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. So what is holding these engineers back?

Engineering 8

Engineering Project Benchmarking Hammer 8

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

He did not believe the results and instructed the team to repeat the assembly operation. Pipp’s documentation of the striking difference in the assembly process within Toyota, by comparison to Ford, was to be found again in the early 1980s when teams from both Ford and General Motors began to routinely visit Toyota’s operations in Japan. .

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System Productivity Products Deming 74

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Learn about the future economy project. Harvard Business Review interviewed the CEOs and other business leaders who signed up to the Future Economy Project, our initiative spotlighting businesses’ sustainability agendas. A roundtable conversation with our advisers. But in reality, it was more personal.

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Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

In his 1990 classic HBR article " Reengineering Work: Don't Automate, Obliterate ," Michael Hammer argued that IT must drive radical process innovation. Hammer nonetheless argued for using the power of information technology to redesign a cross-functional process, then deal with the people issues.

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Process Innovation Hammer Resistance 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

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. The firm then tasked each employee with a specific project to cut costs, armed with their tools and training. However, the push approach comes with complications.

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Six Sigma Bottom-up Cost Project 15

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.” Now to ensure implementation, a strategic planning team must identify some project- or program-level actions. Strategic planning is a journey, not a project. Busá Photography/Getty Images.

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Strategic Planning Planning Objective Seminar 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Far too often, leaders who are closing or shrinking an operation take the old tough guy approach. If the operation being closed or downsized is large or historically important to the company, the CEO should make at least one visit. In some cases, that might mean keeping an operation open longer than you initially wanted.

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Hammer Operations Quality Project 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2020

This efficiency won’t just mean that the day finishes faster; it also means you can squeeze more tasks, contracts, and projects into a single workday. Much of the modern business tools and systems are so intuitive that there is less manual input or operation than ever while maintaining excellent quality. Innovative Appearance.

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Hammer Efficiency Tools Innovation 68

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

They trained experts in improvement projects (" Black Belts ") who then drove initiatives that achieved large financial results. Many of those organizations then embraced Lean for different set of tools for improvement projects, tools that helped them connect project results to key strategic measures. Consider this example.

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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Belvedere Vodka, a brand with sales in 120 countries, has pursued many large-scale projects to reduce its CO2 footprint. Charles Gibb, Belvedere’s CEO, says it made a strategic choice to invest in this project, even though it had a longer payback period than normal. LVMH’s approach is somewhat unique. ”

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Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

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. During difficult economic times, organizations often seek ideas on how to cut costs or perform operations more efficiently. Understand the "P-Cycle."

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

When I ask leadership development clients to describe the type of motivation they’d like to see in their teams, they mention qualities such as persistence, being a self-starter, having a sense of accountability for and commitment to achieving results, and being willing to go the extra mile on projects or to help other team members.

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Motivation Hammer Video Objective 8

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Government is like a sledge hammer. Many private corporation are building one project to LEED requirements to get certifed by the agency and then they are building all of their other buildings the same way without the LEED stamp of approval. It is only good at one thing, and the use of a sledgehammer is obvious.

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Politics Blog Travel Letter 77

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. As we moved from idea to execution, I asked another friend to take a key role in the project.

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Due Diligence Magazine SWOT Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The Nonprofit Overhead Cost Project at Indiana University reported that, of 126,956 tax forms they studied, half of the organizations reported a hard-to-believe 0% fundraising cost, and one-quarter of charities with revenues between $1 million and $5 million reported a 0% fundraising cost. They're using hammers where scalpels are required.

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Proposal Telemarketing Hammer Report 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Part of its success is that the company supports a collaborative work environment and boasts transparent operations from the top down. ” In his family’s living room, his proud parents give him his “grandpappy’s” giant hammer.

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Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.” In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. What’s the problem?

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits. Noble: Economies and business operate in very complex systems. If you start seeing everything through the impact investing lens, it starts looking like you have a hammer and everything looks like a nail.

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Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8