The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

While the current government is debating the introduction of a Canadian-style points system to encourage more immigration, the various proposals are still at the discussion stage. This is despite the country being part of a European Union that still allows the free movement of people between the 27 member states.

Skills 116

Skills GDP Analysis System 116

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 18, 2020

Of course, the gig economy is an all encompassing term that has little practical use, as there is so little that binds a cycling delivery rider to a highly skilled consultant flitting from gig to gig as to make attributing characteristics to this itinerant workforce very hard. Being underemployed. Show me the money.

Stress 87

Stress Uncertainty Outsourcing Survey 87

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. Million; not big, but interesting.

Succession 70

Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Tactical agility enables employees at all levels to take smart risks, capture opportunities, improvise and innovate as they execute a clear strategy. It is a new, more advanced way of studying environments, making decisions, building cultures, and operating on a day-to-day basis. In our book, we provide numerous examples of agility.

Agility 89

Agility How To Decentralization Morale 89

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. An alternative emerging at healthcare institutions worldwide is human-centered design and co-creation, a set of approaches that can accelerate and humanize healthcare innovation.

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Design thinking has been recognized as an important means to innovate in the context of developing new products and technologies. But design thinking can also be applied to other business-related challenges such as devising entrepreneurial practice models, expanding professional services, operations, and even setting fees or pricing plans.

Creativity 58

Creativity Strategic Planning Construction Politics 58

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

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. 11) Train your people to follow the procedures but also to propose improvements if they don’t work. 19) Celebrate innovation.

Deming 28

Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

“[Bribes] are like steroids,” one oil consultant told me. ” Of course, copying what your competitors do — especially when it is illegal and inefficient – is the opposite of innovative. “Everybody’s doing it, and if you don’t do it, you fall behind.”

Management 10

Management Ethics Cost Bureaucracy 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Believe it or not, bureaucracy was once a progressive innovation. Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. Nearly every company I visited in my work as a consultant turned out to have agile teams running somewhere.

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Talent tech raises urgency for further talent innovation.

Technology 10

Technology Talent Management Process Management 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Nokia's inability to field a credible response to the launch of the iPhone in 2007 and Google's Android operating system in 2008 has precipitated a freefall in its share price. Although Nokia introduced few radical new products, in the 1990s it was a bold, innovative company in broader business terms — more than most people realise.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

As companies like this one grow from start-ups into larger enterprises, they're often compelled to analyze numerical data to reduce risk, maintain operations, and model predictable outcomes. He then successfully proposed that the client hire his firm instead, on a test-basis. This might seem like just good old-fashioned salesmanship.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Strategy Telecommunications Software 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Library leaders knew that given the immense changes brought on by digital innovations, as well as shifts in the communities that the Library served, it would need to evolve. Leadership would shape the conversation to ensure proposals were strategically on-point. The conversation would be neither bottom-up nor top down.

Library 8

Library Strategy Reference Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

In 2012, one of us — Gregor Gimmy, a California-based serial entrepreneur and former IDEO consultant — accepted a new role at BMW’s corporate R&D headquarters. Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2011

But he's convinced it's paid off in product innovations, internal improvements, and satisfied customers. For many years the Latin American operations of breakfast cereal maker Kellogg's relied on functional managers and consultants to drive improvements that would reduce costs and optimize manufacturing capacity. The results?

Process 14

Process Software How To Tools 14

Leading Blog

MAY 20, 2020

Travis Kalanick 's brash operating style and the toxic working environment he created led him to be tossed out of the company. After reviewing the culture created by Kalanick and seeing employee and shareholder reactions, one exasperated Uber board member proposed adding “no brilliant jerks allowed” to Uber's list of cultural values.

CEO 318

CEO How To Insurance Charisma 318

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

The division head launched a major business reengineering effort, hired a leading consulting firm (and paid it millions), and dedicated his best people to the effort. These were all good things and to be expected after investing many millions of dollars on people, systems, and consultants. What's it worth?

Process 15

Process Six Sigma Finance Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

In today’s health care landscape, consultants often advise independent hospitals to merge with a larger health system. At first, we worked with RIC as a consultant but then became its partner in 2009. We sent a call for proposals to three major academic centers in Chicago. A culture of shared values.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

National Infrastructure Week, May 11-15, should mark the acceleration of giving entrepreneurs and innovators a prominent seat at the table, adding technology opportunities to solve America’s infrastructure problems. Innovation comes from courageous people with an entrepreneurial spirit.

