CEO Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2011

I had lunch with the people putting on C2-MTL , a creativity conference being held in Montreal in May of next year. Listening to Gary Hamel - visiting professor of Strategic and International Management at London Business School. Answer the question "What is the ideology of management". Their program looks great.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Ann also met with Titania Woo of The Hong Kong Management Association to discuss partnership opportunities in the region. Furthermore, Ann was delighted to be able to personally present a number of Chartered Managers and Fellows with their certificates. Learn more here.

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Daisy Hooper , CMI’s head of policy and innovation, appeared in BusinessGreen last week, pointing out the key role for apprenticeships in the transition to a low-carbon economy. This week, articles in Forbes Poland and Fortune China referenced CMI findings that 82% of managers who enter management positions have not had the relevant training.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Scott Dalgleish is the CEO at Phase IV Engineering. Scott first encountered Deming’s ideas while an engineer at Proctor & Gamble in 1986. It provided some very innovative and realistic solutions to solve a lot of problems in the plant. Phase IV Engineering’s quality policy: We Care. Scott Dalgleish.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 28, 2014

In the CEO Challenge 2014 study carried out by The Conference Board , CEOs and presidents from over 1 000 organizations around the world were asked to identify what they saw as the top challenges for their organization.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 31, 2018

Guest post from Cassandra Frangos : We had a handy rule of thumb for hiring in my first job in management consulting. Consulting is a time-intensive business where exhaustive hours are spent traveling to remote locations, making presentations together in close quarter conference rooms, and collaborating with customers.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2021

Their interest in our work has been to help their leaders and managers learn to cultivate a culture of connection so that everyone can give their best performance. Over the years, my colleagues and I have had the privilege of speaking and teaching workshops at NASA. These benefits add up to a powerful advantage. What’s going on?

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Strategy Driven

MAY 29, 2020

Step inside Google’s European engineering HQ , and you’d be forgiven for assuming you were atop an Alpine ski resort. In fact, you’re in one of the company’s many zoned conference areas, which encompass a snowy “North Pole”, complete with penguins, an aquarium chill-out zone, and swing chairs for (literally!) Google Tel Aviv, Israel.

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leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 28, 2013

Throughout my career as a Principal engineer at Intel, I’ve repeatedly made a point to do that, and believe me, it wasn’t easy. In my case, my most powerful ideas – ideas that enabled me to lead innovative programs of worldwide scope when I was at Intel – have come from conversations with people in other organizations.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

MAY 29, 2013

These scientists and engineers develop innovative products and breakthrough ideas. Quiet time allows innovative ideas to percolate and emerge. I know many quiet influencers who manage their “reserves” at professional conferences by building in scheduled breaks. The atmosphere was so calm.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Guest post from John R Childress: In 1965, when I was a junior in high school and sporty, stylish and innovative cars were all the rage, Ralph Nader, a Harvard trained lawyer, published a book that was both highly controversial and highly influential. When was the last time your CEO gave a talk to new employees about character and courage?

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

They suggest that while the last 30 years have been typified by increasing Asian consumption and integration into the global flow of trade and innovation, the coming decades will see Asian economies driving and determining the direction of these flows, with the region set to account for 50% of global GDP by 2040. Digital dominance.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 22, 2015

This month Bill Troy, ASQ CEO, asked ASQ Influential Voices bloggers : “who influenced or inspired your management thinking and in what ways?” I have written about my management influences in the past: Active Management Improvement Leaders (2006) and Who Influences Your Thinking?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? No single leader can possess every needed attribute.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

The first, Ready-Now Leaders: Cultivating Women in Leadership to Meet Tomorrow’s Business Challenges by DDI and The Conference Board, identifies “confidence” as one of the few but significant leadership differences between the sexes. Give managers who fail to develop their leaders a negative consequence. Wellins, Ph.D., Goldman Sachs.

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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. After graduating from the Deming Scholars program at Fordham University he worked for GE Aircraft Engines. quote: 81m 30s).

