N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

These silos are staffed with legions of “tenured&# COBOL and C++ programmers, as well as &# tenured&# IT managers overseeing the operation. The mandates for compliance along with the accompanying maze of bureaucratic processes and procedures, will often take precedence over doing the right thing. Tenure is too qualitative.

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Loyalty Blog Brand Follow-up 419

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

Don’t be quick to hire based upon gut feel, but rather take time in the interviewing process to let the prospective new hire get a feel for your culture and your company. that can be administered as part of the hiring process. Identify problems upstream and spare the organization a lot of stress and expense.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

We talked extensively in this book about how accounting profits or profit growth as a sole performance metric doesn’t lead to value creation. This is what we call a business’s health , and related metrics explain how financial results were achieved and provide causal insights into future performance potential.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Now you can find out; In this 55 page E-book you will find applicable strategies, team-building activities, facilitation, de-briefing, and processing activities + theory that you can use immediately. Additionally Hard Skill, Soft Skill illustrates how we all operate from different criteria of what a hard, soft skill is.

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Team Building Skills Team Open-book 119

QAspire

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

It is easy to “ monitor the numbers ” (sales dashboards, internal efficiencies and other metrics). But structuring an area of work in form of processes, you are reducing dependencies and improving operational efficiency. Once seen, what is difficult is to connect to customers, act and take right decisions.

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Tips Directory Quality Blog 147

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

How to start measuring the factors that are most critical to the success of the business and identify the metrics that express them. How the new job of process owner can tie together the separate silos that characterize the traditional organization to change the way work is done and how people relate to one another.

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Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Increased demand for transparency and its close partners, (a) the quest to define and develop useful sustainability metrics and (b) the growing sustainability data explosion. These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Was a year like 2011 possible in a world without climate change?

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Tim, Mark, Hans and perhaps others correctly offered alternatives to a team decision making process based exclusively on consensus. The ultimate unity required for effective implementation may well have been been made stronger, because it was achieved without unanimity in the decision-making process. There are no conditions.

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 333

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

And in 2011, Nathaniel Foote and Russ Eisenstat proposed a “better way to manage in the 21st century.” Melissa Waters, CMO of Lyft, says “Any customer these days is asking for transparency on what a company stands for and why they operate. It must be woven into a company’s operational fabric.

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Marketing Porter Metrics Brand 12

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.

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Health Care Benchmarking Process Operations 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

While my list had more "diversity" it was a larger list based upon specific metrics as the standard for qualification – diversity was not one of these metrics. Interesting points about the metrics involved – good feedback for women leaderhsip bloggers. In fact, the report points out how “U.S.

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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 296

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

More than 40% of the unicorns that went public since 2011 saw their valuation stay flat or dropped. Self-cannibalization occurs when a company chooses to proactively replace one product or process with another that is potentially worth less. Back in 2009, there were just four companies that fit the bill. Consider China’s Tencent.

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Productivity Products Company Metrics 8

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. Those who could adapt, thrived.

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Fashion Operations Brand Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

In 2013, I began reporting on a groundbreaking all-women special operations team made up of the finest, fittest and most driven soldiers chosen from across the Army, Guard, and Reserve. Some of the most tested special operations leaders in the U.S. The shift began in 2010. What made this change possible? First, a sense of urgency.

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Team Operations Agility Metrics 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.

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Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system. The new rivals revolutionized customer expectations, causing Nokia’s Symbian operating system to become outdated.

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Strategy Analysis Operations CFO 8

Terry Starbucker

MAY 16, 2010

How these two goals are connected by the company’s leadership is critical to building operational greatness – an organization that is working at high efficiency, with great enthusiasm and ever increasing productivity. Quantifiable standards must be developed for every job, and made a part of the evaluation process.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Deliverables, benchmarks, deadlines, and success metrics must be incorporated into the plan. Properly implemented, capitalizing on process driven creativity can keep business from stagnating and cause growth and evolution. Every task should be assigned and managed according to a plan and in the light of day.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 384

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

Employees at semiconductor-chip-maker Intel recently devised a new chemistry process that reduced chemical waste by 900,000 gallons, saving $45 million annually. Some have even begun to selectively tie compensation to sustainability metrics. The projects produced financial and environmental benefits, of course.

