Deming Institute

MARCH 16, 2017

When GE decided to sell off the units providing engine and airframe accessory services, Kevin participated in a management buyout of the company that is now part of Triumph Accessory Services. Kevin discussed the fact that many important factors cannot be managed and the importance of managing with consideration of those factors and impacts.

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Deming Short-term Engineering Incentives 28

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

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Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 9

Strategy Driven

MARCH 19, 2015

It doesn’t matter how intelligent or innovative your ideas are if no one can understand you. Asking questions and requesting clarification can go a long way towards avoiding long-term misunderstandings. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved. Present for Success.

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Long-term Short-term Competitive Advantage Open-book 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

To achieve that goal, however, we must innovate not only in terms of science and R&D, but also in how we run our business. “We cannot be like Google, but neither do we want to be,” says Kemal Malik, the board member responsible for innovation, “We need to plot our own path.” The innovation agenda.

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Innovation Company Agility Workshop 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

Innovation is famously difficult — many projects end up losing money, frustrating employees, and going nowhere. And yet corporations and governments spend billions of dollars annually pursuing innovation. Innovation projects often fail because the resources are spent on the wrong kind of innovation.

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Budgeting Innovation Business Model Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

The year 2015 was a pivotal time when humanity turned more decisively toward building a thriving and sustainable world. Here are eight cross-cutting themes and stories from 2015 that are driving us toward a sustainable world (and two that are doing the opposite): 1. degrees Celsius , or even 2 degrees (the stated long-term goals).

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Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

The advent of the modern organization and the practice of management constitutes a “social technology” that has been equally transformative. The forces of technology and management will continue to hold equal sway as the 21st century unfolds. This is a situation that cannot endure.

Management 8

Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. Innovation at GE was on a roll. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5

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Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

By 2015 the total number of such groups in IBM was at least 244 around the world. But because emotional communities are held together as much by the likes as by the dislikes of members, they can be unpredictable and difficult to manage. We suggest that HR leaders make minimum interventions in trying to influence communities of growth.

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Innovation Diversity Bond Participative 8

ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 5, 2021

Most business owners think of diversity in the workplace in terms of the compliance regulations imposed by the federal government. In 2015, McKinsey and Company found that companies with a diverse workforce performed 15 to 35 percent better than the national industry median. Defining Diversity and Its Importance in the Workplace.

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Diversity Compliance McKinsey Bottom-up 111

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

They transfer money away from public treasuries and wage earners to provide a short-term incremental benefit that does nothing to improve the company’s long-term prospects. The $520 billion that companies spent on 2015 stock repurchases alone is enough to pay the average U.S.

Politics 8

Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

One response to today’s climate crisis has been a belief that markets and corporate innovation will provide the solution. ” So while businesses are major contributors to escalating greenhouse gas emissions, they are also presented as offering innovative ways to decarbonize our economies.

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Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

When innovations threaten to disrupt an industry by replacing an old business model with a new one, incumbents need to invest in that model in order to survive. But what if an innovation poses a threat, and you can’t yet tell whether it has genuinely transformative potential? Fuse/Getty Images. These are rarely studied questions.

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Company Disruptive Innovation Decentralization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2016

Research we conducted at the Center for Talent Innovation reveals a remarkable correlation between inclusive leadership, innovative output, and market growth. At Standard Chartered, for example, the insights of one Indian female banker translated into innovation that boosted net sales at two branches by 127% and 75% within two years.

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Diversity Globalization Case Study Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Most cities fall well short of that ideal. metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. This type of approach has allowed the market to attract a diverse community that continues to inspire creativity and innovation.

Real Estate 12

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Over the major innovation cycles, the capitalist system has been resilient enough to absorb the effects of the crashes caused by pure speculation and turn them to its advantage. Some prominent economists predict a new period of secular stagnation as the last great phase of innovation-fueled growth (as they see it) dries up.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

The impact of “social entrepreneurs” — individuals who deploy innovation and market forces to fill social needs — is growing. Gayathri Vasudevan , a 2015 “ Entrepreneur of the Year ” in India, is a cofounder of LabourNet Services , which provides training for the unskilled. Vincent Tsui for HBR.

