Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Thanks to the bureaucracy and lack of listening that exists in most companies today, we have created working environments that stifle the creativity, original thought, and innovation that make our human capital so valuable. Silent Killer #5: Suppressing Innovation. 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 3 of 7.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Department of Labor Home Page Tom Peters, The Man, The Myth, The Legend, Change Guru TUTs Adventurers Club: Explore the power of thought & creative visualization to manifest dreams! The Secret - The Law of Getting What You Want The U.S. License. .  This week I have a great management blog carnival to share with you.  Enjoy! .

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Strategy Driven

JULY 16, 2015

Take ownership and use these tips to guide you in finding creative solutions when others are trapped by paranoia, resistance, drama and disempowering paradigms. Chances are your best option might just be Option E or F – a combination of creative ideas. Maybe it is actually a blessing in disguise. Maybe it is a lesson you need to learn.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

For example, we used innovation-linked terms like " design thinking ," " Six Sigma ," " open innovation ," and "product design," among others. For example you can see in this chart indicating regional interest (below), the prominence of the search term "creative talent" in the US especially. Source: Google Insights for Search.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Six Sigma , Kaizen , Lean , and other variations on continuous improvement can be hazardous to your organization's health. Looking beyond Japan, iconic six sigma companies in the United States, such as Motorola and GE, have struggled in recent years to be innovation leaders. the United States.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Never once in my life until my mid 30s did anyone ever (to the best of my recollection) call me "creative." I've since learned that anyone who has a sense of humor is creative.). I refer to these "affordable losses" in the interest of learning, creativity, and discovery as "little bets.". But now, I hear it all the time.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

When it comes to strategy, however, efficiency and productivity are very different. The company has a few talented people who can have a disproportionate impact on strategy execution and performance, but these “difference makers” are too often put in roles that limit their effectiveness.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 24, 2019

Most businesses collect data without any clear idea of why they are collecting it, and their marketing strategy gets stifled under the sheer amount of available information. The symbiosis between overarching business strategy and analytics can be a tough balance to get right, because both should feed off the other.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

More recently, we have focused on the value of Lean, Six Sigma , and diversity. Each level describes a strategy that many leaders use, and the thinking behind it: I will not tell you that I am open to being influenced. Here are four levels that show increasing transparency about how you can be influenced.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

The ready access to low-cost capital should change the way business leaders think about strategy, and in particular the relative value of improving profit margins versus accelerating growth. When capital costs are high, strategies that expand margins are almost always better than strategies that accelerate growth. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

This failure is not for lack of effort — health systems are making massive investments in new infrastructure, technology, processes and managerial approaches designed to manage change, such as electronic health records, Six Sigma and Lean Management. The source of this blindness is twofold.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

The company had spent the past two decades focused on implementing Six Sigma processes across the enterprise and it was primed to execute on the best and smartest ideas. A creativity consultant said to signal that it was a new era in the organization, all of the top executives should dress up as innovation superheroes.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

Companies are touting chief innovation officers, innovation teams, innovations strategies, and even innovation days," the hard-hitting piece noted. They did what made sense to them, even if their strategies made no sense to the legacy carriers. But that doesn't mean the companies are actually doing any innovating.

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