Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 30, 2014

Quite the opposite, in fact, it proposes that we possess the optimum combination of elements to make our enterprise stand out within the markets in which we compete. Kerr is a Partner at Blum Shapiro Consulting located in West Hartford, CT where he heads the strategic planning and organizational behavior practice.

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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.

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Skills GDP Analysis System 109

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 1, 2020

“Therefore, they should complement their efforts with more than just consulting firms. A second challenge is to find the right startups to partner with, especially if you’re operating in an environment where there aren’t a ready supply of high profile startups beating a path to your door.

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Incubator Entrepreneur Venture Funding Incentives 79

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Suffice to say, most of the issues were short-term and operational rather than strategic. Fortunately for me, I grew up in strategic environments and I learned to balance operational challenges with strategic opportunity. When I proposed divesting a couple of them, the CEO was horrified. Squeaky wheels get the grease.

Strategy 122

Strategy Short-term Constraint Strategic Planning 122

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.

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Stress Uncertainty Outsourcing Survey 87

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Suffice to say, most of the issues were short-term and operational rather than strategic. Fortunately for me, I grew up in strategic environments and I learned to balance operational challenges with strategic opportunity. When I proposed divesting a couple of them, the CEO was horrified. Squeaky wheels get the grease.

Strategy 74

Strategy Short-term Constraint Strategic Planning 74

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

LeadsandBids.com A virtual platform offering a network of services and proposes to bring contractors, property owners, finance, insurance, real estate and other pertinent services together. N2 is a proud member of Linked-In.

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Directory Magazine Blog Brand 167

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

We’ve seen a lot of consulting “misses” over the years — polished management products and services that fail to achieve what the clients want. Often it’s because executives recruit their consultants the wrong way. These are all good reasons to include a firm in your initial list of candidates.

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Consultative Supply Chain Proposal Project 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

In-house strategy and consulting groups are growing in popularity , supplementing and increasingly winning business from traditional consulting firms such as McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group and Bain & Company. Here’s what we’ve learned about how to establish a successful internal consulting group.

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Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. By the end of 2010, we have a prototype adaptation of our Whizard trimmer for tissue processing operating with the original customer, but we know that the tool is unsatisfactory in many ways.

Succession 70

Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

It is a new, more advanced way of studying environments, making decisions, building cultures, and operating on a day-to-day basis. For example, they many fail to detect or assess profound changes in operating landscapes, like Bear Stearns or Blockbuster did. Propose a novel idea to your colleagues or the team members you lead.

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Agility How To Decentralization Morale 86

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

The churches I had previously worked with operated from the the philosophy this is church, and if people want it they will come. I look at incremental improvements as a necessary part of day-to-day operations, and a necessary component of keeping things current. I visited his church on numerous occasions.

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Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 322

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

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. Design thinking has been recognized as an important means to innovate in the context of developing new products and technologies.

Creativity 58

Creativity Strategic Planning Construction Politics 58

Deming Institute

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Deming, what do you think about the recent trend towards standardizing our operations?”. Deming, what do you think about the recent trend towards reducing variation in our. processes?”, Deming, what do you think about the recent trend towards reducing costs in our. departments?”,

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Deming System Travel Trends 50

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 7, 2014

It’s a mindset you have to operate from in order to become not just a good negotiator, but a great one. They can be modified if you simply propose an ethical, viable and mutually beneficial alternative solution. Even better, consult with a contracts attorney to review contractual documents or any that require a signature.

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Short-term Document Ethics Competitive Advantage 68

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2018

Senator Elizabeth Warren has proposed a novel way to reform corporate governance. There are other aspects of the proposal, including an aim to limit stock buybacks and stock-based compensation — you can read more about it here or here. None of this means the Warren proposal is necessarily a bad idea.

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Proposal Policies Examples System 9

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. Processes.

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Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

Efficient operations that inflict misery on food animals. My main job is consulting: business war games, strategy simulations, workshops on strategy. I sent them the proposal they requested. But I knew I’d feel that way even before I sent the proposal, and I’d sent it anyway. I’d rationalized that too.

