Curious Cat

JULY 6, 2016

” see: Why Use Lean if So Many Fail To Do So Effectively (2012) , Management Advice Failures (2006) , Federal Government Chief Performance Officer (2009) , Creating a Continual Improvement Culture (2015). As for ASQ’s final question: “what prevents them from working—or helps them work well?”

System 58

System Management Tools Incentives 58

Curious Cat

MAY 20, 2015

is ridiculously out of line with performance – Warren Buffett (2006 – it is even worse today) – No Excessive Senior Executive Pay at Toyota (2007) – Honda’s 36 board members, included the CEO, were paid $13 million in 2008. Executive PayWatch 2015: CEO Pay Continues to Skyrocket.

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Execution Proposal CIO CEO 40

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

As shown in the exhibit below, for each of the years 2006 through 2015 the average total compensation of the 500 highest-paid U.S. executives using ARG numbers was greater than the average total compensation of the 500 highest paid using EFV measures, and markedly so in 2006-2007 and 2012-2015, when the stock markets were booming.

CEO 8

CEO Black-Scholes Price Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Disney’s existing contract to distribute Pixar films was slated to end in 2006 and Pixar had announced two years earlier it would not renew the arrangement.). WB’s revenue dropped 13% in fourth quarter 2015. So he struck a deal with then CEO Steve Jobs to buy Pixar. It was a bold push towards the future.

Creativity 8

Creativity Franchising Succession Film 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

Back in 2006, McDonald’s saw its growth stall. PayPal, the electronic payments giant, found itself at a crossroads in 2015. There it had become the market leader for e-commerce payment processing, but by 2015 it had some formidable rivals. Justin Case/Getty Images. But sales hardly budged.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Decentralization Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

A decade ago, the Mach 3 razor was Gillette’s premium offering for men, until the Fusion line was launched in 2006 at a 40% price increase, followed by the Fusion ProGlide in 2010 and the Fusion Proshield Flexball in 2016—to name a few of the brand’s major releases. Smaller brands have been picking up the slack.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Marketing Price Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

Here’s a version of it from a couple of years into the process, which started in 2006.) In the cover story of the latest Bloomberg Businessweek , Nick Summers reports that many IBMers now refer to what is officially called Roadmap 2015 as “Roadkill 2015.”

Stage-Gate 9

Stage-Gate Strategic Planning Welch CFO 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

” The Ovi Store was discontinued in 2015. As Xerox’s CEO Anne Mulcahy said in the Dean’s Innovative Leader Series at MIT in 2006: “In trying to rebound, we spent the vast majority of our time talking to customers.”

Budgeting 13

Budgeting Innovation Business Model Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2015

A study in the journal PloS from 2013 showed that the rate of open access articles doubled from 2006 to 2010, from 26.3% And on ResearchGate alone, full text downloads increased 140-fold from January 2013 to January 2015. More scientific literature is available earlier without being embargoed behind a paywall.

Article 8

Article Influence Download Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

In 2015 Doreetha Daniels received her associate degree in social sciences from College of the Canyons, in Santa Clarita, California. But Daniels wasn’t a typical student: She was 99 years old. The next time you’re tempted to put learning on the back burner, remember a few points: Educational investments are an economic imperative.

Education 8

Education Press Release Offshoring Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Shining a Light: Safer Health Care Through Transparency , a 2015 report by the National Patient Safety Foundation’s Lucian Leape Institute, states that “if transparency were a medication, it would be a blockbuster, with billions of dollars in sales and accolades the world over.” Patients are the ultimate beneficiaries.

Health Care 11

Health Care Quality Report Environment 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

A central plank of the plan is to “return $8 [billion] to $9 billion to shareholders in 2015 and to reach the top end of its three-year target of returning $18 billion to $20 billion to them by the end of 2016.” billion in buybacks in 2015 under its current board-authorized repurchase program.

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

In 2000, the United Nations Millennium Summit set a series of ambitious development goals for 2015 , among them reducing by half the number of people living in extreme poverty, suffering from hunger and lacking access to clean drinking water. Buffett, to his credit, has pledged to give away more than 99 percent of his huge fortune.

Hedge 15

Hedge Cost Energy Construction 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2016

To stay competitive, Amazon launched free same-day delivery for its Prime members in 2015. BuzzFeed, one of the leaders in this field, was founded by Jonah Peretti in 2006 on the premise that it was possible to reliably produce content that would go viral.

Advertising 8

Advertising Retail Content Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

In 2013, GE had reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 32% and water use by 45% compared to 2004 and 2006 baselines, respectively, resulting in $300 million in savings. Wal-Mart, for example, aimed to double fleet efficiency between 2005 and 2015 through better routing, truck loading, driver training, and advanced technologies.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

In 2006, 70% of revenues and 60% of the company’s profits still came from paper; today the new growth businesses contribute 67% of sales and 76% of profits. On a larger scale, the Pathbuilder group supported Stora Enso’s transformation into a global renewable materials company. Since 2011 the share price has more than doubled.

