Deming Institute

AUGUST 30, 2018

Guest post by David Kachoui (previously published in Quality Progress, August 2014): Director of Business Development at Natech Plastics. Students ran operations. Franz, The Toyota Way to Continuous Improvement, McGraw-Hill, 2011, pp. Parents were patrons. Liker and James K.

Quality 51

Quality P&L Deming Education 51

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

To do so, it had to come up with a brand of management all its own, centered around “people analytics,” a quantitative approach to hiring and operations. Earlier this year, Google’s SVP of People Operations, Laszlo Bock, wrote about its latest “people analytics” experiment. What Google could do better.

IPO 14

IPO Management Engineering Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

Only 35% are in line or operational roles – and there has been no significant change in these percentages over the last three years. However, this is better than the 20% in 2011. These companies are still, in 2014, pictures of imbalance. None have a female CEO. They are run by an exclusively male team.

Execution 12

Execution Committee Balanced Scorecard Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Using our robust data archive system which captures electronic health record, medical and prescription claims, and other information, we create dashboard displays for use by leadership, operational teams, and clinicians to reveal population-level trends and identify patients and clinicians for targeted interventions.

System 10

System Health Care Review Focus Group 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

By 2011, it had become apparent that Brazil’s recent prosperity depended too much on China’s appetite for commodities and on the Brazilian government’s ability to fuel consumer spending through direct transfers and credit expansion. By 2014, target price to EBITDA ratios had already fallen to 6.9 times EBITDA.

Strategy 8

Strategy Depreciation EBITDA Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

business ended 2014 with 39.1 The success Netflix is enjoying was far from certain if you recall the summer of 2011. This allows you to better manage operating and capital expenses. In early 2014, Starbucks said consumers loaded $1.4 Its subscriber count went up 13 million worldwide, and investors are enthused.

Business Model 8

Business Model Loyalty Brand Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

in 2011 to 2.9% ” Anyone in the world who wants to operate out of Estonia can become a “resident” of the country — without living there. In this way, Estonia is suddenly making it possible for a whole new cadre of startup founders to operate in Europe at a fraction of the cost of living there.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

While consumers are rightfully worried that their personal information may be compromised, shareholders and companies’ management have a wider set of concerns, including loss of intellectual property, operational disruption, decreased customer trust, tarnished brand, and loss of investor commitment.

Price 8

Price Long-term Banking Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

A 2014 study from Constellation Research quantified the accelerating rate of change in the enterprise by examining a simple benchmark — the entry and exit of U.S. In 2011, the average tenure dropped to 18 years. After all, stories of the end of our industry as we know it have been a trade press staple for decades.

Technology 8

Technology Industry GDP Content 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

In the digital content publishing world, I often direct people to the free ebook “ The New World of Content Measurement ,” published in 2014 by the combined content marketing agency + platform Contently. (I has folded; the other, Catchpool, is still operating. Both launched in 2014.).

Media 10

Media Quality Metrics Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

The constantly fluctuating number of barrels of crude available from nimble shale operations is a primary driver, but so are the long-term impact of increased fuel efficiency and the fits and starts of the global transition away from fossil fuels on world demand. .—while oil production, up from a mere 10% just seven years ago in 2011.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012. Specifically, are companies from advanced economies failing to keep up with the big shift?

Globalization 9

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

billion initiative to build a country-wide fiber optic network that will connect an additional 160 million Indians by 2014. The Indian government sponsored the introduction of 3G services in 2011 with a $30 billion spectrum auction. The government is rolling out what it calls its National Broadband Plan , a $4.5

Venture Capitalist 13

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

The challenges of combining and managing the resources and operations of the different organizations and aligning their cultures may actually make the goal of integrated, patient-centered care much harder to achieve. In 2011 Mayo elected to follow this course. What’s the alternative?

Health Care 8

Health Care Mayo Due Diligence Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012. Specifically, are companies from advanced economies failing to keep up with the big shift?

Globalization 8

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

When he was brought in as CEO in August 2014, the company wasn’t in great shape. Between 2001 and 2011, the number of CEOs finishing at least one marathon doubled, and in a Swedish survey of nearly 3,000 managers , more than 90% said that physical exercise had a positive impact on their leadership skills.

CEO 8

CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2014

And yet that’s how many companies operate. According to a 2011 NBC News article , the use of personality assessments are on the rise, growing as much as 20% annually. Especially problematic is the widespread use of Four Quadrant (4-Q) personality tests for hiring, something I see regularly in my consulting work.

