Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

As a quality engineer, I am always looking for quality focused businesses. Applying SMED, the theoretical sessions would act as the external activities that operators have to perform before a changeover, and actually implementing them in a running business would be the internal ones. Marketing mix. Customers. Lean startup MVP.

Deming 28

Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28

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. Getting a 50,000-foot picture of our operations illustrates outdated, cumbersome, inefficient processes. Without the diagram the equipment would be useless.

Hammer 50

Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

So you can read about companies that succeed in having technology systems that support continual improvement or go to conferences and learn, or interact with them online, or even go visit them. What those companies will tell others about what they do will almost never cover most of what is critical.

Examples 28

Examples Deming Software System 28

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2021

To begin with, being LLC is the most advantageous option for any new and small business from many legal and operational aspects. No matter how virtualized our lifestyle gets, we still need to operate through physical spaces. For instance, you can save the entire cost of your marketing if you are using social media the way it should be.

Budgeting 106

Budgeting Real Estate Incubator Cost 106

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

Companies like Salesforce.com, Philips, and Oracle have appointed chief customer officers, while many other B2B players have embarked on enterprise-wide efforts to improve their marketing, sales, and support interactions. These customer experience management initiatives can be complex.

B2B 15

B2B Airlines Travel Stage-Gate 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

for the first time in 2009 to become the world's top market for new vehicles. Most have barely tapped the surface of what they could achieve by operating overseas. Cost arbitrage isn't a strategy; it can't confer a competitive edge over the long haul. or European companies have the same degree of insight into offshore markets.

Offshoring 15

Offshoring Supply Chain Outsourcing Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

After the murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi , many companies had to urgently decide whether to attend Saudi Arabia’s Future Investment Initiative, a global business conference scheduled to take place just days after news of Khashoggi’s killing broke. Keep a long term focus. sanctions, like Iran. .

Politics 9

Politics Short-term Long-term Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

Engineers at the company came down squarely on the side of analog. What those engineers couldn’t see was that, for most listeners, digital technology’s advantages far outweighed the often undetectable losses from digitization. The Future of Operations. Could both technologies exist side by side? Insight Center.

Organization 8

Organization Engineering Technology Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Recently, I had the privilege of moderating a conference of global entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in Mumbai — an event called Founders Forum India. As unit economics enable ever cheaper smart phones (the lowest price in the market is now $65), their penetration will rise. Many at the conference articulated the idea simply.

Venture Capitalist 13

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

They are professional Predict, Plan & Execute (“PP&E”) machines, and as they have evolved over time, are carefully engineered to stamp out anything that induces uncertainty. The stock market demands this—and the systems, structures, and procedures (including the career path of your boss) support and reward it.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Innovation Operations Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point. They are not employees; they are contingent workers who are nonetheless vital to an organization’s R&D, marketing, and other key processes.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

I saw this technology paired seamlessly with some regular fluorescent lighting and working well in an interior conference room. An industrial paint application product/service that reduces toxic solvent use by 70% and is saving customers, mostly auto repair shops, $2 billion from simpler paint operations and reduced waste.

Innovation 12

Innovation Early Adopters Energy Efficiency 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The earlier essay, "The Nature of the Firm," is justly famous for its introduction to economic literature of the concept of market friction, or what Coase called "transaction costs." Transaction costs, Coase argued, explained why some interactions were left to the market and others were internalized in increasingly large, complex enterprises.

Cost 8

Cost Open-book Disruptive Innovation Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

The American climate activists who have flocked to the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris this week tend to have one thing in common: many own the “it” car for their tribe, the VW Jetta Wagon TDI. Roughly half of the world’s hundred largest economic engines are corporations, not governments.

PPM 8

PPM Policies Engineering Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

At RoboBusiness this week, a conference devoted to the business and technology of robots, the revelation for me was not just how far robotic capabilities have come but also the range of problems robots are already helping to solve. Problem is: their professional setup costs $30,000 to assemble and a remote operator on a keyboard to run.

Mass Marketing 9

Mass Marketing CEO Technology Conference 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

The M&A markets are frothy, corporations are investing in Silicon Valley labs, and even PhDs looking for jobs in business schools are finding it tough to find homes without “innovation” somewhere in their background. But it’s an idea that demands attention, investment, and a long view of the market.

Long-term 8

Long-term Innovation Company IPO 8

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. But as stunning as humankind’s technical achievements have been, they have been only half the story of progress.

