 Texas City Refinery explosion, which claimed 15 lives and injured 170 people.

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Organization McCombs Pharmaceuticals Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Looking for innovations they could reapply, Essilor built upon the model of mobile cataract surgery vans that first made these surgeries affordable to the masses. By using another innovation management best practice, they analyzed their system and found that the opticians themselves were the most expensive piece.

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Constraint Marketing Travel Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

” We don’t want to disappoint our bosses, colleagues, families, or friends, so we say “yes” as often as we can manage. Without the ability to say “no” to low-level tasks in order to say “yes” to groundbreaking ones, people stop innovating. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.”

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Team Metrics Project Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

One big problem is CSR departments lack the participation of big-spending commercial functions and the input of managers on the ground who better understand the local context. Apply world-class management. Walmart is one example of a company embedding a clear societal purpose into the aims of its management team.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

And shortly thereafter (and not long before he died in 2005), Drucker declared that increasing the productivity of knowledge workers was “the most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century.”. How should managers alter their approaches to fit the times? Knowledge management Leadership Managing people'

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Drucker Survey Learning-by-Doing Knowledge Management 14

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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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.

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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. Also, all of his work was done outside the boundaries of strategic management practices within the organization.

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Strategy Power Idea Generation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2010

He is now 12, and this year I craved a better solution, a more innovative and less angst-ridden token of love. But almost all of these are family businesses, operated by a husband and wife and several hired hands. Believe it or not, "innovation" is a new word here. Instead, managers tend to refer to development.

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Workshop Company Press Release Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. a 525-employee software company, began applying agile methodologies in 2005. This takes time. Systematic Inc.,

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Agility White Paper How To Metrics 8

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. Everything operated as its own unit. Even more astonishing?

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Case Study Education Learning-by-Doing Brand 70

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

Despite the technical nature of these innovations, there are a few broad managerial lessons that have emerged from this prominent patent case. Often, managers think about patent litigation as a “narrow” strategy to protect a particular technology against a specific infringer. So why has Apple not sued Google?

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Marketing Strategy Strategy Marketing Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

On the other hand, most large sample studies in the accounting literature show something different: firms that manage their earnings perform better than firms that don’t (and not just in the short term). HBR: What got you interested in what impact short-term earnings management has on long-term performance? Insight Center.

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Short-term Henderson Long-term Metrics 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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

How well they''re built and operated is crucial to economic growth and is a key arbiter of an economy''s competitiveness — and yet, virtually every economy faces an array of infrastructure challenges. In Jakarta, from 2005-2009, the number of cars rose by 22% annually, while the distance of usable roads actually declined (PDF).

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Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

Many firms operating brick and mortar stores are in trouble. Creative retailers are using the new technologies to innovate just about everything stores do from managing inventory, to marketing, to getting paid. Of course, the shuttered stores, depressed execs, and tanking stocks suggest otherwise. What’s the real story?

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Retail Real Estate B2B CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

managers , he said the proportion of U.S. ” A good example of customer-centricity is Tumi , the innovative U.S.-based Moreover, customer-centric firms that operated in highly competitive markets had 69% lower performance, compared with product-centric peers. Day of Wharton who reignited interest in the concept.

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Restructuring Company Henderson Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

I had just finished a guest lecture on business and innovation at Parson's School for Design , and a particularly attentive front-row audience member kicked off question time with the curliest one of the day. In 2005, an investment banker was asked to lead a small team in (now) rapidly growing Latin America.

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Career Golden Handcuff Short-term CEO 10

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 28, 2010

Eisenhower to the position of supreme commander of Operation Overlord. Although he was personally disappointed, Marshall remained working for the president as army chief of staff and appointed Dwight D. It takes an extraordinary personal sense of one’s duty for someone to make a sacrifice of the magnitude made by General Marshall.

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