Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2018

It happens all the time: A group of managers get together at a resort for two days to hammer out a “strategic plan.” At the start of my public seminars on strategic planning I ask attendees, who rank from board members and CEOs to middle management, to write down an example of a strategy on a sheet of paper.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

They’re “traditional” matchmaker businesses that have been operating platforms for connecting different groups of customers. But they also face significant risk from startups that use new technologies to operate more-powerful, more-efficient, and more-scalable platforms.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

trillion market by 2020 — lay in its ability to operate with little or no “human intervention.” You can control each of them from your smartphone…but the Nest won’t act to adjust the climate in response to the locks being keyed open, for example, nor to lights being turned on,” according to one user.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

There is a proverb that says, “ If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail&#. This speaks to the dangers of clinging to, and operating from, narrow perspectives. For example, Zappos, the online department store ’s vision is Delivering Happiness. It can get pretty complex.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

An executive in the company's finance operations adopted a Six Sigma belt-driven approach to reduce costs in the company's global shared service centers. For example, GE runs process improvement projects with Six Sigma Master Black Belts, Black Belts, and Green Belts armed with explicit financial targets.

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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. For example, a British study showed the precise ways in which management gurus in the 1980s U.K. It can even be quantified. Similarly, scholars in the U.S. As the U.S.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

For example, several companies embarked on Six Sigma programs after their CEO heard about GE's success with the approach, and many other companies have adopted Lean because of Toyota's success. Consider this example. What's more, the company helped develop Hammer's PEMM concept and is now training Lean managers.

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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 14

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.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

One luxury leader, LVMH, provides a great example of how to build a robust sustainability program. It was part of a larger overhaul that included automating some distillery operations, which gave it better data and helped slash energy and water use. These companies can’t ignore sustainability. ” The Challenges. ”

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Government is like a sledge hammer. "green Police" Two examples, florescent light bulb,and GMO crops. It is only good at one thing, and the use of a sledgehammer is obvious. However, when you are a sledgehammer, every problem tends to look like a cinder block in need of smashing.

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Politics Blog Travel Letter 77

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

For example, a critical and contentious issue in the Law of the Sea talks involved the economic and technical aspects of an emerging industry that would mine deep seabed “nodules” made of copper, cobalt, nickel, and manganese. For example, when negotiating the U.S.-Singapore Minimize, then expand your circle.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2018

Marriott, for example, identified three pillars of employee well-being: “We all need to feel good about ourselves, the workplace, and about our company’s role in society.” Some Chick-fil-A franchise operators evaluate team members weekly using red, yellow, and green lights. Don’t just impart information.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Seeing compensation as the primary or only tool we can use to motivate high performance is like trying to build a house with only a hammer. As an example, I recently coached a leader who’s responsible for a global organization’s operations in an Eastern European country.

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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. These companies kept top-management attention on critical processes and KPIs. And they succeeded wildly. from 2004 to 2007.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Tactics include, for example, labeling claims and how to be clear about what standards we might want to develop, and also about disclosure, when he mentions materiality. For example, installing a rapidly deployable flood barrier around your campus can help keep your buildings operational during megastorms.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

It comprises a range of conceptual and analytical operations, including problem definition, signal processing, pattern recognition, abstraction and conceptualization, analysis, and prediction. If all you have is a hammer, then everything will look like a nail. Further second- and third-order interactions occur downstream.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

They may be flesh and blood to the senior team and the assistants in the C-suite, but to people in outer orbits, from operational departments to business units, they are imaginary constructs. In our interviews with employees we found numerous examples of these rules. They’re mental images.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Part of its success is that the company supports a collaborative work environment and boasts transparent operations from the top down. ” In his family’s living room, his proud parents give him his “grandpappy’s” giant hammer. Since then, the campaign has been viewed more than 800,000 times on YouTube.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? There are two basic operating modes for organizations under high-stakes execution pressure. .’ Great organizations encourage risk-taking. Because innovation requires it. There can be no reward without risk.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Here are the most prominent examples : Provide positive attitude training for everyone in the company. The receptionist or telephone operator. The leader sets the tone and the attitude BY EXAMPLE. Return on service can take place in any part of the business. Many Happy Returns : Return on training. Return on morale.

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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. Balance: the mix of different types of innova­tion (product, service, pricing, distribution, operations, etc.); Efficiency: changes over time in the ratio of innovation outputs to inputs.

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