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.

Leadership 52

Leadership Agility Diversity Competitive Advantage 52

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 1, 2012

Innovation and Continuous Improvement Come from Personal Mastery. Once you master then innovation inevitably happens.”. Innovation Comes From Standardization of Processes. Innovation comes from mastery. Application to Standardization of Innovation Processes. Standardization is the first step to innovation.

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Delegation Innovation Retail Objective 130

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 29, 2011

DTC Operator. Dimension Time Cost Operator (DTC) – is a tool for for seeing problems differently exploring ideas of extremes in size and cost. The DTC Operator can work to release Psychological Inertia. Looking forward to meeting and working with your team and leaders in 2012. Nine Windows.

Team Building 129

Team Building Team Leadership Letter 129

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. In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. Million; not big, but interesting.

Succession 70

Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. An alternative emerging at healthcare institutions worldwide is human-centered design and co-creation, a set of approaches that can accelerate and humanize healthcare innovation.

Health Care 9

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Within an enterprise, this means balancing the demands of current operations while laying the groundwork for future opportunities, as well as reviewing past activities and policies that may be holding back your organization. Continuously reinventing your organization doesn’t mean you have to start from scratch with each new innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Technology 8

Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

Workers were blamed for quality problems after management had told them to keep the line running instead of properly gauging parts or changing tools. After escaping GM, I had an opportunity to attend graduate school at MIT, to study operations management, system dynamics, and other topics.

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Deming TQM Kaizen Crisis 46

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2016

New tools are already making rickshaws more reliable and demonstrating how modern technology can be mashed up with traditional technology to solve problems in developing cities around the world. Innovation in Cities. Most technological innovation is geared toward the planet’s richer populations. Insight Center.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Price Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

In 2012, one of us — Gregor Gimmy, a California-based serial entrepreneur and former IDEO consultant — accepted a new role at BMW’s corporate R&D headquarters. Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

In time, AI-powered crime-fighting tools could become a requirement for large businesses, in part because there will be no other way to rapidly detect and interpret patterns across billions of pieces of data. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

Banking 8

Banking Strategic Fit Risk Management Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. Digital transformation, the industrial internet, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and a plethora of other innovations are fundamentally changing the nature of work.

Company 10

Company Insurance Engineering Software 10

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

We must be creative and innovative in our organizations but perhaps more importantly, in working on ourselves. If you thought you were serious about it, Learn or Die will take you to a whole new level with tools, case studies, and insights that will challenge your commitment to learning. Best Leadership Books of 2012.

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Books Wiseman Kotter Leadership 285

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

More people have mobile money accounts than bank accounts in at least nine African countries, up from four in 2012. Other mobile service operators are also vying to release innovations to help customers pay for things without cash, receive money from abroad, and obtain micro loans and insurance products.

Banking 8

Banking Retail Wireless Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Into that void steps a new, very helpful tool, the Natural Capital Business Hub. It builds off a partnership launched at the Rio+20 summit in 2012 with companies such as Alcoa, Coca-Cola, Disney, Dow, GM, Kimberly-Clark, Nike, Unilever, and Xerox. The Hub is innovative and helpful because of the partnership tools.

Company 8

Company Case Study Strategic Planning Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Increasingly, companies are applying data-driven methodologies such as carbon footprinting, product indexing, lifecycle analysis, and ecosystem services valuation to support smarter decision-making and business innovation. We helped create these tools and we have observed the challenges first hand.

Analysis 8

Analysis Licensing Globalization Project 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. There is so much to learn, borrow, and build upon in these winning entries when it comes to how we can use the principles, and tools of the Web to make our organizations more adaptable, innovative, inspiring, and accountable. Story by Jim Lavoie.

Management 11

Management McKinsey Letter Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% These and other benefits translate into better cost management, agricultural innovation, and increased land productivity and quality. of revenues) and $13 million to $62 million (0.01% to 0.7%

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Because of the changing and innovative methods of attack being used against them, it is of the utmost importance that they constantly refine their knowledge of the particular enemies they face. These are also customizable tools that can gather any sort of information the thief wishes. Insight Center. The Future of Cybersecurity.

Company 8

Company Banking Information Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Much of my consulting work in the food and beverage category involves a tool called Palate Mapping. While political operatives have their own lessons to learn from the 2012 electoral results, marketers need to utilize some of the same strategies Obama used to win a second term — particularly in his appeal to minorities.

