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Know Your History, Purpose and Direction

CoachStation

The process had other benefits. It provided the opportunity to delve more deeply into my initial answers on the importance of knowing why I do what I do and how that influences my direction and future focus – a process I encourage you to do too! Sounds simple, but what Sinek found is that most companies do their marketing backwards.

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Everybody Loves Bob – Faster Cheaper Better: The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done

Strategy Driven

Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. How the new job of process owner can tie together the separate silos that characterize the traditional organization to change the way work is done and how people relate to one another. There is an alternative to the fragmented work process, and it allows us to be faster, cheaper, and better.

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Your Strategic Plans Probably Aren’t Strategic, or Even Plans

Harvard Business Review

It happens all the time: A group of managers get together at a resort for two days to hammer out a “strategic plan.” If you take a helicopter view of the process I’ve outlined, you can see that it involves system design. Busá Photography/Getty Images. ” Done and dusted, they all head home.

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Balancing Push and Pull Approaches to Improvement

Harvard Business Review

Almost every process improvement initiative I've researched over the last three years in more than 50 organizations has been pushed from the top. These mandated-from-above programs include Lean Six Sigma initiatives with experts (" Belts ") in command, big IT implementations, and reengineering of major end-to-end processes.

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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

AI technologies like neural-based machine learning and natural language processing are beginning to mature and prove their value, quickly becoming centerpieces of AI technology suites among adopters. The biggest challenges are people and processes. However, we are likely at a key inflection point of AI adoption.

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My First, Failed Foray into Venture Investing

Harvard Business Review

But because we failed to hammer out exactly how we would operate (including our respective roles and responsibilities), infighting distracted from operating, cash became a concern, and the business slowly, then quickly, imploded. She told me repeatedly: you need to better articulate the business plan, especially the decision-making process.

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Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy

Harvard Business Review

LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. It comprises a range of conceptual and analytical operations, including problem definition, signal processing, pattern recognition, abstraction and conceptualization, analysis, and prediction. Unique tools, data, or process.