Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Make meaning by increasing the quality of life.” – Guy Kawasaki Another speaker I was eager to hear from and meet was Guy Kawasaki, who was the first guest on my leadership podcast show, “Leadership Biz Cafe”. Guy Kawasaki and Tanveer Naseer – MHLC 2013 3. “It’s

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 13, 2013

Using procedures drives consistency, reducing risk and increasing quality. Furthermore, past operating experience can be incorporated into procedures so that lessons learned information is passed from user to user helping ensure mistakes of the past are not repeated in the future. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2013

The paper describes how best practices in measuring organizational performance in the nuclear power industry can be applied to healthcare providers facing the daunting challenge of concurrently increasing production, efficiency, and quality – all while reducing operating costs. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 6, 2013

Such consistency promotes the error-free performance necessary for high-risk and high-quality operations. For over twenty years, he has served as trusted advisor to executives and managers at dozens of Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the areas of management effectiveness, organizational development, and process improvement.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Senior industry leader adds hands-on management and operational experience to StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities focused advisory services. At StrategyDriven, we’re proud to be working with industry leaders to address these challenges and adapt their organizations so they continue to operate safely, reliably, and efficiently.”.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 30, 2013

Ensuring these numerous metrics remain well aligned, their output quality and relationship integrity preserved, and their meaning well understood while continuing to be of value to executives, managers, and employees necessitates a method of inventorying the measures themselves and their underlying construction characteristics.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 26, 2013

These formal, documented observations accomplish this by shaping and reinforcing personnel behaviors critical to supporting excellent operational performance. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Management Observation Program Best Practice 5 – Observation Training, Grading, and Quality Assessments.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2013

Inspecting the jobsite and taking preemptive mitigating action can reduce an organization’s healthcare, equipment repair and replacement, lost operational productivity, and warranty defect correction costs. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

The ability to produce at an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed. (To The book offers a concrete framework to help individuals of all levels, functions, and backgrounds take charge of their own leadership development and become the best leaders they can be. Best Leadership Books of 2013. Blog Post ).

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

Sadly, it didn’t take very long to realize that the plant had a very traditional management style, very traditionally combative labor/management relations, and a typical blame-and-shame, command-and-control environment that made people miserable and didn’t deliver quality to the customer or any of the right business results.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

So where Ford incorporated everything into one integrated mega-plant, Ohno designed operations for a network of factories. Ohno’s inventions became the foundation of the quality movement that swept the world starting in the 1970s and ’80s and evolved into what is today known as the Toyota Production System.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Dig hard into your operation to see what’s wrong. Product development has been a little slow for a while. These days, most of your product developments are minor enhancements that don’t yield better margins. Develop a new model for the sales person of the future. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations. Money: More leads generate more revenue; plus, customers are willing to pay more for a high quality brand. Lastly, if you don’t have a capabilities brochure already, develop one now.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Although medical trainees spend years learning about physiology, anatomy, and biochemistry, there are few formal avenues through which trainees learn fundamental leadership skills, such as how to lead a team, how to confront problem employees, how to coach and develop others, and how to resolve conflict.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

Chamber of Commerce supports companies in developing circular economies (CEs), and China — like Europe — has developed policies and legislation around CEs. Since JLG had little control over when refurbishable equipment would be returned, it saw little reason to build a refurbishing facility that could operate at scale.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Thanks to the proliferation of smartphones, brand and online-shopping websites, social media, and vehicle connectivity, businesses have a unique opportunity to use technology to revolutionize the customer experience and to incorporate the voice of the customer into product development. But where and how do you start? Keep it simple.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The ManpowerGroup Contingent Workforce Index of 2013 showed 40% of all ManpowerGroup consulting engagements blended permanent and contingent workers. Their goal is to attract, engage, develop and retain employees – moving talent into, through and out of the organization. Greater strategic focus required a new workforce approach.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today, many high-profile companies— Cisco , Google , IBM , Samsung , Siemens , Disney , Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank , to name a few—contain such roving consulting groups to help solve the most critical strategy and operations problems throughout the business. This also forces us to deliver great quality on every project.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. ” Improving risk management. Since its launch in 2012, Flyknit has reduced 3.5

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

The National Labor Relations Board ruling on Tuesday that McDonald’s could be held responsible for labor conditions in its franchisees’ operations has business groups and lawyers crying foul. And if a business partner is committing labor transgressions, there are likely quality, safety, or other problems lurking somewhere, too.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs. To that end, they decided to have a team study how care is delivered, identify the barriers to smooth operations, and fix the barriers. It was fully integrated into emergency room operations at St.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. billion in 2013, and operating profits increased 65% to $422 million.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

Despite the development of numerous techniques and tools to structure patient handoffs and improve the transfer of communication, we haven’t seen much improvement in reducing medical errors. By the end of 2013, nurses reported over 20% of patient handoffs still had missing information. Adopting a more systematic process.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Many such “Rocket” companies are poised to become the Alibabas and Amazons for the rest of the world: Jumia, which operates in nine countries across Africa; Namshi in the Middle East; Lazada and Zalora in ASEAN; Jabong in India; and Kaymu in 33 markets across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Meanwhile, in a survey of 89 institutional investors by Callan , 43% of respondents said they incorporate sustainability factors into their investment decisions — up 21 percentage points from 2013. The UN, for example, has outlined 17 broad Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. Progress is measured with 169 targets.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In fact, MGI analysis of financial data shows that large publicly traded US manufacturing firms, most of them multinationals with revenues greater than $500 million, averaged returns on invested capital of 22% from 1997 to 2013. These costs are significantly higher for U.S. But the future trajectory of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

These elements are fundamental attributes of a company’s offering in their most essential and discrete forms – things like product quality, flexibility, and associated expertise; they lift value propositions above commodity status and benefit customers in particular ways.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

The context we lead in requires nothing short of radical personal development. Kotter For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. While his best qualities were seen on the field of battle, you will find much you can learn from his leadership—both good and bad. Blog Post ).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

You either go out and buy it, or you develop the talent you already have. Such loans have advantages for the lender: they accelerate player development and/or reduce costs by removing the salary of the loaned player from the lending club’s books. How do you get the talent you need? Both clubs realize a unique win-win.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. legal system is already having trouble keeping up with the pace of developments in transportation. traffic deaths.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

We hired roughly 1,000 new employees in approximately 15 months to build our operations, human resources, compliance, and technology teams. (We We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.) The first thing we did was engage in ongoing listening sessions. It was a highly valued change.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011.

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Mark Sanborn

DECEMBER 5, 2021

His wife, Erika, joined the team in 2013, and today Envisioning Green is a husband-and-wife-owned, boutique-style landscape construction and maintenance company being featured in a business book. . Wikipedia defines excellence as “a talent or quality which is unusually good and so surpasses ordinary standards.” Keeping Clarity.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. The CIO of HP Inc.,

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

Getting the company back on its feet required a major boost in operating efficiency. We succeeded, but by 2013 we worried that we had taken our focus on results too far. We focused on the soft qualities that managers often overlook in their zeal for short-term results. We asked ourselves: What could we do differently?

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