Deming Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2018

A product or service possesses quality if it helps someone and enjoys a sustainable market.”. In a timeframe in which mating parts in this car plant could not be assembled without hammers, Pipp directed his staff to purchase competitors cars and take them apart. Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. “A

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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.” 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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

But over the last two years, Daniela Simpson, the director of marketing, helped it achieve 15% revenue growth per year, which is seven times higher than category growth. This is in keeping with the Japanese proverb, “The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.” Bending the rules brings the process police out.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Led by the writings of Michael Hammer and Tom Davenport , firms realized that they didn't need to organize work the way they used to. So the reengineered consumption models of the sharing economy are now well poised to go mass-market, and the battle cries of Hammer and Davenport won't be necessary this time around.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Indeed, a central theme of Lumina Foundation CEO James Merisotis’ latest book, Human Work , is that we often struggle to truly understand what skills we have, and indeed what skills we need to have in order to thrive in the modern labor market. What automation is possible? around its introduction.” around its introduction.”

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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.” Today, IoT product designs generally emphasize process automation and ability to access a device from anywhere in the world. Things need to go beyond remote control. So, what might a “handy” IoT offering look like?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The two methodologies may appear to share much in common on the surface, but if you dig deeper, there are fundamental differences in process that lead to very different outcomes. The buds of innovation are fragile, and are easily squashed by critique or a view of the competitive market environment. The difference is in intent.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

As the market has matured, AI is beginning to move into enterprises that will use it but not develop it on their own. They hope AI can improve productivity, automate existing process, provide predictive analysis, and extract meaning from massive data sets. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

There are now around 100 manual-intensive workstations in three of Toyota''s Japanese factories, where younger employees learn how to, for example, turn and hammer metal into crankshafts. The company hopes that these employees will then be able to make automated processes more productive. "We

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

This manpower should consist of teams built around the innovators themselves to help with things like marketing, change management and investment appraisal. Too often, we try and superimpose new technologies onto legacy processes, with this inevitably leading to underwhelming results. years as recently as 1998.

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Innovation Productivity Products Technology 101

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

A strong, transparent, and trust-driven culture plays a central role in driving a scale-down decision and in managing the process as the it unfolds. Hammering home the point, the client added, “It’s probably a good time to terminate our contract.” Home Run Media’s Turning Point. Managing Cash.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

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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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. Unique tools, data, or process. Design appropriate to the aim.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Sound was a simple process of experiment: what sounds were rich, interesting, new, and not being made at the moment? Kids could see what was happening more clearly and they went to work on it hammer and tong. These kids would start innovating and their innovations would take the form of sound, style, and sensibility.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

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. “This is the first time I’ve been through this process myself.” ” Lance asked.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? In my book, I recount an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Don’t think you’re going to sit down and hammer it out in an hour. After all, it’s more than a resume; “it’s a marketing document,” says John Lees, a UK-based career strategist and author of Knockout CV.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

government securities to keep interest rates down — in the process generating lots of monetary stimulus — and kept dictating monetary policy after the war. The result was the Fed-Treasury Accord of 1951, which McCabe hammered out with Assistant Treasury Secretary William McChesney Martin.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

He highlights the short-term focus of financial markets and of political systems, and also the need to change consumer preferences and habits, as three big areas that need to change at the system level. We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers. But in reality, it was more personal. Andrew Liveris.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 25, 2012

BIGGER REALITY: If companies like Halliburton are able to sell hammers to the government for $6,000, somehow you should be able to get your price if you are within a few points or dollars of your competition. That way the entire execution of the selling process is transferred to the customer as both authentic and believable.

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Training Price Hammer Customer Loyalty 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Big companies hammer their entire workforce to make certain that their customer satisfaction scores are high or higher, when they could be (should be) creating an internal training program that begins with the word wow, and progresses upward from there. Let’s get real here, when J.D. Least crappy? Video proof is the new proof.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

But for businesses seeking to market through social media channels  in real-time and with detailed reporting  native social ads represent a uniquely promising new frontier. Now we spend a significant portion of our marketing budget on paid social ads, drafting and placing hundreds every month in multiple languages.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

They don't necessarily improve processes that cross functions — and processes must often be redesigned this way to improve the customer experience. Yet I see few organizations that have process owners. The process owners are supposed to be highly placed, respected, and connected to make things happen.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Here are some of the most salient, which I discussed in a session I moderated last week at the Inbound Marketing Summit on " Digital Marketing in the Political Arena ," guest-starring Harvard Kennedy School professor Nicco Mele and fellow HBR blogger Michael Schrage , who recently wrote an astute piece about polling.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

EU, and Japan are also tackling steps inside and outside the WTO to combat forced technology transfers both in China’s domestic market and, through mergers and acquisitions, abroad. EU, and Japan should also lobby China to join their reform process. Indeed, China has missed no opportunity to use the U.S. They must be reined in.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

And yet business leaders are finding themselves drawn into the political process — oddly enough, to try and depoliticize it. But whether European politicians will be able to hammer out a deal. Not competition or the war for talent — both more traditional business concerns.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The first half of the ad hammers this home by saying: “Illegal immigrants convicted of committing crimes get to stay, collecting social security benefits—skipping the line.” There is a segment of behavioral science called “fluency processing.” In a series of conversations leading up to the U.S.

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