Deming Institute

JULY 30, 2018

Vincent Barabba presented the 2016 ASA Deming Lecture: Profound Knowledge from a Knowledge Use Perspective. Vincent Barabba led the US Census Bureau, founded Market Insight Corporation and authored The Decision Loom: A design or interactive decision-making in organizations (among other books). 2017, Fritz Scheuren: W.

Deming 28

Deming Kaizen Rogers Drucker 28

Strategy Driven

APRIL 23, 2019

Matt Cutts, an employee for Google, revealed in 2010 that the iconic search engine was using links from several different social sites to determine a website’s ranking. If you need help improving your site’s ranking, consider using Local SEO Search, a digital marketing agency.

Strategy 51

Strategy Engineering Reputation Tools 51

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

A decade ago, the Mach 3 razor was Gillette’s premium offering for men, until the Fusion line was launched in 2006 at a 40% price increase, followed by the Fusion ProGlide in 2010 and the Fusion Proshield Flexball in 2016—to name a few of the brand’s major releases. times the cost of mainstream ice creams.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Marketing Price Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In fact, by some measures, the best emerging-market firms are more competitive than firms in advanced economies including the United States and the United Kingdom. Indeed, it is much harder for this plethora of emerging-market firms in the outperforming countries to get to the top and then stay there.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Long-term Short-term GDP 8

Deming Institute

JANUARY 9, 2017

In Warren Buffett’s 2010 annual letter to shareholders he mentions the advantage Berkshire Hathaway has because it doesn’t focus on short term results: At GEICO, for example, we enthusiastically spent $900 million last year on advertising to obtain policyholders who deliver us no immediate profits. In Profit Beyond Measure by H.

Short-term 28

Short-term Long-term Deming Management 28

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

before 2010, and in only 50 countries by 2015. It also must face a diverse set of national regulatory restrictions, such as those that limit what content can be made available in local markets. and Netflix has managed to make inroads into even those markets where Prime arrived first.

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

before 2010, and in only 50 countries by 2015. It also must face a diverse set of national regulatory restrictions, such as those that limit what content can be made available in local markets. and Netflix has managed to make inroads into even those markets where Prime arrived first.

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

The paltry market for organic wine around the world belies the fact that over the past half century, countless organic winegrowers and vintners have dedicated great effort to creating a larger market for the category, without much success. While 6% of the wine sold at Systembolaget in 2011 was organic, by 2016 it was over 20%.

Organization 10

Organization Chemicals Retail Reputation 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

In a recent publication in the Journal of Product Innovation, we undertook a systematic review of 40 years (1975 to 2016) of innovation research. Entrants may target over-looked segments of the market with a product considered inferior by incumbent’s most-demanding customers and later move up-market as their product improves.

Disruptive Innovation 12

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Business Model Human Capital 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Global stock markets promptly floundered. Like virtually all believers in globalization, I deplore Brexit and think the markets (and Game of Thrones fans) are right to be concerned. Like virtually all believers in globalization, I deplore Brexit and think the markets (and Game of Thrones fans) are right to be concerned.

GDP 8

GDP Long-term Merchandising Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

People are accessing, consuming, and sharing content in more varied ways than ever, and marketers have scores of new opportunities to understand, reach, and engage with consumers. The next evolution in digital advertising must be driven by innovative platforms that more effectively help marketers move their businesses forward.

Advertising 9

Advertising Industry Technology Bottom-up 9

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

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage McKinsey Resistance Crisis 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

In 2010, the Seilers surveyed all officers and social services staff. By February 2016, more than three-quarters of the Central Territory Corps were trained in the new model. “You can’t claim impact if you only see a kid or family for five minutes once a month,” observed Carol Seiler.

Microfinance 9

Microfinance Strategic Planning Finance Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

When Subra Suresh was tapped to lead the National Science Foundation (NSF), in 2010, he saw that many of the pathbreaking discoveries developed through the agency’s grants weren’t finding their way to the marketplace, so he sought to foster better links between government and industry. Cat Yu for HBR. The Future of I-Corps.

Entrepreneur 12

Entrepreneur Venture Funding Conference Course 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Moreover, the population is aging and the size of the labor force is set to plateau in 2016 (See “China’s Labor Market” chart below). This is the overarching goal of China’s 2010-2015 plan. This is attributable to China’s national technology strategy of “market access in exchange for technology.”

GDP 13

GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Smartphone sales in 2011 are estimated to reach 468 million units, a 57% increase over 2010. A brand also has to be aligned with the market profile of the consumer segment. Many companies forget to align customer service with the brand proposition for the targeted market segment.

Brand 11

Brand B2C Market Segmentation Travel 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

” We will need to cut CO2 emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, the report says, and get to no emissions by 2050. As soon as the 2016 election was over, an auto industry group asked the new administration to give them some more wiggle room on aggressive fuel efficiency standards established by the Obama administration.

Efficiency 12

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

Economywide ROIC has trended downward since the 1980s, falling from above 6% in the mid-1960s to 5% in 1980, then to 3% in 1990, and to only a bit more than 1% by 2010. GDP growth could hit nearly 5% in 2016. The comparison is imprecise, of course, but nevertheless suggestive.

