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Digital Transformation Or Digital Free Fall: What Every CEO Must Know

N2Growth Blog

Real digital transformation occurs when business models and methods are reimagined by courageous leaders willing to manage opportunity more than risk, focus on next practices more than best practices and who are committed to beating their competition to the future.

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Insourcing at GE: The Real Story

Harvard Business Review

GE''s " insourcing " of appliance manufacturing to the U.S. GE''s insourcing is actually quite similar. To further shift the culture, Dirk Bowman made a commitment that nobody would lose his or her job due to Lean, but that everybody''s job would change every day. I see it differently: as a "NUMMI deja vu" story.

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How to Solve Complex Problems Fast

Skip Prichard

Don’t tell people that the answer lies in insourcing or outsourcing or technology or big data or acquisitions or divestitures… Let them conclude for themselves what the answers are, having explored your broad question, from the universe of possibilities you open to them. They are: Sharp focus and commitment to a few clearly identified goals.

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Cutting Costs Without Cutting Corners: Lessons from Banner Health

Harvard Business Review

This ensured their commitment to the effort and created support for tough decisions—even when those decisions directly affected their own bailiwicks. All of Banner’s C-suite leaders served on the leadership team for the G&A project. million by creating an internal facility for drug compounding and packaging.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

And we ‘insourced’ the recruiting activity, hiring recruiters who knew where our target candidates hung out and what appealed to them. To get these two cultures to work together, first we had a strong commitment from the top, from CEO Jeff Immelt.