Chart Your Course

APRIL 29, 2013

Effective June 2013, all employees were required to work in the office. Innovation has always been what makes good businesses great. And innovation does not happen without change and risk. Your business is adding a new time-management system, which requires employees to log their hours on specific projects.

White Paper 231

White Paper Human Resources Consensus Case Study 231

HR Digest

AUGUST 2, 2020

Women gaining more power to lead, green-light projects, and innovate does not come at the expense of men. They say, what women entrepreneurs lack is formal training in leadership. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg hit the bestseller list with this book in 2013. In fact, women at the table make more successful businesses.

Books 105

Books Entrepreneur Leadership Advice 105

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

The Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches ‘pay it forward’ project is officially in full swing, and I am excited to announce the next cohort of coaches who will join me in Phoenix in June! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching Human Resources Magazine CEO 70

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Innovation begins with management; by fostering a culture that prioritizes innovation, creativity is incentivized among team members. Customer centricity: It’s been proven that companies that prioritize their customers see greater business results and continually bring more innovative products to the market. About the Author.

Organization 58

Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 58

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Don’t focus on task or project completion. Rather, think what will happen AFTER the project is completed. Great leaders train WITH their people, continuously. If training is to have a lasting value, it must have leadership support AND participation. Leaders must train to be better leaders. Outcome, not task.

360-Degree Feedback 75

360-Degree Feedback Leadership Open-book Customer Loyalty 75

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Too many organizations today have created and tolerated a range of practices in which creativity, innovation, and the fundamental expressions of our thoughts and feelings about our work and our futures are ignored or spurned. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. This lack of listening is a tremendous source of waste.

Six Sigma 66

Six Sigma Productivity Products Chief Executive Officer 66

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The objectives for this project include; Have Fun! In these teams they will accomplish the following goal; Imagine 3 years in future September 28, 2013…Describe with vivid detail what your team would like the company to be like. People will be asked to join into teams of no greater than 6 (need to discuss teams).

Team Building 76

Team Building Process Transportation Follow-up 76

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2013

words for 2013 – I hope they inspire you to think about and select yours: 1. One innovation helping me significantly is Dragon Dictate for Mac. I have more projects and opportunities than I can say grace over. In my experience, there are very few things more frustrating than the mental nag of a project undone.

Seminar 50

Seminar Open-book Customer Loyalty Books 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

While this might have been the most efficient way to train assembly line workers during the Industrial Era, human capital is now the greatest resource for most companies. In other words, we’re paying people to think, to innovate, and to collaborate with others to produce the best possible results. About the Author.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

But what if these social media projects were only scratching the surface of social media’s business value? In 2013, there was already executive commitment and discussion around turning internal social media projects into strategic imperatives owned by lines of business.

Media 12

Media ROI Corporate Accountability Guidelines 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

In its “State of Human Capital” report , McKinsey found that people in HR still largely have “a support-function mindset, a low tolerance for risk, and a limited sense of strategic ‘authorship’” — all of which has led to “low status among executive peers, no budget for innovation, and a ‘zero-defects’ mentality.”. labor force by 2025.

Human Capital 14

Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 14

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.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. Underlying this notion was the lack of tangible results that could be attributed to management training. One experiment generated a 2.6%

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

A recent headline, “JCPenney Releases 2013 Sustainability Report,” reads like the punch line to a bad joke. One that is exemplified by efforts like GE’s Ecomagination project, which involves developing alternative-fuel engines and other products that address today’s environmental crisis and drive economic growth.

Brand 11

Brand Supply Chain Price Operations 11

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 18, 2013

All of Banner’s C-suite leaders served on the leadership team for the G&A project. During an intensive 8-week pilot, each team was trained and then it analyzed the cost structure of one function and recommended cost reduction tactics. It applied the same ground rules and again cross-functional teams were created.

