Deming Institute

JULY 30, 2018

Vincent Barabba led the US Census Bureau, founded Market Insight Corporation and authored The Decision Loom: A design or interactive decision-making in organizations (among other books). We have now added blog posts on nearly all ASA Deming lecture from 2009 through 2017, the others are: 2009, J. 2017, Fritz Scheuren: W.

Deming 28

Deming Kaizen Rogers Drucker 28

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Around 2013 we began to notice an exciting renaissance in the SF tech scene as startups and entrepreneurship took off. In the fall of 2017, we set off on the first of several lengthy expeditions to Europe. The Outsider is a classic Silicon Valley archetype who brings a “beginner’s mind” to a new market or industry.

Entrepreneur 65

Entrepreneur Succession Self-aware Storytelling 65

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2021

Around 2013 we began to notice an exciting renaissance in the SF tech scene as startups and entrepreneurship took off. In the fall of 2017, we set off on the first of several lengthy expeditions to Europe. The Outsider is a classic Silicon Valley archetype who brings a “beginner’s mind” to a new market or industry.

Entrepreneur 65

Entrepreneur Self-aware Storytelling Early Adopters 65

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Around 2013 we began to notice an exciting renaissance in the SF tech scene as startups and entrepreneurship took off. In the fall of 2017, we set off on the first of several lengthy expeditions to Europe. The Outsider is a classic Silicon Valley archetype who brings a “beginner’s mind” to a new market or industry.

Entrepreneur 65

Entrepreneur Self-aware Storytelling Early Adopters 65

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

While investors bought just $3 billion of these bonds in 2013, they scooped up $49 billion worth in 2017, bringing the total sold since 2013 to $113 billion at an average of $308 million per offering. How the stock market responds. Improvements in financial performance. Green bond offerings are also associated with a 2.4%

Bond 11

Bond Company Long-term Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

For senior marketers, it is a very humbling thought. What if your ideas, your thoughts and even your experience as a trained marketing professional didn''t amount to a hill of beans in terms of the brand''s actual advertising performance? What if, in short, what your company really needs is not a marketer, but a data scientist ?

Marketing 13

Marketing Advertising Chief Information Officer Technology 13

Steve Farber

MAY 24, 2017

It seems like everyone wants to be known as a thought leader, but there are no real criteria for who can stick that label on their marketing materials. With that in mind, here are seven bona fide business thought leaders I’m watching in 2017—and some of whom I’ve followed and been influenced by for a very long time.

Rogers 61

Rogers PR Open-book Core Competence 61

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

In 1998, I advised the Disney corporation and reminded them that Walt Disney’s 100th birthday in 2001 would offer great marketing and positioning opportunities. Houston Symphony Orchestra, 100th in 2013. These anniversaries should be celebrated in 2017: NASA’s move to Houston, 55th. Star Furniture, 100th in 2012.

Case Study 50

Case Study Open-book Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing 50

Steve Farber

MAY 24, 2017

It seems like everyone wants to be known as a thought leader, but there are no real criteria for who can stick that label on their marketing materials. With that in mind, here are seven bona fide business thought leaders I’m watching in 2017—and some of whom I’ve followed and been influenced by for a very long time.

Rogers 40

Rogers PR Open-book Core Competence 40

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

Sales finally jumped, with same-store revenue up 6% in 2017, and the stock rose by 40%. The trick is, growth strategies have to fit the company’s current context, especially its brand promise and its target market. There it had become the market leader for e-commerce payment processing, but by 2015 it had some formidable rivals.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Decentralization Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Our research points to one possible reason: employers increased skill requirements during the recession, when high-skill workers were more plentiful, making it more difficult to fill those positions as the job market began to recover. That share jumped to 35% in 2010 has since fallen to just 12% as of 2017. First, some context.

Education 10

Education Skills Marketing Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

And in January 2017, McKinsey’s research arm estimated AI-driven job losses at 5%. By the time he left Amazon in 2013, his group had grown from 35 to more than 1,000 people who used machine learning to make Amazon more operationally efficient and effective. Over the same time period, the company saw a 10-fold increase in revenue.

Company 12

Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2017

Spurred by an aging population, increases in chronic disease, and technological breakthroughs, the electronic medical device market is poised to reach an estimated $398 billion in 2017. For example, in 2013, the average age of an MRI scanner in the U.S. Such devices are becoming more and more common in health care.

System 8

System CIO Health Care Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After being denounced for years for its dictatorship and destructive economic policies, Zimbabwe entered a new chapter in November 2017, following the military’s removal of president Robert Mugabe, who ruled the country for 37 years. This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.”

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Twitter reported a loss of $79 million before its IPO, yet it commanded a valuation of $24 billion on its IPO date in 2013. In the 2016 book The End of Accounting , NYU Stern Professor Baruch Lev claimed that over the last 100 years or so, financial reports have become less useful in capital market decisions. billion and $0.8

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Depreciation IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

So far in 2017, our firm, Semler Brossy, has identified 200 shareholder proposals on the environment among the Russell 3000 companies, already exceeding 2016’s total. Since the tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh in 2013, garment retailers such as Walmart have contributed to improving working conditions for workers.

