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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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Goal Setting vs. Goal Sitting

Chris Brady

Select one (or at the most two), and hammer away at it with all your ability. Goals are actually quite easy to set; the process is painless, quick, and costs nothing. You know at work I have to do this process and we work hard to ensure we cover all of your points. Resist this temptation. Focus is the key. Take immediate action.

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

Harvard Business Review

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. Machine learning is a powerful tool, but it’s not right for everything.

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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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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. Design appropriate to the aim.

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Case Study: When Two Leaders on the Senior Team Hate Each Other

Harvard Business Review

“This is the first time I’ve been through this process myself.” After all, sales and finance were often at odds in organizations, and the conflict hadn’t had a big impact on Barker’s revenues. Ahmed accused Damon of throwing up roadblocks and using his power to undermine the sales department.

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How Economics PhDs Took Over the Federal Reserve

Harvard Business Review

What wasn’t really up in the air was whether the new head of the world’s most powerful central bank would have a doctorate in economics. government securities to keep interest rates down — in the process generating lots of monetary stimulus — and kept dictating monetary policy after the war.