Mills Scofield

JUNE 1, 2015

When I think about my time at Brown, I think about one of my housemates working on a computer science project, describing the mystery of the deep web and the power of torrent — and blowing my mind in the process. Or when yet another sat down next to me and asked me to define religion, prompted by a class project on religious law.

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Kaplan Wilde Learning-by-Doing Class 70

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. Concerns for legacy systems and the defense of historical practices must not be allowed to limit the capacity for people to work together effectively.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 64

Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

The employee was forbidden to work on the project. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs. Put in place systems, resources, and organizational designs that allow for large-scale experimentation. It was immediately launched. Any of these questions can go wrong.

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Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 95

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

This gives you enough money to fund you pet projects or cut costs without any effort when you are forced to do so. Blame the market, other departments or poor IT-systems for the fact that you are not taking brave, independent action. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Inflate budgets. Never take the blame.

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Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 60

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

This year, 2013, marks the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve System, and central bankers are taking a historical perspective. Unregulated and a relatively new innovation, trusts were the ‘ toxic assets ‘ of the 1907 crises. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. earlier this month.

Banking 50

Banking Crisis Morale System 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 26, 2013

When leaders are willing to make the shift away from bureaucratic work styles and structures, develop listening as a key management competence, generate cultures that welcome innovation, and build systems and processes that support this new way of working, their people will once again experience meaning and purpose in their working lives.

Productivity 72

Productivity Products Six Sigma Chief Executive Officer 72

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. Ohno was then a student of Henry Ford’s industrial process designs and innovations, but these would no longer work given the circumstances in post-war Japan. Suppressing Innovation.

Ohno 50

Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

It had been published in the journal of the Society for Health Systems (an organization I am active with today, including running the Red Bead Experiment at their 2016 conference). Too many healthcare workers don’t understand the system or value stream that they are a part of.

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Deming Kaizen System Quality 28

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. Current hierarchically oriented systems – no matter how lean and ‘matrixed’ – are relics of the bygone era of WWII industrialization and manufacturing. About the Author.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 3, 2013

Welcome to the June 3rd, 2013 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! When the senior executives are not leading improvement of the management system they inevitably undermine the efforts of others because they don''t understand the impact of their actions.”. You''ve heard of "speed dating"? Dana Theus from InPower Women.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Lewin 249

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency overseeing the technically troubled Affordable Care Act exchanges , has done a far better job concealing the details of its systems design, development, and deployment practices than producing working websites. That’s what serious systems developers do. Look deeper.

Software 8

Software System Project Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

They knew the answer was not by relying on traditional internal processes and practices for R&D and innovation. IBM, a company with a long and successful tradition of internally-focused R&D activities, is adapting to this new world of creating platforms and enabling open innovation. So how does it work?

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Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

But there is another, equally compelling reason why unicorns are dying: failure to innovate when competitors catch up. But now we’re seeing that in the face of strong competition, some of these very same unicorns are struggling not only to keep up, but to keep innovating beyond their first breakthrough.

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IPO Innovation Price Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Here’s what we’ve learned from three pioneering companies about how to identify, grow and retain leaders to meet today’s demands: Identify: Let them innovate. Both seek to create an environment where employees can pursue innovative business offerings to address problems that are personally meaningful.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Create and improve systems to manage staff’s and students’ needs — schedules, records, facilities, personnel, and budgets. Initiate whatever needed to ensure projects’ success. Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

Google has never been afraid to branch out beyond its core business; it expanded beyond search into email, chat, mobile operating systems, and more. It is one of the first products to launch out of Google X, the company’s research lab that aspires to “moonshot” innovations, and which is also developing a self-driving car.

Strategy 10

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

A 2013 article in The Ochsner Journal, titled “Just Culture: A Foundation for Balanced Accountability and Patient Safety,” concluded that “a fair and just culture improves patient safety by empowering employees to proactively monitor the workplace and participate in safety efforts in the work environment.”

Health Care 11

Health Care Quality Report Environment 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

an RFID system) and a multidiscipline team of clinicians and people from other fields can play in improving the quality and cost of care delivery processes and the steps that can ease the way to applying such an approach. The project was launched in 2013, and the RFID system was rolled out in stages starting in the summer of 2015.

