Leading Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Step Two: Disaggregate the Issues. How do you disaggregate the issues and develop hypotheses to be explored? T HE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM’S Future of Jobs Report lists complex problem-solving as the number one skill for jobs in 2020. Organizations are looking for people that can define problems and form solid creative responses. Like leaders themselves, good problem solvers are made, not born. Yet these skills are rarely taught. That’s where Bulletproof Problem Solving comes in.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

2: Disaggregate. Yes, we find the most common mistakes in complex problem solving are weak problem statements, poor problem disaggregation, and insufficient attention to good team norms. When teams fail to disaggregate problems well – we use logic trees and usually try several versions – they often fall prey to asserting answers from past models rather than really doing the work. Bulletproof Problem Solving. Complex problem solving is the core skill for 21st century teams.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2019

How you disaggregate or cleave a problem has a big impact on the insight you get into a problem. “The old paradigm of strategy departments and planning cycles has been overthrown by agile and rapid team-based problem solving, providing better solutions and better organization alignment to implement.” These comments by Mehrdad Baghai, strategist and author, commend our book Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill that Changes Everything.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 30, 2019

Although there are many ways to do demand forecasting right, these key tips can help a business get more out of their investment in the practice: Remember that demand is not monolithic and try implementing a disaggregated model. The art of predicting the future is nearly as old as civilization itself.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 1, 2019

Lee Jourdan: One thing we’re doing, and it’s a bit subtle, is that we’re disaggregating the data we provide in our Corporate Responsibility report, so we can gauge how we’re progressing. Diversity is an overused word, but at Chevron it’s a perfect description of its corporate culture. How did it happen? The company’s 2018 Corporate Responsibility Report highlights how diversity and inclusion (D&I) feature so centrally in the company’s success story.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Work is being disaggregated into tasks that can be dispersed inside and outside of the organization — the “uberization” of work. IBM has been building a talent system that both aligns with and accelerates this phenomenon of the external disaggregation of work. As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

When transaction costs drop past invisible thresholds, there will be sudden, dramatic, hard-to-predict aggregations and disaggregations of existing business models. Many of the technologies we now take for granted were quiet revolutions in their time. Just think about how much smartphones have changed the way we live and work. It used to be that when people were out of the office, they were gone, because a telephone was tied to a place, not to a person.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Instead of creating jobs, companies are increasingly disaggregating work from a job. When the students in the MBA course I teach on the gig economy ask me for the best thing they can do to prepare for their future careers, I tell them: “Stop looking for a job.” ” This may sound like odd advice to give MBA students.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Instead of just celebrating, or making an investment across the board to bring in even more traffic, think about how you can disaggregate your data so you can better understand cause and effect in this situation. Looking at your numbers carefully and digging into disaggregated data allows you to take much more educated and focused next steps. Does this sound familiar?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It is hard to disaggregate the reasons, but doing so alongside answering each of these questions will help bring clarity to this crossroads. We recently did an informal survey of some of our venture capital colleagues. We asked, "What crossroads decisions are most common and challenging for entrepreneurs in the course of the business-building journey?". The most common responses to this open-ended question were whether to take an investment and whether to sell the company.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2010

What they should be doing is disaggregating the drivers of these results, and focusing instead on who, or what, comprises those averages. There's no such thing as an average customer. A Harvard Business School marketing professor named John Deighton once came up with a vivid analogy to illustrate this and show why a business should sub-segment its customer base.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The ability of such technology to enable traditional jobs to be disaggregated and to supplement or replace routine activities presents opportunities in efficiency, effectiveness, and impact. We are at an interesting tipping point regarding how and where work gets done. As business leaders and managers, we have become increasingly capable of engaging a workforce that is some combination of virtual and on site, part time and full time, permanent and contingent.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

They enable the disaggregation of physical assets in space and in time, creating digital platforms that make these disaggregated components — a few days in an apartment, an hour using a Roomba, a seat in your drive from Berlin to Hamburg — amenable to pricing, matching, and exchange.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

So before we can explore the Social Era, we need to disaggregate two words — social is not always attached to the word media. When I say, "Social is and can be more than media," people resist. It's as if the two words (social and media) are now permanently fused together. But they shouldn't be. The fact that they are joined at the hip in so many people's minds means that marketing agencies are thriving — but that the rest of our organizations are not.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

So it began disaggregating return on equity into three components. Who is the world's most innovative company? The editors of Fast Company say Nike. Last year , number crunchers at Forbes found that Salesforce.com is the company with the highest "Innovation Premium" baked into its stock price. MIT Technology Review didn't pick a winner, but on its recent list of top 50 "disruptors," the magazine mixed stalwarts such as General Electric and IBM with up-and-comers, Square and Coursera.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Without clear guidance, most reps simply slip into "order taker" mode, closing small, disaggregated, price-driven deals at a discount all in the name of "giving customers what they want.". This blog, the third in a four-part series, is also part of the HBR Insight Center Growing the Top Line. Its conclusions are based on data from a global study of more than 6,000 sales reps across nearly 100 companies in multiple industries.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

