Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. They can sound geeky, but they are developments that every manager needs to understand. As speaker Bernard Marr put it at CMI’s National Conference: “ what the hell is Big Data? They are transforming each and every business model.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2014

If you’re reading this while on a conference call — perhaps even in the loo — you’re not alone. While this may not be especially surprising — most of your colleagues probably have an iPhone or other such device — the things people do while on conference calls are, well, illuminating. It turns out many U.S.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Financial management. Change management. The following functional areas exist within XYZ Widget: Finance, HR/Admin, Sales, Customer Service, Planning & Procurement, Materials Management, Manufacturing, and Quality Control. •Communication. Long term vision/goal setting and the ability to communicate that to the organization.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 9, 2013

It’s also very clear that leaders with strong coaching skills have dramatically higher levels of employee engagement, productivity, safety, and customer service. We’ve been networking, exchanging best practices, and learning about ZF’s leadership research and development.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We hope you'll find some insights here you may have missed the first time around, and that they'll help you make 2013 a productive and innovative year for your company and yourself. Boring Is Productive. How to Attend a Conference as Yourself. Big Data's Management Revolution. Why Big Companies Can't Innovate.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Our assignments have grown more collaborative, requiring more coordination, conference calls, and meetings. Now, more than ever, we need strategies for being productive. There’s a satisfying rush we experience when there’s too much on our plate: we feel needed, challenged, even productive. But where do we start?

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. Let us give you our definition of what it means to be a founder: Playing a central role in starting and managing an initiative that will have impact (preferably visible and large) on an organization or the broader world. Innovation Capital.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2013

We focus on quarterly goals, the weekly conference calls, and the ever-looming concern over what this year’s bonus will be-all the while overlooking ideas that keep us on top of our game. Some of the mistakes we make are obvious, such as failing to make enough calls, lacking product knowledge, and not asking a client to buy.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 4, 2013

Welcome to the March 2013 Leadership Development Carnival! Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership says, “A lot of leaders make the mistake of using the same conflict management strategy for all kinds of conflict. Nick McCormick of The Joe and Wanda on Management Blo g asks Are You a Manager or a Host?

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Deming Institute

APRIL 16, 2018

He also provides insight on gathering data during the use of a product to predict when it is wise to intervene. This doesn’t require plotting control chart data (sometimes that isn’t realistic – especially for products being used by customers). 2013, Vijay Nair: Industrial Statistics – Research vs Practice.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

When it comes to work, walking can dramatically increase productivity. Last year I gave the closing talk at the 2013 TED Conference. The productivity of that hour was so dense—it was mentally exhausting. The walking just makes it more productive work. Creativity Managing yourself' Checked my e-mail.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

About ten years ago, somebody sent me a PDF file of Dr. Deming’s “Some Notes on Management in a Hospital.” It had been published in the journal of the Society for Health Systems (an organization I am active with today, including running the Red Bead Experiment at their 2016 conference). Guest post by Mark Graban. We have to do better.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2015

I attended a terrific conference recently hosted by Human Synergistics. Their one-day #UltimateCulture Conference in Chicago brought together bright minds about organizational culture, including Edgar Schein, Larry Senn, Rob Cooke, Linda Sharkey, and Jason Carthen.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The problem is, these technologies don’t appear to be making a difference to productivity figures, or subsequently the wages and wellbeing of people. It’s a refrain with a strong heritage, with Robert Solow famously remarking that “you can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics” back in 1987. in 1992.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

Writing about your company, products, services, or industry will help you to formalize and organize your thinking, which could spur innovative ideas or content for other aspects of your business. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Get to work on writing articles, blogs, white papers, or even a book.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

43% female, 57% male) from 2013-2017, and spoke with more than 20 female engineers at professional conferences in the U.S. Research also shows that women are disproportionately likely to move away from the most technical career paths and toward roles that involve technical supervision or management as their careers progress.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

To us, this arrangement makes sense — we work in open source software, which is a decentralized product. The aphorism is true: You can’t manage your way out of a bad team. This post is adapted from a talk by the author at the December 2013 Lean Startup Conference. . To Optimize Talent Management, Question Everything.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

Many consumers think of us as a vacuum cleaner company – and indeed our first product, in 1919, was a vacuum. As we were a product-centric organization, the shopping experience had played a supporting role, with individual elements of the experience managed by different organizational silos.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Studies of people with and without views of nature – as opposed to either no views, or views of built environments – have found that a view of nature makes workers less frustrated, more patient, more productive, and physically healthier. Workspaces Productivity' But an open office has downsides. Provide loud spaces, too.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2015

