Great Leadership By Dan
MARCH 14, 2013
Speed = productivity. DaVita operates more than 1,800 dialysis centers and employs over 40,000 people domestically. Execute faster: Stephen Covey calls it “The Speed of Trust”. A trust-based organization spends less time on formal communication and more time getting the job done.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 22, 2016
However, in recent years a parallel explosion of digital tools and services has taken place in the manufacturing realm as well, drawing in computer-assisted design and 3D printing equipment to open-source operating systems, the cloud, and the Internet of Things (IoT). metros like Austin, Pittsburgh, and the Bay Area.
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Harvard Business Review
JUNE 2, 2015
Leaders of many companies — in industries ranging from contract manufacturing, and software services to consulting and health care — tell us the same thing: “We want to move up the value chain.” make your own operations more efficient. create the opportunity to invent new operations.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 14, 2016
Last year, networking giant Cisco Systems worked with one of its contract manufacturers in Malaysia to deploy 1,500 energy and temperature sensors on its manufacturing equipment. It’s time to move energy into the C-suite so executives can manage this critical component of operational performance in a more strategic way.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 21, 2018
And it’s not just low skilled, manual labor that’s at risk — “knowledge” work like operational analytics and marketing is also being taken over by sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms. But other changes are also afoot, changes that could allow the human dimension of work to become more important.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 10, 2012
But winning CEOs demand analytics from their sales organization (much as they do from operations or strategy) to help understand everything from the effectiveness of sales campaigns to opportunity analysis to performance reviews. CEOs generally don't want changes to how their sales force operates for fear of killing the golden goose.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 24, 2012
Even in this contentious election year, all sides agree on one issue: The loss of American manufacturing jobs over the past decade has been a disaster for the U.S. It would be unrealistic to imagine a return to low-value-add, low-skill, low-wage production in the commodity industries that employed millions of Americans a century ago.
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