First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 28, 2014

His experience cuts across industries and includes technology, consumer products & retail, healthcare, energy, financial services and transportation companies. Special Operations Command University of Chicago USSOC Western Union Whirlpool Corporation' His primary focus has been to help client organizations renew […].

Prahalad 75

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Wilde 75

Strategy Driven

APRIL 15, 2020

Even governance of operations can be encoded into blockchain networks and artificial intelligence. VR offers a powerful sense of immersion, making you feel like you are transported to another place. Business operations must be retooled using both process automation and worker augmentation. Better supply chains. A new reality.

Technology 100

Technology Innovation Supply Chain Company 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

Sensors, smartphones, tablets, wireless networks, and Big Data are starting to transform transportation and infrastructure. After extensive consultation with pilots and other experts, the FAA has proposed a rule change that might allow operational use of tablets. Photo by Andrew Nguyen. But not fast enough.

Transportation 8

Transportation Entrepreneur Wireless Airlines 8

Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

When it finally came to my attention, I realized right away that large-scale, controlled experimentation would revolutionize the way all companies operate their businesses and how managers make decisions. These, in turn, have given us modern medicine, food, energy, transportation, communication, and so much more.

Power 94

Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 94

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2013

Most organizations continuously strive to achieve operational excellence, but they spend less effort understanding customer needs — and few marry these two sources of customer value effectively. In 1996 Tesco adopted Toyota Production System approaches to take its supply chain operations to an even higher level.

Customer Intimacy 8

Customer Intimacy Operations Supply Chain Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

CEOs earned 335 times the pay of the average worker. they earn 129 times more ; the High Pay Centre marked “Fat Cat Wednesday” (January 4, 2017) as the day by when a CEO has already earned more than an average worker earns in the entire year. CEOs Get Paid Too Much. A CEO’s actions are scalable.

CEO 9

CEO Price Long-term Incentives 9

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2012

Executives, especially CEOs, need something better. If you don’t hold a finance or operations position, consider cross training. Will the CEO allow you to work in these arenas for a short time? Executive Vision – Leading in an Interconnected World: Transportation.

Execution 62

Execution How To Finance Competitive Advantage 62

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

Since their founding less than a decade ago, Uber and Airbnb have wrangled with regulators, challenged the taxi and hotel industries, earned extraordinary valuations from venture capital investors — and fundamentally transformed the way people think about urban transportation and travel. Uber has beefed up safety and background checks.

CEO 8

CEO Hotels Venture Capitalist Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

New jobs that could not have been imagined at the time, such as app developer or MRI technician, have replaced obsolete ones, such as switchboard operators. These activities are most prevalent in sectors such as manufacturing, food services, transportation and warehousing, and retail. trillion of wages in the U.S.

CEO 8

CEO Technology Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Waymo’s Director of Operations Shaun Stewart said that one of the reasons they chose Trov is that innovative technology needs innovative partners. ” Founder and CEO of Trov Scott Walchek said that “ this partnership highlights the convergence of the future of transportation with the future of insurance.

Insurance 8

Insurance Transportation Licensing Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

How could an advanced country, once the model for the world’s most modern transportation innovations, slip so badly? Those trains routinely operate at speeds of 150 to 200 miles per hour, and in 2012, the average deviation from schedule was a miniscule 36 seconds. The glory years were decades ago. Fifty years later, the U.S.

Transportation 8

Transportation Innovation CEO Training 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

That year, as management tried to coordinate all the operating details across all the divisions, the company almost went bankrupt when poor planning led to excess inventory, with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash. But the spirit of Billy Durant would rise again in what would become Silicon Valley.

Transportation 8

Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

Building Personal Strength

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Can you operate weapons? Transportation. I’ve been in the learning and development business for over 35 years, and CEO of Performance Support Systems, Inc., Do you understand small unit tactics? You gotta know the business. You gotta have business savvy. Administration/management. Can you organize things? Control things?

Skills 44

Skills Bottom-up Video Blog 44

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2011

If you care about energy efficiency, the welfare of our senior citizens, equitable transportation services, jobs, or combating climate change, cities are the answer. Or consider transportation. In a suburban world where automobile transportation is the only option, all of those citizens are placed at a huge disadvantage.

Transportation 14

Transportation Energy Efficiency Health Care 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Superior operational excellence cannot be achieved or maintained with an iron fist. I oversee all aircraft, flight and customer service operations at Hawaiian Airlines. For any company, and especially any airline, operational excellence and customer service go hand in glove.

Airlines 14

Airlines Benchmarking Strategic Planning Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

I spent the last 18 months researching and writing a book on how organizations and leaders can do extraordinary things, even if they operate in pretty ordinary fields. A few weeks ago, I spent a day in Detroit as part of a CEO Summit organized by Business Leaders for Michigan, an association of the state’s biggest companies.

CEO 8

CEO Open-book Price Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2013

That question looms large as Gild CEO Sheeroy Dasai envisions developing similar tests for other professionals whose work appears online — like, say, a teacher’s online courses, a scientist’s research, or a journalist’s articles. Should Solar Roads Be the Future of Transportation? WORTH THE BIG BUCKS. Fast Company).

Transportation 8

Transportation Morale Construction Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

That may be because I am a founding CEO. The operative word in that sentence is “founding” or in my case “co-founding.” ” My partner David and I developed the idea for our company 10 years ago, and I took over as CEO several years ago. ” Several described their firm in similar familial terms.

