Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Sharing a TRIZ problem-solving tool called DTC Operator. Identify ways to create more robust conversations amongst your team, break stuckness in thinking, and continue developing conversations that will support the emergence of new ideas and innovation inside your team or group. DTC Operator. Short time. Video Transcript.

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Cost Innovation TRIZ Tools 88

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 29, 2024

Entire business landscapes have shifted quickly due to the global pandemic, compelling companies to redefine their operations and strategic roadmaps. Organizations look to their leaders to inspire a seamless transition to this digital-first culture, safeguarding data, increasing productivity, and fostering innovation in the same stride.

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HR Digest

APRIL 10, 2024

In this exclusive interview with The HR Digest, Franklin dives into her unique talent management strategies, and how they’re propelling Moderna to the forefront of medical innovation. When making strategic decisions, that is the balance you consider between short-term needs and long-term vision for the organization?

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Engineering Innovation Short-term Long-term 52

CEO Insider

MAY 13, 2020

Pandemic presents a multi-dimensional challenge: Public health, operational, and economic crises, all rolled into one. Adding complexity, each crisis demands short- and long-term strategic responses. […]. You can't reproduce, republish, or reprint it without the express permission of the CEOWORLD magazine.

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Innovation Short-term Licensing Magazine 120

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

A high premium is placed on collaboration, with the understanding that pooling diverse perspectives encourages innovation and creativity. The best leaders can influence their team’s behavior and work ethics, promoting a positive atmosphere that encourages productivity and innovation.

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Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2019

Their greatest fear is no longer their closest competitor, but the startups which, although they live in metaphorical garages and have hardly taken off, have an innovation power that established organizations can only dream of possessing. The Three Tracks of Innovation. Optimizing innovation: Improving the past.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 29, 2024

Rather, it calls for thoroughly considering traits such as business acumen, leadership qualities, and a deep understanding of revenue operation mechanics. Rather than focusing on short-term engagement, our firm fosters a sustained relationship with clients and candidates alike.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Operations managers have a tough and challenging role, particularly in 2021. As a result, innovation and ingenuity is more important than ever before. If you’re working in operations management, or you aspire to become an operations supervisor, take a look at some of the challenges you’ll be facing in 2021: 1.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

In fact, it were the L&D teams that were instrumental in bringing about wider acceptance of innovative measures, processes and strategies, including reimagining how employees learn to work in a digitized world. Managers will increasingly need to take up more innovative roles to manage disparate and dispersed teams.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

When it comes to leadership, the terms manager and leader are often used interchangeably, but they are not the same thing. A leader focuses on the future and long-term goals, while a manager focuses on the present and the immediate needs of the organization.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 20, 2020

In it, he suggests that business leaders should stop focusing on short-term (finite) gains and instead focus on the long-term (infinite) game of the business. The challenge for leaders in the West today has become the fixation on short-term results. If the CEO fails to make the numbers, the stock price plummets.

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Leading Blog

MAY 21, 2021

B USINESS is not a discipline, but an endeavor made up of disciplines such as accounting, communications, economics, finance, leadership, management, marketing, operations, psychology, sociology, and strategy. A well-written contract defines or explains each term or condition only once. Lesson: Write it Once.

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Short-term Morale Rate of Return Finance 349

Chart Your Course

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

In particular, when it comes to improving the customer service experience and streamlining operations, today’s call center agents now have a wide array of tech solutions to resolve these matters. Here are three proven ways today’s call centers can better streamline operations and achieve greater success. Employee Benefits.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

C REATING an innovative culture is not easy. Organizations that continuously innovate have common characteristics. It not really about always day one , but I presume he chose the title because day one is a mindset that is foundational to sustaining an innovative culture. It often defies convention. This isn’t quite right.

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Case Study Follow-up Innovation Short-term 267

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In today’s rapidly evolving social and economic landscape, many nonprofit audiences (and the organizations themselves) face greater challenges than ever, requiring strong, innovative, and creative nonprofit leaders capable of navigating complex issues with finesse and expertise.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Dimension Time Cost Operator. Dimension Time Cost Operator (DTC) – is a tool for for seeing problems differently exploring ideas of extremes in size and cost. The DTC Operator can work to release Psychological Inertia. Generally the DTC Operator is used in solving more tangible, mechanistic problems.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

The hotel opened in 705 AD and is still operating. Professor Makoto Kanda from Meiji Gakuin University studied the Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan Hotel and other long-term operating businesses to understand their longevity. Initiative, innovation, and risk-taking lose out because they tend to harm metrics. Impressive.

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Metrics Succession Hotels Long-term 370

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 3, 2022

They make sure to embed their purpose in the very operating system of their organizations. They know that for deep purpose to take hold, both their daily actions and long-term strategic plans must be consistent with the overarching purpose. “Purpose acts as a kind of North Star to help guide strategy and innovation.”

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Short-term How To Long-term Operations 121

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 2, 2021

The report outlines three strategies to help join up this corporate enthusiasm for innovation with the difficulties faced by academics in commercializing their work: Promote co-investment in early-stage ventures , with a particular focus on proof-of-concept projects. ” Making it work.

