Deming Institute

MARCH 23, 2017

David and Carole Schwinn’s presentation at the 2016 Annual Deming Conference: The Man, The Mission, The Movement: David Schwinn talking about Dr. Deming’s work at Ford. Dr. Deming’s willingness to criticize senior executives directly, even at huge companies (GM, Ford…), is well known. That is what he did.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 11, 2016

According to the US Department of Education, the number of computer science degrees peaked at 37 percent between 1984 and 1985 compared to only 18 percent in the period between 2008 and 2011. Martine Liautaud is the author of Breaking Through: Stories and Best Practices From Companies That Help Women Succeed (Wiley, April 2016).

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Strategy Driven

MAY 18, 2016

Most companies have corporate values that they hope embody their company, their employees, and the way they wish to be viewed by the public. Too dense to be remembered and too complex to be ingrained in the company culture. You and your company can do the same. Many of our peer companies have seen essentially flat growth.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

organizations in 2016 alone, most often through hacking or external theft. Studying hundreds of data breaches, our research has found that they create significant ripples that affect other companies in the industry. Cyberattacks are on the rise, with over 1,000 data breaches occurring at U.S. Why Study Privacy Policies?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

While it’s still early days (we launched this accelerator in early 2016), we believe the accelerator has scored enough successes to prove that the model can work. It has accelerated nine projects and spun three of them out as start-up companies that have secured over $2 million in venture funding. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

There is a straightforward relationship between input and output: Those who put in the hours are handsomely rewarded, and progress can be neatly tracked through the kind of upward-sloping curves that companies and executives can only dream of. When he was brought in as CEO in August 2014, the company wasn’t in great shape.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. But they will need to adopt the more hard-headed way that Silicon Valley companies evaluate acquisitions for their deals to pay off. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Many companies use some sort of “culture fit” criteria to judge whether a candidate would fit in. These assumptions can negatively affect how their companies value them, both abstractly and literally through performance evaluations, raises, and promotions. A common way that class-based bias plays out is in hiring.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier. While a SaaS announcement on average neither decreases nor increases company value, we find big differences depending on the specifics of what’s announced. On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Companies have become much more likely to dismiss their chief executive officers over the last several years because of a scandal or improper conduct by the CEO or other employees — including fraud, bribery, insider trading, inflated resumes, and sexual indiscretions. From 2007-2011, forced turnovers due to ethical lapses were 3.9%

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2016

In this new world, companies need to know which consumers have the purchasing firepower, where they are, what they want to buy, and what drives their spending. Companies will need a more detailed portrait of target customer groups than ever, including their age, income, ethnicity, and shopping preferences. spending on home improvement.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

. “I wanted to highlight some of the progress we have made in mobile, which is another big strategic area for us,” he told listeners , noting that Google Maps was becoming popular for Blackberry users and later adding that it was critical that the company make sure all its content worked on phones.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

In 2011, the average tenure dropped to 18 years. While the Constellation study is careful to say that companies rise and fall for many reasons, digital disruption is clearly responsible for a large share. The value of the digital economy continues to grow in size and importance in every company in every industry.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

In Turkey, several thousand executives who follow the cleric Fethullah Gulen have been arrested or have fled overseas since 2016, fueling concerns of an economic collapse. For example, after Apple CEO Steve Jobs took permanent medical leave in 2011, Apple stock fell by 6%.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Companies that claim to be “transforming” seem to be everywhere. Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. Core r epositioning.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

The video below, for example, shows a side-by-side time-lapse comparison of a GE technician wiring a wind turbine’s control box using the company’s current process, and then doing the same task while guided by line-of-sight instructions overlaid on the job by an AR headset. but also in most of the developed world.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

After launching in July 2016, the game hit its peak in August of almost 45 million users. In the following decades, lab universities, companies, and national agencies further advanced AR for wearables and digital displays. These early systems superimposed virtual information on the physical environment (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

If you’re not turning your company into a “math house” you’re headed for serious trouble. Every industry will soon be driven by digitization and every winning company will be using algorithms, or mathematical rules for processing information, to shape the end-to-end customer experience. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Smartphone sales in 2011 are estimated to reach 468 million units, a 57% increase over 2010. While the idea of reaching out to consumers via smartphone apps is clearly not new, companies have been stubbornly hesitant to embrace app technologies. In those days, incumbent companies were stuck in preweb ways of thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Rather, it’s because there are no standards for how to measure and report on ESG issues, unlike a company’s financials. ” All the flim flam and hocus pocus will shake out eventually once a company’s ESG reporting becomes standardized. How has that effort progressed? SASB aims to fill this gap.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

