Strategy Driven

JANUARY 22, 2016

I suggest that entrepreneurs create an “ideal customer” document to make sure all new customers fit the mold. Make sure that your marketing document (and a “marketing document” for the purposes of this discussion can mean anything from a website, landing page, advertisement [print or online banner], direct mail letter, email, etc.)

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

It’s literally a Harvard Business School case study in business model transformation, but when I think back on it, the impact on the entire organization has been amazing. Without a doubt, the most interesting transformation in my 20+ years at Adobe was our move from selling boxed software to the cloud over the past decade.

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Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Each area of the organization needs to work out the roadmap for integrating the strategy into their current operations, and aligning it with the master timeline as well as other departments’ plans. So, the moral is to document what works so you retain your gains, then look for the next area to improve and repeat the entire cycle above.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Charlene stared at the blank Word document on her screen. “You should always have coffee before checking your inbox.”. This is important, honey,” she whispered. “I

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 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. The tools and documents that VV and Reza had developed to help facilitate the funding process were another potential source of revenue.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

The document continues by saying, “Inherent in these goals is the production of a high quality, competitive product in a clean and safe plant, contributing to the success of Cadillac and its employees.”. I’ve blogged about some of the problems and chaos on my blog before. What a progressive view that was back in the 80s.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

No entity can operate without affecting or being affected by its communities. If we document our own successes, then these case studies will make us more successful in the future. Niche consultants believe these things to be true, within their frames of reference. Let the buyer beware.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

As the inquiry continued, the system was eventually able to document significant declines in physician variation. However, our payments also fell—often even further than our operating costs. Intermountain thus lost more than $9 million per year in operating margins. Physicians led almost all of the changes themselves.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Inside you’ll find scenarios, case studies, tips, templates, and checklists that will help you capture and retain your company’s intellectual capital as Baby Boomers leave the workplace. How do your organization’s strategic and operational goals inform what work roles will be needed in the future?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Yet, more than 50 years after Peter Drucker devised the term knowledge worker, it is quite disappointing to peer inside the operations of any large organization and see how little of their time knowledge workers actually spend on higher-order thinking tasks. The Future of Operations. No underlying systems programming logic is touched.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

How can you make core business operations more sustainable? If you believe that businesses can be a force for good and have a social responsibility for improving the communities where they operate, then there are few causes more important than fighting climate change. Search and explore the documents below.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

At the start of the Atlanta 1996 Olympics, it was a catalog of minor operational and logistical problems that led journalists to start reporting on "the glitch Games." Risk mitigation is now integrated into decision-making and operations, and no longer treated as just an input into the calculation of insurance premiums.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

Document how employee actions or inactions might contribute to the risks described above, then develop a list of desired behaviors and guidelines for making it a simple as possible for staff to adopt them. No two organizations are the same, and neither are the cultures and contexts in which they operate.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2016

A change in sales or other customer-acquisition processes, for example, will affect multiple aspects of their business models: the types of orders their firms get, capacity planning, operations, delivery, post-sales requirements, and daily interactions among these groups. Manage each minute. The buyer has privileges that the seller does not.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

These measures represent the level of adherence to evidence-based standards of care achieved by the hospitals, as documented on patients’ medical records. The importance of improving their process-of-care measures is nothing new for hospitals.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

During the decade he headed the company (1992 – 2002), Tyco grew from a small New Hampshire conglomerate into a global giant operating in more than 100 countries with 250,000 employees and $40 billion in annual revenue. Kozlowski is the former CEO of Tyco International. But each semester, I was troubled by the limited facts available.

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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. He pulled a document from his briefcase and handed it to her. She found a bench and pulled the document out of her purse. My lawyers have drafted a contract."

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2015

Case study #1: Know your worth. ” Case study #2: Try to learn from the experience. Emily Bayliss*, vice president of operations for a pharmaceutical market intelligence firm in New Jersey, had repeatedly assumed greater responsibilities and oversight of various groups for more than a decade.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 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. ” Pete nodded and handed out the relevant documents. We might even want to expand the operation.” Organics were another option.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

How could she or any of the other directors provide fiscal oversight without access to details of the company’s operations or accounting? s father, Bill Offutt, who had founded the company and remained its chairman, didn’t seem bothered by the lack of documentation. Some months back, J.P. It didn’t help that J.P.’s It burned Sarah up.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2017

After you “sign all the documents that need to be signed” and let “your emotions” cool, “schedule a meeting to debrief,” he says. “You have a golden moment in your job search where you’re operating at peak confidence and energy. ” Pace yourself. Be negative about your prospects.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

This holds for corporate operating units and departments. You must always educate corporate opinion makers on how you function… and the skill with which you operate. Operating units and departments must schedule and follow a program to market their worth to their companies. Visioning document. Case studies.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Look to those who aren’t just saying they are experts but can demonstrate some successful examples or case studies from their expertise.​ Janitorial and Cleaning Services Operating a business from your home and staying on top of cleaning can be tough.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2016

However, looking at the surveys and consulting reports, it is unclear what the precise use cases are that will drive this positive ROI from big data. Our goal in this article is to offer specific, real-world case studies to show how big data has provided value for companies that have worked with Microsoft’s analytics teams.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

There is no converting them to your more enlightened way of thinking and operating. Lesson Learned: If you are creating ideas and projects and intend to use them as case studies and for business development, get written documentation from authoritative people concerning your creation. Spot them and avoid them.

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

This is the impulse that leads to detailed requirements and specification documents, but, as we’ve come to understand, this tactic rarely works in software. Case Study: Putting This into Practice. Some managers try to overcome the problems caused by uncertainty by planning in increasingly greater detail.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

Yet the reality is that data centers are essential — not just to tech businesses but to any organization that uses the internet to operate (that covers nearly all of them, doesn't it?). Some of the large IT companies have begun to use their power and influence to change the energy landscape.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

The document typically describes use cases and scenarios to illustrate its points. Churn management makes an excellent case study: At one telecom giant, an analytics team explored using machine learning techniques to identify the customers most likely to leave and switch to another service provider.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In one well-documented experiment, described in Sheryl Sandberg’s book Lean In , Harvard MBA students evaluated the same case study of a successful entrepreneur. First, we need to be aware of these biases and how they operate. What we can do to prevent these widespread biases from affecting what we say and do?

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