Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Are operational definitions the same across different data sources? When this happens, we can’t trust the measurements; cooperation and trust between individuals and departments decreases; definitions change; and opposition to change increases. We have the opportunity to learn through the testing of new and expanded theories.

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Deming System Cooper Analysis 28

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

Definitions of these three terms will help to differentiate their intended objectives: Collaborations - Parties willingly cooperating together. The client is opening new locations in new communities and asks its consultants to formulate a plan of action and oversee operating aspects. Professional societies and associations.

Cooper 50

Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2015

Many people used to do the same thing with the word ‘technology,’ using it far from its reasonable definitions. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The word had lost its power and came across as a fill-in-the-blank substitution for a more appropriate though. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Strategic Planning Budgeting Risk Management 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 24, 2015

We all operate out of unique, internal systems comprised of mental models (rules, beliefs, history etc.) Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The problem isn’t the value of information or the eagerness of the learner: It’s a problem with both the training model itself and the way learners learn. How We Learn.

Training 50

Training Resistance Learning-by-Doing System 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2015

We all operate out of unique, internal systems comprised of mental models (rules, beliefs, history etc.) Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The problem isn't the value of information or the eagerness of the learner: It's a problem with both the training model itself and the way learners learn. How We Learn.

Training 50

Training Resistance Learning-by-Doing System 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

Department of Labor retracted a guidance document regarding the definition of employees versus independent contractors that had been issued under my watch (you can find a copy here , however). The definition of who is an employee varies between federal and state laws, which admittedly raises complexities for employers and workers alike.

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Document Insurance Construction Cooper 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Definitions for what constitutes EvD, and methodologies to calculate its value, remain in their infancy. Using the same formula, Apple’s intangible assets in 2014 were $280 billion — or almost twice the value of its 2015 calculation.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Intellectual Capital Corporate Accountability Activity Based Costing 8

Deming Institute

APRIL 14, 2016

The theory of knowledge helps us recognize that someone decides what data to collect and what operational definitions to use. In April 2015, she and Suzanne Anthony published “When Measurement Becomes the Mission, Don’t Trust the Measurement” in The Journal for Quality & Participation.

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System Education Comparison Influence 28

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2018

magazine as the founders of the fastest-growing startups in 2015, the average age at founding was only 29. We cannot definitively answer this question with the data at our disposal, but we believe that two mechanisms could be at play. For the people selected by Inc. ” But is this view correct?

Succession 15

Succession IPO Entrepreneur Biotechnology 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

For most of 2015, I was the director of Rhode Island’s SBM, known as HealthSource RI, which more than 32,000 Rhode Islanders use to purchase health insurance. By January 1, 2015, all state-based marketplaces were expected to replace federal funding with state-level financing. Financial challenges. Technological challenges.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

The common definition of labor efficiency is: “the number of labor hours required to accomplish a given task, when compared with the standard in that industry or setting.” At first glance, the definition of productivity appears remarkably similar. Let me explain.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Productivity Products Company 8

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

That’s definitely a reward, but the most rewarding for me has to be the fact that I have the ability to truly impact others’ lives in a positive way. Question : What will 2015 bring for CED and its passionate fan base? Jake adds that the best thing to debut in 2015 will be CED''s custom shirt line.

Entrepreneur 73

Entrepreneur Advice Apparel Audience 73

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

What links the world together has changed fundamentally — and for many companies, succeeding in this new operating environment will require rethinking many past decisions and assumptions. Corporations generate a large share of internet traffic through private networks used to share information and manage their international operations.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

Consider the recent article, “ Why Strategy Execution Unravels — and What to Do About It “ by Donald Sull, Rebecca Homkes, and Charles Sull, in the March 2015 issue of HBR. That’s because execution actually is strategy – trying to separate the two only leads to confusion. Emphasis added].

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Execution Strategy Sull Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2015

That’s the definition of a potent business opportunity, and a powerful incentive for both parties to direct resources to fulfill that need before some clever third party, say an aggregator or data crawler, steps in. Competitive strategy Business models Social platforms Human resources'

Business Model 8

Business Model Advertising Human Resources Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Tapping into this talent has implications for HR management, calling for new approaches to screening talent, including sourcing, selection, and role definition. A 2015 study that we conducted with the U.S. Sourcing for Commitment. Year Up, a large source of opportunity-youth trainees in the U.S., Defining Strategic Roles.

Organization 8

Organization Chief Operating Officer Education Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

A new study from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that, according to the 2015 US government’s definition of disability , a significant portion of the white-collar workforce has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity: 30% of a nationally representative survey of 3,570 white-collar employees.

Compliance 8

Compliance Chief Operating Officer Innovation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), late 2015 was the most difficult hiring period in four years. Part of its success is that the company supports a collaborative work environment and boasts transparent operations from the top down. ” message and think, Hey, maybe it’s time for a change.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Heading into 2015, a number of trends are apparent in the accelerator space. In determining who qualified for the rankings, we considered all programs that met the formal definition of an accelerator program: fixed-term, cohort-based, with educational and mentorship components, culminating in a public pitch or demo day.