Transportation 8

Transportation Entrepreneur Wireless Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

He had spent the last two months interviewing for a position as director of operations at a sporting goods company. His resume was spot-on — he’d spent five years as a sporting goods sales rep and several years as an operations manager doing “everything from ordering for shops, to speaking with dealers, to sales.”

Management 8

Management Proposal CEO Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The daughter of a senior corporate executive, she had all the right tickets including an MBA from a top school and several years of experience with a prestigious management consulting firm. Smart as a whip, she possessed impressive analytical skills and a tremendous drive to produce results.

Proposal 11

Proposal Cialdini Execution Influence 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. He proposed that we try something new.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Operations Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

As innovation consultant Pete Maulik told me, “It’s time to switch from here they come to this is how we’re going to win.” ” Here are three big companies using innovative approaches to make this crucial connection. For example, in Shenzhen, China, a woman proposed to create a Tofu Boutique.

Company 8

Company Hotels Travel Class 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. Some of the first business functionaries were railroad telegraph operators who managed schedules.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The most common chief executive exaltation we hear is “We must be more innovative, agile, and adaptable.” We were struck by the dissonance with the ambition — if you want to be more innovative and agile and anything could happen, isn’t that a truly brilliant notion?

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Webinar Resistance 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

For those who read less, one strong motivator is to apply more of the ideas into innovative action plans for that day. One mistake people tend to make is holding the belief that all the innovators and futurists can be only be found in works being published today. link] mikemyatt Thanks for the comment Caroline.

Blog 419

Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The procedures and resources in the bundle would include pre-op appointment and testing, use of the operating room and facility services on day of surgery, surgeon, anesthesiologist and support staff, clinic visits, in-hospital drug and laboratory tests, and post-surgical physical therapy. The bundle incorporated the metrics in two ways.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care How To Price 8

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

Most companies have leaders with the strong operational skills needed to maintain the status quo. Systems and Structures The first three principles of strategic leadership involve nontraditional but highly effective approaches to decision making, transparency, and innovation.

Development 100

Development Argyris Learning-by-Doing Innovation 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

And that kind of ex­change becomes an accepted way of operating, even if the team originally agreed that members should try to resolve conflicts without your intervention. They invited the new hires to propose different rules or suggest changes to existing ones. Do this quarterly or each time you close out a project.

Team 8

Team Follow-up Consultative Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

” Jeff Weiss, a partner at Vantage Partners, a Boston-based consultancy specializing in corporate negotiations and relationship management, and author of the HBR Guide to Negotiating , agrees. “Introduce yourself, and take a little time to get to know people, how they operate, and how they act.” Make small talk.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain How To Price Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Still, the essential concepts behind holacracy offer perhaps the best hope of easing top managers’ stranglehold on companies and, by extension, on innovation. The consulting firm HolacracyOne says a few hundred organizations have recently been “trying out” holacracy, but only Ternary has used it for more than five years.

Proposal 8

Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

First, they often outsource design and management of health care services to brokers, consultants, and health plans that have little means or incentive to improve quality or affordability. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Use a request for proposals to find the best providers. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Price Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

For example, one respondent described how she now spends far more time interacting with an ever-changing cast of outside consultants and contractors than with her internal colleagues. Consider how an engineer in our study must tap networks each time she develops a new research proposal for grant funding.

Team 13

Team Short-term Proposal Uncertainty 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

Management concepts, by contrast, operate in poorly regulated environments where failures are often brushed under boardroom or faculty carpets. Together with its subsequent variants, the TBL concept has been captured and diluted by accountants and reporting consultants.

TBL 11

TBL Bottom-up Long-term Early Adopters 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

"When the proposal to outsource technology was originally put on the table," said Sunil Mittal, CEO of Bharti Airtel , "most of our board members' jaws dropped, and they thought we had gone crazy.". Bharti's innovative business model converted fixed costs in capital expenditure to a variable cost based on usage of capacity.

Outsourcing 10

Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

The f ive forces framework for strategy may be valid in one arena, blue ocean or open innovation in another, but each approach to strategy tends to be presented or perceived as a panacea. The firm can innovate to address a tired industry business model or can recognize a megatrend before others see and act on it.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Walmart wants customers to know them for low prices, Singapore Airlines customers know them for customer connectivity, Apple customers perceive innovation and Fed Ex customers expect speed. How does the collective of management educators and consultants contribute to driving transformative change within organizations?

Ulrich 52

Ulrich Leadership Diversity Audience 52