Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The objectives for this project include; Have Fun! Create-Learning Facilitators Arrive and set-up - Create-Learning trouble-shoots and ensures all audio / visual equipment is operational - Companies planning committee and Create-Learning meet to go over logistics i.e. lunch, breaks, safety, order of events, what if situations, etc….

Team Building 76

Team Building Process Transportation Follow-up 76

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Customer centricity as a strategy reorients the entire business-operating model around the customer; it means understanding the customer’s point of view and respecting the customer’s interest. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. However, employers can create an environment in which flexible work can be successful.

Organization 58

Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 58

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Yet, despite the negative connotations, most companies still operate bureaucratically – insisting employees work inside of increasingly complex structures with processes and procedures designed to standardize or control everything. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author. All rights reserved.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today, many high-profile companies— Cisco , Google , IBM , Samsung , Siemens , Disney , Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank , to name a few—contain such roving consulting groups to help solve the most critical strategy and operations problems throughout the business. This also forces us to deliver great quality on every project.

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

There is a lot at stake here for GE’s operations strategy. In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.” and compete successfully.

Ries 10

Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

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.

Leadership Development 8

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

But the development landscape is littered with projects that never got past the pilot stage. When the seed funding from philanthropies or governments runs out, if projects haven’t signed up enough paying users, there’s nothing to fuel growth. As simple as it sounds, development projects need revenue.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Project System 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 12

Brand Supply Chain Price Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

When a new project comes in, the manager does not devise a plan to complete it. billion in revenue in 2013. Operators set their work schedules and their vacations, design and monitor their own performance indicators, do their own maintenance, and are consulted on the choice of new machinery. Instead, she asks the team to do so.

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Team Scientific Management Taylorism Taylor 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Beginning in 2013, a handful of tech companies (including Yelp, where some of us work, Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook) began to research and release data on the diversity of their workforces. The numbers were grim. For instance, in 2014 only 10% of Yelp’s engineers were female. Yelp now sets explicit targets for diversity.

Diversity 8

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

Surgeons, anesthesia providers, nurses, technicians, and other providers in the perioperative unit were required to undergo training on the program. By the end of 2013, nurses reported over 20% of patient handoffs still had missing information. The Six Stages. The first stage was preparing. Next was the launching stage.

Long-term 8

Long-term Janis Quality Consensus 8

Chart Your Course

JUNE 10, 2013

Futren Corporation is a private-club management and operations company with around 200 employees, based in Marietta, Ga. The company manages Indian Hills Country Club and The Georgian Club in Marietta, and acquired Woodland Hills Golf Course in Cartersville in February 2013. Futren also provides some creative training.

Strategy 133

Strategy White Paper Human Resources Case Study 133

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. Capitalize on success.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Chart Your Course

JUNE 10, 2013

Futren Corporation is a private-club management and operations company with around 200 employees, based in Marietta, Ga. The company manages Indian Hills Country Club and The Georgian Club in Marietta, and acquired Woodland Hills Golf Course in Cartersville in February 2013. Futren also provides some creative training.

White Paper 100

White Paper Case Study Class Newsletter 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

“A good manager trains and delegates,” says Dillon, and you can’t do that if you’re taking on everything—regardless of how important the task is—yourself. “Do a test run on a project that is a bit less urgent and give your team full accountability and see how it goes,” Chatman says.

Micromanagement 8

Micromanagement Team How To Project 8

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

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. billion in mining projects since 2010. ” Improving risk management. Fostering innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

These include improving data-mining operations, helping with training, and making structured, repeatable tasks and processes far more efficient and less costly. From just a few thousand queries a month in 2013, ABIe now handles 100,000 — from all of the company’s employees, and not just from agents.

Company 8

Company Insurance Call Center Bottom-up 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Another energy industry client operated coal mines. The program, approved by the judge, consisted of TV and newspaper apology statements, plus the assurance that safety-environmental training would be provided to employees. Secondly, we initiated safety training that expanded to help home owners avoid accidents.

Crisis Management 80

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 80

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

In 2013, my partners and I conducted a combination of surveys and interviews with over 270 female managers in Fortune 500 organizations to determine what they liked and disliked about business meetings, and one of the things that repeatedly fell into the dislike column was politics. Need more evidence?

Politics 8

Politics 360-Degree Feedback Skills Seminar 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Predictions are that 2013 will be even more active as companies that have stockpiled cash look to invest in new growth opportunities. The real issue was the extent to which the management team was willing to devote time and resources for training, documentation, communication, and all the other aspects of a major change effort.

Compliance 8

Compliance Resources Consultative Document 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

” In order to chart the best way forward, you must understand emerging trends: what they are, what they aren’t, and how they operate. HR managers can use bots to train employees. In 2013, technical glitches caused a three-hour stop at the Nasdaq. Sidechains allow for easier authentication.

Trends 8

Trends Film Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Part of its success is that the company supports a collaborative work environment and boasts transparent operations from the top down. But a few years ago, delays in signing new hires were impairing its expansion; in 2013, the average time to hire was 100 days.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Wireless Technology 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

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

One 2013 study illustrates this well. Looking at all these processes together, it’s clear that culture is the operating system of an organization. For example, one study of bank branch managers showed that offering high-ToMo leadership training led to a 20% increase in credit card sales and a 47% increase in personal loan sales.

Motivation 8

Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Oil and Gas subsea operators across the world are adopting a GE Industrial Internet technology developed in Norway. ” Another benefit is that the sensors are located at a distance and are detached from the monitored equipment so do not interfere with on-going operations or processes. Sponsor Content Insight from GE.

Industry 8

Industry Offshoring Engineering Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Project Apollo Archive/NASA Johnson Space Center/Flickr. It offers an example of what we call “strategic agility,” or the ability to effectively (and continually) adapt how a firm operates and competes. 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. Health Operations'

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

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Public relations and communications professionals—and the academic programs that train them—find themselves operating in a radically new environment. A few organizations in the PR industry have overtly sold their ability to “create and fix Wikipedia pages” in ways that violate the very spirit and purpose of the Wikipedia project.

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PR Public Relations Conflict of Interest Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

The politics of office life seldom fail to flummox and frustrate the top female executives my partners and I coach and train. In 2013, we conducted a number of interviews and surveyed 270 female managers in Fortune 500 organizations to determine what they liked and disliked about business meetings. Make politics less personal.

Politics 8

Politics Strategy 360-Degree Feedback Mentor 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Because if the repair shop had bothered to train and trust the mechanic on more than just technical skills—e.g., As a result, Fitbit held 68 percent market share through 2013 versus 19 percent for Jawbone and just 10 percent for Nike. But it’s never the nincompoop, it’s always the Nincompoopery.

How To 76

How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Between 1993-2013, the value of U.S. The number one aim should be to get people back into jobs, not just into training programs. Until recently, the federal government spent about $18 billion a year on 47 separate training programs, run by 9 different federal agencies. What about the decline in U.S. manufacturing?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Politics Policies Globalization 8