Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Continuous quality improvement means that we benchmark accomplishments and set the next reach a little further. Learns constructively from trial and error. A 90 percent success rate for a person with a good attitude and responsible behavior is unbeatable. There is no such thing as perfection.

Succession 79

Succession Due Diligence Budgeting Risk Management 79

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Understanding the Concept of Governance Excellence Governance excellence refers to the strategic oversight conducted by a company’s board of directors that ensures ethical, sustainable, and profitable organizational operations. Essentially, they serve as the guiding light, steering the organization toward its goals and objectives.

Compliance 235

Compliance Efficiency Ethics Metrics 235

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. Employees must buy into the process by offering constructive input. Setting goals that are too low. Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs. Benchmark measurements of accomplishments. All ideas are worthy of consideration.

Quality 50

Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

Feeling vulnerable as a small city-state, Singapore's leaders set high standards, benchmark against the best in the world, seek innovation, and invest in ideas of the future. Komatsu, a globally prominent construction equipment manufacturer, drove excellence by fearing Caterpillar, the U.S.

Benchmarking 15

Benchmarking Health Care Loyalty Construction 15

You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 13, 2009

To achieve its goals and remain competitive, the organization must maximize on the capability and knowledge of its people. And, while on this topic, the leader must also: Be Clear about Performance Goals and Expected Accomplishments Ken Blanchard has some ideas about maximizing individual performance. This is as it should be.

Performance Review 40

Performance Review Review PR Blanchard 40

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

To construct these rankings, we collect detailed, confidential data directly from accelerator programs. With this challenge in mind, we set out over the last few years to both foster conversation about the accelerator model, and help entrepreneurs gain visibility into the strengths of individual programs.

Finance 8

Finance Entrepreneur Survey Participative 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The goal is balance: A coherent company strikes a balance where the right product and service portfolio naturally thrives within a capabilities system consciously chosen and implemented to support a deliberate strategy or way to play. Companies today operate in a business environment that encourages incoherence.

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In other words, what produces complexity is not so much the presence of many direct cause-effect links which operate with subtlety versus precision, but rather the presence of indirect, non-linear relationships between the variables, parts, and dimensions of the whole. But all must still be interpreted.

Senge 8

Senge Education Rogers Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Comparing your organization to peers – also known as benchmarking – lets you understand how you’re doing, identify performance gaps and opportunities to improve, and highlight peer achievements that you could emulate, or your own achievements to be celebrated. For example, suppose you want to compare the U.S.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Comparison Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless. You can also use publicly available industry benchmarks.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

Instead, the Commission's focus in the report is on the immediate causes of the explosion and on the individual and collective failures of BP (owner), Transocean (rig operator) and Haliburton (construction services) to assess and mitigate immediate risks — and to have effective crisis response plans.

Analysis 14

Analysis Report Operations Document 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

The goal is to bring value to customers in ways that are beneficial for them while also creating additional value for the company itself. And what are the benchmarks of success? To achieve this loftier goal, you need the second half of collaboration, which is cooperation. Q: Could you give an example? A: Sure, bagged salad.

Education 8

Education Execution Content Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

To answer these questions, we began with a simple premise: Neither “smartness” nor the technology to be deployed is the end goal. To set an aspirational but realistic target, we created a benchmark that combines the best attributes of these advanced digital nations. The technology is just a way to get there.

Benchmarking 10

Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 10