Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

They think of the “lights-out” factory that General Motors Chief Executive Roger Smith fantasized about in 1982 and Elon Musk talks about building today—plants so dominated by robots and machines that they don’t need lights to work.

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Process Automotive Rogers Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

These power styles emerge from the emotional and behavioral responses people internalize from dealing with authority figures in the family system. Many of the best leaders and managers in the business world operate from the Pleaser power style. Scarcity issues within the family system are at the heart of the Pleaser power style.

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Rogers Morale Long-term Pharmaceuticals 14

Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

Similar to what we learn from physics, a system at rest stays at rest, and Qubein had to challenge the existing mindset and behavior of faculty and staff who were mired in outdated education methods. As Roger Clodfelter, Senior V.P. Everything operated as its own unit. This was part of the problem at the college.

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Case Study Education Learning-by-Doing Brand 70

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

ROGER HARRIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. For companies, smart cities represent major business opportunities — and not only for tech firms selling systems to government agencies. Real estate developers are integrating automation systems, sensors, and mobility options into their properties.

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 9

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

In team development, research has shown that individual learning works best when accompanied by team learning. [1]. So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

In 2009 Tony Scibelli, Vice President of Human Resources and Operations at Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare learned that the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Nursing Officer were going to launch "relationship-based care," a comprehensive cultural change program to focus doctors' and nurses' attention on patients and their families.

Human Resources 15

Human Resources Chief Operating Officer Ulrich Operations 15

LDRLB

JANUARY 13, 2014

Jeanne has a good relationship with Roger Martin and he introduced her to the ideas many years ago and all of a sudden these themes began popping out and almost in a design-like way. We began seeing those themes emerge and from their we realized, “Okay, we really needed to focus in on design thinking and find out how we can learn more.”

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Innovation Tools Open-book Learning-by-Doing 104

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

Computer systems often don't come in a multitude of small parts; they generally come in huge packages. So is there a way to implement big process and system changes while engaging workers and enabling organizational learning? For example, the new system replaced a manual process for order entry.

Technology 13

Technology Software CIO Information Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Six years ago, David and Donna Allman approached Opportunity with an idea that fell outside our traditional microfinance model: to build a Community Economic Development (CED) program in Nicaragua. Together, we've constructed school libraries, repaired churches, built roads, and, crucially, ensured clean water through new aqueduct systems.

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Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Roger Martin and Sally Osberg argue in their new book, Getting Beyond Better , that the answer is social entrepreneurs, who target unjust and unsustainable systems — or “equilibria” — and transform them into entirely new, superior, and sustainable equilibria. Photo courtesy of Riders for Health.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Health Care Transportation System 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” Through a well-structured operating process, partners expand and align their efforts and draw on comparative strengths.

Company 10

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

When Roger Enrico took the helm as CEO of Frito-Lay, in 1991, the company was developing an innovative and distinctive approach to direct-store delivery that would allow it to consistently deliver the right products to the right stores at the right time. They cut costs to grow stronger.

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Cost How To Budgeting Strategic Planning 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

The most basic function of a financial system is to price money. Who's who — master and servant, mechanism and operator, principal and agent, sovereign and serf? You and I consent to the system. And the system consents to us. There is no system. You and I aren't the system. Let me tell you a secret.

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Price Short-term Proposal System 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

It’s a membership organization created to serve more than 350 independently owned and operated stations, each with its own board of directors, objectives, agendas and strategies. So when I joined the company in December 2006, I decided to deliver a shock to the system. Our development team went Agile.

Team 12

Team Metrics KPI Rogers 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. Since no one can know what the source of the next systemic financial crisis will be, regulation can only do so much.

Banking 8

Banking Licensing Finance Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Despite the fact that Niantic, the American software development company that developed Pokémon Go, has failed to maintain high levels of engagement on the game (its current user base is now 30 million users), the phenomenon demonstrated AR’s potential to be adopted by mainstream culture.

Tourism 9

Tourism Technology Content Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm. As it notes, “When we operate according to these principles, the stockholders should realize a fair return.”.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Roger Schwarz. You may learn that Bob is thinking more systemically than the rest of the team and has identified an important issue that no one else thought of. This enables the team to develop a comprehensive, common set of information with which to solve problems and make decisions. ” You and Your Team Series.

Construction 8

Construction Rogers Commitment Team 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

Corporate executives must develop themselves for the next level and to be useful to their companies and communities in the future. Business development. Push paper, systems, technology. System upholders. Taking Advantage of the System. A Primer on the Workforce, Levels of Jobs, Plateaus of Professionalism.

Business Development 50

Business Development Development Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

But in order to realize this future, we need to learn and employ the lessons from the architectural evolution of the internet, facilitating openness and distributed operations rather than the closed proprietary systems of individual manufacturers and service providers. In essence, he learned how to manage it.

Rogers 8

Rogers Conference Health Care Bond 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Roger Martin recently diagnosed a kind of complexity that is manufactured by us and largely unaddressed: inter-domain complexity. It comes about as fields of knowledge are segmented into multiple domains, and each domain develops deep algorithmic knowledge and specialized tools that work by ignoring many of the variables actually in play.

Senge 8

Senge Education Rogers Tools 8

Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I work for a large organisation and I spend my life trying to fix things: processes, systems and policies – those sorts of things. Changing systems and processes is easy, but unless you can change people’s behaviour as well then your new process is worthless. Rogers diffusion of innovation curve. Or start earlier?

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ADKAR Management Early Adopters Rogers 60

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Product upgrades make up the majority of corporate research and development activity. At Harvard Business School’s Program for Leadership Development and Owner/President Management Program. Developing the Global Leader. That’s why Harvard Business School marketing professors John T. Join the conversation.

Brand 8

Brand Education Productivity Products 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

The HR Digest: How did your journey in leadership and business development shape your perspective on organizational change over the past decade? These foundational competencies provide the framework for selection, development, assessment and rewards. Southwest Airlines’ firm brand, for example, is cheap, fun, and on time.

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Ulrich Leadership Diversity Audience 52