Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

In their 2012 global workforce study, Towers Watson found 46% of workers are not engaged. Diversity is the bedrock of innovation. . Although hierarchical organizations have advantages in terms of efficiency, there is a huge opportunity cost in not accessing the full potential of everyone in the organization. Networks are messy.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Lewis and published by John Wiley & Sons (2012). * * * Successful startups seem to follow similar paths to […].

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

There’s Chief Executive’s 2012 40 Best Companies for Leaders , Fortune’s 25 Top Companies for Leaders , and the just published Hay Group Best Companies for Leadership Study and Top 20. At the same time, the Best Companies for Leadership foster cultures that encourage innovation. The Best Companies emphasize innovation.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 15, 2013

By contrast, the two books reviewed below offer highly specific ways of engaging culture to build more effective, productive, and innovative organizations. He traces this dynamic back to Frederick Taylor, who was both an efficiency engineer and a fierce advocate of workplace democracy. Behave less hierarchically! Become a change agent!

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Coaching Tip

MAY 16, 2012

In its 2012 CEO Challenge report, The Conference Board identified the top two business issues CEOs care about right now: innovation and human capital. The answer is: The most efficient and effective way to do this is with pre-hire assessments. Source: Human Resource Executive, May 2012.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 7, 2014

Schein finds this especially characteristic of managers in the United States, who are immersed in a tradition of pragmatic problem solving that places a premium on efficiency and speed. To learn more about the Top Picks in business reading from strategy+business, check out their article Best Business Books 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

The following six ideas emerged this past year as powerful "innovation invitations." They'll be sources of — and resources for — innovation differentiation this coming year. If your organization doesn't find them innovatively interesting, then be careful: they may be wielded by the competitors you most dread.

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QAspire

JANUARY 8, 2014

James is an experienced operations manager who is passionate about improving quality, reduce cost and increase efficiency of operations. Technical reviews are a chance to manage both innovation and risk, and…develop people. Management Improvement Carnival: 2012 Edition. The difference between tension and stress.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

This webcast shows Bob Browne ’s presentation, Profound Knowledge of the Real Thing, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. Guest post by John Hunter. Bob is the former CEO of the Great Plains Coca Cola Bottling Company. It is very difficult to copy when you start undoing the cultural things.

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Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 12, 2012

We need to balance protecting wealth with creating wealth, efficiency with effectiveness, and yes, compassion with responsibility. Retrieved December 11, 2012, from Dictionary.com website: [link]. Many workplaces are enclaves of aiding and abetting immature, disrespectful, even harmful behavior. Online Etymology Dictionary.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 28, 2013

As the poor countries become more efficient, they gain the purchasing power to buy more goods and services from the rest of the world. The removal of trade barriers leads to an increasingly efficient market. Long-term value is the result of vision, creativity, innovation, and hard work. Marshall@MarshallGoldsmith.com.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 26, 2012

Here's a guest post from entrepreneur Duncan Murtagh," an Irishman living in Taiwan, who has been to New Hampshire several times": How can we move past the tough times of 2011 to a more profitable 2012? Well we could start by coming up with some new ideas to drive revenue growth. Serve the best pasta in the city?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

In an era of intense globalization, rapid demographic change and accelerating technological progress, the best companies for leadership recognize the value of innovation, putting it at the heart of their corporate culture and using this targeted, focused innovation to drive shareholder value and improve efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2017

Family firms aren’t typically thought of as particularly innovative. However, many family-owned businesses are among the most innovative in their industries. There are countless other examples of family firms that have brought innovations to market. The level of innovation is higher in family firms.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Maybe you remember how savagely the industry was portrayed during the 2012 U.S. And a recent working paper out of the Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics ( DICE ), a think tank of sorts, focuses on the latter by exploring whether leveraged buyouts (LBOs) make firms more innovative. ” There were other limitations.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. The Change: Was It Innovation, Serendipity or Providence? This is a story about leaving “our lover”, the industry we know and seeking success in the unknown. Will it work?

