CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

Let me know how you go. Could you summarise what CoachStation offers and does in a few sentences? CoachStation helps people and businesses to become more effective and efficient in what they do. We do this by developing awareness, skills and capability at an individual, business and organisation level.

Self-aware 146

Self-aware Ethics Tools Finance 146

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 14, 2015

We are holding a hammer, waiting for the time when they are ready with a nail. But this is a much more efficient way to do this. When we enter too early for them, we potentially speak to the wrong person/people, at the wrong time – and then we sit and wait while they figure it out.

Influence 50

Influence Management Telemarketing Hammer 50

Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2020

If your biggest strength is your technology or IP differentiation, you better have a simple visual, which makes it easy to understand while also hammering home your IP is so important. Spend more time on this “killer slide” and hammer in the point. From BlueSky AI.

Tips 324

Tips Entrepreneur Hammer Venture Capitalist 324

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

But in the world of new "sharing economy" models that generate efficiency gains, theirs is just the tip of the iceberg. Collectively, they're spawning a range of efficient new "as-a-service" business models in industries as diverse as accommodation, transportation, household appliances, and high-end clothing.

Disaggregation 9

Disaggregation Hammer Mass Marketing Gordon 9

Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2020

Increased Efficiency. The best equipment will also provide the most efficient performance, which is essential for a range of companies, whether you are office-based and require speedy processors, to a company that works on the road and requires a fast DC fuel transfer pump to stay on schedule. User-Friendly Designs.

Hammer 68

Hammer Efficiency Tools Innovation 68

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Understanding this framework provides enterprises with an opportunity to revisit past failures, compare them to today's realities, and more quickly and efficiently leverage past "failed" concepts. Recently, we helped a client with an opportunity that had been on its radar for over a decade.

Innovation 15

Innovation Hammer Discount Globalization 15

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Small businesses that fail to do this can get hammered by unforeseen costs, go into steep debt, and potentially close completely. Plus, you should always be looking for ways to boost efficiency and decrease expenses. Growing too fast – While this seems counterintuitive it’s actually incredibly common for new businesses.

Management 115

Management Banking Credit Scoring Discount 115

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Across all sales, we replicated our lab results: while the hammer prices of items with high initial expert appraisals soared with the number of total lots in the sale catalogue, lower-quality pieces suffered from the availability of choice. This is one interpretation of Apple's success in the fragmented personal computer industry.

Productivity 15

Productivity Products Retail Price 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space.

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Shifting from Drucker's erudition and measured tone to Hammer's revolutionary and provocatively violent declarations ("don't automate, obliterate") was a bit dizzying. During difficult economic times, organizations often seek ideas on how to cut costs or perform operations more efficiently.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

American companies have had to slash their margins to compete, and their share prices have been hammered as a consequence. Such policies put a price on carbon emissions and provide an impetus for growth in the clean-energy industry as well as for more-efficient use of energy resources.

Energy 11

Energy Competitive Advantage Price Constraint 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

But they also face significant risk from startups that use new technologies to operate more-powerful, more-efficient, and more-scalable platforms. They used new technology to hammer ad-supported media. Microsoft Windows, for example, has been the dominant platform for users, developers, and hardware makers for more than 25 years.

Technology 8

Technology Hammer Operations Magazine 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

“There were catchphrases that had to be hammered into the head of the employees, just like advertising does to the general public.” ” Of course, industrial musicals wouldn’t be an American story without enterprising businessmen looking to boost efficiency and increase profits. Patterson fired a certain Thomas J.

Morale 8

Morale Conference Hammer Film 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Behind every stressor — even a never-ending slog with your inbox – there’s an opportunity for you to develop aspects of your potential, such as patience, endurance, and efficiency. Thus, it’s important for companies to highlight the meaning involved in the stress they feel on a continual basis.

