Deming Institute

MAY 26, 2016

Lean coffee session at the 2015 Deming Research Seminar. Ian Bradbury, President and CEO of Peaker Services, Inc. Langford, President & CEO, Langford International. 2016 Deming Institute Annual Conference. September 16 – 18, 2016. Michigan State University. East Lansing, Michigan. Facilitators. Related: The W.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Fortunately, companies are becoming more aware that a data integrity insurance system is a necessity and are implementing new technologies into their business processes in order to safeguard against a data breach. Richard Milam is the Founder and CEO of EnableSoft Incorporated ( www.enablesoft.com ). About the Author. SC Magazine.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Previous to our technological advancements, the only way businesses could manage their multiple consumer platforms, numerous transactional tasks, and recover from data emergencies was to outsource to a variety of vendors. Richard Milam is the president and CEO of EnableSoft. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Given the pace at which digital innovation is disrupting industries globally, it’s not surprising that most CEOs feel pressure to find and deploy the right technology as fast as their budgets will allow. Many are discovering, however, that becoming a digital leader isn’t simply a matter of technological savvy.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2015

It is the hub of the world’s energy industry, headquarters of medical innovation and entrepreneurial phenomena. I chose representative industries and community service niches as snapshots of a wider photo album. It has seen industries emerge and mature. Houston was the first word spoken from the moon.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

The year 2015 was a pivotal time when humanity turned more decisively toward building a thriving and sustainable world. From the Pope to global CEOs to almost all the world’s political leaders, the most powerful people got on board. in the first six months of 2015, 70% was renewable. In the U.S., Blackrock, with $4.7

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. About the Interviews I wanted to select a diverse group of CEOs from a range of companies that varied by size and industry.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 28, 2019

David Komlos is CEO of Syntegrity and David Bejamin leads Syntegrity’s client delivery organization. Fixing a car is complicated; disrupting the automotive industry is complex. 1] Defined in HBR’s Why Strategy Execution Unravels—and What to Do About It (Donald Sull, Rebecca Homkes, and Charles Sull, MARCH 2015).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Although directors in certain industries are more aware of the threat of disruption, the widespread lack of board-level engagement in innovation processes could be a major blind spot and a potential liability. Recruiting directors with technological expertise is one avenue through which boards can boost their innovative capabilities.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Technology has emerged as a competitive weapon in driving operational excellence and superior service quality. Through Paypal, Nigerians spent $610 million via their mobile phones on international shopping in 2015, depriving local banks forex fees. A director that reports directly to the CEO will be optimal. Data consolidation.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Outlasting copycat competition in any industry is difficult; doing so over decades is nearly impossible—unless you leap. Professionalizing Leadership by Barbara Kellerman (Oxford University Press, 2018) Over the last 40 years, the leadership industry has grown exponentially. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Of all the ways the world changed in 2014 — economic, cultural, technological, all three — which will matter most to us in 2015? Xiaomi, Not Apple, Is Changing the Smartphone Industry. CEOs Get Paid Too Much According to Pretty Much Everyone in the World. At Amazon, It’s All About Cash Flow.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. This all presents CEOs with a tough dilemma.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

That sort of nosebleed growth has panicked a lot of big-company CEOs who live in fear of being “Uberized.” Adding to this angst are the feverish predictions of industry pundits who believe today’s corporate dinosaurs are about to be wiped out by giant unicorn-shaped asteroids. has steadily increased.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

But when some CEOs in this position look at the people they employ, they discover a problem: a swath of their existing team doesn’t have the necessary skills or metabolism for change to meet the new challenges. CEO Stefan Jacoby and CHRO Björn Sällström rigorously examined Volvo’s existing workforce.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

The top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10 and generated 50% more earnings. The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2015. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Tesla Motor. Automotive.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

This lack of knowledge — despite the millions of dollars that the tech industry spent on lobbying Washington in 2017 — shows that technology literacy among lawmakers still needs to be improved. It’s especially important since Washington is clearly interested in enhanced regulation of the data economy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

While progress is clearly being made, as an industry, we still have far to go to consistently deliver on the promise of high-value care through technology and innovation. Leverage technology to allow diagnoses to be made, in many cases, at the initial point of care. As Harvard Business School professor Clayton M.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

