Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 2, 2013

ASQ Buffalo 2013 Quality Conference. I will be presenting 2 workshops at the ASQ Buffalo 2013 Quality Conference – October 15 & 16. Thinking Differently – Enabling Innovation :: 1:30-2:30pm. Competitive demands require quicker, more effective and innovative problem solving. ASQ Buffalo 2013 Quality Conference.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 31, 2013

With the end of the year approaching, this week is great to share some of my favorites of 2013. Favorite Team Building & Leadership Activities + Simulations 2013. Working with a corporate team to identify new product and service ideas, we quickly found the team falling victim to group-think. Enabling Innovation.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2015

This si a post by Ken Goldstein, author of Endless Encores : Repeating Success Through People, Products, and Profits. I've written the words People, Products, Profits (In That Order!) Like the words Think Different, People-Products-Profits is part management philosophy, part rallying cry, and in an aspirational context, part religion.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Enabling Innovation. When: Thursday, November 21, 2013, 8:30am-12:00pm. Competitive demands require quicker, more effective and innovative problem solving. Innovation Workshop Focus: Diminished “stuckness” in your thinking. Increased use of existing resources and knowledge to innovate solutions. Event Information.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Innovation Capital. Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. He offers a unique perspective on innovation and winning in the marketplace. The Components of Innovation Capital.

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 19, 2013

Thinking Through Innovation. A highly interactive skills course transferring creative ideas into innovative practices. April 23 – May 21, 2013 ? In addition to broadening their personal capacity for creativity and innovation, leaders are better able to implement innovative ideas into their existing business model.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 4, 2013

His book The Innovators Dilemma has impacted the business world perhaps more than any other book in recent history. I found two recent articles about Clayton Christensen that have increased my understanding about leadership: The first is published in the BYU Magazine’s Spring 2013 edition. (As So how do leaders make lasting change?

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 13, 2021

It’s perhaps understandable, therefore, that new research from Harvard Business School finds that startups benefit from using A/B tests, whether in terms of launching new products or attracting more venture capital investment. They examined over 35,000 tech startups that were founded between 2008 and 2013.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 6, 2013

Unrelenting Innovation: How to Build a Culture for Market Dominance Gerard J.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 22, 2024

It’s influenced by factors like complex supply chains, many suppliers, different products, and uncertain technology. The research looked at 1,054 American manufacturing companies from 2011 to 2013. This connection between good working capital management and how well a company does can be complicated.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Silent Killer #5: Suppressing Innovation. Thanks to the bureaucracy and lack of listening that exists in most companies today, we have created working environments that stifle the creativity, original thought, and innovation that make our human capital so valuable. The greatest enemy of innovation is modern management.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 19, 2013

At the end of 2002 he started his own innovation organization to spread, train and facilitate the FORTH innovation […]. Bob''s blog entries Albert Einstein and ECCI XII (Faro (2011).

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Contemporary information systems are blind to many of the key drivers of productivity and have consistently failed in their quest to integrate the diverse operations of a company. But a new generation of coordination tools is available, and the innovators of the world are using them. About the Author. Book value is not guaranteed.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Under pressure from activists, H&M implemented two programs in 2013, encouraging its suppliers to voluntarily adopt them. The first program, a workplace dialogue initiative, aimed to promote worker awareness of their rights and provide formal channels of communication between management and labor representatives.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In Guy’s presentation, he spoke about the 11 steps organizations need to take to become more innovative, with the first step being that we ensure that whatever initiatives we take must create a sense of meaning and value. Guy Kawasaki and Tanveer Naseer – MHLC 2013 3. “It’s

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

What is your image of an inventor or innovator? Increasing evidence shows most innovation comes from two or more people…one of whom might even be a woman! We stereotype innovators as men and mainly in STEM* products. Fast-forward ~ Innovating Women launches today! Get Innovating Women.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Another example is Zach Freeman, a 2013 graduate of TCU’s Neeley Business School with degrees in supply chain management and entrepreneurial management, who founded Veterans Moving America, a “values-based company” that strictly hires American veterans to do residential moving work. Reinforce it Often.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

They prove that the most economically disadvantaged people on the planet create a great market for social entrepreneurs – AND provide a terrific testing ground for innovation and cost control. Where it replaces darkness, it creates four more productive hours per day. This can be part of your strategy. 656,952 tons of CO2 offset.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

By blindly creating and/or tolerating working conditions in which people do not and often cannot effectively listen to one another, we kill productivity and profitability. You just finished reading 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 3 of 7 ! Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 26, 2013

companies more than $31 billion each year in lost productive time. Overwhelm and the resignation and panic it generates are great wastes and very effective killers of productivity and profitability. Eliminate these modern wastes – silent killers of productivity and profitability – and transform your organization!

