Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

If we had better technology would we know what to do with it? by Will Rogers, or somebody else. If you are an established organization and something new comes along, you are more than likely going to want to use it to do what you did in the past as apposed to use it to disrupt. Would we sustain, or would we disrupt.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I should say we were talking off the air about- Thanks for ruining Everett Rogers’ curve for me. It’s a little more complicated than a five forces matrix or the Everett Rogers’ normal curve, diffusion and innovation curve. DAVID: Yeah. That’s sort of what the article did. LARRY: Sure.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

But when the change involves a new information technology, it's harder to make incremental updates. Jointly map the work flows before you implement the technology. These cross-functional process teams — order-to-cash, for instance — meet every morning to review progress and align on actions.

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Technology Software CIO Information Technology 13

Lead on Purpose

JUNE 25, 2009

With over 20 years of technology experience, he has a fresh and unique perspective in guiding and managing product teams and has a knack for synthesizing conceptual ideas and turning them into reality. Reply Stewart Rogers , on June 26, 2009 at 9:54 am said: – I learned we have RULES (1) I bet this was a boy!

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Class Leadership Learning-by-Doing Productivity 110

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

If you knew about a technology that would help you improve organizational alignment, cut meeting times, and increase engagement in discussions, surely you’d use it all the time, right? Roger Schwarz. Maskot/Getty Images. You may be surprised to learn this powerful tool is already at your disposal. You and Your Team Series.

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Conference Commitment Rogers Tools 9

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Go… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Rogers Mike – This is a great post with excellent perspective. Share an ah-ha moment, an experience, a process, but share…This post can be a game changer to many people if those who read it are willing to share their collective wisdom.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The difference is illustrated by a classic joke about old-time movie dancers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. He led Ginger Rogers around the dance floor flawlessly. But Ginger Rogers was an advanced leader. The surface has barely been scratched for the use of technology to improve society. He had a goal. He set direction.

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Rogers Health Care Education Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

With a PhD in molecular biology from Columbia University, Roger had published a paper in Nature and was pursuing a promising career as an assistant professor at University of Massachusetts Medical School. In fact, during that first year, Roger’s colleagues were incredulous. That was a decade ago. Was he really leaving?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

The fact of the matter is that periodically, technologies or business model innovations allow start-ups to enter industries offering services that are generally cheaper and more accessible, but of far lower quality. In 1962, an academic by the name of Everett Rogers released a book called The Diffusion of Innovations. Bundling good.

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Rogers Telecommunications Disruptive Innovation Innovation 15

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

3 steps to building virtue into your organization: Introducing and executing this commitment to virtue requires you to adopt a consistent, three-stage process of, 1) establishing standards, 2) reviewing standards, and 3) making adjustments accordingly. Review how well your organization lives up to the established principles.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Tyson (Kaiser Permanente, healthcare), Omar Ishrak (Medtronic, medical technology), Sallie Krawcheck (Ellevest, investing), Kathryn Maher (Wikimedia, encyclopedia), John Rogers (Ariel Investments, financial services). The companies reviewed here are some of the most successful in the world.

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Diversity CEO Rogers Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Roger Schwarz. One client we’ve worked with preps for this end-of-meeting review by writing down decisions as they are made on a flip chart so nothing is forgotten or overlooked. Once you’ve done this in person, make sure to follow up in writing, as well. You and Your Team Series. Do You Really Need to Hold That Meeting?

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Rogers Follow-up Sports Review 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

There’s been a gold rush happening in technology these last few years, focused on the Internet of Things, or IoT. And while we’ve found customers for IoT connectivity, the number of our customers who value the new technology has been much lower than industry projections led us to believe.

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Productivity Products Early Adopters Software 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

ROGER HARRIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. Technology is reconfiguring traditional roles and divisions of labor. Now some are deepening their existing relationships with local governments and branching out into other types of smart technology implementation. But that’s only one side of the story.

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Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2016

In a large technology firm, for example, the CEO led a bi-weekly meeting of her top 20 people to review the business and make key decisions. Roger Schwarz. They then backed off, and only streamlined the review process after he retired. How to Design an Agenda for an Effective Meeting. Elizabeth Grace Saunders.

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CEO Rogers Review Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Aside from complex technological advances (e.g., Aside from complex technological advances (e.g., The first AR technology was developed in 1968 at Harvard when computer scientist Ivan Sutherland (named the “father of computer graphics”) created an AR head-mounted display system.

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Tourism Technology Content Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

Roger Federer can arguably be considered the greatest tennis player of all time, having won 16 Grand Slam titles—and yet he lost every French Open Championship he played against Rafael Nadal. And even though no one would deny Roger Federer’s overall tennis prowess, no one expects that he would win in every conceivable situation.

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Strategic Fit Rogers CEO Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

AR technology enhances the physical environment you see by overlaying virtual elements, such as information or images over it, either through displays such as HoloLens and Google Glass or through the camera view on your smartphone. Companies first have to understand how AR differs from other digital technologies.

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Marketing Technology Participative Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

Roger Schwarz. Ask people to: avoid using technology unless it is pertinent to the topics. Preparation allows you to relax about leading the meeting and pay more attention to “reading the room” — noticing how people are doing as they walk in, and throughout the meeting. You and Your Team Series. Demonstrate empathy.