An entire industry now exists to train us humans to be smarter in how we operate computers, and yet the number of cybersecurity incidents continues to rise. military’s Joint Staff network, which the Washington Post reports was compromised in August 2015 via a measly phishing e-mail. In 2015 , the U.S. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

I was speaking this week with a new CEO of a new public company that is just being spun off from their parent company. Gallup tells us that 87% of global employees are disengaged, so it should be the top priority for every CEO. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. He’s not alone. Eighty-seven percent.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Activist investors who expect to raise returns by influencing strategic decisions are having a meaningful impact on many industries from consumer-packaged goods to aerospace and defense. And the odds that your company, or industry, may find itself targeted by an activist are going up. What is our company great at doing?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

Speed bumps stem from a classic tension between entrepreneurs who found companies or change them and established organizations, whether industry incumbents or government entities. In the case of the FAA and mobile technology, the slow-moving agency is trying its best to be nimbler. On the roads, new technology is growing in importance.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Memo to CEOs who don’t consider themselves in the electricity business: You may not be in the power business today, but you’re more than likely to be in it tomorrow. GW of renewable energy since the beginning of 2015, enough to power about half the state of Connecticut.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Every industry will soon be driven by digitization and every winning company will be using algorithms, or mathematical rules for processing information, to shape the end-to-end customer experience. Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

The Southeast Asia city’s rapid growth echoes the story of the so-called “unicorns” — technology start-ups that rapidly grew to a billion-dollar valuation and beyond. So far, 2015 has produced 30 unicorns. The Philippines has a huge business process outsourcing industry.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses. GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment through the internet of things and analytical software with a suite of products called Predix Cloud. YASUYOSHI CHIBA/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. As I speak with industry executives, a common refrain is “I’ve done all the easy stuff.” A recent Navigant survey found that U.S. ” Clearly, more is needed. As the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

China has packed the equivalent of 200 years of industrialization in America into just two decades. It’s using this development to rapidly experiment with new technologies, policies, and financial systems. In fact, China is innovating at a city level , designating tens of cities at a time as pilots for every viable clean technology.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

The Perkins Fund has also had numerous successful businesses that are not gender-related, like 1 Mainstream, a cloud-based video service that was acquired by Cisco in 2015. had a female CEO. of VC funding in 2015 went to firms founded by women of color. VC funding tends to go to male founders.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

The Internet is apparently taking down yet another industry. percent between the first quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016. percent of retail sales shifted from offline to online between the beginning of 2015 and 2016. The retail industry is getting “reinvented,” as we describe in our new book Matchmakers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Each of these organizations looked to the small, exciting platforms startups in its industry to help broaden its products, capabilities, and customers. Many big organizations even help incubate startups in their industry. Jeff Immelt, CEO of General Electric, has decided that GE needs to navigate its own digital transformation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

USC’s John Boudreau, CEO adviser Ram Charan, and consultants at Bain & Company , McKinsey, and Korn Ferry have made similar arguments. In sales-driven companies (think pharmaceuticals and industrial equipment), they are often field sales managers who direct dozens of salespeople in the highest-volume regions.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

The heart-wrenching scene reminded me of the terrible challenges that today’s job-seekers face thanks to the advance of technologies that make human labor obsolete. With the highest median wage among newly industrialized Asian nations, the city-state also ranks first globally in worker productivity and attitude.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

But Vanguard’s robo-advisor platform hit the ground running in its May 2015 debut and by the end of the year had $31.1 The company’s 136-year journey has taken it from power through transportation, appliances, health care, finance, media, and industry leaps.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Similar intermediaries include BankWork$ for the banking sector, YouthBuild in construction, and iFoster in the grocery industry. In a similar vein, hiring technology today uses key words to identify formal education or experience across thousands of résumés at a time. A 2015 study that we conducted with the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. Fast forward to today, and the picture is not so happy. Financial capital is in the driving seat. There are indications that this is happening.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

banks are going to survive the coming wave in financial technology (fintech), they’ll need to finally take digital transformation seriously. Small businesses are starting to demand banking services that have engaging web and mobile user experiences, on par with the technologies they use in their personal lives.

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