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The W. Edwards Deming Institute 2016 Fall Conference, Sep 16-18

Deming Institute

Clifford L. Edwards Deming Institute 2015 Fall Conference, Sep 18-20 – The Neuroscience of Deming (2012 conference presentation) – Employee Involvement at Western Mountaineering (2013 conference presentation) – Deming’s Stage 0: By What Method? Tim Higgins, NASA System & Mission Assurance Specialist.

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How Big Data Brings Marketing and Finance Together

Harvard Business Review

When Raja Rajamannar became CMO of MasterCard Worldwide in 2013, he moved quickly to transform how the credit card giant measures marketing. As an ingredient brand, Intel often struggled to link marketing to P&L impact. His artillery: Advanced Big Data analytics. MasterCard had always been a data-driven organization.

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The Three Decisions You Need to Own

Harvard Business Review

People and Organization : In late 2010, GE CEO Jeff Immelt decided to give country managers P&L responsibility for all of GE in their countries and have them report to vice chairman John Rice, who would be stationed in Hong Kong. How P&G Presents Data to Decision Makers. Don’t Make Decisions, Orchestrate Them.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. Says Abi Comber, Head of Marketing for British Airways: “Having P&L responsibility is incredibly powerful.

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Successfully Integrate Your Work, Life, Self, and Community

Harvard Business Review

David is a VP accountable for a multibillion-dollar P&L. Adapted from "Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life" (HBR April 2008) and content posted on hbr.org on February 21, 2013. His name and title are disguised.) Interested in identifying your own misalignments and structuring experiments to improve them? Let''s get started.

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Microsoft Taxes Itself

Harvard Business Review

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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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

In a departure from GE’s traditional control systems, the Center was not set up as its own business unit with its own P&L, but rather was funded by a $1 billion investment by Jeff Immelt and became part of GE Global Research. The next question was where to establish the software center.