Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Given how central automotive transportation is to our cities, commerce, and daily lives, saying that AI will change life as we know it is no understatement. This distinction is important because the driver is typically the most expensive part of a transport business, be it taxi services, last-mile logistics, or long-haul trucking.

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

That year, as management tried to coordinate all the operating details across all the divisions, the company almost went bankrupt when poor planning led to excess inventory, with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash. He had each of the divisions start systematic strategic planning.

Transportation 8

Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Policies relating to infrastructure development, land and labor, healthcare, and transport fall under the purview of the states—as do most licensing and permitting. Step 2: Measure operating environment. The business and operating environment varies remarkably across states.

Strategy 8

Strategy Operations Policies Environment 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay. Consider how Uber opened up the transportation market.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Drone operators will be regularly required, for example, to pass a written test, but won’t, as rumored, need to obtain a pilot’s license.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Reading transports us to a place beyond ourselves. While I use online for just about everything, and will be facilitating a leader’s board meeting for PBS on webcam tomorrow for example, I still prefer the page to the screen when I read:-). I haven't read the book yet, but when I do I'll share my feedback with readers.

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Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

On January 19, 2012, after 131 years of operation, the Eastman Kodak Company filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. If we could get better health some other way, just as we can now produce images without film and transport people and freight without railroads, then maybe we wouldn't have to rely so much on health care.

Health Care 15

Health Care Levitt Film Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

For example, printing products on demand would significantly reduce the U.S. Leaders of corporate strategic development need to analyze all of these considerations and be prepared for disruption to ripple through many functions — not just product development and manufacturing, but also finance, tax, legal, human resources, and IT.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2017

For example, by designing a new cloud-based customer service platform, within nine months a power company could go head-to-head with an internet service provider that had started to sell electricity alongside Wi-Fi services and cheaply financed cars.

Planning 8

Planning Agility System Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 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? These examples are not hypothetical capabilities; these are now real options for companies. Transportation giants like FedEx and UPS already use software-based optimization of fleet routes with cost savings in mind.

Energy 8

Energy Resources Information Technology Cost Center 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

“Expect delays” has become the recurring theme of our transportation system. The Future of Operations. The shortage of transport capacity relative to demand will have a profound effect on businesses. Longer supply chains also increase inventory levels and carrying costs related to financing and warehousing.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

General Electric is a good example. For example, the two parties identified the challenge of national electrification and committed to work together to bring $10 billion of investment and 10,000 megawatts of new power online, along with local manufacturing and training. They are playing development to win. It’s neither.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

And a great potential source of talent with the right skills are professionals who change career lanes — people with experience and training in accounting, finance, human resources and strategy who leave corporate jobs to follow their passion to have a social impact. About 75% come from the private sector.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer How To Airlines Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

For example, the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, one of the most important agricultural regions worldwide, may face an 18% to 23% reduction in soy and corn output by 2050, due to climate change. For example, wheat needs to be milled into flour to produce bread or noodles, and soybeans must be crushed to produce oil or feed for livestock.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Policies Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Next, the team leader asks if there is anything in particular the team needs to know to work more effectively together that shift: For example, “Is there a delay in public transport so we can expect patients to be late for their appointments?,” ” or “Is there a patient with some kind of special need coming in?”

Health Care 8

Health Care Stress Morale Airlines 8

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. For example, a core belief could be, “Physical assets are durable and reliable; people are volatile and risky.”

Business Model 8

Business Model Industry Metrics Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

I have seen examples of great health care all over the world, but too often the inspiring individuals delivering this care have been impeded, rather than helped, by the system in which they are working. The answer is the organizations in which they work and the pressures, incentives, and regulations under which they operate.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Medicine is fraught with anachronistic administrative structures, as well as competing and redundant decision-making processes involving many stakeholders (the hospital, doctors, nurses, compliance, finance, and others) who often work in silos and have differing goals. physician assistants) in the ED. The data were startling.

Health Care 8

Health Care Diversity Proposal Document 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Using this approach to build each new Medicaid team, we then armed the primary care team with the operating structure, data, and incentives needed to create engagement with our patients wherever they are, enveloping them with compassion and the latest in evidence-based care. Our primary care clinicians operate in multidisciplinary teams.

Health Care 8

Health Care Metrics Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. And alongside the country’s bad debt (some estimates say it is $40 billion ), sanctions were commonly evaded through money laundering , which discouraged foreign banks from operating locally. However, remaining U.S. financial system for bank transactions related to Iran.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. How best to draw actionable inspiration from Grove?

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Sales could be developing a behaviorally informed strategy, while operations looks for ways to cut costs. If you plan for the team to be self-financing after an initial period, how long do you have to make it work — a couple of months, or a couple of years? Find the Right Home for the Team.

Company 8

Company Committee Ethics Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

The problem with the effort, of course, was that building both the necessary African infrastructure and the logistics network needed to transport the non-indigenous crops was going to be a very expensive proposition indeed. To us, there are few better examples at demonstrating the power of the Lean Startup. or you might not.

Company 8

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 We selected this benchmark because it reflects the phase in which companies have proven product viability, achieved initial product/market fit, and are now expanding sales and growing more complex operations. billion, compared to just $1.2 billion in 2013.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

For example, so few computer and information systems managers existed in 1980 that data used here did not record this occupation. Other managerial occupations that became majority-female were education administration, human resources, property and real estate, and finance. Several positions, however, remain dominated by men.

Management 9

Management Real Estate Human Resources Diversity 9

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? These examples are not hypothetical capabilities; these are now real options for companies. Transportation giants like FedEx and UPS already use software-based optimization of fleet routes with cost savings in mind.

Energy 8

Energy Resources Cost Center Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Consider, for example, a government payment system created in 2016 that was processing 100,000 transactions per month in October of that year, prior to the sudden demonetization. Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization.

Banking 13

Banking Long-term Short-term System 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

They all pay taxes, report their finances, disclose significant shareholders, and comply with the full range of employment, health and safety, advertising, intellectual property, consumer protection and anti-competition laws, to name just a few. What if, for example, artificial intelligence puts an entire generation out of work ?

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Technology Proposal Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

of the votes were in favor, providing a strong signal that climate change is an important financial risk and that shareholders want to know more about what companies are doing to transform their operations and products to remain competitive in a low-carbon world. Boards are not the only ones under pressure.

Tips 8

Tips Supply Chain Proposal Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

One high profile example is Walmart’s commitment to source an additional $250 billion in products made, assembled, or grown in the United States. Such a policy alone could have a major impact on companies operating in the United States. It also saves money because transportation costs on those U.S.-made

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2017

While some might be enthused by the potential for corporate tax reform or a (promised) $1 trillion infrastructure investment plan, it’s more likely they’re referring to the historic rollback of regulations in the works across many sectors , from fossil fuels to mining, guns, and finance.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Supply Chain Short-term Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

John Macomber, a senior lecturer in the finance unit at Harvard Business School, has studied infrastructure financing around the world. Further, thousands of municipalities and agencies still issue municipal bonds to finance water, power, road, and other projects that are largely self-funding or “bankable” projects.

Banking 8

Banking Objective Finance Proposal 8