Deming Institute

APRIL 14, 2016

In ads IBM touched on the use of data in transportation, healthcare, manufacturing, crime, love, education, farming, pollution, weather, energy, and many other areas! The theory of knowledge helps us recognize that someone decides what data to collect and what operational definitions to use.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

The constantly fluctuating number of barrels of crude available from nimble shale operations is a primary driver, but so are the long-term impact of increased fuel efficiency and the fits and starts of the global transition away from fossil fuels on world demand. .—while oil production, up from a mere 10% just seven years ago in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

The National Highway Transportation Authority (NHTSA) , the government arm responsible for enforcing auto safety, came under attack for being too soft on Toyota. What did we learn on February 8, 2011 when the report came out? Ogden, of Toyota Under Fire (2011).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

How well they''re built and operated is crucial to economic growth and is a key arbiter of an economy''s competitiveness — and yet, virtually every economy faces an array of infrastructure challenges. an estimated $100 billion per year. Pessimism rules, but it needn''t be that way. We need to streamline delivery.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. 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. Which is pretty much all of them.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

“Meaning is the new money, an HBR article argued in 2011. Often, the people “in the trenches” (retail floor clerks, assembly line workers) have valuable insights into how operations can be improved. increase in annual operating profits. increase in annual operating profits.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Dirk''s answer was: "We can save on transportation and be closer to our customers. To spread the new culture more broadly, management decided to form another cross-functional team (a "Little Big Room") to define tenets about how they would operate. General Electric Operations Strategy' from Korea, China, and Mexico.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

It can be difficult to transport and is inherently insecure. This cost is also disproportionately borne by mom-and-pops, many of which operate in poor neighborhoods and rural areas. These cash-dependent small businesses cannot afford sophisticated security and cash transportation services. How can this be?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2017

For an example of the kind of disruption such an attack could cause, consider the 2011 Japanese tsunami. If the refueling stations need electricity to operate pumps, what is the plan? New Yorkers could manage for a few hours, maybe a few days, but what would happen if the outage lasted a week or more?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. billion in 2013, and operating profits increased 65% to $422 million.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

Japan is in a state of crisis at present , but its future may be in safe hands judging by the manner in which the country's young people have rallied in the aftermath of the earthquake, the tsunami, and the nuclear power crisis that struck on March 11, 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2011

Community and social media managers of 2011, please try to contain your amusement at the idea that 1000 posts per day represented an unmanageable volume.) Some say the main driver was the cost of transporting all the data involved in a smallish number of highly antagonistic, not very constructive conversations. Participatory.

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Media Cost Content Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Notably tech firms acquired an average 250 tech companies annually between 2002 and 2011 and 350 in the years since. Second, companies are attempting to pick up talent they suspect they cannot recruit directly – often as a catalyst to a broader digital transformation, or as a challenge to their existing IT operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

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. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. Operations Competitive strategy Technology' The first step was to hire someone to run it.

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Building Personal Strength

JUNE 21, 2011

Back then, colonels and generals talked tough about Vietnam because the worst hadn't happened yet, and because they experienced the war mostly from inside of Tactical Operation Center bunkers inside the perimeter of a base camp - far from where the action was actually taking place. Copyright 2011. He was a tough-talking colonel.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

Welcome to the paradigms that many of us have operated under for some time. Transportation is necessary to get people from here to there. Transportation is a vital component of the economy…conveying goods throughout intricate networks to marketplaces. Transportation is a status symbol to some people.

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Transportation Consultative Film Strategic Planning 68

The Idolbuster

AUGUST 5, 2014

I continued to race as an amateur for all of 2010 and 2011, but at the end of 2011 I quit my job and began competing professionally full-time. I performed in 2011 and at the end of the year, I left HSBC, packed up my apartment and moved to Santa Monica, CA to begin training and competing full time as professional triathlete.

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Training Sports Learning-by-Doing Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

In the fictional world of the video game Watch Dogs , you can play a hacktivist who takes over the central operating system of a futuristic, hyper-connected Chicago. On April 8, hackers set off 156 emergency sirens in Dallas, Texas , disrupting residents and overwhelming 911 operators throughout the day. An estimated 2.3

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Reading transports us to a place beyond ourselves. I haven't read the book yet, but when I do I'll share my feedback with readers. Best wishes Scott… [link] Dan Collins Mike, Excellent post. It can inspire, and illicit both emotional and intellectual response. Those responses may stimulate action or simply reassure us.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2018

Our research , based on interviews with 89 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees and their managers a decade after 9/11, suggests that increased monitoring can lead to a cycle of increasingly coercive surveillance. What’s less obvious, though, is what other behaviors such surveillance might promote.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Primary care delivery faces additional challenges for scaling because it operates on thin margins, often is not highly valued by patients, and has difficulty attracting trained providers. North Star primarily serves truck drivers and sex workers, operating in the afternoons and evenings to fit its clients’ schedules.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

For example, positions in mobile development, which combines skills from engineering, coding, and computer science, have grown by 135 percent since 2011. These jobs—many of them in high paying fields like user experience design—call for skill sets that aren’t customarily taught as a package.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

India's leading IT companies, for instance, have developed their infrastructure themselves: They operate transportation systems round the clock, generate huge amounts of power, and run gigantic training operations to remain competitive.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

and Canada and more than 7 million vehicles a year traverse the Ambassador bridge, according to the Public Border Operators Assn. The project would generate 10,000 construction jobs, the Michigan Transportation Dept. Sources: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, September 19, 2011 and Forbes, September 26, 2011. This is Canada's No.

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Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 4, 2012

According to recent estimates from the Telework Research Network, telecommuting grew by over 70 percent between 2005 & 2011 - and based on existing trends, the number of virtual or telecommuting workers will expand to almost five million by 2016. Organizations have become stretched through geographic and technological expansion.

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Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 4, 2012

According to recent estimates from the Telework Research Network, telecommuting grew by over 70 percent between 2005 & 2011 - and based on existing trends, the number of virtual or telecommuting workers will expand to almost five million by 2016. Organizations have become stretched through geographic and technological expansion.

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Tips Team Management Teamwork 133

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Morgan operating from a position of strength to build a steel monopoly at the beginning of the 20th century; it''s a group of battered, eternally struggling companies trying to come up with a sustainable industry model. From 1979 to 2011, though, Henwood calculates that U.S. billion (in 2011 dollars). billion (in 2011 dollars).

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Airlines Transportation Travel Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

The contest is now shifting toward more-traditional industries, like transportation (Lyft and Uber, for example) and hospitality (Airbnb). Indeed, from 2011 to 2017, the GAFAM companies (Google/Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft) acquired more than 65 leading-edge European technology companies. Competing in the Future.

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Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

According to a recent JPMorgan/GIIN report , impact investors invested nearly $11 billion across 4,900 deals in 2013, up 250% from 2011. Joel Jackson (a 2011 Echoing Green fellow) launched Mobius Motors as a social purpose car manufacturer to democratize transportation in East Africa.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

And because most of these operations were foreign-owned, there was little the employees could do to recoup losses. For public transportation, the figure is 48%, down from 56%. Owners do have a nasty habit of walking away from manufacturing plants, especially given rising wages and labor shortages in parts of China.

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Health Care Transportation Stress Review 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” By now, the core functions of IT—data storage, data processing, and data transport—have become available and affordable to all. In fact, research suggests that big firms are dominating through their use of software.

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Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

In the Babson Executive Education analysis of 635 global companies, just under a third of companies with 1-10% growth preferred experimentation over other methodologies, such as statistical analysis, to identify revenue and operational improvement opportunities.

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Analysis Constraint Transportation Strategic Planning 15