Deming Institute

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Dr. Deming Called for the Elimination of The Annual Performance Appraisal (2012). Knowledge of Variation (2012). Appreciation for a System (2012). Deming Chain Reaction (2012). Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge (2012) *. Edwards Deming on Leadership (2012) *. Create Constancy of Purpose (2015).

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 28, 2015

What’s Deming Got to Do With Agile Software Development and Kanban (2013). Dr. Deming Called for the Elimination of The Annual Performance Appraisal (2012). Deming Chain Reaction (2012). Knowledge of Variation (2012). The most popular post on our blog this year: Myth: If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It (2015).

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

The pandemic gave us the opportunity to really test our agility and innovation, and I am proud to say we exceeded expectations, ” she says. “ The pandemic gave us the opportunity to really test our agility and innovation, and I am proud to say we exceeded expectations, ” she says. “ An Ambassador for Inclusion.

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Experience to Lead

MARCH 29, 2021

He was USA Archery’s High-Performance Manager and an Assistant Head Coach from 2012-2016, after achieving the highest levels in the sport as an athlete. Krueger has no doubt that his lack of self-awareness lost him a spot as a coach on the Olympic team in 2012. Olympic team. Of course, in the moment, this wasn’t obvious to him. “I

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Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2012

Long range planning for Agile teams. When organizations adopt an agile approach like Scrum to product development oftentimes there is so much focus on the iterative nature of agile development that long range vision and strategic product design can get lost. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. by Collabnet.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 5, 2016

No True Lean Thinking or Agile Software Development (2010). Keys to the Effective Use of the PDSA Improvement Cycle (2012). Why Don’t Football Players Just Thrown the Ball Out of Bounds to Stop the Clock (2010). Steve Jobs on Quality, Business and Joseph Juran (2014). Don’t Treat People How You Want to be Treated (2010).

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The Office Blend Blog

JULY 24, 2019

Moreover, as organizations aspire to become more agile — how they communicate internally becomes central. Like organizations networks must also remain agile, flowing and evolving as needed. However, the manner in which networks are built and utilized, stands as one of the most critical concerns within modern organizations.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 6, 2015

The posts were published in 2010 (4 posts), 2013 (2), 2014 (2), 2005 (1) and 2012 (1). No True Lean Thinking or Agile Software Development (2010). Keys to the Effective Use of the PDSA Improvement Cycle (2012). The Toyota Way – Two Pillars (2010). The Purpose of an Organization (2005). Stated Versus Revealed Preference (2013).

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Deming Institute

MAY 7, 2018

This webcast shows Sarah Pavelka ’s presentation, Deming and Lean: The Disparities and Similarities, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. Sarah co-authored Tool Time for Lean with David Langford.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

In this lull between the Olympics and Paralympics, London is enjoying wide acclaim for the success of the 2012 Games, and rightly so. The way the security threat was handled shows great agility. But not everything has gone according to plan. The first lesson is that a great organization is able to act swiftly and adapt fast.

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The Empowered Buisness

JULY 6, 2015

You then utilize your newly discovered verbal agility to speak their dialect. His body of work can be found in The Ultimate Guide to Sales Training (Pfeiffer, 2012), a 600 page encyclopedia of best-practices. So how do we know which type of buyer we’re dealing with? You ask a powerful question that reveals the buyer’s type.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

Today savvy business leaders are prioritizing complex problem solving skills in hiring rather than old domain knowledge, and emphasizing agile team problem solving over traditional planning cycles. Strategic planning in business assumed an existing playing field and known actors.

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Check out the collection of great leadership posts in November 2012 Edition of Carnival of Leadership Development at Dan McCarthy’s Great Leadership Blog. Also download: “ The Quality Manifesto – Getting the Basics of Quality Right in a Knowledge World ” [PDF]. - – – – -.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

Take note that 72% of B2B marketers have no or very little processes for lead funnel optimization, according to the 2012 Marketing Sherpa B2B Benchmark Study. Given the cost of “marketing fuel”, it sure would be nice to know when to press the accelerator or take another path to reach the destination. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

million settlement in 2012. Firms should not embrace ethical leadership or risk agility out of fear of failure or mere compliance. Risk agility is a source of lasting competitive advantage. No significant actions were taken to curb the improper behavior, and the company had to pay a $158.3

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

Starting in 2012, my colleagues and I began taking a closer look at the hands-on experience of data scientists. Indeed, in our 2012 study of data analysts, we characterized the process of data science as five high-level tasks: discovery, wrangling, profiling, modeling, and reporting.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

Enable organizational agility. In April 2012, Unilever continued to display its commitment to open innovation by hosting a 24-hour live online discussion that generated 4,000 comments from over 2,000 thought leaders to give the company feedback on its sustainability goals.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

