Mills Scofield

JULY 27, 2014

On 16 October 2005, an incredible feat was achieved sixteen miles West of Denver, Colorado. In the process, I too have learned that in every organization something works and change can be proactively and positively managed. William James.

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Positioning Power Leadership Energy 170

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

In 2005, TheraMatrix contracted with Ford Motor Co. They can do so with the help of a new business strategy: ‘Healthcare Performance Management’ (HPM). And if a competitor is foolhardy enough to try to work around an MFN, then the dominant insurer can simply force its rival out of the market.

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Crisis Health Care Insurance Newsletter 63

Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

About ten years ago, somebody sent me a PDF file of Dr. Deming’s “Some Notes on Management in a Hospital.” A system doesn’t design itself and a system doesn’t manage itself. This also includes managers and leaders who are so consumed with fire fighting and bureaucracy that they are not able to spend time helping improve the system.

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Deming Kaizen System Quality 28

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Management is often maligned (sometimes for good reason!), but strong management is an important differentiator in both digital delivery and in aligning that delivery to strategic goals. So what’s the best way to tackle management of digital teams to keep engagement and output high?

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Team Management Software Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

They’re given state-of-the-art technology, $2,000 to build a home office, and a large travel budget so they can meet up with other team members twice a year in beautiful, exciting places such as La Paz, Mexico, and Amsterdam. grew by nearly 80% between 2005 and 2012. Advances in technology are keeping pace. In the U.S.

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Company Document Travel Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

With millions of users, Google Analytics is among the tools well entrenched in paving the road to actionable data. And a business’ choices when it comes to analytics services are many, with one tool rarely being a one-stop solution (for full disclosure, GA is one of several analytics tools HBR uses to parse its online data).

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Tools Learning-by-Doing Education Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

It doesn’t take long for technologies to outgrow their usefulness. While organizational culture issues took center-stage, the agency’s antiquated systems for personnel management, appointment booking, and medical histories probably made things worse. Give us a sense of the challenge of keeping up with technology as a military CIO.

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CIO Health Care Metrics Software 8

Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

I can say this with confidence, because my decision to jump into Social Media headfirst back in 2005 has played an important role in my personal development as a leader -nearly as important as the direct leadership experience itself. Here are 9 ways Social Media has helped me, and can help you too: 1. Great post!

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Media Blog Learning-by-Doing Influence 306

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. 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

DECEMBER 17, 2012

If you're a manager of a large business, you know the challenges involved in retaining talented people, guiding their progress toward important objectives, and having them feel a deep sense of engagement with the organization. Regardless of your technology framework, don't make the tool or the interaction overly complex or artificial.

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Media Mentor Incentives Education 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

One way to help stem further migration and to gain maximum benefit from those already in Europe is to promote entrepreneurship as a job-creating tool. Kauffman research has shown that in some years (1985-2005), young firms have been responsible for as much as two-thirds of new American jobs. This solution has largely been overlooked.

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Incubator Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

Smart companies understand that workspaces are a business tool. Adobe’s New York office had been growing due to its acquisitions of smaller technology companies. Since its 2005 founding, the marketing company had grown to over 1,100 employees. And people wanted more meeting spaces that could be used quickly and informally.

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Maturity Real Estate Survey Project 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

It is about devising retail models that work for people who are making increasing use of a growing array of Internet-connected tools to change how they search, shop, and buy. Creative retailers are using the new technologies to innovate just about everything stores do from managing inventory, to marketing, to getting paid.

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Retail Real Estate B2B CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

In almost every sector, there are once-dominant enterprises that find themselves on the wrong side of a shift in customer demand or the emergence of a disruptive technology. Equally important, it depends on how well they manage communication throughout their organization. You know their names: Hewlett-Packard. RadioShack.

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Company Video CEO Crisis 8

Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

In my hands, a hammer was a dangerous tool capable of putting holes where holes shouldn’t be, and bashing fingers into submission. Truth be told, I was much more interested in playing baseball and hanging out with my friends, but I said yes anyway (although I’m quite sure I would have still helped him if I said no!). I didn’t need a hammer!

