Six Disciplines

MAY 3, 2011

FINDLAY, OHIO, May 2, 2011 - Matt Lauth and Jim Bendt, and their new firm, Strategy Execution Advisors , is now a certified partner of a nationwide network of business coaching practices that offer the Six Disciplines® strategy execution program to its clients. Jim via email at JBendt@SXAdvisors.com or (419) 348-1964.

Execution 101

Execution Strategy Executive Coaching Consultative 101

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.

Technology 14

Technology Venture Capitalist CIO ROI 14

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

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. Remove them and you will find more time to focus on innovation. Innovate quickly. People and businesses are looking for opportunities.

Real Estate 66

Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

QAspire

AUGUST 10, 2010

Do you have right set of processes, people and technology that will help you deliver up to customer’s expectations consistently? Once you have these basics right, your efforts and investment on delighting your customers through various innovative and inclusive programs will yield the right returns. Thanks for sharing.

Quality 154

Quality Blog Management Mission Statement 154

CO2

JULY 6, 2010

We will issue a free software update within a few weeks that incorporates the corrected formula. Since this mistake has been present since the original iPhone, this software update will also be available for the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 Technology and its role in travel 2.0

Letter 74

Letter Blog Executive Coaching Strategic Planning 74

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.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Transportation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

The decisions, which were both unanimous, significantly scaled back the ability of patent holders to slow innovation by competitors, tipping scales that many legal scholars believe have become badly imbalanced. Taken together, the two cases will improve the innovation environment for companies in fast-changing industries.

Innovation 8

Innovation Supply Chain Software Productivity 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster.

Tools 56

Tools Black-Scholes Magazine Rogers 56

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Think through the implications of these technologies, however, and an even more startling vision emerges: the future will look more like the past. Today, information and communications technologies remove the need for such proxies. Helping to effect this reversal are any number of new technologies.

Technology 8

Technology Retail Transportation Construction 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. As the chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , a company that provides social software to businesses, quite literally, it’s my job to be social media savvy.

Media 67

Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 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. The case illustrates how information technology, innovatively, insightfully and courageously deployed, can change the structure of an industry.

Magazine 51

Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 51

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In 2008, Dr Reddy's acquired Chirotech, Dow Chemical's R&D unit, for $32 million, and in April 2011 relocated it to a new 33,000 sq. Besides Dr Reddy's, several leading Indian firms are pioneering polycentric innovation: Tata Motors. Polycentric innovation won't work in organizations that promote groupthink. Cambridge, U.K.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

Physicians, nurses, and others who work on the front lines of patient care are an important potential source for innovations that could improve patients’ health and reduce the cost of care. Boston Children’s Hospital designed an innovation accelerator to overcome these hurdles. The Leading Edge of Health Care.

Health Care 9

Health Care Company Innovation Entrepreneur 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

in 2011 to 2.9% Many governments have been focused on both making themselves more efficient through digital technology (such as making it easier to renew passports through online portals) and making their countries more attractive to digital technology companies (by reducing the cost of doing business within their borders).

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

The better the technology at your company, and the greater the learning opportunity, the better your chances of bringing technical employees on board, and of keeping them. One such non-monetary feature could be the technology used by their current employer. How technology is changing the way we work. Insight Center.

Technology 8

Technology Learning-by-Doing Innovation Document 8

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

The other day I was working with a fast growth software company that had decided one of the criteria was revenue growth. Software Applications for Decision Making Decision Making Tool – CO2 Partners uses this form for helping clients make decisions. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 What does that even mean to you?

Executive Coaching 79

Executive Coaching Brainstorming Tools Decisionmaking 79

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

Both Gmail and AdSense, the company’s ad software for publishers, started out as 20% time projects. How Google innovates. Bala Iyer and Tom Davenport attempted to “reverse engineer” Google’s innovation machine in 2008. The first step to innovating like Google, they argue, is patience.

IPO 14

IPO Management Engineering Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Despite the fact that Niantic, the American software development company that developed Pokémon Go, has failed to maintain high levels of engagement on the game (its current user base is now 30 million users), the phenomenon demonstrated AR’s potential to be adopted by mainstream culture. Phase 1: Attention-grabbing early efforts.

