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Great Leadership By Dan
MARCH 14, 2013
DaVita operates more than 1,800 dialysis centers and employs over 40,000 people domestically. He then founded Crescendo Capital Partners, a private equity firm, and Catalyst, a private foundation supporting Colorado-based nonprofits and micro-lending in the developing world. www.shortcuttoprosperity.com.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 10, 2012
But winning CEOs demand analytics from their sales organization (much as they do from operations or strategy) to help understand everything from the effectiveness of sales campaigns to opportunity analysis to performance reviews. CEOs generally don't want changes to how their sales force operates for fear of killing the golden goose.
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Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 24, 2012
TruTouch, based in the United States, has developed and is commercializing a sensor that instantly detects a person's blood-alcohol level with the touch of a finger. Testing in these cases was not previously possible due to the cost of an on-site operator. In total the iTulip community led the round with $2 million in January 2012.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 22, 2016
However, in recent years a parallel explosion of digital tools and services has taken place in the manufacturing realm as well, drawing in computer-assisted design and 3D printing equipment to open-source operating systems, the cloud, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Second, a number of important inputs have gotten cheaper.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 24, 2014
Operations. When product-based companies add services and connectivity, operational requirements increase. The resulting challenges may include new contract-manufacturing relationships, which can be a complicated and disorienting process for the uninitiated. Human resources. and design and user experience.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 2, 2015
Leaders of many companies — in industries ranging from contract manufacturing, and software services to consulting and health care — tell us the same thing: “We want to move up the value chain.” make your own operations more efficient. create the opportunity to invent new operations.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 14, 2016
Last year, networking giant Cisco Systems worked with one of its contract manufacturers in Malaysia to deploy 1,500 energy and temperature sensors on its manufacturing equipment. It’s time to move energy into the C-suite so executives can manage this critical component of operational performance in a more strategic way.
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