Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

This guest post by Amir Golan , VP of Business Development at Signals , shows how important it is to look for the small signals and patterns in big data that are easily lost. Back then, they would run focus groups to see what customers liked/didn''t like about the product and would check competitors that began to do well.

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Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Employee training programs and regular upskilling are the best ways to ensure you and your team reach their full potential. Its effectiveness is only revealed when we monitor employee and team behavior after training has been carried out, observing the application of the newly acquired skills or knowledge in the real world.

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Metrics Training Benchmarking ROI 52

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 27, 2012

In fact, HR in high-risk industries should implement a variety of avenues/opportunities for employee feedback, such as phone hotlines, online and on-site suggestion boxes, employee surveys, focus groups, new hire surveys and exit interviews. HR can facilitate discussions and task forces for planning and next steps.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Some of the outsource administration you could consider are: Surveying, polling, and focus group tests. IT Services and Technology. Regardless of whether you are tech-savvy or not, it is usually simpler to let someone else deal with your technology needs. Many technology duties come tagged with a steep learning curve.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Bally Technologies , a leading provider of gaming systems for casinos, has earned more than 60 awards for innovation in just the last four years. How did Bally Technologies do it? But while the foundational elements are the same, Bally Technologies uses them in a distinct way. Through an innovation excellence framework.

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Technology Innovation Kaizen Chief Executive Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs. We hear, in interviews and focus groups, that women are consistently spoken over and even robbed of their ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

But effective security is driven as much by people as it is by technology. The ways those people interact with technology and each other can completely change the effectiveness of your security strategy. Collaborative, cross-functional teams. A focus on outcomes rather than inputs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Using our robust data archive system which captures electronic health record, medical and prescription claims, and other information, we create dashboard displays for use by leadership, operational teams, and clinicians to reveal population-level trends and identify patients and clinicians for targeted interventions.

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System Health Care Review Focus Group 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

As one technology executive has explained to us, “We have some very capable women in the middle management and junior VP levels, but they leave our firm to advance their careers as they continually get passed over for promotion.” Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. Firms with the most ethnically diverse executive teams were 33% more likely to outperform their peers on profitability, and those with executive-level gender diversity worldwide had a 21% likelihood of outperforming their industry competitors.

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Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

But I am also excited about “stagecraft,” a related approach that fakes a new product or service to get real-life reactions from users early in the development process. Employed early in the development process, stagecraft can yield critical insights that you might not discover until much later on. So that idea died.

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Learning-by-Doing Engineering Film Transportation 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The increasing availability of data coupled with the abundance of sophisticated technologies, tools, and applications give filmmakers an opportunity to improve decision making for better forecast revenue before a movie is released. Sales teams could be equipped with likely sales for a given film to sell appropriately.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The increasing availability of data coupled with the abundance of sophisticated technologies, tools, and applications give filmmakers an opportunity to improve decision making for better forecast revenue before a movie is released. Sales teams could be equipped with likely sales for a given film to sell appropriately.

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Film Franchising Budgeting Audience 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

When someone on an account team improves dramatically after being constructively coached by a fellow team member. Some reverse leaders are people quite content to remain individual contributors, like the scientist who has no interest in managing a team but cares deeply about the company's mission.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. Yes, set up a “focus group” of employees to serve as community leaders who will shepherd your company into the social networking world, but don’t put all of the power in their hands.

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Media Follow-up Software Newsletter 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Companies as diverse as AIG, Disney, and Intuit have been building innovation teams, launching “accelerator” programs to attract promising startups, and giving employees seed funding to test out new ideas with real customers. The other type of metric, an “impact” metric, shows that the ship is actually going somewhere.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

In terms of people, processes and technologies, Toyota and Google's YouTube have little in common. These investments are more about the development of human capital than finance. As global innovators, however, they share a remarkable core value and best practice: they invest in the innovative capabilities of their suppliers.

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Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

The company had put in place advanced mobile technology that has become increasingly standard — for instance, laptops in every truck connected to the central dispatch and order system — to track the mechanics as they did their jobs.

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Efficiency Bottom-up Self-aware Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

We hired roughly 1,000 new employees in approximately 15 months to build our operations, human resources, compliance, and technology teams. (We What I did know was that I, and our leadership team, needed to solicit feedback — a lot of it. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.)