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Venture Funding Short-term Long-term Innovation 131

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

By tapping into their expertise, organizations can benefit from fresh perspectives, innovative ideas, and best practices that can drive business success. With their support, organizations can confidently navigate change and position themselves for long-term success in an ever-evolving business landscape.

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Consultative Organization Self-aware Objective 217

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Because we often run short of time, it is easy to prioritize more immediate issues, but ultimately such choices are bound to backfire. Value-driven organizations thrive in this new economy because they promote trust, open communication, diversity and inclusion, thus making fertile ground for innovation.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Effective financial management is a cornerstone of successful business operations. Without sound financial strategies, even the most innovative and promising ventures can stumble and fail. This plan should outline the company’s short-term and long-term financial goals, as well as the strategies to achieve them.

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Finance Strategy Succession Supply Chain 107

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2023

From project management to technical support, these firms can help their clients manage the risks and costs of drilling operations. Production technicians work on rigs to operate equipment that helps extract and process oil. However, it is important to keep in mind that innovation can be a risky strategy.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 19, 2018

A family-owned business for more than 60 years, the company has 13 operating entities throughout North America and is headquartered in Ashtabula, Ohio. Fortunately, on December 28, 2017 MFG of South Dakota was granted a reprieve, of sorts, as a new order was received that will sustain operations into the third quarter of 2018.

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Short-term Long-term Energy Proposal 225

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 18, 2022

Whereas historically, the bulk of corporate innovation would be via in-house R&D programs, or mergers and acquisitions, the last decade has seen a considerable rise in corporate venturing. Playing the short game. This often results in long-term objectives being sacrificed for short-term wins. A mixed bag.

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Short-term CFO Bureaucracy Long-term 113

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

To achieve this, an effective CTO needs “to strike the right balance between a carrot and a stick; short-term impact on numbers vs. long term value, or feel-good effects vs. profound change.”. Step 4: Operations alignment. However, four main steps are proven to be effective: Step 1: Leadership alignment. And why is that?

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CTO Shaw Short-term Agility 392

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Ben & Jerry’s and Patagonia are two such companies that have shifted to becoming B-corps in a bid to be more transparent and socially responsible in how they operate. No longer is it acceptable for CEO’s to focus on short-term gain to line their pockets. In the short term, that is,” he is quoted as saying.

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Emotional Intelligence Supply Chain Short-term Leadership 209

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

That mindset is “about the application of creative thinking and prudent risk-taking to build innovative, long-lasting organizations in any sector of the economy.” Donaldson and Karl Weber extract relevant lessons for leaders in Entrepreneurial Leader. The thread that runs through his career is the entrepreneurial mindset.

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Leadership Short-term Entrepreneur Long-term 259

CO2

JUNE 12, 2020

Several years ago, a dear friend of mine, Darrell Mann, CEO of Systematic Innovation , predicted that some catastrophic event would soon plague humanity. He could not determine what it was going to be, only that the systems that humanity created were going to be challenged with devastating effects in the short term.

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Uncertainty How To Competitive Advantage Disintermediation 151

Leading Blog

JUNE 3, 2019

L ONG-TERM THINKING is the key to what goes on at Amazon. Jeff Bezos has said, “ What we’re really focused on is thinking long-term, putting the customer at the center of our universe and inventing. Those are the three big ideas to think long-term because a lot of invention doesn’t work. Reset Your Clocks.

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Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term Leadership 278

Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 9, 2017

You aren’t likely to be affected by any team bias or prejudice, and probably find it easy to remain objective about the organization’s short-term and long-term needs. As a result, they may focus on solving short-term, operational problems while losing sight of long-term objectives.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 30, 2021

Operating a business in this regard isn’t easy at all, and this, in many cases, leads to companies becoming stagnant as you get comfortable where you’re at now. With the current economic state and people innovating like they are, it won’t be long before the competition gets even more as the leads get less.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2020

Making these types of connections helps you take the data one step further, determining if it’s going to have a short-term or long-term impact, if it’s suggesting the end of a trend or the beginning of a new one.” Within many organizations, highly innovative, potentially game-changing ideas are born regularly.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Ongoing innovation with new products, services, and processes through autonomy and entrepreneurship. Financial capitalism, on the other hand, is concerned with short-term results without regard for long-term consequences. A customer-first focus in all decisions. Hands-on, value-driven leadership.

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Waterman Bureaucracy Bottom-up Real Estate 249

HR Digest

MAY 4, 2024

Addressing the unique challenges of gig workforce management , including compliance, engagement, and talent retention, calls for adapted HR policies and innovative approaches. This includes the adoption of new talent acquisition strategies, onboarding processes, and performance management systems tailored for short-term and flexible roles.

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Strategy Compliance Management Policies 52

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 25, 2023

While artificial intelligence is grabbing headlines and enabling new business innovations, its potential negative effects on society are often overlooked. Instead, their focus was on the benefits of reduced operational costs.

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Technology Short-term Policies Letter 98