Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl, GE Global Research: The World Is Calling; Should We Answer? Roger starts by discussing some areas of Deming’s work that are not getting the focus they deserve. Deming referred several times to the need to have a senior statistical leader reporting to the CEO.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 7, 2017

Innovation and creativity are supplanted by overhead creep, loss of productivity, and poor business decisions. Provide a process for employee-owned, sound and innovative business decisions that are tied to sustainable growth and profit. Agility and flexibility are replaced by process and a mind-numbing disconnect from business goals.

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Bottom-up Rogers Creativity Guidelines 173

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

At a Stanford Director’s College in 2016, Roger Dunbar, chair of the Silicon Valley Bank, told Venkataraman that “when he hears company executives or board members responding to short-term noise with outsize reactions, he likes to pretend he is lost. He’ll ask CEOs at board meetings, ‘ What was our long-term strategy again? ’

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Long-term Short-term Metrics Rogers 222

Tanveer Naseer

JULY 2, 2013

What happens if our efforts to solve a problem aren’t producing innovative results? Why is it so difficult to achieve innovative breakthroughs in thinking? Scientifically identified as the source of innovation (important for problem solving), insight and intuitiveness, and creativity, the right hemisphere is a valued destination.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Even a cursory review of current events shows it doesn’t really matter whether you’re a politician, investment banker, CEO, or just an average citizen, when it comes to making a simple decision, managing a crisis, or attempting to capture an opportunity, timing is everything – timing is leadership.

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Due Diligence Metrics Competitive Advantage Rogers 167

Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

Bob is the former CEO of the Great Plains Coca Cola Bottling Company. by Will Rogers, or somebody else. The larger organization often doesn’t directly oppose innovations in processes that are in place; but by reinstating old management practices the organization undermines the system that allowed those processes to be successful.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Anyone paying attention to current events has recently witnessed that it doesn’t really matter whether you’re a politician, investment banker, CEO, or just an average citizen, when it comes to making a simple decision, managing a crisis, or attempting to exploit an opportunity, timing is everything. I Think Not.

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Blog Leadership Self-aware Crisis 403

LDRLB

DECEMBER 5, 2011

For example, if it was innovation and creativity that brought revival, chances are high that innovation and creativity will remain a cornerstone of their corporate culture. John Bell is a strategy consultant and former CEO of Jacobs Suchard (Kraft, Nabob). Most will continue to leverage the factors with unabashed zeal.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 11, 2011

” – Roger Allen A favorite pastime of those in the older generations is to lament the decline among the younger generations. Probably to no-one’s surprise, the Gen Y group also got the highest scores on innovation. The following is a guest post by Jack Zenger. In case you?re re worried about what?s

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Rogers Teamwork Comparison Participative 223

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I love the way you have clearly differentiated between strategy and tactics – so many people get them confused and end up playing checkers instead of chess… Thanks, Landon Creasy [link] [link] Roger Martin Mike: This is an excellent tool. It is as comprehensive for leadership traits as I’ve seen in many other assessments.

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Blog Leadership Benchmarking Tactics 310

LDRLB

DECEMBER 5, 2011

For example, if it was innovation and creativity that brought revival, chances are high that innovation and creativity will remain a cornerstone of their corporate culture. John Bell is a strategy consultant and former CEO of Jacobs Suchard (Kraft, Nabob). Most will continue to leverage the factors with unabashed zeal.

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Rogers Short-term Sports Long-term 60

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

I listened to esteemed business school professors, two Nobel laureates, bestselling authors, and some of the world’s most successful CEOs. If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. If it’s not really meaningful, it’s not a game changer so why do it?

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. That’s sort of what the article did.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Lead on Purpose

JUNE 12, 2009

Reply Stewart Rogers , on June 16, 2009 at 5:59 am said: “50% of your time in leading yourself—your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time in leading yourself—your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Nice quote!

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Ethics Rogers Taylorism Taylor 100

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Remove them and you will find more time to focus on innovation. Innovate quickly. Innovate constantly. We want to come out strong.”

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Diversity can boost innovation and employee engagement , and companies with greater gender and racial diversity financially outperform their peers. About the Interviews I wanted to select a diverse group of CEOs from a range of companies that varied by size and industry. I chose eleven CEOs: Art Peck (Gap Inc.,

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Martha Rogers, co-founder of Peppers & Rogers Group, says, “This isn’t a financial crisis, but a crisis of trust.” Cost reduction.

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Tools Black-Scholes Magazine Rogers 56

Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

Always open to new challenges, he seized the opportunity to lead a university with facilities that were a bit long in the tooth and that lacked any signs of innovating in the future. . As Roger Clodfelter, Senior V.P. So how did he meet the challenge of changing the staid academic culture to one that is today unique and innovative?

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Case Study Education Learning-by-Doing Brand 70

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2015

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has faced intense criticism for asking his baristas to engage customers in a discussion about race in America. But this kind of “CEO activism” is actually a step forward for corporate involvement in the public square. But CEO activism is a different animal.