Technology 8

Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Here’s how Banner Health, one of the nation’s largest health systems, did it. Similar to health systems across the country, during the financial crisis Banner experienced substantial declines in patient volume and reductions in reimbursements amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Earlier this week, China's National Energy Administration announced its intention to add 10 gigawatts of solar power capacity in 2013 , more than twice its current level. China has also begun offering subsidies for rooftop solar projects. China is projected to spend $113 billion per year on trains and railway infrastructure.

Industry 8

Industry Real Estate Telecommunications Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. Since achieving first-year sales of $175,000 in 2006, it has increased that number by four orders of magnitude: in 2013, Etsy sold $1.35 cut of sales.

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Disruptive Innovation Supply Chain Technology Parcell 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

health care system in ways big and small that would either build on or radically revamp the Affordable Care Act (ACA). These interventions are beneficial because they eliminate mostly waste in the system, avoiding the hard trade-offs among cost, quality, and access to care. All will claim to reduce costs and improve quality.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Left to voluntary action, system-wide reforms, such as the adoption of health information technology and new provider payment practices that lower costs and increase quality of care, will proceed with glacial slowness. These innovations include bundled payments and accountable care organizations. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Insurance Goal Health Care Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Steel did in an earlier era of manufacturing, Aquion and innovative firms like it are spearheading economic and employment growth across the country. 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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Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

However, in recent years a parallel explosion of digital tools and services has taken place in the manufacturing realm as well, drawing in computer-assisted design and 3D printing equipment to open-source operating systems, the cloud, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Second, a number of important inputs have gotten cheaper.

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Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Others see it as a giant economic engine spitting out startup after startup to capitalize on the region''s wealth of innovations. If there is one thing people in general here have learned from technologists, it is that things are hack-able — that the way we''ve designed various systems is not pre-ordained or immutable.

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Venture Capitalist Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

My colleague Andy Hargadon noted this when he did an ethnography of the renowned innovation firm IDEO in the 1990s. As an organization or project grows, and as its challenges change, it not only needs to recognize new priorities, it needs to delete or deemphasize old ones. Sales doubled in 2013.

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Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

Collectively, the UN projects, the less developed regions of the world “will grow 58% over 50 years, as opposed to 2% for more developed regions. Nigeria, in particular (with a population projected to exceed that of the USA by 2050 ), will increase its workforce threefold in the next 50 years.

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GDP Education Finance Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. But still sitting on the sidelines?

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

But with robust growth rates and economies unburdened by legacy structures of the last century, Africans can innovate beyond what others are doing. The African Development Bank (AfDB) is the most visible organization tasked with shepherding that inclusive innovative growth. Innovating away from past exclusion.

Banking 8

Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

China leads the world in population, and probably in sheer numbers of entrepreneurs as well, but does it lead the world in innovative dreams? Dreams power innovation, and innovation is key to all of our futures, but who’s dreaming on China’s behalf? So, where are those innovation dreams coming from, and what are they like?

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Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. Sure, it must always consider whether to adjust that strategy in the face of new competition, changing customer demand, technological innovation or all three. By mid-2013, the company was chugging along at a $200 million annual revenue rate.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation. The system also improves product quality by creating regulated growing conditions. Flyknit reduces waste by 80% compared with regular cut and sew footwear.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

Sometimes, they also hope to develop a content management system that other publishers can license and use to distribute their content. One reason Kickstarter outstripped its competitors was its well-curated selection of genuinely cool projects. So perhaps it was inevitable that, in 2014, Kickstarter quietly softened its guidelines.

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Business Model Content Incentives Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Policy signals from California, the world's 9th largest economy, are clearing a path for energy innovation. Cap and trade is projected to achieve nearly 20% of that goal by limiting emissions from the industrial, utility, and transportation fuels sectors — which account for roughly 85% of the state's greenhouse gas pollution.

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Price Energy Transportation Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

The existence of this parallel economy is a substantial drag on the Indian economy: According to recently released data , only about 1% of Indians paid taxes on their earnings in 2013. Innovation and Creativity Emerged Around Digital Payments. Here, the government’s innovative capacity shone through.

Banking 10

Banking GDP Policies Real Estate 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

Therefore, no managers should view digital — or any other major technological innovation — as their sure salvation. It requires foundational investments in skills, projects, infrastructure, and, often, in cleaning up IT systems. It is multi-faceted and diffuse, and doesn’t just involve technology.

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Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8