First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 26, 2011

Here is an article written by Tina Vasquez (Los Angeles) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. Visit us daily to discover issues that matter, share experiences, and plan networking, your career and your life.”

Hammer 89

Hammer Diversity Innovation Article 89

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 25, 2011

Lisa Hershman is a seasoned business professional and author, who brings a wealth of real-world experience and an innovative style to her position at Hammer and Company. Prior to joining Hammer and Company, she served as Corporate Senior Vice President of Operational Excellence at Avnet, Inc.,

Hammer 80

Hammer B2B Operations Innovation 80

Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2020

Innovative Appearance. If you take advantage of the broad range of new technologies on offer, you can demonstrate to customers and investors that you are an innovative business that looks towards the future. Profit margins, budgets, and return on investments are all things that are hammered into business owners’ heads daily.

Hammer 68

Hammer Efficiency Tools Innovation 68

Decker Communication

MARCH 30, 2020

Where are the innovations (and innovators) that you should double-down on to change the game? Over the past 60 days, we’ve seen the corporate equivalent of the rope-a-dope: businesses have been defensive to the extreme, having taken hit after hit as Covid-19 hammered revenue and pummeled the best-laid plans.

Shaw 85

Shaw Hammer Crisis Competitive Advantage 85

In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Those that thrive, go a step further; they worship innovation and breathe culture. In fact, it was Ronnie who took a sledge hammer to that wall and turned it into rubble. The times have changed, but the tools that determine success or failure have not. Ronnie was an organizer – a leader in cultural development.

Hammer 258

Hammer Teamwork Middle Management Creativity 258

Great Results Team Building

JANUARY 24, 2013

They are willing to put up with the criticisms of people who question their innovative methods or rabid attention to every detail. The “Whack-a-Mole” game is one where you grab a large padded hammer - and you score points by hitting the plastic moles when they pop up their heads.

Team 140

Team Hammer Teamwork Godin 140

In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

In a crisis, whether short or long-term, the most senior people in the organization need to step up and offer innovative solutions to the issues hammering the bottom-line. But, these blips have a way of separating leaders from followers. Those who can’t do this are not leaders. At best, they are managers.

Short-term 232

Short-term Long-term Advertising Hammer 232

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 11, 2021

As Michael Hammer famously warned back in 1990, it’s no use applying new technologies to old processes, so in order to get the most out of AI and automation, jobs are having to be redesigned so that man and machine can work well together. Redesigning the business.

Supply Chain 90

Supply Chain Technology Hammer Report 90

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2019

In closing, remember that the only chains and shackles that hold any of us back from any goal in life are those that we ourselves forge in the fires of doubt and hammer out on the anvils of lack of belief. Select goals based on your own needs, not on others’ needs. Raymond Houser is the author of THE WINNING ADVANTAGE:?

Succession 88

Succession Hammer Goal Career 88

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

When business goes sour, whether short or long-term, the organization’s most senior people need to step up and offer innovative solutions to the issues hammering the top and bottom-line. But, these blips have a way of separating leaders from followers. Those who fail to do this are not leaders. At best, they are managers.

Short-term 161

Short-term Long-term Budgeting Hammer 161

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. Michael Hammer was a bold and revolutionary thinker, the coauthor of Reengineering the Corporation, the most important business book of the 1990s. Hershman is the Chief Executive Officer of Hammer and Company. Without the diagram the equipment would be useless. About the Authors.

Hammer 50

Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

LDRLB

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Those that thrive, go a step further; they worship innovation and breathe healthy cultures. In fact, it was Ronnie who took a sledge hammer to that wall and turned it into rubble. The times have changed, but the tools that determine success or failure have not. Ronnie was an organizer – a leader in cultural development.

Hammer 145

Hammer Teamwork CEO Middle Management 145

Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

I find myself hammering out emails at 11PM on Sunday with the TV on and my phone lighting up with messages. Without the temptation of the internet and fewer gadgets, there seems to be more hours in the day. In the U.S., electricity at night and streaming internet is usually enough to derail me.

Hammer 140

Hammer Long-term How To Bond 140

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 21, 2020

It’s a process that goes back to Michael Hammer’s famous missive in the Harvard Business Review in 1990, in which he outlines the inevitable failure of any new technology so long as it is transplanted onto processes that were designed for a previous generation of tools.

Govindarajan 87

Govindarajan Technology Hammer Process 87

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2011

The daily deal industry, still dominated by Groupon, is in the midst of rapid-fire innovation, presenting new opportunities — and some significant risks — for merchants. But merchants should be cautious and skeptical about these innovations. Dholakia is the William S.

Innovation 14

Innovation Hammer Maslow Discount 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

To stay competitive, organizations need to continually find opportunities for innovation in key processes such as customer service and product development, and adoption of a new process almost always requires the implementation of new information technology. Hammer's thinking was very powerful, but I'd challenge that last point.