And it’s not as effective as it could be, because the money is allocated in a disaggregated manner. When the Blizzard of ’78 hit the Northeast, it caught the region by surprise. Some meteorologists had predicted only a minor snowstorm, and forecasts were still unreliable enough that many people simply went about their regular business.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

If the star quality of our employees isn't immediately apparent, disaggregate their package into component skills until you find the disruptive skill that can make them a star performer, and deploy him/her accordingly. With nervous, but mostly eager, anticipation I walked up to the C-suite floor to meet with a senior manager at Merrill Lynch. When I'd initially met him two years earlier, he'd seemed quite supportive of my career as a sell-side analyst.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Work is being disaggregated from jobs and reorganized into a variety of alternative arrangements, such as consulting projects, freelance assignments, and contract opportunities. The winners and losers in the U.S. economy have traditionally been easy to identify. If you had a full-time job, you won. A full-time job provided the steady income needed to support our traditional version of the American Dream: the highly leveraged, high-fixed-cost house; the cars; the latest consumer goods.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2011

The startup is trying to build a platform that could replace a disaggregated network of local news sources. Disclosure: The author is a shareholder in AOL. It's been funny watching the financial press and the tech community eviscerate AOL's Patch.com since last week's disappointing earnings call. The irony is that Patch is AOL's last, best chance to build a growth engine. Investors shouldn't be calling for AOL to back off the business.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

A disaggregated laptop that is lighter and more versatile, since I can use the screen by itself as an e-reader and the keyboard with other devices. The world is coming apart in many interesting ways. I recently bought an iPad. After using it for a few days I bought a wireless keyboard. A week later I bought a case that puts the iPad in one half and the keyboard in the other. Presto!

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Unsurprisingly, the group’s targeted segmentation and disaggregation efforts ended up dramatically improving response and resolution times for typical customers. Aggravated and depressed by the decline of their core memory business in the 1980s, Intel’s top management struggled for strategic clarity.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Previously, there has been a presumption that there was no need for a disaggregation of the interests of the UK as a whole and England, on the grounds that it contains 85% of the UK population. Following Scotland’s rejection of independence in the September 18 referendum, David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, has enlarged the scope of Britain’s constitutional debate.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2014

In disaggregated markets with many sellers and buyers and where search costs are high, intermediaries provide considerable value. Last week New Jersey started enforcing a ban on direct sales by Tesla Motors of its path-breaking model S. Tesla’s direct sales have also run into hot water in a number of other states: Ohio lawmakers are debating a ban on Tesla’s direct sales and Texas, Arizona, and Virginia are also opposed.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

Quirky has created an innovation engine more suited for the Social Era — in which work and jobs are no longer the same thing, and collaboration happens outside of organizations as much as within it — in three ways: It disaggregates the process of innovation from the innovator''s work itself. All his life, he hated brushing his teeth. Getting toothpaste onto a toothbrush can be messy if your fine motor skills are still developing.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

But producers in many of the newer entrants (such as Bangladesh) tend to be small and highly disaggregated. The death of over 800 people in the collapse of Rana Plaza , a building with garment factories in Bangladesh, spurred widespread outrage over working conditions in offshore factories. In the search for blame, many commentators point to the absence of building codes, lack of workplace safety rules, and the greed of US corporations.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

So it began disaggregating return on equity into three components. Who is the world's most innovative company? The editors of Fast Company say Nike. Last year , number crunchers at Forbes found that Salesforce.com is the company with the highest "Innovation Premium" baked into its stock price. MIT Technology Review didn't pick a winner, but on its recent list of top 50 "disruptors," the magazine mixed stalwarts such as General Electric and IBM with up-and-comers, Square and Coursera.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

The company manages a large, disaggregated workforce of “driver-partners” that deliver a relatively standardized experience to passengers, while simultaneously promoting drivers as independent entrepreneurs whose work is characterized by freedom, flexibility, and independence. Since Uber was founded, in 2009, its workforce has continued to grow exponentially: 400,000 drivers are considered “ active ” on the Uber platform today, and 1.1

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2014

Disaggregate the drivers. Given that few products and services these days exist without a digital component of some sort, companies are increasingly being required to do live prototyping of a digital solution. There’s a common perception that product development for digital solutions is easier than it is for physical ones. While this can be true, we’ve seen many digital solutions fail because the product development process is too far removed from the user and lacks a human touch.

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