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Metrics Chemicals Simon Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

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. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Health Care How To Operations Quality 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Optimization involves designing a system or process to be as good as possible in some defined sense. Effective resource optimization requires a certain rigor, consistency and agreement on processes. Ed holds a Master of Science degree in Operations Research and a Bachelors degree in Mathematics.

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Resources Process Constraint Objective 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

subscribers in 2017, and the industry as a whole has been growing at 200% annually since 2011. Likewise, what is the right set of metrics that company executives should use to manage their subscription businesses in order to hold themselves fully accountable to their stakeholders? that aggregate sales in the U.S.

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IPO How To Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2018

In 2011 half said they were treated badly at least once a week — up from a quarter in 1998. This starts in the interview process when you have the opportunity to articulate your values to prospects during the hiring process. One of the metrics they follow is how long it takes to properly greet customers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Between April 2011 and February 2012, our preliminary data suggest that patients cared for by a team with a PN (matched for age, case-mix group, and resource intensity level) experienced shorter actual length-of-stay (LOS)/expected LOS ratios compared to those not exposed to a PN. We are in the process of obtaining the data analysis.

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Health Care Constraint Follow-up Survey 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

It is very important for leaders wanting to create Self-Starters to articulate a clear vision, values and set of goals for their teams, as this type operates by seeking forgiveness rather than permission. Brown-Nosers constantly check in with their leaders and operate by seeking permission, rather than forgiveness.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2016

In medicine we’ve long operated under the mantra “doctor knows best.” Since the launch of “five-star” care, UUHC has celebrated steady gains in quality metrics and a reduction in costs. Payments to physicians rose 42% from 2011 to 2015. What is excellent health care? Meaningful information.

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Review Health Care Quality Cost 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.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Each step in this process leads to another. One-year contracts hold our doctors accountable, with yearly performance reviews that include each doctor’s quality metrics, clinical outcomes, and research. It’s analyzing processes, measuring outcomes, and changing practices until you get it right. percent in 1960.

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Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

million Americans living with HIV in 2011, only 40% received regular medical care , and 30% reached viral suppression (or a very low level of HIV in the blood). But the process of finding, selecting, and funding those groups is challenging. A 2014 CDC report found that of the 1.2

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Project Health Care Learning-by-Doing Globalization 8

Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 1, 2010

He had just spent several days reviewing our business operations, and after absorbing our successes and industry-leading metrics, he couldn’t figure it out on his own. I’d multiply your equation by 1/(11-Sy), where Sy equals the effectiveness of your systems (organizational structure, technology, process controls, etc.),

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Blog Metrics Learning-by-Doing Handbook 246

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

It also appears that the trading losses resulted not from the kind of "mistake" that business faces all the time when taking risk (no one bats 1000%), but instead from some form of fault: negligence, recklessness or intentional violation of JP Morgan's own systems, processes and protocols.

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CIO Committee Risk Management Banking 8

Terry Starbucker

MARCH 15, 2010

Plus, taking these critical cogs in the wheel out of circulation for even a few days can certainly be a burden on the operation. It just can’t all be nuts and bolts, and numbers and metrics. Delivering such training can be expensive, because this is typically the largest management group in most organizations.

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Team Training Blog Skills 261

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

In December 2011, Expedia felt it wasn't getting full economic credit for TripAdvisor buried within its financials and so spun TripAdvisor out as an independent company, where it now trades on the NASDAQ with a $4.8 Expedia grew to account for roughly one third of the company's revenues. billion market capitalization as of this writing.

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EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

QAspire

JANUARY 8, 2010

Qualitative: We need a quality certification so that we can improve our internal efficiencies and streamline the processes for having delighted customers. It is almost easy to figure out “What” and “How” of processes once you have addressed “Why”. — Quantitative: I have 6000+ followers on Twitter. Feels great! And they did!

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Compliance Quality Metrics Blog 84

The Empowered Buisness

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

This book makes growing as a leader an enjoyable process. Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done (2011 edition). What often prevents us from ‘being present, ‘ is what Scharmer calls our blind spot, the inner place from which each of us operates. Stuck with a challenge or want a leadership focus for the day?

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Books Leadership Open-book Learning-by-Doing 113

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. Many conventional metrics we use to estimate value are based on faulty assumptions. Discovery-Driven Growth : A Breakthrough Process to Reduce Risk and Seize Opportunity by Rita McGrath.

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Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50