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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 3 of 7

Strategy Driven

institutionalized mistrust, resignation, or resentment), technology addiction (which can make it difficult for some people to actually talk to others), or a simple incompetence for speaking and listening. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. This lack of listening can be the result of degenerative moods (e.g.,

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 1 of 7

Strategy Driven

The last decade ushered in an economic meltdown and technological breakthroughs that have forever changed the business world as we knew it. To keep his workers thinking and engaged, Ohno developed a new way for them to think about waste – where ‘waste’ is not a thing but an assessment or an interpretation.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

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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The Key to Change Is Middle Management

Harvard Business Review

doubled from 20% to 40% between July and December 2013, and has stayed at that level since. Many change efforts fail because people reduce themselves to checking boxes in safe, defensible systems such as Lean and Six Sigma. Many change leaders use Six Sigma , Kaizen , and Lean for continuous improvement.

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Why Your Customers Hate You and How to Fix It

Skip Prichard

They tend to think of innovation as a shiny new product or service that incorporates a major advance in technology—something like the Model T or the iPhone. Because it takes an enormous amount of money to find a truly revolutionary technology or product. Many of them have little understanding of what innovation actually means.

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