Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

The good news is that an increasing number of cities have made commitments to aggressive climate and sustainability goals , a trend we anticipate accelerating following the recent UN agreement in Paris. Innovation in Cities. With the sustained national focus on codes, standards, and green-building certifications, such as the U.S.

NPV 8

NPV Energy Efficiency Technology 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. We have done this based on international standards, and we use those tools and benchmarking to help shippers identify ways to reduce their emissions. The HR Digest: C. Within C.H. Robinson, we are focused on reducing the emissions from our own carbon footprint.

Supply Chain 109

Supply Chain Human Resources Diversity Transportation 109

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Its goal was to promote greater sharing of ideas, information, best practice and innovative processes. One winning finance group promoted an Excel macro that helped business units more easily calculate a key performance metric; an HR group from one division "stole" and repurposed the online 360 degree job review process from another.

Incentives 8

Incentives Tools Benchmarking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Whether developing a new venture, managing an internal corporate innovation initiative, or working to develop globally successful product and service designs (my profession), nothing is more important than understanding what people need and desire in context of what the competition is providing.

Benchmarking 13

Benchmarking Maslow Analysis Trends 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

While we would be naive if we didn’t acknowledge politics as a potentially destructive force, when deployed effectively it can help the company meet its strategic goals and live up to its values, especially during organizational change. Such groups can also revitalize innovation and change. Defining politics. So what is it?

Politics 14

Politics Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. Conversely, superior user experience designs frequently inspire insight into innovative use-case opportunities.

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

On average, common ownership concentration has almost doubled in the last 20 years in the construction, manufacturing, finance, and services sectors. They may choose it for other reasons, for example, to encourage cooperation or innovation. Maybe it’s not a conscious choice at all.

CEO 8

CEO Asset Management Cooper Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The best leaders understand that the current success of their business, and any future innovation, depends upon the “deep smarts” of their employees — the business-critical, experience-based knowledge that employees carry with them.

Organization 8

Organization Development Mentor Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

Sustainable Development Goals forecast to generate market opportunities of over $12 trillion a year by 2030 (and that’s considered a conservative estimate). But success or failure on sustainability goals cannot be measured only in terms of profit and loss. It is time to either step up — or to get out of the way.

TBL 11

TBL Bottom-up Long-term Early Adopters 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Crucially, he concludes that our unconscious mental frames “shape the goals we seek, the plans we make, the way we act, and what counts as a good or bad outcome of our actions.” The focus of people using a resources frame to understand sustainability is often on waste reduction and technological innovation. The Moral Frame.

Morale 8

Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

One of the team’s central findings is that TDABC cannot be delegated to the finance function. The Orthopedic Project team reviewed data, which showed that all three Mayo locations were already performing well on length of stay, complication rates, and 30-day readmission rates compared with a range of national benchmarks.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Committee Project 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