Cost 8

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

APRIL 9, 2013

Their reality was the noise and the myriad annoyances that go with crowds of people jostling to get to trains. Others see it as a giant economic engine spitting out startup after startup to capitalize on the region''s wealth of innovations. A few stopped in their tracks and listened in awe.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. The societal factors that have made America strong in the past continue today: its diversity, thirst for innovation, entrepreneurship, and institutional support for risk taking. But here it is midyear and the signals are decidedly more positive.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

With every project, they are spreading the word through their networks, and the connection to #GivingTuesday becomes more valuable. Everyone connected with #GivingTuesday is happy to see excitement growing as our next big day –December 3, 2013 – grows near. Encourage innovations on the theme.

Decentralization 9

Decentralization Media Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

In response, our team at the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard launched an online platform to generate and disseminate knowledge in health care delivery. As of July 2013, there were 50 private communities. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. Leading Health Care Innovation.

Globalization 8

Globalization Health Care Information Technology Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. ” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology. Don’t keep relying on the same old social media platforms.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 16, 2019

One of the pioneers of challenge-based innovation has been the XPRIZE, and I wrote recently about the growing number of student teams that are participating in competitions. “We want to make it approachable for any organization, including smaller challenges and projects that incorporate a variety of approaches.”

Education 59

Education Software Skills Engineering 59

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In this excerpt from their book, Agile Talent , Younger and Smallwood explain how to align your organization with the needs and expectations of a workforce that is increasingly external, project-based, and flexible. Studies of the global agile-talent community vary in their estimates of the size of the population. Clash of expectations.

Agility 8

Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs 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. Their innovative system has increased productivity and quality, reduced environmental impact and costs, and increased global competitiveness.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

It shouldn’t happen, but it does: You realize much too late that your innovation project is in deep trouble. How did someone with your knowledge and training miss the signs of impending disaster? van Wassenhove, both of Insead in France, found that the complexity of high-tech innovation efforts can blur teams’ perceptions.

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

You’ll get invaluable training, improve your business judgment, and build your confidence. “Succession between generations is a very risky project,” says Fernández-Aráoz, which is why it’s critical to talk early and openly about rules for advancement and what handing off power might look like.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing Career 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

One of the biggest challenges in health care is how to provide innovative, high technology specialty care while reining in costs at the same time. To date, these innovations have saved an estimated $4 million in annual medical expenses while decisively improving quality. But it needn’t always be. Here’s how we did it.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Proposal Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Hiring managers often view newcomers to their organizations as not only long-term assets but also short-term burdens: people who need to be inducted, trained, and given lighter loads as they get up to speed, inevitably slowing everyone else down. Accelerating innovation. But that doesn’t have to be the case.

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Team Learning Curve Long-term Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Project Apollo Archive/NASA Johnson Space Center/Flickr. Though many would call that decade NASA’s golden age, we’d argue that NASA’s innovation and influence is even greater today. The transitional model (from 1993 – 2006): This phase kicked off with the International Space Station project.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

For example, its accountable-care-organization partnership with Bellin Health, a health care system in Green Bay, Wisconsin, presently has the lowest cost per Medicare beneficiary among 32 pioneer ACOs, and the ThedaCare Physicians group was ranked first in quality performance statewide in 2013 by Consumer Reports. Fully use the talent.

Health Care 8

Health Care Quality Decentralization Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

Kickstarter is one of a growing number of crowdfunding platforms for gathering money from the public to fund all sorts of projects. IBM saw these online social systems for investing in new ventures and decided they would like to develop a similar system internally for selecting innovative projects.

Software 8

Software CIO Early Adopters Project 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

More importantly, he offers concrete examples of how any organization—large or small, and regardless of industry—can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent. Because if the repair shop had bothered to train and trust the mechanic on more than just technical skills—e.g., No wonder we have skills shortages!

How To 76

How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

But this is not terribly surprising, given that most of us are trained in school systems that prize individual achievement and discourage, even penalize, collaboration. Traditional schooling frequently fails to prepare students to think critically, innovate, and be creative. Collaboration is not the only skill schools fall short on.

Education 9

Education Incentives Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Between 1993-2013, the value of U.S. Most economists believe that technology, innovation, and consumer tastes are more significant sources of change than is trade. The number one aim should be to get people back into jobs, not just into training programs. also needs education and skills training recognized through certification.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Politics Policies Globalization 8