Deming Institute

JULY 30, 2018

The idea of testing opinions and beliefs is key to Deming’s management system (as it is to the scientific method). We have now added blog posts on nearly all ASA Deming lecture from 2009 through 2017, the others are: 2009, J. 2010, Sir William Osler: Dr. Deming Consults on Quality. 2017, Fritz Scheuren: W.

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Deming Kaizen Rogers Drucker 28

HR Digest

JANUARY 29, 2019

In 2010, it was estimated that within a decade more than 40 percent of the American workforce, or 60 million people, would be independent workers. We are on track: figures from 2017 show 36 percent of the workforce, or 57.3 Paradoxically, one of the most stressful things about working independently is managing your productivity.

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Taylorism Taylor Teamwork Competitive Advantage 61

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 24, 2017

According to estimates by supply chain management organizations, the global supply chain market is worth more than $10 trillion a year. As a company, managing your supply chain, organizing shipments and coordinating your efforts with other companies takes a lot of planning and effort. Returns management should be a major focus.

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Supply Chain Strategy Cost Software 50

Deming Institute

APRIL 16, 2018

We have now added blog posts on most ASA Deming lecture from 2009 through 2017 (and 2009), the others are: 2009, J. 2010, Sir William Osler: Dr. Deming Consults on Quality. 2017, Fritz Scheuren: W. 2017, Fritz Scheuren: W. Stuart Hunter (Princeton University), New Challenges for Statisticians.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

Careerbuilder was initially a service that helped companies launch job listings and then managed the inbound application volume. This makes 2017 the start of the post-listings world for online talent acquisition. Careerbuilder hit the market in 1996. Subsequent investment and growth would lead to an IPO in 1999.

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Price IPO Content Marketing 101

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2018

There is a crying need for companies to enlist their supply chain management departments in the fight against cyberattackers. firms in 2017 were launched through the IT systems of suppliers or other third parties such as contractors, up from less than one-quarter of attacks in 2010. Hold supply managers accountable.

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Supply Chain Management Metrics Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

These major transformations pose significant implications for entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, workers, and managers, as well as policymakers for nations and cities across the globe. 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.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Globalization Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

However, after 2009, despite employers reporting an increasing number of vacancies, the unemployment rate hardly budged, resulting in an outward shift in the Beveridge Curve that persisted through the end of 2017. That share jumped to 35% in 2010 has since fallen to just 12% as of 2017. Adobe Dreamweaver) as well.

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Education Skills Marketing Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

We measured digital innovation based on the number of digital patents the firm had secured from 1998 to 2010. To do this, we compared the market valuations between 1998-2010 of companies that were similar in terms of their digital status (leader or laggard) and their growth trajectory (based on our model estimate).

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Innovation Company Marketing Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. In my view, however, the structure and processes of the GE board were poorly designed for effectively overseeing Immelt and his management team.

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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. For example, its members asked why every design change in a car required a dozen signatures and managed to cut that number in half. It’s still a work in progress.”

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Engineering Mass Marketing Automotive Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Amazon’s 2017 acquisition of Whole Foods was met with a lot of fanfare. provided the founders with considerable latitude in introducing innovative and unorthodox management methods. Prior to the Amazon merger, the company had an egalitarian structure organized around self-managed teams. Yongyuan Dai/Getty Images.

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Price Decentralization Long-term Self-aware 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

In 2017, just before Macron’s election, the left-leaning CGT lost its historical dominance and was bypassed in workers’ representatives elections by the CFDT, a more moderate and centrist labor union. (Of course, never say never, as the surprising rejection of the agreement at Air France shows.).

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Proposal GDP Airlines Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

By 2017 it was operating in over 190 countries, and today close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. before 2010, and in only 50 countries by 2015. and Netflix has managed to make inroads into even those markets where Prime arrived first. Yet the majority of Prime subscribers are in the U.S.,

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First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Doyle became CEO in 2010, after some troubled years , when the company’s growth was slow and its stock price was stuck, a lame $8.76 Starbucks still doesn’t have coffee shops in Italy, although there is talk of opening them in 2017.) The scale of the changes at Domino’s are remarkable.

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CEO Open-book Price Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2017

Meanwhile, one of Well Fargo’s chief competitors, Bank of America, has been relatively scandal free, with impressive revenue and profit results for the first half of 2017. For the past several years, Wells Fargo has been run by MBAs, while Bank of America’s CEO since 2010, Brian Moynihan, has a law degree from Notre Dame.

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CEO Accrual Accounting Pharmaceuticals Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

In April, its board increased the amount that could be used for buybacks by the end of March 2017 — to $140 billion from the $90 billion it had authorized in 2014. Clinton advocates full implementation of the executive-pay disclosure directives of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010.

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Proposal Hedge Safe Harbor Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Examining 46,934 resumes shared on Glassdoor by people who graduated between 2010 and 2017, the researchers looked at each person’s college major and their post-college jobs in the five years after graduation. Among the male graduates, the most common jobs are lab tech, data analyst, and manager.

Engineering 12

Engineering Industry Learning-by-Doing Health Care 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

India Business Council found that its large company members were prepared to invest $40 billion into India by 2017. billion in 2010, predicting it would grow at 20% a year for a decade. Ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington last September, the U.S.-India

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Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. 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.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

To monitor this ratio, the Portland law will make use of data that, beginning in 2017, U.S. The SEC’s new disclosure requirement implements a section of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 that seeks to expose extreme pay gaps within corporations and to permit cross-company comparisons of CEO-worker pay inequality.

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CEO Black-Scholes Price Merton 8

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Earlier studies like the 2017 Mckinsey report have revealed that almost 50 percent of work activities were already automated, especially in the manufacturing sector. Sales managers, computer programmers, financial advisors, legal professionals, and marketing analysts are some of the professions where AI will make huge inroads.

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Report Education McKinsey Software 90

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

As a percent of workers’ compensation, employers’ health care spending has held steady at between 8% and 9% since 2010. Between 2011 and 2017, employees’ premiums and deductibles grew faster than their median income. Their premiums have been increasing 3% to 5% annually, rather modest by historic standards.

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Health Care Cost Insurance Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce leader, manages the world’s largest money market fund, and now plays an important role in financial and payment services. Indeed, from 2011 to 2017, the GAFAM companies (Google/Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft) acquired more than 65 leading-edge European technology companies.

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Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

Individual markets were troubled prior to the ACA’s enactment in 2010. In 2010, an estimated 9 million adults who had tried to buy a plan in the individual market over the prior three years reported that they were turned down, charged a higher price, or had a condition excluded from their plan because of their health.

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Insurance Marketing Health Care Policies 12