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Is Your Company ‘Doing’ Lean or ‘Being’ Lean?

Strategy Driven

But as you become more experienced with Lean, you realize that what you can’t see is what separates world-class operations from mediocre ones. The $13 Billion Case Study. The management team ran through a myriad of metrics that had convinced the corporate office they had made real progress. Missing per-hour metrics.

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Nabob and the Coffee Kerfuffle: How the 120-year-old brand managed to maintain its challenger status.

In the CEO Afterlife

And everyone is trying to climb to the top of that to get ahead,” explains Heather Fadali, senior brand manager for coffee at Kraft Heinz, Nabob’s parent company. The change in management, which included Bell and Powell, meant a big change in how the company would operate in the following decades. That number increased to 40%.

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Case Study: When Tragedy Strikes Your Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. “What’s your view on keeping operations in Bangladesh? “I can’t stop thinking about the rubble — and the sobbing.” Costs and Risks.

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The Big Picture of Business – Yesterdayism… Learning from the Past, Planning for the Future

Strategy Driven

Some of the old ways really work better… and should not be dismissed just because they are old or some fashionable trend of the moment looks better. Review case studies and their patterns for repeating themselves. Good opportunities to compare successes, case studies, methodologies, learning curves and insights.

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Social Media Influence | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Validating proof of concept around social media ROI is a discussion that may have had a bit of relevance 24 months ago, but unless you’ve been stranded on a desert island for the last couple of years you know that numerous case studies abound which validate social media beyond any reasonable doubt. Long road ahead.

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What Happened When Linkin Park Asked Harvard for Help with Its Business Model

Harvard Business Review

They’re extending their brand into areas like technology, gaming, fashion, and lifestyle content — essentially becoming entertainment platforms. Over the course of a year, we built strong case studies in fashion, design, and technology. Photo by Lorenzo Errico. Enter Harvard Business School.

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The Leadership Vacuum | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

When I ran the Talent Management division of a large global consulting firm after I left GE, I realized that these consultants were working from concepts that were academic vs. real life. This approach is often executed in a pre-canned fashion. One such example was a young man who was on my team with a Ph. D from Columbia.

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