As organic wine pioneer Jonathan Frey remarked in an interview, “These large companies would finance scientific studies to prove that organic was a joke and didn’t have any health benefits.” While 6% of the wine sold at Systembolaget in 2011 was organic, by 2016 it was over 20%. What changed?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

For example, a 2009 analysis of 506 companies found that firms with more racial or gender diversity had more sales revenue, more customers, and greater profits. A 2016 analysis of more than 20,000 firms in 91 countries found that companies with more female executives were more profitable. Success has so far been marginal.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The rising flood of hardware, pharmaceuticals, and technical expertise from American manufacturers and hospital companies, which is connected to the needs of a growing number of hospitals, is also pushing many systems closer to the U.S. Comparing the five years between 2012 and 2016 to the period between 2007 and 2011, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Suffice it to say that a 2016 Mitt Romney campaign isn’t being championed on Wall Street. To get a better picture of this trend, Stiebale, along with Kevin Amess from Nottingham University Business School and Mike Wright from Imperial College Business School, analyzed hundreds of PE-backed LBOs of UK companies from 1998 to 2008.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

In 1968 an investor named Arthur Rock backed executives from Fairchild Semiconductor to start a new company, which would become known as Intel. Stanford provost Frederick Terman, as well as existing companies such as Hewlett-Packard, also devoted resources to broadening and strengthening the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

After the toppling of Dictator Ben Ali in January 2011, whose stifling reign lasted nearly a quarter century, the country faced a rocky start to a new ruling order. Just like a technology company, we intentionally physically set up our “lab” on the opposite side of Tunis, far from the main body of government.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

And on the rare occasions when you do land an interview, you stumble over questions about what you’d bring to the hiring company and why you’re the perfect fit. But the bullet becomes much more impressive because he placed it in the larger context of what his company’s overall challenges were. FUTURE START-UPS.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Approximately 60% were from for-profit companies, while the remaining 40% were from not-for-profit organizations. A winner will be selected in April 2016. This Dallas-based company offers technologies that connect hospitals and blood centers nationwide to ensure the efficient flow of lifesaving blood products to patients in need.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Loss of trust: In November 2011, 59% of Britons surveyed said the BBC was the news source they most trusted. The purpose of the corporation: Although its Royal Charter protects the BBC until December 2016, the corporation is regularly challenged about its purpose and whether it should be dismantled.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

News this week that Uber’s CEO was stepping down likely was not a surprise to those who have been following the company in the headlines. In our work over many years, we have learned enough to know that you have to be on the inside of any company to have the full picture of what went wrong and how.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

It is clearly part of the larger asset remix that started several years ago with deals in biopharma, such as Sanofi-Genzyme (2011), Novartis-GSK (2014), and a couple of failed attempts by Pfizer to merge and move its headquarters abroad. Then the insurance companies attempted to consolidate, and were blocked by the antitrust authorities.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In July 2016, the mega-hit “ Gangnam Style ” by South Korean singer PSY surpassed 2.6 K-Pop companies rewrote the playbook for Korea’s music industry. In the K-Pop model, companies look for kids as young as nine or 10 to groom into the next generation of stars. In May 2011, when tickets to an S.M.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. A complete list of unicorns is published by The Wall Street Journal; as of February 2016, it includes a total of 146 companies.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

the technology research and advisory company. That would represent a 42% increase in the number of connected devices since 2016. Safeguarding your company in a complex world. This is how hackers gained access to an Illinois water utility control system in 2011 , destroying a water pump that serviced 2,200 customers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In a nutshell, this means leveraging consumer, worker, and corporate power to drive change at the companies you do business with. In 2011, the Coalition of Immokalee workers banded together to get consumers on board to pressure the agricultural industry to improve working conditions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

workers who are underinsured — face out-of-pocket health care expenses greater than 10% of their income excluding premiums — increased from 10% in 2003 to 24% percent in 2016. Between 2011 and 2017, employees’ premiums and deductibles grew faster than their median income. Employers are not new to this game.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

For example, at The Fat Duck in the UK (which has had three Michelin stars since 2004, except in 2016 when it closed for refurbishment, and where I worked on the innovation side), cooking temperatures are systematically controlled to 0.1°C, The company grew through consulting for other companies, opening new business lines (e.g.

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