Strategy Driven

JUNE 8, 2016

Since 2013, utility executives have announced the early retirement of twelve reactors and Wall Street estimates reveal another dozen to be at risk; raising the question: Can nuclear plants be operated competitively in today’s market?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Organizations need to have dozens, maybe hundreds, of individual experts, fully capable of idea generation and innovative thought. Whenever he hires new employees, he makes it a point to find out about their interests and passions, which he then documents in his notebook. Copyright © 2013 by Dana Ardi and reprinted by permission of St.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

” William Arthur Ward Inside, the early risers—tenders of affairs for higher-ranking leaders and those who kept the night-fires at bay while the day-shift slept—were already buzzing like bees busily scurrying from one alcove to another with documents, notebooks, and slides in hand.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

The document continues by saying, “Inherent in these goals is the production of a high quality, competitive product in a clean and safe plant, contributing to the success of Cadillac and its employees.”. Mark is also the Vice President of Improvement & Innovation Services for the software company KaiNexus.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2014

I wrote 1,000 words a week and documented hundreds of ideas. ADVISOR – I launched the Gitomer Certified Advisor program in the fall of 2013. Companies like Amazon, Zappos, and Apple have marched to the head of the class by innovating BEFORE the market did, and they set the standard for others to follow. My results?

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2013

Keep a Twitter file that documents ideas and possible tweets. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Relate Articles: Complimentary Resource – Ten Innovative Ways to Use Twitter for Business. Create a list of value-based tweets and subjects you intend to tweet about. Be prepared at least a week in advance.

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QAspire

MAY 13, 2021

Bell in 2013 when they released their book Managers as Mentors. With a firm belief that great ideas need to be repeatedly shared, I am re-posting the 2013 interview along with a revised sketchnote summary. Chip Bell and Marshall Goldsmith] Today’s organization succeed if they are growth-oriented, excellence-focused and innovative.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Uber publicists presented the company as the epitome of innovation, styling critics as incumbent puppets stuck in the past. In a remarkable April 2013 posting, Kalanick all but admitted that casual drivers were unlawful, calling Lyft’s approach “quite aggressive” and “nonlicensed.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2016

Executive teams often struggle to land innovations that will significantly grow the business. A chronic problem is their emphasis on searching for breakthrough innovation — the creation of a truly new, highly valued product or service that could redefine their industry and lead to unprecedented revenue growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

My day job as a venture capitalist focuses on innovations in digital media and big data, and new models of business information and community connectivity. Personally, I am virtually "always on" — usually responding to emails if not instantly then within minutes, while in parallel scanning some document or talking a call.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

The SHS journal article starts with a brief introduction, not in the original document, by Dr. Deming that summarizes the key points, all of which are still relevant today. Mark is also the Vice President of Improvement & Innovation Services for the software company KaiNexus.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2017

According to a 2013 American Community Survey , one in five Americans — more than 60 million people — speak a language other than English at home. How the most innovative providers are creating value. Be creative and expansive about addressing language barriers. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care.

Health Care 11

Health Care Document Training Compliance 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

In a new paper that’s already generated much discussion, economists Ian Hathaway of Ennsyte Economics and Robert Litan of the Brookings Institution document four decades of “ Declining Business Dynamism in the United States.” As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. Yet now it is clearly faltering.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

provided the founders with considerable latitude in introducing innovative and unorthodox management methods. 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.

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Price Decentralization Long-term Self-aware 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards. Prior to visit, coordinated all documentation, including collecting relevant data. She quantified the growth she generated and included one of her innovations that generated much of that growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2013

Just as we argued, a lot of the lower-end, but profitable, work is now being done by cheaper providers or has been automated so that legally trained people are not necessary to get the basic results required (things like searching for documents in the discovery process).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Leadership created an optimization office reporting to the CFO to facilitate cost reduction projects, train new team members, and document and disseminate results across the system. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

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. Today the company has annual revenues above $20 billion, competes in healthcare and electronics operations and derives significant revenues from document solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

After all, it’s more than a resume; “it’s a marketing document,” says John Lees, a UK-based career strategist and author of Knockout CV. Using platitudes in your summary or anywhere else in the document is “basically like saying, ‘I’m not more valuable than anyone else,’” explains Lees.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I spoke with Patty McCord, the former chief talent officer of Netflix from 1998 to 2013. Sheryl Sandberg, chief operations officer of Facebook, called McCord and Hasting’s presentation the most important document ever to come out of Silicon Valley. Building Empathy. In fact, she literally wrote the book on it. Adapted from.

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Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Amazon entered India in 2013 when two local Indian companies, Flipkart and Snapdeal, had already established themselves as market leaders in eCommerce – and still rose to become the #1 online retailer in India. For example, telecom companies and banks are now able to open new accounts in five minutes without a single paper document.

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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. Individual providers who didn’t measure up had to follow a remediation plan, with incremental improvements that were documented. physician assistants) in the ED. Speak with one voice.

Health Care 8

Health Care Diversity Proposal Document 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

The average annualized cost of cybercrime for global companies has increased nearly 62% since 2013, from $7.2 Target, which experienced a massive data breach in 2013, reported that the total cost of the breach exceeded $200 million. Cybercrime is here to stay, and it’s costing American firms a lot of money. million to $11.7

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The number of companies targeted by activist hedge funds has increased dramatically since then, to more than 200 in 2013. In a separate paper , two of the same researchers found that firms targeted by activists also became more innovative, despite spending less on R&D.). It even documents part of the explanation.

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Hedge Finance Short-term Document 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The problem is that to date there has been little work to document the extent of Arab contributions to American innovation. innovation. innovation system, we ran an exercise matching Arabic first names with international patent applications filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). tech companies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Traditional schooling frequently fails to prepare students to think critically, innovate, and be creative. Other methods — like the Montessori approach — seem to turn out more innovators.) I don't know what hard skills I may need in 2030, 2020, or even 2013. Collaboration is not the only skill schools fall short on.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Over the past 30 years, the biggest multinational corporations have taken advantage of open borders to spread their innovations and cut their production costs and tax burdens. The value of these multinationals has grown at more than three times the rate of less global companies, our research shows.

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