Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Readers of this blog are aware of the problems created by using quotas: Achieved the goal by not the aim (2013) – The Futility of a Numerical Goal (2014) , Distorting the System, Distorting the Data or Improving the System (2013) , Dr. Deming on the problems with targets or goals.

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Cost Deming Management System 35

Deming Institute

OCTOBER 3, 2016

It would be better to limit the rewards to those few that could show they materially improved the natural result of the organization and not just through the luck in the organization, industry, economy or stock market that lead to widespread good results for everyone. is ridiculously out of line with performance.

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Execution Deming System CEO 45

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Steve Farber

DECEMBER 19, 2016

She started her own agency and grew it despite the shallow talent pool in the region, the lack of potential clients in the market, and the limited connection to the mainstream agency world. Mitchell’s company grew more than 500 percent from 2008-2013, so she had to quickly learn how to deal with the pains of rapid growth.

Public Relations 40

Public Relations Stress CEO Learning-by-Doing 40

Steve Farber

DECEMBER 19, 2016

She started her own agency and grew it despite the shallow talent pool in the region, the lack of potential clients in the market, and the limited connection to the mainstream agency world. Mitchell’s company grew more than 500 percent from 2008-2013, so she had to quickly learn how to deal with the pains of rapid growth.

Public Relations 40

Public Relations Stress CEO Learning-by-Doing 40

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Most of the public is aware of the major Target data breach that occurred, in 2013, where a hacking of customers’ personal data and payment information affected up to 110 Million individuals (David & Best, 2014). Richard Milam is the Founder and CEO of EnableSoft Incorporated ( www.enablesoft.com ). The Fiscal Times. SC Magazine.

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Software Insurance System Operations 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

government sold off all of its GM holdings in December 2013, U.S. billion from 2010 through 2013), it would probably still be bankrupt but for the booming Chinese market. In 2013 GM produced 3 million cars in China , or 45% of its global car production; that was up from 1.1 million vehicles in 2008. billion loss.

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Hedge Company Automotive Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department. AI wasn’t new at Microsoft.

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2015

In 2013, Jayne Juvan became one of the youngest partners ever at the Cleveland-based law firm Roetzel & Andres — thanks to Twitter. In 2007 and 2008, the economy collapsed. He had planned on teaching neuroscience at the college level, but when he graduated the job market was abysmal. Good thing.

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Media Marketing Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

By year’s end, the seven biggest emerging markets were larger than the G7 , in purchasing power parity terms. Far from Silicon Valley, Shanghai, or Singapore, a German company, Rocket Internet, has been busy launching e-commerce start-ups across a wide range of emerging and frontier markets. Stall Out countries are also aging.

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Constraint Marketing Innovation Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012. Specifically, are companies from advanced economies failing to keep up with the big shift?

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Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system.

Strategy 8

Strategy Analysis Operations CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

An example of the difficulties of competing for dependence can be seen in the rise of the “ DIY-economy ,” which was particularly pronounced after the 2008 recession. Therefore, the retail market is actually several markets. How to make your company more nimble and responsive. Competition for preference.

Stress 10

Stress Insourcing Uncertainty Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012. Specifically, are companies from advanced economies failing to keep up with the big shift?

Globalization 8

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

In the aftermath of the US financial crisis in 2008, companies from North America and Europe rushed into China, seeking to grow both sales and profits. Despite entering the world’s largest personal care products market in 1996, Revlon was able to generate just 2% of sales from China 17 years later. 2 in the market.

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Supply Chain Retail Chemicals Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. But corporate leaders today seem to agree that strategic alignment is high on the list.

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Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. will grow to U.S. $5 5 trillion to U.S. $7

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Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

In 2008, GE corporate decided to invest $1 billion in the $5.6 In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.” and compete successfully.

Ries 10

Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The world's second largest carbon market (after the European Union) opened in the state as part of California's ambitious program to cap and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. economy during the peak of the Great Recession (2008-2010). The market will decide that. While leaders in Washington D.C While leaders in Washington D.C

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Price Energy Transportation Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% This economic growth has not only led to the development of a burgeoning middle-class in these markets, it has fueled an increase in the number of citizens actively engaging in philanthropy. growth in GDP.

