Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2015

I would need a unity strategy, so I looked at some Military Strategies: Counter-offensive: the term used by the military to describe large-scale, usually strategic offensive operations by forces that had successfully halted the enemy’s offensive, while occupying defensive positions. Visit the entire article here.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2015

In our organizations, it’s those parts (“there are no small parts, just small actors”) that may operate separately at times but in large come together for a great performance that wows our audience, our customers … and sometimes even ourselves. Don’t wait for 2016 to start.

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Joseph Lalonde

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Astronaut John Glenn passed away on December 8th, 2016. Which later became the John Glenn College of Public Affairs in 2015. To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate. Yesterday, we lost an American hero. Yet his contributions went beyond serving.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

For example, we’re continuing to expand education and training access to help employees at their individual point of need through programs like Hamburger University and Archways to Opportunity, which has served nearly 75,000 restaurant employees since launching in 2015.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 9, 2018

Perhaps most interestingly is the fact that – as was the case for the my top leadership insight in 2016 – the top leadership insight I shared last year came from a piece that revolved around a personal story of mine and the lessons I learned of how to be more effective in how to lead and serve those under our care. “The

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Women on Business

APRIL 17, 2012

A vote to introduce quotas securing at least 30% of boardroom places for women by 2015 has gone through, and that rises to 40% by 2020. Countries are already adopting their own laws – France, for example, has moved to give women 20% of places in the board room, and 40% in six years, while the Netherlands has made it 30% by 2016.

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HR Digest

JULY 22, 2019

Robotic loaders and remotely-controlled trucks are significantly reducing operational costs in the mining sector. Mining companies are increasingly moving to the latest automation technology to modernize their operations. Automation in mining also handles increasing safety challenges associated with conventional operations.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

First in December 2016 in Phoenix where they learned from Alan Mulally as well as me. Alexander Osterwalder – Thinkers 50 #1 Strategy Thinker 2015-17, million-selling author Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design , inventor Business Model Canvas. Doug Winnie – ActionCOACH #1 small business coach 2016.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Keep your perspective : The chances are that if you’re reading this, you’re probably not doing so from a forward operating base in Afghanistan or some other god-forsaken place. This is my last post for 2015. See you back here in 2016. The choice seems kind of obvious when you frame it that way.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2016

in 2015, according to the Kauffman Index. That’s why it makes sense to divide operational areas up and assign ultimate authority of each to one person. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. More than six million new businesses launched in the U.S. There’s no one else who can resolve an impasse.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 13, 2015

It’s nearly 2016 and that could mean a new start for your company. They’ll keep a check on your computer systems and ensure everything operates smoothly. But if the server breaks, then you will almost certainly run into issues operating your business. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. Look at Volkswagen in 2015. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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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. My 2016 trends offer early warnings and opportunities for managers in all industries. Here are eight to note for 2016. Expect to hear more about “glitches” in 2016.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

In September 2016 we undertook a survey of nearly 300 endowment and foundation managers. Consequently, giant funds are often hamstrung by proportionally tiny operating budgets, which have historically forced them into the all-too-happy hands of intermediaries. But right now that’s not happening.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

The next step in the process was to engage a representative group of district stakeholders, the School Improvement Advisory Committee (SIAC) in answering the following questions over the course of two meetings: Meeting One: How might a public school monitor excellence in educational and operational service? 2016, March 17).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2018

I believe the smartest choice — one that will help them compete against online retailers like Amazon — is to create a better experience for customers and to achieve operational excellence in stores. There were 662 bankruptcy filings in retail, according to bankruptcydata.com, up 30% from 2016.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

In 2015, around 40% of new PV installations were accompanied by a battery. In 2016, renewable, intermittent energy sources contributed more than 30% to gross electricity generation. In 2016, China installed 34 gigawatts (GW) of PV-panel-driven renewable power capacity. GW of new installations in 2016.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. PM Images/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

These have forced AirBnB, Tesla, and Uber to make costly concessions to their operating practices or to exit certain markets altogether. The petition was seen as instrumental in getting the city council to adopt new regulations which permitted Uber to operate legally. How can new firms overcome the regulations that protect incumbents?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

