HR Digest

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The greatest change seen is in remote work operations. ThoughtWorks Chief Operating Officer, Saptorsi Hore said that clients have gradually become more comfortable in their support of remote working, and the organization sees a dramatic shift in their expectation of flexibility in post-covid work trends. Remote Work.

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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.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The near-universal rush to cut costs and headcount is more likely distracting us from, rather than enabling, the real work of retooling our enterprises to be competitive in this new world. So where Ford incorporated everything into one integrated mega-plant, Ohno designed operations for a network of factories.

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Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

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. Delayed or cancelled flights cost the U.S.

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Transportation Innovation CEO Training 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

Narratives are powerful leadership tools. This kind of leadership communication is sorely needed now to get moving on America’s infrastructure problems. Transportation infrastructure must be renewed and reinvented. The state of transportation infrastructure has implications for every major issue.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

The Department of Transportation, however, had insisted such a pilot unnecessary. The organizational and operational benefits of targeted testing are not. Of course, the field won't be thrilled with time, effort and cost of debugging what's been crashed. Yes, the benefits of testing should clearly outweigh its costs.

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Leadership Innovation Lean Production Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2011

This post is part of a three-week series exploring the re-invention of the social infrastructure of cities, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Or consider transportation. Or they can use ZipCar , at a fraction of the cost of car ownership. Consider senior care.

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Transportation Energy Efficiency Health Care 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

He and his wife aren’t just race enthusiasts, they are social entrepreneurs: founders of Riders for Health , an organization that manages transportation systems for the delivery of health care in seven countries across sub-Saharan Africa. By contrast, the humdrum issue of transportation infrastructure barely registers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

To renew and reinvent our aging transportation infrastructure, we must turn our attention to coalition-building. Classic leadership lessons apply. Engineering innovations lowered the cost. Systemic problems that affect everyone but are beyond the ability of any one person to solve require collaboration skills. Enter a coalition.

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Project Transportation Construction Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

But I suggest that the problem at Uber goes beyond a culture created by toxic leadership. Uber was wise to use smartphone apps (not telephone calls) to let passengers request vehicles, and it found major cost savings in equipping drivers with standard phones (not specialized hardware). But others did this, too. Fixing the Problem.

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Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. But companies in this state often face increasing pressure to improve efficiency and reduce operating costs in their legacy businesses, and this pressure attracts opportunistic disruptors.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

There are many ways that even a good business with good leadership can be damaged or bankrupted. Opportunities were abundant, especially with used cars, since so many dealers were panicking and slashing their inventories even as demand for affordable transportation increased. Ours did; over 700 did not.)

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Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 256

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

has been trumpeted as a major reversal of the trend of sending jobs abroad to lower cost locations, and has been characterized in the press as a kind of " onshoring " story. By the summer of 2008 GE leadership wanted to sell the appliances business or spin it off. GE''s " insourcing " of appliance manufacturing to the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Creating better outcomes at reduced cost. We also invested significant leadership time in performing final interviews for all roles — from medical assistants to physician leaders — to ensure that each team member would strengthen the team’s dedication. Our primary care clinicians operate in multidisciplinary teams.

Health Care 8

Health Care Metrics Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

The company’s leadership moved proactively to accelerate it and shape it. “If IBM identified a set of “Grand Challenges” facing the continent that could be addressed through superior data analytics, including water and sanitation, energy management, financial services, transportation, public safety, healthcare, and agriculture.

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Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. billion in 2013, and operating profits increased 65% to $422 million. billion to $8.6

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Teamwork all too often feels inefficient (search and coordination costs eat up time), risky (can I trust others to deliver for my client?), Many people naively see collaboration as a leadership style in which relationships take precedence over the task at hand. Collaboration is not a style. But collaboration is not consensus.

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Chief Operating Officer Consensus How To Project 9

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

The Enron scandal alone has cost each taxpayer twelve dollars. September 11 is attributed as costing New York City 83,000 jobs and negatively impacting its economy by $1 billion. Among the workers laid off because of the terrorist attacks, 42 percent, or 44,756 workers, had been employed in the scheduled air transportation industry.

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Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 59

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2017

The average breach costs around $4 million. Nobody, though, is showing any leadership.” ” The tools to accomplish attacks are increasingly available on the dark web at decreasing costs, including troves of cyber tools stolen from the NSA and CIA. Related Video.