Globalization 8

Globalization Venture Capitalist Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

India love first peaked in July 2008 when India’s government of the time risked its very survival in support of a nuclear energy deal led by Washington. In June 2013, Dallas-based Mary Kay exited from India after six years and over $20 million invested. But it won’t be “India’s fault,” in our view.

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Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2015

The paper, published in the European Management Journal, isn’t the first to look at the values firms list on their websites; a 2013 paper tried something similar but found no correlation with performance. Companies that changed their values between 2005 and 2008 had higher return on assets than those that did not.

Company 8

Company Collins Short-term Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

The AfDB has the strongest credit rating of any organization in Africa and in 2008, it surpassed the World Bank in lending to Africa , a signal of Africa’s growing agency in its own development. Adesina’s success in applying market mechanisms to create widespread opportunity lead Forbes to name him African of the Year in 2013.

Banking 8

Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

After an unprecedented decade of growth, analysts wrote off 2013 as a year to forget for Apple. After all, it grew from $7 billion in 2003 to $171 billion in 2013 by entering established (albeit still-emerging) markets with superior products — something the model suggests is a losing strategy.

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Industry Wireless Advertising Content 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

During a six-month period from December 2015 to May 2016 , Disney has cleaned the clock with a 25% market share in box office with Star Wars sequel, the Jungle Book , and Captain America: Civil War. This strategy has been, in itself, Disney’s great breakthrough innovation. And the revitalized approach is paying dividends.

Creativity 8

Creativity Franchising Succession Film 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

In fact, since we began our outreach and monitoring, we have seen a fourfold increase in employer-to-employee political communications, from 5% of the private workforce hearing from their employer about politics in 2000 to over 20% in 2008. In the 2011-2012 Market Research Report for BIPAC , performed by Moore Information, Inc.,

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Politics Policies Survey Information 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

Even more important to the redesign of GE, this portfolio of products has been a growth engine, providing ballast against the serious pain of the financial meltdown of 2008. In a 2013 advertisement in The Washington Post, HP claimed that if you measured countries by power consumption in kilowatts, the fifth largest after China, the U.S.,

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Engineering Energy Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Sales doubled in 2013. And after withering down to 40 employees during the 2008 housing crisis, the company now has 175 employees. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days. In 2013, after people there identified an inefficiency in the order fulfillment process, a plan to automate part of the process was formulated.

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Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

More than 200 activist-investor initiatives hit companies in 2013, a seven-fold increase over a decade earlier. After Icahn Enterprises initially acquired a 4 percent stake in Motorola in 2007, the company invited Icahn allies Keith Meister and William Hambrecht onto its board in April 2008, shortly after directors had approved the breakup.

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Hostile Takeover Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Thousands of very lucky individuals are seated in the Long Beach Performing Arts Center are at TED 2013. In the spirit of TED 2013, here are 10 amazing TED Talks that have helped me think differently about what business can be, how to be a better leader, and how to become a better global citizen. I hope they do the same for you.

Godin 8

Godin Open-book Mass Marketing Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

In a previous piece I discussed why some AR apps are destined to be forgotten as gimmicks, and what mistakes marketers should avoid when trying to deploy them. The first commercial AR application appeared in 2008. The application was one of the first marketing campaigns that allowed interaction with a digital model in real time.

Tourism 9

Tourism Technology Content Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

and in its home market in the U.K. In the UK, Tesco lost the plot several times in recent years as they grew to double the market share of competitors like Sainsbury''s and Asda/WalMart. Toyota''s fiscal 2013 profits were more than four times its earnings in 2010, and three times 2012''s.

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Customer Intimacy Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. He did have a horrific 2008. Yet the simplicity and almost child-like nature of Icahn’s approach still begs examination.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2013

This was the advice I got from a marketing guru when I asked for his help with titling my second book. This is what that marketing guru was trying to tell me. In fact, a May 2008 Rutgers University study found that, of all the scholarly op-eds in the Wall Street Journal, 97 percent were written by men.

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Ries Conference Diversity Power 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In early 2013, when factory conditions in Bangladesh came to light , Nike cut ties to some suppliers whose factories were deemed unsafe—even at the expense of its margins and in the face of declining profitability relative to competitors.

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Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8