Human Resources 14

Human Resources Tools Analysis Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. In fact, the FAA had originally promised the rules by 2011, but it proceeded to miss every deadline it set for itself , as well as those established by Congress.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. billion in 2013, and operating profits increased 65% to $422 million.

Retail 11

Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

In 2014 a graduate student at Stanford named Etosha Cave and two colleagues began their entrepreneurial journey. Disappointed, but still determined, Etosha got a break when she attended a cleantech event hosted by the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy in the summer of 2014. The Hard Road of Hard Tech. ” An Alternative Path.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. ” Improving risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

For example, before performing every operation the surgical team should conduct a “time-out” 100% of the time to ensure that everyone agrees that they are operating on the correct patient and are performing the correct procedure on the right site and that any questions or concerns that any team member might have are addressed.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Process Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

For example, in 2014 IDC estimated that more than one-quarter of enterprise applications would be offered with the SaaS model by 2018, up from one-sixth in 2013. It established an independent entity, Ruxit, in 2014 to develop a line of SaaS products in complete separation from Dynatrace’s established product lines and organization.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Satya Nadella, for instance, joined Microsoft in 1992 and worked his way up to running its cloud computing effort, building that business unit into a viable new growth platform before becoming CEO, in 2014. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen. But the mistake he made was preferable to waiting too long.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. Operations Competitive strategy Technology' The first step was to hire someone to run it.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

I should know: Many of my former colleagues, friends, and family members mentioned these stereotypes in 2011 when I accepted a job helping launch a new publication covering the business aspects of this emerging sector. These are the images many outsiders have of the medical marijuana industry. medical marijuana sales hit an estimated $1.5

Industry 10

Industry Retail Banking Brand 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

In the fall of 2014, the HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation launched the inaugural Health Acceleration Challenge — a “scale up” competition that focuses on compelling solutions to problems in health care delivery that have already been implemented at a small scale and have the potential for wider dissemination.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Cost Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Through my leadership development work with the United Nations (UN), I’ve been privileged to work with professionals who operate in some of the world’s most challenging contexts. Their missions’ success rests on their ability to stay resilient and perform effectively in adverse circumstances.

Stress 14

Stress Learning-by-Doing Report Project 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style. Zhou reportedly felt that the original Yahoos were overpaid and lazy, whereas the Yahoo team felt bullied and believed Zhou wasn’t focused on the Yahoo operations. We were ready to give Ma the keys to Yahoo’s operations in China.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

In 2011 it was $2 billion , good for third place. After using borrowed money in the 1980s and 1990s, then opening up a hedge fund in 2004, he has since 2011 basically just been managing his own money. Simplicity: As activist investors go, the Carl Icahn of 2014 really isn’t all that active. In 2012 it was $1.9 In 2009 it was $1.3

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

Of the companies who continue to operate without a plan, 40% of them will be out of business in the next 10 years. In 2011, the Department of Commerce estimated that there were 27.5 Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. What many of them think is a plan include some accounting figures or sales goals.

Budgeting 83

Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 83

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

billion, making it the world’s second most valuable sports team, while its revenues touched $657 million, the fourth highest among soccer clubs (after Real Madrid, Manchester United, and Bayern Munich) in 2014. Like most organizations, Barça operates in a fast-paced environment with ambitious short-term goals.

Succession 8

Succession Short-term Sports Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

In fact, in 2011 BMW had also founded a corporate venture capital (CVC) unit, called BMW iVentures, but it exclusively invested in service startups. Third, corporate VCs and accelerators are costly and complex to operate, turning them into a slow and expensive innovation tool.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

The Empowered Buisness

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

With the new year coming, I asked myself … what wisdom could I provide to help leaders change their game in 2014? My Top 12 Favorite, Hidden Book Gems that are a “must read” for every leader for 2014. Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done (2011 edition). Drum roll please …. LEADING YOURSELF … LEADING OTHERS.

Books 113

Books Leadership Open-book Learning-by-Doing 113

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

Decades of operating losses and rampant turnover in both the employee base and ownership group had cemented a fearful culture. The nascent e-commerce effort, viewed suspiciously by most in the company, operated independently on an antiquated platform. I did not want the company to liquidate. I still do not have an office.

Fashion 8

Fashion Operations Brand Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Parkland has operated like an ACO since establishing its community-based primary care clinic in 1989 — out of necessity. We still operate that way today. By 2014, more than 1,100 Parkland patients had been safely treated this way. A mission-driven payer mix.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance Cost 8