Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. However, until recently there was little evidence on this question in the countries that dominate global markets in low-cost manufacturing. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center.

Lean Manufacturing 10

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Cleaning up data downstream is expensive and not scalable, because data is a byproduct of business processes and operations like marketing, sales, plant operations, and so on. Plenty of CDOs want to improve data quality, but motivating this change requires that CDOs create new organizational incentives and processes.

Company 9

Company Lean Manufacturing Compliance Quality 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

My team would have people with deep functional knowledge and skills (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, and information technology) to align surrounding processes. Lowe's also tries to assess the "people change" needs that will be required in future operational improvement initiatives — as much as three years out.

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

More often the dilemmas were the result of competing interests, misaligned incentives, clashing cultures. Leaders in the study reported having to implement staff reduction targets, dispose of big businesses in major markets, and lead mergers and acquisitions. Incentives and pressure to inflate achievement of targets.

Ethics 12

Ethics Company Emotional Intelligence Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

Report 8

Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Increasingly, the largest retailers in markets across the country are employing sophisticated personalized marketing and thereby becoming the primary shopping destination for a growing number of consumers. This decrease is driven by a corresponding increase in shopper marketing expenditures.

Retail 15

Retail Brand Marketing Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

Late last month, on the second anniversary of the story nearly to the day, Walmart released its first Global Compliance Report (GCR). Certainly an important goal for Walmart’s board and current management is to improve the company’s compliance capability. This step aims to bring appropriate expertise (e.g.

Compliance 8

Compliance Committee Globalization CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

Collaboration is better not only among the reps selling into different parts of that customer organization but also across the product and marketing teams charged with building and positioning broader solutions for the customer. Network behavior isn’t something you drive through compliance; you enable it through opportunity.

Team 11

Team Metrics Compliance Attrition 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Plus, there is not yet a legal or compliance department to seek approval from.). I sometimes hear leaders in large companies musing about creating “startup-style” incentives to reward people who come up with brilliant ideas that help increase revenue or cut costs; few actually follow through. Fear of failure.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Innovation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Our stakeholder-based strategy rests on the following key pillars: People: The human factor plays a central role in our operations, and thus our business growth must be tied to the growth of our people. By competing on products, we respond to the market.

Industry 11

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

In search of answers, I studied Mocidade Alegre, interviewing people of all ranks in the organization, from dancers with no managerial authority, to the wing chiefs who cajole the dancers into compliance, to the many directors, to the school’s president. What can large corporations operating in Brazil learn from all this?

Teamwork 10

Teamwork Absenteeism Class Motivation 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The procedures and resources in the bundle would include pre-op appointment and testing, use of the operating room and facility services on day of surgery, surgeon, anesthesiologist and support staff, clinic visits, in-hospital drug and laboratory tests, and post-surgical physical therapy. The bundle incorporated the metrics in two ways.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care How To Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

This helps to prove their identity, cutting down on fraud and creating market efficiencies. Just getting the costs of regulation and compliance down would open world markets and create wealth, but that doesn’t have to mean changing local regulations. The system currently serves a billion people.

Marketing 8

Marketing Technology Banking Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

One of the big challenges for the people leading global sales organizations is figuring out the right way to set pay for for salespeople who work in vastly different countries and markets. It provides control over sales incentive spending around the world, and it simplifies plan management and administration.”

Globalization 8

Globalization System Incentives Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Fifty-eight percent of patients referred to Virginia Mason, our medical center in Seattle, for back surgery would be more appropriately treated without an operation. But in 2009, federal regulations applied financial incentives and penalties to drive broad implementation of EMRs.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Creativity Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

In 2005, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched Hospital Compare , which publicized data on hospitals’ compliance with process-of-care metrics (for instance, whether a patient with pneumonia received the correct type of antibiotic, according to the medical evidence).

Health Care 8

Health Care Trends Report Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

That’s understandable — the growth of the consumer mobile market in Africa has been spectacular. And while almost all the examples I cite are from West Africa, many of these ideas and innovations are well suited for emerging markets around the world. In emerging markets, infrastructure is always an issue.

CRM 8

CRM Marketing Supply Chain NGO 8