Tim Milburn

MARCH 14, 2014

The good news is that, culturally, failure is not as shameful as it once might have been — it’s become almost commonplace for an individual to lose his job, to see her business go belly-up, or to file for bankruptcy (either in business or personally). In today’s fast-paced world, new technologies change industries overnight.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

The underpinning principle of a waterfall is that there is a natural cascade from top to bottom, supported with processes to move from one stage to the next. Yes, having a roll-up is interesting, but isn’t the ultimate goal to know how to accelerate the ‘lead’ from cold to close?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Boundaries prevent unhealthy people from taking up too much of your time, energy, or resources – all precious commodities in the workplace. They want to operate where they are most comfortable. Bottom line, every relationship you have influences you. There are no neutral relationships; each one lifts you up or weighs you down.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We were a mediocre, at best, institutional operation with a sense of entitlement. The results of our extensive experiment were nothing short of remarkable— and we found that positive, impactful leadership leads to great bottom line results. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

Leadership 63

Leadership Training Peer Review Budgeting 63

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

But our research suggests that a better way to manage low-wage workers in developing economies is to invest in them, which is good for both worker welfare and the company’s bottom line. In July 2013 we implemented a randomized controlled trial in five factory units in Bangalore operated by Shahi Exports Pvt.

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Company Training Bottom-up Rate of Return 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades. As a group, the largest U.S. In some instances, the end results were firm closures and lost jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

government is constantly sweeping up vast amounts of data on the details of the retail sector — buying and selling, getting and spending — just as it tracks census information and data on economic indicators such as GDP, employment and unemployment, and inflation. So we started digging. We pored over the surveys and documentation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

What's striking about Fast Company's 2013 list of the world's 50 most innovative companies is the relative absence of large, established firms. To get some perspective on this question, I recently talked with Steve Blank , a serial entrepreneur, co-author of The Start-Up Owner's Manual, and father of the "lean start-up" movement.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

But we recognize that, in many businesses, resources are often allocated according to short-term, bottom-line pressures. For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% The industry makes up approximately 6% of Brazil’s GDP.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

for 10+ years; deployment of design as an integrated function across the entire enterprise; evidence that design investments and influence are increasing; clear reporting structure and operating model for design; experienced design executives at the helm directing design activities; and tangible senior leadership-level commitment for design.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Catmull’s Bottom-line: “Unleashing creativity requires that we loosen controls, accept risk, trust our colleagues, work to clear the path for them, and pay attention to anything that creates fear.” ( Blog Post ). Kotter For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. Blog Post ).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

This is very different from the way large businesses have operated for decades. Only a small percentage came up with anything that was truly innovative. Tomorrow''s businesses will have a very different make-up, and the CIO must lead the charge in the face of these changes. Such propositions come from innovation.

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CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Uber built up staff, procedures, and software systems whose purpose was to enable and mobilize passengers and drivers to lobby regulators and legislators — creating political disaster for anyone who questioned Uber’s approach. A Race to the Bottom. (To be fair, Uber didn’t start it — Lyft did.

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Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

While our competitors catch up, we have to get into the mindset of already moving onto the next thing. McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. That bottom line sensibility is crucial.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management. Water-related risks threaten to strand billions of dollars for mining, oil, and gas companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

What’s more, those that take this initial step are getting a leg up on AI’s future, since that step is going to be a prerequisite for everything that follows. These include improving data-mining operations, helping with training, and making structured, repeatable tasks and processes far more efficient and less costly.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

How do you maintain the cohesion” at a multinational corporation with far-flung operations spanning myriad cultures? The key to improving knowledge-worker productivity, Drucker wrote, begins bottom-up, “with asking knowledge workers themselves: What is your task? How do you organize your entrepreneurial within the managerial?”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The Boston Red Sox 2013 World Series championship will long be remembered as proof that you can turn around nearly anything. The team ended last season at the bottom of the standings (Las Vegas odds were 28 to 1 that they’d make it to the World Series), but rallied this year. Turnarounds operate on several time frames.