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ExactHire - Leadership

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Innovation was the focus. In other words, whereas previous changes in leadership styles evolved in order to increase efficiency or production indirectly through the employee, now this evolution in leadership is required in order simply hire and keep an employee. The style was still very top-down. They managed by “walking around.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

I’ve been surveying executives of Fortune 1000 companies about their data investments since 2012, and for the first time a near majority – 48.4% — report that their firms are achieving measurable results from their big data investments , with 80.7% The next phase will be to use data for new products and other innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Jobs was an innovator at heart. Cook had been running Compaq's supply chain with cutting-edge efficiency when Apple's supply chain was in a shambles. It's fascinating to watch where Cook has spent his time at work so far in 2012. Put two-and-two together, and you simply see less innovation with Cook at the top than with Jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). percentage points in 2003-2012. China, too, needs more technological innovation. The ultimate goal is the ability to innovate independently. It contributed 1.4

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Business model innovation is hard. There is another way to make money from business model innovation. To many people, this kind of change doesn’t feel like it’s real business model innovation. For over a century, General Electric has had a focus on product innovation as a key driver of growth. Why is that?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

Four dynamics are driving this new era of health care innovation: Finally, there is a financial incentive to innovate. RxAnte , Evolent , and Humedica are just three of the many new companies seizing the opportunity to help old players comply with new policy standards that focus on improving outcomes and efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Pending agency action, commercial uses for drones were effectively banned. Hobbyist drone users are free to play, so long as they stay below 400 feet and away from airports.).

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. billion on these social sites by 2012. Rule 6: Rely on Others for Growth and Innovation. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Autonomous vehicles will profoundly affect insurance, road design and construction, traffic management, taxi and limousine services, the materials and safety equipment in vehicles, and asset ownership (who needs to own a car when one can simply be summoned from the most efficient location?).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

One response to today’s climate crisis has been a belief that markets and corporate innovation will provide the solution. As business tycoon Richard Branson has proclaimed in 2012, “our only option to stop climate change is for industry to make money from it.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2015

In fact, a 2012 report from the Congressional Budget Office identified bundled payments as the only Medicare payment demonstration project to date that had showed clear savings. That precludes some of the more efficient providers of joint replacements from participating, thus, significantly limiting the impact of the program.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

a year between 1964 and 2012 to only 2.1% In retail, for instance, productivity could increase by another one-third in developed economies and double in emerging economies between 2012 and 2025. We see a rich pipeline of innovation ahead in both developed and emerging economies. over the next 50 years. We disagree.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Reading HBR's List of Audacious Ideas is the perfect way to start 2012. The real magic is in process innovation. Aravind uses a highly efficient production system, which slashes the cost-per-procedure. The innovations of the Aravind Eye Care Hospitals go beyond cataract surgery. The new reality is austerity.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

and Europe far less vulnerable to disruptive innovators, even though their e-payment technologies may in some cases be clunky and unreliable. Ripple, launched in 2012, provided a cross-border payment system that initially relied on a cryptocurrency (XRP) as the payment vehicle. This made traditional banks in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

And the havoc being wreaked — in higher prices, banned devices, and stifled innovation — is laying waste to the industry landscape. And unlike economically efficient outsourcing, the PTO’s workload is now lodged in institutions that are far less competent to manage them. Innovation Tech industry Technology' And so Apple has.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

Politically, this means the focus must shift from simply supporting clean energy (as, for example, the ethanol subsidies did) to creating a fair competitive environment that levels the playing field and rewards innovators who create the cleaner, cheaper, more reliable alternative energy sources and technologies. particularly in China.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2012

If you want to become even more effective an innovator , work on your ability to champion change : There's not as much value in innovation when the objective is to maintain the status quo. Leaders who can understand the experience of different parties can make more-informed decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the American Medical Association, my colleagues and I found that from 1990 to 2012, the number of workers in the U.S. Demand and supply are not growing in tandem: from 2002 to 2012, inpatient days per capita decreased by 12% while the workforce in hospitals grew by 11%.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation. Nike embedded sustainability into its innovation process and created the $1 billion-plus Flyknit line, which uses a specialized yarn system, requiring minimal labor and generating large profit margins.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

As a technology advisor, the CUO would understand the benefits of different energy innovations and be able to make smart purchasing decisions. In a 2012 study , Notre Dame researchers found that green buildings saved money and increased revenue.

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