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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. The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance. The only way to survive in this ever-changing, expanding, globalizing economy is to continually adapt.

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The Businesses That Platforms Are Actually Disrupting

Harvard Business Review

Uber’s global assault on the taxi industry is well known. They’re “traditional” matchmaker businesses that have been operating platforms for connecting different groups of customers. Village matchmakers started making their living organizing marriage markets millennia ago.

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Balancing Push and Pull Approaches to Improvement

Harvard Business Review

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. can often have a superior attitude and be zealots with a hammer, so that everything looks like a nail. Finally, the improvement experts (and I am one!)

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

Harvard Business Review

Barker had licensing deals with sports leagues to make merchandise with their logos and partnered with large brands to produce it for retail markets, and when Lance took the company over, its revenues were about £100 million. The team wasn’t perfect, but it was still operating at a pretty high level. Of course I have.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

Likewise, no matter how slick your company’s online idea market, it won’t yield many high-value ideas if your associates haven’t been taught to think like innovators. In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. This definition may seem somewhat generic.