Strategy Driven

JUNE 1, 2018

Costs of band aid surgery and make-good work cost six times that of planning for business on the front end. Banking, insurance benefits, human resources, etc. Technology consulting firms. Cross-industry cooperative initiatives. The need exists for comprehensive business ideas and growth strategies.

Advice 50

Advice Library Seminar Webinar 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Inspired by this pattern, my wife, Annalisa Guzzini, an architect, and I developed a new cutting die that reduces total costs by 1% — a modest reduction, but not negligible in an industry with average profit rates of 8%. (To By the company’s own estimate, total labor costs rose 20-30%.

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Policies Technology Bottom-up Cost 8

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

E.g. take a team of developers to tour an abattoir, take the human resource team to a museum exhibit on ancient Egypt, or take legal on an outing to a flower show. Cooperation – willingness to collaborate. As for trust building exercises and outdoor adventure weekends, they will provide limited or cost-ineffective value.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

As Marco Annunziata , Chief Economist at GE, told me, “We’re no longer selling customers just a jet engine, a locomotive, or a wind turbine; we’re bringing data and actionable solutions along with the hardware to reduce costs and improve performance.” The next question was where to establish the software center.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8