Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

billion into Nissan, but in return it required more than 36 percent of the company’s ownership and a commitment from Nissan to appoint Renault executive Carlos Ghosn as Nissan’s chief operating officer. Neither a restructuring strategy nor a turnaround leader alone could have engineered Nissan’s historic rebound. About the Authors.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2016

Augment the client’s Search Engine Marketing (SEM) efforts. By redirecting a keyword-rich domain to your website, or by outright transitioning to a more keyword-rich domain, brands can significantly improve their search engine rankings even in the most competitive fields, like law. When personal injury attorney Eric S.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Ravi Roy at the 2016 Deming Institute conference. Transformation of how we think and operate isn’t easy and so if some ideas are considered for adoption they are watered down in such a way as to require no significant change in how people operate (especially at the executive level). download the podcast ).

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Always at the forefront of innovation, technologies pioneered by the military are often adopted by the commercial sector; companies looking for cyber knowledge or network engineering skills can find this expertise among veterans. Bill Sebra is Chief Operations Executive at Korn Ferry Futurestep. About the Author.

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Coaching Ourselves

AUGUST 2, 2019

Often ilk its corporate use, the fashioning of the telly was a universal exploit of many individuals who strove to get-up-and-go engineering boost. In 1907, with the procession of gain underground engineering, these electromechanical devices became hard-nosed ( The New York Multiplication ). ISBN 0-85296-914-7. John Logie Baird.”

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Be aware, however, that constant re-engineering, reorganization, and restructuring in pursuit of efficiency (or the latest management fad) has a questionable effect at best. An acclaimed speaker and executive coach, he advises Fortune 1000 senior leaders on how to create cultures that drive superior operating results.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Organizations do not operate in isolation, and hence it is critical to bring key stakeholders, including suppliers, on board with any new initiative. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Teams are meant to work collaboratively, which means to walk-through, debate, and likely reshape the idea before making a call.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

When that happens, you don’t need a lot of rules because people make judgments that are in sync with what the business needs and how the business operates to get there. Now go optimize your talent — it’s the engine that drives strategy execution. Critical Choices: Work, Home, Life , scheduled to be released October 1, 2016.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

I don’t think I learned anything about Deming or his work as an undergraduate Industrial Engineering student from 1991 to 1995. I was fortunate that my father had an opportunity to be a student in the famed four-day seminar, while working as an engineer at the Cadillac division of General Motors, in the late 1980s. Edwards Deming.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

As I wrote about in my first post , my first job out of college was at the GM Livonia Engine Plant, outside of Detroit. Guest post by Mark Graban. General Motors wasn’t my ideal workplace after having read Deming’s Out of the Crisis and learning a bit about Lean manufacturing in college.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

Twitter replaced most-recent with most-important tweets when they introduced their algorithmic timeline in 2016. Perhaps the least concerning implication is that there is systemic bias in our information feeds, that we operate in and are informed by tiny echo chambers. Force the system to cast its net wider. Third, get off the radar.

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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

MARCH 2, 2018

Each locates interdisciplinary innovation labs within or near hospital environments; involves diverse stakeholders beyond clinicians (designers, engineers, business professionals, and patients) early in the innovation process ; and engages end users in customizing solutions for their own needs. Insight Center. Challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

They do so by building powerful growth engines. If you build a robust growth engine on a strong foundation, rather than seeking individual opportunities, you can be confident knowing that sustainable expansion will follow. Other companies known for their capabilities are similarly focused on building growth engines.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

political system, including the 2016 U.S. Apple and Google, for example, each control a popular mobile phone operating system platform (and key apps on that platform), Amazon controls the largest online merchant platform, and Facebook controls the largest social network platform. Nor is it likely to be the last. presidential election.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Digital transformation halts, or fails, for many reasons—but most often it’s because minor changes at the surface level do nothing to affect the fundamental operations of a company. Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE, started off 2016 by saying : “We can’t be an industrial company anymore. We need to be more like Oracle.

