Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. At Bettcher Industries, we love the meat processing industry; we’ve always loved the meat processing industry and one reason we do is because many others don’t.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Everspark Interactive (ESI) is a full-service, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Agency specialized in getting their clients’ websites to rank in the top position on Google, Bing, and Yahoo. About the Authors Jason Hennessey is an internationally-known Search Engine Optimization (SEO) expert. million agency in only three months.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

You can review virtually any industry, sector, vertical, or micro-vertical and when you examine the dominant brands you’ll find quality design at their core. Also worth noting is that there is certainly a difference between value engineering and arbitrary cost containment.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 14, 2011

That was a question I recently heard from an executive running a major engineering organization. . Executives running businesses in critical sectors like engineering, health care, government, manufacturing, research and development, aerospace and defense are all feeling the pressures of a changing workforce.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

What drives your economic engine? These are really helpful questions if you take them to the extreme and I so often do not find CEOs, Executive Directors, or Managing Partners being pushed far enough on becoming clear in their answer to these questions. What are you passionate about? Your people do not care about that number.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

What drives your economic engine? These are really helpful questions if you take them to the extreme and I so often do not find CEOs, Executive Directors, or Managing Partners being pushed far enough on becoming clear in their answer to these questions. What are you passionate about? Your people do not care about that number.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

It has also helped shape the practice of management. Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. How Google manages. How Google innovates.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 22, 2011

If you are not yet in a position to manage your website to do this type of preparatory work for you, consider using social networking tools to expand and complement your marketing efforts. Use your Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, or Ning community to share your information.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2014

A surprising fact is that the number one carriers of Sales Call Reluctance are sales managers, sales trainers, and motivational speakers. For example, in a training a sales manager says, “We all know people hate talking to sales people” or “Get out and sell, but don’t be a salesperson!” We see this consistently within companies.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Hank has provided senior level advising services for more than 5,000 client organizations (including 100 of the Fortune 500), companies in transition (startup, re-engineering, mergers, going public), public sector entities, professional associations and non-profit organizations. He has worked with all major industries over a 40-year career.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 30, 2018

I have gone through the recruiting process with hundreds of college graduates and have been struck by the general lack of some key fundamentals that are necessary regardless of industry. At some point, should industry take responsibility and make a commitment for progress toward a societal quality culture? References.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

You (or someone else in your company) should commit to writing about key topics and insights in your business and / or industry. Writing about your company, products, services, or industry will help you to formalize and organize your thinking, which could spur innovative ideas or content for other aspects of your business.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

What promotional vehicles are most successful in your industry? For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Adapt ideas from other industries. Mine your backyard.

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Chris Brady

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

But there was one that, to me at least, was world class: GMI Engineering & Management Institute (today's Kettering University ). The program was attractive to a kid like me without any finances because it offered a co-op experience in which every other twelve weeks were spent in the workplace somewhere out in actual industry.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

Fifty years ago, we did not have television news anchors, software engineers, web designers, or cosmetic surgeons. Imagine you are a product manager at Proctor and Gamble or Unilever and are charged with designing a new line of detergents or packaged food. It is not enough to be a good surgeon, a civil engineer or a litigation lawyer.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

“Once, you needed mechanical engineers. Today, there’s a greater need for software engineers because cars are computers more than anything else.” To get the skills and change agents it needed, Volvo looked outside the automotive industry. He was creative and, in some cases, counterintuitive.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In 2011 Avaya had a major likability problem, and the according market performance you would expect. Avaya’s 2011 Net Promoter Score (NPS) was in the 20s (on a scale of -100 to +100), suggesting that it would have a hard time keeping the customers it had, let alone grow on word of mouth. The risk had been managed well.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

GM’s bankruptcy and bailout four years ago earned it the nickname “Government Motors,” a reference to both the $80 billion lent by the US government (repaid in full in December, 2013) and to the bureaucratic, top-down management GM executives had used to try to reverse the company’s tailspin. Auto industry Leading teams'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

billion , entrepreneurial companies with technology at their core have disrupted entire industries and threatened or eliminated incumbents. A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Vanguard carved out a niche by managing low-cost index mutual funds in 1975. The company now has more than 20 million investors in 170 companies and, as of the end of last year, manages more than $3 trillion in global assets. Pure Internet-plays Betterment and FutureAdvisor launched in 2010 and Wealthfront in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

We recruited a panel of expert judges (see the list below), who evaluated the companies through the lens of their own expertise and gauged which transformations were most durable and had the highest impact in their industries. We see an interesting pattern across the professionally managed companies, those whose CEOs were hired by the board.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

And some do get the value of shopping for talent now: Engine maker Cummins Inc., jobs in 2011, many requiring engineering or other technical skills. If employees' skills and competencies were fuel and oil for an industrial economy, they're platinum and diamond for the knowledge economy. now with about 14,800 U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

What did we learn on February 8, 2011 when the report came out? million in taxpayer money was spent , and some of the brightest minds in American engineering were occupied for 10 months — just so that NHTSA could prove they were right all along. Ogden, of Toyota Under Fire (2011). So who won in this debacle?

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Each industry, organization, divisions, units or people will have differing criteria of how they make decisions. If you use this tool effectively you will be able to manage big complex issues down to the core elements that are effecting the decision. When you are making a decision you likely have a mental model that works in your head.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Addressing a managers meeting, Brian Halla, CEO of National Semiconductor Corp., Listening with their full attention, the audience members heard Mr. Halla talk about his concern about the economy, then lead to the need for managers to look for near-term opportunities for growth. Yet another good grabber is the startling fact.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. The first step was to hire someone to run it.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

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. The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

This is despite women comprising 80% of the healthcare workforce and evidence that having women in upper management and on corporate boards is associated with improved financial performance and enhanced accountability. Yet bright spots have emerged, both in healthcare and in other industries asking themselves a similar question.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Jobs assembled a team of brilliant engineers, gave them the needed resources, and infused the Macintosh team with a vision of what was possible. And so they just grabbed defeat from the greatest victory in the computer industry. Xerox could have owned the entire computer industry today." That's what an innovative leader does.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Each industry, organization, divisions, units or people will have differing criteria of how they make decisions. If you use this tool effectively you will be able to manage big complex issues down to the core elements that are effecting the decision. When you are making a decision you likely have a mental model that works in your head.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

The managing director needs to know when and where we're launching. These were exciting times for their employer, the German automaker Vado, as it moved into the rapidly expanding e-bike industry, but Stefanie, the manager of the new e-bike unit, was feeling the weight of the decisions she faced. "I I can't wait any longer.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

As Steve Jobs steps down as Apple's CEO — and Tim Cook takes over — many folks are wondering whether Apple can keep its innovation engine humming. With Jobs unexpected exit in 2011, Cook's key task is to not only keep Apple humming but to deliver something surprising. He did this with the string of Apple "iProducts."

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Similarly, AT&T’s iconic Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, carved out entire new industries through the creation of transistors, lasers, and the programming language C++. Consider the iPad, first released in March 2010; at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, close to a dozen tablets were on display.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Many such bulletins focus on radically changing the nature of competition in an industry, as Apple did for music and Uber did for taxis. But managers make it harder when they think about it only as radical industry reinvention. The business media have had no shortage of these. Why is that? Business model innovation is hard.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Another way to increase your influence at work is to “be seen as a recognized expert” within your industry or organization, Clark says. Another way Marcy increases her influence is by staying up-to-date on industry trends and news. ” “I went in with a listening agenda,” she explains. Her efforts paid off.

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