Bond 8

Bond Stress Team Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Environmental exec Sylvie Benard comments that changing behavior can take a few years, and you have to keep hammering home the message and “find the right moment” to act. Like its carbon-taxing peers, LVMH has created a powerful virtuous circle of emissions reductions.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2017

New blood brings fresh perspectives and ideas on how to do things differently, more efficiently, or simply better. It’s important that the team leader embraces diversity in the ranks and does not see a culture developing where people who are different get hammered down until they conform.

Team 65

Team Hammer Software Project 65

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

When things start ballooning up, I sigh, get into to work a little earlier, and hammer away at them until they’re back down to size — the same way I reluctantly (but temporarily) switch from pastrami to arugula when my favorite jeans feel tight. I now aim to keep the unread messages in my inbox to the double-digits.

Tactics 12

Tactics Management Letter Hammer 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

When we asked them about why they care about sustainability, they did mention the business case we’ve all been hammering home for years — and they do believe it. I’ve done some research on CEOs, talking to many of these same leaders, and some others. But in reality, it was more personal. Andrew Liveris.

Project 8

Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

That actually helps charities become more efficient and more useful. If you start seeing everything through the impact investing lens, it starts looking like you have a hammer and everything looks like a nail. If there’s a 20% default risk, the capital now goes five times as far as it would be with a simple grant.

Insurance 9

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Nineteen days later, as rescue crews grew desperate, a 24-year-old field engineer named Igor Proestakis decided to travel to the site with what he hoped was a breakthrough idea: using a particular drilling technology, called cluster hammers, to cut through the collapsed rock. So what is holding these engineers back?

Engineering 8

Engineering Project Benchmarking Hammer 8

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.

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Fama said that if you want to say something more about how efficient markets are, how good a job they do of pricing assets, you need some theory of what asset prices should be. And in those early tests, it seemed like market prices mostly obeyed both CAPM and the efficient market hypothesis. He didn’t want a behavioral explanation.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Not only are engagement rates bound to plummet if you hammer users on their home turf with repetitive messaging, but you may end up losing more business than you gain. Native social ads are cheaper to produce than traditional ads and reach their target with impressive efficiency. The remedy here is fresh, ever-changing ad content.

Advertising 9

Advertising Media Audience Follow-up 9

Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2016

Recruiting is like a hammer. If you’re building a house and the only tool you’ve supplied your framer is a hammer, then then don’t blame the framer if it takes five times longer than you’d like, and costs a bundle more than it should. Recruiting Is Overused and Misapplied. It used to be the only tool a framer had to frame a house with.

Planning 50

Planning Hammer Succession Constraint 50

Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 28, 2017

Our research on productivity improvement shows high correlation of improved productivity with the efficiency and effectiveness of meetings. Hopefully those will be minimal because a meeting is not the most efficient way to simply convey knowledge. How to Accelerate Meetings 1. Is the item there to collect opinions? Are we on topic?

Productivity 100

Productivity Products Chief Executive Officer Participative 100

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. Efficiency: changes over time in the ratio of innovation outputs to inputs. Over the past couple of decades, virtually every company has comprehensively over­hauled its operating model for efficiency and speed.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Process gurus such as Michael Hammer , Jim Champy , Geary Rummler , and Alan Brache have long maintained that companies must appoint process owners to ensure that processes are improved across functions. The executives I know at these companies today believe that having process owners provides them a significant competitive advantage.

Process 15

Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15

QAspire

MARCH 10, 2015

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, fight efficiently, die gallantly.

Agility 70

Agility Hammer Cooper Technology 70

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2012

To advance in one's career, it was most efficient to specialize. Academics and serious economists were dogmatically dedicated to the efficient market hypothesis — contributing to the inflation of an unprecedented credit bubble between 2001 and 2007. For various reasons, though, the specialist era is waning. Why's that?

Hammer 20

Hammer Real Estate Uncertainty Career 20

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

The editorial page of the New York Times recently hammered Mitt Romney with a piece called " A Big Storm Requires Big Government." But this raises the question of whether it is fair and efficient to take tax dollars collected in one geographic location and redistribute it to a region devastated by disaster.

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Incentives Insurance Hammer 9