Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

trillion market by 2020 — lay in its ability to operate with little or no “human intervention.” The initial vision involved embedding sensors and actuators in physical objects like UPS packages and factory machinery to sense the environment, transmit “huge volumes of data,” and facilitate new kinds of automation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

When I ask leadership development clients to describe the type of motivation they’d like to see in their teams, they mention qualities such as persistence, being a self-starter, having a sense of accountability for and commitment to achieving results, and being willing to go the extra mile on projects or to help other team members.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

It’s not implausible to imagine that one day a “strategist in a box” could autonomously develop and execute a business strategy. An integrated strategy machine is the collection of resources, both technological and human, that act in concert to develop and execute business strategies. Design appropriate to the aim.

Strategy 8

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

He did not believe the results and instructed the team to repeat the assembly operation. Pipp’s documentation of the striking difference in the assembly process within Toyota, by comparison to Ford, was to be found again in the early 1980s when teams from both Ford and General Motors began to routinely visit Toyota’s operations in Japan. .

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

In addition to laying out an approach for making one-time improvements, Reengineering's high priest (the late Michael Hammer) had advice for organizations wanting to sustain improvement. What's more, the company helped develop Hammer's PEMM concept and is now training Lean managers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. What makes it useful, though, is the understanding that has developed over time as these criteria have been used to determine which ideas are truly innovative and which aren’t. This definition may seem somewhat generic.

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