Management 8

Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

An approach that turns societal challenges into new markets. Michael Porter and Mark Kramer argue that shared value encompasses corporate policies and practices that enhance the competitiveness of a company while simultaneously advancing social and economic conditions in the communities in which it operates.

Porter 14

Porter Supply Chain Energy Competitive Advantage 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

Marketers constantly tell me that they''re the stewards of the brand and while that sounds good at marketing conferences, it won''t matter at all in a world where customers can have a real relationship with a company through the expanded experience of using its actual products and services. Don''t Let Mobile Apps Get Pushy.

Insurance 8

Insurance Brand Disruptive Innovation Download 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 10, 2019

To begin with, being LLC is the most advantageous option for any new and small business from many legal and operational aspects. No matter how virtualized our lifestyle gets, we still need to operate through physical spaces. For instance, you can save the entire cost of your marketing if you are using social media the way it should be.

Budgeting 50

Budgeting Real Estate Incubator Cost 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

LinkedIn's commitment to this market is underscored by the 150 million career bios on its site — and the more than $260 million in revenue last year from businesses wanting extra ways of connecting with potential new hires. Collecting business cards at conferences and mixers is arduous. People may go online to banter.

Media 15

Media Meyer Software Follow-up 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

As most executive teams look at their global sales and growth rates, they see a massive — and rapid — shift towards new markets, like Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe. It aims to be well-positioned to recruit the best engineering talent, which India is producing in numbers far exceeding the West.

Diversity 8

Diversity Globalization Short-term Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating. Former GE boss Jack Welch was a master at using symbolic bets to coach GE to have the culture he wanted to achieve his strategic goals, to be #1 or 2 in every market they were in. So, how do you build Box 2 muscle?

Company 8

Company Welch Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

Global teams face the challenge of having to operate with limited face-to-face contact and across vast distances, time zones, language backgrounds, and contexts, as well as cultural differences. As an example, one team we studied sent a French engineer to the company's California office. Forcing disagreements.

Globalization 12

Globalization Team Stress Types of Knowledge 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

This conversation has generated a lot of interesting conversation via blog comments, emails, and face-to-face interactions at conferences and meetings and has revealed a few more insights that should factor into our evolving thinking. See also here , here , and here.) They also worked with the CIO to help them to understand the business.

CIO 8

CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

operates in 13 countries, spanning a dozen languages. Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? Imagine a conference room of individuals drawn from the far corners of the globe to work in your company or to do business with you. What do you do? Hire interpreters?

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

If you think about how new products and services are hatched and brought to market today, it isn't usually the doing of just one entity — least of all the corporate R&D labs that once served as our engines of tomorrow. And no sector is complete without its own conference. First, why is it a sector?

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

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? It sounds like your conference offers a great message to those in need of hearing it.

Definition 370

Definition Blog Leadership Covey 370

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Oil and Gas subsea operators across the world are adopting a GE Industrial Internet technology developed in Norway. Engineers designed the eardrum of the system from special crystals that respond to sound wave vibrations and convert them into electricity (Engineers call this effect ‘piezoelectricity’).

Industry 8

Industry Offshoring Engineering Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.” The engine may be otherwise well built, but without just one of these components, it will be essentially worthless.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The two approaches share a set of key principles and practices, with the main differences arising from jargon: Sociocracy, developed in the 1970s, was based on principles of cybernetics ; holacracy represents a repackaging of the principles in the vocabulary of software engineering.

Proposal 8

Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

It’s also a tough talent market, especially in sales. A SaaS platform service such as CRM or MAS (Marketing Automation Service), on the other hand, requires sophisticated integration to install annual or multi-year contracts. To add to that, reps often have to involve the vendor’s engineers in the selling process.

CRM 8

CRM B2B Price Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

They are the fuel in the engine of the networked world. Each can confer decisive advantage in the marketplace or the school room, the battlespace or the political race. Common Operating Pictures. Rapid Innovation/Move-to-Market Cycles. Wrong: collaboration with customers speeds your move to market.

Team 12

Team Self-aware Media Download 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

Wendy Kopp started Teach for America, initially as a conference, on a shoestring budget after graduating from college. Feeling that he needed an experienced operating and marketing partner, the then 29-year-old Jobs lured Sculley to Apple with the now legendary pitch: "Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life?

Film 8

Film Creativity Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2014

Moreover, Sloan did this by means of organizational mastery, without the major engineering breakthrough that other GM insiders believed was their only hope. Ford still may have produced the best car for the money, but Sloan’s GM trounced Ford Motors by producing the best product lines for the market.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Venture Capitalist Price Engineering 8