Process 11

Process Innovation Hammer Resistance 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. We use this simple framework to determine the success of an innovative effort. In other words, successful innovation requires motive, means, and opportunity. Innovation efforts fail anytime they fail to deliver on all three of these domains strongly enough.

Innovation 14

Innovation Hammer Discount Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

In our most recent Breakthrough Innovation Report , Taddy Hall and I cite that 49 percent of the growth in U.S. Their actual advertising budget went down, but their spending worked harder for them as they had a hit innovation that created news energy and clarity around their super consumer—teen boys—to maximize their creative.

Brand 9

Brand Hammer Advertising Budgeting 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. Innovation in Cities. Insight Center.

Engineering 8

Engineering Project Benchmarking Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In his new book, Retromania , English music critic Simon Reynolds claims that innovation in popular music is in decline. If this is true, a big cultural change is upon us — the end of popular music as the great lab bench for our culture, as the defining innovator of our time. The innovation was now spreading.

Early Adopters 12

Early Adopters Hammer Innovation Charisma 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Avis has taken an interesting (and bold) step by acquiring Zipcar, absorbing an innovative but struggling competitor at what is likely to be seen as a bargain price while acquiring a small but desirable customer base and gaining a foothold in the rapidly growing world of collaborative consumption.

Disaggregation 9

Disaggregation Hammer Mass Marketing Gordon 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

But the Doritos Locos Taco, a faux cheese-caked calorie coffin, is seemingly an innovative job creator. “It INNOVATION, I AM YOUR FATHER. There's something dangerous about romanticizing "the idea of a nerdy, bespectacled guy in seclusion, hammering out a problem that others have yet to crack," says Matt Novak.

Chief Executive Officer 8

Chief Executive Officer Hammer Competitive Advantage Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

He had grown up in northwestern Germany, where his father owned mills that heated small amounts of charcoal and iron together to make steel that could be hammered and sharpened into knife blades. Their biggest customers were blacksmiths who hammered a few inches of heated iron bar into a horseshoe or a hinge. Innovation Technology'

Industry 8

Industry Hammer Transportation Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

When I grab a hammer to install shelving, the distinction between “hand” and “tool” recedes into the unconscious, while completing the job becomes the main object of my thinking; in function and thought, the tool is the extended hand when it works properly. So, what might a “handy” IoT offering look like?

Hammer 9

Hammer Fashion Sample Information Technology 9

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 14

Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Especially in situations where consumers typically refine their preferences at the point of purchase, we can expect that choice engages interest in innovation and quality differences. These auctions included books, carpets, furniture, jewelry, photographs, watches, pictures, and wine, among other items.

Productivity 14

Productivity Products Retail Price 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

This healthy, innovative sector holds out vast promise, but missteps now could cost the United States its lead. has underwritten much of the technological innovation behind clean energy's progress. has underwritten much of the technological innovation behind clean energy's progress. The clean-energy field is evolving rapidly.

Energy 11

Energy Competitive Advantage Price Constraint 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

“The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape…That’s what this degree of yours is — a blunt instrument. Think about how your company can start institutionalizing wisdom and leveraging it, along with creativity and innovation, for greater inspiration and success.

Wiseman 10

Wiseman Mentor Hammer Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

— who use targeted technical innovation to cheat to compete from home against human contestants. People will constantly revise, enhance and extend their devices in a never-ending Red Queen's Race of innovative effectiveness. They turn their devices and themselves into Jeopardy cyborgs — Jeopborgs?

Hammer 12

Hammer Competitive Advantage Brainstorming Participative 12

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. In transition periods, during big technological shifts or the ends of recessions, companies often turn their aspirations to growth through innovation. As the U.S.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

With the AI field recently picking up its pace of innovation after the decades-long “AI winter,” technical expertise and capabilities are in short supply. They add that strong support comes not only from the CEO and IT executives but also from all other C-level officers and the board of directors.

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Looking at LVMH’s efforts, I’ll highlight three areas where I see great impact and innovation: managing carbon and energy, building a connection with customers around brand purpose, and working closely with suppliers. The most innovative part of LVMH’s carbon strategy is the use of an internal carbon fund.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Rushing towards an “AI strategy” and hiring someone with technical skills in AI to lead the charge might seem in tune with the current trends, but it ignores the reality that innovation initiatives only succeed when there is a solid understanding of actual business problems and goals.

Technology 8

Technology Hammer Analysis Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. ” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology. Don’t keep relying on the same old social media platforms.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

can often have a superior attitude and be zealots with a hammer, so that everything looks like a nail. Brad Power (bradfordpower@gmail.com) is a consultant and researcher in process innovation. Further, a company can miss the opportunity to transfer knowledge from the process experts to its people.

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma Bottom-up Cost Project 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

These are the kinds of innovations being implemented in the Netherlands, which has moved beyond a dams-and-dikes mentality to embrace the country''s relationship with water, because in Holland, water is everywhere and rising all the time. Or floating office buildings in Miami? How about artificial islands in other low-lying U.S.

Hammer 8

Hammer Automotive Morale Airlines 8