Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

2010 ASA Deming Lecture – “Dr. 2013, Vijay Nair: Industrial Statistics – Research vs Practice. 2015, William Meeker: Reliability – Another Dimension of Quality. Guest post by John Hunter , who founded curiouscat.com in 1996. Brent James has worked at Intermountain Healthcare for several decades.

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Deming Institute

JULY 30, 2018

2010, Sir William Osler: Dr. Deming Consults on Quality. 2013, Vijay Nair: Industrial Statistics – Research vs Practice. 2015, William Meeker: Reliability – Another Dimension of Quality. Stuart Hunter (Princeton University), New Challenges for Statisticians. 2011, Roger Hoerl: Need Any Country be Poor?

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Deming Institute

APRIL 16, 2018

2015 ASA Deming Lecture by William Meeker – Reliability: The Other Dimension of Quality: William Meeker begins the presentations discussing his experience with W. 2010, Sir William Osler: Dr. Deming Consults on Quality. 2013, Vijay Nair: Industrial Statistics – Research vs Practice. 2017, Fritz Scheuren: W.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

The industry''s most competitive companies are using this generational shift as an opportunity to transform their organizations, aggressively recruiting for digital fluency at all levels — from research engineers to midlevel customer service managers. But solving the workforce problem is inherently part of this process.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It helped spark new levels of interest in Africa by the international business community, and companies in a range of industries—from consumer goods to financial services to technology—have since expanded their African footprints. a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4% from 2000 to 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

Under new ownership (Volvo was sold to China’s Geely by Ford in 2010), the Swedish automaker decided to transform its product line by becoming a premium player. To get the skills and change agents it needed, Volvo looked outside the automotive industry. The company sold 571,000 cars last year, up from 373,000 in 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

And it’s a telling tale about whether the consumer products industry can get a digital business model right. million Series D in November 2015 — Dollar Shave Club had been valued at $630 million, according to Pitchbook. A fundamental shift in the industry. The deal is full of intriguing details.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

For example, Bunge, an agribusiness firm, reported a $56 million quarterly loss in its sugar and bioenergy segments due to drought in 2010. Flooding in 2011 in Thailand, harmed 160 companies in the textile industry and halted nearly a quarter of the country’s garment production, increasing global prices by 28%.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

As one accountant based in Japan during 2010, explained , “there was a big rush of inquiries about schemes that might be used either to split out salaries or defer part of it.” In 2015, Japan reformed its corporate governance code to require boards to have at least two independent directors.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

An Indian investment bank, Avendus, projects 376 million Indian Net users by 2015. Morgan Stanley projects that 3G penetration will reach 22 percent by 2015. A leapfrog effect will mean that three of every four Net users will do so by 2015. Part of what's fueling growth in Net penetration is an explosion in mobility.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. But Forus placed its bets on the lower cost CEMOS technology which the mobile phone industry embraced. In 2016, the U.S. spent a staggering $3.2 Vijay Govindarajan Ravi Ramamurti.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. For example, in 2015, Maersk and MSC, the world’s two largest liner shipping companies, established 2M, a 10-year vessel sharing agreement covering 193 vessels. This all presents CEOs with a tough dilemma.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

By the time of the Paris climate meeting in 2015, which resulted in the more robust global agreement now supported by every country in the world except the United States, it was clear that we needed to consider a more ambitious target, 1.5°C °F) since pre-industrial times, holding the world to 1.5°C auto industry.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Investors also did well: A $100 investment in Ruger in late 2010 was worth $443 in late 2015, while the equivalent investment in the S&P 500 yielded only $163 over that time frame. The symbolism is important though, showing that government and gun industry cooperation is possible. Would this investment increase gun sales?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

When Dan Akerson became CEO in 2010, he brought a bit of daylight into the hallowed halls, breaking down siloes to urge collaboration between departments that had long stopped talking to each other — engineering and parts buyers, product development and purchasing, to name some especially critical relationships. Auto industry Leading teams'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

A 2010 McKinsey study finds that across all industry sectors, companies with the most women on their boards of directors significantly and consistently outperform those with no female representation: by 41 percent in terms of return on equity and by 56 percent in terms of operating results. As of 2010, women held just 15.7

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Pure Internet-plays Betterment and FutureAdvisor launched in 2010 and Wealthfront in 2011. But Vanguard’s robo-advisor platform hit the ground running in its May 2015 debut and by the end of the year had $31.1 billion in discretionary assets under management — more than the above competitors combined.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2013