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Dedicate manpower and resources to look for patterns or trends that may indicate inequities, especially within specific job roles or demographic groups. Then develop protocols for making adjustments to address identified pay disparities. How would you rate the fairness of compensation distribution within the team/organization?

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System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

If you believe this is a problem confined to the developing world, consider this: The rate of maternal mortality in the United States has doubled in the past 20+ years. To help understand a woman’s preferences and challenges, Merck for Mothers has begun to incorporate focus groups and community advisory committees in our work.

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Supply Chain Health Care Self-aware Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2015

In fact, as my current team at exaqueo reviewed client data to help them address their problems with engagement, we confirmed that most employee engagement models are centered around the work experience and not on the employees. As a former HR leader for a Fortune 500 company, I’m all too aware of how flawed the system is.

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Human Resources Self-aware Survey Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2015

For example, I started consulting in the small business space because a client at a technology firm that provided products for small businesses suggested that I had the right skills for this field. It’s a good practice to develop mentoring relationships with a few trusted advisors. You and Your Team.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Health care, wireless communications, real estate, information technology, and airlines are all major industries that consistently confuse and turn off their customers, leading to mistrust and disloyalty. It's also important to encourage employees to use competitors' products, so they don't develop tunnel vision.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 7, 2011

What is the digital company or the new technology that will force you to change your business model? Perhaps it won't be digital technology that will change or crush your business model. 93% of that age group send/read email. 93% of that age group send/read email. Or expand, or morph? Bottom line?

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Business Model Bottom-up Industry Focus Group 60

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2017

Not least in the online search abilities, speech and translation features, and image recognition technology of my employer, Alphabet. Whatever hype businesspeople read around AI — and there is a great deal — the intentions and actions of so many players should alert them to the fundamental importance of this new technology.

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Company Training Technology Wireless 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

E-commerce players were still figuring things out, and brick-and-mortar stores weren’t really experimenting with technology. Yet based on my own experiences, I believed we could use technology to make shopping more efficient. Having an in-house team is critical. We scouted the right talent, and put in the blood, sweat and tears.

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Brand CTO Marketing Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

When my publication, Innovation Leader, surveyed 170 executives who work in R&D, strategy, and new product development roles at large public companies, we found that 82% said they’ve already deployed some elements of the lean startup approach. A faster cycle time for developing ideas. ’” said another.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2012

R&D and product development launch products that receive tepid responses. In doing research for my book , I found that companies who are attracting buyers in today's hyper-connected world are developing new approaches and competencies that focus on one thing: customers. Find your customer product developers.

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CEO Airlines Marketing Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

That required creating a focus group with 25 front-line healthcare workers to discover and catalog key "jobs to be done" (like reducing the length of hospital visits), surveying all 5,000 employees, and training most of them on how to integrate the innovation system into their daily practices.

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Health Care Innovation Compliance Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

But what these groups should be doing longer-term — what value they should be providing their members, how their leaders should steer and contribute to the effort, and what types of events and services they should offer — is frustratingly hard to see, or agree on. You and Your Team Series. Build up from what works.

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Organization How To Seminar Follow-up 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

A rudimentary approach is to segment customers into fairly large groups based on some demographic data (age, address, gender, etc.) An evolving approach is to develop customer data hubs with advanced analytics that enable one-to-one segmentation and real-time decision making. coupled with recent purchase history.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

At the same time, technologies like selfie sticks, Fitbits, and wearable video cameras are making people comfortable monitoring their own calorie consumption, sleep patterns, heart rate, friends, family, and daily experiences. “You just can’t get this depth of insight in a one-off focus group or survey,” Hadnot notes.

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Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

When your company is in trouble — a new competitor or technology threatens your business model, your cost structure changes, the economy tanks — you have one job as a leader: to get the company back on track. This group, which also included some younger leaders, acted as a sounding board, and as early advocates and mobilizers.

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Crisis Banking CEO Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Some companies don’t have the systems and technology to segment and profile customers. It doesn’t store up customer understanding in the sales and marketing groups and then expect other departments to focus solely on their functions. .” Why do so many companies struggle to get customer centricity right?

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Short-term Learning-by-Doing Participative Human Resources 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Create a dedicated multidisciplinary team. A team of engineers, designers, operations specialists, and clinicians was assembled and led by an experienced, well-respected physician “chief engineer” whose vision for the future of care was disruptive. Develop a complete understanding of the system.

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Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8