Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Block provides operational executives and managers with the insight needed to relate ‘shop floor’ decisions and activities with the organization’s financial future. Robert has made a complimentary book sample available to StrategyDriven readers at www.wholebusinessthinking.com/video/. by Robert S. About the Book.

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Resources Metrics Bottom-up Budgeting 62

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn. It ended up becoming one of the most widely viewed videos in the history of LinkedIn. Mike Sursock – Head of Operations Group at Baring Private Equity Asia. It is my way of recognizing the amazing contributions they have made in my life. Thought Leaders – Cohort 2.

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Executive Coaching Human Resources Magazine CEO 70

Strategy Driven

MAY 19, 2013

Amongst the most widely deployed business applications today, Sales Force Automation (SFA) offers a goldmine of operational sales data, yet built-in reporting and analytics are oftentimes inadequate to answer meaningful questions. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Resources Webinar Newsletter Engineering 50

Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

My co-workers and I didn’t understand why we had to be motivated to sell video game systems during the holiday shopping season, since that’s what we already enjoyed doing ( read more about it in this post from my blog ). There was no opportunity for pride and joy in work there. More about that in a later post in this series.

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Deming TQM Kaizen Crisis 46

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

By the time he left Amazon in 2013, his group had grown from 35 to more than 1,000 people who used machine learning to make Amazon more operationally efficient and effective. Related Video. Over the same time period, the company saw a 10-fold increase in revenue. Disclosure: Microsoft is a TCS client.).

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2017

As Noam Scheiber writes in the Times article, “Employing hundreds of social scientists and data scientists, Uber has experimented with video game techniques, graphics and noncash rewards of little value that can prod drivers into working longer and harder — and sometimes at hours and locations that are less lucrative for them.”

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Hawthorne Effect Airlines Efficiency Letter 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

In 2013, I began reporting on a groundbreaking all-women special operations team made up of the finest, fittest and most driven soldiers chosen from across the Army, Guard, and Reserve. Some of the most tested special operations leaders in the U.S. The shift began in 2010. What made this change possible?

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Team Operations Agility Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

In a 2013 advertisement in The Washington Post, HP claimed that if you measured countries by power consumption in kilowatts, the fifth largest after China, the U.S., Yes, our business data and cat videos now require more energy to run than Japan or Brazil. Sustainability Data Operations' Russia, and India would be the cloud.

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Supply Chain Engineering Energy Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

households who seemed likely to sign up for its streaming video service. This allows you to better manage operating and capital expenses. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, in 2013 Starbucks made $146MM on interest investing the float, or 8% of total profit. business ended 2014 with 39.1 It can also improve working capital.

Business Model 8

Business Model Loyalty Brand Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

burden of running their companies’ day-to-day operations. It’s No Accident Facebook Made Instagram’s New Videos Exactly as Long as a Television Commercial Quartz. growth in digital ads between 2013 and 2014. The article doesn''t outright glorify or condemn these work environments. Where''s the Beef? Forget six seconds.

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Advertising Video Ethics PR 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

The first Blockbuster store opened in 1985 and quickly became a popular provider of video games and movies to be used on all the new VCRs people were buying at the time. ’” Purpose might have informed the management of two failed brands – Blockbuster and Radio Shack — differently.

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Brand Merchandising Retail Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

Getting the company back on its feet required a major boost in operating efficiency. We succeeded, but by 2013 we worried that we had taken our focus on results too far. From there, we guided people through an online library of materials, centered on videos showing good and bad examples of each behavior.

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Resistance Long-term Short-term Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Highfive, a Silicon Valley–based video and web conferencing supplier, uses Quora to connect “with like-minded individuals.” Part of its success is that the company supports a collaborative work environment and boasts transparent operations from the top down.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Another energy industry client operated coal mines. Activities include media-spokesperson training, field and operations staff training, coordination of corporate response and message points, community liaison, collateral materials writing-production, video archiving-production, media relations, monitoring and expert testimony.

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Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 96

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

billion annually in currency operations costs. According to a 2013 Mastercard study , India was in the “Inception” category of both absolute level of cashlessness and the trajectory of change. Related Video. Reserve Bank of India, India’s central bank, and the banking institutions.

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Banking Cost Policies Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Next, the 10-member senior leadership team used a variety of means, such as town halls, and videos of executives explaining the plan, to clearly and repeatedly communicate the urgent need for cost reduction as a requirement for process redesign across the system that would ultimately improve patient care. Capitalize on success.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

But no, everybody knew then who the real boss was, as they know today that the boss at Mocidade is Solange Cruz Bichara Rezende , the 43-year-old president, seen weeping in this video clip after learning that her samba school had won the 2013 parade. What can large corporations operating in Brazil learn from all this?

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Teamwork Absenteeism Class Motivation 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

The band put out new albums regularly and experimented in video games, art, and video content, among other things. But by 2013, Linkin Park and Machine Shop had to address the fact that digital music (first downloads and then streaming) had changed the business dramatically. Photo by Lorenzo Errico. Beyond Music.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Across Europe, the 2013 horsemeat scandal generated widespread panic about contaminated meat. Global operations need consistent global standards. Bad headlines about foreign operations tell consumers, “This company still can’t be trusted.” Let’s return to those videos with Grant Imahara.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Reputation Brand Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Since 1996, and even during the most recent recession, private network operators in the U.S. In sharp contrast, European network operators who are unable to recover their investments continue to fall farther behind. network operators invested $600 per household compared to $389 in the EU. The result is that the U.S.

Price 8

Price How To Policies Report 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

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. Within 48 hours, it rose to the top of the most viewed and most shared videos charts on YouTube. It’s easy to understand why.

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Team Metrics KPI Rogers 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

They’ve spawned many unicorns, such as Waze (the driving navigation app acquired in 2013 by Google for $1.3 billion), NDS (the video software provider scooped by Cisco in 2012 for $5 billion), Playtika (the gaming platform bought by Giant Interactive for $4.4 billion in 2017). increments.

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Uncertainty Software Sample Participative 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

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. Engineers working on 20% time projects follow their passions.

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Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

I recall vividly the impact this video had during a presentation I made to the academic chairs of departments at Mass General. Before I left Partners to join the Commonwealth Fund in 2013, we had chosen the EHR and begun the rollout of the new IT infrastructure.

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System Skills Health Care Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

According to a 2013 survey by Nielsen, "Nearly 60% of women use Facebook/access Facebook multiple times a day on their device/computer compared to approximately 45% of men." If you''re marketing to women through social media, imagine your conversations mediated by a smartphone screen.

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Strategy Marketing Market Segmentation Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

What disruptive innovations are set to take similarly big strides in 2013? A popular phrase for years, in 2013 connected devices and the so-called smart home finally look ready to enter the mainstream. Finally, it was a big year, for better or worse, for unmanned aerial vehicles (drones). 3-D printing. The Internet of Things.

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Trends Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

In January 2013 they created “ IBM iFundIT ,” a program in which volunteers decide where to spend seed money using an intranet site for proposing ideas, commenting, volunteering, and funding. Given the success of the program in 2013, IBM’s CIO decided to invest $7 million to expand iFundIT in 2014. Decision making Operations'

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Software CIO Early Adopters Project 8