Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Organizations that fail to continuously revise assumptions about their operating environment (i.e. Fighter Pilots and Special Operations teams have discovered and used a secret to continuous improvement – a tool every enterprise can benefit from. Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market.

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Short-term Tools Learning-by-Doing Schein 64

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

” Today we face a set of unprecedented disruptions under the “sustainability” banner that are driving deep change in organizations (indeed, the HBS paper is mainly about the rise of the Chief Sustainability Officer). Resource constraints mean organizations have to use less stuff. The Future of Operations.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Whether it was branded the Deming Method or Six Sigma or a host of other models, ‘continuous improvement processes’ found their way into organizations large and small and have made a major contribution to improving quality worldwide. Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 57

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

To get you started I will expand on the list that MIT research scientist Peter Gloor calls the “genetic code” of collaboration: learning networks, ethical principles, trust and self-organization, knowledge sharing, and transparency. 2) Make Virtue an Organizing Principle -. The 5 building blocks of collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2018

Unfortunately, my research shows that there is rampant incivility in most organizations. In 2011 half said they were treated badly at least once a week — up from a quarter in 1998. ” And then we asked them what norms were right for their organization. And the situation seems to be worsening. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

shale oil and gas producers have been ramping up production to take advantage of rising crude oil prices — prices that had been rising in the wake of a deal between the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Russia, and other non-OPEC producers to reduce oil output. The soaring U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

No longer passive audiences, they can organize to overturn even the most strategic initiatives. It is a simple matter of the big and strong (but often too slow) being unable to manage, or even see, the small and weaker (but fast and agile) threat. We call this new dynamic "customer insurgency." What does this mean for leaders?

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Brand PR Strategy Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

Yet the reality is that data centers are essential — not just to tech businesses but to any organization that uses the internet to operate (that covers nearly all of them, doesn't it?). It's still about efficiency, it's still about flexibility and agility," he said. This vanity-free approach has worked for Facebook.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

Most organizations want to hire employees to perform a set of tasks. We have found that most organizations’ entry, or “onboarding,” processes share a common goal: to inculcate the organizational culture and teach new employees the job requirements. In a model like this, the job is just a means to an end.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Industry and academic leaders revealed that the very skills needed for workforce success are the same skills graduating students lack — such as analysis and problem solving, collaboration and teamwork, business-context communication, and flexibility, agility, and adaptability.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

This means that many organizations and their leaders are running as fast as they can to quickly build their software capabilities. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2016

As organizations grow and become more global, it’s crucial that they develop these skills in their local talent so that they can work effectively across cultures. For example, American Express created its Accelerated Leadership Development program, in 2011. Sponsored by Korn Ferry. How talent management is changing.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

As a business term, “unicorn” was coined to describe a rarity: In 2011 there were just 28 early-stage companies, still privately owned, with investment valuations of $1 billion or more. Nurtured correctly, it can help a company achieve scale insurgency — a company with the benefits of both size and agility.

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