HR Digest

MAY 3, 2021

As the COVID-19 crisis takes a sharp turn from government to business, the issue of redefining jobs moves up the agenda. Beth Galetti: Amazon is where smart, passionate people come to obsess about customers and innovate on their behalf. Amazon operates like a series of customer-focused start-ups innovating at a fast pace.

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Quality Engineering Technology Resources 59

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 29, 2023

What’s more, if we can shift our mindset in such a way, it could unlock a wave of innovation and productivity improvements that benefit us all. Expanding the vision For much of the development of AI, the vision has been to replicate human intelligence. While this is an enticing vision, it’s also a limiting one.

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Comparison Technology Hotels Incentives 103

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 7, 2022

For many years, the prevailing narrative was that cities were the engines of our economies, with the agglomeration effect bringing together talent and consumers to make cities extremely compelling environments for work, rest, and play. Engines of creation. Cities have long been viewed as the engines of the economy.

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GDP Technology Policies Engineering 128

Coaching Tip

JULY 16, 2015

This is CEO Shigetaka Komari's own story of why Fujifilm succeeded where Eastman Kodak failed with hard-won lessons for managers and employees everywhere. In 2000, Shigetaka Komori, author of Innovating Out of Crisis , became president of Fujifilm and said, "The whole of Fujifilm was depending on my managerial skills to make it happen.

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Film Crisis Innovation Brand 70

N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

If you are responsible for leading teams, how can you be sure that the work being done throughout the day will innovatively increase impact and productivity to make tomorrow a better place? Or, if you are responsible for managing Solopreneur projects, how can you be sure that the work will increase impact and productivity?

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Execution Objective Learning-by-Doing System 296

Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

” Employees are constantly told they need to change processes and practices, only for the leadership team to keep on doing what they always do, and managers maintaining the same old routines. What leaders must do is to help employees and managers to recalibrate their expectations,” Altman argues. It may be a tough message.

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Altman Six Sigma COO Sharpe 86

Strategy Driven

APRIL 7, 2021

COVID-19 has raised serious questions for businesses, primarily how can they respond to the crisis and what changes will it cause going forward for consumers? If your business doesn’t already utilise these tools, now is the time to consider how you can innovate to deliver your product or services in a digital way. Reassess SEO.

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Audience How To Marketing Brand 74

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 300

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 24, 2020

As with so much at the moment, the pandemic is extenuating many of the trends seen before the crisis, and a paper from Harvard Business School at the start of 2020 made the case for easier migration policies to help rejuvenate an economy that many thought was sliding towards a recession. first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

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Cooper Supply Chain Long-term Globalization 93

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Also, a common response is to confuse a sales engine, fulfillment process, operational process, technology platform, or any number of other areas as business models, where this is not the case. Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc., are also not business models. I Think Not.

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Business Model Blog Brand Depreciation 269

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Whether it is aesthetic, functional, creative, process, innovative, intellectual, technical or applicational…design matters. The iPod pioneered innovative design in the mp3 player vertical with great technical design, outstanding functional design, and is in a class by itself with regard to aesthetic design.

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Brand Blog Reputation Parcell 267

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Perhaps you were the right person for the job initially, but has the company outgrown your management ability? While entrepreneurs are clearly talented innovators and visionaries, most first time entrepreneurs don’t have prior experience as a CEO. As the founder, can you, or should you, attempt to grow with the company?

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Entrepreneur CEO Blog Welch 318

Curious Cat

JANUARY 22, 2015

This month Bill Troy, ASQ CEO, asked ASQ Influential Voices bloggers : “who influenced or inspired your management thinking and in what ways?” I have written about my management influences in the past: Active Management Improvement Leaders (2006) and Who Influences Your Thinking?

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Deming Management Influence Learning-by-Doing 40

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable. When Google started they had the greatest focus, the simplest vision, and the least cluttered search engine.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 295

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

In today’s post I’ll examine how managing appearances can have a substantial impact on your personal brand and your success. You should manage appearances on creating a feeling of comfort and engendering confidence…not on trying to impress.

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Blog Gordon Brand Media 312

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

I joined Memorex Corporation in the early 1980s as a mechanical design engineer. In an era of physical innovation, people understood instinctively how things worked, even if they weren't familiar with the underlying theories of physics. You may recall the commercial " Is it live, or is it Memorex? featuring Ella Fitzgerald.

Engineering 10

Engineering Crisis Software Offshoring 10

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 5, 2011

Here are brief excerpts from two articles featured by McKinsey & Company. I suggest you read them in the order in which they appear here, then click where indicated to read each in its entirety. I presume to suggest, further, that you register to receive email updates on other resources that are also available at [.].

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Crisis McKinsey Resources Article 80

Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

I don’t think I learned anything about Deming or his work as an undergraduate Industrial Engineering student from 1991 to 1995. I was fortunate that my father had an opportunity to be a student in the famed four-day seminar, while working as an engineer at the Cadillac division of General Motors, in the late 1980s. Edwards Deming.

