Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

In our rush to ‘modernize’ everything and make our enterprises more efficient, we have mistakenly come to believe that information is our most valuable commodity. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Silent Killer #4: Worship of Information. Shift Your Understanding. About the Author. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

StrategyDriven advisors work with executives and managers to define their organization’s needs and develop and manage the complex, mission critical projects needed to improve operational effectiveness and lower costs in response to today’s most pressing challenges. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Leadership development represents a huge and growing investment for most organizations. Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. product pricing, operational efficiency, customer service, etc.). .”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

You do it by asking, what customer problem are we trying to solve, and how do we solve it in a far more efficient manner? The authors conclude that’s between 550 and 600 million people in developing G20 economies. PwC's Health Research Institute projects medical costs will increase 7.5% CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

The partnership has been a triumph of efficiency — a win-win for the cultural climate of Judson and often-stretched student bank accounts. Research in 2013 from demographer Richelle Winkler shows that in the U.S., And they force us to redefine what it means to be efficient — and human.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

You do it by asking, what customer problem are we trying to solve, and how do we solve it in a far more efficient manner? The authors conclude that’s between 550 and 600 million people in developing G20 economies. PwC's Health Research Institute projects medical costs will increase 7.5% CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Finally, in September 2013, faced with mounting social discontent, Premier Li Keqiang announced a sweeping new plan to try to address the country’s air quality problems. For almost two decades, the environment has been at the forefront of civil society development. Environmental activism in China is not new.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

The very technologies that likely disrupted the legacy industry in the first place are the same ones devoted practitioners are using to forge new supply chains and digital platforms for a more efficient, better connected version of the old market. The same disruption is driving both the decline and, later, the re-emergence. cut of sales.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is the most visible organization tasked with shepherding that inclusive innovative growth. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2013

By spreading tasks out among a broader group of younger analysts (they hired 14% more new analysts for 2014 than they did for 2013), and asking managers to take the time to explain more clearly upfront what they really need them to do, Goldman says it can create a saner and more efficient workplace.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. billion in mining projects since 2010. Since 1994, Dow has invested nearly $2 billion in improving resource efficiency and has saved $9.8 Fostering innovation. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

At the high end of artificial intelligence are systems like cognitive computing that are allowing driverless cars and other machines to develop the capacity to learn from their experiences in the world — by incorporating nuances, remembering outcomes, and adapting to mistakes. (A First, let’s get our bearings.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Examples of this trend include the Pebble , a Kickstarter-funded project that has now sold over one million smart watches (and which predated Google’s Android Wear smart watch and the Apple Watch). As a result, software-enabled manufacturing start-ups are poised to have a large economic impact.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

In response, our team at the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard launched an online platform to generate and disseminate knowledge in health care delivery. As GHDonline’s rapid growth and success have demonstrated, they can indeed be a valuable tool for improving the efficiency, quality, and the ultimate value of health care delivery.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2014

In their best-selling 2013 book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think , authors Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier selected Google Flu Trends (GFT) as the lede of chapter one. But more data in itself does not lead to better analysis, as amply demonstrated with Flu Trends. Can we do better?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

One Brookings Institute analysis projected that teacher actions could spread to another 11 states. ” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It was then that a belief in external controls began influencing the industry.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

It sometimes seems as if Frederick Winslow Taylor’s unfinished project is around right the corner: A time-and-motion utopia in which managers can track almost any aspect of employee behavior on a second-by-second basis. In 2013, at the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Oil and Gas subsea operators across the world are adopting a GE Industrial Internet technology developed in Norway. The listening ‘ear’, an array of sensors in a 500-pound ‘birdcage’ dome that sits on the sea floor or on subsea equipment, was developed at the GE Measurement and Control site in Bergen, Norway.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Since 2013, we have tapped our front lines – our 1,500 physicians and thousands more nurses, PA’s, pharmacists and other clinicians – for ways to improve care and reduce costs, using an innovation incubator model that adapts venture capital investment approaches to find and scale the best ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Project Apollo Archive/NASA Johnson Space Center/Flickr. NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration. NASA focused on developing and monitoring precise engineering specifications.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Demand is predicted to expand by as much as 40% in 2013. It's no secret that the efficiency-driven modern office is a joyless and at best neutral venue in most people's lives. And for good reason. Think: boxy cubicles that don't enable privacy or community, lack of natural light, incoherent design, etc.)

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Campbell’s work has also made liberal use of the analytic tools developed by Hansen. Back in the ‘60s, people developed the capital asset pricing model [CAPM] as a way to do that. And that’s what these guys [the 2013 Nobel winners] did. When the Riksbank Prizes in Economic Sciences (a.k.a.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

For example, its accountable-care-organization partnership with Bellin Health, a health care system in Green Bay, Wisconsin, presently has the lowest cost per Medicare beneficiary among 32 pioneer ACOs, and the ThedaCare Physicians group was ranked first in quality performance statewide in 2013 by Consumer Reports. Involve the patient.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The latter was a project I led after returning to Partners in 2011. Though the implementation of the HITECH Act seemed superficially like a technology project, I gradually came to realize that it was much more than that. We reported the results publicly on a project website. Two personal stories illustrate these points.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, among others, share Warren Buffett’s discipline to read extensively, safeguard time for personal development projects, and constantly seek new stimulus and perspectives. To develop a routine, time for reflection should be a regularly scheduled and a protected event on the leader’s calendar.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2016

Although GGRC’s staff often develop great empathy for individual clients, going to heroic lengths to help clients navigate the administrative maze, the system was not designed to make life easy for clients or staff members. It was part of a larger effort by GGRC staffers to rethink what was possible for their clients and themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

In the five-year period from 2009 to 2013, there were 8,786 U.S. In 2013 there were approximately 1.02 The management of R&D projects will become more difficult and less efficient as the movement of personnel between firms’ U.S. putting logistical conveniences ahead of merit, efficiency, and effectiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Some parts of the agenda — eco-efficiency and resource conservation for example — are widely accepted now, and it's rare to find a big-company CEO who doesn't have sustainability on his or her radar. Five Questions For 2013. This is the focus of my next project.). on to 2013. In reality, both views were right.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

A 2013 Pew Research survey found that business executives ranked ninth out of 10 professions in terms of social contribution, only placing ahead of lawyers. has recently experienced a rise in income inequality to levels last seen in the 1920s, and other countries, especially developed ones, have registered similar if less dramatic increases.

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