Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

If your organization decides to focus on rapidly continually improving processes and you find that software used in the organization is constantly is a constraint to such efforts you may wish to deal with this problem. So if you just accept the stories you often think you are getting principles and the applying them to your situation.

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Examples Deming Software System 28

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In it, the authors, both sociologists, made a compelling argument that, to understand labor market outcomes like inequality, it wasn’t enough to look at the supply and demand for individuals’ skills. However, any discussion of firms and wage inequality must not be limited to discussion of market forces. Related Video.

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Marketing Short-term Incentives Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Reverse innovation is also a significant learning opportunity for students in engineering. Engineering graduates are good at solving problems. On a similar note, last week, I gave a keynote speech on reverse innovation to students at University of Alabama in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) disciplines.

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Education Innovation Engineering Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. Tens of thousands of agile teams have operated for decades without much awareness — let alone active support — from CEOs. Tetra Images/Getty Images.

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Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Performing market assessments. Core Competencies. Running design sprints.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Activists’ interventions are often described, favorably or not depending on your point of view, as slashing and burning, taking out cost, and engaging in financial engineering. What advantage do we have — or can we create — in the market, and how do we maintain and extend this advantage?

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Management Short-term Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

While this “lab-bench to bedside” approach has improved healthcare globally, it can take years, even decades, for an innovation to get to market, often with limited input from patients themselves. This is the first time within the NHS that designers, engineers and clinicians have been brought together to co-create.

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? What would the capital markets look like today if a similar tack had been taken when the CFO role was ripe for transformation? Lynanne Kunkle, VP-Global Talent Development and HR-Asia for Whirlpool, is a case in point.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Once one of the most powerful companies in the world, today the company has a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Why did this happen?

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Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The lure of establishing an organization that uses market mechanisms to achieve its mission is substantial. The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. Some are recent graduates.

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Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

It comprises a range of conceptual and analytical operations, including problem definition, signal processing, pattern recognition, abstraction and conceptualization, analysis, and prediction. Business leaders must pay attention to what can feasibly be achieved within organizational constraints — or have a clear path to removing them.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

D&A should be the pulse of the organization, incorporated into all key decisions across sales, marketing, supply chain, customer experience, and other core functions. Increase market share? Once they addressed those needs, the company was able to use the great platform to achieve significant savings in operating costs.

Organization 8

Organization How To Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

These high-growth jobs focus on the science, health and business fields — positions like biochemists, market research analysts and occupational therapists are set to skyrocket over the next decade. Time and cost constraints limited these options. Increase peer-to-peer learning.

Skills 17

Skills Six Sigma Supply Chain Education 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Technological innovations like high speed trading and digital marketing enable competitors to emerge, thrive, and disrupt companies far faster than ever before. Since then, the U.S. One reason for this is the increasing speed of change itself. This “VUCA” environment rewards innovation but it also punishes failure more harshly.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Creativity Drucker Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

And just like software engineers who hold code in their head or a law firm partner who controls critical client relationships, the Dana-Farber scientists hold a credible threat of walking out the door with their IP and grant-winning prowess. And they faced big constraints. Convince with quantitative evidence.

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Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Unlike most developed markets, where outside directors typically constitute a majority of the board, corporate boardrooms in Japan continue to be dominated by insiders. On a visit to Tokyo last year, I discussed board practices with the head of investor relations at a large engineering company whose board contained no outside directors.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

This is especially true when businesses are considering entering emerging markets or aim to realize opportunities to create high-performance, high-value products and services that appeal to consumers in poor and rich countries alike. Engineers are very good at solving problems they know are problems.

Engineering 8

Engineering Innovation Constraint Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

As gerajohm commented, "The best executives I have met have had a great understanding of how to use technology to gain competitive advantage and improve operations. All the parts of the organization have to come together and build a common language to discuss their markets and their enterprise. One is the concept of alignment.

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CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Because the "unmentionable" subject of menstruation is taboo, the market failure — supplying cheaper pads — had never received the attention it deserved. In countries like Mozambique and Rwanda, where the per capita GDP is under $1,000, the average annual cost of $33 (12 months x 5 days x 5 pad/day x.11/pad)

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Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

While India remains a formidably challenging market, there are at least three reasons why global firms cannot overlook India without consequences. This means significant growth potential for multinationals who have core competencies in high-tech infrastructure solutions such as jet engines, turbines, CT scanners, and satellite communications.

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Globalization CAGR Class Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

Homogenized content, with far less diversity than an open market would support, was the result. ” The interference problem was the stated premise, but the object of regulators’ desire — and of the interests they loved (or feared) most — was control over wireless markets. Armstrong’s Killer App.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2014

That gives an Amazon competitor the perfect opportunity to get a toehold in a market Amazon currently dominates. But Amazon’s analogies are grounded in physical stores, where floor space is a genuine constraint. Woe is the search engine that goes head-to-head with Google. How can companies deal with these powerful platforms?

Airlines 9

Airlines Hotels Constraint Incentives 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Because of the way industrial products are designed and engineered, you know that when your production line is spitting out Model T cars, you can be reasonably certain they will work as designed. The old cliché in marketing is true: Customers don’t want a quarter-inch drill. Using the Alternative to Output: Outcomes.

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Project Management Uncertainty Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Digital players wield outsize market power. With products that rely on network effects, these players enjoy economies of scale and dominant market share. Digital markets are uneven. Politics, regulations, and levels of economic development play a major role in shaping the digital industry and its market attractiveness.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2018

Machine learning is increasingly being used to predict individuals’ attitudes, behaviors, and preferences across an array of applications — from personalized marketing to precision medicine. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. So how can we mitigate bias in machine learning?

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Sample Project Self-aware Training 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

As disruptive innovations enter the market with faster velocity and increased firepower, entrepreneurs are finding themselves dealing sooner and more intimately with the law. Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and other Silicon Valley brand names all have their own, often extensive, government operations. In the U.S.,

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Constraint Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

For many years, beginning in 1942, Premarin was the only hormone replacement therapy drug on the market derived from a natural source. A series of patents were issued on the drug in the 1940s, but long after they had expired, there were still no generic competitors on the market. But there is a risk. Such was not the case.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Merchandising Innovation Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

How can we create $12 trillion a year in market opportunities by 2030? But a recent report concludes that meeting the goals in just four out of 60 sectors (food and agriculture, cities, energy and materials, and health and wellbeing) could indeed open up market opportunities worth up to $12 trillion a year in less than 15 years.

Chemicals 12

Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

” However, there are other ways for Chinese authorities to take reprisals against Western multinationals operating in China should they so choose. Assembled in China” recently noted that if he called a meeting of all the tooling engineers in the U.S., Moving production nearer to those markets makes sense.

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Chief Financial Officer NGO Technology Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

When China was admitted to the World Trade Organization in 2001, the Western hope was China would move toward a market-driven economy. Instead, particularly after the 2008 financial crisis, China has expanded central planning ; 100,000 SOEs have been the principal engine of that expansion.

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GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2018

This is part of the toolkit of maintaining their “license to operate.” Copper mining isn’t just affected by natural resource pressures; it embodies natural resource constraints. Second, the rise of the clean economy is creating new, exciting growth markets for copper. And EVs need a lot of copper.

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Energy Trends Globalization Industry 8