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Power System Video Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

But had they looked at themselves from the point of view of their customers, they would have seen that they were really in the transportation and logistics business and would have better understood the challenge, and the opportunities, represented by the growing airline industry. Innovation Leadership Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Digital transformation halts, or fails, for many reasons—but most often it’s because minor changes at the surface level do nothing to affect the fundamental operations of a company. Real digital transformation requires transformation at a deeper level—transformation of the leadership team’s core beliefs.

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Business Model Industry Metrics Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? One challenge, as you might expect, was introducing a software center that disrupted the existing GE’s power structure, which resides in its business units, such as Aviation, Healthcare, Power and Water, and Transportation.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

Companies were split into divisions, each with their own leadership. Southwest’s mission of being the low-cost airline drives everything it does, from the planes it buys to the routes it competes on. Tesla’s mission “to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport” transcends car manufacturing.

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Groupthink Agility Diversity Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Toward a New Leadership Agenda. While the last wave of globalization centered on accessing foreign markets and creating low-cost global supply chains, the next wave could follow a very different pattern. To do so, business leaders must balance two apparently conflicting objectives. These are the seven areas: 1. Essential background.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

But most successful companies used electricity and motors to reinvent their existing businesses, whether in manufacturing, transportation, or construction. Operate : Deploy the platform to foster connections and the exchange of value at scale. Everyone on the leadership team has a role to play in making this pivot.

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Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

In an industry that involves selling machines that transport humans at fast speeds, the notion that employees wouldn’t be encouraged to discuss safety seems odd. A fundamental problem at many American car companies is a legacy of reacting slowly, protecting executives from bad news, and focusing on cutting costs.

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Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Reading transports us to a place beyond ourselves. When I teach MBA leadership courses I require all papers – on any leadership issues – to address key problems from opposing views. Thanks for encouraging and challenging the leadership community. Leadership Freak, Dan Rockwell Mark Oakes Great post, Mike.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Who at your company will be put in charge of turning buildings operations from a cost center to a revenue center? Cost Savings. Energy Information Administration, with a combined annual energy cost of over $200 billion. according to IHS, incurring fuel costs in the billions annually. Operational Improvements.

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Energy Resources Cost Center Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Who at your company will be put in charge of turning buildings operations from a cost center to a revenue center? Cost Savings. Energy Information Administration, with a combined annual energy cost of over $200 billion. according to IHS, incurring fuel costs in the billions annually. Operational Improvements.

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Energy Resources Information Technology Cost Center 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating. Adapting to change.

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Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You’re competing against platforms like Uber in transportation, Google in automotive, Airbnb in hospitality, LinkedIn in recruiting, Netflix in television, and the list goes on. Today, Delta has industry-leading operations in metrics such as on-time arrivals, flight cancellations, and lost bags.

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Software Company Airlines Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

So we took a different approach, building a highly integrated leadership team that sets a new standard for emergency care, with the needs of patients (not providers) as the driving force. The Leadership Structure. First order of business: Build a leadership team. Where We Started. Straightforward, right? The data were startling.

Health Care 8

Health Care Diversity Proposal Document 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Primary care delivery faces additional challenges for scaling because it operates on thin margins, often is not highly valued by patients, and has difficulty attracting trained providers. North Star primarily serves truck drivers and sex workers, operating in the afternoons and evenings to fit its clients’ schedules.

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Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

HR Digest

JULY 22, 2019

Robotic loaders and remotely-controlled trucks are significantly reducing operational costs in the mining sector. Mining companies are increasingly moving to the latest automation technology to modernize their operations. Automation in mining also handles increasing safety challenges associated with conventional operations.

Industry 87

Industry Operations Transportation Technology 87

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 14, 2021

“Maximizing shareholder value at the cost of everything and everyone else is a bankrupt enterprise.” These two factors have made everyone aware that maximizing shareholder value at the cost of everything and everyone else is a bankrupt enterprise. Erich is the founder of VIVALDI, a global strategy and transformation firm.

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Brand Insurance Participative Open-book 96

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

Having cofounded and sold PayPal, he quickly moved on to launching a range of ventures with world-changing aspirations for how we generate energy , transport ourselves and our goods, interface with machines, and explore our solar system. Exceptional success comes at a cost. By any measure, Elon Musk is exceptionally successful.

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