Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Whether it was branded the Deming Method or Six Sigma or a host of other models, ‘continuous improvement processes’ found their way into organizations large and small and have made a major contribution to improving quality worldwide. Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

pursuing adjacent markets, making acquisitions) and significant contractions (e.g. Each strategic shift, of course, was carefully explained and justified by changing market conditions or opportunities; but the net result within the company was a performance-sapping sense of cynicism.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 24, 2019

As the ways in which we can gather information have expanded almost infinitely, so the data we have stacks up and up. Most businesses collect data without any clear idea of why they are collecting it, and their marketing strategy gets stifled under the sheer amount of available information. Pull Together Your Optimisation Plan.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Digital natives (Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, IBM) have gained competitive advantage in the first two, and the jury is still out on the third: Type 1: These are “pure” information goods, where digital natives rule. An example would be Google in search, or Facebook in social networking. The Challenges for Digital Natives.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

They stand on the shoulders of the methods of "Process Strategy 1.0": Lean , Six Sigma , and Business Reengineering. A second major trend in the world of work is that low-skilled jobs are going away due to automation, while all jobs are becoming more analytical as " big data " provides workers with more information to make decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

This striking gap signals an opportunity for companies: Secure a competitive advantage by building your employees' ability to succeed in the increasingly complicated labyrinths of today's — and tomorrow's — markets. In our experience, social entrepreneurs can be extraordinary role models in this regard.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

You must measure quality, build in controls that stop errors in their tracks, and apply Six Sigma and other methods to get at root causes. Ignore Costly Market Data and Rely on Google Instead? You must recognize that everyone touches data and can impact quality, so you must engage them in the effort. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

To gain some real end-to-end experience — perhaps making a concerted effort to try out advanced analytics in the hiring process, improve content in financial reporting, bring more data to decisions made by the senior team, and improve the quality of data used in marketing. Information & technology Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. And the market for software talent was hot hot hot. She told me how difficult it was. “GE didn’t have brand recognition in software.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

A BPM expert – it could be the outside consultant or internal BPM Team Facilitator – provides formal and informal coaching to them. Reduce time to market for this product). This role could be filled by a Business Architect, Process Improvement Expert, Lean Six Sigma Practioner, Business Analyst or Project Manager.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Spurred by government reforms and market expectations, healthcare leaders are being forced to reinvent their organizations. The impact of the Nurse Knowledge Exchange in boosting the quality of the information exchange and enhancing patient care soon led to its deployment at all Kaiser hospitals.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

These include: Vastly improved information systems: While electronic medical records are getting most of the media attention, the bigger breakthrough will be wireless and seamless information management of all facets of the hospital — medication, staff utilization and location, equipment availability, and more.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

With the $300 House initiative, it's easy to see the potential to spark innovation that, with a single stroke, could ameliorate several quality-of-life-concerns at once: shelter, water purification, alternative energy, cooking fuel and information access. Our team put Six-Sigma thinking to work. We learned quite a bit.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

This hands-off approach works because on-site executives can rely on informal communication and feedback mechanisms to maintain oversight. Siemens uses Design for Six Sigma to define common analytical tools, provide coaching, and set targets and timetables for feedback meetings. Those processes are then adopted across all sites.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

This hands-off approach works because on-site executives can rely on informal communication and feedback mechanisms to maintain oversight. Siemens uses Design for Six Sigma to define common analytical tools, provide coaching, and set targets and timetables for feedback meetings. Those processes are then adopted across all sites.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Bringing a new prescription drug to market, for example, now costs nearly $2.6 Even a simpler product like the SpinBrush, which entered the market priced at $5 each, required an upfront investment of $1.5 As a result, Fitbit held 68 percent market share through 2013 versus 19 percent for Jawbone and just 10 percent for Nike.

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