ROIC 8

ROIC McKinsey GDP Company 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The CWLP survey found that 65% of educated Brazilian women view the public sector as very desirable to work for, head and shoulders above their counterparts in other BRIC markets. The 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics offer opportunities to work on big public projects that are fast-tracked and high-profile. based multinational.

Survey 13

Survey Education Competitive Advantage Human Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

After much deliberation, we partnered with University of Chicago Medicine (UCM) in 2010. The committee recently held a half-day retreat to develop a three-year plan for the program and set strategic priorities for 2016. Indeed, market share in each service line has grown substantially. Willingness to compromise.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

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. Step one is for manufacturers to adopt the role of steward for the entire gun marketing system, all the way to the buyer.

Licensing 8

Licensing Drucker Retail Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

A central plank of the plan is to “return $8 [billion] to $9 billion to shareholders in 2015 and to reach the top end of its three-year target of returning $18 billion to $20 billion to them by the end of 2016.” ” In 2014, McDonald’s expended $3.2 In 2014, when the pay of McDonald’s CEO was $6.4

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. The goal of the Digital Single Market is an ambitious one: to deliver by the end of 2016 the equivalent of US$ 471 billion per year to the regional economy and 3.8 million jobs. There are subtle, yet significant, changes happening already.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In July 2016, the mega-hit “ Gangnam Style ” by South Korean singer PSY surpassed 2.6 to Kazakhstan, and selects a few trainable and marketable individuals out of more than 300,000 applicants. Rather than market performers in a one-way manner, they nurture relationships with customers via social media.

Globalization 10

Globalization Succession Talent Management Media 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

Using BoardEx data provided by the Center for Corporate Performance, we examined a sample of 1,212 CEOs who led S&P 1500 firms between 2000 and 2010. We measured their firm’s value by Tobin’s Q, a ratio between market value of assets to book value of assets.

Diversity 10

Diversity CEO Sample Financial Leverage 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Branding consultancy Interbrand estimated Samsung’s 2016 brand value at $51.8 In 2009 and 2010, Toyota recalled over 8 million vehicles globally after defects led to dozens of driver fatalities and serious injuries. But when we conducted a survey of Toyota owners in early 2010, we saw a different story.

Long-term 8

Long-term Crisis Brand Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Competing for scarce labor in a tight market, they will have trouble continuing to shift medical bills onto employees as they have for several decades. To address these challenges, they will have to band together in purchasing coalitions that give them the local market power to force health systems to reform. Tim Robberts/Getty Images.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Insurance Price 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

In 2010, Google rocked the $60 billion broadband industry by announcing plans to deploy fiber-based home internet service, offering connections up to a gigabit per second — 100 times faster than average speeds at the time. As it turned out, providers blew past that milestone as early as 2016. PM Images/Getty Images.

Succession 8

Succession Construction Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

Twitter’s market cap just plummeted after a bad earnings report. Given that news, it seems that businesses that have dominated their markets are learning that the magic elixir of network effects and winner-takes-all advantages are about as reliable as cures for baldness. What markets have these companies actually won?

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Advertising Marketing Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

women’s participation in the labor market has nearly doubled, from 34% of working age women (age 16 and older) in the labor force in 1950 to almost 57% in 2016. Looking at Census data from 1980 to 2010, I studied how women’s participation in the workforce influences wage growth in approximately 250 U.S. In the U.S.,

Participative 8

Participative Trends GDP Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. From 2010-2015, the share of China-origin patents among all patents granted by the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) was only 2.2%. From 2010 to 2015, the number of patent applications filed with the State Intellectual Property Office tripled from 300,000 to over 900,000.

Innovation 8

Innovation Drucker Policies Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

By that I mean that pharma companies should develop innovative treatments for pervasive unmet medical needs; avoid corruption, collusion, and other unethical marketing practices; and make sure that their products reach as many patients around the world as possible. citizens have a positive opinion of big pharma.

Reputation 8

Reputation Pharmaceuticals Price Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

has slowed , and that in most industries the biggest firms have higher market share than they did a decade ago. of firms had adopted it in 2010, whereas 7% had by 2016, which is an annualized growth rate of almost 50%. in 2010 to 7% in 2016, which is a more than doubling every other year. businesses.

Technology 10

Technology Agility Fixed Costs Software 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

The tax bill will be the most important health care legislation enacted since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010. These premium increases will occur because, with the repeal of the mandate, many young, healthy people will exit markets, leaving a sicker, more costly insurance pool behind. Older individuals will be most affected.

Health Care 8

Health Care Planning Insurance Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2018

labor market. The labor market is likely no different. For example, Todd Zenger worried in a 2016 Harvard Business Review article that wage transparency would cause strife within a workplace and could even hurt productivity. This lack of transparency may be keeping millions of Americans from earning higher paychecks.

Company 8

Company Survey Comparison Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

” Vodaphone is considering moving its headquarters out of the UK and its CEO Vittorio Colao had told the BBC that a Brexit would preclude it from a giant new single market. A third of VC investments in Europe were focused on the UK in the first quarter of 2016, according to CBInsights. billion as compared to $4.4

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

There were approximately 180,000 new H-1B visas issued in 2016, according to State Department data. On the other side of the debate, H-1B supporters argue that the program brings needed skills into the labor market, which helps firms remain innovative, productive, and competitive. Who gets H-1Bs?

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9