Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

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. They then took it one step further and asked, "How would you find the technology and material to meet this need?" Technology + Methodology. Robust + Comprehensive Insights.

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Stage-Gate Productivity Products Innovation 128

Modern Servant Leader

MAY 15, 2012

As social media platforms come and go, technology changes, but key principles remain. Once you’ve done some listening, you should ensure you and your social media team are action-oriented. Using Radian 6 to listen and monitor events, a team of responders is trained to handle any situation: from traffic backups to missing children.

Media 197

Media Airlines Quality Focus Group 197

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.

Metrics 52

Metrics Training Benchmarking ROI 52

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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Outsourcing Human Resources Learning Curve Marketing 62

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. And 37 people would still be alive.

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Mentor Trends Committee Compliance 232

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.

Technology 8

Technology Innovation Kaizen Chief Executive Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The prevailing thought is that more data is better, especially given advancements in tools and technologies such as artificial intelligence and predictive analytics. In my conversations with business leaders about how they use data analytics, a primary focus is on technical, large-scale systems. Scaling Your Team’s Data Skills.

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Team Analysis Focus Group Influence 12

Tony Mayo

MARCH 10, 2010

Top Executive Coaching with Tony Mayo About Tony Mayo Newsletter Sign-up Sections Client Comments For Executive Coaches For Executives For Fun For Salespeople Quotes and Aphorisms Recommended Books Technology Tips Videos & Podcasts Popular Posts Twitter Log IX About Tony Mayo Truth or Consequences? A focus group is not a survey.

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Mayo Execution Executive Coaching How To 158

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.

Succession 14

Succession Reputation Focus Group Leadership Styles 14

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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Tools Engineering Rate of Return Focus Group 8

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.” ” What can companies do to stop the departure of senior women?

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Focus Group Skills Technology Review 8

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.

System 10

System Health Care Review Focus Group 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

After all, one of their most valued employees is an indigenous Peruvian, a man who is respected, well-paid, and included in the leadership team’s decision-making discussions. For respondents who reported that their team leader has none of these traits, those percentages dropped to 51%, 46%, and 37%, respectively. Authenticity.

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Diversity Career Focus Group Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

One was a recent project for the Science and Technology Directorate of the U.S. The agency used stagecraft to gather very early learning about how new technologies could be used in equipment for first responders. In the past, the agency’s attempts to design gear around emerging technology had missed the mark.

Learning-by-Doing 10

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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Film Franchising Budgeting Audience 16

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.

Film 15

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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Self-aware Competitive Advantage Follow-up Content 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

His legacy lives on in today's iCloud and iOS 5 availability, and in the new iPhone 4S being praised by several prominent technology reviewers. David Pogue , my favorite technology writer, is so enthusiastic as to call the new phone's features almost magical. I've long admired Apple products, too.

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Short-term Case Study Technology Marketing 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

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. Sixteen women were interviewed and seven others participated in a focus group.

Management 13

Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

Zhou Qunfei, the world’s richest self-made woman and founder of Lens Technology, is emblematic of a new class of female entrepreneurs in China who have built their wealth from scratch. For example, wealth management teams in Asia tend to feature higher proportions of female advisors than their counterparts in the U.S.

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Survey Diversity Telecommunications Focus Group 8

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

AUGUST 31, 2012

Harris is the CEO of PRG, a leading supplier of production and event technology, and Cohl is arguably one of the most successful concert promoters in the world, having represented acts such as U2, The Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson and even Frank Sinatra. We were able to work together as a team." Work together.

Audience 8

Audience Short-term Long-term Incentives 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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Management IPO Diversity Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

In terms of people, processes and technologies, Toyota and Google's YouTube have little in common. For one marketing services firm, it meant being exposed to their biggest client's development teams and sitting through technical tests and focus groups to better appreciate and understand how its products were actually designed and built.

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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.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Bottom-up Self-aware Productivity 8

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. Core to the work of innovation, however, are edgy explorations and high-risk tests. The vision thing.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2011

And I'd say using the very, very awesome Twitter to solicit "questions" from citizens in this environment is a little bit like earnestly running a focus group about the best color for your next pair of $2000 loafers — while your boardroom's on fire. Yet, all is far from lost. Here's the good news. In political terms?

Marketing 15

Marketing Loyalty Decentralization Credit Rating 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

According to a series on Big Data in The New York Times , the NYPD and other big city police departments are using data-crunching technology to geo-locate and analyze "historical arrest patterns," while cross-tabbing them with sporting events, paydays, rainfall, traffic flows, and Federal holidays to identify what NYPD calls likely crime "hot spots."

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Merchandising Retail Chemicals 8

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Emerging Roles and Technologies Stay attuned to emerging roles and technologies within the industry. Diverse Compensation Committee Ensure that the compensation committee or team responsible for making decisions about compensation includes individuals from diverse backgrounds and perspectives. The post It’s a Match!

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System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Innovation is more than whiz-bang technology; consider different strategic intents (e.g., Start with deep ethnographic research; avoid focus groups! How should I form and manage innovation teams? Consider it a summary of what's on my mind as 2010 comes to a close. How do you define innovation? How should I look?

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Innovation Govindarajan Disruptive Innovation Business Model 16

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. The answer?

Human Resources 8

Human Resources Self-aware Survey Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

The analytics team focused on three questions. First, how can we improve the performance of our agents and teams? To answer these questions, the analytics team created focus groups of senior Sprint executives and managers, who reviewed the feedback and made informed decisions based on the data.

Metrics 12

Metrics Parcell Call Center Productivity 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

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. One of my favorite examples comes from Zambia, where our team spoke with local women to get their take on what should be done to stop women from dying.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Health Care Self-aware Franchising 8

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. Yes, this often stresses out the sales team.) But the financial services industry is not alone. How do we fix this?

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Wireless Industry Airlines 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. You and Your Team. Without that advice, I could have easily missed the opportunity. Giving and Receiving Feedback.

How To 8

How To Project Review Follow-up 8

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?

Business Model 61

Business Model Bottom-up Industry Focus Group 61

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 12