Company 8

Company Participative Diversity Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

The use of pain killers increased by 50% from 2006 to 2012 and one recent estimate put the cost of physical pain on the U.S. For instance, employers shouldered more than $27 billion in 2015 for opiate misuse alone. The United States is in a pain crisis. economy at $635 billion — a 1,000% increase from 20 years earlier.

Cost 8

Cost Document Finance Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

In 2015, Russia’s government spending was still greater than India’s – at approximately $257 billion— despite the massive devaluation of the ruble. How to create growth in a stagnating market.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

By 2015, there will be 22 metropolitan areas with populations of more than 10 million people. A 2006 pilot of the road charging system revealed that traffic was down by nearly 25% by the end of the trial, resulting in improved traffic flow across the city. Cities around the world are getting bigger, fast.

Gilbert 8

Gilbert System Price Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) rolled out the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Health Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey in 2006 to measure standards of hospital care from the patient standpoint. Just two years ago, CMS began to use these survey scores, along with process-of-care measures, to adjust reimbursement rates.

Survey 8

Survey Health Care Process Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

The latter promptly announced plans to launch a third trilogy of Star Wars films in 2015, a move that will keep the brand alive and serve as a platform for selling products to a new generation of fans. Acquired in 2006 for $7.4 billion, handing over to Disney all rights to the Star Wars brand and properties.

Franchising 8

Franchising Licensing Merchandising Film 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

In a 2006 study of mock juries, for example, when black people were added to the jury, white jurors processed the case facts more carefully and deliberated more effectively. In a 2011 study management teams exhibiting a wider range of educational and work backgrounds produced more-innovative products.

Diversity 8

Diversity Team Bottom-up Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Employee engagement is one of the top three concerns of most HR professionals, according to the Society for Human Research Management (SHRM)’s 2015 Globoforce Employee Recognition Survey. According to a 2006 SHRM report, increasing employee engagement not only saved one of Caterpillar’s European plants $8.8

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Attrition Absenteeism Social Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

In 2006, I was fortunate enough to land a job that enabled me to put my academic research into practice. We've committed to help one billion people improve their health and hygiene habits by 2015, and we're investing millions of euros and some of our best marketing talent to achieve this.

Globalization 8

Globalization Brand Class Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

Geisinger Health System began partnering with Walmart around cardiac surgery in 2012, and joined ECEN for spinal surgery in 2015. In 2006 Geisinger embarked on a broad care delivery reengineering initiative around cardiac surgery called ProvenCare. Why was cardiac surgery ready and spinal surgery not?

Health Care 8

Health Care Participative System Cost 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

In 2006 and in 2009, John was awarded the Technology Executive of the Year, and the Titan of Technology awards by the CTA. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. John is an advocate for technology and education in Colorado and has been an active contributor to the Colorado Technology Association (CTA).

Chief Executive Officer 50

Chief Executive Officer Entrepreneur Technology Long-term 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Here’s a recent chart that made news: @GlobeHorowitz : This was the most misleading chart of 2015 https://t.co/smWEwKtwNK — The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) December 29, 2015. I went a little further: The services here are for women, and the population of women changed between 2006 and 2013.

PR 8

PR Ethics Engineering Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

On World AIDS Day 2015, we can celebrate tremendous strides globally in the fight against HIV/AIDS. As of 2015, over 2 million people still become newly infected with HIV every year, and an estimated 22 million people remain untreated. Around the world, 15.8 But HIV remains a global threat.

Project 8

Project Health Care Learning-by-Doing Globalization 8

Nathan Magnuson

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

But people close to the team highlight an additional factor: the organizational culture carefully crafted by General Manager Dayton Moore upon joining the team back in 2006. In 2015, three players had the misfortune to lose parents during the year. The Royals fell right into this category in 2015. individual) one.

Bottom-up 120

Bottom-up eBook Sports Creativity 120

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Pair it with “The Hidden Traps in Decision Making” (2006), by John S. His last piece for us, “The Art of Giving and Receiving Advice” (2015), must have drawn on his own experience, although it’s research-based and filled with case examples. Hammond, Ralph L.

Management 9

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

With the acquisition of Pixar by Walt Disney in 2006, Catmull became president of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar. Pixar announced in September that the release of The Good Dinosaur , originally scheduled for 2014, would be postponed to 2015. In his new book Creativity, Inc.

Creativity 10

Creativity Film Management Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2015

corporations responded by bringing back $299 billion in profits in 2005, compared with an average of $62 billion from 2000 to 2004 and a subsequent decline to $102 billion in 2006. FactSet Research calculates that in the 12 months ending with September 2015, S&P 500 companies spent 64.6% to $0.92, mainly as repurchases.

Hedge 8

Hedge Proposal Pharmaceuticals Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

million in the 2006 off-year cycle to more than $300 million in the 2012 presidential cycle. Experts predict it will surge even more in 2015-2016. Such “dark money” spending is a fast-growing share of campaign expenditures: the total spent by tax-exempt organizations that conceal their donors increased from $5.2

Politics 8

Politics Committee CPA Policies 8