Finance 8

Finance Entrepreneur Survey Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010. Harnessing Big Potential While Minimizing Risk.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

2015, our very time is divided according to the number of years since he lived. And you know, I can only find one definitive statement about leadership that he said. Ben: Yeah, definitely. A couple of weeks ago, there was this operations officer and I said to the COO, “You gotta fire this guy. You want to lead?

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

2015, our very time is divided according to the number of years since he lived. And you know, I can only find one definitive statement about leadership that he said. Ben: Yeah, definitely. A couple of weeks ago, there was this operations officer and I said to the COO, “You gotta fire this guy. You want to lead?

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

In other words, funds that used to flow into local restaurants, clothing chains or other forms of entertainment are flowing instead into the top lines of mobile phone operators. As the report concludes, "NPD expects the average pay-TV bill to reach $123 by the year 2015 and $200 by 2020."

Analysis 8

Analysis Industry Wireless Budgeting 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 28, 2015

While email marketing is definitely not rocket science, there IS a certain degree of skill and artistry involved in crafting a winning email campaign. Of course, finding the “sweet spot” for the timing tolerance of each audience takes a little experimenting, observation and an understanding of the industry in which they operate.

Marketing 50

Marketing Audience Advertising Content 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

A cascading series of deadlines, operating systems, and reporting rules have to be arranged, tested, and communicated. These logistics took a sharp new turn last week when the Obama administration decided to delay enforcing mandatory employer and insurer employment requirements until 2015.

Health Care 8

Health Care Parcell Politics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Four years ago, we set a goal of ending childhood hunger in the United States by 2015. Assuredly, this path is full of risk because any meaningful goal, almost by definition, will be hard to achieve. Share Our Strength, and our subsidiary Community Wealth Ventures, have begun to do just that with our No Kid Hungry campaign.

Goal 8

Goal Learning-by-Doing Politics Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

We recently published a study in the Annals of Surgery examining the usage and engagement patterns of individuals in the RSC Facebook group from its inception in January 2015 through August 2016. … [It] has definitely made me a better surgeon.” ” Source: Survey of RSC group users conducted by the authors, 2017.

Media 8

Media Skills Conference Learning-by-Doing 8

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

So over that time you must have heard a lot of different definitions of servant-leadership come and go. Larry : I use Robert Greenleaf’s definition – the idea that it is the servant-leader is servant first. To see that the way they’ve been functioning and operating is not a good way to be in relationship with other people.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 125

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

So over that time you must have heard a lot of different definitions of servant-leadership come and go. Larry : I use Robert Greenleaf’s definition – the idea that it is the servant-leader is servant first. To see that the way they’ve been functioning and operating is not a good way to be in relationship with other people.

Greenleaf 100

Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

It is most definitely not for big, old-line companies that are facing an existential crisis and require a full-scale turnaround. Experienced operators in the field have better knowledge and more current information than remote dictators or their mercenary agents do. In 2015, the price of oil dropped dramatically.

Agility 11

Agility Team Crisis Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

It constantly plows capital into its long-term operations — often at the expense of short-term financial results. Compare that with the Fortune 500: Only 12% of the firms on the original 1955 list were still on the list in 2015. “Knowledge, by definition, changes very fast,” Peter Drucker wrote.

Short-term 9

Short-term Drucker Resistance Restructuring 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Top 10 Operational Impacts of the GDPR (IAPP). GDPR also bears more than a hint of the kind of protectionism that has featured prominently in EU technology policy since the 2015 release of the plan for a “Digital Single Market,” including recent announcements of new taxes for U.S.-based Full Text of the Regulations.

Advertising 11

Advertising Cost Business Model Information 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

We introduced the Digital Evolution Index in HBR in 2015 to trace the emergence of a “digital planet,” how physical interactions — in communications, social and political exchange, commerce, media and entertainment — are being displaced by digitally mediated ones. Today’s Digital Landscape.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

This is the exclusive, short story of how Diageo North America, with creativity and guts, both in operations and in the senior ranks, achieved the holy grail of carbon emissions reductions. They did it without using carbon offsets — and about 38 years earlier than they had to.

Globalization 8

Globalization Cost Bottom-up Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

What makes it all that more interesting, is that those fictional numbers aren't even close to the staggering reality of how many drones are in operation. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the use of commercial drones in United States airspace could become official starting in 2015.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Venture Funding Industry Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

I’ll fast-forward through the next decade, when Garvin, trained in operations, helped to answer the question much of America was obsessed with at the time: How Japanese automakers could make higher-quality, more-reliable cars than Americans, while charging less for them. .”

Management 9

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

The definition of “renewable” here includes not just the obvious (wind, solar, and geothermal), but also the more controversial sources of hydropower and nuclear. By that broad definition, North America is already at about 38%. The goal sounds aggressive, but the continent is closer than you’d think.

Energy 8

Energy Price Cooper Commitment 8