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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 Last year, our employee-sustainability initiatives saved an estimated 4.7 billion BTUs of energy.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers. The team was structured to operate like a startup, with a particular focus on user research, feedback, and a commitment to lean operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

In March 2016, Thales purchased Vormetric, the growing cybersecurity firm, for $400 million, which was 5.7 In fact, by the end of December 2016, Thales traded at a 21.8 When your company ultimately becomes a more legitimate digital player, you can be more flexible in how you finance future deals.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2015

GE is now rolling it out throughout the company, and it will replace our legacy Employee Management System (EMS) by the end of 2016. To do this, we needed all our teams, including Engineering, Procurement, and Manufacturing. For example: An Engineering team redesigned a cooling system for better performance and 50% lower cost.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

For the 2016–2017 season, thousands of constraints needed to be taken into account related to travel, player fatigue, ticket revenue, arena availability, and three major television networks. Once they addressed those needs, the company was able to use the great platform to achieve significant savings in operating costs.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Four years ago, an Oxford University study predicted 47% of jobs could be automated by 2033. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

It employs over a million workers and is expected to hit $25 billion in revenues in 2016. The median age is 24, and local universities produce over 130,000 graduates in information technology and engineering each year. Rocket operates some of the largest e-commerce platforms in emerging markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

On Google’s earnings call for the first quarter of 2006 – more than a year before the iPhone was released and more than two years before the release of the first Android-operated smartphone – CEO Eric Schmidt went out of his way to talk about mobile. Perhaps by 2012 it was already too late.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs. Jurgen Ziewe/Getty Images.

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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

APRIL 17, 2018

Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making. Companies with more than 500 employees not only do 5.75

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Fast forward to 2016, and almost all of RedBalloon’s brand advertising was invested in traditional media outlets like radio, print, billboards, and pop-up retail stores. As a result, the conversion rate from Facebook campaigns managed by Albert increased by 750% in Albert’s first year of operation. Not Albert.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

This role is common in technology, engineering, and life sciences companies, where domain expertise in narrow and arcane areas can be crucial to market success. That makes retaining them very different from retaining someone who wants to scale the corporate hierarchy by managing increasingly larger operations. Essential Experts.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

” Even if you cannot change your circumstances, “you might be able to change the microenvironment in which you operate.” “It really helped to inject purpose and happiness into my career and those of my colleagues in engineering.” ” A few years ago Joel experienced a degree of professional malaise.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Beginning in the Spring of 2016, our workplace analytics group worked with commercial real estate company CBRE to calculate the cost savings associated with relocating a 1,200-person Microsoft engineering organization from five buildings into four other buildings. 77 hours compared to.85

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Three years later, GE hired veteran software engineer Ganesh Bell to be chief digital officer of GE Power and Water. Domain expertise at an automaker includes things like mechanics, telematics, structural engineering, design, and so on. Many such leaders are relatively young and highly sought after. Make the tough calls on people.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Both companies, while under a corporate umbrella, operate as independent brands with largely independent development teams. What if disruption comes instead — as I outline in the April 2016 issue of HBR — from the supply side? When WhatsApp demonstrated that messaging was alive and well in a pure form, Facebook acquired it.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Some extremely successful companies have made great use of recommendation engines to boost sales or improve customer satisfaction. When it comes to recommendations, is there room for improvement in the way Amazon and Netflix operate? Stitch Fix, which lives and dies by the quality of its suggestions, has no choice but to do better.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Today, creative marketers need to operate more like entrepreneurs, continuously adjusting to sustain “ product/market fit.” Adopting an agile method of customer testing and rapid iteration, they worked with engineering to rethink the product and bring a “minimum viable product” to market for these new buyers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. What we need is a shift in emphasis from operational competitiveness toward creative competitiveness — the capacity of organizations and society to create, embrace, and successfully execute on new ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

A winner will be selected in April 2016. The four finalists represent a mix of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, provider- and patient-facing innovations, and clinical and operational solutions. Click here to receive updates about this competition and the next Health Acceleration Challenge, which will begin in the spring.).

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