Corporate leaders — and especially large company CEOs — are finally realizing what their employees and customers already know: That using social technologies to engage with customers, suppliers, and even with their own employees enables their companies to be more adaptive and agile.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

They also need to prepare the workforce to be agile and to adapt quickly to changes in the market. Help your people be more agile and adapt quickly to changes by encouraging and rewarding those who demonstrate quick adaptive learning cycles. It started this program in 2012. Insight Center. The Global Digital Economy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

In the last few years Agile and “Continuous Deployment” has replaced Waterfall and transformed how companies big and small build products. Agile is a tremendous advance in reducing time, money and wasted product development effort — and in having products better match customer needs.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

Develop mental agility. This quality of mental agility hinges on the ability to mentally “decenter” stressors in order to effectively manage them. A survey of over 100,000 employees across Asia, Europe, Africa, North America, and South America found that employee depression, stress and anxiety accounted for 82.6%

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

from 2012 to 2014. But speed and agility matter measurably more for many innovators than proprietary software development and patent filings. Worldwide, the number of start-up offices in those top 20 ecosystems that are second offices outside the initial ecosystem or founding headquarters that were moved rose more than 8.4X (!)

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Results from a new study, 2012 GE Global Innovation Barometer , indicate a more collegial and personal view of leadership and business now rising through the workforce. Leaders are adaptive and agile, clear thinkers who are not only decisive but able to connect strategy to purpose in a way that fosters commitment.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Accelerate : Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World by John P. Best Leadership Books of 2012. Kotter For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. But the reality is, this system simply is not built for an environment where change has become the norm. Blog Post ).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

In a world of higher existential risk, agility of mind, flexibility in organization and redundancy in capacity will be critical factors in mastering the kind of complex risks and opportunities we increasingly face. His book CQ — Creative Intelligence , will be published by HarperCollins in 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Instagram had only 13 employees when it sold for $1 billion to Facebook in 2012, and Snapchat has approximately 350 employees. The company begins to feel like any other large company, losing its competitive edge to the new, smaller, more agile companies that spring up in competition.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

Facebook had 2,400 employees in 2011; 3,500 in 2012; 4,900 in 2013; and 6,300 today. Though $15,000 seems like a lot to a high school senior, it’s hardly a great choice for entrepreneurs or anyone else if it comes at the expense of an education that yields a far higher lifetime income , a more agile mind, and a more rewarding life.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

By applying proven methods from Silicon Valley — such as lean startup, agile development and design thinking — inside government itself, the executive branch has since been able to do things long thought impossible.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

In 2012, GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt launched GE’s digital strategy to connect minds and machines, combining a legacy of innovative industrial manufacturing with cutting-edge data and analytics expertise. ” Failure to grasp such disruptions — and adapt quickly — can be fatal.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Mindful that many large transformation programs run into difficulties because of scope complexity and traditional “ waterfall ” software development, Shuttleworth and the team used a design-led approach combined with scaled agile delivery. The team sketched out user stories to frame the work (see below for an example).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Startups must be agile and adapt their value proposition several times until they get it right. When he bought it in 2012 it had $93 million in revenue. According to Forbes, 58% of startups successfully figure out a clear market need for what they have.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

GE started on one floor of a large office building in 2012 and has grown to take over all five floors. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012. By June of 2012 we were close to 100. ” Hiring for Growth. The biggest challenge was growing fast.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

To accelerate that transformation, the company launched a social platform (called "Shift") to harvest ideas and inject agility into crucial projects. They also earn a chance to appear at a MIX event and awards ceremony in 2012. These winners will be celebrated on the MIX, Harvard Business Review online, and McKinseyQuarterly.com.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Understanding your company’s DNA can help you know what you can and can’t do, and how to achieve agility and authenticity in a changing world. In 2012 she announced to all the employees a re-expression as “ The HP Way Now.” But there may be more to the metaphor. It is formed at conception and does not change.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

The data show that social skill tasks grew by 24% from 1980 to 2012, compared to only about 11% for math-intensive tasks. Machines aren’t quite this agile (yet), whereas people can be. While the latter has declined since 2000, the importance of social skills has grown by about 2% through the aughts.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

The great thing about operating a small business is that you are inherently more agile than your larger competitors. John Oechsle joined Swiftpage in July 2012 and currently serves as president and chief executive officer. If you’re in the business of service, do you seek out your customers or do they seek out you? About the Author.

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Leading Blog

JULY 31, 2012

Here are a selection of tweets from July 2012 that you might have missed: " Leading in the 21st century ". Agility: The Ingredient That Will Define Next Generation Leadership - Forbes. 31 Days of Twitter Tips from @beckyrbnsn Kindle version free for the month of August. Get your advance copy. As A Wise Man Once Said.

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