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 18, 2010

I like the Predictive Index – I knew it was a good tool when someone I had never met before described me to a “T&# by simply interpreting the results of a PI test I had taken in 10 minutes the night before. The personality of a good manager can be very different from the skills of a good IT person. David, you are too kind.

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Open-book Blog Core Competence Books 222

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Having followed this phenomenon since 2005, the report found that February 4, would be the largest-ever anticipated day of Super Bowl-related absenteeism. The fever was found to be even more amongst managers than frontline workers, perhaps because they could take advantage of their flexibility. million would work from home, while 9.4

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Absenteeism Sports Policies Follow-up 45

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2015

percent since 2005. To shift to a remote model successfully, however, management practices have to adapt to remote work, even if only a few workers are remote. New technologies – and the proper use of old technologies – are a crucial part of this adaptation. In a 2014 Robert Half Technology survey of U.S.-based

Tools 8

Tools CIO Knowledge Management Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In a study of nearly 250 manufacturers over a 10-year period (2005–2015), we found that 78% of firms had improved their ability to fill their total actual market demand but had lost control over costs. And the company is now deploying 3D printing not just for part prototypes but also for actual manufacturing tools.

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Automotive Operations Efficiency Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

They like technology, they have an Xbox, they have children, and they have an annual household income of more than $100,000. And going into 2017, just two years from now, the momentum they will have generated will force executives at your company to sidestep drones, self-driving cars, and robots to focus on this technology.

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Forrester Technology Execution Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

A number of techniques and process-improvement tools from inside and outside the industry have been brought to bear: lean engineering to simplify and standardize care, Crew Resource Management to improve teamwork, checklists to help teams focus and improve reliability, and so on. Six sigma — or no more than 3.4

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Mayo Health Care Six Sigma System 8

Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Increasingly, people now work together as virtual teams and therefore require more effective virtual management to keep the group focused and feeling connected. Organizations have become stretched through geographic and technological expansion. The vast distance created problems.

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Tips Team Management Teamwork 145

Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Increasingly, people now work together as virtual teams and therefore require more effective management to keep the group focused and feeling connected. Organizations have become stretched through geographic and technological expansion. Technology makes the sharing of information much easier today than it was during the Roman Empire.

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Tips Team Management Teamwork 133

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Growing opportunities to collect and leverage digital information have led many managers to change how they make decisions – relying less on intuition and more on data. Therefore, it’s only natural that technologies delivering faster, cheaper, more accurate information create opportunities to re-invent the managerial machinery.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Technology Objective Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

But thanks to social and mobile technologies, consumers are now "hyper-connected and super-empowered," to use Thomas Friedman's memorable phrase. We normally think of insurgency in a political context, but today's digital technologies are creating a similar dynamic in business. Level 1: Listen and Respond.

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Brand PR Strategy Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

A 2005 survey of more than 500 freight interests from the public and private sectors carried out by the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) revealed deep divisions on freight traffic congestion causes and solutions, and an alarming lack of communication between the two sides.

Planning 8

Planning Scenario Planning Transportation Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

While advances in health care in the developed world often emphasize new technologies, in developing lower- and middle-income countries simply expanding the reach of basic primary care services is crucial to improving health. Financial tools. Management and leadership skills.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 1, 2014

Guest post from Bruce Rosenstein: The recent executive shakeups at Microsoft have talking heads everywhere speculating on the legacy of Bill Gates, who has stepped down as chair of the company and is taking up the role of technology advisor to Microsoft’s new CEO, Satya Nadella. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management. Hear, hear.

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Drucker Education Library CEO 261

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Culture, and how to build and sustain one, is one of the toughest challenges for managers, especially in today’s fast-paced, highly competitive organizations. And what happens as advances in technology constantly change how customers and employees expect to interact with your company? How technology is changing the way we work.

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Technology Company Tools Information 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Catmull expands on his ideas about managing a creative company that he explored in his 2008 HBR article “How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity.” Does this create pressure to adopt the same technology or the same processes? This will be the first year since 2005 in which Pixar has not had a feature film to release.

Creativity 10

Creativity Film Management Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Deep in the golden corn fields of Iowa, technology is transforming life on the farm. 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. farms have signed up to use FarmLogs to manage their operations.

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Policies Content Long-term Operations 8