Marketing manager Grier was just plain tired of colleagues playing the expert in her domain. When a designer sent her an e-mail questioning her choice of quotes for a new product brochure, she snapped. For one, in a meeting or on a conference call, you can’t circulate a document right away away. It’s worth it.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

That sounds easy, but the bigger you get, the harder that is to manage. I''d need a standing army of translators to manage now, and my plan involves adding many more countries. Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? out of a possible 990 in February 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

In countries without policies that facilitate conciliation, managers overwhelmingly think that women "choose" family commitments over work. The real issue is to develop the corporate leadership skills to manage a feminizing talent pool and a feminizing customer base. See our 2013 Global Gender Balance Scorecard.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

In a business presentation, you’re telling the story behind your campaign, company, or product. Just before the presentation, she told a friend about an incident she’d had with her daughter as she was leaving for the conference. Communication Managing yourself Personal effectiveness' million deaths a year.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Then William Clay Ford, the owner of the Detroit Lions, asked him in 2000 to become the team’s general manager — the guy responsible for drafting players and hiring coaches. Ultimately, if he could make one change to his general-manager tenure," Rosenberg writes, "he wouldn''t be a general manager."

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

This is disturbing coming from a company so adept at cutting-edge customer analytics that it’s selling analytics services and has refused to divulge the names of its tech staff at Hadoop conferences to prevent them from being poached. But from the average consumer’s point of view, it can be hard to see Sears’ competitive advantage right now.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Crisis management is so much more than handling of the media. We therefore mounted a full-scope crisis management initiative that focused heavily on after-the-crisis help for the victims and their families. There are three aspects to Crisis Management and Preparedness. Thinking Through the Strategies. by Hank Moore.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

I was also invited to attend to the Deming Institute Annual Fall conference in Los Angeles. The most common reasons provided for why the business was not profitable were: starting a business venture which is not well prepared, bad management of the venture, or extremely strong influences of market distortions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

. “One, you have to replace the talent, and in a time of tight labor markets, that’s a very hard—and very expensive—endeavor,” explains John Sullivan, an HR expert, professor of management at San Francisco State University, and author of 1000 Ways to Recruit Top Talent. Pay attention to office gossip as well.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

2012 can be the last year you forget if you make 2013 the year you commit to using a digital notebook like Evernote. What would it mean to work smarter with Evernote in 2013? May: Going to a big conference or trade show? Tag it all with the name of the conference for easy reference. June: Mid-year review time.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

billion, with the company growing at a compounded annual rate of over 100% between 2013 and 2017. DJI’s first hit product was the Phantom in 2013, and ever since, DJI has introduced new products at a rapid-fire pace. Having a manufacturing ecosystem confers several benefits. Unlike in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

According to a report in The Atlantic , one in four Americans reports having no one with whom they can discuss important matters, compared with one in ten 30 years ago, and a 2013 survey conducted by Lifeboat found that the average American had only one real friend. You’ll also be more productive and innovative together.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

By 2007, PBS.org audience growth had stalled and the product pipeline was dry. Its top two priorities — a redesign of PBS.org and a new video player — had churned on for two years with little to show except a thick binder of product requirements from key constituents. The product manager? Others began taking risks.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

“Nobody appreciates being surprised or not having enough time to think through a new thing,” Shalett told audiences at LinkedIn’s FinanceConnect conference in 2013. At the beginning of any project, she advises asking yourself, “Who’s going to need to know all the things we’re thinking about doing?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2015

Andrea Chermayeff wishes she’d kept a diary during the fall of 2013. Top management is often involved; at Morgan Stanley’s Return to Work Program, senior leaders discuss the firm’s strategy and culture in a two-day orientation. Developing employees Talent management Professional transitions'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

In the 2013 report of the same population, 82% of workers around the world did not trust their bosses to tell the truth. In the 2016 Edelman Global Trust Barometer survey, of more than 33,000 people around the world, only 27% of leaders were seen as behaving in open and transparent ways.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Companies with employees that represent the end user are more likely to develop innovative products and services that meet the needs of customers in markets around the world. Having global, cultural, gender, and generational diversity is a serious business asset that confers significant competitive advantage in the global marketplace.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. The implications are threefold: The best product doesn’t always win. Even if you have the best product or candidate, if you run a hub-and-spokes campaign, you’ll attract followers one by one. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%.

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