Tourism 9

Tourism Technology Content Fashion 9

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster.

Magazine 50

Magazine Banking Marketing Analysis 50

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

I am adept at establishing policies, procedures, and technologies to enhance efficiency, financial health, and service to organize constituents. In another, I managed significant software changeover/upgrade for more accurate and timely processing of accounting functions, inventory reports, and financial statements."

Brand 68

Brand Examples Career Godin 68

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

The other day I was working with a fast growth software company that had decided one of the criteria was revenue growth. Software Applications for Decision Making Decision Making Tool – CO2 Partners uses this form for helping clients make decisions. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 What does that even mean to you?

Executive Coaching 68

Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Brainstorming Execution 68

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

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. In stark contrast, the last four years have seen continued improvement in drone technology, much of which cannot be put to use. The FAA’s bumbling is hardly unique.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

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. Emergent social software platforms are here to stay; they'll be part of the fabric of our personal and professional lives from now on. Technology Delight. Live in fragments no longer.".

Technology 15

Technology Software Self-aware Trends 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

And the havoc being wreaked — in higher prices, banned devices, and stifled innovation — is laying waste to the industry landscape. Motorola (owned by Google since 2011) is suing and being sued by everyone. Here’s where the problem has become especially acute for information technology inventions such as smartphones and tablets.

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Software Industry Construction 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2012

It's all software. But that software has gotten so good at reading our minds that it begins to look personal. That's the moment — and we have them more frequently as innovative technologies accelerate their entry into the market — when the creepy factor comes into play. They no longer make our skin crawl.

Advertising 14

Advertising Software Information Ryan 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

In 2011, GE embarked upon an ambitious attempt to digitally transform its product and service offerings. This kind of unfortunate decision has happened over and over again, in wave after wave of transformative business technology. It is multi-faceted and diffuse, and doesn’t just involve technology.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. This is not guesswork.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

Back in 2011, crowdsourcing was fueling an explosion in open innovation. At that time, most Fortune 500 firms had launched crowdsourcing initiatives or partnered with startups in order to access outside innovators or co-create with customers. Millions more have used Google mapping software to help consumers locate their stores.

Participative 8

Participative Innovation Benchmarking Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2013

When we first decided to move the headquarters of our software company from Atlanta, we didn''t think of Silicon Valley. There are many reasons why Silicon Valley might have been a top contender: for years, it''s been the premier technology hub of the world. In fact, Silicon Valley wasn''t even on our short list.

Diversity 9

Diversity Software Engineering Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I have an article in the new (November 2011) issue of Harvard Business Review called "What Every CEO Needs to Know About the Cloud." After all, companies already have tons of technology; it's not like they're operating at present without hardware, software, databases, and networks. But it should, and it will.

CEO 14

CEO Document Technology Article 14

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Businesses from top global firms to main street staples are looking into a future driven by new technology capabilities. New financial innovations enabled both historic global economic growth and cascading global financial failures. Levine is an expert on lean and agile software development and information technology.

Agility 65

Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

The innovation game is changing. For example, when Apple expanded from music players to phones, it carried over to the iPhone not just the technology and software that powered the iPod but also users' entire music collections and its music store's entire supplier base.

Strategy 15

Strategy eBook Library Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Comstock is out.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2011

In this first leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation , we asked the most progressive thinkers and radical doers from every realm of endeavor to share a story, a hack, a disruptive idea, or an experimental design that illustrates how the web can help overcome the limits of conventional management and create Management 2.0.

Management 14

Management Innovation Storytelling Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The first (whose name is disguised to spare blushes) is TEKCO, a technology company. The company hired many open source technology developers to build new collaboration tools. Between 2008 and 2011, the turnover rate of Tupperware's predominately part-time sales people (consultants, as the company calls them) fell by 15%.

Media 16

Media Consultative Restructuring Execution 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2017

At that moment, looking up from the bottom of the escalator, the idea that I would one day run a technology company seemed unfathomable. Louis Gerstner created an environment that gave new employees like me a chance to innovate and compete. Instead, we invested in software and analytics. In time, I would become a U.S.

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Contingency Plans Travel CEO 8