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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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.

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Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Rather than attempting to replace people, our IT systems, processes, and products should be aimed at enabling the human cooperation, collaboration, and innovation that are essential to growing a business. But a new generation of coordination tools is available, and the innovators of the world are using them. About the Author.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 64

Change Starts Here

JULY 9, 2013

To prove they were in it for the long haul, the CEO employed a few tactics. Now in the middle of 2013, they are on track to beat this year’s goal to surpass 2012’s profits by 25%. They introduced many new value-added and innovative new products. By year-end, they had doubled it.

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Balanced Scorecard Workshop Supply Chain Objective 95

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.

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Six Sigma Productivity Products Chief Executive Officer 67

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.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Chief Executive Officer 72

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. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. You can’t achieve this level of performance if you attempt to dictate their every move with rigid policies and procedures. All rights reserved.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 8, 2014

Tactical: Moving the pieces to get where you want to go. A thought leader in her field, Ann has worked with many hundreds of organizations around the world of all sizes and industries, helping them increase their thinking agility to improve profitability, leadership, productivity, innovation and overall business results.

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Strategic Planning How To Planning Competitive Advantage 71

Center for Creative Leadership

APRIL 24, 2019

According to a study done by the Center for Talent Innovation in 2013, women in particular feel an intrinsic tension between being authentic and conforming to corporate cultural norms. Women in the study said that feedback about executive presence is often contradictory and difficult to act on.

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Charisma CFO CEO Execution 65

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

We can choose to look at failures, at least in our daily lives, as life practice, learning, a pilot project, as experimentation, or even a legitimate part of any innovation process. We look forward to answering your strategic planning and tactical business execution questions. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Agility Competitive Advantage Advice Learning-by-Doing 52

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 3, 2013

Welcome to the June 3rd, 2013 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Strategy and tactics are so often confused, this post and graphic simplifies it.hopefully!”. original in their ideas, their creative and innovative thoughts go beyond. You''ve heard of "speed dating"? 30 leadership bloggers in 90 minutes.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Lewin 249

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

AUGUST 20, 2014

If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management. How Google innovates. Bala Iyer and Tom Davenport attempted to “reverse engineer” Google’s innovation machine in 2008. The first step to innovating like Google, they argue, is patience.

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IPO Management Engineering Innovation 15

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 6, 2022

The study was linked to the health of the economy and took place in Greece during the two major economic recessions experienced in 2013/14 and 2018/19. The figure for 2013/14 was 5.7%, however, and lept to 7.1% less likely to be offered an interview than heterosexual men in 2006, but this jumping to 28% in 2013 and 30.4%

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Comparison Tactics Uncertainty Trends 130

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

In 2013, Management Research Group (MRG) completed a large scale global study addressing this question. Leadership included such practices as innovation, persuasion, communication, and results orientation, while measures of effectiveness included such characteristics as future potential, credibility, business aptitude, and people skills.

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Organization Development Tactics Strategic Planning 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Nor was Uber alone in realizing that expensive taxi medallions were unnecessary for prebooked trips — a tactic already used by other entrepreneurs in many cities. Uber publicists presented the company as the epitome of innovation, styling critics as incumbent puppets stuck in the past. Take the case of Napster.

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Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

A 2013 study published in the Journal of Leadership Studies finds that men and women see themselves as equal in relation to their political abilities. Specifically, research published in the British Journal of Management in 2013 finds that women view organizational politics as an expression of masculine culture.

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Politics Cooper Mentor Diversity 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

To remain innovative we need to have a workforce that mirrors the world we operate in. On the tactical front, we’ve found that our WFA policies have been enormously beneficial to our diverse recruitment efforts so we’re continuing to build on those results.

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Development Globalization Diversity Maturity 59

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In a 2013 Management Research Group survey , when executives were asked to select the leadership behaviors that were most critical to their organization’s future success, 97% of the time they chose being strategic. Every organization needs strategic thinkers. Don’t rely on your job applicant to tell you whether they are strategic.

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Strategic Planning Root Cause Analysis Tactics Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. billion in 2013, and operating profits increased 65% to $422 million. billion to $8.6

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Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

In health care, we thought, they could be a rapid, practical means for diverse professionals to share insights and tactics. As of July 2013, there were 50 private communities. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. Leading Health Care Innovation. Growing Participation.

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Globalization Health Care Information Technology Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Increasingly, the CIO and IT must be seen less as merely developing and deploying technology, and more as a source of innovation and transformation that delivers business value, leveraging technology instead of directly delivering it. To that end, the role of the CIO must be strategic instead of tactical. Define Your Strategy.

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CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

The tech sector, which has become as famous for toxic company cultures as for innovation, and as well-known for human resource headaches as for hoodie-wearing CEOs, could use a little of the mellowness and wisdom that comes with age. I also learned that my best tactic was to reconceive my bewilderment as curiosity, and give free rein to it.

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Industry Library Hotels Human Resources 15

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

We must be creative and innovative in our organizations but perhaps more importantly, in working on ourselves. It is structured so that you can thoughtfully and tactically look at each of these areas to see where you can better prepare yourself. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2013. A S LEADERS we must learn and grow.

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Books Wiseman Kotter Leadership 285

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Only a small percentage came up with anything that was truly innovative. This will lead to new business models, new processes, more meaningful business interactions, innovation, improved and faster decision making, and a more agile organization. What does it mean to view innovation as the only competitive advantage?

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CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

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. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. Leading Health Care Innovation. Britain’s Patient-Safety Crisis Holds Lessons for All.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Despite prominent calls to action, and despite digital’s ubiquity in the press and in many discussions of strategy and tactics across organizational functions, it appears that boards are still not seeing the value of digital. years in 2013 from 60.3 Can we use the possibilities of these new digital technologies to drive innovation?

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Business Model Technology Long-term Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Starting July 1st — the beginning of the company's fiscal year 2013 — the software giant will charge all of its 100-plus global offices and datacenters a fee for every ton of carbon they produce (mostly from plugging into the electric grid, so-called "indirect" emissions). But executives weren't charged real money.

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Price P&L White Paper Energy 13

Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2013

They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Change is innovative. Innovated It… and Teach You Why. Innovative Then and Now… Still Creating. Apply thinking processes to be truly innovative.

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Planning Learning Curve Budgeting Learning-by-Doing 65

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Resulting from inflexible conditions, obsolete policies-procedures, procrastination, attitude, resistance to innovation, failure to change. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. by Hank Moore. Doing Things as We Always Have.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 59

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

Founded in 1966, Norwegian quickly became an innovator in its field as the first company to offer round-trip cruises that nearly anybody could afford. An innovator? In early 2013, Norwegian went public and became one of the most successful IPOs of the year, closing the year 87% above its IPO price. Were we a price cutter?

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Company IPO Price Loyalty 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Lee’s essay “The Word that Shall Not Be Spoken” in the November 7, 2013 New England Journal of Medicine.). Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. Leading Health Care Innovation. Compliance rates may be said to “suffer,” but not patients. See Thomas H. Fix the Handful of U.S.

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Health Care Quality Constraint System 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

We may not be keeping pace with these pressures, but leading companies continue to evolve more sustainable strategies and tactics. This isn't just a wonky exercise: As PepsiCo exec Al Halvorsen told me, "the real reason you do an LCA is improve the business, to put more efficient processes in place, and innovate in the supply chain.".

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Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10