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CEO Policies Politics Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Apple under the leadership of Steve Jobs offers a metaphor for the future role of the CEO as a co-creative engagement orchestrator. Doing so can expand business-civic-social ecosystems in "win more, win more" ways for all stakeholders.

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CEO Creativity Automotive Participative 10

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 26, 2012

Todd Henry is the founder and CEO of Accidental Creative, a company that helps creative people and teams generate brilliant ideas. He regularly speaks and consults with companies, both large and small, about how to develop practices and systems that lead to everyday brilliance.

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Creativity Consultative CEO System 70

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

Roger Federer can arguably be considered the greatest tennis player of all time, having won 16 Grand Slam titles—and yet he lost every French Open Championship he played against Rafael Nadal. And even though no one would deny Roger Federer’s overall tennis prowess, no one expects that he would win in every conceivable situation.

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Strategic Fit Rogers CEO Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2017

CEOs in a recent poll agreed that creativity is the most important skill a leader can have. Too many leaders try to demand creativity on the spot: They offer cash rewards for new ideas, sequester teams in endless brainstorming sessions, and encourage competitive hierarchies that reward some people for out-innovating others.

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Creativity How To Brainstorming Video 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

When Roger Enrico took the helm as CEO of Frito-Lay, in 1991, the company was developing an innovative and distinctive approach to direct-store delivery that would allow it to consistently deliver the right products to the right stores at the right time.

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Cost How To Budgeting Strategic Planning 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Here's how they did it, and how they're using social media tools to become more agile, to share knowledge, and to increase the speed of innovation. Unisys CEO Ed Coleman addressed this through leading by example. Metrics: Identify hard business metrics like increasing speed to innovation or speed for winning new business.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. One part of fostering creativity and innovation is to accept the inevitable failures. However, because of the way it challenges the egos of founders, CEOs, and upper management, it is difficult to carry out.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

In 2005, John Antioco was the eminently successful CEO of Blockbuster, the 800-pound gorilla of the video rental industry. Rather than seeking to lead a passionate band of willing innovators and build a movement, they leaned on their authority to create wholesale change by forcing the unconvinced against their will.

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Leadership Early Adopters Video Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

We sat down with Rotman Dean Roger Martin, author of Fixing the Game , to talk about the skewed incentives of CEO compensation. Audio podcast Keeping Employees Engaged in Tough Times We talked with Doug Conant, the outgoing CEO of Campbell's Soup, about keeping morale high when you're leading a turnaround. Video interview.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Just ask Hewlett-Packard's CEO Meg Whitman, who has already declared that she couldn't accomplish much in a year and needs more time. You've got to know when to hold them, and know when to fold them," Kenny Rogers sang in a famous song about playing poker. Persistence doesn't mean being pig-headed.

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Guidelines Real Estate Rogers Trends 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

I’d rather spend 45 minutes working through a video conference with a CEO or GM than have a two-hour traditional conference call. Roger Schwarz. The openness and focused attention among team members fostered by videoconferencing enables innovation and creative solutions to emerge. You and Your Team Series.

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Conference Commitment Rogers Tools 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

When I talk with leaders of process improvement activities about the role of HR in change, however, I generally hear that HR is bureaucratic and a brake on innovation. Yet if HR gets out in front of improvement activities, it could be in a precarious position if a new CEO comes in with a focus on shorter-term results.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Despite conceptually understanding that this change mandates fresh strategic approaches, Roger Martin (among others) has highlighted the mistakes companies continue to make by relying on processes and tools honed in a differently paced era. Disruptive innovation Innovation' newspaper industry.

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Disruptive Innovation Advertising Gilbert Market Segmentation 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Virtually every executive is eager to see his or her organization innovate. Every organization will have to learn to innovate” on a constant basis, Drucker wrote. Again, Drucker’s words prove prescient as the gains in the knowledge economy are hardly being shared equitably. Surely, Drucker would have agreed. “A

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] bosxs Thanks for this [link] CEO Success…It’s not Random | N2 Growth Blog [.] Business Acumen: Great CEOs have a deep understanding of the business and a strong orientation toward profit. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

It has become an axiom that “strategy is about making hard choices,” as we have been advised for over 20 years by leading thinkers including Michael Porter and Roger Martin. ” Faced with hard choices, innovators find ways to transcend the tradeoffs. Transactions and relationships.

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Chief Operating Officer Apparel Marketing Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

I'd come down to New York for HSM's World Innovation Forum. Her CEO doesn't drive around the country in a " Happiness Bus " or share the stage with the likes of Clay Christensen and Roger Martin. This is the story of how I learned the key to great customer service. And neither do most of us.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Management Tips from Harvard Business Review Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) 150 “tips”…almost unlimited “icebergs” Here are 150 “Management Tips of the Day” that have been featured by the Harvard Business Review blog ([link] On average, each has a total word count of about 50 and is best viewed as a reminder rather [.].

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