HR Digest

MARCH 8, 2020

The number of people who work from home has increased by 140 per cent since 2005. They offer hosting and management services, along with marketing and customer service management. The statistics prove that work from home is a popular option with working people. Recent research shows that 4.3

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

And that’s why we’ve come so close to going from data that one human can process, to Big Data, which requires dozens of sensors to process. As futurist Ray Kurzweil observed in 2005, in the near future, machine intelligence is going to exceed human intelligence. He named that moment, the Singularity.

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CEO Balanced Scorecard Supply Chain Sharpe 81

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2019

If you’re not too proud to admit defeat and seek inspiration and ideas from elsewhere, you might find that crowdsourcing is a breakthrough concept that can help you to break new ground and potentially disrupt a market. Another form of crowdsourcing for growing businesses is to utilize customer feedback.

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Project Idea Generation Brainstorming Long-term 56

Curious Cat

AUGUST 4, 2016

I have discussed the value of design of experiments in multiple posts on this blog in the past, including: Introductory Videos on Using Design of Experiments to Improve Results by Stu Hunter , Design of Experiments: The Process of Discovery is Iterative and Factorial Designed Experiment Aim. optimization (optimize the results).

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Video Software Blog Six Sigma 40

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 17, 2013

In 2005, only 343 were registered with the government ( Schuller ). Granted, it’s not an easy process to register; GOALS has not yet completed it, and our application is currently being reviewed by the Haitian government. Knowing all of this, what role do non-profits have in Haiti? Today, the number is still under 600.

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Long-term Goal Learning-by-Doing Review 174

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

As I said in a post on my blog, in 2008, The Defect Black Market : It is simple to blame employees for taking such action. But the management that setup such a system deserve more blame.

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Cost Deming Management System 35

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The deep recession in commercial real estate had forced corporations to freeze all marketing budgets. Generating a profit from a publication was a slow process. In 2005, he sold USI to Johnson Controls, a Fortune 100 company, and at that point, became CEO of JCI’s Global Workplace Business for the Americas. 500 company.

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Real Estate Advertising Magazine Finance 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

You might think that emerging country companies are more ready to address the needs of and win customers in other emerging markets. is expanding rapidly via acquisitions of Issue Group and Cosmetica Nacional in Latin America, while China's Huawei has a large direct presence in India's telecom market.

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Marketing Company Six Sigma Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2018

On the flip side, a strategic transaction can catapult a company into first-mover position, give a speed to market advantage over rivals, and potentially let a larger company run away with a new market. In 2005, eBay spent $2.6 You’re about to make millions off of the investment you wrote off years ago.

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Due Diligence How To Technology Emotional Intelligence 9

Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

Second, you’ll spearhead a series of processes necessary to keeping transformation alive: observe and speculate, prepare and adapt, inspire, and persevere. What trends do you see in the market, and how does your competition relate to them? In 2005 he won the Japanese government’s Most Valuable Patent award. Prepare and Adapt.

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Learning-by-Doing Industry Follow-up Skills 62

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

including CNOOC's attempt to purchase Unocal in 2005 and Huawei's attempt to buy 3Leaf Systems in 2011. That's precisely why seasoned acquirers like Cisco, GE, Siemens, and Johnson & Johnson have strong processes to enforce discipline throughout their acquisition process and can kill as many potential deals as they make.

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Due Diligence Strategic Planning Politics Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

For one thing, in an era when trust in traditional sources has eroded — in government, media, and in companies and the marketing they employ — word-of-mouth from trusted peers wields greater clout than ever. Around 2005, marketing became a bigger force driving growth. That’s no longer true.

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B2C Energy Marketing B2B 11

Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

  On a trip to see a client in 2005, I flew into Newark and took the trains to Lower Manhattan.    Hope that I've helped some in the process.  My wife worked with her in 1999 and back in January 2000, Nancy agreed to talk with totally stuck me even though I wasn't in her target market.

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Laswell Blog Executive Coaching Learning-by-Doing 183

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

The product's performance didn't live up to early press releases and has struggled in the market. This pundit makes predictions about markets that she doesn't participate in. Back in 2005 I wrote a piece [ PDF ] looking at a new video recorder introduced by Pure Digital Technologies, the Flip. The projector. The freeze framer.

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Press Release Strategy Long-term Video 12

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. But in a world in which bringing managers in every year for a week of offsite training is so 1960s, how do you make the leadership development process relevant to the global economy?

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Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2016

Measuring Marketing Insights. Contrary to what Anderson preached, the process starts with a business problem and a specific hypothesis, not data. In 2005 Amazon launched its Prime service, which offers members free two-day shipping. Petabytes allow us to say: ‘Correlation is enough.’ ” Insight Center.

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Advertising Retail Content Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Despite conceptually understanding that this change mandates fresh strategic approaches, Roger Martin (among others) has highlighted the mistakes companies continue to make by relying on processes and tools honed in a differently paced era. Another, arguably simpler, technique is to change the way you measure market share.