Marketing 15

Marketing Stage-Gate Industry Productivity 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Use existing tools. ” Companies that go this route use preexisting digital platform tools to engage their networks. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are prime examples of these tools, and all offer opportunities for two-way, collaborative communication. Difficult, but not impossible. Here are three ways it can be done.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. For instance, the CORE Institute’s Excellence through Evidence pathways and protocols define when non-operative treatments are and are not likely to be more successful than surgery. injections of medication into the joint and/or physical therapy). Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Health Care Cost Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

How the most innovative providers are creating value. As the movement to VBC has proceeded at an uncertain tempo, with the possibility of operating in a mixed reimbursement environment for quite some time, Nemours has pursued an additional avenue to transform care and enhance value that is compatible with any model of care or reimbursement.

Health Care 8

Health Care Transportation Cost System 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Using our robust data archive system which captures electronic health record, medical and prescription claims, and other information, we create dashboard displays for use by leadership, operational teams, and clinicians to reveal population-level trends and identify patients and clinicians for targeted interventions.

System 9

System Health Care Review Focus Group 9

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. Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Nonetheless, between 2012 and mid-2103, Banner has captured nearly $70 million in savings, and by 2017, the savings will contribute $256 million annually to its bottom line. By the end of 2012, the first year of implementation, Banner captured $31 million in G&A savings. . Leading Health Care Innovation.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

To adjust for these differences, managers of capital-intensive businesses have developed all sorts of tools and heuristics to help ensure that they’re building their balance sheets in the right way. Instead, they’re taught to focus on their income statement and optimize their operations around preserving profitability.

Business Model 8

Business Model System Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

According to data published by the Kaiser Family Foundation, workers’ earnings rose by 47% from 1999 to 2012, but their contribution to health insurance premiums during that time went up by 180%. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. Leading Health Care Innovation.

Health Care 8

Health Care Constraint Budgeting Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Buffer builds tools to help businesses manage and analyze their social media activity. One of Buffer’s practices is to default to transparency — it is relentlessly forthcoming about its operations, its learning, and its performance. billion dollars in sales (a 50% increase over 2012) in the Etsy marketplace alone.

Company 8

Company Business Model Workshop Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

On January 19, 2012, after 131 years of operation, the Eastman Kodak Company filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. What Business Are We In? The Emergence of Health as the Business of Health Care. bankruptcy court. What do we need to move from a product-oriented industry to a customer-oriented one?

Health Care 15

Health Care Levitt Film Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Fifty-eight percent of patients referred to Virginia Mason, our medical center in Seattle, for back surgery would be more appropriately treated without an operation. Long before innovations become commercially available, they are tested and refined as small-scale improvements programmed into an individual medical center’s EMR.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Creativity Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Each of these companies, in its own way, is a superior innovator. The company is, of course, a massive enterprise, with $75 billion in revenues, over 60,000 employees, and a dizzying array of products, from the core search business to the android operating system to nascent businesses like autonomous cars. Innovating the core.

Innovation 8

Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Among the findings: 63% of firms now report having Big Data in production in 2015, up from just 5% in 2012. 63% of firms reported that they expect to invest greater than $10 million in Big Data by 2017, up from 24% in 2012. 54% of firms say they have appointed a Chief Data Officer, up from 12% in 2012.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer Agility Metrics 8

HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

Philip Morris International Operations Center Lausanne, Switzerland. I believe we have an obligation to provide them with the tools and development opportunities to learn and grow as professionals, communicating clearly and regularly with them and fostering the best possible environments for them in which to work.

Globalization 40

Globalization Human Resources Long-term Diversity 40

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Although this can present leadership challenges related to shifting strategy, culture and operations, it certainly isn’t rocket science. Back in 2012, Erasmus’s CEO, Professor Hans Buller, was a huge proponent of VBHC and led the development of the organization’s 5-year VBHC strategy with one of us (Dr.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Compliance Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Third, support research to create better diagnostic tools. But the latest innovations in imaging and diagnostic testing can lower costs by improving the odds of a correct diagnosis. Cutting costs Health Innovation' Together, they immediately considered the most important questions—Is there a fracture?

Cost 8

Cost Health Care System Software 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

First, we’ve seen dramatic improvements in flexible automated fabrication, exemplified by innovations like Tesla Motors’ robot-heavy car factories and Nike’s revolutionary Flyknit process. Nike no doubt had this willingness in mind when it reinvented shoe manufacturing in 2012 with the Flyknit line.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Productivity Products Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

These tried-and-true tools of the retail trade might not be as sexy as other forms of marketing. Instead, retailers need to think about coupons, gift cards, and loyalty points not only as three separate tools, but as different forms of Branded Currency. Gift cards. Loyalty points. That''s almost as much as total e-commerce sales.

Brand 8

Brand Loyalty Retail Technology 8