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Tavris Proposal Industry Project 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

I’ve been a consultant for almost 20 years, advising companies on complex challenges in ethics, risk, and responsibility. For every “shared value” example of an energy-saving initiative that reduces operational costs, or of a social investment that enhances customer loyalty, one can find a less comfortable result.

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Ethics Short-term Long-term Supply Chain 14

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. Tags: Entrepreneurship Getting buy-in Operations.

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Entrepreneur Strategy Telecommunications Software 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

Although it remained open for operations during Hurricane Harvey in late August 2017, the storm caused significant moisture damage to its infrastructure, necessitating the closure of more than half of its 200 inpatient beds for several months after the storm. We termed this area “Results Waiting.”

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Operations Constraint Efficiency Proposal 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

For example, in 2015 the Consortium arranged a global Zika Innovation Hack-a-thon in which 200 innovators developed 15 proposed solutions in 48 hours to help control the virus. In 2016, another event focused on the opioid-use crisis in Massachusetts and resulted in 18 innovation proposals. Challenges.

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

“[Bribes] are like steroids,” one oil consultant told me. In markets with high corruption risk, front-line employees have little incentive to refuse a proposed kickback if it means failing to make their quota and risking a significant portion of their compensation. ” Identify “moon markets” and walk away.

Management 11

Management Ethics Cost Bureaucracy 11

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.

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Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Management consulting is an industry built on facts. million Google results) requires legions of analysts to gather and crunch data, and it so happens that consulting firms supply precisely such people. A "fact-based decision" (a phrase that returns 1.8 Drucker quotes the famed General Motors boss Alfred P.

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Drucker Consultative Metrics Proposal 15

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 14

Process Six Sigma Finance Short-term 14

Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Consulting & Coaching on Organization Development & Building High Performance Teams with a Spice Manufacturing Company. The machine ran continuously with eight various machine managers & operators. Each machine manager & operator was responsible for only their area of the machine and its operation.

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Case Study System Team Proposal 146

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

These interviews were conducted with salespeople across a wide variety of industries including high technology, telecommunications, financial services, consulting, industrial equipment, healthcare, and electronics, to name a few. They hire consultants to verify that they are making the right decisions. Price versus Value.

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CRM Telecommunications Price Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. But as we have observed in our research, consulting work, and partnerships with dozens of Fortune 500 companies and top professional services firms, the transition to new and different ways of managing talent is often filled with challenges and unexpected hurdles.

Technology 10

Technology Talent Management Process Management 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Even at top-tier schools, first-year students spend fewer hours in class than in the past, as field trips, student consulting projects, international excursions, CEO visits, club events, and more crowd the calendar. Many new programs are a third shorter than the traditional two-year norm. Other fields do this.

Education 14

Education Organizational Behavior Case Study Learning-by-Doing 14

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. Motorola is finally attempting a comeback with handsets using Google's Android operating system, but is now only a minor player.

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Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 15

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

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.

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CEO How To Insurance Charisma 318

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Your boss proposes a new initiative you think won’t work. What is the idea, opinion, or proposal that you’re disagreeing with? Victor looked his boss in the eye, spoke in a “smooth, casual tone,” and asked Patrick to keep an open mind about the proposal. And if you do, what exactly should you say?

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Power How To Proposal Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. Tens of thousands of agile teams have operated for decades without much awareness — let alone active support — from CEOs. Tetra Images/Getty Images. We’re too busy.

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Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The strategy consultants come in, do their work, and document the new strategy in a PowerPoint presentation and a weighty report. “We want to be the number one or number two in all the markets in which we operate” is one of those. Lobo Press/Getty Images. Many so-called strategies are in fact goals.

Strategy 15

Strategy Bottom-up Balanced Scorecard Resistance 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

” Scott Edinger, the founder of Edinger Consulting Group and the author of The Hidden Leader , says that the resistance to sales stems from an “antiquated idea that selling is pushing people to buy something they don’t want, don’t need, or can’t afford.” ” But that notion is outdated.

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Skills How To Brainstorming Case Study 21