Almost 400,000 Uber drivers in California and Massachusetts reached a $100 million settlement with the company in 2016 (a settlement that was later thrown out by a federal court as insufficient in the compensation it provided the claimants). Hence the issuing of our now-retracted guidance in 2015. of employment in 2005 to 9.6%

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. Just over one-fifth (22%) of boards operating in the IT and telecom industry sought tech expertise when filling their most recent board seat, higher than in any other industry.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

For example, at the end of its 2015 fiscal year, Apple’s balance sheet stated tangible assets of $290 billion as a contribution to its annual revenues, with approximately $141 billion worth of intangible assets — a combination of intellectual capital, brand equity, and (investor and consumer) goodwill.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

percent between the first quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016. percent of retail sales in the first quarter of 2016. percent of retail sales shifted from offline to online between the beginning of 2015 and 2016. Many firms operating brick and mortar stores are in trouble. Looking only at that 15.2

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

Finally, in 2016, it took a new tack. They had to work in sequence, meaning they had to streamline the operation first — before they could launch their new growth effort. The underlying trouble had been McDonald’s working from an inside-out perspective: what fit with its current infrastructure and operations.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

While SSA was predicted to grow above 5% year-over-year in 2015 at the beginning of the year, actual GDP growth is more likely to come in at around 3–4% year-over-year. Growth in 2016 is unlikely to be much higher.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

But they continue to operate and communicate with other systems until information technology teams shut them down and correct the malfunction. In 2015 Chrysler announced a recall for 1.4 Such practices need to become standard operating procedure across all industries. Secure-by-Design.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

Organizations can now engage with customers and employees like never before, and the virtual environment holds the potential to drive operational efficiencies, save time and money, and open the exploration of new commercial avenues. November 2016). This age is ripe with opportunity. In the industrial age, value came from machines.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Home Run Media, a media agency that helped its clients plan and carry out their marketing strategies, had been operating for more than a decade when a key client in the fantasy sports industry began to grow rapidly, thanks in part to Home Run’s work and to a healthy dose of venture capital that was fueling its growth.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

She distilled the notes about her many accomplishments into an overview of the 10 years in her current role: Keep University’s School of Design (eight graduate programs) running flawlessly for Director, other staff, faculty, and students — during routine operations and emergencies. Equally adept at managing people and operations.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs. To that end, they decided to have a team study how care is delivered, identify the barriers to smooth operations, and fix the barriers. It was fully integrated into emergency room operations at St.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Generate high-quality imaging, laboratory, and operational data. billion people worldwide will use mobile health apps, according to a Deloitte report, 2016 Global Health Care Outlook: Battling Costs While Improving Care. Four Steps for Digitalizing Healthcare. By 2018, as many as 1.7

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2016

In medicine we’ve long operated under the mantra “doctor knows best.” In fiscal year 2015, UUHC supported 10 physician-driven initiatives to improve customer service and care. And in 2015, we were judged the safest university hospital in the country. Payments to physicians rose 42% from 2011 to 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

So, in August 2015 we secured board approval to create an innovation committee of 14 top executives and a full-time innovation strategy team of five people, to orchestrate the portfolio of specific initiatives that would create a new way of innovating throughout the company. Building an agile network. More than 600 were selected.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier. Software development, operations, and support have to be provided for both offerings, and because they differ from one another considerably, economies of scale cannot be reached in the way possible with just one business model.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Last year during Climate Week, my company took the opportunity to publicly announce a commitment to increase the energy efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of our operations and product portfolio. In Year One, we have avoided 1.5 It starts with leadership support. We will convene third parties and industry players.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Take, for example, the July 2015 announcement by Medicare to launch a mandatory bundled payment program (Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model) in 75 geographic regions by January 1, 2016. It may be surprising that in the middle of the second decade of the 21st century, the U.S. But that is the hard truth.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

By the time of the Paris climate meeting in 2015, which resulted in the more robust global agreement now supported by every country in the world except the United States, it was clear that we needed to consider a more ambitious target, 1.5°C Set science-based carbon reduction targets for operations. °C (3.8°F)

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