Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

For me the lesson is this: Companies should complement a top-down push with as much bottom-up pull as possible to sustain momentum and avoid regression back to previous, inferior levels of performance. Consider the competition between push and pull camps in a major oil company. Finally, the improvement experts (and I am one!)

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Six Sigma Bottom-up Cost Project 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. For the moment, this is good news for those companies still experimenting or piloting AI (41%).

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Powered by online technologies, they are sweeping across the economic landscape, striking down companies large and small. They’re “traditional” matchmaker businesses that have been operating platforms for connecting different groups of customers. Uber and the other ride-sharing companies have disrupted them.

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Technology Hammer Operations Magazine 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Shifting from Drucker's erudition and measured tone to Hammer's revolutionary and provocatively violent declarations ("don't automate, obliterate") was a bit dizzying. During difficult economic times, organizations often seek ideas on how to cut costs or perform operations more efficiently. Similarly, scholars in the U.S. As the U.S.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

They included Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and leaders of some of the most prominent “sharing economy” companies: Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky and Didi Chuxing CEO Cheng Wei, the head of China’s leading taxi and private car hailing app. This did not bode well for Uber’s future in China.

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Marketing CEO Mass Marketing Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Henderson : I was struck by the fact that several of the CEOs noted that despite the fact that many companies are becoming gradually more sustainable, in general it isn’t happening at anything like the necessary speed or scale. I think most executives have no idea of the impact — for good or ill — of their companies.

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Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. If so many companies are using social media, it must be effective, right? At least one company has worked Quora specifically into its recruitment strategy. Don’t keep relying on the same old social media platforms.

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Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

In my book, I recount an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. The story of the firing spread (as it always does) throughout the company, morale slipped, and the CMO never completely trusted his boss again. Life at the company went on as before, and the targeted executives remained in their jobs.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

But because we failed to hammer out exactly how we would operate (including our respective roles and responsibilities), infighting distracted from operating, cash became a concern, and the business slowly, then quickly, imploded. But the company needs to reach profitability quickly. Start a business, yes.

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Due Diligence Magazine SWOT Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The Lean movement began in manufacturing , then took the startup world by storm, and now the methodology has crept into companies of all kinds and sizes, both in practice and in jargon. The buds of innovation are fragile, and are easily squashed by critique or a view of the competitive market environment. But what is lost?

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Productivity Products Reis Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? And it’s not just your company. In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. So it is with innovation. So it is with innovation.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

People buy them because they trust the companies. Noble: Economies and business operate in very complex systems. And the beauty of innovative sectors such as impact investing is that we can experiment, collaborate and try to — even in a very small way — reconcile some of what didn’t work previously. They trust the governance.

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Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Nineteen days later, as rescue crews grew desperate, a 24-year-old field engineer named Igor Proestakis decided to travel to the site with what he hoped was a breakthrough idea: using a particular drilling technology, called cluster hammers, to cut through the collapsed rock. Innovation in Cities. Insight Center.

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Engineering Project Benchmarking Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

When they set out to turn around processes that have become woefully inefficient or ineffective, most companies choose one of four process improvement "religions": Lean , Six Sigma , Business Reengineering or Business Process Management (BPM). After hearing about its success at another organization, many companies choose just one.

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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Process gurus such as Michael Hammer , Jim Champy , Geary Rummler , and Alan Brache have long maintained that companies must appoint process owners to ensure that processes are improved across functions. Making sure the company's key processes are delivering competitive advantage , or if not, that the right fixes are on the way.

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Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15