Six Disciplines

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Six Disciplines’ program combines continuous business improvement methodology based on proven best-practices, an innovative add-in for Microsoft Outlook, and coaching services to increase self-leadership effectiveness. The difference between Six Disciplines and other strategy consulting firms is their focus on execution and accountability.

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Case Study Micromanagement Metrics Commitment 91

Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Research from two well-respected organizations makes it clear that we have a big collective blind spot that’s dragging down productivity, innovation and economic performance. SAS Institute, the world’s largest privately-held software business, was recognized this year as number one on Fortune’s “Best Places to Work” list for 2010.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 24, 2009

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Rogers Taylorism Taylor Ethics 118

Strategy Driven

APRIL 25, 2014

Two categories of platform companies will support the Bottom-Up Economic Revolution: marketplaces and cloud-based small business software. Bill Clerico is CEO and co-founder of WePay , where he drives the company’s vision, strategy and growth. million employees—nearly half of those 1.5 FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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Bottom-up Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage Software 78

QAspire

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Seth Godin’s “What Matters Now” and a Few More Gems Seth Godin recently released a free eBook titled “What Matters Now” – it is a collaborative effort of 70 great thinkers who have presented brilliant ideas that will truly shake you up to think deep and wide as we approach 2010.

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Godin Agility eBook Directory 84

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

. “If you went to bed last night as an industrial company, you’re going to wake up this morning as a software and analytics company.” As venture capital investor Marc Andreesen pointed out, “software is eating the world.” ” Jeff Immelt, former CEO of General Electric. This may happen in two ways.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Business Model Human Capital 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Businesses understand the power of digital innovations to reshape industries and markets. Yet, time and again, they have struggled to innovate with new and disruptive technologies. Investors affect innovation investments. ” Investors seemingly just weren’t looking for radical innovation from GE.

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Innovation Company Marketing Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

Reading the headlines, you might think that the most urgent question about national success in innovation and growth is whether the U.S. Germany does a better job on innovation in areas as diverse as sustainable energy systems, molecular biotech, lasers, and experimental software engineering. or China should get the gold medal.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2010

It became clear to me as I watched the digital economy in 2010 that we had passed a tipping point and moved into a new age of technology use. The Cloud Era is about the cloud, and also about three other fundamental trends in computing that became unmistakable in 2010. 25 billion tweets were sent in 2010. Technology Delight.

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Technology Software Self-aware Trends 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

Imagine you're in charge of software selection for your enterprise, and you're turning your attention to a specific IT challenge. It's a business-critical need requiring software that is capable of some heavy lifting. Do you consider open source software for the job? Data here reflect responses received in July-August 2010).

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Software Tips Survey Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Some business pundits today believe innovation ignites better in startups than in large, established corporations. In fact, a lot of big companies have proven they are better positioned than emergent firms to create and execute innovation, however on-fire a startup may be. Laura Schneider FOR HBR. ” I disagree.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

"We're looking for new models of innovation. Comstock was telling me about the company's growing innovation platform, the GE Ecomagination Challenge which inspires collaboration between GE and entrepreneurs. The Ecomagination Challenge, now in its second year, is GE's foray in to the fast-growing world of "open" innovation.

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Innovation Kleiner Entrepreneur Brand 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Plenty of people — including here on Harvard's blog — espouse the theory that big companies can't innovate. A look at any performance measure shows that innovation can come from either size, and that both arguments are oversimplifications. And the CEO sees enabling a culture of collaborative innovation as key.

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Operations Innovation Industry CEO 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

“We needed an enduring strategy independent of any legislation,” recalls MedStar executive vice president Eric R. Strategies for staying ahead. The innovation portfolio. This is a collection of budgets to fund both the projects in the innovation portfolio and the new initiatives for the core business.

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Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

There was a lot more common thinking than critical, innovative thinking. Bill’s passion an his sales skills were clearly evident, but his presentation came across as a wannabe self-help guru more than a CEO of one of the world’s best software companies. In a world where everything is connected, anything is possible.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Posted by Thornton May on November 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment The classic Harvard Business School case “Otisline (A)” 1 begins with the quote, “… our objective is to go unnoticed.” The case illustrates how information technology, innovatively, insightfully and courageously deployed, can change the structure of an industry.

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Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 51

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

Both Gmail and AdSense, the company’s ad software for publishers, started out as 20% time projects. But back in 2010, Chris Trimble criticized 20% time both for being expensive and for emphasizing ideas over execution. How Google innovates. The first step to innovating like Google, they argue, is patience.

