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ASQ Buffalo Quality Conference 2013 :: Mike is Presenting

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 2, 2013

ASQ Buffalo 2013 Quality Conference. October 15 Quality Conference. I will be presenting 2 workshops at the ASQ Buffalo 2013 Quality Conference – October 15 & 16. 10/15 – Conference Day. ASQ Buffalo 2013 Quality Conference. October 15 Quality Conference. October 16 Quality Seminars.

Conference

Conference Quality TRIZ Seminar

What Leaders Need To Do To Create A Thriving Organization

Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking at the 28 th Annual Material Handling and Logistics Conference (MHLC) alongside thought leaders Patrick Lencioni and Guy Kawasaki, as well as The Container Store’s VP of Logistics and Distribution, Amy Carovillano (not to mention live performances by Jay Leno and REO Speedwagon).

Organization

Organization Conference Audience Globalization

Big Thinking for Small Business

Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2013

If you operate a home décor company that strives to connect to style-savvy urban hipsters but your website is cluttered, and very UN-edgy, you’re going to be perceived as anything but hip. It’s not by lowering your pricing or throwing in extra products or services. Or, big execution. Need a tangible? Your website.

Public Relations

Public Relations Media PR Bottom-up

Big Data, Big Opportunity

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. It often helps if the executive in charge is not from IT, but from operations or marketing, and that there are close links with customer-facing and other operational roles. They are transforming each and every business model.

Leadership Styles

Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey

Best Practices for Small Business Owners to Secure Government Contracts

Strategy Driven

MAY 1, 2014

Government contracting can be a lucrative growth opportunity for small business owners as the government buys everything from products to services. A good first step is for small business owners to visit www.USASpending.gov to find out what the federal government is purchasing and which agency is purchasing your product or service.

Open-book

Open-book Budgeting Proposal Competitive Advantage

When a Country is Facing Political and Human Rights Issues, Should Businesses Leave or Stay?

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

After the murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi , many companies had to urgently decide whether to attend Saudi Arabia’s Future Investment Initiative, a global business conference scheduled to take place just days after news of Khashoggi’s killing broke. The compass that was guiding the bank was a financial one.

Politics

Politics Short-term Long-term Banking

Smart Marketing for Small Businesses

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations. 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.

Marketing

Marketing Press Release Consultative Brand

Hire by Auditions, Not Resumes

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

We have a headquarters in San Francisco and it operates similar to a co-working space. To us, this arrangement makes sense — we work in open source software, which is a decentralized product. This post is adapted from a talk by the author at the December 2013 Lean Startup Conference. . Outsiders were dubious.

Chief Financial Officer

Chief Financial Officer Decentralization Engineering Short-term

Unify Your Global Company Through a Common Language

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

operates in 13 countries, spanning a dozen languages. Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? Imagine a conference room of individuals drawn from the far corners of the globe to work in your company or to do business with you. What do you do? Hire interpreters?

Globalization

Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing

The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 4 of 4

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

At a later news conference, OSHA announced that it was assessing its smallest fine, as a result of the forthright way in which my client had handled the crisis. Another energy industry client operated coal mines. Protection of intellectual property, materials, business continuity and core business production information.

Crisis Management

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting

Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

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.

Retail

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel

How I Got My Team To Fail More

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? It’s easy to understand why.

Team

Team Metrics KPI Rogers

Big Companies Don’t Have to Be Soulless Places to Work

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. At several financial services firms , for example, business units whose employees reported speaking up more had significantly better financial and operational results than others.”

Company

Company McKinsey Survey COO

The U.S. Media’s Problems Are Much Bigger than Fake News and Filter Bubbles

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%.

Media

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content

Leadership Digital

ASQ Buffalo Quality Conference 2013 :: Mike is Presenting

What Leaders Need To Do To Create A Thriving Organization

Trending Sources

Big Thinking for Small Business

Big Data, Big Opportunity

Best Practices for Small Business Owners to Secure Government Contracts

When a Country is Facing Political and Human Rights Issues, Should Businesses Leave or Stay?

Smart Marketing for Small Businesses

Hire by Auditions, Not Resumes

Unify Your Global Company Through a Common Language

The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 4 of 4

Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

How I Got My Team To Fail More

Big Companies Don’t Have to Be Soulless Places to Work

The U.S. Media’s Problems Are Much Bigger than Fake News and Filter Bubbles

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