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Entrepreneur Glocalization Survey McKinsey 14

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In 2015, she prepared to sell a batch of 15 new clothing items at 3:00 p.m. Smart businesses like LIN and many others rely heavily on machine-learning technology to achieve scale and manage complexity. Strategy in a smart business is not long-term or short-term planning. Think enabling not managing.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. The innovation portfolio. Connecting Three Different Business Portfolios. The investment portfolio.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

By making such a bet, IBM will face much greater resistance than Gerstner faced, both internally (business units protecting turf) and externally (investors decrying the poor short-term results and future risks). To address medium-term opportunities, IBM formed partnerships with hospitals (e.g., Insight Center.

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Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

CEOs cannot manage their silos via hub-and-spoke and expect digital expertise to be properly incorporated in key decisions. They have to integrate various perspectives and not give algorithms short shrift for lack of understanding them. Balancing the short-term and long-term is a dynamic leadership challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2018

In 2015, UCAR appointed Brinkworth as the Director for Diversity, Education, and Outreach (DEO), (later called the Chief Diversity Officer), and was tasked with making UCAR more diverse and inclusive. Invite non-managers to foster communication across the organization. Many workplace diversity trainings tend to target only managers.

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Diversity Succession Participative Workshop 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. Superior technical innovation is at the heart of its strategy and its organizational design.

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Banking Strategy Film Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

And despite their relatively short existences, digital platforms such as Uber, Airbnb, Pinterest, and Snapchat are wreaking havoc on traditional businesses. Organizations that manage digital networks (we call them network orchestrators) are different from traditional product and service providers.

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Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

From 1996 to 2015, the number of publicly traded companies in the United States alone dropped nearly 50%. The types of private equity firms and the approaches to managing these firms has evolved over the last 40 years through three general phases. Leaders were driven by short-term profits and rapid action to flip the organization.

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LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

In my view, however, the structure and processes of the GE board were poorly designed for effectively overseeing Immelt and his management team. billion in 2015 for Alstom’s business of making coal-fired turbines for power plants. There were three problems in particular: The Board Was Too Big. The average size of U.S.

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Committee Welch Finance Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

By the time of the Paris climate meeting in 2015, which resulted in the more robust global agreement now supported by every country in the world except the United States, it was clear that we needed to consider a more ambitious target, 1.5°C °C (3.8°F) °C (2.7°F). °C (1.8°F) °C (2.7°F)

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Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

If you are not familiar with the term, the Internet of Things refers to a dramatic development in the internet''s function: the fact that, even more than among people, it now enables communication among physical objects. For managers, this development creates challenges both long term and urgent.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Business Model Software Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Apple’s stated intention was to carry out this $130 billion distribution of corporate cash to Apple shareholders between August 2012 and December 2015. ASRs: Apple contracts with an investment bank to short its stock, enabling the company to retire in one fell swoop the entire amount in the contract. Apple Economy Innovation'

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

A 2015 PwC study of 6,000 senior executives , conducted using a research methodology developed by David Rooke of Harthill Consulting and William Torbert of Boston University, revealed just how pervasive this shortfall is: Only 8 percent of the respondents turned out to be strategic leaders, or those effective at leading transformations.

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Development Argyris Learning-by-Doing Innovation 100

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

In 2015 U.S. In short, CEOs and employees compete in very different markets, one that scales with firm size and one that scales less. For example, a CEO with $1 million of equity vesting in one year and $10 million in five years is likely to have a longer-term outlook than one with the reverse. The numbers are striking.

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CEO Price Long-term Incentives 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Following a long stretch of fawning coverage from business and technology journalists, The Wall Street Journal reported in October 2015 that the company’s flagship blood-testing technology was a near-total failure. In fact, Holmes is set to be played by Jennifer Lawrence in a film written and directed by Adam McKay of The Big Short.).

Storytelling 8

Storytelling Open-book Technology Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

A short-lived economic revival followed, helped by international assistance from European countries and multilateral institutions, and high prices for Zimbabwe’s commodity exports. Without its own currency, Zimbabwe relies on USD for over 90% of transactions , but the collapse in exports means money is in short supply.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

It shouldn’t happen, but it does: You realize much too late that your innovation project is in deep trouble. In a recent analysis of a massive, expensive innovation failure, Kim van Oorschot of BI Norwegian Business School, Henk Akkermans of the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands, and Kishore Sengupta and Luk N. What went wrong?

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Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. He didn’t produce one signature idea, like Robert S.

Management 8

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Managers have a tendency to belittle the people we see as “resistant to change” – the employees who don’t change fast enough. Yet for all its innovation, Amazon’s approach to managing its money has changed little in 20 years. It is to ask of change in any one area of the business: At what pace?

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Short-term Drucker Resistance Restructuring 9