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Team How To Participative Rogers 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Any standing meeting, whether it’s of a departmental leadership team, a cross-functional group owning a process like innovation or talent management, or a task force managing a six-month transition to a new technology, should be designed and linked to a broader governance plan. Roger Schwarz. You and Your Team Series.

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P&L How To Finance Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Roger Martin. HBR's editors have compiled a list of some of our — and your — favorite of the nearly 2000 blog posts we published in 2012. Looking for a Job When You're No Longer Young. Anne Kreamer. How to (Finally) Quit Your Job. Daniel Gulati. The Robots Coming for Your Job. Andy McAfee. Needs to Make More Jobs More Creative.

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Blog Disruptive Innovation Meyer Rogers 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

Roger Adams, CMO says: “As USAA developed into a data-driven organization, we were able to accurately predict the impact of different marketing investment decisions. New marketing-finance relationships combined with advanced analytics technology are increasing efficiency and delivering “found” dollars to the bottom line.

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Finance Marketing P&L ROI 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

“M&A is a mug’s game,” Roger Martin writes in the June issue of HBR , “in which typically 70%–90% of acquisitions are abysmal failures.” Most acquisitions don’t work out.

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Rogers Brand Skills Article 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2018

Ask people to set aside technology (see below) and any other work and to focus on each person when they are speaking. If they have side conversations, bring other work, or constantly check their technology, they’re sending the message that this meeting doesn’t really matter to them. Roger Schwarz.

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Participative Rogers Information Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Drawing on lessons from the auto industry, banking and beyond, he offered provocative prescriptions for coping in a world in which “the real challenge is to decide what you are doing” in the face of tremendous “technological change or market change.”. But, as was his wont, Drucker didn’t just provide answers.

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Drucker Bottom-up Rogers Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2015

In addition to the ho-hum job market, and changing cultural zeitgeist, technology is changing where, when and how early we begin to work. Because of technology, their “lemonade stand” can be on any street corner of any city in the world. And don’t forget the competitive college admissions market.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

After Everett Rogers famously made the distinction between early and late adopters , academics in marketing and technology identified a number of differences between those who take quickly to innovations and those who don’t. First, what worked with early adopters isn’t likely to work with later adopters.

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Early Adopters Innovation Short-term Rogers 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2016

Steve Jobs, after reviewing hundreds of projects when he returned to Apple, famously focused all of Apple on creating and delivering just four great products – consumer and professional versions of a portable (what became the iPhone and iPad) and a desktop (what became today’s Macs).

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After Action Review Rogers Contingency Plans Leadership 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2014

They cite papers finding that patent trolls tend to file suits in innovative industries and that during the nineteenth century, new technologies such as the telegraph were sometimes followed by lawsuits. Patent trolls tend to sue cash rich companies, and innovative new technologies generate cash. That represents a 14% decline.

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Venture Capitalist Innovation Comparison Sample 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

An interconnected world where technology advances at a dizzying pace and new companies emerge, scale, and decline in the blink of an eye means never a dull moment for corporate leaders. Everyone still here? Thought so. In 1999, Kodak’s photography business peaked at $10.3 The business stayed basically flat in 2000.

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Disruptive Innovation Advertising Gilbert Market Segmentation 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

As the technology becomes more integrated into everyday life, it will, paradoxically, become more invisible. Jeff Kehoe Sans Chic Making Wearable Tech More Wearable The New Yorker Speaking of technology becoming invisible, let''s face facts: Wearables are ugly. In essence, he learned how to manage it.

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Rogers Conference Health Care Bond 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Whether it is rivalry between people (Bill Gates versus Steve Jobs; Roger Federer versus Rafael Nadal), between organizations (e.g., Similarly, the rivalry between Intel and AMD is thought to have helped advance computer chip technology. technology), rivalry could be an important lever for managers to pull to incentivize risk-taking.

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Participative Rogers Influence Survey 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

Many of us are familiar with the concept of Getting to Yes , an iconic negotiation strategy developed by Harvard professor Roger Fisher and others. Similarly, a technology firm hired a new president for one of its regions to jump-start local sales growth.

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Middle Management Rogers Media Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In his book Collision of Wills , University of Chicago sociology professor Roger V. Thus, one way to get competitive employees off a collision course may be to remind them of dangers looming on the horizon: rival companies gaining in the rear-view, treacherous technological shifts in your industry, or whatever they may be.

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Self-aware Restructuring Rogers Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

If your ideas are met with choruses of “that will never work,” “we can’t take that risk,” “let’s just stick with the plan,” your teammates are likely falling prey to a common decision making bias that former Rotman dean Roger Martin refers to as Underestimating the Risk of the Status Quo.

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Strategic Planning Due Diligence Proposal Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2016

Roger Schwarz. Arrange the meeting using virtual meeting technology, such as Skype for Business, WebEx, or GoToMeeting, which will allow remote participants to follow in real time what’s happening. But from the get-go, the introverted thinkers (those who think to talk) are at a disadvantage. You and Your Team Series.

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Conference Participative Banking Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

It has become an axiom that “strategy is about making hard choices,” as we have been advised for over 20 years by leading thinkers including Michael Porter and Roger Martin. There is concern these days about how technology is replacing our jobs and estranging our connections. Click on a product and you can make a purchase.

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Chief Operating Officer Apparel Marketing Porter 8