Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance. Getting a 50,000-foot picture of our operations illustrates outdated, cumbersome, inefficient processes.

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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. Task management. around its introduction.”

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You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

There is a proverb that says, “If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” This speaks to the dangers of clinging to, and operating from, narrow perspectives. In organizations, we have this tendency to create silos of operation where people make decisions based only on their own needs.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

There is a proverb that says, “ If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail&#. This speaks to the dangers of clinging to, and operating from, narrow perspectives. In organizations, we have this tendency to create silos of operation where people make decisions based only on their own needs. Great post!

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Learning Organization Senge Organization Learning-by-Doing 56

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

He did not believe the results and instructed the team to repeat the assembly operation. Pipp’s documentation of the striking difference in the assembly process within Toyota, by comparison to Ford, was to be found again in the early 1980s when teams from both Ford and General Motors began to routinely visit Toyota’s operations in Japan. .

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Government is like a sledge hammer. It is only good at one thing, and the use of a sledgehammer is obvious. However, when you are a sledgehammer, every problem tends to look like a cinder block in need of smashing. What a surprise, with former Monsanto executive Vilsek as the Secretary of Agriculture.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

To stay competitive, organizations need to continually find opportunities for innovation in key processes such as customer service and product development, and adoption of a new process almost always requires the implementation of new information technology. Hammer's thinking was very powerful, but I'd challenge that last point.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills. 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. ’ Great organizations encourage risk-taking.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

In addition to laying out an approach for making one-time improvements, Reengineering's high priest (the late Michael Hammer) had advice for organizations wanting to sustain improvement. What's more, the company helped develop Hammer's PEMM concept and is now training Lean managers.

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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.” As cognitive scientists put it things like hammers became a part of the body’s “extended periphery” and are “functionally a component of the [subjects’] smoothly coping IDS.”. So, what might a “handy” IoT offering look like?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Instead, smart organizations are driving analytics to an even deeper level within business processes— to make real-time operational decisions , on a daily basis. These operational analytics are embedded, prescriptive, automated, and run at scale to directly drive business decisions. Centuries ago everything was manufactured by hand.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Instead, smart organizations are driving analytics to an even deeper level within business processes— to make real-time operational decisions , on a daily basis. These operational analytics are embedded, prescriptive, automated, and run at scale to directly drive business decisions.

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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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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. An inability to easily determine the value of ideas.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Develop the facts of the case jointly with your counterparts. To help shape a shared understanding, Koh recruited an MIT team that had independently built an analytical and financial model of a seabed mining operation to give a series of influential seminars and analyze proposals for feasibility. Build a common fact base.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Home Run Media, a media agency that helped its clients plan and carry out their marketing strategies, had been operating for more than a decade when a key client in the fantasy sports industry began to grow rapidly, thanks in part to Home Run’s work and to a healthy dose of venture capital that was fueling its growth.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

It’s not implausible to imagine that one day a “strategist in a box” could autonomously develop and execute a business strategy. An integrated strategy machine is the collection of resources, both technological and human, that act in concert to develop and execute business strategies. Design appropriate to the aim.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

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. The sustainability and operating execs at LVMH talk openly about some of the challenges they face. As a result, Belvedere’s greenhouse gas emissions have dropped by 40%.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The team wasn’t perfect, but it was still operating at a pretty high level. “I did talk to that leadership development firm last year,” he said. “Besides, lots of experts say that too many people view comp as a hammer and every problem as a nail. ” “The holdup with Clarkson? Of course I have.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

When I ask leadership development clients to describe the type of motivation they’d like to see in their teams, they mention qualities such as persistence, being a self-starter, having a sense of accountability for and commitment to achieving results, and being willing to go the extra mile on projects or to help other team members.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

For developers, that may be Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer site specifically for programmers. ” The company was already developing content, targeted specifically at recruits, that demonstrated its “culture and the type of company we want to be in 1, 5, and 10 years.” So venture out. physicians are members of.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2018

If your employees aren’t behaving well, and you’ve already gone through the trouble of hammering home the organization’s civility message, ask yourself, “Have I also equipped them to succeed?” Some Chick-fil-A franchise operators evaluate team members weekly using red, yellow, and green lights.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Tactics include, for example, labeling claims and how to be clear about what standards we might want to develop, and also about disclosure, when he mentions materiality. For example, installing a rapidly deployable flood barrier around your campus can help keep your buildings operational during megastorms.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

As a practitioner of a design-led form of product development, and in my own research and writing about an empathetic approach to product design, I’m overtly critical of the Lean manifesto. Lean proposes a “test and measure” process of product development. But what is lost? Leverage A/B testing to compare variations.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Noble: Economies and business operate in very complex systems. It will get harder and harder for mainstream investors to not develop some strategies in this area. If you start seeing everything through the impact investing lens, it starts looking like you have a hammer and everything looks like a nail. We don’t want to go there.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. What makes it useful, though, is the understanding that has developed over time as these criteria have been used to determine which ideas are truly innovative and which aren’t. This definition may seem somewhat generic.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

The editorial page of the New York Times recently hammered Mitt Romney with a piece called " A Big Storm Requires Big Government." I'm not advocating that FEMA cease operation tomorrow and leave the residents of New Jersey and other areas affected by Sandy on their own.

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