You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Each of the Learning Organization components, personal mastery, mental models, team learning, shared vision and systems thinking allow for the opportunity to create lives and organizations that are resilient, flexible, inclusive and dynamic. There is a proverb that says, “ If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail&#.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

This article is the first of a series I am preparing in collaboration with Dick Steele , a Board Member of The Deming Institute, to offer our thoughts on the legendary Toyota Production System and its connection to the management system within Toyota and how it was inspired by Dr. Deming. Figure 1 – Production Viewed as a System.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2018

It happens all the time: A group of managers get together at a resort for two days to hammer out a “strategic plan.” An organization exists as part of a system composed of transactions between itself and its key stakeholders such as customers, employees, suppliers and shareholders. Busá Photography/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

They’re “traditional” matchmaker businesses that have been operating platforms for connecting different groups of customers. But they also face significant risk from startups that use new technologies to operate more-powerful, more-efficient, and more-scalable platforms.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2020

Business equipment, whether computers, cloud storage systems or freight shipping trucks, are always an investment that is worth it. A lot of the time, companies try to stick to the systems and tools they are used to as it saves them needing to retrain their employees. But only if you know how to use it. Innovative Appearance.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

trillion market by 2020 — lay in its ability to operate with little or no “human intervention.” Consider Google’s Nest or Schlage’s digital locks or smartphone-controlled home lighting systems. In early research , McKinsey emphasized that the distinctive character of the Internet of Things — which is predicted to be a $7.1

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

It comprises a range of conceptual and analytical operations, including problem definition, signal processing, pattern recognition, abstraction and conceptualization, analysis, and prediction. These systems are closely intertwined with each other and with human strategists to create an integrated, well-oiled machine.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The researchers have developed a machine learning system to assess a task and identify whether it’s one that would be best performed by a human expert or technology. In that sort of scenario, it’s important for the system to be especially sensitive to their time and only ask for their help when absolutely necessary.”.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Belvedere’s distillery in Poland shifted from oil to gas for energy generation and added heat recovery systems to capture wasted energy. It was part of a larger overhaul that included automating some distillery operations, which gave it better data and helped slash energy and water use. .” Supply Chain Partnerships. .”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Toffel: I thought Paul Polman was spot-on when he was breaking down the challenge of corporate sustainability into tactical and systemic issues. But then more pressingly, I think, he talks about the need for system change. Winston : I agree with Mike that the focus on system change was notable.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

If they didn't, the only way you can profit from your sales operation is by reducing costs. I bought a new air-conditioning system last year. I hadn't considered upgrading the heat pump in my system. But with the help of the representative, I came to realize that the new system wouldn't lower my winter heating bills without one.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

Our field research showed that some traditional physical stores were rapidly blending the best of physical, web, and mobile to serve their customers, while others were simply being hammered by the growth of e-commerce. That couldn’t be right, since Walmart.com was a multibillion-dollar operation that year. So we started digging.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Normal” leadership is a complex system of behaviors that can tolerate a lot of little mistakes. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? There are two basic operating modes for organizations under high-stakes execution pressure. Extraordinary leadership cannot.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Where are there broken products and systems that lead to unwanted pain or unnecessary churn? This provokes an internal dialogue – a relationship – between a person and the product, system, or service. Lean urges you to go looking for problems to solve, so you can build a business around your solution. Lean is fast.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The team had dropped the ball on inquiries from several retailers interested in its products by failing to coordinate getting them into the company’s system quickly. The team wasn’t perfect, but it was still operating at a pretty high level. Now, Lance realized that might be a sign of more fallout to come. Of course I have.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

In Davos we had a bunch of hardcore mainstream investors explore whether social impact bonds to combat childhood obesity could fit into their investment strategy — because with childhood obesity, 20 years down the line you have huge drain on the health system, you can therefore monetize the cost. We don’t want to go there.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

They try to institutionalize process improvement — that is, put in place the right mechanisms in their management systems so that their business processes don't become grossly unproductive in the future. What's more, the company helped develop Hammer's PEMM concept and is now training Lean managers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Nineteen days later, as rescue crews grew desperate, a 24-year-old field engineer named Igor Proestakis decided to travel to the site with what he hoped was a breakthrough idea: using a particular drilling technology, called cluster hammers, to cut through the collapsed rock. And why shouldn’t they?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

It takes a systematic approach to build a systemic capability—whether that is Amazon’s logistics prowess or the near-flawless service you receive as a guest at a Four Seasons hotel. In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. Taking a systemic view.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Process gurus such as Michael Hammer , Jim Champy , Geary Rummler , and Alan Brache have long maintained that companies must appoint process owners to ensure that processes are improved across functions. Nobody was left to care about process performance after the system went live. And they succeeded wildly. from 2004 to 2007.

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