The Empowered Buisness

MARCH 4, 2014

Although there are many books about strategic thinking, my focus for this article is on the structure of strategic thinking … the Core 6 characteristics. The personal computer revolution was started by putting together existing technologies in a way never done before. Patterns recognition (ie., Future Oriented.

Strategic Planning 131

Strategic Planning Content Covey Industry 131

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

Although the jury is still out about robots stealing jobs , the pace at which AI and deep learning technologies have been advancing isn’t ebbing concerns over a future of disappearing work. He builds largely upon the work of MIT economist David Autor, who’s studied the effects of technological change on the U.S.

Technology 8

Technology Skills Deming Osborne 8

The Practical Leader

JULY 20, 2011

To win today, you have to delight and astound your customers — with products and services that far exceed their expectations.&# The first two rings (my last two blog posts) deal with things — technology, products, services, systems, processes, structures, and so on. Customer Service articles/book excerpts.

Sharpe 53

Sharpe Deming Hotels Quality 53

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Guest post by Bill Bellows, Member of The Deming Institute’s Advisory Council. The content of this blog was prepared as an article for the first edition of the Lean Management Journal, later known as The LMJ. Edwards Deming to several dozen executives in Japan in 1950. Figure 1 – Production Viewed as a System.

System 74

System Productivity Products Deming 74

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

A more reasonable starting point might be the 1930s, when the physicist and statistician Walter Shewhart of Bell Labs began applying Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles to the improvement of products and processes. Edwards Deming, who used it extensively in Japan in the years following World War II.

Agility 8

Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

Imagine you are a product manager at Proctor and Gamble or Unilever and are charged with designing a new line of detergents or packaged food. You cannot presume that packaging is simply a matter of clever design that helps your products fly off the shelves of a super market. Sustainability is part of every professional’s job.

Self-aware 50

Self-aware Engineering Chief Technology Officer Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

” Mostly looking at individual workers, he figured out that standardization and optimization of work processes could lead to astonishing improvement in productivity. In the face of the resulting massive improvements in productivity and service, dissenters who pointed out high profile failures and dysfunctional systems had little impact.

Process 8

Process Banking Compliance Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

Edwards Deming : the former an industrialist who equated machines and human beings (both to be managed for maximum output), the latter a humanist who saw the individual as internally motivated to do good, meaningful work. The contrast was driven home by a full-blown reenactment of Deming’s famous red bead experiment.

Deming 11

Deming Management Senge Taylorism 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Many are betting on the new generation of technology firms to unsettle the old guard. Self-cannibalization occurs when a company chooses to proactively replace one product or process with another that is potentially worth less. With the rise of the smartphone and mobile technology, QQ failed to capture new users.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Metrics 8