Ask Atma

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Consider this statement of values from the original authors of the agile manifesto (Beedle, et al; 2001): I. For this reason, it is adaptable to almost any workflow or operational situation. Small groups of say 2 or 3 members, not part of a larger operation, can share and/or rotate the roles of Scrum Master and Product Owner.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

between the ages of 16-30 years old in 2001, it found more than 90 percent of those surveyed rated “connection and community” as their greatest need. When Admiral Clark became the Chief of Naval Operations in 2000, the Navy was not meeting its first term enlisted sailor reenlistment goal.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

The overarching goal of most business schools is to train future leaders to lead. But how well schools meet this goal, and to what extent their teaching influences their students’ leadership, is an open question. This changed after Peter Dolan (Dartmouth, 1980) took the helm in 2001. Andy Roberts/Getty Images.

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Influence Education Pharmaceuticals Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Take Anne Mulcahy, who stepped into the CEO role at Xerox in 2001, during a particularly tough time in the company’s history. He labeled the summit with his ultimate goal, “zero footprint,” and called his transformation effort “Mission Zero.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

We believe that organizations need to explicitly develop two parallel management systems: the operational system that manages the short-term execution of work — what we call the "Surface System," and a second system that focuses externally on sensing and driving strategic change — what we call the "Deep System."

Agility 10

Agility Process Long-term Short-term 10

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

There have been far-reaching business after-effects from the attacks on September 11, 2001. In the fourth quarter of 2001, there were 408 extended mass layoff events, involving 114,711 workers, directly or indirectly attributed to the attacks. million jobs were affected by the. Unemployment is at an eight-year high.

Crisis 56

Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 56

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15. Yes, some governments do give financial and other support to young companies, with the goal of helping them grow.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

In the 2001 recession, total sales for the S&P 500 declined by 9% from its pre-recession peak to its trough 18 months later—almost a year after the recession officially ended. Commercial operations groups tend to be early targets for cuts in a recession. Recessions catch many companies by surprise, with predictable results.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Our goal is to power all new data centers with 100% clean and renewable energy, relying more heavily on wind and solar farms. Our goal is to help lead the way and to bring as many people along as we can.

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Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

One way to tell the story of mothers2mothers' growth is as follows: since 2001, the organization has expanded its operations to nine countries with an approximately $20 million operating budget. Yet, if scaling impact is the goal, these skills are essential. to prove the goal is much more than size: it's about impact.

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Venture Capitalist Mentor Microfinance NGO 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

“We had to train harder, measure our goals better, and become a better team,” Bunge said. It is also a matter of having fun and fostering strong bonds between team members to help them reach their goals. The ambition was to double sales and have a 90% employee engagement rate within five years.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Increase operating margins to 18% (by cutting expenses). Activist investors have a simple goal: increase the value of their investment. In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. Comstock is out.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating. Former GE boss Jack Welch was a master at using symbolic bets to coach GE to have the culture he wanted to achieve his strategic goals, to be #1 or 2 in every market they were in. So, how do you build Box 2 muscle?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

. “The company charged wholesalers on average about $97 for a bottle of the 10-milligram pills, the smallest dosage, while the maximum strength, 80 milligrams, ran more than $630, according to 2001 sales data the company disclosed in litigation with the state of West Virginia.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

This news followed the bankruptcy in March of Wuxi Suntech , the main operating subsidiary of the world''s largest maker of solar panels, after it defaulted on a $541 million bond payment. The state has willingly paid the price of economic inefficiency to accomplish political, social, economic, and diplomatic goals.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Even more tricky, they had to learn to articulate something that had been tacit: a shared understanding of goals, culture, and what it takes to succeed at Citrus Lane. We studied how Wyeth, the large Pharmaceutical firm (now part of Pfizer) made dramatic improvements in cost and quality across its manufacturing operation.

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Pharmaceuticals Seminar Learning-by-Doing Open-book 9

CO2

AUGUST 2, 2011

The book has two goals: improving your travel life and saving you lots of money. It seeks to achieve those goals by helping you become a knowledgeable, empowered, and sophisticated traveler who has mastered an increasingly complex and frustrating system and can work it to his or her advantage. What brought you to write this book?

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Travel Books Airlines Budgeting 98

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

Be transparent and proactive about your expectations and goals for the future, especially if you would like to hold the top job in the future. ” Toby did everything his father asked, joining The Bozzuto Group in 2001 as a development associate. “Recognize you may get more opportunities than others,” Lachenauer says.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Having done so put the city in the position of responding to the unthinkable on September 11, 2001. Many of the elements of planning strategies can be taken off the shelf and implemented when extreme danger presents itself. The City of New York had conducted planning for multiple contingencies.

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Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 71

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

The goal is to bring value to customers in ways that are beneficial for them while also creating additional value for the company itself. It’s worth noting that the companies and business units in my study were tracked between 2001 and 2007. Q: Could you give an example? A: Sure, bagged salad.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

May 2 marks the fifth anniversary of the operation that killed the world’s most wanted terrorist, Osama Bin Laden. His death was the culmination of a global manhunt that lasted more than a decade and assumed extreme urgency after the September 11, 2001, attacks. The trail had gone cold. He had deep knowledge and credibility.

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Management Operations Planning Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Such a policy alone could have a major impact on companies operating in the United States. supply base: The United States suffered a net loss of nearly 19,000 manufacturing firms between 2001 and 2015, according to our analysis of U.S. Its medium-term goal — if its first U.S. Take the idea of a U.S. Census Bureau data.

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Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 14

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. When goals are only in financial terms, the company is disproportionately lopsided. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. Executives never stayed long.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

When China was admitted to the World Trade Organization in 2001, the Western hope was China would move toward a market-driven economy. The goal for 2035 is “enter the front ranks of second tier manufacturing powers,” and the target for 2045 is to “enter the first tier with world leading technology and industrial systems.”

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GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

When Agile software development was born in 2001, it articulated a set of four critical principles to elevate the craft of software development and improve engineering and product manager motivation. The goal of the pod is to drive collaboration. Engineering and Product functions actually have different goals from the top.

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