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Never say, “It's Just Semantics.” | Top Executive Coaching with.

Tony Mayo

Top Executive Coaching with Tony Mayo About Tony Mayo Newsletter Sign-up Sections Client Comments For Executive Coaches For Executives For Fun For Salespeople Quotes and Aphorisms Recommended Books Technology Tips Videos & Podcasts Popular Posts Twitter Log IX About Tony Mayo Truth or Consequences?

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Change management and sales: influencing the buying decision path

Strategy Driven

These are the issues we come smack up against as sales folks: we try to push a solution into a group that haven’t progressed through their entire change management path and get objections and time delays as buyers figure it out. We are holding a hammer, waiting for the time when they are ready with a nail.

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Reflections on the Fabric of the Toyota Production System

Deming Institute

In other words, quality in itself has not been the primary motivation in Japan; profit is the main objective and quality (methods) is merely a means to improve profit…Of foremost importance is the new definition of ‘manufacturing’ quality as minimum variation from target. and Japan.

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Make the Internet of Things More Human-Friendly

Harvard Business Review

The initial vision involved embedding sensors and actuators in physical objects like UPS packages and factory machinery to sense the environment, transmit “huge volumes of data,” and facilitate new kinds of automation. Information & technology Internet Technology' So, what might a “handy” IoT offering look like?

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Shifting from Drucker's erudition and measured tone to Hammer's revolutionary and provocatively violent declarations ("don't automate, obliterate") was a bit dizzying. Pick an Apt Objective. We also analyzed the top 50 ranked HBR articles of all time (by reprint sales). Tune Your Idea to the Zeitgeist. As the U.S.

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

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. Most missionaries of the BPM religion come from a heritage in information technology.

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Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy

Harvard Business Review

AlphaGo’s success is emblematic of a broader trend: An explosion of data and advances in algorithms have made technology smarter than ever before. In addition to executing well-defined tasks, technology is starting to address broader, more ambiguous problems. If all you have is a hammer, then everything will look like a nail.