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How To Airlines Open-book CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Who schedules them, orders the food, and tidies up afterward? Just last week one of us was struck by the generosity of a New York bank that picked up the tab for the post-memorial service dinner of an employee who was grieving the loss of his father. In business, as in love, you earn trust. Consider these three factors: Culture.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Nonetheless, between 2012 and mid-2103, Banner has captured nearly $70 million in savings, and by 2017, the savings will contribute $256 million annually to its bottom line. E-mail us at healtheditors@hbr.org , and sign up to receive updates here. million by creating an internal facility for drug compounding and packaging.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

But the strength of small business is dependent on the availability of bank loans, and the evidence suggests this critical funding may be drying up. The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit.

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Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

He had spent the last two months interviewing for a position as director of operations at a sporting goods company. His resume was spot-on — he’d spent five years as a sporting goods sales rep and several years as an operations manager doing “everything from ordering for shops, to speaking with dealers, to sales.” I won’t call again.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

” If you feel your family member isn’t respecting these boundaries, “bring it up privately and immediately,” says Lachenauer. That might mean dedicating time to professional networking and enrichment groups so that you keep up with business contacts and develop new skills. And I had to start at the bottom.”

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Real Estate Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing Career 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

In our experience, companies that adopt this marketing analytics approach can unlock 10–20 percent of their marketing budget to either reinvest in marketing or return to the bottom line. To date, however, the reality of marketing analytics has fallen short of the promise.

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CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

In a recent strategy meeting we attended with the leaders of a Fortune-500 company, the word “culture” came up 27 times in 90 minutes. In this article, we address each of these to show how leaders can engineer high-performing organizational cultures — and measure their impact on the bottom line. DAVE WHEELER FOR HBR.

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Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

From top to bottom, the corporate culture was overhauled. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 71

Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

It occupied one counter at 2-J’s Hamburgers, an established Austin restaurant, owned and operated by Ralph Moreland. Living in a fantasy without viewing the realities of the marketplace sets companies up for failure.). Bet your bottom dollar, you and I are through. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Franchising Budgeting Pryor Consultative 63

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

By examining dozens of variables, we found the levers that explain more than 80% of the up-drift and down-drift on what we have dubbed the “power curve” of corporate performance. Programmatic M&A alone is rarely enough, however, to vault a company up the corporate charts. Making M&A Part of a Combination Play.

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CAGR Due Diligence Industry Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Programmatic advertising does not mean publishers need to put their inventory up to the highest bidder. Projections put about 22% of all digital media being automated next year – up from just 4% in 2010. For too long, the industry has asked marketers to manage multiple relationships with up to 40 vendors to execute online advertising.

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Advertising Industry Technology Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

They’ve missed almost every technological breakthrough of the past decade — and yet they earned $237 billion in operating income from 2001 to 2013 working off a strategy that was in place in the mid-1990s. It’s easy to get caught up in the hype. The bottom line, then? Sustainability still matters.

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Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

In 2013, for instance, Buttigieg called for staffers in just 1,000 days to address, through rehabilitation or demolition, 1,000 vacant and abandoned properties blighting the city. That a place like South Bend has been able to cultivate this kind of bottom-up innovation makes sense. It’s hardly an isolated example.

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Drucker Katz Innovation Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

The two major players didn’t share priorities: CMS prioritized the October 1 st deadline above operability. The CMS monthly status reports leading up to October 1 (especially the report for August, 2013 ) reveal increasingly desperate language and blame shifting. Playing the blame game. percent).

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Company Telecommunications CIO Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

The company is, of course, a massive enterprise, with $75 billion in revenues, over 60,000 employees, and a dizzying array of products, from the core search business to the android operating system to nascent businesses like autonomous cars. Innovating from the bottom up.

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Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

But eight months before completion, in August 2013, while presenting our expansion plan to the hospital’s board, we had an epiphany. Our eight-person senior leadership committee, led by the department chair (me) and a hospital senior VP, outlined three core functions: quality, operations, and process improvement (PI).

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Health Care Diversity Proposal Document 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

David Garvin, who died earlier this month, was by all accounts one of the great Harvard Business School teachers, lighting up the classroom and the minds of his students over the past 38 years. He doesn’t neglect the softer side of the topic (providing time for reflection, opening up boundaries), but they’re not the main course.

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Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

The point is that when things like this go wrong, there is no nincompoop problem; instead, there’s almost always a much larger Nincompoopery problem, in the way that a company has failed to understand, design, and deliver customer value in ways that satisfy customers and boost the bottom line. What Leaders May Get Wrong.

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