And it's just the latest in a series of Chinese commitments, which include the following: July 2010: 5 trillion yuan , or $800 billion, alternative energy plan over 10 years (this is like the part of the U.S. August 2012: 40% increase in solar target (21 gigawatts by 2015). stimulus plan that funded clean tech, but times 10).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Attitudes have changed since 2010, the last time Washington debated serious climate action, and not only because most of us have connected the dots between climate change and the extreme weather events that ravage our communities. In Colorado, the state renewable energy mandate was bumped up from 20% to 30% in 2010. And the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

In 2010 the “New GM” did one of the largest initial public offerings in history, with share sales to the public of $23.1 billion from 2010 through 2013), it would probably still be bankrupt but for the booming Chinese market. Instead, U.S. taxpayers put up $49.5 billion by the U.S. million vehicles in 2008.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

invests vast amounts in innovation – $135 billion from federal government sources alone in 2015 – yet it lacks a coherent intellectual property strategy to ensure that the investment pays off. Is the U.S. naïve? It’s puzzling. Whatever the reason, the U.S. should move quickly to address this shortcoming.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Quantifying the impressive rise of the middle class, FSG calculates private consumption in Peru is set to grow 54% between 2010 and 2015. The three main grocery retail chains in Peru grew from 57 stores in 2001 to 155 stores in 2010. Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The annual number of venture capital deals expanded from 8,500 in 2010 to 14,800 in 2017, for an increase of 73% in just seven years. The amount of capital invested in those deals surged from $52 billion in 2010 to $171 billion in 2017 — a gain of 231%. metros found population size and density to be key.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010. Harnessing Big Potential While Minimizing Risk.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

It’s even frequently been referred to as “the next Industrial Revolution.” And while we’ve found customers for IoT connectivity, the number of our customers who value the new technology has been much lower than industry projections led us to believe. Our products work with apps or without apps.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Wen also remarked that China, "cannot sacrifice rural industry and the interests of rural residents." And while only 34 percent of the rural population earned more than $882 per year in 2009, this proportion is expected to reach 54 percent in 2015. Four years later, it was $845 — a 20 percent compound annual growth rate.

Health Care 8

Health Care Policies Information Technology Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2015

The central strategic questions of the industrial model, “How much more can we sell?” ” As Ranjay Gulati notes in Reorganize for Resilience (2010), this means orienting everyone to the goal of delivering more value to customers sooner, and aligning all decision-making with this goal.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

A study of methamphetamine users that appeared in the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment in 2010 concluded that people with low CBQ scores were more likely to stay sober and that participants whose scores decreased over time — indicating that they felt more powerful as time passed — had increased odds of abstinence.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The airline industry has experienced great volatility from deregulation, takeovers through mergers and acquisitions, and, as always, unpredictable forces of nature. There can be a lot of stress in this industry. “The learning curve in any industry is steep, but it is particularly so in the airline industry.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. Most scalable startups are typically in high-tech and creative industries, but many low-tech startup models can grow and develop in spaces like Union Market.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. billion in 2010 to $4.9 Partnerships like these are also part of the innovation portfolio.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Industries or Fields not fit for Servant-Leadership? Ben : And, speaking of Southwest Airlines, Southwest Airlines happens to be one of the most well known as one of, well, the industry in which they work – the airline industry, is always touted as one of the most difficult industries to make money in, or the most challenging.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Industries or Fields not fit for Servant-Leadership? Ben : And, speaking of Southwest Airlines, Southwest Airlines happens to be one of the most well known as one of, well, the industry in which they work – the airline industry, is always touted as one of the most difficult industries to make money in, or the most challenging.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

in 2015 and is on track to reach a targeted 2.5% At 20%, China’s share of global R&D expenditure in 2015 was well above Japan’s at 9% or Germany’s at 6% and second only to that of the U.S. Globally, these are industries where the state is often the sole or dominant customer. in 2000 to 2.0% respectively.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Big Bang, a Korean pop (K-Pop) boy band, earned $44 million in 2015, making it among the highest paid in the industry. K-Pop companies rewrote the playbook for Korea’s music industry. The main difference between K-Pop and the rest of the music industry is talent management. The answer is no.

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Globalization Succession Talent Management Media 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

For tens of thousands of fossil fuel workers, though, the energy industry outlook is not promising. For coal industry workers, the future looks particularly bleak. First, some background on the coal industry: Profitability for U.S. First, some background on the coal industry: Profitability for U.S.

Energy 8

Energy Industry Engineering Training 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Mark Bertolini, CEO of Aetna, began his tenure, in 2010, by lowering targets by over one-third, in a single bold move. ” Bertolini and his team studied the industry and concluded that a reasonable target was no more than 6% EPS.

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