Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. By the end of 2010, we have a prototype adaptation of our Whizard trimmer for tissue processing operating with the original customer, but we know that the tool is unsatisfactory in many ways.

Succession 70

Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

There is a sense that company operations are out of control. Branch 2: Environmental, safety, IT systems design and computer software, training for computers and technology, architecture, engineering and legal. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. External-Marketplace. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Review Company Strategic Planning Industry 57

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

With the focus properly on the amazing athletics, I doubt that many viewers paused to wonder how that feat of information technology was possible. The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time. A few facts might hint at the scale of this challenge.

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Committee Project Audience Information Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Americans are both undertreated and overtreated in a health care system that wastes up to $1 trillion a year and delivers profoundly uneven quality: Current estimates indicate that preventable medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States. Information technology has come late to health care delivery.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Creativity Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. 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.

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CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality. ” A 2012 study cited by the study’s authors estimated that the self-management of a chronic illness demands, on average, two hours of patient work each day — work that is often poorly supported, stressful, and frustrating in nature. the work of J.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Technology Survey 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. Practice #1: Increase trust by defining new conversational norms.

Strategy 8

Strategy Analysis Operations CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

hospitals from treating Medicare patients escalated sharply in 2012, when Congress included Medicare in its budget sequester, and they have remained high since. Hospitals are also penalized by Medicare if quality problems such as adverse drug reactions lengthen the patient’s stay or otherwise require additional treatment.

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Cost Consensus Budgeting System 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

These risks can emanate from the realm of security, public health, natural ecology, technology, or economics. In the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics, for example, the global financial crisis caused private developers for the Olympic Village project to withdraw, requiring a refinancing package backed by government.

Risk Management 14

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). Foreign investors have flocked to the country’s shores as many of the world’s largest manufacturers have established operations there. percentage points in 2003-2012.

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GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 9

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. Today, data quality is no longer about a central truth but is instead dependent on the goal of the analytic tasks. In fact, it was dubbed “ The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century ” by HBR.

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Analysis Agility Tools Diversity 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

For example, the hot technology of the moment, virtual reality (VR), was largely ignored by traditional funders after the disappointment of VR technology in the 1990s. Suddenly, virtual reality was no longer a forgotten ‘90s trend but had become a hot area of technology.

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Venture Capitalist Project Diversity Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

For effective execution, great sales forces are made by taking steps to ensure sales effort is of high quantity and quality, and allocated to the right products, markets, and selling tasks. It requires directing and managing salespeople using the right metrics, operating cadence, and performance management process.

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Charisma Strategy Process Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Though technology would have allowed for a significantly virtual enterprise, it was important to Ruh to have a physical building where people could actually be located together. GE started on one floor of a large office building in 2012 and has grown to take over all five floors. By June of 2012 we were close to 100.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

We have closely studied three of these models: The Helix Center at Imperial College London, the Center for Innovation at the Mayo Clinic, and the Consortium for Medical Technologies at Massachusetts General Hospital. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

A new business model will only emerge through continuous discovery and experimentation and will be defined by market demands, start-ups, a Silicon Valley mindset, and young technology experts. There is a significant opportunity to help reduce the lecture portion of expenses using technology innovations. Are all of these great teachers?

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Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. Grab, which launched its service in 2012 with 40 drivers in Malaysia, came late to the ride-hailing game, only after Uber had established a formidable position in the United States. “‘Why us?’

Transportation 8

Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In 2012, HBR dubbed data scientist “the sexiest job of the 21st century ” It is also, arguably, the vaguest. In larger and more sophisticated data operations, more fine-grained roles are necessary. Here are five key areas that contribute to data science operations. Monty Rakusen/Getty Images.

Engineering 9

Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The assumption is that a merger will make it easier to achieve economies of scale, develop a large but narrow network of preferably healthy patients, establish data registries, and integrate expensive technology. We attracted many new doctors when we opened a replacement hospital in 2012, ultimately doubling the size of our medical staff.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

She also displayed many of the same qualities that made her so well liked as a manager. In 2012 Google embarked on an enormous research project. For example, two of the scientists at PARC, Dick Shoup and Alvy Ray Smith , developed a revolutionary graphics technology called SuperPaint. Promote psychological safety.

Innovation 11

Innovation Team Diversity Creativity 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Seed-stage financing for technology start-ups fell from 16% of total annual private equity investment in 1995 to just 1% in 2002 and recovered to only 4% in 2011, according to data compiled by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. In total the iTulip community led the round with $2 million in January 2012.

Finance 9

Finance Due Diligence Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

Operations in a Connected World. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. By offering services to help expand the longevity of their products, they’re promising quality and durability to consumers and receiving the reputational gains for being environmental friendly. Insight Center.

Company 8

Company Apparel Incentives Retail 8

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

OCTOBER 26, 2015

” In a 2012 article for Harvard Business Review, Maxwell Wessel argued that scale, “one of the last bastions from the competitive storm,” is no longer profitable or safe. For a long time, technology gave big players a competitive advantage because no one else could afford to be big. At that rate, the number of U.S.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Pharmaceuticals Industry Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Since its launch in 2012, Flyknit has reduced 3.5 These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

If you want to win their hearts and minds, you have to master the latest technology, assimilate vast quantities of data, engage and delight your customers, and deliver products and services that surpass expectations. And yet today’s top marketers are combining technology and teamwork to generate extraordinary results.

Marketing 10

Marketing Teamwork Technology Information Technology 10

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Continuous Quality Improvement is a higher level of thinking. It cannot single-handedly create quality. Communications is fundamental to maintaining, but technology is only as good as the people using it. Non-core vendors do not and cannot improve the quality of a client’s core business. Sylvan Learning Centers.

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 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. From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 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. . Capitalize on success. Leading Health Care Innovation.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

health care system shift from fee for service to value-based approaches that pay providers for quality, they are turning to two models: One is procedure- and DRG-based bundled payments that pay one price for all the care related to treating a condition. Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality. Insight Center.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Health Care Cost Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

He dreamed a seemingly impossible dream: to eliminate needless blindness by providing appropriate, compassionate, high-quality eye care for all. In McDonald's, he saw that throughout the world McDonald's franchises had similar quality meals for low prices. "If You can make CSR the strategy or even the end goal for your business growth.

Self-aware 15

Self-aware Franchising Quality Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

And, how can we provide the highest quality care at the lowest appropriate cost? Our findings include the following: One percent of Intermountain’s patients used 24% of the total amount we spent on patient care between 2008 and 2012. High-cost patients experience high rates of turnover.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

Regulators would now decide how spectrum would be used, what technologies were permissible, and approve — or reject — the wireless services, networks, applications, and business models that might be introduced. That might seem like a good thing — using new technology to engage the public in ideological debate.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Our 2012 survey, in partnership with WomenCorporateDirectors and Heidrick & Struggles, of more than 1,000 corporate directors across the globe, found that only 48% of the boards had a formal process of determining the combination of skills and attributes required for their board and, therefore, for new directors.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

They’re given state-of-the-art technology, $2,000 to build a home office, and a large travel budget so they can meet up with other team members twice a year in beautiful, exciting places such as La Paz, Mexico, and Amsterdam. grew by nearly 80% between 2005 and 2012. Advances in technology are keeping pace.

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Company Document Travel Real Estate 8