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. finance, sales, operations) to a new world vision (entrepreneurs, consultants, HR & communications). Guest post by Gareth Cartman (learn more about Gareth at the end of this post).

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 11, 2023

Or look at a shorter, more visual chart on doomsday forecasts predicting the end of the world (including revised dates — also wrong) published by The Economist in 2015. They launch a series of programs bolted-on the side of operations rather than an integrated process of change and transformation.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Alexander Osterwalder – Thinkers 50 #1 Strategy Thinker 2015-17, million-selling author Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design , inventor Business Model Canvas. Pawel Motyl – Formerly CEO Harvard Business Review Poland, noted speaker, consultant and executive coach, author Labirynt Sztuka podejmowania decyzji.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Resolution – Management reviews, approves, assigns resources, and monitors response actions assigned to issue and request resolution. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Management’s actions are commonly documented on the associated work/service order(s). Isn’t it about time these people were working for you?

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2015

Amid improved consumer confidence, with the April 2015 confidence index of 95.2 Below, Greenberg offers four proven tactics he’s learned on the sales and marketing front line, which are critical to building a loyal client base and ultimately boosting revenue in kind: Righteous Reviews. well above April 2014's 81.7

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 8, 2016

Foundational : assessments occurring at a given frequency within a defined time interval typically focused on core business risks, operational goals, and organizational values. These assessments include reviews of the integrated training, execution, and follow-up improvements associated with these events. Unscheduled Assessments.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

He is the founder of The Potential Project – a leading global provider of corporate based mindfulness solutions operating in 20 countries. Rasmus is author of the book “One Second Ahead – Enhancing Performance at work with Mindfulness”, published by Palgrave MacMillan, October 2015. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 191, 2011, 36–43.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

On January 26, 2015, President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. Boeing India’s Dennis Swanson told Business Week that he expects to sign a new strategic partnership with an Indian company in 2015. America’s largest insurer, Allstate, announced plans to invest $1 billion in its India operations.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

This reliance has evolved because despite the enormous volumes of capital they control, most of these giants are strictly “firewalled” and cannot use the capital to fund actual operations, even if doing so would generate higher expected investment returns or lower risk.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

Niche specialists collectively conduct a research study or performance review. The client is opening new locations in new communities and asks its consultants to formulate a plan of action and oversee operating aspects. Multiple companies find that doing business in a new country is easier when a consortium operates.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs. Set meetings to review what works for them. Set schedules for routine review of the process. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Research shows they can be cut in half.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

An Institutional Review is a look at activities that contribute to an organization's success and well-being. No entity can operate without affecting or being affected by its communities. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Niche consultants believe these things to be true, within their frames of reference.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2015

This is my review of how management styles have evolved. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. In the period that predated scientific management, the Captain of Industry style prevailed. Prior to 1885, the kings of industry were rulers, as had been land barons of earlier years. Consider leaving a comment!

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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

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

MAY 16, 2017

The first step is to carefully review each job posting. ” Voluntarily led response to 2015 flooding of School of Design building. Initiated contact with Director, staff, students, and faculty to minimize disruption of department’s operations. Equally adept at managing people and operations. Here’s how.

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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

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

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

OCTOBER 17, 2018

A 2015 systematic review of physician leadership development programs found that few reported negative outcomes or system level effects (i.e. Assessment systems should also be developed to mitigate biases that downplay or disregard women’s and minorities’ leadership capabilities.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

For a deeper look into the distinctions under the Fair Labor Standards Act and the 2015 guidance document ). These truck drivers, misclassified as independent owner-operators, were forced by companies whom they worked to purchase new vehicles to comply with more stringent emission restrictions. of employment in 2005 to 9.6%

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

And the globalized markets that frontier firms operate in disproportionately reward their knowledge advantage, setting them even further apart from the rest. Take the example of Germany: Between 2003 and 2015, R&D expenditure in the business sector increased by 59%, reaching a record high of 157.4 billion euro.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. The common idea behind these models is that the company does not have to be the (full) owner of the asset to be its (sole) operator.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

I explained this in an article that was published in Harvard Business Review in 2008, before any of those companies began, and, now, 10 years later, that still holds true, as more and more of the business discourse is focused on digital transformation. In other words, they had great business models.

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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. Creating a great customer experience and achieving operational excellence both require a capable and motivated workforce.

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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. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

As a practical matter, for example, these changes in the global policy regime are forcing multinational corporations to scale back and sell parts of their international operations. In 2015, Global Trade Alert, an independent trade-monitoring group, cited at least 644 discriminatory trade measures imposed by the G20 economies with the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Executives are usually taught that data is an objective and critical input for strategic planning and operations. Applying this, however, is much easier said than done — especially among companies operating in emerging markets. For example, as Greece returned to financial crisis in 2015, the IMF forecasted 2.5%

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

In 2015, around 40% of new PV installations were accompanied by a battery. Around the world in 2015, additions of renewable power capacity outpaced other forms of electricity generation —coal, gas, oil, and nuclear—combined. At the same time, we’re also seeing the decentralization of power production.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

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

JULY 31, 2015

Internal operational issues including execution, budgets, and deadlines are paramount in a company’s deliberation, but what other players will do is hardly ever in focus. A competitive “audit” or review is the more basic level. How much do they spend on mandatory competition review?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

This fleet of driverless cars — 600 Chrysler Pacifica mini-vans, operated by Google’s Waymo — can be seen today daily on the streets where companies like GM and Ford also are testing autonomous innovations. Other industry-leading companies like Ford and GM have also moved their driverless car operations to the state.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4% from 2010 to 2015, compared with 4.1% trillion in 2015 to $3.5 For instance, we find that only 30% of revenues are earned by companies that operate in the resources sector. from 2000 to 2010. between 2000 and 2010. trillion by 2025.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

It’s a story as old as business itself: a company generates a byproduct in the course of its routine operations, then discovers that another company is willing to pay for it. Businesses are already generating it in the course of normal operations. In 2015, the digital universe contained 4.4 zettabytes. (A

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Officials are even reviewing the Safe Harbor agreement, which enables the transfer of personal data from the EU to companies in the U.S., If it goes into effect by 2015 , the stakes will be even higher. Google already handles a host of removal or review requests from the broadcasting and music industries for IP violations.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In the traditional model of electricity generation, large power plants produce power at a centralized location, which operates at a considerable distance from the points of consumption. electric utilities during 2008-2015—a period in which the decentralized model was in its uncertain, nascent phase. A rare natural experiment.

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