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Deming TQM Kaizen Crisis 46

Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

In an effort to better understand when and how corporate cultures change, CCL and corporate leaders surveyed a group of global VPs and directors in HR, Learning & Development, Leadership, and Talent Management. The results were telling. A general feeling of resistance to organizational change — a.k.a.

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Altman Decentralization COO Restructuring 76

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. An alternative emerging at healthcare institutions worldwide is human-centered design and co-creation, a set of approaches that can accelerate and humanize healthcare innovation.

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Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Always at the forefront of innovation, technologies pioneered by the military are often adopted by the commercial sector; companies looking for cyber knowledge or network engineering skills can find this expertise among veterans. Programs like the U.S.

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Agility Pharmaceuticals Self-aware Crisis Management 50

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 373

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 20, 2020

Pre-covid, innovation folk would talk about the value a “burning platform” plays in driving lasting change, and for many businesses, this has been just such a burning platform. Tuck Business School’s Vijay Govindarajan underlines how important our ability to forget is to innovation. Unnecessary hurdles.

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Innovation Govindarajan Short-term Banking 97

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. It is important to identify swings and trends so that innovation can remain a strength of your business. Design and re-engineering of products-services. Time management and “just in time” concepts are applied. Instill discipline.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Nokia's technology isn't a root cause of its current crisis. Don't blame its engineers and designers either. The company still knows how to innovate. America was treated as an innovation afterthought. You can't be a genuine global innovator if you're a loser in America. a poor platform for innovation.

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Crisis Globalization Innovation Entrepreneur 15

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings. You Know How To Say It : Mark Twain I’m not, but for the most part I can put across a cogent thought. I Think Not.

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Blog Content Media Brand 296

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

You can follow Seth on Twitter @ThisIsSethsBlog Alexa Rank : 4,876 Google Page Rank : 7 PostRank Leadership Score : N/A Number of Posts in last 30 days : 35 TwitterGrader Score : 100 The Management Experts : If you’re looking for a positive spin on leadership then look no further than Phil Gerbyshak.

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Blog Leadership Follow-up Media 367

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

For those of you that have read Out of the Crisis, Deming asks in that book: Need any country be poor? Roger also discusses the idea of statistical engineering and the difference between engineering and science. Hunter: an Innovator and Catalyst for Quality Improvement. And that was a sincere concern of his.

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Rogers Deming Six Sigma Engineering 28

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. I am grateful for the people who served in that crisis. Fifth Avenue was shut down and everyone was walking in the middle of it headed from hospital to hospital or up to the Red Cross to give blood. I Think Not.

Blog 352

Blog Hotels Follow-up Brand 352

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2014

My fellow HBR blogger Bill Taylor recently made a pitch for all of us to stop using the word “innovation” in 2014. What can be done, in the spirit of Bill’s admonishment, is to stop getting tangled up in all of the variations, nuances, tools, techniques, models, frameworks, and paradigms of innovation. Second, demystify the process.

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Innovation Incubator Taylorism Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

For the United States and Germany, strong multinational corporations and technological innovation are the driving factors. innovation is driven by a can-do spirit and a healthy appetite for risk, with established corporations and startups introducing some of the world’s most important and game-changing technologies.

Management 8

Management Market Penetration Innovation Engineering 8

Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

As I wrote about in my first post , my first job out of college was at the GM Livonia Engine Plant, outside of Detroit. General Motors wasn’t my ideal workplace after having read Deming’s Out of the Crisis and learning a bit about Lean manufacturing in college. Guest post by Mark Graban. But, it really mattered to me.

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Kaizen Deming Lean Manufacturing Handbook 28

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

I was running a workshop with a multinational engineering firm when I ran into a perfect example of an air sandwich, which illustrates this point. Furthermore, the amount of work they were winning dropped off significantly during and after the global financial crisis. And yet the potential rewards are also significant.

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Innovation Strategy Execution Idea Generation 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

These stock buybacks have come under criticism as a bad investment – the argument being that companies sitting on record amounts of cash ought to invest in innovation, salaries, or at least dividends, rather than pumping up their own stock price through buybacks. Not so fast.

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Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Enterprise IT is in crisis — no doubt about it. The Management Innovation Exchange is currently running a competition to "hack" the human resources function to enable organizational adaptability. As IT steps up as mentor, it needs to mature as well.

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CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

It piled up on streets and in vacant lots, and in 1898 urban planners convened from around the world to brainstorm solutions to the impending crisis. If 19th-century urban planners had had access to big data, machine learning techniques, and modern management theory, these tools would not have helped them.

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Stephenson White Paper Real Estate Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The recent disclosure of a multi-billion dollar trading loss at JPMorgan Chase reminds us again of the challenge and complexity of risk management, the subject of our June 2012 HBR article, "Managing Risks: A New Framework." Each requires customized risk management processes. The compliance-oriented risk manager of a failed U.K.

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Risk Management CIO Management Banking 9