Company 10

Company Entrepreneur Survey CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies. If we see a country where reward outweighs the risk, we want to invest,” CEO Jeff Immelt says in Success in Africa. I recently spent some time with Bob Diamond, the former CEO of Barclays.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Our research involved a detailed cross-case analysis of five major corporations operating in Australia over 10 years, from 2005 to 2015. Today, businesses often operate on short-term objectives of profit maximization and shareholder return. Each of these five companies were at the leading edge of corporate engagement with this issue.

Goal 8

Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 8

HR Digest

JUNE 7, 2023

For months, railroads have been at the table individually with their unions to find a path forward on the quality of life matters that came into the spotlight during the round’s final days,” Association of American Railroads CEO Ian Jefferies said. We’re very happy about this.

Policies 98

Policies Transportation Committee Engineering 98

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Some people attribute the company’s missteps to the personal failings of founder-CEO Travis Kalanick. Indeed, employees at every turn faced personal and professional risks in defying the law; two European executives were indicted and arrested for operating without required permits. Attorney General Eric Holder.

Licensing 8

Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

In a group photograph, 30 CEOs with a combined market capitalization of $2.5 Conspicuously absent from the photo was Uber’s CEO , Travis Kalanick. On Monday Uber said that it is selling its operation in China to a rival Chinese ride-sharing company whose CEO was in that foreshadowing photo. Much of the U.S.

Marketing 8

Marketing CEO Mass Marketing Price 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Last year’s WEF Summit on the Global Agenda saw multinational CEOs, academics, and consultants alike preaching the need for business to adapt to the on-demand economy. When Uber and Airbnb burst on the scene, they were tackling major inefficiencies in the markets for transportation and housing.

Transportation 8

Transportation Cost Business Model Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

Companies that offer good jobs today — with decent wages, predictable schedules, and opportunities for success and growth — do so by combining investment in people with operational choices that increase their employees’ productivity and contributions. We call this approach the Good Jobs Strategy.

Merchandising 8

Merchandising Retail Competitive Advantage Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

First, it’s not nostalgia for manufacturing that’s driving GE CEO Jeff Immelt and his team to make this decision to focus (again and still) on making the stuff our economy needs. We need dramatic improvements in energy and water efficiency, and massive rollouts of renewable energy and clean transportation technologies.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Engineering Energy Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Firefighting operations continued for two days. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a report that cited multiple failures by PG&E and government regulators. Second, the outcome risk — the "bad things" that happen in financial and operational performance metrics as a result of the process problems.

Risk Management 11

Risk Management Management Supply Chain Metrics 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Panera operates some 1,500 bakery cafes nationwide. UPS's and Federal Express's for transport? You often hear CEOs say that their first obligation is to their shareholders. Think about that. What a terrible blow to business.

Long-term 14

Long-term Core Competence Short-term Competitive Advantage 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

The goal, says CEO Tom Rippin, is "to develop people who can operate equally well in commercial and social enterprise environments.". Take, for example, Janet Voûte, who started out in consulting before spending eight years as CEO of the World Heart Federation. About 75% come from the private sector.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer How To Airlines Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

The Department of Transportation, however, had insisted such a pilot unnecessary. On a far larger scale and more caustically, former JCPenney and Macy's CEO Allen Questrom ripped into current JCPenney CEO (and Apple Store innovator) Ron Johnson's turnaround strategy for the struggling retailer. "To

Leadership 13

Leadership Innovation Lean Production Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Former Ogilvy CEO Charlotte Beers was famous for saying, “Collaboration is highly overrated when you don’t have the right thing to do.” He applied his specialized expertise to help this team evaluate the impact of construction-induced vibration on surrounding public transportation infrastructure. Work on your network.

Chief Operating Officer 11

Chief Operating Officer Consensus How To Project 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

They faced difficult choices: Wait somewhere until the transportation systems started working again although no one knew when that might happen; walk on jammed roads for tens of miles to get home; or find a roof for the night.

Crisis 14

Crisis COO Chemicals Transportation 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

The protests have already cost the CEO of Air France his job : He stepped down after workers rejected his proposal of a 7% wage increase over four years (unions want a 6% immediate increase). Moreover, new technologies are helping cushion the effect of transport strikes by allowing people to work from home or share car rides.

Proposal 8

Proposal GDP Airlines Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

On August 1 Uber announced that it is selling its Chinese brand and operations to Didi Chuxing for $1 billion, its annual burn rate in that market, in exchange for a 20% stake in the local competitor. And that the two companies’ CEOs, Travis Kalanick and Cheng Wei, would take seats on each other’s boards.

Network Economy 8

Network Economy Globalization Discount Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

Today the airlines that participate in GALs transport more than two-thirds of all international traffic. Today, air taxi companies operate in a similar fashion to the Southwest of yore. Basically, unable to innovate their core offering, airlines have figured out a way to innovate in the way costs are allocated.

Airlines 10

Airlines Travel Industry Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

After yet another painful discussion about what to do, the late Andy Grove, then Intel’s president, turned to CEO Gordon Moore and asked , “If we got kicked out and the board brought in a new CEO, what do you think he would do?” ” Moore answered without hesitation: “He would get us out of memories.”

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8