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Possibility Maximizer: The Conference Board

Sales Wolf Blog

Why You Should Check It Out:  First and foremost, you should follow The Conference Board because it publishes several leading economic indicators gauging where the economy is heading which can be used to help make both strategic and tactical decisions in your organization.

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Ron Moen and Cliff Norman Discuss the Evolution of Deming’s Management Ideas

Deming Institute

The podcast guides us through Deming’s own learning, starting with SQC (Statistical Quality Control) to SQC for Management (which he taught to the Japanese) through the tremendous growth in the 1980’s after the NBC White Paper “If Japan Can…Why Can’t We?” And individually these aspects are powerful.

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Five Steps to Resource Optimization: Any process can be improved.

Strategy Driven

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. While at SAS, she has led research studies, authored white papers, articles, and blogs and spoken on leveraging business analytics to improve performance.

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Microsoft Taxes Itself

Harvard Business Review

The execution plan has some interesting elements (see a pithy white paper on the full carbon neutrality plan here ). Going back over a decade, BP put in place an internal carbon trading system that used a "shadow" price to encourage divisions to find the cheapest reduction opportunities (others like Shell have also used this tactic).

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