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IPO Management Engineering Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Companies that correctly match their strategy-making processes to the competitive circumstances of their industry, business function, or geographic markets perform better than those that don't. The answers give rise to four styles for executing strategy: classical, adaptive, shaping, and visionary.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Thanks for a wonderful 2010. Great professional achievements are tarnished against a backdrop of personal failure. You've helped me a great deal in this area Mike. Thanks for the great reminder. I'm looking forward to 2011 and I appreciate your advice and friendship.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 376

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2011

Innovators who build platforms face a difficult set of trade-offs. Perhaps the best example of such a complementary supplier is the app developer that provides software programs that you might download on an iPhone or iPad, just like Coke and Huggies supply products that make supermarkets valuable. Not dead yet!").

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Software Strategy Innovation Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

Rapid technological and competitive innovation. They hit information sectors like media and software first because media products consist of information, and therefore can be wholly digitized, converted from their physical form to a virtual one. A great deal of the argument made in 2010 by those in favor of U.S.

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Media Industry Trends Health Care 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

But by the company’s launch, in 2010, most urban taxi fleets used modern dispatch with GPS, plus custom hardware and software. Uber publicists presented the company as the epitome of innovation, styling critics as incumbent puppets stuck in the past. To be fair, Uber didn’t start it — Lyft did.

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Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

That''s not a cost-effective strategy. Translation software? That''s fine for short bursts of communication, but would you trust a more complex discussion to the software? Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? I began Englishnization in 2010.

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Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

Blockbuster went bankrupt in 2010. A company has an innovative idea, which for a while provides competitive advantage. Later on, a new innovator comes along and pushes it aside. ” And Zingales fears that a version of this motto aptly describes the true strategy of at least some of corporate America.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Most pundits agreed on what was wrong — a lack of breakthrough innovation since the passing of founder Steve Jobs. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation. When Innovation Is Strategy. Google’s Strategy vs. Glass’s Potential. in Innovation.

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Industry Wireless Advertising Content 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2011

Yesterday HP announced that it would exit the PC and tablet computer business , focusing on higher-margin "strategic priorities of cloud, solutions and software with an emphasis on enterprise, commercial and government markets." And it's not like they were ignoring innovation. In 2010 the game was over. How do I know?

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Software Maturity Resistance Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

It is easier to find best practices in a range of processes, e.g., in answering customer calls, improving the time it takes to treat someone with a heart attack, or reducing the waste in launching a new software update. Greater information availability. Twenty years ago there wasn't an Internet to allow companies to easily share information.

Operations 15

Operations Six Sigma Supply Chain Webinar 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Every industry, no matter how traditional — agriculture, automotive, aviation, energy — is being upended by the addition of sensors, internet connectivity, and software. For the past 10 years, my research, writing, and consulting have focused on the question of how to build robust ecosystem strategies.

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Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Social entrepreneurship has evolved a great deal since the late 1980s, when pioneers like City Year 's Alan Khazei and Teach for America 's Wendy Kopp took great risks to prove that innovative organizations could produce transformative social change. The situation is particularly dire at the very early stages.

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Entrepreneur Microfinance Market Segmentation Incubator 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

At the enterprise level, think of all of your corporate initiatives as a backlog, just like software developers think of future product features as a backlog. a 525-employee software company, began applying agile methodologies in 2005. So in 2010, Holm decided to run his nine-member executive group as an agile team. .’

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Agility White Paper How To Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

The four of us weren't completely comfortable buying glasses online, so to get over the hurdle, we offered a virtual try-on using facial recognition software and an innovative home try-on program: We send out five pairs you choose, you keep them for five days, and return them when you're done for free, with no obligation to buy.

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Retail Fashion Brand Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

It came by great gas mileage on the back of a scam: The car’s supposedly low emissions were fraud — perpetrated by VW engineers who designed the car’s software to lower emissions during testing, only to let them bump back up in real life use. The time has come to stop using hope as a strategy.

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PPM Policies Engineering Airlines 8

QAspire

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

They spend long hours over the years to understand, study, apply and innovate ideas in this core area. In my experience, the key to remain innovative in your core area is to find an ‘alternative’ – a creative pursuit that you love, that is different from your normal work and where you spend at least a few hours in a week. Check it out.

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Creativity Blog Directory Quality 84

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

Netbook makers such as Asus projected strong demand growth in their category for 2010, because they assumed more-or-less continuous technological trajectory from portable computers to netbooks as web appliances. Consider, for example, changes brought about by microprocessors becoming smaller, lighter, and less power-hungry.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Unless we also design new ways of talking about ideas and exploring the future, those product and service innovations will never be embraced by the organization and never make their way out into the world. One of the key supporters during the process was the Head of Strategy for the Bank, Jon Nicholson. Popularized by David M.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Implement and update the model Using analytical software such as SAS, build and implement the model.

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Resources Process Constraint Objective 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

I'm sure I asked this next question in the kind of holier-than-thou voice that only a 20-something can conjure: Why would I shift my career from Apple and GoLive (a hot web authoring software) to CAD, where innovation levels and growth were single digit? If it's not about the strategy being right, is it about the culture we enable?

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