Execution 12

Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

India Business Council found that its large company members were prepared to invest $40 billion into India by 2017. In June 2013, Dallas-based Mary Kay exited from India after six years and over $20 million invested. At the same time Amway and L’Oreal thrived in the same market and personal care sales boomed across most of India.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Amazon’s 2017 acquisition of Whole Foods was met with a lot of fanfare. and scale up after its recent declines in sales and market share. To understand more about how mergers between tight and loose cultures work, we collected data on over 4,500 international mergers from 32 different countries between 1989 and 2013.

Price 13

Price Decentralization Long-term Self-aware 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Fact: When it comes to marketing spending, analog still outstrips digital by a factor of three to one. Digital marketing provides targeted reach and measurable impact. Innovative digital marketing approaches in social media, CRM, and other areas dominate the discussion. Shouldn''t CMOs and all marketers be shocked by this?

CIO 8

CIO Marketing CRM Information Technology 8

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. Many established firms— a 2017 Deloitte survey suggested about 20% in the U.S.—are will grow to U.S. $5 5 trillion to U.S. $7

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Since 2013, an estimated 16.4 California’s model is perhaps the most influential: It has affected prices and choice in the market by standardizing plans and aggressively negotiating insurance rates. We also must reduce spending on our exchange by almost 80% between state fiscal years 2015 and 2017. Burwell, the U.S.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The new health insurance market places—the exchanges set up under Obamacare—have become the hot health policy topic. Liberals believe that market pressures, by themselves, will be too weak to prevent hospitals, doctors, and other providers from sustaining what economists call ‘rent seeking’ activities. Will they work or won’t they?

Insurance 9

Insurance Goal Health Care Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

The increasing acceptance of boomerang employees is partly due to the “tight job market,” according to Michael Watkins, chair of Genesis Advisers , professor at IMD , and author of The First 90 Days. But in 2013, after five years at the company, she resigned. After she left, Bridget worked in several other marketing firms.

Company 13

Company PR Learning-by-Doing Maturity 13

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.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

The most recent results from The CMO Survey conducted by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and sponsored by Deloitte LLP and the American Marketing Association reports that the percentage of marketing budgets companies plan to allocate to analytics over the next three years will increase from 5.8% Data-Driven Marketing.

Marketing 11

Marketing Advertising Learning-by-Doing Survey 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. For example, the cryptocurrency used for the Ethereum network, called Ether , saw its value double in just a few days in March 2017. Insight Center.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

Today, Shenzhen-based DJI , of which one of us is a board member, holds a global market share of 70% in consumer drones and offers a window into the future of competition from China. In 2017, DJI’s sales were around $2.7 billion, with the company growing at a compounded annual rate of over 100% between 2013 and 2017.

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Business Model Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

While India remains a formidably challenging market, there are at least three reasons why global firms cannot overlook India without consequences. Similarly, when Renault entered India and introduced Kwid in 2015, Maruti and Hyundai had almost 70% of India’s large and fast-growing sub-compact car market.

Globalization 8

Globalization CAGR Class Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Digital players wield outsize market power. Based on their stock prices on July 6, 2017 , Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook were the five most valuable companies in the world. With products that rely on network effects, these players enjoy economies of scale and dominant market share. Digital markets are uneven.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

See if you can determine where the team went wrong: Ana is the experienced, 39-year-old project manager of a global semiconductor company’s strategically important effort to create an innovative driver-interface system for the 2017 model of a European automaker’s most popular passenger car. That won’t be easy, given the job market.”.

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 8

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

These close outcomes include the US Presidential Elections of 2000, 2016, and 2020, the British General Elections of 2017, and the Italian National Elections of 2006 and 2013.” In areas where unemployment is rare, this rises to 13%, which the researchers believe reflects the stigma associated with job loss.

Politics 120

Politics Participative Long-term Process 120

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

A prime example is Carl Icahn, who began to accumulate his multibillion-dollar stake in Apple in August 2013. In April, its board increased the amount that could be used for buybacks by the end of March 2017 — to $140 billion from the $90 billion it had authorized in 2014. To date Apple has acceded to Icahn’s demands.

Proposal 8

Proposal Hedge Safe Harbor Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

For much of the 20th century, it was possible to argue that the inequities of life stemmed from the incomplete expansion of technology, industry, and the market, and would be resolved by further modernization. A new Oxfam study reports that the richest 1% of the world cornered 82% of the wealth created in 2017.

Class 9

Class Bottom-up Arkes Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Between 1993-2013, the value of U.S. is not on “offense”—pushing to open markets—the U.S. Unless political attitudes shift, the prospects for new trade openings in 2017 are bleak. It’s time for business and political leaders to rally support for open markets. What about the decline in U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Politics Policies Globalization 8