Deming Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2018

A product or service possesses quality if it helps someone and enjoys a sustainable market.”. In a timeframe in which mating parts in this car plant could not be assembled without hammers, Pipp directed his staff to purchase competitors cars and take them apart. Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. “A

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

But while field organizing is essential in this closely contested race, the groundwork has been laid over many months by the campaigns' digital operations. But it's clear that online operations have become so central to political success, everyone has to play: Romney simply cannot afford to cede the advantage and focus elsewhere.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

An executive in the company's finance operations adopted a Six Sigma belt-driven approach to reduce costs in the company's global shared service centers. can often have a superior attitude and be zealots with a hammer, so that everything looks like a nail. Consider the competition between push and pull camps in a major oil company.

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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

MARCH 23, 2011

And the fact that charities will pay 90% in a competitive service market means the market will bear it. They're using hammers where scalpels are required. The Munson decision demonstrated "that there is no nexus between the percentage of funds retained by the fundraiser and the likelihood that the solicitation is fraudulent.".

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2018

It happens all the time: A group of managers get together at a resort for two days to hammer out a “strategic plan.” A major cause of this is that managers within these teams approach the task from their own functional-management view, e.g. finance, HR, marketing, operations. Busá Photography/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Or, as it turns out, even the vicinity of 1455 Market Street, the address of Uber’s San Francisco headquarters. Part of its success is that the company supports a collaborative work environment and boasts transparent operations from the top down.

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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. Village matchmakers started making their living organizing marriage markets millennia ago. They used new technology to hammer ad-supported media.

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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

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

JANUARY 11, 2017

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. As a result, Belvedere’s greenhouse gas emissions have dropped by 40%.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Barker had licensing deals with sports leagues to make merchandise with their logos and partnered with large brands to produce it for retail markets, and when Lance took the company over, its revenues were about £100 million. The team wasn’t perfect, but it was still operating at a pretty high level. Of course I have.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

A lot of businesses have pursued social responsibility more out of their marketing departments or as some sort of charitable donation. Noble: Economies and business operate in very complex systems. Impact investing is in part reconciling what markets may not be serving well. Noble: Impact investing is about strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

It comprises a range of conceptual and analytical operations, including problem definition, signal processing, pattern recognition, abstraction and conceptualization, analysis, and prediction. If all you have is a hammer, then everything will look like a nail. Further second- and third-order interactions occur downstream.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The buds of innovation are fragile, and are easily squashed by critique or a view of the competitive market environment. While many startups fail because of poor execution, I would argue that the majority fail because their product has no market. When process is a hammer, the risk is that everything becomes a nail.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

He highlights the short-term focus of financial markets and of political systems, and also the need to change consumer preferences and habits, as three big areas that need to change at the system level. 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

APRIL 27, 2015

Likewise, no matter how slick your company’s online idea market, it won’t yield many high-value ideas if your associates haven’t been taught to think like innovators. In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. This definition may seem somewhat generic.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

But because we failed to hammer out exactly how we would operate (including our respective roles and responsibilities), infighting distracted from operating, cash became a concern, and the business slowly, then quickly, imploded. My husband and I lost a painful lot of money.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

In a group photograph, 30 CEOs with a combined market capitalization of $2.5 On Monday Uber said that it is selling its operation in China to a rival Chinese ride-sharing company whose CEO was in that foreshadowing photo. It is true that Kalanick consistently called China the most important market for Uber. counterparts tenfold.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Process gurus such as Michael Hammer , Jim Champy , Geary Rummler , and Alan Brache have long maintained that companies must appoint process owners to ensure that processes are improved across functions. How many times have you heard "I'm a finance person" or "I'm a marketer"?) And they succeeded wildly. from 2004 to 2007.

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