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Adaptation of the 14 Points to Medical Service

Deming Institute

Deming’s 14 points for management have been put into various specific contexts by people over the years. Restructure training. 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. Improve supervision.

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Innovative Companies Demand Innovative Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Forbes recently published our list of the world's most innovative companies in which we ranked companies based upon their innovation premium. But why do some companies have a high innovation premium while others do not? This expectation helped foster an innovation focus throughout the company.

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Steve Jobs, Tim Cook, and Apple's Innovation Premium

Harvard Business Review

As Steve Jobs steps down as Apple's CEO — and Tim Cook takes over — many folks are wondering whether Apple can keep its innovation engine humming. During Jobs' absence from 1986-1998, Apple's innovation premium dropped by 30% as the company quit innovating and its investors lost confidence. Can he do it?

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Innovating Around a Bureaucracy

Harvard Business Review

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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Private Equity Can Make Firms More Innovative

Harvard Business Review

And a recent working paper out of the Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics ( DICE ), a think tank of sorts, focuses on the latter by exploring whether leveraged buyouts (LBOs) make firms more innovative. PE investors don’t typically invest in firms known for innovation. that didn’t undergo buyouts.

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Customer-Centric Org Charts Aren’t Right for Every Company

Harvard Business Review

managers , he said the proportion of U.S. firms with structures organized around customers would grow from 32% to 52% as firms raced to build customer-centric organizations, and he interviewed companies including IBM and Systems Group that had announced customer-centric restructurings. In his 2006 survey of U.S.

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How a Turkish Bank Became the Employer of Choice

Harvard Business Review

In the next few years, in the wake of a restructuring of Turkish monetary policy, the sector revived. By 2005, Garanti began to open branches and grow rapidly. In addition to Talent Camp, we conduct workshops, case studies, and a banking game called "Banking Street" that introduces Garanti's departments to students.

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