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 14, 2013

The core of the innovative service strategy must include rethinking the authority of the front line—the venue for in-the-moment inventiveness. Six sigma’s pursuit of eliminating variance has been a boon to productivity; but it is a bane to creating experiences that exceed customer expectations. He can be reached at www.chipbell.com.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 10, 2022

The researchers analyzed around 10,000 new novels that were launched in China between 2013 and 2015. The researchers tracked not only the popularity of each e-novel, both in terms of click-throughs and eventual purchases, but also the productivity of the author in terms of how often they updated their book series each month.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

MAY 29, 2013

Take a look at the new book by this author, Quiet Influence: The Introvert’s Guide to Making a Difference (Berrett-Koehler, April 2013); I find myself pumping my fist and saying “yes!” These scientists and engineers develop innovative products and breakthrough ideas. The atmosphere was so calm.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Historic innovation often comes during times of historic difficulty, as these breakdowns create the demand for something new to emerge. During this time, an engineer named Taiichi Ohno (known today as the father of Toyota) began the task of building a new capacity for Japanese industrial production. In the U.S.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 7, 2014

It showed that employees—both women and men—who felt included were more likely to report going above and beyond the call of duty and suggest new product ideas and ways of getting work done. In China, employee perceptions of inclusion accounted for 78% of innovation and 71% of team citizenship. Catalyst Take on Women Leaders in 2013.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 25, 2013

Here is the introduction to a “must read” article written by Dinah Eng for FORTUNE Magazine (April 11, 2013). In it, David Kelley explains how the company he founded, IDEO, brings design to corporate America. Today, David serves as chair of IDEO and is the Donald W. Whittier Professor at Stanford, where he has taught [.].

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 28, 2021

The huge e-commerce presence operated by Amazon required intensive server and processing capabilities, and it was this “inside-out innovation” that Amazon has largely deployed not just with AWS but with services like Marketplace and fulfillment, where a core capability developed before being offered commercially to others in the market.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

Famous research from Stanford’s Nicholas Bloom illustrates the difficulties we face in keeping the wheels of innovation turning. Bloom illustrates that while we’re spending more on research and innovation than ever before, we’re getting diminishing returns for that investment. Engines of creation.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

In other words, we’re paying people to think, to innovate, and to collaborate with others to produce the best possible results. They not only kill productivity and profitability, they also kill the generative moods of ambition, confidence, and trust that are essential to building consistent competitive advantage.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Others may say that a leader’s focus needs to be on how to motivate productivity. Scott Oldford – He is the founder of Limitless Business Group, a recipient of the 2013 American Express Innovator Award, and is widely respected for his leadership and business innovation acumen. I suppose it depends on whom you ask.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 7, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win Steven Gary Blank Your Survival Instinct Is Killing You: Retrain Your Brain to Conquer Fear, Make Better Decisions, and Thrive in the 21st [.].

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 21, 2022

While the flurry of stories on the topic seems to have accelerated in recent years, especially since Frey and Osborne’s notorious 2013 study of the topic, the evidence to date is that robots generally haven’t been “taking our jobs” at all.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 14, 2013

Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry David C. Robertson with Bill Breen Crown Business (2013) How and why the phoenix became the unofficial bird of the LEGO Group The family-owned LEGO Group is among several once great companies that deteriorated almost to the point of […].

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 22, 2021

On the other hand, businesses in the hospitality industry that are currently looking to sell may have products as their weakest component due to the current pandemic. If I had to pick the most common, however, they would be People or Products. That is why it is important to AIM: Always Innovate and Market.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Evangelist : Sparks imagination by telling a story, plants seeds for future products, conveys experiences and emotions. The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category. Jonathan’s network was more about innovation. The Visionary : Strategic, prophetic.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 26, 2013

Its diversified galaxy of brands for man and beast are iconic -- from chocolate favorites like M&M's and Snickers to Wrigley's Juicy Fruit and Lifesavers to pet-care products like Pedigree and Whiskas, as well as Uncle Ben's Converted Rice. Source: FORTUNE, February 4, 2013. ? roster of the 100 Best Companies to Work For.

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