Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

In 2005, TheraMatrix contracted with Ford Motor Co. They can do so with the help of a new business strategy: ‘Healthcare Performance Management’ (HPM). Johns Hopkins Medicine, for instance, is snapping up hospitals in the Washington, D.C.-area, Johns Hopkins is not alone. George can be reached at GPantos@HPMInstitute.org.

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Crisis Health Care Insurance Newsletter 63

Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

  On a trip to see a client in 2005, I flew into Newark and took the trains to Lower Manhattan.    A lot of this, I think, is driven by the 24/7 expectations that are made possible by our communications technology.    I used to work on Wall Street and knew the Ground Zero area really well. 

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Our research (discussed in detail in a 2011 Harvard Business Review article one of us coauthored) distinguished between two basic types of acquisitions. Google''s 2005 purchase of YouTube fits into this category. CEO Marissa Mayer acknowledged the long odds of making the $1.1 Mergers & Acquisitions Social media RBM LBM'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

When Jobs returned in 1998 he restructured his team with senior managers who possessed a rich mix of strong discovery- and delivery-driven skills, and as a result the company churned out hit after hit, from the iMac and iTunes to the iPad, iPhone, and iPad. Jobs did this when he saw the mouse and graphical user interface (GUI) at PARC.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Jobs was so impressed that he took his entire programming team on a tour of PARC and returned to Apple hell-bent on developing a personal computer that both incorporated and improved upon the technologies he and his team saw. It took a few years to get things back on track, but from 2005–2009 Apple's innovation premium jumped to 52%.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

There’s Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford commencement speaker and technology icon. Ethics Leadership Managing yourself' Truth is, some of the most successful and iconic leaders, including many CEOs, were (and are) consummate, accomplished prevaricators.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Figuring that their earnings would decline, the cutters were trying to block adoption, in part by misinforming owners about the benefits of the technology. Silver Star’s management says that the new policies are key to gaining workers’ cooperation. The second surprise was an exception to this general rule.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Consider the story of the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense, which was founded in 2005 under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and "disestablished" in 2011 by Defense Secretary Gates. IT also upgraded old technology and processes, achieving significant improvements in service and compliance.

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Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

How Dell went from dorm room startup in 1984, to the world''s largest PC maker in 2005, and then saw its stock plummet precipitously the next year, is the subject of a lengthy Harvard Business School case study by HBS professor Jan Rivkin. A Short History of Dell. This simple strategy proved wildly successful. The Case of IBM.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

I can say this with confidence, because my decision to jump into Social Media headfirst back in 2005 has played an important role in my personal development as a leader -nearly as important as the direct leadership experience itself. Here are 9 ways Social Media has helped me, and can help you too: 1. Great post!

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Daniel Yergin's typically sunny outlook on oil in his recent Wall Street Journal piece, " There Will Be Oil ," suggested that technology and new energy discoveries would avert any of the economic disasters portended by peak oil. We know that the economy fell on its face at $147 per barrel in 2008, and brought growth to a halt in 2011 at $120.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

I thought hiring good engineers would be easy when I launched my startup, Julu Mobile , in Shanghai in early 2011. After all, China produces 600,000 engineering graduates each year, and as a former Google product manager I thought knew how to attract them. Then there is the challenge of finding a spouse and starting their own families.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 25, 2010

The biggest mistake I’ve made in my career, for example, was to decide to make a cross-country move to work for someone I was just not compatible with from a leader/manager standpoint. The lessons I’ve taken from my errors have been without a doubt the most valuable of my life.

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How To Learning-by-Doing Blog Self-aware 283

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

In 2006, they hired an experienced president to manage their rapidly growing business. System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. Sure, it must always consider whether to adjust that strategy in the face of new competition, changing customer demand, technological innovation or all three.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

As I’ve developed as a manager and teacher these past 26 years after graduation I’ve always remembered that garage, and the lesson it passed along – part of being a good teacher is figuring out right at the outset the student’s capacity to learn the material. Because numbers I could work with. I didn’t need a hammer!

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Hammer Learning-by-Doing Blog Video 250

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In 2008, Dr Reddy's acquired Chirotech, Dow Chemical's R&D unit, for $32 million, and in April 2011 relocated it to a new 33,000 sq. TMETC, which was established in 2005, got a big talent boost when Tata Motors acquired Jaguar and Land Rover in 2008. Cambridge, U.K. facility in Cambridge Science Park.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 18, 2010

I see good IT people promoted as IT managers because of their good results in IT, and then others wonder why they are bad managers. The personality of a good manager can be very different from the skills of a good IT person. Andy Hayes April 19, 2010 at 3:08 pm Reminds me of something a mentor told me one time.

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Open-book Blog Core Competence Books 222

Terry Starbucker

MARCH 15, 2010

All too often I see new supervisors struggling mightily with the idea of actually “managing&# a staff – setting priorities, communicating the company vision, motivating, holding people accountable, and delivering the necessary coaching and corrections. This is where awareness of the benefits leadership skills provide comes in.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 1, 2010

It’s not all in the employee handbook and instruction manuals – everybody, and especially customer facing teammates, must be able to make those daily practical judgments that make a huge difference between greatness and mediocrity These qualities are great, but they need to be amplified by a supervisor or manager. Great work.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

In sum, digital strategies and rapid technological obsolescence increases the mortality rates among existing public firms, but does not correspondingly increase the demand for IPOs. Such acquisitions become more lucrative with rising first-mover advantages, pace of technological development, and network externality.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

Regulators would now decide how spectrum would be used, what technologies were permissible, and approve — or reject — the wireless services, networks, applications, and business models that might be introduced. That might seem like a good thing — using new technology to engage the public in ideological debate.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Many are betting on the new generation of technology firms to unsettle the old guard. More than 40% of the unicorns that went public since 2011 saw their valuation stay flat or dropped. With the rise of the smartphone and mobile technology, QQ failed to capture new users. Similar to Cosmo , Glamour , and GQ.)

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Productivity Products Company Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

But thanks to social and mobile technologies, consumers are now "hyper-connected and super-empowered," to use Thomas Friedman's memorable phrase. We normally think of insurgency in a political context, but today's digital technologies are creating a similar dynamic in business. Level 1: Listen and Respond.

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Brand PR Strategy Politics 15

Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Increasingly, people now work together as virtual teams and therefore require more effective virtual management to keep the group focused and feeling connected. Organizations have become stretched through geographic and technological expansion. The vast distance created problems.

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Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Increasingly, people now work together as virtual teams and therefore require more effective management to keep the group focused and feeling connected. Organizations have become stretched through geographic and technological expansion. Technology makes the sharing of information much easier today than it was during the Roman Empire.

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Tips Team Management Teamwork 133

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

In fact, it raises a couple of important questions: Are assessments even the most effective way to incentivize doctors to keep up with the latest medical knowledge and new technologies? One possible explanation could be that it becomes more difficult to keep up with scientific and technological advancement over time.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

A 2005 survey of more than 500 freight interests from the public and private sectors carried out by the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) revealed deep divisions on freight traffic congestion causes and solutions, and an alarming lack of communication between the two sides.

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Planning Scenario Planning Transportation Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

While advances in health care in the developed world often emphasize new technologies, in developing lower- and middle-income countries simply expanding the reach of basic primary care services is crucial to improving health. Management and leadership skills. North Star Alliance is a strong example in SubSaharan Africa.

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Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

It''s a bubble when the price you pay for share of stock cannot conceivably be recouped from the earnings of the company (this was Cisco in 2000 ) or the price you pay for house cannot conceivably be recouped from rental earnings (this was Phoenix in 2005 ). Economy Innovation Technology'

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