LDRLB

MAY 29, 2013

But in the context of taking charge and leading human beings during major or minor crises, every chief executive is blessed with the luxuries of time, subordinate counsel, years of related experience, and knowhow imparted by pundits in thousands of books, journals and case studies. years, down from 10.0 years in 2000.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

This webcast shows Bob Browne ’s presentation, Profound Knowledge of the Real Thing, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. Guest post by John Hunter. Bob is the former CEO of the Great Plains Coca Cola Bottling Company. It is very difficult to copy when you start undoing the cultural things.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 29, 2015

The conference itself begins on Friday, June 12th with Happy Hour at 5pm and dinner at 6pm, followed by a keynote presentation. Topics and speakers at the conference include: Kevin Murphy – Application and Lessons of Deming’s Perspective on Leadership. They are also offering a webcast of the conference ($150).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Editor's Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Elizabeth and Natalia glanced at each other across the conference table. We can't keep our artists inspired and innovative if we start letting customers tell us what to do.".

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Curious Cat

OCTOBER 19, 2016

I remember hearing this same story when Russ Ackoff spoke at the Hunter Conference on Quality (which was named in honor of my father ) in Madison, Wisconsin. If you haven’t heard this story you are in for a treat. And if you haven’t heard Russell Ackoff before you get to enjoy a great storyteller. "Tape"

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. The innovative system promised to reduce local governments’ energy consumption and maintenance costs and improve their constituent relationships.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

Editor’s note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. If everyone is amenable, I’d like to arrange a conference call next week to discuss only this and decide on a course of action.” We want you to buy from us.”

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Deming Institute

MARCH 6, 2017

Air Force One , CEO Greg Guy attended the 2013 Deming Institute Annual conference and was able to begin to learn how to put into action a management system to address the problems created by a commision based culture.

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Deming Institute

MARCH 16, 2017

Kevin Murphy’s presentation at the 14th In2:InThinking Annual Forum Weekend Conference: Application and Lessons of Deming’s Perspective on Leadership: Kevin is the President at Triumph Accessory Services. That is going to lead to innovation in the process… the long term survival of your company really depends on innovation.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

We believe coherence confers a substantial premium, and we’ve measured it. PL and CM: Our take on capabilities and how they work in systems is new, as is our view of coherence as this three-part balanced system that confers a measurable premium. SD : What new ideas are you bringing to the table with capabilities-driven strategy?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

Your employees and your customers want to be engaged on a very personal level, and not just through a survey or an annual conference. Essentially, these statistics tell us that companies need to embrace and capture the voices of their employees and customers if they want to innovate and thrive. billion on these social sites by 2012.

Media 67

Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

Intranet: Like many companies, we have an intranet, and this is where groups of domain experts across disciplines and locations can share knowledge in the form of presentations, whitepapers, and case studies. Conferences: frog staffers participate in over 200 conferences and workshops each year.

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Knowledge Management Management Directory Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

magazine, speaking at major conferences, and advising the White House on innovation. When he discovered I was writing a book on professional reinvention, he asked for my thoughts about Rachael Ray , the perky Food Network star and the subject of one of his Harvard Business School case studies.

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Reputation Case Study Ries Kotter 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

My highlight so far at this year's TED conference in Long Beach, California, has been meeting the extraordinary composer and conductor, Eric Whitacre , after his moving and highly inspiring talk. Over 12 years, I have seen my share of TED presentations, and this was one of the most special.

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Video Participative Case Study Project 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

Thus, at this point, it is unable to develop and innovate the sort of software that could realize the full potential for customer advocacy and engagement on its platform. Needed: A Customer Advocacy Apps Exchange. That said, two major challenges exist: Facebook is a platform, with just a few thousand employees.

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Real Estate Conference Software Content 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Buyers increasingly expect to check with their peers before they'll purchase from a company — using social media, peer communities, old fashioned live events and conferences, personal and professional networks, and other connective tools. This means they want to talk to your customers. Social media understands this and facilitates it.

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Chart Your Course

JANUARY 9, 2014

According to the Conference Board of Canada, “Ontario is losing out on as much as $24.3 billion in provincial tax revenues annually” This loss is due to the fact that “employers cannot find people with the skills they need to innovate and grow in today’s economy” In Argentina, the story is much the same.

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Skills White Paper Case Study Telecommunications 159

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The short conference brought together public and private sector managers working on environmental and social issues. The wisdom of such a strategy has been discussed in business circles for years, most notably in the work of Harvard's Clayton Christensen ( The Innovator's Dilemma ). That's a big shift in business as usual.

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Productivity Products Christensen Document 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Back in 2006, my colleague Huggy Rao and I launched an executive education program at Stanford called “Customer-focused Innovation.” Mornings consisted of lectures and case studies in a traditional classroom in the Stanford Business School; this was the “clean models” part of the program. Connect people and cascade excellence.

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Case Study Pharmaceuticals Airlines Hotels 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Buyers increasingly expect to check with their peers before they'll purchase from a company — using social media, peer communities, old fashioned live events and conferences, personal and professional networks, and other connective tools. This means they want to talk to your customers. Social media understands this and facilitates it.

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Reference Tips Media Case Study 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Editor's Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. With three efficient plants staffed by 3,000 employees, it had reinvented itself to become an innovative manufacturer of modular steel staircases and fiberglass doors.

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Case Study P&L Cost Due Diligence 14

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

Great communicators can tailor a message such that they can speak to 10 people in a conference room or 1,000 people in an auditorium and have them feel as if you were speaking directly to each one of them as an individual. Speak to groups as individuals : Leaders don’t always have the luxury of speaking to individuals in an intimate setting.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Editors' Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. This business works only if the Calidad de Vida brand stands for quality, innovative care — across the board. Gloria Londoño scanned the tables at the Opera restaurant.

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Case Study Franchising Health Care Follow-up 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

People are also being asked by their bosses or HR to attend conferences, read case studies, watch videos, and try their hand at simulations, all with the goal of picking up new ideas and techniques. As valuable as these experiences can be, they’re all at least one step removed from practice.

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Project Parcell How To Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

At a developer''s conference last week, Glass product director Steve Lee said only that "Privacy was top of mind when we designed the product.". It may prove the best case study yet in how to — or not to — manage privacy fears. Innovations in Digital and Mobile Marketing An HBR Insight Center.

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Morale Learning-by-Doing Technology Marketing 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

The beautiful thing about your story is it makes for a wonderful case study. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? Congratulations to you Sir. I Think Not.

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Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 420

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Drag each of your direct reports into a conference room for a one-on-one, hand them an official-looking document, and then start in with the same, tired conversation. The performance review doesn't start with a sit-down in the spare conference room. Case Study #1: Understand and set goals together. Set expectations early.

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Performance Review Review Case Study Construction 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

So many brilliant people have been writing, speaking, and sharing case studies over that length of time, that if I only listed a few, I'd miss some really important thinkers. In June 2009, they announced a program called TEDx that allow many to organize their own TED-inspired conference. One example is that of TED and TEDx.

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Marketing Brand Mass Marketing Metrics 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Branding everything as "women's" (conferences, networks or programs) confirms in men's minds that this is not their issue. They are the ones who still need to 'buy' the case for balance, and, in my experience, most of them still don't. This election has just given us a case study of the tangible returns of gender bilingualism.

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Diversity Balanced Scorecard P&L Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

A Harvard Business School case study that Robert Huckman, Sam Travers, and I wrote earlier this year documents what came next. ” In this case, McDonald set out to transform the design of VA to help the organization better achieve its mission for veterans. The stakes, in other words, were high.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 8