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Disruptive Innovation Advertising Gilbert Market Segmentation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

In 2005 A.G. Lafley, who at the time was CEO of the world’s largest advertiser, Procter & Gamble, introduced a marketing concept he called “the moment of truth” for building brand loyalty. Meanwhile, stats show that half of e-commerce is now done on mobile, heralding in the mobile moment of truth.

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Retail Supply Chain Loyalty Reis 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

That''s been the finding of economists Barry Eichengreen of UC Berkeley, Donghyun Park of the Asian Development Bank in Manila, and Kwanjo Shin of Korea University in Seoul in two recent studies of growth slowdowns in emerging markets around the world. China Economy Finance'

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GDP Banking Finance Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

In 2005, HP split off the printer business from the personal computer business, dissolved the Customer Solutions Group (CSG) which was a sales and marketing organization that cut across product categories, and pushed selling responsibilities down to the product business units. But that remains to be seen.

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Productivity Products Organization Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

When IBM sold its PC division to Lenovo in 2005, many people questioned the wisdom of divesting a successful business, especially one that IBM had worked so hard to create. Intuit had many failures as part of their innovation process. Yet leaders of both companies persevered despite these headwinds, setbacks, and challenges.

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Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

When Amazon announced last week that it will acquire Whole Foods Market, a grocery chain with over 450 retail stores and deep industry talent, for $13.7 on the news, increasing its market capitalization by $11 billion. Back in 2005, Amazon Prime was conceived, developed, and launched in about two months.

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Retail Planning Agility Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Marketing groups like to think of themselves as technically savvy and feel a need to prove it. Does it improve the process for the customer or just the company? Tesco in the UK pioneered an RFID-based approach to checkout in 2005. While the technology is new to the market, early results are very promising.

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Technology Cost Discount ROI 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Given its current approximate market cap, we could call this the $640 billion dollar question.). Yes, Apple's marketers are being coy. course we know that, as research by Booz [pdf] back in 2005 demonstrated, "Money doesn't buy results." In innovation and product creation, that requires: Good decision-making process, fueled by.

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Press Release Technology Productivity Products 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

In 2005, Dimon hired Ina Drew to head the company's Chief Investment Office, the unit responsible for the bank's risk exposure. As the second week of May began, Dimon realized, "The last thing I told the market — that it was a tempest in a teapot — was dead wrong," the Journal reports. And few people foresaw that the U.S.

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Banking Kahneman Document Simon 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Employers can readily apply market forces and supply-chain tools to improve the performance of both. Some large employers are doing this: They have used their purchasing power to engage their major providers and health plans to join them in a collaborative process aimed at eliminating waste. Insight Center. Purchase quality.

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Health Care Supply Chain Incentives Quality 8

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 process was simply less rigorous. Happened in 2005 and was unquestionably the right move. And it's a shame. IBM-Lenovo.

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Due Diligence EBITDA Health Care Gordon 15

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 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

He was first shown the door when John Scully and other marketing folks led the charge at Apple — a charge that quickly took a nosedive. It took a few years to get things back on track, but from 2005-2010 Apple's innovation premium jumped to 52%. This is not the first time, of course, that Jobs has left the helm at Apple.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Restructuring Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

In 2005, four dozen senior executives at Lehman Brothers took a decision-making course. Then they rushed back to their headquarters in Times Square and made some of the worst snap decisions in the history of financial markets. Five years after Lehman’s collapse, the question endures: can bankers learn the limits of human cognition?

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Banking Reputation Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

The video below, for example, shows a side-by-side time-lapse comparison of a GE technician wiring a wind turbine’s control box using the company’s current process, and then doing the same task while guided by line-of-sight instructions overlaid on the job by an AR headset. but also in most of the developed world.

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Video Technology Education Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

Like a shopper in a flea market, it is quite easy for a CEO at a midsized company to get distracted by sexy deals. When Lyndon Faulkner joined as CEO in 2005, he felt the then-$80 million firm had to make acquisitions to grow. Midmarket investment bankers love to shop potential acquisitions to their CEO clients.

Company 8

Company Due Diligence CEO Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

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. IT also upgraded old technology and processes, achieving significant improvements in service and compliance.

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Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The fastest-growing segments of America''s job market — by far — are temporary and part-time employment. If they can get that value — or most of it — from contingency workers, outsourcing, automation, innovative processes or capital investment, why wouldn''t they?

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Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

He also emphasized in a 1999 book that “the wrong structure can doom all other market-driven initiatives in the organization to failure.” Moreover, customer-centric firms that operated in highly competitive markets had 69% lower performance, compared with product-centric peers. In his 2006 survey of U.S.

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Restructuring Company Henderson Health Care 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. Still others hope to create market barriers for global companies — a form of digital protectionism. Philippe Intraligi/Getty Images.

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Supply Chain Globalization GAAP Policies 8