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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 would limit yourself to paying attention to 5 thinkers to advance your understanding of managing organizations Ackoff should be one of them. This was one of them.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

But DJI is testament to China’s transformation from copycat to high tech innovation. In 2016, DJI had 1,500 people in R&D , or 40% of a workforce of 4,000 – a luxury only available to a company that can tap into low-cost engineering talent. Having a manufacturing ecosystem confers several benefits.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

A business school is a university level institution that confers degrees in business administration or management. There are also many schools under Ivy League Universities in USA for pursuing masters in the field of management or business. Let us have a look at top management schools in USA : Top management schools in USA.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

I was also invited to attend to the Deming Institute Annual Fall conference in Los Angeles. The most common reasons provided for why the business was not profitable were: starting a business venture which is not well prepared, bad management of the venture, or extremely strong influences of market distortions.

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Curious Cat

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

I have written a few posts on my science and engineering blog about his work over the years including a short post on the first web server (Tim’s NeXT computer). In 1999, I was giving a presentation at a conference on Using Quality to Develop an Internet Resource (link to my paper for the talk was based on).

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2015

It may seem an obscure data management distinction, but this shift toward collecting unstructured data – which is a large part of what Big Data is all about – is sending shock waves across traditional organizations. In short, there is a lot more to doing business in the Big Data world than simply collecting and analyzing more data.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

I’m tired of all the “Woe is America” stuff – we’ve lost our innovation edge, we’re stagnating, etc. What I see is the opposite – incredible innovation in products, services, processes and business models. He is a physician, educator, researcher, public advocate, innovator and very human.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2018

In this article, we’ll explain how the assignments gap arises, what managers can do about it, and how fixing the gap can improve the engagement and retention of talented employees. It’s the project for a major client, the opportunity to build out a new team, or the chance to represent the company at an industry conference.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Paul, MN, headquarters of the perennial innovation leader, 3M. For good reason, the $30-billion company has long been held up as a role model of how to manage innovation. our new vision" of growth and innovation. The new CEO is making sustainability, growth, and innovation a powerful trifecta. Note: I'd do both!).

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

As a quality engineer, I am always looking for quality focused businesses. 14) Create a structure in top management that will push every day on the above 13 points. Procedures Poka-yoke , visual management , SMED and 5S. 15) Measure results in real time on the job, not only on the desk, by using visual management tools.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

This is where the opportunity lies — in collaboration that includes the final approvers, embedding legal teams in the design and innovation process. Ironically, not including lawyers in the collaborative process perpetuates the idea that they smother innovation. Remind your company that there are risks to not innovating.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Call 2014 the year of innovation. Google Trends reveals that interest in disruptive innovation crept up to peak levels this year. It seems that every time you hop on a quarterly earnings call, the CEO mentions innovation. If innovation is the foundation to building the future, this focus should be reassuring.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Over the last 250 years, waves upon waves of scientific and engineering advances have brought about an accelerating rise in living standards that even the two deadliest wars in history could not reverse. The forces of technology and management will continue to hold equal sway as the 21st century unfolds.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

I recently spoke to a group of Silicon Valley HR leaders and this question came up, along with the related matter of how to do knowledge management better. They asked how we do knowledge management at frog design, since we have studios spread all over the world and work in a diverse range of industries. Formal/Historical Methods.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Here we have five apps for HR management to help you streamline your everyday work life and make managing people much easier! They have a strategic role in the office, and they conduct a multitude of tasks, from recruitment to performance management of the employees. Uber Conference. Best HR Apps of 2020 .

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

Therefore, the CIO''s role must shift from protecting and defending the status quo to embracing and extending new innovative capabilities. The old way was information management; the new way is information intelligence. The old way was cost management; the new way is driving business transformation and accelerating growth.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Suddenly it hit Bob: he hadn’t checked to make sure engineering had included the new wiring diagram in the customer’s shipment that was due to go out first thing in the morning. For well over a century managers have achieved increasing productivity on ever larger scales by dividing and subdividing work into smaller and smaller units.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

Writing about your company, products, services, or industry will help you to formalize and organize your thinking, which could spur innovative ideas or content for other aspects of your business. An increasingly important element of marketing is search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Is management – not yet a very old discipline – due for one? We could even say that the subject of management was touched by that first Renaissance. What would a second Renaissance look like in management today?

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