First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 11, 2011

Here is an excerpt from a profile of Liv Sandbaek (Managing Director, Technology, Accenture) written by Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business.

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Hammer Career Technology Planning 85

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Listening to the breathless commentary surrounding technologies such as AI and robotics and one could be minded to believe that technology is transforming life as we know it on a scale never seen before. The need to disseminate technology. in 2013, compared to 2.5% in 1992. in 2013, compared to 2.5%

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Products Productivity Innovation Technology 96

Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  As a service to you I have narrowed down this collection of reading material to highlight five blog posts from the week of August 2nd to August 8th, 2010 that I found to be especially noteworthy.  Enjoy!

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Blog Human Resources Human Capital Talent Management 124

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Unfortunately, for solo entrepreneurs, technology serves a dual purpose, acting both as a fit-for-purpose tool and an advisor. Just as anybody can use a hammer, only trained professionals can build a house. Most small businesses rely on Google AdWords to create manageable online marketing campaigns.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Instead, the common belief today is that the best applications of AI and automation will be very much a joint affair, with humans doing what humans continue to do best, and technology doing what technology does best. Task management. What automation is possible? around its introduction.”

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Govindarajan Technology Hammer Process 85

CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

This meant from a young age I knew that leading, not just managing and working with people was something I would always pursue. Whether managers are prepared to acknowledge this is another point altogether! Why does CoachStation exist? Purpose = Building Success, Making a difference. It’s massive!

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Self-aware Ethics Tools Finance 146

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 14, 2015

some sort of change management to ensure that the new and the old work together. Bringing in something new into an existent system – whether it’s a purchase or an implementation – is a change management problem. A Buying Decision Is A Change Management Problem. A Buying Decision Is A Change Management Problem.

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Influence Management Telemarketing Hammer 50

Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2020

If you take advantage of the broad range of new technologies on offer, you can demonstrate to customers and investors that you are an innovative business that looks towards the future. Profit margins, budgets, and return on investments are all things that are hammered into business owners’ heads daily. Innovative Appearance.

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Hammer Efficiency Tools Innovation 67

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The content of this blog was prepared as an article for the first edition of the Lean Management Journal, later known as The LMJ. In the late 1960s, Frank Pipp, an assembly plant manager for a Ford Motor Company factory, instructed his staff to purchase competitor’s cars. Deming is the core of our management.” and Japan.

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System Productivity Products Deming 74

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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Process Innovation Hammer Resistance 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

True, they pioneered the creative use of technology to open up flexible new ways of renting a car. Accompanying these peer economy companies are others (like Zipcar) which simply leverage technology and lower transaction costs to make flexible renting a viable alternative to asset acquisition.

Disaggregation 13

Disaggregation Hammer Mass Marketing Gordon 13

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

The business environment may change, but no management trend can displace the core laws, proven over centuries, of excellent leadership. In my book, I recount an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what?

CEO 57

CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Sebell, managing partners at Creative Realities, Inc., a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. Strategies change, leaders change, markets change and technology changes at a frightening pace. This blog was co-authored with Jay F. Terwilliger and Mark H. Failures tend to "fail" or to be abandoned relatively quickly.

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Innovation Hammer Discount Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

But until then, recipients have to manage. And often, we have to manage without the kind of administrative support 20th century executives relied on. Notably, most of the successful tactics had less to do with email and more to do with general time management — although there were two important exceptions.

Tactics 15

Tactics Management Letter Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

When they set out to turn around processes that have become woefully inefficient or ineffective, most companies choose one of four process improvement "religions": Lean , Six Sigma , Business Reengineering or Business Process Management (BPM). In some of these companies, senior managers were dubious about the claims.

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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking. Part of our initial response was to rank management gurus according to the measurable influence of their ideas; we were the first researchers to use scholarly methods to do so. For example, a British study showed the precise ways in which management gurus in the 1980s U.K.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

He had grown up in northwestern Germany, where his father owned mills that heated small amounts of charcoal and iron together to make steel that could be hammered and sharpened into knife blades. Their biggest customers were blacksmiths who hammered a few inches of heated iron bar into a horseshoe or a hinge.

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Industry Hammer Transportation Technology 8

Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

In my hands, a hammer was a dangerous tool capable of putting holes where holes shouldn’t be, and bashing fingers into submission. I didn’t need a hammer! It was a two week project, and it was one of the longest two weeks of my life. I have absolutely no aptitude for carpentry. Because numbers I could work with.

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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. Insight Center. Innovation in Cities.

Engineering 8

Engineering Project Benchmarking Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

AlphaGo’s success is emblematic of a broader trend: An explosion of data and advances in algorithms have made technology smarter than ever before. In addition to executing well-defined tasks, technology is starting to address broader, more ambiguous problems. Remember Long-Term Capital Management ? Integrated solution.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

” Tell them why they’re losing their jobs, whether it’s because of a drop in demand, changes in technology, or productivity and quality issues. Other executives — the division manager or the head of the business unit — should be visible from beginning to end. Then hammer out a joint plan with them.

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Hammer Operations Quality Project 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

So here’s the money management industry. There is probably $50 billion of money under management in impact investing at the moment — that’s not going to set the world on fire for the large investment firms. They’re beset by downward pressure on their margins. We hope it doesn’t quite get that way any time soon.

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Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), late 2015 was the most difficult hiring period in four years. ” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology. Generate and nurture your own talent channels.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

As economists who’ve been using lots of government data for a long time, we’ve always been delighted that the federal government had systematic, professionally managed programs for collecting data and publishing important information. But a recent experience has shaken our confidence in that belief.

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Merchandising Retail GDP Report 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

“Everyone who has worked with American management can testify that the need to satisfy the pension fund manager’s quest for higher earnings next quarter, together with the panicky fear of the raider, constantly pushes top managements toward decisions they know to be costly, if not suicidal, mistakes,” he wrote. .”

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Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven’t made up their minds. During my 87 years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. –Anonymous.

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Succession How To Learning-by-Doing Gilbert 166

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The ability to think analytically is important for any manager today. Every manager must make the distinction between “correlation” and “cause and effect” regularly, as the topic comes up in many guises. Finally, much of management involves taking actions on things you can control to affect desired results.

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Travel How To Information Technology Hammer 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Others, most notably money managers and former Fama students Cliff Asness and John Liew in an epic Institutional Investor article , have done a lot recent to clarify how Fama’s ideas and Shiller’s can at least co-exist peacefully. Shiller hammered away on this point in the ‘80s, and in fact Fama also published some of the same observations.

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CAPM Discount Price Finance 10

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Today, modern manufacturing relies on advanced technology that allows for fast, efficient, and precise production in almost every industry. Well, as competition grows and technology keeps changing, manufacturers need to use the latest tools to stay successful. Key Benefits: Ensures consistent quality and compliance.

Productivity 101

Productivity Products Hammer Automotive 101

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2012

In more straightforward language, a man with a hammer is more likely to see nails than one without a hammer. A collection of specialists creates a less flexible labor force, one that requires "retraining" with technological developments creating constantly shifting human resource needs.

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